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AKU3.2 Rom Languages (and Packs)

Hello!
I started this thread in order to put all valuable information about language packs in here.
Here is also an answer from Ltd.Cmd.Ivan:
Lt.Cmdr.Ivan said:
Yes it is a option.
Unfortunately i do not have the resource files for different languages. But there are some people who asked how to do this. ATM i do not remember who. Perhaps you and the people who asked can start a team who makes the necessary changes to have a german language pack. If you manage to get it as an addon option, it would be very easy to make the translations for other languages too. Someone already did this (i think it was at buzzdev.net) for the aku2 roms. Perhaps you can find that project and show me where to download it, including the complete stuff. Maybe it is small enough to integrate 2 or 3 different languages in a rom, and choose after startup which one to use.
Before this can be done it has to be tested (This is your chance ) , if it is completely functioning with the aku3.2 stuff.
BlackICE said:
Hi!
As far as I know, the AKU3.2 Rom has language packs included or can have it included, which can be chosen at first startup. Your Rom did not have this.
Is there any possiblity that your Rom can have german language included?
If you need somebody to test Rom with language packs I would love to.
cu
Hakan
aka Black ICE
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As far as I know, language packs from microsoft are preloaded into RAM (or ROM?) and can be chosen on initial start. After choosing right language pack, it is applied to the ROM and all packs are erased.
so we have 2 possibilities:
1. make our own translations
2. try to save the language packs from microsoft
as for number 1 we need to know, how a language pack is packaged - at least Buzz should know this, as Buzz already offers some language Packs for AKU2 on his website
as for number 2 we need some method to save the language packs from deletion so we can transfer them from the pocketpc.
any other ideas?

If I could get my hands on a new device with the language packs already on it (new AKU 3.2 device that has not been used yet), I could figure a way to extract them. The problem is that I am not aware of any devices with AKU 3.2 and the language packs that are available for sale.
Are there any devices being sold with these features yet?
-Jwrightmcps

I think, there are no AKU3.2 devices available yet. I assume Microsoft is shipping AKU3.2 installation packs to developers or cell phone network to make their customizations.
And that is a way how Ivan and others got AKU3.2: just somebody working for a developer or cell phone network made a copy of this or similar. Is that right, what I think?

Or some simply get their hands on a device prototype
This is how I got my copy of AKU 3.2 (from HTC HERMES) but it did not have any language packs other than English...
I am also connected in the industry (state-side) and have heard nothing about the shipping of any AKU 3.2 language packs (OEM or Operators) yet
-Jwrightmcps

it would be nice
it would be very nice to have the Arabic language not as a third party sw

Jwrightmcps said:
Or some simply get their hands on a device prototype
This is how I got my copy of AKU 3.2 (from HTC HERMES) but it did not have any language packs other than English...
I am also connected in the industry (state-side) and have heard nothing about the shipping of any AKU 3.2 language packs (OEM or Operators) yet
-Jwrightmcps
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Hmmm, that means either we must wait for availability or we make our own language packs.
Translations should not be a problem but the tricky part is the packaging into an installable. I wonder how microsoft wants to make an installed language pack to be permanent even after hard reset...

do a web search for 'Lang_v2.zip" this is a fairly complete guide for translating language files in WM5. It also has a direct german to english example. Also, if you aren't using Bepe's kitchen, you should. I recently tried to translate a chinese AKU 3.2 to english, it was build 15633, and the next closest english ROM I had to compare to was build 15603. It came out fairly well, though i couldn't change the keypad. it had no msim, but did have an sskim file. Also, use the DSMtool by bepe, this saves so much time in packaging files.
Regards,
Jason

Greek language
Does anyone knows how to unlock an existing rom in order to use it i have greek Wizard Vodafone V1640 and Qtek Hellas Does not support it either Vodafone Greece. I have downloaded the latest firmware but it is locked. i just need to get the greek keyboard and language for my contacts is this possible

Excellent, i found the guide and will have a look at it as soon as possible.

Lt.Cmdr.Ivan said:
Excellent, i found the guide and will have a look at it as soon as possible.
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I looked back into some of my old favorites, and found his forum here. Enjoy.
Regards,
Jason

It should write a file (Windows\test) and a registry entry ([HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Test]"by"="bepe") to the rom.
This changes would also exists after a hard reset.
but, the package is not working yet, cos of signing... (I managed to get it working on my device, but thats all)
I think this is the way MS will distribute the updates....

HTC Universal Russia Rom Upgrade

Hello,
does a Rome or a Upgrade for the “universal” exist with Russian system?
If, where I can find it?
thanks for reply.
Greets Daniel.

Use this flash:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=286036
Then this rusificator:
http://buzzdev.net/components/com_simpleboard/uploaded/files/1135099727_WM5LangPack-RUS.zip

Ddriver said:
Hello,
does a Rome or a Upgrade for the “universal” exist with Russian system?
If, where I can find it?
thanks for reply.
Greets Daniel.
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Russian == sucks
You'd better use english ROM and localize only the keyboard with LEng or some other tool.

mamaich said:
Russian == sucks
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sucks IS YOU!

Who sucks ??
AXP said:
sucks IS YOU!
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Seems you are new here , dont know who is Mamaich , better look what his post and how he help people in here , maybe you had no ideal how made AKU3.2 rom ,and why everyone made any rom always said thanks Mamaich,I think you better said sorry to him,they are no any RUS rom for Uni in the world but I knew Mamaich can make it , but why he said sucks ? I tell you why because cant find VGA RUS mui special in some of program , if you can find it than said sucks for him or me otherwide sucks is you AXP understand.
PS.Mamaich lived in RUS

Russian interface sucks for 4 reasons.
1. Awful translation. Sometimes you need to translate a phrase back to English just to understand what it should mean. I call it "русЕфЕкация".
2. Localized interfaces look ugly - lines don't fit dialogs, font problems, etc.
3. Localized ROMs appear later than english, so you have to use obsolete OSes.
4. Localizations are made by Quarta and similar companies who do them via reverse engineering ROMs (extracting & translating resources, patching hardcoded strings, editing registry etc - I know what I'm talking about). In most cases this is done incorrectly, and such ROMs are unstable.
The best thing you can do - is to localize only the on-screen/hardware keyboard and select Russian regional settings. In this case you'll get a stable OS and an ability to use Russian.
Attached one screenshot (this is a russian version of Windows desktop search downloaded from microsoft site).

But there are already many ROMs have Chinese interface.The mui files and some dll files were all translated into Chinese.
However,I still love the English interface.What I did was only to replace wince.nls with a Chinese one, remove all the English inputs and SmartDialer,and replace the ttf file with Chinese file,also edit registry.Without mamaich,we can never do this.

mamaich said:
Russian interface sucks for 4 reasons.
1. Awful translation. Sometimes you need to translate a phrase back to English just to understand what it should mean. I call it "русЕфЕкация".
2. Localized interfaces look ugly - lines don't fit dialogs, font problems, etc.
3. Localized ROMs appear later than english, so you have to use obsolete OSes.
4. Localizations are made by Quarta and similar companies who do them via reverse engineering ROMs (extracting & translating resources, patching hardcoded strings, editing registry etc - I know what I'm talking about). In most cases this is done incorrectly, and such ROMs are unstable.
The best thing you can do - is to localize only the on-screen/hardware keyboard and select Russian regional settings. In this case you'll get a stable OS and an ability to use Russian.
Attached one screenshot (this is a russian version of Windows desktop search downloaded from microsoft site).
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Probably, I should apologize. My English not so is good, and I have understood a phrase literally - that Russia (instead of the Russian interface) - sucks. With your statements I absolutely agree. Itself and I do.

AXP said:
Use this flash:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=286036
Then this rusificator:
http://buzzdev.net/components/com_simpleboard/uploaded/files/1135099727_WM5LangPack-RUS.zip
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Hei thanks, but the WM5LangPack-RUS.zip I cant download.
Is it possible new uploading? Thanks.
Greets Danny.

here ...

Thanks a lot.
Happy new year.
Greets Daniel.

I think everything is OK right now. Russian fonts are already present in every ROM - either Helmi's or Ivan's or Jwrightmcps's. And there are a lot of russian keyboards to choose from. So everyone can use Mobile Word or smth to edit russian docs.
And it's not too difficult to remember some menu items in English even if the user doesn't know English.
And, sure, OS developers can not make english applications to run in russian.
So I don't see a problem.

Trinity Simplified Chinese Version WM5 or WM6 Roms

Hi, all guys,
I have checked this site for a long time to find a Simplified Chinese version ROM. But I'm disppointed every time I logged in.
Is there any one have same idea with me? Same wish for a Simplified Chinese version ROM as me?
Is there any one have done that or work on this? Oh is there any one can provide the procedure and material dumps for this project?
Regards
Frank Bing

I'd like 2 help.
as i know, the only thing we need 2 do is adding mui files into the current rom. then we have it!
but english rom runs faster, so install CE-Star on your device will be a better idea.

franksap said:
Hi, all guys,
I have checked this site for a long time to find a Simplified Chinese version ROM. But I'm disppointed every time I logged in.
Is there any one have same idea with me? Same wish for a Simplified Chinese version ROM as me?
Is there any one have done that or work on this? Oh is there any one can provide the procedure and material dumps for this project?
Regards
Frank Bing
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http://www.asuspda.net/forum-51-1.html
去看看吧

Pure Chinese
Basically I agree with you! But when you want to do it you may met lots of problems.
The big challenges is you have to find all the files related with Chinese, include so files support IMEs and also some registries.
And the problem with CE-star is you can not search you contact list by Pingyin sequential. And also CE-start does not suport Pen, Brush Pen stensil.
Anyway thanks. If I have time and don't care about cost, I should do it myself. And the file list which support SC can be get by compare the dump of SC and TC of other models of HTC phone like dopod830 or cht9000.
Regards
Frank Bing

hi there
if u wanna search your contact list by chinese, check this out.
PS: after install the pocketcm, place lang.ini in the same directory. run pocketcm, then u will find everything in chinese.

After installed YaHei cab, the system displays Chinese very well.
But in the regional settings, there is no such choise for Chinese. Besides, in the IE, there is no Chinese encoding, so the chinese words cann't be read in IE.
What I want is the English interface + Chinese support, so if the problems i mentioned above can be solved, it will be great to me.

Notice: for trinity all the cooked wm6 rom only!!!!!Simplfied Chinese.
this cab will install a font and a wince.nls file, which makes your chinese contact index in ABC and regional settings including P.R.China. that means you can view chinese website.
the wince.nls is special, only works with hermes and trinity wm6, if you install it into other mobile handset, not too bad but the live messenger will fail.
i made it by myself,and i am sure it will working great.
sorry i have trouble uploading files. it is smaller then limitation,but
Chinese_Plus_P3600.zip:
Upload of file failed.
everytime.

sailer1983 said:
as i know, the only thing we need 2 do is adding mui files into the current rom. then we have it!
but english rom runs faster, so install CE-Star on your device will be a better idea.
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I agree with you but the keyboard in offical english is conflict with A4 and Meihua.The contact pinyin list problem is so light if you use cele dialing .

jerrywei said:
I agree with you but the keyboard in offical english is conflict with A4 and Meihua.The contact pinyin list problem is so light if you use cele dialing .
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i have no problem whith A4 input method on my trinity.
Dialer 3G (By Duronmarcel) looks great!!!

jerrywei said:
I agree with you but the keyboard in offical english is conflict with A4 and Meihua.The contact pinyin list problem is so light if you use cele dialing .
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A4 and meihua won't, i am using them

Pocketcm
Thanks sailer for your software
And kalechen, how big is your file? Could you uploaded it again

My Phone Infor and Problem with network wizard
Trinity Dopod 810 Hongkong WM5 Traditional Chinese with CEstar.
And every time I reset the phone, I got an error message: system does not support your current service provider(46000), you have get update information from device manufacturer. Do you want to select other service provider?
The message is in TC which I translate into English? and 46000 is stand for China Mobile. When I try to select, I can not find the it in the standard list.
Anyway, The phone can be used. But I feel uncomfortable with this non-sense error message.
Is there any way which I can add that record in?

franksap said:
Trinity Dopod 810 Hongkong WM5 Traditional Chinese with CEstar.
And every time I reset the phone, I got an error message: system does not support your current service provider(46000), you have get update information from device manufacturer. Do you want to select other service provider?
The message is in TC which I translate into English? and 46000 is stand for China Mobile. When I try to select, I can not find the it in the standard list.
Anyway, The phone can be used. But I feel uncomfortable with this non-sense error message.
Is there any way which I can add that record in?
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You can dismiss it for ever, watch your choises carefully.

[26/06] eChin CJK for Hermes

This is to make your Hermes to have CJK (Chinese/Japanese/Korean) support. It enables your Hermes to read Chinese/Japanese/Korean characters. Here I created two installations:
CJK for Hermes with SC_Song (download link) - 3289 KB
CJK for Hermes with SC_Song, KS_Phonetic and MS_YaHei as default (download link) - 17748 KB
The installation will overwrite your \Windows\wince.nls with mine. After reboot, you will be able to see Chinese, Japanese in your Regional Settings, but it won't change your current settings.
Please note that they do not include any SIP so you don't have the input method. For Chinese Simplified, I do suggest PlumSIP6 Pro. (do a google for it if you would like to try) I don't know any nice SIP for Chinese Traditional and Japanese, so you may share if you do.
This is the first time I build cab installation. Please do report if you have any problem.
Thanks.

What encodings does Internet Explorer allow to choose from after the installation?

Koterpillar said:
What encodings does Internet Explorer allow to choose from after the installation?
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I have:
Chinese Simplified (GB2312)
Chinese Simplified (HZ)
Chinese Traditional (Big5)
Japanese (Auto-Select)
Japanese (EUC)
Japanese (Shift-JIS)

Hi kwangchin,
Thank you for your work. Can this work with WM6.1?
-hamajun

It works perfectly in WM6.1 which I am using right now.

Korean not showing

kwangchin said:
I have:
Chinese Simplified (GB2312)
Chinese Simplified (HZ)
Chinese Traditional (Big5)
Japanese (Auto-Select)
Japanese (EUC)
Japanese (Shift-JIS)
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Is that all? Are there any others - English, Russian, Unicode, at last?

East Asian Character Support (Chinese & Japanese characters)

I'm looking for some support on how to enable East Asian character support, chinese and japanese characters on the TP2.
When I receive messages via email, they're coming up as squares or gibberish. The stock ROM I had initially had support for the characters, but most of the new ROMs I've tried/flashed don't.
Is there a cab or some way to enable encoding for East Asian characters so the phone can read/render/en/decode them properly?
Cheers

Here for the font: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=450574
and...
Here for the a SIP: http://mytouchraphael.blogspot.com/2009/07/app-chinese-input-zta4-vga-and-wvga.html

Doesn't seem to work after I installed and soft reset :s

You want Simplified Chinese or Traditional Chinese support?
Some tp2 comes tweaked by htc to include chinese support on WWE ROM, but since yours doesn't, try:
1. CE-Star suite: http://www.mobem.com/products/CE-Star.php
2. Studio Kuma: http://www.studiokuma.com/wm/?section=support (no Simplified Chinese - Traditional Chinese + Japanese support only)

Mesquire said:
You want Simplified Chinese or Traditional Chinese support?
Some tp2 comes tweaked by htc to include chinese support on WWE ROM, but since yours doesn't, try:
1. CE-Star suite: http://www.mobem.com/products/CE-Star.php
2. Studio Kuma: http://www.studiokuma.com/wm/?section=support (no Simplified Chinese - Traditional Chinese + Japanese support only)
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Thanks for that Mesquire. My stock ROM had support for Chinese, but the baked ROMs that the chefs are releasing don't. And I'm not sure what is needed for them to include to make it work, as I was told to give them what was needed and they'll add it.
I'm after simplified Chinese + Jap, so I'll try CE-Star. Thanks =)
Edit: geh, CE-Star isn't free >.>
Does anyone know what tweak/cab is needed/used by HTC to support Chinese/Jap characters in ROMs?

leginag said:
Edit: geh, CE-Star isn't free >.>
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http://blog.g4team.com/?p=575#/?p=734

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http://blog.g4team.com/?p=575#/?p=734
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so will that version of ce-star 2.83 work on the TP2?

this program sounds pretty nice
character recognition, correct?
i've been looking for something like this.
but, i downloaded the wm 5/6 version with "x" from that website and downloaded it to my mogul...
it isn't really working
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1.) 系統安裝 : 只可選一個安裝
System Big5C.cab <- 繁體
System GBKC.cab <- 簡體
***** 安裝後系統會要求 Reset , 千萬不要 Reset !!!! *****
2.) 輸入法安裝 : 選擇安裝
ChaJei倉頡.cab
Jianyi速成.cab
Penpower蒙恬Big5.cab
Penpower蒙恬GBK.cab
Pinyin拼音.cab
Yuepin粵拼.cab
Zhuyin注音.cab
3.) 最後安裝過程
到 Start -> Programs -> CE-Star , 按下 Install , Reset 後就完成 .
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So, I want to either chose Big5C or GBKC? which one?
then i reset, then download all the other cabs? (again either Penpower Big5 or Penpower GBK)...but other than that all of them, correct?
then reset?
i've done this and the ce-star menu i get seems to lead to nowhere
please help

DON'T use Ce-star.
The character will be very small and ugly.
You are welcome to use my post.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=555495

so will that version of ce-star 2.8 work on the TP2?
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I have the paid version of 2.8 R3c installed, which installed through Windows. The paid version should be the same as Leies version (but he has modified the fonts support)
character recognition, correct?
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English version Windows Mobile (like older Windows versions) by default has no East Asian support, so "enablers" like CE-Star adds support for these languages.
So, I want to either chose Big5C or GBKC? which one?
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Depends on which type of Chinese characters encoding you require. If you want Traditional Chinese, as used by Taiwan and Hongkong, then install BIG5. If you need Simplified Chinese support as used by China, Singapore and others, install GBKC
then i reset, then download all the other cabs? (again either Penpower Big5 or Penpower GBK)...but other than that all of them, correct?
then reset?
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NO!!!
#1 Choose one of the system cab (not both):
a) System Big5C.cab or b) System GBKC.cab
when prompt to reset, do NOT reset
#2 Install the cab for input method(s) you require
#3 Start -> Programs -> All Programs > Install
#4 Reset when prompt
Since you have not installed it correctly, I suggest you uninstall it and start again.

caolinlin said:
Nice work--thank you for sharing-
Thanks so much for this. I appreciate the effort. It really helps a lot.
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You really should thank Leies

thank you for answering all my questions mesquire,
i suppose i installed it incorrectly, i'm glad i used my mogul and not my new TP2 because it completely jacked up the mogul...i had to hard reset.
i may attempt again on the mogul or look elsewhere...what i really need is touchscreen character recognition