adding language to w580i

[leon21ca]

I want to flash my w580i with chinese language support. I just like to know if I can mix and match the Main and FS. like use

W580_R8BA024_MAIN_GENERIC_LA_RED52
W580_R8BA024_FS_CHINA_RED52

together or have the two has to be the same?

W580_R8BA024_MAIN_CHINA_LA_RED52
W580_R8BA024_FS_CHINA_RED52

[japan6]

if you want chinese language support you have to have the China main. Chinese is a non alphabetic language and as far as i have experienced this language on SE phones, they need to have the MAIN_CHINA to desplay the characters. Other than that, i think it just needs to have the language installed on the phone and the customize.xml file to be edited to include it. Its usually easier though to just go through and flash with everything CHINA though.

[igortude]

well...



im going to take advantage now that the subject's brought up...

i flash my w580i with W580_R8BA024_FS_CENT_EUROPE_RED52
and i 'd like to have a portuguese langue pack...

how can i add
who knows?!

[C.Blue]

lol, funny thing, i have what u want, and u have what i want...
portugese language pack can be found here...
HowardForums: Your Mobile Phone Community Debranding with SETool 2 Lite
where did you get the chinese language flash files? i need them and i still need 20 odd posts before i wan download from topsony..... but just to clarify... because chinese is not alphabet based, i have to get either a china or hong kong based flash and custom pack (3 files total?)

thanks,
K.

[leon21ca]

guess I will go with the flashing with both being China Main and FS. just to be safe...hehe...

P.S. the reason that I'm asking if you can mix and match main and fs is that I also like to add French language support to the phone after I have flashed it with Chinese system. can it be done?? if so how would I go able doing it??.....

[japan6]

Well its deffinitly a lot easier to flash all three at the same time, but technically all you need is to just flash the main with either like you said CHINA_MAIN or TAIWAN_MAIN or HONG_KONG_MAIN and thats it. Then you would just need to place the .lng and .t9 chinese files onto your phone and edit the customize.xml. I wrote a whole tutorial on how to do it here how to add languages to your phone - Top Sony Forums you can then also do it that way to add your french language as well. but like i said, you will deffinitly need the CHINA_MAIN for the chinese language and it doesn't matter at all the main for the other languages.

[leon21ca]

Great! japan6 thanks for all your help! I'll give it a go this weekend and see how everything goes. hopefully all goes well and no glitches....;-)

[C.Blue]

hey leon,
how did your flashing go? I'm curious because im about to do the same thing.... as soon as i reach 20 posts.. come to mention it, where did you get your flash files? but please come back and let us all know how it went =)

[igortude]

there is a asian pack =\~

[leon21ca]

hello everyone, I just finish flashed my w580i everything went great, can't be any easier :-) I used setool2lite to do the flash with W580_R8BA024_MAIN_CHINA_LA_RED52 W580_R8BA024_FS_CHINA_RED52 and a Chinese customize.xml without any glitch. now only if I can get my hands on a French language pack then I'm all set...:-) and flashing didn't take long, only about 6 mins and then I went to Product support - - Sony Ericsson to get all the setting for the text msg and internet set done, this is the most easy part. after everything is set to the Rogers setting and that's it. now I can do all the things with the phone as I can before and plus now I also can use mp3, m4a format as my ringtones it's great. used it about a day now, haven't had any problem come up yet, can I'm hopping it stay that way. hehehe.... anyone also thinking of doing the flash to your phone, i can tell you it's not as scary as I thought it would be. it's fairly easy just follow the tut to the word and you'll be fine... wish you all the best luck flashing....;-)