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Multilingual ROMS

Right now I'm looking into flashing my Xperia X1 for the first time. I used to have a Samsung Omnia, customized the hell out of it, now this new beast just arrived for me. Twas about time! For starters I'd like to try some of the already estabilished X1 ROMs.
One thing really hard to come by when I flashed my Omnia was multilingual stuff. I managed to translate Manila but everything else took a higher knowledge.
So, does anyone know if there are any widely known multilingual custom ROMs? Are there any? Are all custom ROMs in english only?
Thank ye!

Well.....most ROMs you will find here are English.
But there are other languages amongst them, but some are older and maybe disconinued projects.
A ROM is unfortunately never multilingual, so if the language you seek isn't available you have to make your own. You can't flash a WWE ROM and change the language to German.
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Lokatho said:
A ROM is unfortunately never multilingual, so if the language you seek isn't available you have to make your own. You can't flash a WWE ROM and change the language to German.
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I sure can't change the language of an english ROM, but as there are localized official WinMo releases, can't these be customized /cooked?

they are cooked, there are a few chinese, german and french ones
look for them, you can still translate tf3d but most are only wwe for ease of cooking or space saving reasons

evilRafael said:
I sure can't change the language of an english ROM, but as there are localized official WinMo releases, can't these be customized /cooked?
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Sure they can.....
Which language do you want to customize?

Lokatho said:
Sure they can.....
Which language do you want to customize?
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Brazillian portuguese. I'm still very green with the Xperia, just bought mine. It came in portuguese, I'm considering what's best way to customize it.

evilRafael said:
Brazillian portuguese. I'm still very green with the Xperia, just bought mine. It came in portuguese, I'm considering what's best way to customize it.
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Well, I can't remember seeing a custom cooked Portugese ROM. So if you want to stick with Portugese you'll have to customize the stock ROM (wm6.1) or start baking your own ROM.
gtrab made a good tutorial on how to start cooking, see the stickies for that.

sorry^^^^

brazilian rom
hehehe nothing nothing, i never found

Lokatho said:
Well, I can't remember seeing a custom cooked Portugese ROM. So if you want to stick with Portugese you'll have to customize the stock ROM (wm6.1) or start baking your own ROM.
gtrab made a good tutorial on how to start cooking, see the stickies for that.
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Thanks, I'll look into it.
By the way I was shocked to see Energy's MaxManila rom has a way to turn its interface into portuguese, an it actually works. Under the hood, WinMo is still in english, but converting the UI was already a blast to me.

[Q] Swype version downgraded with Froyo update

Hello,
This morning I received the update (in Finland) for my unbranded Samsung Galaxy S (GT-i9000) from 2.1 to Froyo 2.2
Before the update, my Swype application is pre-installed by Samsung and it was version 3.x (I can't remember the exact version).
After the update to Froyo, the pre-installed Swype version is now 2.6.x, and it has less languages than before, including Spanish (my mother tongue, and the language I typically use)
I have written an email to my GSM provider, to Samsung and to SwypeInc, but nobody replies. I have tried to find Swype 3.9 (the latest version, I think) from the Internet without any result. Actually, I only miss the Spanish dictionary.
Does anyone have any idea? Is this happening to you also?
I am looking forward to hear your replies,
P.S.- I found Swype 3.9.x as a CAB file, and followed the instructions, but it won't install because my phone cannot open the CAB file.
--Claudio

claudiomkd said:
Hello,
This morning I received the update (in Finland) for my unbranded Samsung Galaxy S (GT-i9000) from 2.1 to Froyo 2.2
Before the update, my Swype application is pre-installed by Samsung and it was version 3.x (I can't remember the exact version).
After the update to Froyo, the pre-installed Swype version is now 2.6.x, and it has less languages than before, including Spanish (my mother tongue, and the language I typically use)
I have written an email to my GSM provider, to Samsung and to SwypeInc, but nobody replies. I have tried to find Swype 3.9 (the latest version, I think) from the Internet without any result. Actually, I only miss the Spanish dictionary.
Does anyone have any idea? Is this happening to you also?
I am looking forward to hear your replies,
P.S.- I found Swype 3.9.x as a CAB file, and followed the instructions, but it won't install because my phone cannot open the CAB file.
--Claudio
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The reason it won't open a .cab file is because they are for Windows Mobile.

I have 2.1 :-(

Swype 2.1 here too with the new 2.2 oficial update :/

Are u sure u had version 3.x?? coz mine is ver. 1.60 on eclair JM2..
and i think samsung using different languages on different regions to save space..
thats why u dont have spanish swype on finland firmware.. i guess

Hello,
Actually you are right. I had Swype version 1.6 on JM2. I was confused after reading many forums for Windows Mobile.
So, the situation is now this one: I had Swype 1.6 with many languages (including Spanish). Now, with Froyo, I have Swype 2.6.47.11856, which doesn't have Spanish.
I cannot find a way to add Spanish to the new Swype. In fact, I searched for the Swype 2.6.47.11856 APK and I tried to install it on my phone, but after installing the phone says: "Application not installed.".
So, to sum up, I have the newest Swype version for Android, but I don't have Spanish anymore, and I can't overwrite the built-in Swype on my phone. Am I screwed?
If you have Swype 2.6.47.11856, could anyone please tell me if you have Spanish language available for input?
Thank you in advance,
--Claudio

claudiomkd said:
Hello,
Actually you are right. I had Swype version 1.6 on JM2. I was confused after reading many forums for Windows Mobile.
So, the situation is now this one: I had Swype 1.6 with many languages (including Spanish). Now, with Froyo, I have Swype 2.6.47.11856, which doesn't have Spanish.
I cannot find a way to add Spanish to the new Swype. In fact, I searched for the Swype 2.6.47.11856 APK and I tried to install it on my phone, but after installing the phone says: "Application not installed.".
So, to sum up, I have the newest Swype version for Android, but I don't have Spanish anymore, and I can't overwrite the built-in Swype on my phone. Am I screwed?
If you have Swype 2.6.47.11856, could anyone please tell me if you have Spanish language available for input?
Thank you in advance,
--Claudio
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Spanish is included in the Swype that is shipped with JPO, the central european version (2.1.41.10155). The scandinavian versions don't have it.

As i said.. different regions = different languages

Thanks for the reply anyways. I am just so confused, because I bought the phone here in Finland, and it came with Spanish Swype (and many more languages). Now I updated in Finland as well, and there is no Spanish Swype. But I have vietnamise, korean, romanian and stuff like that..
Is it possible to install a Swype dictionary manually?

Why not upgrade again to the European version of the firmware, and automatically get the version that has Spanish? You will need to downgrade Kies to ....93 or earlier, then regedit kies version to latest to stop it pestering you to upgrade, then with the old version you can regedit the phone version to one that gets the European upgrade. It is all described here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=9043729&postcount=74

I can confirm, I used the registry hack to get the generic "European Countries" update by setting ProductCode="GT-I9000HKDXEU" and Swype has got spanish.
But I need romanian and it's not there Does anybody know which ProductCode should I use to get the romanian language in Swype?

[Q] Doc&Stefunel's Rom Kitchen: Available Languages per Base-ROM

I searched and read almost every Post but no answer - maybe it is just too easy or i am blind? I hope not!
I cooked a new ROM in Doc and Stefunal's Kitchen yesterday (okay, i admit, i tried multiple times and got language problems i never had when i used the kitchen before.
Does the language or locale have to be included/available/compatible with the Base-ROM you choose or does it just relate to the CSC you choose?
When i tried "*NEW* ZSJPK v11.1 WIPE" after a factory reset everything was Chinese (or Japanese) and the only readable alternatvies i could choose from were US and British English. Ever after i retried with a german (DBT) CSC no german locale was available.
Now i try do understand... Where do the languages / locales reside and what else needs to support or be compatible with a certain language to make it available in the whole system?
Thanks in advance - i hope this is not a stupid question answered a hundred times before...

Languages are usually part of the theme.
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The Theme??? Even the Settings-Menus and Stuff? If i can not choose German and the Dialogues are in English that's the fault of the Theme!?
Ok, that was not one of the options i thought of...

PatrickCG said:
The Theme??? Even the Settings-Menus and Stuff? If i can not choose German and the Dialogues are in English that's the fault of the Theme!?
Ok, that was not one of the options i thought of...
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Languages are part of the framework and are usually specific to the region of the release. So if a release is intended for Holland it will include Dutch and English.
However the themes completely change the framework, including languages. Since themes are meant to be universal they include as many languages as possible, solving the problem of region specific builds.
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Language for phone and messaging.

Sorry for stupid question but...
I recently flashed current Overcome Kernel and Rom and it works like a charm but Messaging and Phone application are on english, rest of system is completly german, as it should be. ;-)
Can I change this by flashing another phone/modem file with Odin? Could anyone recommend me one? I am on T-Mobile Germany network and def. Need GSM and 3G...
send from my SGT with Overcome...

If you flashed 1.6.4 version of overcome. Sadly phone and messaging will remain in English locale as the Alterbridge86 (dev of overcome) wasnt able to merge other locales including German successfully (The Messaging kept FCing horribly and phone had issues). It has nothing to do with the modem.

Ok... just was interested... not too hard to have it on english but as a perfectionist I would have loved that...
THX
send from my SGT with Overcome...

Adding Languages to a Rom

Hello Everyone,
I have an old HTC Dream (T-Mobile G1), and as the time goes by new versions of Android are released and those versions make my phone slower.
So, and because I want to have my phone the most updated possible, I've been searching for fast and stable roms for it.
And, by luck, I've found the Froyo by Laszlo rom which works great (since all gingerbread roms are too slow). There is only one problem, the rom includes all kind of languages but not the one I want, Portuguese, and since I've got problems to understand English well it is a little bit hard to me.
Can someone please help me adding the Portuguese (and/or French) language to this rom ?
Thanks in Advance,
Luis Da Costa

adding languages
i also wonder about adding language possibility to a framework in a custom rom too. i have a korean rom base and while i was modding, i saw that the containing language database only includes korean, japanese, chinese, portuguese and english.
i'm looking for a way to import languages like turkish, german, french etc.
can anybody help or show me the way of this experience's possibility?