If you get tired of the Neo Home screen, you’re in luck - there are a plethora of other Home screens you can load onto your Shadow, and heck, we even have a Themes Forum that puts them all under one place.
I recently found a Home screen that I thought to be particularly good-looking: the HTC tabbed Home screen. If you’ve seen HTC devices like the TyTN II or Touch, you know that they come with HTC Home out of the box. Good thing we have a version that works on the Shadow - download the CAB here.
To get it going, transfer the CAB to your device and run it. Then, go into Settings, Home Screen, and choose “HTC” … be sure to set Color scheme and Background image to “default.” Also, in order to get weather updates, you’ll need to be on a data plan or on a WiFi network.
Thanks to ShadowMike for posting this in the forums.
May 29th, 2008 at 12:58 am
WHERE IS THE CAB FILE FOR THIS APPLICATION I CLICKED ON THE LINK AND NOTHING HAPPENED
May 29th, 2008 at 1:17 am
^http://www.allshadow.com/forum/download/file.php?id=571l
you typed in all caps so im guessing you really want this haha
May 29th, 2008 at 1:27 am
this theme is awesome but I can’t seem to change the calling screen background and the start menu background. its still brown
any way I can change it to like black? thanks in advance!
May 29th, 2008 at 8:07 am
Strange…that linked work yesterday. Oh well, it’s working now. Thank you Chris.
May 29th, 2008 at 8:08 am
dee - go into Settings>Home Screen> and make sure Color Scheme and Background Image is set to “default.” That will use the black colors.
May 29th, 2008 at 9:23 am
Mane i had this background like 3 months ago!!! its pretty cool but i dont like the way it starts too load the weather slowly after a while!!! also the people feature got me into a little gurl trouble!!! lol
good day homies!!!
May 29th, 2008 at 11:00 am
With this HTC Theme you can still put a picture in the background although there are fields that will overlap your pic. Ihave the mac Leopard bacground mixed with this HTC theme layout. Looks nice and is a little different than WM themes.
May 29th, 2008 at 11:09 am
Very Nice Theme. Is there a MyFaves interface with this theme?
May 29th, 2008 at 11:20 am
man this shits hot! but im wit D Brooks on this 1.. i might have sum female trouble haha but its whateva..whoever made this shit props hommie!
May 29th, 2008 at 1:06 pm
I love this theme thank you very much. The only thing is i have the same prob as Dee the menu background is still brown and i made sure its all set to default. what do i do? Help i hate brown!
May 29th, 2008 at 1:44 pm
As for the calling screen background, I just installed Freddy Reyes’s black neo theme, it changed the calling screen and the start menu to black, then just use the HTC home screen. Works perfectly for me.
May 29th, 2008 at 1:56 pm
Way cool! More like this…
May 29th, 2008 at 3:49 pm
thanks brandon ! Its on default but its still brown
any other way to change it? thanks in advance!
May 29th, 2008 at 4:00 pm
Weather feature seems not to work, keeps saying (unable to retrieve data for selected city)
May 29th, 2008 at 4:57 pm
Everytime i try to install this i get “Instalation of Gregory HTCHome.cab was unsuccessful” I have tried it being on the device and on the storage card. I get the same thing in both places. Anyone know what i am doing? I currently haev the Neo Blue
May 29th, 2008 at 4:58 pm
Should have been a WRONG in the question of anyone know what am i doing.
May 29th, 2008 at 5:21 pm
ok i figured it out
May 29th, 2008 at 6:07 pm
Cool very nice! Thanks!
May 29th, 2008 at 6:09 pm
I like the theme, but it seems like the band at the bottom (w/ the HTC logo) is wasted screen real estate. Is there something that goes there?
May 29th, 2008 at 6:17 pm
David,
What did you do? I am also getting the same message Instalation of Gregory HTCHome.cab was unsuccessful”
i am still in WM 6.0 and not 6.1 yet
May 29th, 2008 at 6:27 pm
Get tied of Neo?!? I Don’t understand
May 29th, 2008 at 7:38 pm
Very cool theme, but I agree with Kevin, too much wasted space. Until there is a way to fill it up, it’s back to Neo for me.
May 29th, 2008 at 8:55 pm
Love it, but I can not get it to switch off Celsius. Thoughts?
May 29th, 2008 at 9:50 pm
There is a way to fill it up. If you go the forum that the cab is found in, someone edited an xml file i believe to include most recent apps used, schedule, profile, and media player
May 30th, 2008 at 2:24 am
OMG ! looks soooooooooooooo GOOD! gonna keep this on 4 a while !! but i do miss the easy access to the media payer, pics, and taks manager right on the home screen ! over all diggin it!
May 30th, 2008 at 6:04 am
too much space not enough functionality but ok for the occasional different look.
May 30th, 2008 at 7:25 am
OK, I tired the link to get the add on for the media player etc to appear on the home screen…no luck. Anyone have another way. I really want more on my homescreen than this one has to offer.
May 30th, 2008 at 6:37 pm
Does ANYONE have the problem with the call screen being totally white when recieving calls from people you dont have a picture for? It was fine until I installed this theme, someone please reply
May 30th, 2008 at 10:41 pm
where cani get more themes like neo ? and all the ones ou r all talking about?
May 31st, 2008 at 8:22 am
to those of you getting the unsuccessful install message: did you make sure the file downloaded completely? i let mine sit while downloading and when i went back to my phone the file was there, only it was incomplete. menu->properties on the file and make sure it is 1.87 megabytes.
June 2nd, 2008 at 10:52 am
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June 2nd, 2008 at 7:39 pm
Really great home screen. I LOVE IT ! Only thing I would like to change is to have the weather update more often. It seems to only update about once every 2 hours. I”m in Houston and the weather here changes quickly and this screen doesn’t keep up. Anyone got any ideas ?
June 2nd, 2008 at 7:40 pm
Also, I checked out the HTC website. They got some other cool home screens. Anyone want to try and get them for our Shadow too? I’m not experienced enough to know how.
June 4th, 2008 at 5:49 am
To bad the weather reports are only for certain major citys. I wish the “favorite persons” was changed to Live Messenger Status. But overall a nice theme
June 5th, 2008 at 9:56 pm
Where do I put the downloaded files on my phone?
June 6th, 2008 at 11:27 am
my caller screen is now all white like the user above. is there a fix for this?
June 10th, 2008 at 2:01 am
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June 10th, 2008 at 8:05 am
the weather screen for me is blank, when I enter a location that is part of accu weather it’s still blank
June 11th, 2008 at 3:00 pm
Where do I put the downloaded files on my phone?
June 14th, 2008 at 8:32 pm
ok CAN SOMEONE PLEASE HELP ITS LIKE EVERY THING ON THIS SIGHT ONLY TELLS YOU HALF HOW TO DO THIS I DOWNLOAD THE FILE AND NOW WHAT IM GOOD WIT PC AND HACKING INTO THINGS I MEAN I WISH I WAS BUT IM JUS NOT SO AFTER U DOWNLOAD THIS FILE AND ITS ON THE PC THEN WHAT
July 15th, 2008 at 11:39 pm
Hi! I am also getting the same message Instalation of Gregory HTCHome.cab was unsuccessful” , i also choose the htc home in setting ,but it didn’t appear on the today sceen, is it possible if it not support with my htc touch? pls help me…
July 19th, 2008 at 1:22 pm
i dont know how to do any of this?!?! im completly clueless, can anyone guide me through it or send me a link tha i can use to do it myself
thanks
September 1st, 2008 at 8:26 pm
i can’t add people to my favorite people… i hold it down, shows the list then it goes back the main screen.
September 2nd, 2008 at 9:00 am
I have downloaded the install file for win mobile 6.1 but it wont install on phone what steps need to be taken.
September 7th, 2008 at 1:09 pm
can you use this cab file with the dark night home screen??