OK, complete newb, and very confused. But what is the easiest way to go about translating a language pack for MIUI-XJ?
I signed up at crowdin in the Miui translation section, but the language I want to translate into isn't even in the system. Welsh, btw, Cymraeg, cy.
Should I just work my way through the xmls and then work out how to compile them into a rom later? Anyone got any tips?
Thanks all. If I can get this done it will be only the second (I think) Welsh phone os ever - pretty big news in this small country
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What rom should I use to get greek and english on my universal..
I am comfortable with the no_id process, just need the right rom
Nobody?
I suggest you read the posts, it,s right there on the next page...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=52357
Greek - English selectable...
Thanks for that, shame most of the thread is in greek... lol
the GR_new.zip appears to be a broken link, do I need it?
Exactly what do you need to do? Apparently you don't speak Greek so why change the UI to Greek???
I need to install greek for the guy that bought mine off me...
He is Greek and wants greek fonts etc for sms but also needs english on it as well, as a lot of his customers are not greek..
Pretty simple huh! Not rocket science...
:wink:
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.
first things first: always do a backup before, this files are for testing / development only!
you should install the bootmenu dettofatto posted in order to do a restore
if your phone doesn't boot anymore.
Bootmenu thread
atm i am trying to build a fully translated rom with the stock blur apps
from 2.3.4. on top of dettofatto's rom but after testing a little bit i've
found some issues and i want to fix them first before i release the rom.
the issues are:
-after updating the google search you'll get a force close when pressing
search button in the app launcher, this problem is also with the original
files, so if anyone knows where to find the eventhandling let me know
-after wiping the phone with cwm almost all social networks disappeared in
the account settings and the social network setup doesn't work anymore,
at least in the german translation ... so it only works if i give you my /data backup
which isn't a good solution ;o)
files that haven't translated yet:
BlurUpdater_VZW.apk
BuaContactAdapter.apk
Cmas.apk
ConnMO.apk
EncryptionSettings.apk
GlobalNwSwitch.apk
LAWMO.apk
LocationConsent.apk
MotoAtCmdQcPlugin.apk
MotoVzwAtCmdPlugin.apk
PhoneConfig.apk
PNI-Moto-2010-09-17.apk
PNI-Moto.apk
ProgramMenu.apk
ProgramMenuSystem.apk
QuickTutorial.apk
Vvm.apk
VZWInstaller.apk
but i think all the verizon stuff doesn't need to be translated...
i've also wrote a quick and dirty translatorscript, read the readme in it
first to find out how it works and what it does.
btw: the most files have the following languages: en, de, fr, it, pl, nl
translator script, translated framework and app files:
THE FILES
have fun with it
last but not least: thanks to dettofatto and to all the creators of the tools i've used
To translate dettofatto's rom in italian, i have token string*.xml of pro+ and copied all strings into string*.xml of gingerbread rom
Now italian is at 99,9
Tnx to dettofatto
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i don't understand how i can use your script.. in notranslated dir i put in original apk.. and in traslated dir what apk must i put in?
translator software is never as good as handmade translation,but nice try....
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translator software is never as good as handmade translation,but nice try....
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did you even know what the script does?
translatorscript sounds like a automatic,crappy translation. if it works well,iam your biggest fan
only want to say that i like your intension and i´m waiting for translated german language on 2.3.4 german pro!
maybe it´s very useful to take the translation from the pro+ like hnktc already said!
did i undestand you right..you wanna make a stock 2.3.4 rom for pro with german translation...
For putting home made translations..
Copy and past the same file (example: settings.apk) in nottranslated and in translated.
Copy your home made values-xx folder (not past, copy only for now...)
run "run.bat"
wait, see the script and wait some seconds
go into /translated/decoded/settings.apk/res
past your folder (values-xx) now (overwrite)...
wait...
Schallstoerer said:
only want to say that i like your intension and i´m waiting for translated german language on 2.3.4 german pro!
maybe it´s very useful to take the translation from the pro+ like hnktc already said!
did i undestand you right..you wanna make a stock 2.3.4 rom for pro with german translation...
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i thought about making a rom for the middle european main languages ...
but to be honest ... i doesn't think its worth the afford, since there are
some things broken and i'm not in the mood to fix things that even
broken in the original 2.3.4 files from verizon ... but maybe the
translated files can be used by others to create a fully functional rom
Hey there,
Today I went from CM9 to Liquidsmooth v1.5
It's so fast!
But there is a problem, Liquid devs deleted other languages from ROM and I need Arabic/Persian language.
So I got the fonts from CM9 and pushed them to Liquidsmooth ROM and fixed the permissions so now fonts are working in web browsing I can read Persian fonts in webs. (Before it was squares!)
Then I installed Smart Keyboard Pro and downloaded persian language for it from Google Play.
Then I noticed that Persian font doesn't work in the OS itself. I mean, when I switch to persian keyboard, all the letters are "squares" and I can't type.
I just need Persian language for web browsing (that I fixed this part) and typing.
I don't want to translate everything. I want my phone to be in English language only I want to fix typing. and I have a keyboard app that supports Persian language. Just it doesn't show the letters (it shows squares)
So, what should I do? I hope someone help me.
Thanks in advance.
PS: I'm still a newbie in android because I got my phone 2 weeks ago, I didn't have time to learn Android programming and other things but I will do it in near future.
I think I have to edit fallback_fonts.xml and push it to the phone too. Right?
Anyone?
For adding languages you need a Rom with the language you want. In ur case Arabic.
So you download AOSP Rom and then you need to get the "values-ar" and "raw-ar" from every apk you want to translate. Its kinda mayn work. Specially if you never done it before and if you do it just like me ;-)
You need some tools like apktool and zipalign and winrar.
I cant really explain how to do it. Iam not in that.
Basian Mile said:
For adding languages you need a Rom with the language you want. In ur case Arabic.
So you download AOSP Rom and then you need to get the "values-ar" and "raw-ar" from every apk you want to translate. Its kinda mayn work. Specially if you never done it before and if you do it just like me ;-)
You need some tools like apktool and zipalign and winrar.
I cant really explain how to do it. Iam not in that.
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Thanks for your answer mate. But do I really need to do these? Because I don't want to translate anything. I only want it for typing. Fonts work great in web browsing I got them from CM9 ROM.
Liquidsmooth doesn't show the letters in the keyboard but it works in web browsing.
even the keyboard is not the android keyboard I use another keyboard from Google Play that supports Persian language.
Devs really should not delete languages from roms :crying:
Helping
forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2107255
Head down to above link.
first thanks Chromium_ for the great rom!
I can't reply in the dev thread so I have to ask here.
The problem is, I can't see any chinese characters from my phone, e.g. webpage/apps
And if I install other chinese keyboard, i cant see the character on my keyboard neither.
I'm sure he has deleted the language to slim down the rom, as i noticed that some other languages like japanese or korean are also missing.
but can anyone tell me what is missing coz i really need to at least be able see the language!