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CITATION
This page was made to help user on Club-Siemens to create their own themes for Siemens mobile phones. Please use this thread on Club-Siemens to discuss this subject! You have to be registered to the forum!
How to preper for this
You need the following thing:
A Computer
WinZip, WinRAR, WinAce or another ZIP-supporting packing-application
Application for edit animated GIF's, regular GIF's and JPG, like Macromedia FireWorks or Photoshop
Siemens S55 Colour Scheme Editor
A application for editing MIDI
A WAV-editor as Cool-Edit, Gold Wave or any other. And SOX [ZIP][ACE]
Data cable for Siemens x55/x65-series, ie. DCA-500, DCA-510 or DCA-540. Or IrDA or Blue Tooth
A Siemens 65-series phone and/or CX65/CX66 Developer package (SMTK Emulator). For downloading, this way please.
This is optional things, but I recomand to use them:
A 100% working theme to base your theme on. Try WinXP or MacOS!
A good idea about what you're trying to create
Lots of time
Fun
If you have all the necceserry thing and think you have all the optional things you'll need, then we proseed to the next step
Now you need to make a folder anywere you can find it easy, and think you will have it! Name it My theme adn open it. Here you have to make another folder, named My theme.
If you downloaded any theme from above (as I recomand you to do), copy it and change the file extantion to .zip, or assosiate .sdt with your packing application. Extract the file into any folder, but My theme. Open one of the pictures and edit it ad you want it. Also put the a copy of the .sdt to your phone (0:\data\Theme), or the emulator (C:\siemens\SMTK\emulators\CX65 (or CX66)\Filesystem\0\Themes).
Now open any picture from the extracted archive, and edit it as you want! Or create a new picture with resulotion 132x176 pixels for C/CX/M/S65 or 130x130 pixels for C/SL65. You can use the orginal pictures in the phone also! Save the edited/new picture in the folder My theme as it was in the downloaded theme, or as the file structure says!
Do this to every picture and animation in the theme.
Next is the color scheme, you have to open S55 CE to create a color scheme for your theme. If you have the downloaded theme, you'll find the .COL in the . SCS, which is a ZIP-archive as well. You'll find the .SCS-files in 0:\data\Skin in your phone. Use colors that fit your pictures, if using the a .COL from a working theme you'll find which colors that actully in use,and which is only for making animations animate corectly. If you set transaprent to wrong lines you'll see what I mean!
And last we have the sounds. I can tell you that I've never tryed to edit the MIDIs, but it's possible. Don't ask me how to do, do it in Club-Siemens instad, I'll add to here when I know what applications is nessecery and how to do! MIDI is used for the standard ringtone, but can maby be replaced by a WAV
But the WAV is easy. Open the WAV-editor and create a start-up and shut-down sound, then use SOX to convert the sound so correct WAVs! Read instructions in the archive! This can maby be replaced by MIDIs if wanted!
When finnished, pack the files as the downloaded theme, or as the file structure says!
File structure for the SDT file
I recomend everyone to keep this structure under the whole time while creating the theme! Note that files in My theme.scs can't be renamed, this may occure in error while loading the theme in a phone. The both archives (My theme.sdt and Mt theme.scs) have to be ZIP-archives. RAR, ACE or any other format will result in a non working skin, becouse the phone doesn'r recognize any other packing format than ZIP for themes, and JAR for java midlets!
┬ My theme (My theme.sdt)
├┬ Config.stc
│├ PinInputAnimation.gif
│├ My ringtone.mid
│├ SkinMenuIdleImage.jpg - This is the image shown when the phone is in standby
│├ WaitAnimation
│├ Startup.wav
│├ Shutdown.wav
│├ Netsearch.gif
│├ Screensaver.gif
│├ Startup.gif
│├ Shutdown.gif
│├ My theme (My theme.scs)
│├┬ SkinApplicationImage.jpg - This is the icon-menu background
││├ SkinMenuIdleImage.jpg - This is the background when typing phone number, SMS etc.
└┘└ Skinscheme.col - This is the colorscheme
Config.stc
The Config.stc should look as this, it can be edited in Notepad, and is easy XML. Here is every line, with explantion of the nessecery lines.
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl"?>
<theme_config_info>
<summary>
<watermark content="Watermark"/>
<headline content="Siemens Downloadable Theme"/>
<txt name="Title:" content="My theme"/> This is the name of the theme
<txt name="Author:" content="I, Me and Mine"/> Tells who made this theme
<txt name="Published:" content="2004-07-12"/> Tells when the theme was published
<txt name="Version:" content="0.0"/> Tells the theme version, in this case 0.0, prefer to start from 1.0 when you have made a complete theme
<txt name="Resolution:" content="132x176 pixel"/> Tells the resulotion the theme works with. This make it impossible to use a theme for CX65 on C65!
<txt name="Vendor:" content="Siemens Mobile"/> Tells which vendor created this theme, leav as Siemenbs-Mobile, if you don't made this for a company
<txt name="Price:" content="Free"/> The price of the theme, euro (€) is recomended in Europe
<url name="URL:" content="www.siemens-mobile.com"/> The URL to find your homepage on, where everyone can download your theme from, leav as this if yore theme is only for you
<description content=""/>
</summary>
<resource_assignment>
<table mainline="Theme resource table"
columnleft="Resource name"
columnright="Assigned file name"/>
<!-- resources -->
<res name="Switch on animation" src="startup.gif"/> The Switch on animation's file name
<res name="Switch off animation" src="shutdown.gif"/> Switch off animation's file name
<res name="Idle background animation" src="SkinMenuIdleImage.jpg"/> Background image when in stand by
<res name="Screen saver" src="screensaver.gif"/> Screensaver's filenamy
<res name="Color skin" src="My theme.scs"/> Filename of the color scheme's archive
<res name="Switch on melody" src="startup.mid"/> Switch on sound's filename
<res name="Switch off melody" src="Shutdown.mid"/> Switch off sound's filename
<res name="Preferred book tone" src="My ringtone.mid"/> The ringtone that should be used when chocing this theme
<res name="Net search animation" src="netsearch.gif"/> Animation that should be shown when searshing net, after start up
<res name="PIN input animation" src="PinInputAnimation.gif"/> The animation that is shown next to where you enter the pin, res: 34x80 pixels
<res name="Wait animation" src="WaitAnimation.gif"/> Animation shown in 'Please wait' dialog, resulotion: 24x80 pixels
<res name="Configuration information" src="config.stc"/> This file, should not be changed!!
</resource_assignment>
<summary>
<copyright content="Free for any use"/> Who is the owner of the copyright
</summary>
</theme_config_info>
The pictures without any resultion inforamtion should be as the screen resulotion, other as inforamtion tells.
If you have any queations please use the Club-Siemens-forum linked to above. Anu corrections or anything eles should be sent there as well. This is just so everyone can read corrections before I've updated this page. Questions will faster be answered at that forum, than I can update this.
On Club-Siemens you'll find a lot of information about Siemens mobiles. And you can discuss Siemens mobiles and other stuff as well, but NOT any other brand as Nokia, Samsung etc!
How to preper for this
You need the following thing:
A Computer
WinZip, WinRAR, WinAce or another ZIP-supporting packing-application
Application for edit animated GIF's, regular GIF's and JPG, like Macromedia FireWorks or Photoshop
Siemens S55 Colour Scheme Editor
A application for editing MIDI
A WAV-editor as Cool-Edit, Gold Wave or any other. And SOX [ZIP][ACE]
Data cable for Siemens x55/x65-series, ie. DCA-500, DCA-510 or DCA-540. Or IrDA or Blue Tooth
A Siemens 65-series phone and/or CX65/CX66 Developer package (SMTK Emulator). For downloading, this way please.
This is optional things, but I recomand to use them:
A 100% working theme to base your theme on. Try WinXP or MacOS!
A good idea about what you're trying to create
Lots of time
Fun
If you have all the necceserry thing and think you have all the optional things you'll need, then we proseed to the next step
Now you need to make a folder anywere you can find it easy, and think you will have it! Name it My theme adn open it. Here you have to make another folder, named My theme.
If you downloaded any theme from above (as I recomand you to do), copy it and change the file extantion to .zip, or assosiate .sdt with your packing application. Extract the file into any folder, but My theme. Open one of the pictures and edit it ad you want it. Also put the a copy of the .sdt to your phone (0:\data\Theme), or the emulator (C:\siemens\SMTK\emulators\CX65 (or CX66)\Filesystem\0\Themes).
Now open any picture from the extracted archive, and edit it as you want! Or create a new picture with resulotion 132x176 pixels for C/CX/M/S65 or 130x130 pixels for C/SL65. You can use the orginal pictures in the phone also! Save the edited/new picture in the folder My theme as it was in the downloaded theme, or as the file structure says!
Do this to every picture and animation in the theme.
Next is the color scheme, you have to open S55 CE to create a color scheme for your theme. If you have the downloaded theme, you'll find the .COL in the . SCS, which is a ZIP-archive as well. You'll find the .SCS-files in 0:\data\Skin in your phone. Use colors that fit your pictures, if using the a .COL from a working theme you'll find which colors that actully in use,and which is only for making animations animate corectly. If you set transaprent to wrong lines you'll see what I mean!
And last we have the sounds. I can tell you that I've never tryed to edit the MIDIs, but it's possible. Don't ask me how to do, do it in Club-Siemens instad, I'll add to here when I know what applications is nessecery and how to do! MIDI is used for the standard ringtone, but can maby be replaced by a WAV
But the WAV is easy. Open the WAV-editor and create a start-up and shut-down sound, then use SOX to convert the sound so correct WAVs! Read instructions in the archive! This can maby be replaced by MIDIs if wanted!
When finnished, pack the files as the downloaded theme, or as the file structure says!
File structure for the SDT file
I recomend everyone to keep this structure under the whole time while creating the theme! Note that files in My theme.scs can't be renamed, this may occure in error while loading the theme in a phone. The both archives (My theme.sdt and Mt theme.scs) have to be ZIP-archives. RAR, ACE or any other format will result in a non working skin, becouse the phone doesn'r recognize any other packing format than ZIP for themes, and JAR for java midlets!
┬ My theme (My theme.sdt)
├┬ Config.stc
│├ PinInputAnimation.gif
│├ My ringtone.mid
│├ SkinMenuIdleImage.jpg - This is the image shown when the phone is in standby
│├ WaitAnimation
│├ Startup.wav
│├ Shutdown.wav
│├ Netsearch.gif
│├ Screensaver.gif
│├ Startup.gif
│├ Shutdown.gif
│├ My theme (My theme.scs)
│├┬ SkinApplicationImage.jpg - This is the icon-menu background
││├ SkinMenuIdleImage.jpg - This is the background when typing phone number, SMS etc.
└┘└ Skinscheme.col - This is the colorscheme
Config.stc
The Config.stc should look as this, it can be edited in Notepad, and is easy XML. Here is every line, with explantion of the nessecery lines.
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl"?>
<theme_config_info>
<summary>
<watermark content="Watermark"/>
<headline content="Siemens Downloadable Theme"/>
<txt name="Title:" content="My theme"/> This is the name of the theme
<txt name="Author:" content="I, Me and Mine"/> Tells who made this theme
<txt name="Published:" content="2004-07-12"/> Tells when the theme was published
<txt name="Version:" content="0.0"/> Tells the theme version, in this case 0.0, prefer to start from 1.0 when you have made a complete theme
<txt name="Resolution:" content="132x176 pixel"/> Tells the resulotion the theme works with. This make it impossible to use a theme for CX65 on C65!
<txt name="Vendor:" content="Siemens Mobile"/> Tells which vendor created this theme, leav as Siemenbs-Mobile, if you don't made this for a company
<txt name="Price:" content="Free"/> The price of the theme, euro (€) is recomended in Europe
<url name="URL:" content="www.siemens-mobile.com"/> The URL to find your homepage on, where everyone can download your theme from, leav as this if yore theme is only for you
<description content=""/>
</summary>
<resource_assignment>
<table mainline="Theme resource table"
columnleft="Resource name"
columnright="Assigned file name"/>
<!-- resources -->
<res name="Switch on animation" src="startup.gif"/> The Switch on animation's file name
<res name="Switch off animation" src="shutdown.gif"/> Switch off animation's file name
<res name="Idle background animation" src="SkinMenuIdleImage.jpg"/> Background image when in stand by
<res name="Screen saver" src="screensaver.gif"/> Screensaver's filenamy
<res name="Color skin" src="My theme.scs"/> Filename of the color scheme's archive
<res name="Switch on melody" src="startup.mid"/> Switch on sound's filename
<res name="Switch off melody" src="Shutdown.mid"/> Switch off sound's filename
<res name="Preferred book tone" src="My ringtone.mid"/> The ringtone that should be used when chocing this theme
<res name="Net search animation" src="netsearch.gif"/> Animation that should be shown when searshing net, after start up
<res name="PIN input animation" src="PinInputAnimation.gif"/> The animation that is shown next to where you enter the pin, res: 34x80 pixels
<res name="Wait animation" src="WaitAnimation.gif"/> Animation shown in 'Please wait' dialog, resulotion: 24x80 pixels
<res name="Configuration information" src="config.stc"/> This file, should not be changed!!
</resource_assignment>
<summary>
<copyright content="Free for any use"/> Who is the owner of the copyright
</summary>
</theme_config_info>
The pictures without any resultion inforamtion should be as the screen resulotion, other as inforamtion tells.
If you have any queations please use the Club-Siemens-forum linked to above. Anu corrections or anything eles should be sent there as well. This is just so everyone can read corrections before I've updated this page. Questions will faster be answered at that forum, than I can update this.
On Club-Siemens you'll find a lot of information about Siemens mobiles. And you can discuss Siemens mobiles and other stuff as well, but NOT any other brand as Nokia, Samsung etc!
