how to add languages to your phone

[japan6]

After having looked around this forum and seeing so many threads about people wondering how to do this as well as myself having wondered how to do this, I figure I would let you know how its done. I have done this and have it completely working on a w810i, so I would figure it would work similarly on other phones as well.

NOTE: Its always smart to keep a copy of all the files that you will be changing someplace on your pc so that you can undo everything if you encountered a problem.

1) you will need to break into the phone using FAR. If you don't know how to do this, there are tuts for this everywhere.

2) you will need to navigate to tpa/preset/system/language on your phone using FAR.

3) you will need to copy over your .t9 and .lng files for the language(s) that you wish to add.

4) you will then need to delete the lng.lst and lng.dat files that are also in the tpa/preset/system/language directory. (the phone should rewrite these with the new languages when you restart it)

5) you will need to find and edit the allowed_language.txt to allow your desired languages.
eg. if you wanted to add english, you would start with a list of languages like "zs, zh," in the file, and you would just need to edit english in like so "zs, zh, en,"

6) Next would be to now find and edit the customize.xml file which can be found in tpa/preset/custom. Here you will again need to be adding the language.
eg:<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<customization>
<info>
<cda-number>CDA102494/100</cda-number>
<cda-revision>R1A</cda-revision>
<model>W810i</model>
<country>Indonesia</country>
<operator>Generic Trade</operator>
<language-variant-name>APAC</language-variant-name>
<allowed-language>zs</allowed-language>
<allowed-language>zh</allowed-language>
<allowed-language>en</allowed-language>
</info>

7) last step is the easiest, restart your phone and enjoy!

I have noticed that sometimes the phone will be quite picky, so make sure that the .t9 and .lng files of the language you are trying to add are from the same phone. I have only used them from the same firmware version so I cannot say if it will or willnot work from other versions. I have heard some say that the .t9 is the only that is firmware dependent and others say both are, I cannot say as I have not tried either from different firmwares. Also the .t9 and .lng filenames should be in lowercase letters. The phone may have issues if there not, so for example it should be en.t9 rather than EN.T9, EN.t9, or en.T9

If your looking for the language files, you can either find them on this site in the download section, or you can do it manually if you can get a hold of the MAIN not the FS and extract it from that.

[ChIcK]

can post the photo to more explanation?

[sannyo]

It is a good how to... if you don`t understand you really need to read very very much... no have easier way to explain how to put a language into your phone....so READ!!! Yeah you need to know to use XS++ and FAR with SEFP.. so if you don`t know how to use this 2 programs please search in the forum or in the google.

[tulipcorp]

Does is change the whole menu to a different language? or it just add a support for a new languages, the ability to read and write sms in foreign language?

[adenali]

Will this work for k510i ?
Does Far plugin support k510 ??
if I have FW with no arabic lang support , and then flash my k510
with europe FW (Same FW version as that of my phone) , can I add arabic lang by this method to my flashed k510 ??

[adenali]

Does is change the whole menu to a different language? or it just add a support for a new languages, the ability to read and write sms in foreign language?

Any answers please ??

[donnygg]

how do i extract the .lng and .t9 files from the MAIN file? I could only do it for the FS file using gextract and sefstool. Even then I could only find en.t9 from the China and APAC FS for Z550. The rest are all .lng.

[japan6]

first adenali, it depends on if you have the .t9 or the .lng files added. It is possible depending on which ones you added to have either the phone language to be changed (the .lng file) or the writing dictionary (.t9).

second donnygg, yea I must be dyslexic or something, your completely right, its the FS that you need and not the main. and I use main2raw rather than gextract but whatever you use is fine. And don't always expect there to be the .t9 for all the languages. If you really need it, you can always go threw more FS if needed. They are posted here after all.

[naderkar]

hello
I can not Download this file>>w800_Language_EMEA_6.rar<<
how do free dowload this file???

[paladinzluka]

naderkar It restricts by the rule of fotum. Read rules. You can bay accont or write more than 20 post and be in forum more than 1 month