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How do you make your own Themes for the X70?
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Posted by: x69er

Hi, Pease be gentle, this is my first post.

I have recently got hold of a Panasonic x70 on Orange(UK).

Having played with it for a month now I find I would like to know all there is to know bout this fone.

I have managed to do most things without too much trouble.

However I would like to mess around with Pictures, Ringtones, Wallpapers and Themes.

My problem is that the fone has copy protection on certain files that prevent me from forwarding or downloading them to my PC etc!!!

I accept this for copyright reasons, not a problem, peoples got a make a living.

Now the main gist of this post, I downloaded a theme from Panasonicbox named "panasonictoyota.ptm"

Now this is ok as it goes but is not really my cup of tea.
I would much prefer to create my own. Avoiding these copyright issues so that I can share them with my friends. And you lot, of course

How the hell do you create themes as they come in a " Theme.ptm" format that I cannot look at to see how it is done so that I can make my own.

Thanks for any information that is forthcoming.

Chris

Posted by: Hikescdnrckys

No answer for you - but I to am new to this whole cell phone themes, ringtones thing too and also just got a Panasonic X70. Let me add my 2 cents...

I am in a worse situation as being based in NA - no one yet supports donwloads for ringtones. I would love to get a few more ringtones than what are available on the X70. So if someone can explain how to create themes and whether standard ringtones for other phones are useable on the X70 that would be great!

Posted by: x69er

Well in reply to Hikescdnrckys,

I can tell you that if you can not download ringtones etc via your carrier, or that you are not willing to pay their prices you can do it for free.

You will need either a "IRDA (infrared)" or "Bluetooth" dongle, or alternatively a cable.
I cant tell you where to get hold of these but I use a cheap old bluetooth dongle( a usb one made by MSI, cost me £25 or $40).

I installed the USB software that came with the phone.
Or go here to download it: Its called X70 Handset Manager in case it moves:
http://www.panasonicmobile.com/supp...70Pceditor.html

The software wants to connect only to a serial port on com 5.
This is the important bit.

Pair the phone and bluetooth dongle and discover all available services.
On my bluetooth software I have a connection to the phone using com port 5 called "My X70 Modem".
On my bluetooth software I connect to the phone first using "My X70 Modem", this must be configured to use com port 5 in its properties window.
Your bluetooth software may be different but the principle is the same
This does not dial out it just makes a connection to the phone using com port 5.

Now launch Handset manager and it should connet to the phone.
It will ask to download your phone book, click ok.

On the bottom of the handset manager program it will tell you the status of the connection, e.g. "Signal: -93dB Battery 97%"

Now that the connection is made you can send and download all of the files types on the phone using the File Manager button on the left hand side of the software.

There are ways to make you own ringtones, but this is quite complicated. Do what I do and grab any old *.mid or MIDI files from the internet.

Wallpapers are the easy bit just grab any picture from your album and using your chosen paint program, resize it to 132 pixels wide by 176 pixels tall and save as a *.jpg.

Themes are where we came in at and are in the format *.ptm. I do not know what these are, someone please fill us in.

Hope this is of some help, cheers Chris

Posted by: lost_rebel

Themes are something I would like to do as well. I like the one for the pana racing but would like to see what the mobile is capable off. I will try some hacks with the phone that I had for 87 and see if I can figure out the format.

Wallpapers...over 800 and gd87.nicobox.net, screen resolution is the same as 87 so they work fine. Colour depth is better since the pixels are smaller on x70

Ringtones. I use 8bit mono wave files. I can get around 13-15 second sound bites. Also Midi files work well, but that has been well covered already.