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Chinese Software - X1 Xperia

Hello all X1-ians ,
Me just bought this X1 gadget but the Chinese software was not pre-loaded
Hope there is someone whom is able to help me and tell me where how I can download the Chinese software (read & write) for Free. Many thanks in advance

you can try the CE-star,this software

CE star is not free, try this link.
http://www.studiokuma.com/wm/?section=support

simufui said:
CE star is not free, try this link.
http://www.studiokuma.com/wm/?section=support
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In Hong Kong, it's included in kit

Antonio Wong said:
In Hong Kong, it's included in kit
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Yeah, I am looking for this one since I brought my X1 from UK and the CE-Star I got is not the bundle one.

CE Star
I have installed CE-Star program and it works fine. I have the U.S. version of Sony X1, so if I open Opera and IE to view chinese website, it will not show the chinese characters. But once I installed it. I can see it fine.
My main concern is once this software installed. All my other applications like Skype, messenger...etc shows chinese language instead of English. There is no way I set it back to just read english, even though remove ce-star from memory, it will still show the chinese characters which is not cool.
Does anyone know how fix that ?
I just want this problem to allow me to turn it on and view and write chinese characters but not to change the language on the other programs to show chinese.

Just change yr regional setting to USA or UK.

Cut the crap, ChinesePlus.
For viewing, that's good enough.
For writing, use TouchPal, but need to get the license to active the multiple language input.

I followed the instructions here for adding font to read Chinese: http://leeblood.com/2008/02/16/windows-mobile-6-changing-the-system-font-adding-korean-support/
It's for Korean font, but if you substitute with a Chinese font instead of malgun.ttf it still worked.

Japanese language OS

A friend of mine needs her new Xperia's OS language turned into Japanese. Now I know it's possible to do this by flashing an entirely new OS onto it, but I'm not very comfortable with the idea (not sure what risks are involved, etc.)
Would it be better for me to maybe submit the device to Sony Ericsson and have them change it for me? Do they even do that? Assume we live in the Netherlands, and this is where she bought the phone.
What would you advise me to do? Thanks in advance.

Unfortunately, there is no Japanese Xperia ROM as the Xperia has not been released in Japan. Submitting the phone to Sony Ericsson would not help because they probably don't have a Japanese ROM to change it, and as far as I know, they don't do that. If your friend knows Japanese only, then there is not much that can be done. If however, she does know English or Dutch, you can put the Japanese font and input on an English or Dutch ROM.

Hi!
I want to use japanese on my Xperia too and I found some useful info about it. I know it is possible to keep the English OS and just install an IME (to input japanese) and also something that allows you to read japanese.
A guy named Asukal worked on that for many phones and told me his method is also working for Xperia. The files he created are Letsjapanno6 and
Just check those links:
example for installing on dell axim:
http://my.opera.com/cameron_en/blog/2007/12/30/my-new-dell-axim-x50v-running-wm6-the-axim-mega-post
japanese output
http://asukal.net/blog/?p=364
japanese input
http://asukal.net/blog/?p=95
I just received my xperia today and haven't had time to try these. If you succeed please report here!

Guide to change OS language in 1-2-3

Guys, girls
Don't know if anyone have posted this yet, but here it goes.
It seems that there are many languages preinstalled in the OS, just not activated. In a simple procedure, i changed my OS language and got the dictionary of my native language (
T9 norwegian if anyone wonders), and it works with everything from widgets, settings blablabla..
I found this trick at
http://www.swedroid.se/forum/showpost.php?p=18162&postcount=32
For those of you that don't understand swedish, it goes as follows:
Download CustomLocale.apk from here: http://yochai.dyndns.org:8888/android/apps/CustomLocale.apk
*Edit, uploaded to another mirror: HERE
Then copy it to your sdcard. Use a apk installer to install the program. Then launch the app, choose your language, and quit.
Voila
No rooting etc.
Some have responded that some of the languages dont work. This swedish guy didnt manage to get his sv_SE language to work. He then just manually entered a new locale "sv", and then it worked. Might happen for ur country aswell (?).
Edit: Languages that reportedly works _with_ keyboard layout:
Norwegian Bokmål: nb
Swedish: sv
Spanish: ES
cheers

Wow, I'm superinterested in this. I have a Dutch Hero and I wanted the Spanish Keyboard. Tiddylicious, can you confirm that this provides the HTC autocorrection dictionaries and not only the keyboard layout?
By the way, the link to the download seems to be down...

Norwegian autocorrection works. Don't know how it is for other languages sry, so i guess u just have to test.
Let me know

I've tried and it hasn't worked for me :-(
The phone OS indeed changed to Spanish. Every menu and option are now in Spanish, except what I wanted the keyboard language. This still lets me only chose among the default installed ones. Any help?
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It worked!!! Thanks man! You don't imagine how grateful I'm for this. I've been using the keyboard until now without the prediction and correction features, such an improvement now.
There were two options for Spanish es_ES and ES only. The second one did the trick.

Does it work on Magic?

No idea, sorry. It worked for me on the Hero, don't know if it will on the Magic.

It does.
The application was created in July.

I`ve bought my english version Hero in Norway about 1 week ago. , My OS is in english, but my T9 is in norwegian . , Changed from the keyboard settings.
Will this change anything else? .
Biggest problem is that prediction with words containing æøå by only tapping "a" and" o" where it should be ( not holding them to slide to the correct letter) are only done in landscape . In portrait these word options dont come . Will this change?
Thanx.

Rui-Cruz:
The landscape problem with a o -> å æ is not solved by this. As I been told, this is reported to htc. Lets hope the major update will solve this. Quite annoying...
Stilghar: Good to hear! As the swedish guy reported, sometimes there are different options for same country region.
If people from other areas get the keyboard and the os to work, let me know, ill update the first post

Does anyone know who has developed Custom Locale.apk??
I want to ask that person whether it is possible to edit the language text, as it - at least in Danish - contains A LOT of mistranslations.
Thank you.

zyborg said:
I want to ask that person whether it is possible to edit the language text, as it - at least in Danish - contains A LOT of mistranslations.
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The CustomLocale changes only the locale. The individual applications come with support for other languages (or not), and they decide which language to display based on the locale setting. The CustomLocale.apk does not contain any translations by itself.
I'm still looking for German text input support. My english Hero only supports English, French, Italian, and Spanish keyboard languages. Changing the locale changes the names of the languages to the German equivalent (as expected), but does not add any languages to choose from.... Presumably the Hero sold in Germany supports German text input!?!

But there must be some xml files in the core system that specify the actual interface text... or am I wrong??
Volker1 said:
The CustomLocale changes only the locale. The individual applications come with support for other languages (or not), and they decide which language to display based on the locale setting. The CustomLocale.apk does not contain any translations by itself.
I'm still looking for German text input support. My english Hero only supports English, French, Italian, and Spanish keyboard languages. Changing the locale changes the names of the languages to the German equivalent (as expected), but does not add any languages to choose from.... Presumably the Hero sold in Germany supports German text input!?!
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I tried the Greek language but didn't work...
Nice try though...

get the standard 2.73.405.5 ROM from modaco...that includes greek built in.

Got a HTC hero about 2 weeks ago, english language ofc. However i live in sweden, so im wondering: Will this change my whole phone into swedish? or just my T9 keyboard correction?
Because i rly dont want to have my phone in swedish, I prefer english on my electronics, feels much better IMO

It will change the entire OS, icluded the t9. If I understand u correctly, u want it in english, with swedish T9?

tiddylicious said:
It will change the entire OS, icluded the t9. If I understand u correctly, u want it in english, with swedish T9?
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Exactly what i want .
I dont acculy know why I prefer english though.. its probably because I feel like it is more correct and easyer to understand in english, just makes more sence... but i guess, if it is as it says, that the other languages are already in the phone, its translated by HTC, so i should probably have nothing to worryabout anything being wrong...

I have en_GB locale. Tried russian(ru_RU), works! But, I want to have an english locale with english keyboard and also with russian keyboard. Ideas how to do it?

not working with hebrew
i have a poland version with english.
Russian works
hebrew doesnt.

neoxkid said:
i have a poland version with english.
Russian works
hebrew doesnt.
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Is yours an official Hero ROM? If so how did you get Russian to work? I am with nofowuw on this, I prefer my electronic in English but English-transliterated Russian looks awful and takes more characters to boot. I checked around, but still can't seem to find any app to allow Cyrillic input (I can live w/o T9, just give me the damn keyboard).

ROM with full Hebrew support

I've installed PDAVIET's WM6.5 ROM 1.59.841.59, what's surprising about it, is that it has Hebrew support out of the box. I can view Hebrew websites in Opera without a mirror effect, and for the first time, in Internet Explorer without it crashing on spot.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=555137

Question
Can you determine if this is inherent to this WM build (23041.5.3.0 /23047.5.3.0) or whether it's an add-on?
Did you flash using ROM V59?
Thanks.

Apparently this is inherent to the build 23047 rather than just an add on, seen this build on a guy's D1 and it displayed Hebrew equally well.
I flashed V56.

confirm
Thanks cytokine,
Right, seen it functioning on a D1 and on TP this morning (both running build 23047).
I guess we'll see this info spreading like wildfire now, though apparently no formal mention made available through MS SP program or MSDN.
Side note; I'm amazed that Balmer kept his promise to include Heb in future WM OS, even more surprised that it happened before WM7.

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Apparently this is inherent to the build 23047 rather than just an add on, seen this build on a guy's D1 and it displayed Hebrew equally well.
I flashed V56.
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i've tried V62. it displays hebrew well in internet explorer on some sites but not in all sites. ynet is working zap is not (site in gibberish).
in opera zap is working in hebrew very well.
SMSs are appearing in hebrew but backwards.
if you install the free hebrew it causes the internet to go backwards and the smss to be fine.
the same is for the contacts, notes and other applications. the built in heb is displaying backwards the free heb is OK.
so you have to decide...
for me the decision is to install free heb and the version of opera that support it.

Opera's display of hebrew is perfect. All sites working flawlessly and at an amazing speed; much faster than I've seen with any Hebrew add-on in previous version.
And though Internet Explorer will not display Hebrew correctly at a few sites, like "Zap", it's at least not brought to a complete halt. With every Hebrew add-on I've tried, the first sign of Hebrew on any webpage, including Google, would make IE crash completely.
tamiroff said:
so you have to decide...
for me the decision is to install free heb and the version of opera that support it.
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I've tried using that "special version" and it just wasn't appealing with its hospital-white interface, weird scrolling and zoom, buggy rendering and slow speed.

cytokine said:
Opera's display of hebrew is perfect. All sites working flawlessly and at an amazing speed; much faster than I've seen with any Hebrew add-on in previous version.
And though Internet Explorer will not display Hebrew correctly at a few sites, like "Zap", it's at least not brought to a complete halt. With every Hebrew add-on I've tried, the first sign of Hebrew on any webpage, including Google, would make IE crash completely.
I've tried using that "special version" and it just wasn't appealing with its hospital-white interface, weird scrolling and zoom, buggy rendering and slow speed.
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if you need hebrew that doesnt crash the explorer you can find it here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=4221361&postcount=424
you'll also want the hebrew local (for non unicode hebrew):
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=3878710&postcount=349
go for vivi_Regional.cab.

Thanks tamiroff, I'll take a look.

Question
I read tons of threads and I can't find an answer to the ultimate Question.
Is there a wm 6.5 ROM that can be used on a device with a hardware keyboard (like the se x1) and can be used like a regular device with relative ease?
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SONY ERICSSON X1 still with the original ROM

cytokine said:
Apparently this is inherent to the build 23047 rather than just an add on, seen this build on a guy's D1 and it displayed Hebrew equally well.
I flashed V56.
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VERY interesting,....A few questions please:
1. Would this mean that anything above build 23047 will also have Hebrew support?
2. By Hebrew support do you mean that the Menus are still in English while it can read/see Hebrew ( SMS, em, IE..etc)? , what about the Keyboard, if you install FingerKeyb-2.1 can you enter hebrew letters (RTL)?

Guys hold your horses.
The ttf files that come with WM by default only have limited sets of glyphs, including latin (english, french, german etc), cyrillic (russian) and possibly some more, but no vietnamese, chinese, japanese, hebrew, arabic etc. This can be easily remedied by overwriting the ttf files that come with windows mobile with the ttf files of the same name from a PC windows installation. this would give you all the glyphs of almost all languages of the world including hebrew.
That's nothing new and we always knew it and could always do it, however it doesn't solve the Right-to-Left issues for us.
PhamQuang makes ROMS for Vietnamese users and probably added the ttf files for their sake. Their language is written left-to-right so they only need the glyphs.
The new Pocket Explorer knows how to deal with RTL and so do recent versions of Opera. Unfortunately the rest of the OS does not and requires installation of third party software, and we still have the problem that new PIE doesn't like it when a third party app tries to mess with its text.
Bottom line: Move along... nothing to see here...
Cheers

[Q] Install extra language on WP8

Hello,
I am planning on buying a HTC 8X with Windows Phone 8. As a previous Windows Phone 7.8 user (I own the HTC Trophy), I have a question about the display and keyboard language on my new phone.
My question is, if the device I buy is the German Vodafone version can I add the Greek language (my native) even if it is not listed in the languages list?
Another question is, if there is no way to add Greek language as the display language, is there a way to add just the greek keyboard so that I can write greek?
Thank you in advance

all WP8 devices have all supported languages in WP8... no need and no possible to add additional language...
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsphone/develop/hh202918(v=vs.105).aspx

dxdy said:
all WP8 devices have all supported languages in WP8... no need and no possible to add additional language...
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsphone/develop/hh202918(v=vs.105).aspx
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I added Spanish to my keyboard a while back ago but forgot how. :\

sinister1 said:
I added Spanish to my keyboard a while back ago but forgot how. :\
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on unlocked/custom ROM Wp7 with Native Keyboard maybe?
with WP8 only in settings you can add available keyboards

My unlocked german Lumia 920 allows me to install the greek keyboard under Settings / Keyboard
As for UI language I can't tell as they decided to write language names in the UI selection in the countries letters and there's quite some that I can't read. How would you write "Greek" in greek?

StevieBallz said:
My unlocked german Lumia 920 allows me to install the greek keyboard under Settings / Keyboard
As for UI language I can't tell as they decided to write language names in the UI selection in the countries letters and there's quite some that I can't read. How would you write "Greek" in greek?
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Well, Greece in Greek is 'Ελλάδα' (Hellada) or sometimes 'Ἑλλάς' (Hellas).
Perhaps somebody can inform me if it's possible to install extra languages but retain a certain (fixed) keyboard lay-out.
That is to say, I tend to converse in English, Dutch and German all the time and sometimes in French. I would like to be able to install these dictionaries and use the languages interchangeably, but keeping all the same QWERTY-layout all the time.
In other words: when I write something in German, I want the keyboard to retain the US-style QWERTY-layout that in standard in the Netherlands, rather than the QWERTZ-layout that is standard in the German-speaking countries. Similarly, the keyboard shouldn't switch to AZERTY when writing something in French.
This piece of information I haven't been able to find out from the documentation on-line. Because utilities such as Swype and especially SwiftKey do not exist for Windows Phone (yet?) it's something I'd like to know before I make the plunge.