Trying to understand the differences between the Asian HD2 SKUs. HTC support says that since HTC doesn't/can't sell in mainland China that their phones only support CHT (Chinese traditional character set). I am trying to find which region's model support CHS (Chinese simplified character set).
I was hoping to find a factory ROM/SKU with CHS support so I know what region to order my phones from. Eventually I will be dealing with 20+ phones so I'm trying to avoid having to flash/support a custom ROM image.
I know that there are custom ROMS (Lost in Asia being an example) that claim CHS support. Does anyone know what original OS they sourced support for CHS EZInput (IME/SIP)?
I'll follow up with the information I am able to collect. I know that some people have tried to make a .cab of CHS EZInput, but have not heard about it working.
thanks
-drew
bregel said:
Trying to understand the differences between the Asian HD2 SKUs. HTC support says that since HTC doesn't/can't sell in mainland China that their phones only support CHT (Chinese traditional character set). I am trying to find which region's model support CHS (Chinese simplified character set).
I was hoping to find a factory ROM/SKU with CHS support so I know what region to order my phones from. Eventually I will be dealing with 20+ phones so I'm trying to avoid having to flash/support a custom ROM image.
I know that there are custom ROMS (Lost in Asia being an example) that claim CHS support. Does anyone know what original OS they sourced support for CHS EZInput (IME/SIP)?
I'll follow up with the information I am able to collect. I know that some people have tried to make a .cab of CHS EZInput, but have not heard about it working.
thanks
-drew
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Get the Singapore or Hongkong WWE version. It supports CHS by default and have chinese pinyin/hand writing IME include in the default input.
I am using the stock 1.66.707.1 which comes with my singapore set so its confirmed.
And for your info, HTC does not sell directly in China as HTC-branded but as DOPOD. Dopod is part of HTC. There are CHS ROM for the Dopod HD2 which is usable for the HTC HD2. But normally, chefs usually avoid them as their SKUs and embedded software versions are usually lower than the WWE version. Chinese Chefs usually will extract the 0804 from the DOPOD CHS ROM and mixed with the latest WWE rom to produce the custom CHS roms.
HD2s from Singapore come with CHS support. The official 1.66 SEA WWE ROM comes with CHS support as standard. On the other hand, Hong Kong phones have CHT support, but until today, HTC still hasn't released an official 1.66 WWE ROM for Hong Kong. Hong Kong phones can also read CHS, but writing/typing is CHT only.
BTW, don't believe what HTC is saying about not being able to sell their phones in China, since there are lots and lots of HTC phones for sale in Shenzhen, including the HD2.
A good/stable Cooked ROM with CHS support is Merlion LEO. I have the V1.90 installed on my phone, and so far, it has been absolutely stable and flawless.
THANK YOU SO MUCH for this info. It is like pulling teeth to get info out of HTC support.
I think we are going to go with the Singapore HD2 SKU as we definitely need CHS input/display.
Just a few confirmations about the Singapore HD2:
What language is the operating system in? Should I expect any hassles choosing CHS vs CHT for input? Are there any other hardware or application differences from a WWE phone?
The Dopod would definitely be an option, but there is some concern that our research software may not run correctly on a native Chinese OS.
Ok now to hunt down more specifics about the Singapore HD2, any good links besides HTC's site?
Thank you both very much. Have a great day.
One clarification. I need the CHS input to be from the native HTC EzInput keyboard, not a 3rd party app like CE Star.
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One clarification. I need the CHS input to be from the native HTC EzInput keyboard, not a 3rd party app like CE Star.
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I use touch pal to do this and it works like a charm...
HTC is not sold in China officially, but you can find plenty of shuihuo ones around...
bregel said:
One clarification. I need the CHS input to be from the native HTC EzInput keyboard, not a 3rd party app like CE Star.
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The 1.66.707.1 firmware has the CHS input from the native HTC keyboard.
Did previous versions not use the native HTC keyboard for CHS input? Did they use A4 or something?
Interesting stuff, thanks for the reply. Wish I had my HD2 in front of me to flash and verify to my manager.
since the singapore rom is actually the "South East Asia" rom,
i wonder if it has keyboards for all the other south east asian countries such as thailand, vietnam, korea, japan etc..
Its good that its got chinese. but asia does not = just chinese.. so im wondering if all the othre asian language inputs are supported or not ? =) Thanks
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does any one have m700 cht rom?
I want that rom too!
who has CHT ROM?
beargege said:
who has CHT ROM?
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As I know, Dopod M700 has CHS instead of CHT ROM.
Please Please save my Dopod M700 CHS
chs is for hk, cht is for tw
CHS Please please! Dont know why the operator have not released any ROM for this device. Becareful All! Do not buy any Dopod M700 with CHS ROM inside. If your device stucks in bootloader, You have no way to come back!
wtanph said:
chs is for hk, cht is for tw
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That's impossible - those officially for HK must have CHT as HK uses traditional CH, and NOT simplified CH (for Mainland China only).
However, since taiwan also uses traditional CH, so I believe the CID of tw and hk machines are different and hence ROMs for these 2 places are non-interchangeble.
i cant log on to dopod hk, im not sure if hk use traditional or simplified, if it is traditional then it will be same as taiwan cht, if it is simplified then it is same as mainland china chs
wtanph said:
i cant log on to dopod hk, im not sure if hk use traditional or simplified, if it is traditional then it will be same as taiwan cht, if it is simplified then it is same as mainland china chs
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Trust me, hk uses CHT. But that CHT would probably differ from that from tw in terms of CID.
can someine log on to dopod hk to download the m700 cht rom? dopod tw dont have the rom
wtanph said:
can someine log on to dopod hk to download the m700 cht rom? dopod tw dont have the rom
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Dopod HK does not have also. There is WWE ROM for M700 somewhere but what we need is CHS.
Dopod is going to be vanished shortly. Dopod is an HTC's Subsidiary, now HTC will eliminate Dopod brand and there will be only HTC. That's may be why there will be no DOPOD CID ROM any more.
if only iam at taiwan, i maybe can get cht rom, those who live at taiwan maybe can help us get cht rom, they can get it at synnex
I also want Taiwan ROM for mt O2 Orbit ! Thank You very much !
I've bought my TD2 from Hong Kong....though it has WWE ROM, but still at some places I can find some Chinese...like in keyboard, there are some Chinese input options given and there is no phone keyboard option.
So I want to ask, that when HTC will provide ROM update with WinMo 6.5, do I've to download and update from HTC Hong Kong only, or I can update using any other HTC site also which has WWE Europe or WWE worldwide ROM, so that my TD2 appears to be perfectly English...
read the rom section and you will find the answer
pgu said:
I've bought my TD2 from Hong Kong....though it has WWE ROM, but still at some places I can find some Chinese...like in keyboard, there are some Chinese input options given and there is no phone keyboard option.
So I want to ask, that when HTC will provide ROM update with WinMo 6.5, do I've to download and update from HTC Hong Kong only, or I can update using any other HTC site also which has WWE Europe or WWE worldwide ROM, so that my TD2 appears to be perfectly English...
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Quick answer to you! Once you've unlocked your TD2 CID, you can change your ROM to any ROM in the world! Go ahead!
Hi there!
I am looking for an official ROM for the Opal/Touch Viva/MDA Basic.
Everywhere i look people say like "get it from htc.com" or "you can download it from their website".
There are no ROMs for download at www.htc.com!
If i choose germany as country it's even better: it tells me there is no device called touch viva. (I bought the device in germany!!!)
Anyone please can help and tell me where i can REALLY download official HTC ROM??
then, what is this?
http://www.htc.com/sea/SupportDownloadList.aspx?p_id=175&act=sd&cat=2
asia version?
boelze said:
asia version?
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What difference does it make ?
doesn't most people in asia have other letters than western countries??
I want english version. (In fact i would like german version most, but since I can't find a newer version than the translated one posted on this board I would stick with english one.)
greetz
Hi guys, same here. still looking for a stock german rom. i had mine extracted but the extracted files are not working...
I talked to HTC for a german ROM now.
They told me there isn't a stock ROM in german because there is no german Touch Viva.
For the T-Mobile MDA they explained to me:
"Even though the phone is now unlocked, they (T-Mobile) still own the phone serial number so you will only be able to use t mobile roms, so the best action is to contact them to see if there have a update, if not there is not going to be one available for you to download."
So it seems like HTC does not provide any german ROMs for Opal
i think you can change the language pack... these links might help:
http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=BA_WM5_ChanceLang
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=380045
I'm Searching for an HD2 Rom in my own Languide (Dutch)
now i make a poll For HD2 users that wants there own Languide on there HD2 with custom rom.
It would be great if there were cabs that could add fonts and keyboard support.
By the way, there is a slight problem with the poll. Chinese is the proper spelling. Also there are two variants of the language. China uses Simplified Characters (CHS), while places like Taiwan and Hong Kong still use Traditional Characters (CHT). Not knowing whether you mean CHT or CHS, I guess I can't vote in the poll.
The Asia WWE comes with chinese ime and font, including them in a cab will be nice.
And what about polish and other eastern european languages? It's really hard to find a proper ROM with these languages included...
rlydiard said:
It would be great if there were cabs that could add fonts and keyboard support.
By the way, there is a slight problem with the poll. Chinese is the proper spelling. Also there are two variants of the language. China uses Simplified Characters (CHS), while places like Taiwan and Hong Kong still use Traditional Characters (CHT). Not knowing whether you mean CHT or CHS, I guess I can't vote in the poll.
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In the word CHT or CHS, C means Chinese.
daming said:
In the word CHT or CHS, C means Chinese.
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CH = Chinese, T = Traditional, S = Simplified
And, that is right from Microsoft (I write and edit for Microsoft through one of Microsoft's PR vendors.) You must be aware that the encoding for traditional and simplified Chinese characters is not the same.
i need a chinese input cum read~~
I would like to see a finnish rom for hd2, I could do it myself if someone helps me out with it, i could allso translate other apps to finnish if someone is interested
I would like to see a rom for hd2 support with support of chinese
althought most of the cook rom say is WWE but it dont have chinese support.. so it cannot say it that rom is a WWE rom
harky said:
althought most of the cook rom say is WWE but it dont have chinese support.. so it cannot say it that rom is a WWE rom
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Maybe I am all confused and wrong, but I always thought that WWE = World Wide English. Can you explain to me what the relationship is between the Chinese language and WWE?
haha maybe i mis-taking i tot wwe will have chinese input in it..
rlydiard said:
Maybe I am all confused and wrong, but I always thought that WWE = World Wide English. Can you explain to me what the relationship is between the Chinese language and WWE?
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harky said:
haha maybe i mis-taking i tot wwe will have chinese input in it..
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Well, I do hope that this thread can produce some results. As I live in Taiwan, but am a native speaker of English, I want an English UI, along with support for traditional Chinese, and simplified Chinese would also be nice. I know there are official ROMS from HTC that support an English UI with Chinese support, but it would sure be nice to have some language cabs that we could install on custom ROMS.
Suggestion
Unfortunately the poll does not seem to be attracting a large interest.
I wonder if the poll included the following it might attract more participation, as it would be more inclusive. (The list comes from Microsoft)
This is just a suggestion for the OP.
Available locales:
0404 CHT Chinese Traditional
0804 CHS Chinese Simplified
0405 CSY Czech
0406 DAN Danish
0413 NLD Dutch
0409 USA English
0407 GER German
0408 ELL Greek
040b FIN Finnish
040c FRA French
040e HUN Hungarian
0410 ITA Italian
0411 JPN Japanese
0412 KOR Korean
0414 NOR Norwegian
0415 PLK Polish
0416 PTB Portuguese Brazil
0816 PTG Portuguese Portugal
0418 ROM Romanian
0419 RUS Russian
041b SKY Slovak
0c0a ESN Spanish
041d SVE Swedish
041f TRK Turkish
I know a few people also want Arabic support.
This will be nice 0816 PTG Portuguese Portugal
I am in the same case than rlydiard I want to keep my english system (with also my french input) but I would like to be able to use traditional chinese with bopomofo or pinyin. Because I need it for Taiwan...
I am sure someone can cook a rom by extracting the chinese input from Taiwanese phone (for the bopomofo input) and add it to a european rom version. Can someone please try it ?
can you please add Arabic to that poll?
tbela
Hungarian!
rlydiard said:
Well, I do hope that this thread can produce some results. As I live in Taiwan, but am a native speaker of English, I want an English UI, along with support for traditional Chinese, and simplified Chinese would also be nice. I know there are official ROMS from HTC that support an English UI with Chinese support, but it would sure be nice to have some language cabs that we could install on custom ROMS.
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I just started a thread I am also in serious need of the ezInput with Chinese Simplified Support in a CAB file...
man that would make life soooo much nicer... man!!
A hungarian Rom would be nice. There is some official on the www.sunnysoft.com/htc webpage, but not for TMOUS phones.
Hi there, I am thinking of changing my ROM to the official Asian 1.66 as it has Chinese support built in and I wont have to bloat out my phone with heaps of fonts, apps and progs to be able to read and type in Chinese (simplified)... (I currently use ce star and touchpal & Sogou ime)... can anyone tell me if the date/day is in Chinese while the menus etc can be in English... thanks
Can no one take a screen shot to show me if the calendar dates/days show in Chinese or not... I can do this in the stock 1.66 if I use CE Star and change the region to China... but if the asian roms can do this then voila, I wont have to bloat the phone with all the other third party apps I have to make it work... cheers
rom for 1.66 asian calander still in english.
tattatheng said:
rom for 1.66 asian calander still in english.
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thanks for the info... sigh, will stick to my wwe rom for now then...
all you need is to change the locale regional settings to chinese,then the date and calendar will display in chinese.
i find it funny that asian version rom only contains english and chinese languages..
because asia has so many different countries just like europe. however each individual country dont get its own roms like they do in europe. and HTC assumes all asians either speak english or chinese.. which is a poor assumption, since there are many asian countries using the Asian Rom, not being able to even SMS or type in their own language on a phone they buy from the shops !!