An attempt to make English 2K3 SE

[mamaich]

I've partially translated OS to English. Here are the screenshots:

http://mamaich.kasone.com/imate/se/CEZoom0.gif http://mamaich.kasone.com/imate/se/CEZoom1.gif http://mamaich.kasone.com/imate/se/CEZoom4.gif

http://mamaich.kasone.com/imate/se/CEZoom3.gif http://mamaich.kasone.com/imate/se/CEZoom5.gif http://mamaich.kasone.com/imate/se/CEZoom6.gif

http://mamaich.kasone.com/imate/se/CEZoom7.gif http://mamaich.kasone.com/imate/se/CEZoom8.gif http://mamaich.kasone.com/imate/se/CEZoom10.gif

http://mamaich.kasone.com/imate/se/CEZoom11.gif http://mamaich.kasone.com/imate/se/CEZoom13.gif http://mamaich.kasone.com/imate/se/CEZoom14.gif

To translate I've used an ugly hack. I've taken the english modules from XDA3 ROM, patched them, renamed to *.0409.mui and edited registry a little. This is not an optimal approach. These files can be made much smaller by removing the unnecessary code/data sections and keeping only the resources. I'll do that later.
I've uploaded my backup made with xBackup to http://mamaich.kasone.com/imate/CompactFlashBackUpNew.rar (9,477,907 bytes)
The translation is not finished. For example Camera and Album applications are still chinese, most of registry is still in chinese.

I've found 2 problems in 2K3 SE. Sometimes in bluetooth settings the "turn on bluetooth" checkbox clears or sets itself, and the default font size seems to be larger than in 1.72 ROM, so some windows look ugly.

To install this backup - extract archive to SD-card and run \windows\xBackup from File Explorer.

edited: now contacts are working and QKeys does not cause problems.

[sprint]

God Bless You !!!

[mamaich]

2 more bugs in this translation. Contacts application is not working and installing Qkeys causes lots of problems.

[semis0nic]

@ mamaich,

great work bro!

keep it up! I'll try to look into it later ( hope the "final" tweak is near )

:P

[buzz_lightyear]

@mamaich

GREAT, THANX... :o)

tebje nado i spatj nemnosko... :o))))

buzz

[ammar]

mamaich is the best 8)

[mamaich]

I've fixed bugs with contacts application chrash and control panel items left in chinese and reuploaded archive. Has anyone successfully installed this backup on his device?
I'll translate Media Player to English when I'll get wmploc.dll and quartz.dll from any English device running Windows Media Player 10.
Still 3 DLLs (hwPenCE.dll, hwsetup.dll, mboxchs.dll, probably they deal with chinese input), registry (especially fonts settings), folders/file names and help files need to be translated.

[[Krueger]Dr.Stein]

ALL HAIL MAMAICH !

[sprint]

:D [/img]

[sprint]

:arrow:

[recrem]

Will this work with a 1.66 ROM for Australia, or do we need to get the latest 1.72 ROM?

Recrem...

[sprint]

:wink:

[sprint]

:arrow:

[agp]

you guys rocks!! :D

[Gollum]

Hi

I don't know why, but isn't simple to install an English ROM?

I had an French M2000 whit French ROM on it, I just replace the ROM whit English one. :roll:

Mah :!:

[chris_khho]

That's absolutely one of the most existing things with xda 2 at the moment. Pls continue!!!!!!!!!!!!

[brian_bunny]

Hi mamaich,

Could you please upload the ROM that you have hacked with instruction about how to flash the ROM? Please! Please! Please! :D

BTW, it is a great job! Thank you very much for your hard work! Also thanks to everyone who dare to try! Well done!!!!!!

Cheers!

Does this mean I can restore from the provided backup file and my device will be using Mobile 2003 SE? Is everything functional to this point? What happens if I do a soft reset, and if I do a hard reset? Tell me if this is correct- soft reset (will still se 2003 SE), if hard reset (will revert back to original Mobile 2003).

Does this allow me to go back to the original state when I bought the phone? By doing a hard reset?

[ocena]

Would this work on XDA I?

[Jeff]

This is some REALLY EXCITING NEWS!! However I would like to get the imput of some others using this before I jump in and start restoring other people's backups, I have learned from the Bluetooth Widcomm thing floating around here with my Qtek 2020 that I could never uninstall the thing and too many hard resets made me think twice before jumping the gun.

But I have a question, how does restoring a backup CHANGE the ROM version when we normally have to go through a drudging 45-minute ROM update by FLASHING it, but here it would be an update in only 3 minutes, I am unclear to this - can someone please enlighten me? But great work!! Keep it going!!!

After all of the translations and trials are finished, I assume that there will be THE ENGLISH SE ROM posted here that will enable all of the users to therefor FLASH their ROM to the SE? I am confused...

- Cheers and Kudos!!

[JaToAc]

you have to first upgrade to the chinese 2003SE rom and THEN install the backup above to get it to english (but not the complete os...)

[Jeff]

@JaToAc: Thanks.

I assume that I will find the Chinese SE ROM here in the forum somewhere once I look a bit. Here come the NEXT questions:

If the Flash to a chinese SE ROM doesn't go well is there always the way to revert back to my 1.72 EN without any devestating effects?

Shall I wait a while longer to have all of the translations and imput bugs updated before FLASHING?

After the ROM upgrade, what information can I backup i.e. programmes from my sprite file from my 1.72 ROM? IS this possible? I dont think so... The PIM data yes, but nothing from the 1.72 ROM including the programmes is restorable, no? Someone can comment on this?

If this is the case then THIS IS THE SE UPDATE that everyone has been looking for!!!

The holy grail?!?!? Mama always said that if it is too good to be true then it probably is...

Guess I am still sore about that Widcomm incedent...

Just my .02

Damn! I ask a lot of questons, no?

- Cheers

[kopecek]

Hi all,
for everyone, who want to test this rom and go back to previous one (e.g. 1.72, 1.66 etc.) withouth dala loosing I have one tip.

Sunnysoft backup manager can save all contens of your device (all files, registry, databases) to backup file on SD card and restore it.

I want to see my XDA with SE, test it, but still wait on 1.72 for a while :wink:

1. I did full backup by Sunnysoft Backup Manager
2. I flashed to this 2k3SE and did some testing.
3. I flashed back my previos 1.72
4. I restored all files, registry, etc. form backup made by Sunnysoft Backup Manager

I have my device directly in same state as before testing. :)

[Mr_Gadget]

Mamaich and XDA Devs, excellent work!

You guys are getting pretty popular with all XDA II owners in Australia! :)
http://www.mtekk.com.au/forums/viewtopic.php?p=21426#21426

We're cheering you dudes on!

Best Regards,
Mr.G :)

[recrem]

OK.. that's what I did wrong - I didn't reflash my XDA II with the Chinese W2K3 SE ROM first! Mine basically locked up... but have restored back to normal now.

I must look into this Chinese ROM a little more!

Recrem...

[atpcz]

all hail mamaich :D

[buzz_lightyear]

@recrem

First you MUST flash it with chineese ROM upgrade which can be found here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=13445
and
http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=13379

after that, download the backup from mamaich and restore it on your XDA2 with xBackup app.

buzz

[Zuhel]

@recrem

First you MUST flash it with chineese ROM upgrade which can be found here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=13445
and
http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=13379

after that, download the backup from mamaich and restore it on your XDA2 with xBackup app.

buzz
I used Prargon Software Leng(made for PDA2K) to tranlate the user interface.
Several examples:
http://zuhel.ru/img/pda/SECH/display_1.bmp

http://zuhel.ru/img/pda/SECH/display_2.bmp

@recrem

First you MUST flash it with chineese ROM upgrade which can be found here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=13445
and
http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=13379

after that, download the backup from mamaich and restore it on your XDA2 with xBackup app.

buzz
I used Prargon Software Leng(made for PDA2K) to tranlate the user interface.
(I edited the images out M4io)



Zuhel,

This is the result of going from Chinese ROM or Chines ROM with some English patch?



RUS:

On perevodit vse na Russki?

[hanza]

active sync is missing after restoring mamaich rom

[Zuhel]

@recrem

First you MUST flash it with chineese ROM upgrade which can be found here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=13445
and
http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=13379

after that, download the backup from mamaich and restore it on your XDA2 with xBackup app.

buzz
I used Prargon Software Leng(made for PDA2K) to tranlate the user interface.
(I edited the images out M4io)



Zuhel,

This is the result of going from Chinese ROM or Chines ROM with some English patch?



RUS:

On perevodit vse na Russki?
No, this is the official russian localisation program created for PDA2k(MDA III), so with some fixes it works fine on XDAII SE.

RUS:
Eto russifikattor dlyaa PDA2k(MDAIII) ot kompanii Paragon. On perevodit po4ti ves' interfeys na russkiy i angliyskiy yazik.

[sprint]

:arrow: 1) Contacts still are not working
:arrow: 2) After using the camera somehow switching from Landscape mode to Portrait .

[tde]

great work man.

I don't have any issue, everything working perfectly.

I also have experienced that when starting CAMERA it will revert back to standard layout for the display, but that was the same with the original chinese ROM so that is not caused by your change.

keep up the good work man!

[sprint]

When I am trying to look Contacts .
Popin up Message with some thing about "Contacts low memory..."

[JaToAc]

u da man :) everything seems to work fine so far... an eng. WMPm10 would be great... thank you

[sprint]

Is anyone else having the same problem with contacts ?

[tde]

sprint

I don't have any issue with Contacts.

I can access them from the Contacts Button, from the Contact Icon in the phone dialer, and no issue, the list shows up with any "low memory" dialog.

[sprint]

:P F couple hard resets was helpful :!:

[Guys2]

Can anyone who has flashed to this try the blackberry app and get a pin?

Please see the blackberry thread.

Thanks
Guy

[jenellej]

Hi Guys!

Since this WM2003 SE upgrade will erase the contents of my XDA II, will my backup with SpriteBackup restore all my links/connection settings/programs/etc after flashing and application of the english patch? Or will it cause conflicts since some parts of the backup are from WM2003 and not WM2003 SE? Also, will the Widcom BT stack be restored from my backup or is WM2003 SE already using Widcom?

Thanks!

[mamaich]

Hi Guys!

Since this WM2003 SE upgrade will erase the contents of my XDA II, will my backup with SpriteBackup restore all my links/connection settings/programs/etc after flashing and application of the english patch? Or will it cause conflicts since some parts of the backup are from WM2003 and not WM2003 SE? Also, will the Widcom BT stack be restored from my backup or is WM2003 SE already using Widcom?

Thanks!
I think that restoring programs would cause problems with 2K3SE OS. Photo Contacts is not compatible with SE, some other programs also hang. And Widcomm stack should be reinstalled from scratch. WM2K3 SE contains an improved BT-stack that supports PAN, COM-port and headset.

[sprint]

From the last night I am using Battery Pack Pro .
It gave me no problem .

[wesleyrpg]

i cant seem to find xBackup, i can see the file fine when browsing the PDA through Windows Explorer, but when i use file explorer on the PDA, i can't find the windows directory?

is there a trick to it?

also i dont have a SD card at the moment, if i copy the backup file across using active sync, can xbackup use the file in the windows folder?

Many thanks

Adam

I've partially translated OS to English. Here are the screenshots:

To translate I've used an ugly hack. I've taken the english modules from XDA3 ROM, patched them, renamed to *.0409.mui and edited registry a little. This is not an optimal approach. These files can be made much smaller by removing the unnecessary code/data sections and keeping only the resources. I'll do that later.
I've uploaded my backup made with xBackup to http://mamaich.kasone.com/imate/CompactFlashBackUpNew.rar (9,477,907 bytes)
The translation is not finished. For example Camera and Album applications are still chinese, most of registry is still in chinese.

I've found 2 problems in 2K3 SE. Sometimes in bluetooth settings the "turn on bluetooth" checkbox clears or sets itself, and the default font size seems to be larger than in 1.72 ROM, so some windows look ugly.

To install this backup - extract archive to SD-card and run \windows\xBackup from File Explorer.

edited: now contacts are working and QKeys does not cause problems.

[buzz_lightyear]

Hi,

you have to move the backup file into /Storage folder (in case you don't have an SD card)
xBackup can be found in Start -> Programs

buzz

[wesleyrpg]

If xbackup is located under start, programs......ity's gotta be one of the chinese icons....which one is it? i reconize most, but for the life of me i cant figure out which one is xbackup!

Also the backup file is a little too big to fit into the storage directory.

many thanx

Adam

Hi,

you have to move the backup file into /Storage folder (in case you don't have an SD card)
xBackup can be found in Start -> Programs

buzz

[adesalis]

Just checked for you - the xbackup icon is like the Buttons icon in the Personal Settings menu (the orange mobile device icon), but it has two grey SD cards next to it. It should be the last one in Programs, unless you've got any other apps with an 'x' in them.

cheers,
Alex.

[TofClock]

the bug Contacts low memory ... it's fixed ??

I've translated le 2.20.007 to french .... and i've the same problem with Contact low memory ....

[AzN_devil]

hi im interested in helping you translate the rom to english...
i can read and write chinese fluently

but i dont know how to hack open the roms and edit the stuff so i cant do much...
if you want to see if i can help..add me on i_am_4167@hotmail.com to discuss

[TofClock]

I've fixed bugs with contacts application chrash and control panel items left in chinese and reuploaded archive. Has anyone successfully installed this backup on his device?
I'll translate Media Player to English when I'll get wmploc.dll and quartz.dll from any English device running Windows Media Player 10.
Still 3 DLLs (hwPenCE.dll, hwsetup.dll, mboxchs.dll, probably they deal with chinese input), registry (especially fonts settings), folders/file names and help files need to be translated.

Mamaich , can you tell me how you have fixed this bug ,???

I've edited the outres.dll.0409.mui and i've seen that's modified with peditor .... but what to modify ?? I've the same bug when translate it in french ....