Evox Skins Not Working?
How to fix the problem.

I've noticed a large number of posts about this subject so I just wanted to clear up how to get your Evox skins working properly. I'm posting this in the main Evox Forum rather than the Skinning Forum just because this Forum seems to get more traffic and it will probably be more visible here.

If you have uploaded skins to your Xbox and they do not appear in your skins list or when you select them they do not show up correctly, make sure to follow the following steps in order to get the skin(s) working properly.

1.) Unzip or Unrar the Skin

Use a program (I recommend WinRAR) to unzip/unrar the downloaded skin. In some cases you will see only a folder in the RAR/ZIP file. In this case just extract that file to your PC.

In other cases you will see two or more files (one or two graphic files and a "skin.ini" rile -- sometimes a readme TXT or HTML file). In this case create a folder on your PC that has the EXACT name of the RAR/ZIP file or skin name. If the skin is called "EvoxBlue" then call your folder "EvoxBlue" using the same uppercase/lowercase letters. Then simply extract the RAR/ZIP files into that directory you have created.

2.) Upload Skin(s)

Upload the extracted skin(s) to your Xbox. Put them into the following directory:

C:\Skin

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It's that simple!

If you have any further problems then check your skin.ini file to make sure the following names (shown in bold) are all identical:

I got an issue... I have the newest evox version on my newly moded Xbox... and i uploaded about 100-150 skins but i only see like 50 ish... you know how to fix??

You change any of the folder names? Make sure they all follow the things listed in the above tutorial.

I have an issue. I just a skin named ArkX because it wasn't working. All of my other skins worked previous to me deleting ArkX. I rebooted my XBOX after deleting ArkX and all of a sudden Digipanel doesn't display correctly, and I get plain default skin.

Here's a link to my skins ini file.

Crazy idea: try changing the name of the skin. There is a TON of case sensitive stuff going on in that name (as well as special characters). Try naming the skin "digipanel" and adjusting the skin.ini file accordingly and see if that will help the skin to load. I have no idea why all that stuff would cause a problem, but it's worth a shot.

Post your results.

yeah, i'll try that out. But remember, I said it worked a second ago. Now it just doesn't.

Excellent tutorial chefelf, but it doesn't quite cover the problem described in this thread: http://forums.xbox-scene.com/index.php?showtopic=128856

Like issues_i3oy mentioned above, I've had skins that worked just fine, then after adding/deleting other skins, that particular skin won't work (just get the original EvoX skin).

Also mentioned in the thread listed above, I use an EvoX boot disc to copy all my files onto client's xboxes after I've installed a modchip (this includes a skin directory with about 20 skins). Some xboxes will display certain skins, and others won't. Absolutely nothing has changed (skin directory name, skin name, skin ini, evox settings, evox ini, etc) between these as these are all copied from the same disc.

It's a very strange problem with which there seems to be no solution. And as you can see from the thread listed above, it seems as though there are quite a few people experiencing this.

Just thought I would mention this...

*edit*

issues_i3oy: after looking at the ini file for you skin, I'm surprised that it even worked for you at all. As chefelf mentioned above, your SkinName, Skin_, and the directory that it's saved in should all have the same name - which I've noticed your's doesn't. Try editing the references to 'Ultra-X_DiGiPaNeL_v2' to just 'DiGiPaNeL_v2'.
.....................................................................................
SkinName "Ultra-X_DiGiPaNeL_v2","Ultra-X_DiGiPaNeL_v2"

[Skin_Ultra-X_DiGiPaNeL_v2]

Main = "\skin\DiGiPaNeL_v2\main.jpg"
Launch = "\skin\DiGiPaNeL_v2\loading.jpg"
.....................................................................................

I changed the name to Digipanelv2 yet the default skin still shows up. This is definately some sorta' bug. A annoying one at that.

Okay, I'm stumped here. I have EvolutionX 3995, and I have uploaded several skins to a newly created c:\skin\ directory. The skins are in their own directories, named as they were extracted from their rars and zips. I have checked each skins ini and all three names as referenced in the tutorial are the same. I use Evox's reboot option to restart the system and the Skins option under System Utilities still only shows the original skin. I have softmodded this box and it is running the evox m7 bios. Any ideas on how to get evox to see these new skins. I know I'm probably missing something obvious, but after fooling with this for two hours it doesn't seem like it. Someone please shine some light on what I'm doing wrong.

Dude! Hes got an 00ber new evo-x there O_O

Excellent info KleptoMod. I'll have to double-check my skins again, but the part that really has me baffled is that the skin will work on one machine, but not another (exact same files - nothing changed between them).

Also,... you never explained what the names in green are for.

Thanks for the added information!

how do i extract them to my xbox?

YEE-HAW Man that fixed it all!!!
THANKS!

the skins are kind of dumb but i have a xbox that has a skin

i have three xboxes

Great tut! Worked just like it was supposed to

I was having issues even after going through all my skin.inis and verifiying each was correct per the 2 great posts (chefelf and KleptoMod) in this thread. So I did some experimenting. What I found was quite surprising.

When I loaded up the following skins: blackbolt, blackbolt console, blackbolt_elite, and blackbolt_S. Blackbolt console would always load as the default evox skin. If I deleted blackbolt console, then blackbolt would load as the default evox skin. When I deleted blackbolt, the skin above it alphabeticly in the skin menu would load as a default. This went on and on until I was left with the Orignal skin at the top and all the skins below blackbolt_elite aphabeticly being fine. When I loaded the skins back up minus the two blackbolt skins (blackbolt and blackbolt console) all the skins worked pefectly. Adding the 2 blackbolt skin back re-created the problem I was having earlier. Even adding just 1 of the skins back caused the issue.

Conclusion: Somehow having more then 2 skins with the first 9 letters/character being the same, causes some kind of directory error. At least in my case this seems true. I have since added other skins and they worked fine.

This was done with Evox + 3935, X2 4983.67 and a Xecuter 2.3b lite+ chip.

Maybe this will be of some use to others. If anyone else can confirm this on their xbox, please do so. If anyone else has posted on this I haven't seen it, (nor did I really go looking). I just did this for the hell of it.

I'll have to check into that G0rd0z1||a. Because the problem I'm having is mostly with the Blackbolt skins (I've also got a few of them as well). You might be onto something...

Can anyone else confirm this?

Ok I did some more testing...

My little experiment started with verifying that every skin worked prior to starting. All 20 skins worked.

Next I edited 4 different skin inis. I used the following skins: ArcX, Armageddon, Armageddon Widescreen, and AtomGuy. I renamed them As follows ArcX = Armageddon1, and AtomGuy = Armageddon2. The others stayed the same. The Skin inis were also updated to relect the changes.

So.... Now I have 4 test skins with the first 10 characters being the same. Next these 4 skins were added to the skin folder on my xbox. Rebooted and... They all worked.
So this disproved my earlier attempt to figure this damn thing out.

So I then removed the 4 test skins. Since I already had Blackbolt Console and blackbolt_S loaded I decided to test it again with these skins. So I added blackbolt and blackbolt_elite to the mix. Rebooted... and blackbolt loads as the default Evox skin. So now I'm wondering if its something specific the blackbolt skins I have. Yes I checked the ini file to make sure it was correct. And when I deleted just the blackbolt skin a different skin, named X OSX, loaded up as the default skin. Only minutes before it had worked, prior to deleting the blackbolt skin. (Whenever I changed something I went through all the skins to verify functionality).

In order to fix this I deleted all my skins, rebooted, and added all my favorites minus blackbolt and blackbolt_elite. Every single skin worked.

So I will be focusing in on these four specific skins: blackbolt, Blackbolt Console, blackbolt_elite, and blackbolt_S. I think renaming and adjusting the inis will solve it. If someone else has time, lets get some independent confirmation here. I hope this leads somewhere. Damn wild goose chases.

Nice work G0rd0z1||a... it seems as though you might be onto something. I haven't had the time to mess around with it, but I had changed my red blackbolt skin (which would only boot on some machines) from blackbolt_console_red to blackbolt_red and it seems to work just fine so far (I'm actually using it as the default skin on my EvoX boot disc). So that might have helped... dunno...

If anyone else that has been having this problem can confirm whether they've been using the Blackbolt skins, it would certainly help to narrow things down. But I can't see what the heck would be so different about the Blackbolt skins that would cause this (I've gone through the ini files a billion times!).

Ok here is what I found... After deleting all my skins I loaded in the following: Blackbolt, Blackbolt Console, blackbolt_S and blackbolt_elite. This caused blackbolt to load the default skin. So I deleted them all rebooted and loaded blackbolt by itself. Rebooted selected blackbolt as a skin... tadah worked. So I know its not the skin. Load all four back in and blackbolt loads with the default. So I'm back at square 1.

In keeping variables to a minimum I continue to use the same four test subjects. This time I rename each to something similar to the original name but not quite.
Blackbolt = Boltb; Blackbolt Console = Blackconsole; blackbolt_elite = elite blackbolt; and blackbolt_S = Sblackbolt. Each ini was changed to match. Alone BoltB loaded fine. BoltB + Blackconsole = ok. BoltB + Blackconsole + elite blackbolt = Boltb loading as default skin. This is beyond me in terms of explaining it. Without a confirmation from another member I'm forced to assume its some bug associated with my specific hardware/software. Since I like the Blackbolt Console better then blackbolt I'll use that with blackbolt_S and not blackbolt_elite. Those two have the extra details anyways and using them together has not caused one skin to screw up. I hope this has been productive in some manner. As for me, I have a problem free box that I can live with.

Nice work G0rd0z1||a!!! You really put some work into it! Your testing gave me an idea. What if the problem ist not the name of the skin, but name of the picture! I will test it and see if anything is happening! By the way, it seems like the blackbold skins are the trouble makers!!!

Ok, brand new here, so please, slap me if this is a stupid question, but I FTPed to my xbox, and after reading about problems with skins, I decided that I should download them all, and delete them on the box, and try one at a time to find the problem. So I deleted all the skin folders in c:/Skin, and yet I reboot, and they are all still there. I disconnected and reconnected through the ftp, definitely not there, but... I dunno, is there an alternate place that it may be, or a way for me to check where the system is set for skins?

I'm using evolutionX version 3935

I had the exact same problem. I tried it with FlashFXP on my pc and Fetch on my Mac. The little buggers just would not delete. I finally used boxplorer and got rid of them.

I was using a homegrown skin on my previous version, but now it will not work on 35. I don't know what's going on, but it just won't show up.

I have a skin that ends in .xbp, how do I get it to work on evox???

i dont see a skin folder in my c drive when i ftp it i have evox 3935 with the m8 bios but when i go in to launch evox and go to system utilis then there is a skin folder with the original in it but i dont see it when i ftp it to my pc all my folders come up i just cant find the skin folder

I had Evo X 3935 using font hack softmod (no-chip mod)(had it done by someone). Had the same problem of not able to choose Skin in the System Utils in Evo X Dash but able to solve it.

I found out that my Evo.ini & evoxdash.xbe is in E\newdash directory instead of c\. Thus i create the skin folder in E\newdash\skin\ and dump the new skins inside. And it works.

What's going on guys i tried all that stuff you said to do and i stil cant get my skin to show on my dash... I think it's my menu.ini but hey maybe you guys can be the judge. Oh yeah I'm using evox i have xecuter 2.6 lite and used 4983 bios. thanks guys hopefully i can do it do it

#tDoBIOS=1,
#tDoFlashBIOS=2,
#tDoDash=3,
#tDoLaunchMenu=4,
#tDoReboot=5,
#tDoNetwork=6,
#tDoHarddisk=7,
#tDoLaunch=8,


Section "Root"
{
Item "MS Dashboard",@3
Item "Reboot",@5

Section "System Utils"
{
Item "Skins",ID_Skins
Item "Network",@6
Item "Harddisk",@7
Item "Flash BIOS",@1

}

Section "Launch Menu"
{
Section "Games"
{
AutoAddItem "e:\Games\"
AutoAddItem "f:\Games\"


}

Section "Apps"
{
Item "dvd2xbox","f:\Apps\dvd2xbox\default.xbe"
AutoAddItem "e:\Apps\"
AutoAddItem "f:\Apps\"
}
}
}

Well, here's my problem and how I fixed it:

I got the ArcX_v2 skin and it wouldnt show, so I took the jpegs and recompressed them (like re encoded them, basically) with Adobe Photoshop. then I reuploaded, and they work perfectly.

Just though yall would like to know about the jpeg prob there.

peace

This is some pretty stellar info in this link..... This should help out my issues alot!!! Thanks guys!!!

Update.... This worked great.. It got the skin that I really really wanted to work!!!! Thanks for all the info guys!!!

I think I made some further step in putting this bug in the corner.
People who code EVOX can have a look and probably find it.

I invested a couple of hours and more than 50 (warm) reboots of my X, plus 3 beers and a good cigar.
I just used a "brutal" approach: testing and testing.

Here my findings:

You all already suspected "blackbolt_elite". I picked up also another skin which could make my tests less annoying: "AssPaper2".

1) Each of them work perfectly, if they are alone into the 'skin' Dir.
2) If they are together, only two skins into the Dir, there are two cases:
-a- if 'blackbolt' has been loaded into the Dir first, then there are no problems.
-b- if 'AssPaper2' has been loaded first, then it won't work.
3) If you want to make them work together, even if loaded into the Dir in the wrong order ... cancel the first comment line into skin.ini of 'blackbolt' (= "# Designed from http://www.xbox.com's new layout.")
4) Well, in reality you can just move that comment line at the beginning of the file: it looks like EVOX doesn't like comment lines between "SkinName" and "[Skin_Bb Elite]".

At least this works for me and my dozen of selected skins ("AssPaper2", which I loved and thank, doesn't belong to my official collection).

Hope this helps.

Cheers,

ji!!i

5101, 4920 (1012A700), PAL, Region 04, Focus chip, most likely 1.4 (never

tested D0)
UDE1 (plus 4x s.xtf), EVOX, 1.00.5838.01, Maxtor disk 6Y080L0, FTP via mapped

drive in WXP (the fastest way for me, 10+MB/sec upload to XBOX)
XBMP 2.4+ (RelaX 0.75), LAN 100Mbs

Hi i at least found out why my skins wasnt working because the people that i got my xbox moded from was friendtech and they didnt add the skin setting in the xbox ini setup my friend edited the ini file and wala problem found skins now work with the newest evox. :j

Ok, i am pretty sure I am having the same problem. I just deleted 8 of my 10 skins and added 5 more. Now I can only see the two originals that I left there. After looking though the files I noticed that the two originals have a skin.xml instead of a skin.ini. I am pretty sure they were copied with a skin.ini when I ftp'ed them there.

Any ideas? The names are correct in the ini files.

Ill try this out. i think i had the same prob.

^^^ This should be added as one of the solutions..

wherever your evox.ini and newdash.xbe files are located is where the SKIN directory should be located.

i can confirm that it is in fact a bug.
i had the same problem, and its not only skins that start with the same letter

for example.

my jlh skin worked perfectly fine
the one abot it halo 2 was working fine aswell

well the one below jlh didnt work so i decided to deleted
(didnt work, meaning that the original default evox skin was showing rather than the new skin)

after deleteing adn rebooting, i noticed my JLH skin didnt work.
so it was kinda odd, but i wasnt too attached to the JLH skin anyways. so i deleted that one as well, BUT THEN after rebooting, i found that my HALO 2 skin now wasnt working properly.

i come to conclusion that, there always is one that isnt working, i think it might be the position of the skin!. not sure tho

for example


skin 1
skin 2
skin 3 <--- then that one doesnt work later
skin 4 <-- if that is deleted
skin 5

and so forth. not sure tho. but it's really annoying.
i don tknow wat to try anymore.
if anyone knows how to fix it, it'd be great.

Okay im all connected to the internet everything like that. I downloaded some skins and went to the skins menu pressed A 2 times to save the skin. The skin is now on and seems like everything is working good. But when i reboot my xbox it goes back to the default skin, ive been trying foreveeer to fix this but i cant.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

ok guys i'm kinda an amatur here and having mixed probs. probable due to one thing but i'll go over what happened.. the XB was working great (has been for about 10 months) trainers skins everything ( well as much as i used anyways LOL ) couple of day ago i try copyin a trainer to the XB but not matter what i did i couldn't get it to link with my computer (i've done it heaps of time but it just wouldn't work for me this time) so i got sick of it and burn the file to a Rewritable cd. put it in and copyed the file over. it finished but locked up. it also said the trainer was 25 MB big which it isn't so i got annoyed after about ten mins of wait for something and turned it off. waited a little while then turned it back on everytime it went to load Evox it restarted so i went and got the new Evox off r friend and installed it now i can't get trainers or change to new skin only the one it installs with. now what makes it harder. THERE IS NO i mean non nuda zip zilch no Evox.ini or Skin.ini in fact theres no ini file on the system maybe in the game/apps folders but no were else but evox will load play game and have very limited options

ok i have read the above content and i am still confused this is what my nin looks like


# Skinned By:

SkinName "NewSkin","NewSkin"

[Skin_NewSkin]

Text = 500,26,1,0xFFFFFF,0,"<CD>"
Text = 500,60,1,0xFFFFFF,0,"<Time>"

LogoType = 4

Main = "\skin\NewSkin\main.JPG"
Launch = "\skin\NewSkin\load.JPG"

BarColor1 = 0x000000
BarColor2 = 0x000000
BarAlpha = 1.0
MenuColor1 = 0xFFFFFF
MenuColor2 = 0xFFFFFF

Its the hermit from the ledzep album

Anyone got a guide for those not wanting to FTP skins onto their xbox's?

CD-R's, DVD-R's etc...

Would really help me out, thanks.

Hello, My friend and I modded our xBox's and we both know a lot but we have one problem. He has a 1.6 and I have a 1.3. We both have evo 3995. The problem is that we both can't add stuff to our skins folder. We can add anything anywhere but in the E:/Dashboard/Skins folder we can't add or rename. Can anyone help.

I would like to add something. I have only read the first post so I don't know if someone else has mentioned this.

First look into all the skin folders and make sure then have the skin.ini file (i think its called that).

if you do not see it go to tools\folder options (on the menu bar of that window) then go to view and make sure the dot that says show hidden files and folders is marked, then click save.

no If you see the skin.ini but it is faded out that means it is hidden, and your xbox can't find these hidden files so if you have any skins that have hidden Skin.ini (I downloaded a lot of em) you have to make them unhidden.

to do that, just right click on the skini.ini and click on properties, once in the properties menu just uncheck the hidden option and click ok. And now they should work, or else you have an even bigger problem

how do i upload the skin to my xbox? do i use cd or dvds whats the deal?

how do i upload the skin to my xbox? do i use cd or dvds whats the deal?

I cant get the Jezz PM3 skin to work (it shows in the skins menu but doesnt load). It was working fine until I moved evox to a different drive. I followed all the steps in the tut but no success. anything i can do?

-EDITED-

Sorry if this is repetitive. Ive read all posts on this thread, and i posted one reply describing my problem in depth here....

http://forums.xbox-scene.com/index.php?sho...5&#entry3308715

I want simple answers to these questions. Newbie!

Do you change skins with your xbox controller or through editing ini files on the hd with your pc?

If you use your xbox via a menu how do i edit my ini to display the menu, or upgrade my evox.

If you edit ini files to distplay skins then what files do you edit.

I can post my evox.ini file if need. feel free to contact me via email if you do not wish to post a reply.

thanks very much


Shawn

First, for the softmodders, the directory for skins, if setup using default settings, is E:\Skins. That made all the difference in the world for me! So if you are having problems, and cant see ANY skins other than the original Evolution X skin, try dropping the skins folder into the E: drive rather than C:

I am ALSO looking for more information, about adding files, be it skins or anything else, to the xbox via a CD or DVD. If anyone could help with this, it would make it much easier for me to upgrade my father-in-laws softmodded box, without having to drag it to my house.