MrT;
NOTE:This trick does not work on the W810. (It works, but MANY bugs, like flash menu crashes, etc)
USE SYSGFX INSTEAD...
/MrT

Hello

Just found out that it is possible to change the look of the mediaplayer / walkman...

You need to create new images with certain filenames and copy them into the tpa\system\multimedia\mp folder in your phone FS.

Here is the file list :




background.gif
fullscreen_back.gif
xd_background.gif
list_background.gif
list_highlight.gif
video_background.gif
low_back.gif

play.gif
rewind.gif
stop.gif
slowmotion.gif
buffering.gif
fastforward.gif
pause.gif
play_horizontal.gif

mode_normal.gif
mode_loop.gif
mode_repeat.gif
mode_random.gif

mode_eq_normal.gif
mode_eq_bass.gif
mode_eq_megabass.gif
mode_eq_treble.gif
mode_eq_manual.gif
mode_eq_voice.gif

The filenames are self explaining - I think.... but we still need to find the specific sizes for all images

But i guess there are still files missing I still was not able to change the "main" player

I discovered :

list_background.gif about 176x130 px
fullscreen_back.gif about 176x60 px
all the mode_*.gif - I tried 30x20 px but smaller ones should work too

Have fun

Thanks, dude, you are the Columbus.

so, if we don't add the full list of the images into FS, but just some selection, like the background, and they will just replace the original images while the other unselected images remain unchanged, right?

Browsing through the tpa\system\multimedia\mp folder, i came across the settings.xml file, and this segment in particular interested me:



My walkman was using was the megabass eq setting before i switched off, and so, it appears like this above is the setting for the Megabass. We can tweak it to create our own megabass settings, but i'm not sure whether it'll be saved or get deleted after we change the eq setting in the media player.
I'm also exploring the possibility of adding extra eq bands to create an 8-band equalizer.

Will keep posting.....and BTW, let's rename this thread as "Pimp your Walkman" - to include everything from reskinning to re-equalizing!

@oblivion

Another interesting and useful contribution!

I made some simple images to show you what is possible at the moment :

sorry again for the poor quality







but it seems that some files do not change anything - like the background.gif or xd_background.gif
perhaps we just have to put them in another folder - but which ?

I attached this first simple "theme" nothing spectacular and there are also many files not changed- it is just a sample

just copy the files into the tpa\system\multimedia\mp folder...

only tested with W800i firmware - but perhaps someone could copy some sample files to an K750i to see if i.e. the background.gif does have an effect

Just tested on K750i

fullscreen_back.gif - nothing to see (not supported)

list_background.gif - is used
low_back.gif - is used

Click to view attachment

(used an example pic, because of better quality)

It seems that the FM radio could be modified too isn't it? tpa/system/multimedia/fmradio for the location where u can put some pictures with specific filenames

hello
great work
i have tested it on my k750i
but only the files low_back.gif and list_background.gif seems to work
so you are still able to change the background color of your k750 media player
i hope you can change more soon

Dude, the background works on my k750->W800!

Bitchin'

Oblivion, brilliant work mate.

so there will be somewhat **complete** theme package including normal themes, menu tweak and walkman skin.

Life becomes so beautiful for K750/W800 users. Thanks Oblivion!

great stuff... it works for me... but i think i prefer to change the radio skin... too boorring...

oh crap.. i accidently deleted one of the files in my mp folder.. can anyone send me the whole of mp folder... thanks in advance....

There're only the testfiles from this threat. Nothing else until now.
If you delete one of the testfiles, okay, DL them and copy again.
The originalfiles are NOWHERE to download, because they are deeply hidden in the mainfirmware.

If you delete the files in the MP-folder (except the settings.xml) the look should change back to regular view.
And at last the settings.xml in MP-folder is not used for startup the mediaplayer and wil be generated new, each time you restart the mediaplaer. It's not there at fresh flashed or resetted phones.

If you still think, you MUST have the files:
Here they are, but they only contains my personla settings of the mediaplayer, so your phone will search for my mp3s.

Click to view attachment Click to view attachment

ooh... if you say so then am ok with taht... thanks anyway....

do you know my problem bout the volume...ples help...

nice oblivion keep up the good work

nice,oblivion.
great work.
hopefully you can post images that's good for the walkman player.
thanks.

Aaargh!! damn!!! The f@*#ing walkman skin doesn't support Animated GIFs

hi im from israel am i just want 2 say ty to you all. can any one tell me were did u get the name for all

the "gif" filea cuz i cant see them.

sorry if i have bad english

it wont be there... so you have to add it in... make sure it is the same name like the above....

here r some good pic





sry about the size lol

I guess we need some kind of a xml file to modify the main player page - because it also has a scroll bar with a specific color. I suggest to write it into the settings.xml but we do not know any tags...

does anyone have a taglist for that file?

We/I/You ( :-) ) could try and make a skin similar to the w850 walkman player.
http://www.pianetacellulare.it/Modelli/immagini/w850_se.jpg

can someone give me the original walkman gifs?

We don't have them - they are in the main part of the firmware and we can't extract them yet. So we have to make our own files... that's the problem right now

@Oblivion

I havent seen any screenshots of the list page in which it lists music, video etc. Have you tried editing these? Are the icons for each item in the background or are they seperate gif files?

I tried all the background gifs. Only the fullscreen_back.gif, list_background.gif, low_back.gif work.

I tired my own set of graphics - gif's saved in the following sizes:

background.gif 176x160
fullscreen_back.gif 176x160 (credit to oblivions)
xd_background.gif 176x130
list_background.gif 176x130 (credit to oblivion)
list_highlight.gif 176x30
video_background.gif 176x130
low_back.gif 176x30 (credit to oblivion)

Only oblivions sizes worked, so I guess more testing needed to find the size that will work.

I've attached my attempts, including my pug theme to match the pug themed backgrounds. Note that only the fullscreen, list and low backgrounds work.

Pretty cool, but there is no time bar anymore with the reskin

only if you use low_back.gif. if you use a low_back 20 pixels high, you can see a bit of the progress bar below the graphic - so it just sits behind whatever graphic you put on top. A transparent centre part of a graphic would reveal the progress bar below.

The original graphics for these files would be so handy for modding but I guess we'll only get them when we can get into the fm some more. How did oblivion et al find out these names anyhow ? Are they listed in an xml somewhere?

They're listed in the firmware if you hunt through an unencrypted binary using a hex-editor, however finding the images themselves is a little more tricky as they're not obvious when looking at the file (and they're not stored as GIF/PNG files, so there's no obvious signature to look for.)

I just tried a range of sizes for the different elements. Still haven't found any more than oblivion's sizes that work.

basically assuming the walkman skin is a total 176 pixels high (taking out the 18 for status bar and 26 for the softkey bar of the screen hieght 220).

i've try it on K750i but nothing change.. seems like only the W800i manage to change the look of the player.. but i really hope somebody will post the screen-shot where actually you all copy the .gif on the FAR Manager pic for modding your walkman.. probably it will help on K750i? thx..

Okay, but how to get them.

Is there any way to decompile/disassemble (or whatever) the 18MB decoded bin-file firmware from TopSony?

Or do we need quite some other firmware-file?

I be wery happy that we can change K750i media player theme too!

You already can do it:

list_background.gif - is used
low_back.gif - is used

This is impressive, nice work guys!

I've worked out through trial and error these sizes, which seem to be an exact fit:

fullscreen_back.gif 176x153
list_background.gif 176x124
low_back.gif 176x23

If the images are one pixel shorter than above - part of the orange theme below is visible, so these are the exact sizes.

However, having tried all other image names at 20pixels high, under the supposition that if the working images will display even when too short (fullscreen image still showed up even at 20pixels high), then the 20pixel images will show up in the media player somewhere.

However no menu element, other than the three we already know about, showed up. We are missing a part of the puzzle.

I tried making a transparent gif with register lines to determine where the progress bar is, but the bar doesn't show up at all.

hmmm...so transparency doesn't allow us to see through.. interesting.

it seems that they changed the way the "main" media player is displayed sometime during the firmware development... so some parts still use the "old" files and some not. It is not that easy to change them yet because we need to find out where the look of this new objects is declared. Perhaps the file fasttrack.pvx is also of importance because i guess it is supposed to be a xml file ? But again we have no taglist and we are not even sure that this is the right file...

Hello,

I made a Media Player 11 skin. In the low_back.gif the transparency works well.

Thanks for this idea.

That looks really nice,mate.
I loved it.

it didn't work on my phone,mate.

@prince,
which fone r u using mate? From the gif file names, it appears like u r using the K7500, right?

I have R1BC002 w800 soft & works fine.

yepp, it's an issue with the filenames.
Anyone who's having prblem with the skin on w800, Just rename background.gif to fullscreen_back.gif, andd you're ready!

can anyone post a picture of it?
please.

Oh, sorry.

The file name "background" was wrong.

The good file:

i've a question.
when you press the walkman button,and when at the menu where you can choose artis,album,playlist,tracks and all,is it still in orange colour there?

Okay, there you go...
@G-Roxx,
Yes, the orange color is still there, and also, the progress bar (song status indicator) is still orange

Can you do this for k750i?