Growing Panel – Finally a Cool Panel!

Update – More Detail of the panel here.

Included in the R3 ROM, and available as a CAB download – courtesy of itje at XDA forums – Xperia finally gets a Panel that is actually cool! Not much “Important stuff” is displayed on this dynamic flash based panel other than the current date and time. Visually appealing, the panel can be thought of as a screensaver on your desktop – growing plants, falling leaves, bees and snails… It is simply a panel that you can switch to when at a party or taking time off.

To try it out, head on here (look in the second post). If possible, send itje a donation to appreciate his hard work!

(FYI – You will need to install an ActiveX Plugin for the panel to work)

Some screenshots below…

Comments

Melk said…

It's nice that it changes the graphics to match the time of day.

March 19, 2009 at 9:19 PM

msalmank said…

Yeah... i kind of love the panel!!! :D

I'm not really sure if it is a Flash panel... maybe uses the OpenGL ES that was recently announced to be supported in the new SDK???

March 19, 2009 at 10:28 PM

Unknown said…

Thanks for the panel. Think that you should use %CE1% (path to program folder) instead of program files when installing the registry keys. Since I'm from sweden (our "program files" is named "program") I had to edit the registry keys to point the panel manager to the right location for you excellent panel.

To help other with this problem... use your favourite registry editor and browse to \HKLM\Software\SonyEricsson\PanelManager\Panels\Growing Panel and edit all keys to point to your program folder.

March 25, 2009 at 1:44 PM

Laffe said…

Hej Erik!

Kan du svenska? (tänkte eftersom du var från Sverige).

Hur ändrade du så att du kunde ha det på din Xperia?
Skulle du kunna göra en .cab som jag kan ha på min xperia (den är Svensk).

Tacksam för svar!

Mvh
Laffe

July 5, 2009 at 2:49 PM

Unknown said…

I have the panel installed on my x1 so that he does not appear in the panel manager selects me it could someone help me please?

February 12, 2010 at 11:56 PM

Xtrakt – A 3D Game for Xperia

Now who was it that insisted that Xperia lacked a 3D chip? Thanks to itje for basing his latest Custom ROM on the leaked R3AA ROM and seperately providing CABs to some of the goodies available in the new ROM version, you can get your hands on ‘Xtrakt’ - a new 3D game by Sony Ericsson – right now! The game has really great graphics and runs quite smoothly on the device. Though it warns not to run any other applications when playing the game, it ran just fine with SPB Screenshot running besides it. Best controlled with a stylus, you control the main character of the game on a future motorcycle destroying monsters. Doesn’t sound too appealing, i know, but the game is actually good! Better than many games that i’ve played on my iPhone and opens the door to better gaming on Windows Mobile. (True that an accelerometer would have been quite handy in handling the bike, but stylus/finger control of the bike sits well with the game). To download head on here . You do not need to flash to th...

SPB Mobile Shell 3.0 – A Quick Review

SPB has finally released Mobile Shell 3.0 and simply put, it is Amazing! Once installation completes and the shell is launched, you are taken to a sleeker version of SPB Mobile Shell 2.0 home with message information, notifications, calendar, and weather. This screen is known as the Professional Home screen. But wait! with the flick of a finger up the screen, the home screen is switched to the lifestyle home screen which provides a completely different look and feel. This lifestyle home screen is fully customizable allowing the user to place widgets and application launchers of their choice on the screen as needed. Apart from application shortcuts and widgets, the user can also add calendar entries, images, contacts, and more. Furthermore, the lifestyle home screen is split across three pages – flick to the right or left to change to the page – thus allowing you to manage similar widgets on the same page. Clicking on the lower-left button activates the SPB Carrousel – a 3D interfac...

Growing Panel – More to it… (Updated)

It turns out that the Growing panel has more to it than what was initially believed of it. It is not just a cool animated panel, but has a lot more to offer. First of all let me start off by complementing the animating panel. Having run it for a couple of hours now, the first thing i noticed was that it kept changing with time. The sun went down and the moon came up, and slowly made across the sky… and now the moon is almost out of sight and the sky a bit brightened, the sun should be showing up soon. (unfortunately i won’t be able to catch the sun rising as i’ll be asleep by then…) Next are the small insects on the panel. Bees flying by, worms crawling on the plants, fireflies in the air, and snails on the ground. Hit the bee or the ladybird and the phone buzzes, hit a snail and it hides itself inside its shell and stays there – hit it again to get it moving again, hit the firefly and it flickers… This is definitely a panel worth having! Now… the functionality on the panel. As e...

Xperiancer

Search This Blog