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Hello to everybody. First post from me in this great community.
First, I'm gonna start by telling you my initial problem. I've always been buying some second hand HTCs from ebay. I've already owned an XDA II, XDA IIi, Qtek S200 and recently a Qtek P3300, with various brand names. My problem was always, to have a greek keyboard that could handle 160 characters in SMSs and a greek contact manager that I could search easily scrolling the greek letters. Until now, I somehow was able to find a cracked or cooked greek ROM and use it without any problem. Until I bought the P3300. Most of you out there should know by now that there is an official A_C_E Hellas greek translation extROM which, if you load it in your "non Greek" P3300, it will lock it down. I've been trying to crack the protection which finally understood who it works (with the great help of andrew_sh, thanks a lot man, I changed my username if you still wonder who I am), but for some reason which I don't know, it doesn't work for the P3300. So, I finally gave up trying, for the only reason that I DIDN'T want to translate the ROM (English is more than good for me), just the 2 things I mentioned in the opening. So, I focused in these 2 and here comes the result.
There are 2 different cabs. The first is the original A_C_E Hellas greek keyboard, with registry tweaks that provides 160 greek characters support for SMSs, both for Windows mobile 5 and 6. It's been tested in 2 different HTC models and works like a charm. It SHOULD work for any Mobile 5 and 6 OFFICIAL ROM. The second cab, just translates the phone part to Greek, with the ease to scroll down Greek letters while searching for a contact. This too has been tested on 2 different OFFICIAL HTC ROMS and it does work. It should NOT work on cooked ROMS, so try it in your own responsibility. I know some alternatives have been posted by minotavr, by using resco keyboard pro with greek characters file and PocketCm Contact Manager, but it didn't satisfy me in any way.
So, I'm posting the cabs and I'm waiting for your tests and results. I'm emphasizing that they should be used with OFFICIAL WWE ROMS and with Regional settings set to Greek. I would prefer if we keep this tread in English, just for respect for this great community.
Forgive me for the huge post. Have fun.There are 2 different cabs. The first is the original A_C_E Hellas greek keyboard, with registry tweaks that provides 160 greek characters support for SMSs, both for Windows mobile 5 and 6. It's been tested in 2 different HTC models and works like a charm. It SHOULD work for any Mobile 5 and 6 OFFICIAL ROM. The second cab, it just translates the phone part to Greek, with the ease to scroll down Greek letters will searching for a contact. This too has been tested on 2 different OFFICIAL HTC ROMS and it does work. It should NOT work on cooked ROMS, so try it in your own responsibility. I know some alternatives have been posted by minotavr, by using resco keyboard pro with greek characters file and PocketCm Contact Manager, but it didn't satisfy me in any way.
So, I'm posting the cabs and I'm waiting for your tests and results. I'm emphasizing that they should be used with OFFICIAL WWE ROMS and with Regional settings set to Greek. I would prefer if we keep this tread in English, just for respect for this great community.
Forgive me for the huge post. Have fun.
Appreciate your work man, i was looking for something like that for quite a while! I'll try it and I'll give some feedback, as soon as my phone unfreezes after the deistallation of "Sam Greek Leng.cab" file...
I'm waiting for anyone's feedback. I'm really curious in which HTC models will work.
Thanx in advance.
It works like a charm on HTC P3300.
But it surely needs updating. I use resco keyboard because it has large buttons, so i can easily and fast,write my text message.
Greece forever
Thank you synzeus for the feedback. I too tried the resco keyboard, but with the normal keyboard layout and thought it had a few bugs, so I didn't like it. Also I tried resco and other commercial and free keyboards with different layouts, but I guess I got used with the normal layout and feel, of the original one, so I was not satisfied with any of them. I know a lot of people that are satisfied with alternative keyboards, so this keyboard cab is intented for those who want a greek one, similar to the english one. But thank you anyway for the try. I'm waiting for feedback from anyone about the greek contact manager, especially in official WWE ROMs of other HTC products. Already tested with success in a Hermes.
Yeah.I forgot to say that the contact manager works too.
Keep up the good work.
Hey man nice job...
Working fine on my HTC Hermes too.
Keep up the good work and make this play with cooked roms too....
Problem in Qtek S200
After installing MarkoDiMarko_Gr_CM.cab on an HTC S200, device hungs up while booting. OS is WM6.1 Prophet Touch.
Any sugestions?
Sorry friend, I have already mentioned that it should work only in official WWE ROMs. There are dozens of cooked ROMs for various models out there and everyone integrates in them whatever application they want, including third party contact managers. So, replacing a cooked ROM's contact manager wouldn't be the easiest thing to do and unfortunately I don't have the time to try. The way for me right now is sticking to official ROMs, I'm done with cooked ones (and their bugs).
Oh, and one more thing. Now that you mentioned S200, I have to point out that after badly damaging my Artemis, I turned again to my old but extremely trustworthy S200 which works with the patched Greek ROM provided by andrew_sh, which works like a charm. So if you don't mind using mobile 5.0, this is another way to go.
Take care.
OK, it's ok with me, but how could I uninstall this keyboard or install another rom? As I mentioned in my first post, device does not boot so it cannot be connect to ActiveSync.
Your help would be most appreciated.
PM sent.
Good luck.
Dear Friend,
I want to tell you that I just upgrade my phone (Htc P3650 -Touch Cruise - Polaris 100) with the latest official wm 6.1 rom (HTC Touch Cruise-RUU_Polaris_HTC_WWE_3.13.405.0_radio_sign_25.85.30.07_1.59.42.15_Ship) and I install your MarkoDiMarko_Gr_CM.cab
The phone doesn’t work and I take the message "A problem has occurred with cprog.exe"
The contacts menu does not open and I can't make any call.
Thank ’s
At past exactly 14-01-2006, I had try hard, to Localized contacts alphabetical index without any result.
I encourage you to continue to try for that result.
This is the most usefull thing for Greeks.
Hello g_dinos.
Sorry for the bad experience with your attempt. But the truth is that the 2 cabs are provided "as is" with no guarantee. You just try it and if it works, we are all happy. We had previous successful attempts into some other models, but I guess you were not so lucky. I'm assuming you have set the regional settings to Greek, right?
Anyway, what I can do for you is this. If there is an official A_C_E Hellas greek update for this specific ROM and you have it, you can send it to me and try to extract/compile the greek CM cab for you.
Take care.
Greek Contact Manager for every official HTC model!
Well, after a while, it's now tested ant it works.
Greek Contact Manager for every official HTC model!
After g_dinos bad experience with my file, he sent me the touch cruise greek update and I built a new cab for his HTC. But before I managed to sent it, he already built his own, based on my cab and tested it with success. By the way, mine works too
Anyway, g_dinos prooved that a greek contact manager cab can be made easily for various HTC models. So, he should have the honour to post the file and instructions (if he wants). Thanx again friend.
Keep up the good work greek guys out there Have fun translating.
MarkoDiMarko your answers was so instant and you was so helpfully !!!
I confirm that your two cabs works fine at my phone (Htc P3650 -Touch Cruise - Polaris 100) with the original rom (HTC Touch Cruise-RUU_Polaris_HTC_WWE_3.13.405.0_radio_sign_25.85.30.07_1.59.42.15_Ship).
I want to give you a big thank you for your help!
No more need to buy phones from ACE-Hellas only for Greek Localized contacts alphabetical index !!!
Greek Contact Manager for Polaris
To get things a little straight.
MarkoDiMarko_Gr_Keyboard.cab should work on official WM 5.0, 6.0 (edit: NOT 6.1)
MarkoDiMarko_Gr_CM.cab should work on official WM 6.0 .
MarkoDiMarko_Gr_CM-WM6.1 should work on official WM 6.1 .
The last one was tested by g_dinos today on Polaris. (thanx again)
Have fun.
HTC touch cruise (Polaris)... OK
GREAT JOB my friend GREAT JOB.
Now i have to LEARN GREEK TOO...HA HA HA
Gr_Keyboard for wm6.1???
If someone could help, a_c_e has released 6.1 version for polaris... someone could extract the keyboard?
Is there anything for M-Amine 2.0 ?
I have put this cooked rom in my Ace-Hellas Touch Cruise and all that is missing is a greek keyboard and a Greel contact manager.
Thanks in advance.
XAPHS
used with ROM "Artemis Touch 4.02 Full with 4 sided cube"
As mentioned by MarcoDiMarco, it does NOT work with cooked roms, that is why I am stucked with my brick now! It freezes while bootloading and cannot even bring it to activesync to flash a new rom.
As with the previous user (s_panos), any help will do.
best regards
P.S. Should have been more carefully, me malakas!
However, it worked fine with "HTC_P3300_WWE_3.13.405.1_4.1.13.44_02.94.90_Ship_R"
Hello!
Anyone how knows how to get Thai in your Diamond. The keyboard are no problems but how will I get the phone to understand the letters? Tried to copy fonts, but I didn't get it to work.
Dear batavus!
Hi! i think i can help you with this problem!
I use Thai in my diamond))))))
here is cab (standart software if you're buying HTC จับ เพชร in Thailand)
http://rapidshare.com/files/152232028/thaiwince_3.1.2.4_vga_htc_diamond.cab.html
everything is working! and about keyboard i suggest you zoomboard! i've tried a lot of them, but zoom looks like the best.
Enjoy it!
Expandsys in Thailand
I assume you guys did not buy from local distributor because they include Thai software.
By the way, any Thai interested in having Expandsys in Thailand?
pufyc said:
Hi! i think i can help you with this problem!
I use Thai in my diamond))))))
here is cab (standart software if you're buying HTC จับ เพชร in Thailand)
http://rapidshare.com/files/152232028/thaiwince_3.1.2.4_vga_htc_diamond.cab.html
everything is working! and about keyboard i suggest you zoomboard! i've tried a lot of them, but zoom looks like the best.
Enjoy it!
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I know this is diamond thread but is there any possible to make this work with touch pro??
does this works if i already installed cestar chinese proggy?
I tried the link, but its desd....(says it's because nobodys' accessed it in quite a while....)
Any chance i can get Thai on my HTC HD2 (T-mob)??? Thanx!
Here is a cab which installs the greek HTC keyboard in Jade (& Iolite) and has support for 160 characters in SMS.
After installing, you will get only two available languages in your keyboard/keypad (English/Greek).
Version History
v0.2
1) Included kdb files to fix SMS160 issue
2) Removed some registry entries which were irrelevant
v0.1
Initial Release
Installation Instructions
1) If this is your first installation please use only the latest version (HTC_Greek_Keyboard_v0_2.cab).
2) If you have already installed a previous version DO NOT UNINSTALL. Just install the newer version on top. Otherwise I cannot guarantee the results.
3) If you want to upgrade from v0.1 to v0.2 you could just extract the contents of kdb_files.zip to \Windows directory of your Jade.
4) After installing perform a soft reset.
Attention!
Use this cab at your own risk! But if you do use it, please post the results here
Great job but no support for 160 characters in SMS. Is there a trick that I have to do for this?
Did you try to soft-reset after installing? If you did and it still doesn't work, then I will have to include the kdb files into the cab.
I just tested the cab on HTC Iolite (Touch Cruise 2009) and works great!
atzoum said:
Did you try to soft-reset after installing? If you did and it still doesn't work, then I will have to include the kdb files into the cab.
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Yes I did but 160 does not work...
spikou said:
Yes I did but 160 does not work...
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Try installing v0.2, or extract contents of kdb_files.zip to \Windows path of your Jade. I have tried it on 2 phones so far and it worked.
Note that the way SMS 160 works, when you start typing you see that you have 70 characters left, but once you stop the counter shows 160.
Hello
This is support full QWERTY keyboard?
Also is it possible to use the files for VGA keyboard execpt *.png file
hi all, i just tested it on my new htc touch pro2 device and the qwerty works nice. I couldnt use small letter on message part only capitals. My keyboard though doesnt type in greece, i think i have to find out how to do that...
Of course the contact filtering letters are still in english...
cheers 2 all
Thanks for the release.
on the HTC touch diamond 2 is works fine everywhere except SMS.
When writing SMS all letters are capitalised regardless of how you type them. Only happens in actual text portion.
Do you know what could be causing this and if its easily fixed? I'm a noobie to windows mobiles.
If you want to sent an SMS with greek characters you have to choose either 160 and all capital letters or 70 and whatever kind of letters you want. This is because lower greek letters are Unicode and Unicode uses more bits per letter so you get 70 characters instead of 160. This is a common problem with greek phones and that's why Greek-SMS Keyboard layouts exist.
i have the same problem with my new htc touch pro 2 when i wright in capitals sms doesnt allow my 160 but only 70 characters...i also wand to ask if the is any cab for greek luanguage support for the slide keyboard
atzoum, you are a small God
Thank you so very much, was trying to find this for a couple of days after my last ROM update...
Installed on Touch Cruise 09 (Iolite) and works like a charm, with T9 support as well.
Konstantinos
could someone upload a screenshot so that we can see which keyboard(s) this thread is about?
Hello, i'm trying to get chinese input working on my HTC snap.
I have searched and found alot of solutions. However nothing seems to work.
Displaying chinese is ok now. But i'm still looking for a way to enter chinese (I prefer pinyin input method, like on desktop windows)
I tried CE-star, but it thinks my trial period already expired (I just installed) so i can't test it.
Has anyone got Dayhand 's Plumsip working on an HTC Snap with WM6.1 standard?
-> It installs fine but i don't see any option to enter chinese anywhere...
Or does anyone have chinese input working with some other program?
99.99% work east asian fonts support (incl. chinese, japanese & korean) and locale
hi friends,
i've made a cab to view chinese, japanese and korean for windows mobile (tested on my Xperia X2 WM6.5.3 and should be working fine with other versions). just install the <East Asian Fonts Support.cab> and do a soft reset. if you want to input chinese, i suggest using baidu input, plumsip or qq pinyin.
if you face difficulties in reading emails and browsing using ie, you may also need to install <Reloadnls.cab> to have the necessary code pages. ce star is using old wince.nls so please do NOT use ce star for your device or you will brick it. since wm6.5.3, the codes pages are no longer saved in registry but in wince.nls. the wince.nls is extracted from a taiwan rom (wm6.5.3) of x2.
please remember to do a full backup before installing the cabs!!
by the way does anyone have the latest wm6.5 rom for Xperia X2? many thanks!
for any issues or problems please feel free to let me know.
Thanks, good work.
great job, thx
Thanks. Hopefully this work for me too!
thanx a lot man..
can I Remove reload
Thanks a lot for your post, for Opera and IE it works great, but for outlook it still shows square, in this case can i use add/remove program to correct outlook?
Thanks.
digue said:
Thanks a lot for your post, for Opera and IE it works great, but for outlook it still shows square, in this case can i use add/remove program to correct outlook?
Thanks.
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in this case you need to choose the correct coding (e.g. unicode, BIG5, etc) for the email message, or the messages contain wrong coding which cannot be displayed correctly.
Any chance for a japanese language pack?
great job, thx
sergiogon said:
Any chance for a japanese language pack?
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it supposes to be able to display Japanese.
my device shows Japanese correctly.
I am able to use these on my touch pro 2 with customized ROMS. It works very well until I tried to input Chinese. For all the Chinese input methods I tried, the menu of the input methods display blocks. Do you know a solution to this problem?
great works! thanks!
going to try now, look promising
you scared me. i installed CE Star (including pinyin input method) after flashing a 6.5.3 rom, and it displays chinese fonts correctly in IE, Opera, Outlook, AlReader, etc. But some fonts in S2P are messed up. But no way it would brick my Samsung Omnia2.
hi,
I installed your .cad but i faced two things:
1 - Using Opera 9.7 and i can't view japanese in google search result page, but i can view japanese when click on the link and go to target page.i do not know why
2 - Using Ressco keyboard pro 6.0, setting up second language is japanese, switch to japan keyboard and only square with a question mark within of the keypad showed up.
please help me get through this.
Thanks
Thank you for doing such a good font for us!
thank a lot ...
Can use in WM6.1 ?
I will be try for HTC Touch Daimond2.
It works pretty good!
I have searched this for quite a while, thanks for shareing.
Thank you
I've been looking for something like this. My OmniaII originally came from Hong Kong, but after I flashed it with Energy/MS Team ROMs, I lost support for east asian languages. Loading Meiryo fonts didn't help (primarily need Japanese support) much and worked very randomly. I'll give your method a try
By the way, do you know a good ime for Japanese? I've used ookii's, but I don't always have my stylus and sometimes I don't remember a kanji ^^'
I've tried CE-Star 2.8R3C, but it broke more than it fixed D: Thank god you try their software before you buy
Isn't it possible to rip the IME from a Japanese Windows Mobile 6.5(.3) unit? Something like the one used on Toshiba's or Samsung Omnia I, which actually got a Japanese version?
Great jobs!
Thanks for the apps!