Dear all,
As I write I have a Lenovo ET960 sitting on my desk, which is lying there for the last 2 weeks as I am unable to figure out how to change its menu language from Chinese to English. My uncle who was never able to use it gave it to me after all these years. It has WM2003SE (I think!), although I am sure the experts here will know all about it. I am very keen on fixing this issue, the trouble is I am novice in this area.
I have done some background research, but I still need some help from all you guys here. I have the the following requests.
1) I understand that there is no way to change the language of this phone as the OS is hard-coded in the Chinese ROM. One way is to hack this Chinese ROM and change it to English using a HEX-editor. An alternate way would be to use a third-party software to change the language, however I could not find one for WM2003. Once I hack the ROM and make the necessary changes, I should, in principle be able to install an upgrade to WM2003 (which I also do not have with me!).
To hack the Chinese ROM in ET960 and solve this issue I would need to know two things:
(a) Where to locate the ROM in this pocket PC using my desktop PC (via a USB cable connection)?
(b) I need a reference ET960 ROM (ET980 ROM may also work!) in English to compare the values to change accordingly.
(c) Finally, an upgrade to WM2003/WM2003SE (the firmware upgrade d/l link) and the upgrade method.
Now the trouble is I have never flashed a ROM before, so I need to know the steps. In addition I would also need to know the steps to the upgrade process.
I have managed to download the following softwares/tools which I think will help in the process, but I dont want to start the process until I get some feedback from you guys here.
(1)The lenovo.zip file _ftp: / / ftp.roverbook.com / RoverPC /Lenovo_ET960/
and the (2) ET960update.exe from gsmforum.ru, which can be used as an update tool for both Lenevo ET960 and ET980. I have also managed to download the upgrade instructions, but only in Chinese!. This is where my research ends. Now I request you guys to help me with the missing links to convert my ppc into English.
Thanks,
Jay
This Thai review (use Google Chrome and translate it to English) states the following:
Languages: Support English, Simplified Chinese, Tranditional Chinese Input but can not display Traditional Chinese character.
The screenshots also show the phone is using English. It might be as simple as changing the system language in your MUI settings (in the registry: HKLM>MUI and change SysLang to 1033 Dec/0409 Hex...HKCU>MUI and change CurLang to 1033 Dec/0409 Hex).
Hi rete, Thanks for the reply. I have never edited the registry in a pda. Is there a special tool that I have to use for editing the registry? The ET960 I have with me has a interface similar to this _http:/ / video.pomoho.com/ent/762870.
As everything is in Chinese, I am unable to make head or tail of anything. Please guide me if possible. Cheers, Jay
I am getting back to my ET960 issue after a gap. I really want to make this device (which has a great design) usable, for which I will need to convert the user interface to English.
Rete, I made the registry changes you suggested but nothing changed. So I will need to to find an alternate solution.
The ET960 has WM2003SE (ROM version: S603 051229 which is not WWE). It displays all the system folders as well as some of the installed applications UIs in English. But most of it is in Chinese.
I installed an English localization software (Paragon Inc, LEng for WM6) which translated my ET960s interface completely to English. But, the ActiveSync stopped working and the system folders could not be accessed after the installation of LEng. This tells me that if I can replace the *.mui files from CHS to ENG in the ROM, I will get an English interface.
But the trouble is that I am new to all this and do not know where to start. So I request for some guidance.
The other option to make the device usable is to boot Android from a microSD card, but I could not find an Android version anywhere from my ET960 (which has similar hardware to MDA compact & Yakumo Omikron). Please advice.
cheers folks,
even though i tried out searching the forums i did not find a adequate solution for my problem.
i'm running villainrom v1.4 on my samsung galaxy s2 (gt-i9100) and just installed call recording from the vrt-section.
call recording itself works fine (great job, pulser!!).
my problem is:
the language on my phone is set to german. since installinig the call recording tweak the telephonecall site (active call - dialing etc.) is in english language.
this leads me to two questions:
1. is it possible to re-adjust the language to german on the mentioned site while running this tweak?
and if this is not possible
2. how can i remove this single tweak (without removing the others?)
after reading reading reading and reading in the villain-tweak-section it appears that i would need to make some steps to kinda uninstall this tweak. what are the correct ones? as far as i know by now is something like this:
1. mount as rw
2. /sdcard/VRTweaks/backup/???????????
3. copy file
4. rename file
5. overwrite existing file in /system/???????/??????
so what files do i need to replace with which ones? is it one of phone_util.apk.bak, phone_util.odex.bak, phone.apk.bak? do i have to replace just one or all of them? and where is the correct file to not mess my phone up?
really appreciating your help!!
Sorry for double posting..
I didnt find a solution yet after 1day full of reading hete and in other forums..
I just think thaz i want to remove the call recording tweak and i need some advice to do so, please.
Thanks a lot
Apk changer is a command line program for modification of apk and jar.
Features:
- Setup wizard on first start
- Normal and Advanced Mode.
- Multicore support(much faster than other tools in batch operations and image optimization) - supports up to 6 cores
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- Optimize pngs inside apk's(including .9.pngs).(Batch mode supported)
- Zipalign apks
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- Colored adb logcat with logcat options(via WiFi or usb cable)
- Two versions of apktool and aapt(1.4.3 and 1.5.1)-if error occurs while decompiling my program will try too use alternative version and will compile your apk with that version that was used for decompiling
- Three languages at the moment(Russian, English and Dutch) - if you want to translate my progam into your own language just let me know
- Settings (Compression level, Heap size, optimization level, apktool version, language...) - program saves all settings - no need to enter them every time you starts it.
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- Log (For batch Decompilation/Compilation program creates two logs. First is full and second shows only in with what apks occured errors).
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- All stuff i forgot
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Instructions:
- install program
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Great tool. Thanks!
Nice work!
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Thanks for this amazing app!
I'm trying to use it, but after selecting the language (english) it crashes saying that I haven't the lang folders, which is false because it's integrated in your package..
Any suggestion please?
Iperzampem0 said:
Thanks for this amazing app!
I'm trying to use it, but after selecting the language (english) it crashes saying that I haven't the lang folders, which is false because it's integrated in your package..
Any suggestion please?
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Try to unpack program in root of disk C. Program may not work properly if there are folders whith non english names in path to it. And check if other folder(it contains all necessary files for program and it's translations too) in same place as main script and don't rename them.
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would u give me direct link from mediafire,please...
thankz before
can you please give another link ?
i really want to use it but multiupload does not work..
Would you mind if I port this tool to Linux?
I hate Windows.
I am porting APK Multi-Tool now, and when it's done I'll port this one.
mDroidd said:
Would you mind if I port this tool to Linux?
I hate Windows.
I am porting APK Multi-Tool now, and when it's done I'll port this one.
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I love Linux too(my main OS is Gentoo), but for some tasks i use windows. I decided write this tool for windows because it use some programs that exist only for windows(we can try to use them with wine, but i don't know if they'll run stably and they'll work slower than in native environment). And of course it wouldn't be easy to port ≈ 3000 lines of code.
For all: i can't reupload my tool - version that i published is too old now (it was in my backups - but they were on multiupload too). Now i have only v6 of my tool, but it's not ready for release. You may ask why i didn't published previous versions - v1 weren't popular for some reason (as you can see - there are only few comments in this topic), so i decided develop program only for my own use. Now i'm thinking either fix bugs and release v7 for public or not.
furniel said:
I love Linux too(my main OS is Gentoo), but for some tasks i use windows. I decided write this tool for windows because it use some programs that exist only for windows(we can try to use them with wine, but i don't know if they'll run stably and they'll work slower than in native environment). And of course it wouldn't be easy to port ≈ 3000 lines of code.
For all: i can't reupload my tool - version that i published is too old now (it was in my backups - but they were on multiupload too). Now i have only v6 of my tool, but it's not ready for release. You may ask why i didn't published previous versions - v1 weren't popular for some reason (as you can see - there are only few comments in this topic), so i decided develop program only for my own use. Now i'm thinking either fix bugs and release v7 for public or not.
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Should release public ofcourse.
and which files do not exist on Linux?
The only one I know is roptipng
Greets!
i'm very need this tool..
so i hope u can reupload from another upload manager,such us mediafire maybe..
please..
i'm now still learning to editing apk file,like replacing adn modifying icon on apk file..
mDroidd said:
Should release public ofcourse.
and which files do not exist on Linux?
The only one I know is roptipng
Greets!
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I don't use roptipng since second version. Now i use few image optimization programs (i added support for optimization of png, 9.png and jpg images) as result image compression is the same and sometimes even better than in specialized image optimization scripts. And most of this programs exist only for windows.
Dutch translation
Hi furniel,
Here the Dutch Translation I use instead of the eng file in the lang folder
I just name it eng also.
sparkienl
Thank you!!!
Greetings.
Edit: link don't work
Hi
I like to try this tool. I'm new in this matter and any help or tool will be much appreciated. If you released to the public an doesn't have success doesn't matter cause it's a good work and people who needed will used.
So thanks for your hard work and i hope you'll released to the public!
has anyone reuploaded this else where im very interested.. pm me
Glad to see that someone is interested in my work. Program isn`n finished till now(didn`t have much time last weeks), but i think that i`ll publish alpha version in next few days.
Thanks for your handy tool. I am very interested in an update.
Hotrod
link is dead
re-up please??
hi guys i have xperia x8 rooted and rom the gingerdx v20.(i think)..i hope you understand that i am completly noob and i need your help guys..the sunday i install 2 programs called faceniff and androiwall.Now both of them need iptables netfilter blabla..whatever..i found something about my phone the link is http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1184907&highlight=iptables%2Fnetfilter+support
well the instalation with abd failed and dont now why so i dont care about it so i was continu to the manual instalation...i download the file ax8netfilter_v003_x8.zip
and put it on my sd card and run the terminator and put the codes but every time i have this problem 'opperation not permitted' .. did i ve done something wrong please please answer me as soon as possible..im noob remember?
Type "su" (without the quotes; click allow if the conformation request pops up) first, then type your command.
Hi
I want to set default value of windows animation scale in dev setting from 1x to 0,0x in my Rom
So i put this script in updater-script
Code:
run_program("/system/xbin/sqlite3", "/data/data/com.android.providers.settings/databases/settings.db", "update system set value=0.0 where name='transition_animation_scale';");
run_program("/system/xbin/sqlite3", "/data/data/com.android.providers.settings/databases/settings.db", "update system set value=0.0 where name='window_animation_scale';");
but it didn't work.
I m wrong ? please help thanks
i need to know about this too
we need skilled developer here
I am working on this as we speak..
It is not easy...but I wont give up until I find it!