Announcing OpLogo Changer (working title) v0.01aتغيير اللوقو في الجوال


Before I start, I would like to confirm that although this is published on 1st April, it is in fact 100% genuine!

Okay, in February I said that in “Late March” I’d post about this, and well, it’s only technically a day late

Hopefully the working title of the software gives a good idea of what this program does. As it suggests, the program changes the operator logo on S60 3rd Edition phones. You can either set your own graphic (from an image in the gallery), make it transparent, or delete any existing logo so it reverts back to the operator text.

This is the first ever alpha release of this software, and so it’s bound to have bugs and missing features, but for the main part the software works as intended. More features will be added in upcoming versions, and hopefully it will hit beta and final release sooner rather than later. But the only S60 3rd Edition phone that I own is the original Nokia N95, so I need your help testing it and suggesting features (as well as a final name for the software… I think OpLogo Changer is a bit dull).

Here is a breakdown of the overall aims of the software:

In this version

Adding oplogos to S60 3rd Edition without complicated procedures using hacks and file managers (and without using a program that stays in memory)
Using any image in the gallery (with limitations in this release — images are squished to the correct size… future versions will allow you to crop or resize keeping aspect ratios as well as squishing)
Hiding the oplogo so it is transparent
Removing the oplogo, reverting back to the textual operator name
So far, preliminary testing has revealed that coloured oplogos can’t feature transparency, which is a bit disappointing; so I’m looking at alternative ways to fix this (maybe automatically use the background of the current theme, placing the oplogo on top… although this would mean you would have to re-activate the oplogo every time you change the theme… an alternative approach would be to keep a program running in the background to artificially add an oplogo with transparency).

The size of the oplogo varies between different resolutions. These might not be 100% correct (and hopefully alpha testing will reveal the exact dimensions), but from what I can tell, these are the oplogo sizes:

For 240 x 320 resolutions (e.g. N95): 134 x 35 pixels
For 176 x 208 resolutions (e.g. N91): 97 x 25 pixels
For 352 x 416 resolutions (e.g. N80): 194 x 50 pixels
Please note that these are for portrait resolutions only. I’m not sure about the oplogo sizes for landscape resolutions (or for resolutions not mentioned here). Feel free to experiment and let me know!

So anyway, enough waffle… here’s how it works (with pictures):

1. Once installed and launched, a menu appears. Ignore the yellow jigsaw icons for now — these are the default icons provided in the SDK and will be replaced by proper icons in future versions. From here, you can activate a new oplogo, make the logo transparent, restore the original operator text (i.e. remove the logo) or exit the application. The Help feature doesn’t work in 0.01a.

So, I’m sure you’ve worked out that you just choose an option in the list to select the relevant feature.

We’ll start with adding a new operator logo. Before I started, there was no oplogo installed, so the standard operator text (’3?) was displayed:



Seems simple enough, doesn’t it? Basically choose a picture from the gallery, wait a few seconds while the program works it magic, reboot your phone and ta-da! It’s done. Could it be simpler? Of course, in future versions as I mentioned there will be advanced options to resize/crop/scale the image if it isn’t the correct size, but for now it’ll just squash any image to the dimensions quoted above, depending on your phone’s screen resolution.

I also mentioned that there is no transparency for colour oplogos, so if you’re wondering what I did to get a seemingly transparent 3 logo, I made the logo transparent, took a screenshot, pasted the 3 logo on top, cut out the correct dimensions and saved it as a graphic which was sent to the phone and activated as an oplogo. Might sound complicated, but it’s straightforward. I’m considering automating this procedure based on the currently activated theme background. (If this doesn’t make sense, ignore it… I know what I mean even if nobody else does )

A even easier process applies when making a logo transparent or reverting to the operator text. Simply choose the option, choose ‘Yes’ to confirm and reboot the phone. It’s done. See below for some screenshots:

Making the logo transparent



Hopefully as you can see, it’s really simple to make the logo transparent. Click the ‘Hide logo’ button, choose ‘Yes’ to confirm that you want to do it and reboot your phone. When the standby screen appears again, the operator logo area will be totally transparent - no logo, no text.

Restoring the original operator text



Ultimately, this is the same process as making a logo transparent - just choose the “Restore optext” button, hit Yes to confirm, reboot and it’s done.

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