Help changing Herald language

[auricle]

Hi,

I've just bought my wife a Herald (P4350) here in Moscow. It comes with Windows Mobile 5 in Russian and we really need to change it to English. I've been referred here as the best place for help on how to do this but looking around this forum there is a huge variety of information that is quite confusing for the noob (which I am for this type of thing!)

Can anyone tell me how to change the ROM? I don't know if it's cid locked or anything else! You'll need to tell me how I can check, if you don't mind. It's just branded as HTC. I don't mind if the ROM is WMM 5 or 6 as long as it's in English.

Thanks! :)

[ivanmmj]

Upgrade your phone with the official WM6 HTC ROM. Then if it's still not in english, use any of our custom ROMs as they're almost all in English.

IF you decide to HardSPL, please take note of the SPL version you have or you will brick your device.

[auricle]

Upgrade your phone with the official WM6 HTC ROM. Then if it's still not in english, use any of our custom ROMs as they're almost all in English.

IF you decide to HardSPL, please take note of the SPL version you have or you will brick your device.

Thanks for the advice ivanmmj. The official update is in Russian as this is the only option it gives to download. Can you please tell me what HardSPL means? I notice other people mentioning it but I don't know what it means.

[edit] It seems that HardSPL is something that provides a more foolproof way of changing ROMS. As I am a complete newbie at this, I am worried of trying something that will render my wife's phone useless! She needs it for work.

Is it possible to upgrade my ROM to the official English WM6 ROM found in the Herald WIKI of this site? Will I have to unlock the CID?

[The Dutchman]

You cannot use the official WM6 update to get it in English,
you will get a Invalid Vendor ID error, You should flash the official
WM6 RUssian first, then download USPL.
Now Download the desired ROM (pick one you like there are enough)

And always read instructions!!

USPL (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=A4N36HLO)
RUU Russian (http://rapidshare.com/files/49308856/HTC_P4350_RUS_4.17.411.2_4.1.13.44_02.94.90_Ship.e xe)

Read the Instructions in the USPL folder,
Put the downloaded ROM in .nbh format in the RUU folder.

If you have questions please post before just trying,
you don't want a Brick like many of us (including me) have owned:)

[The Dutchman]

Is it possible to upgrade my ROM to the official English WM6 ROM found in the Herald WIKI of this site? Will I have to unlock the CID?

No you can't, Invalid Vendor ID error will occur.
If you really want Hrd-SPL,
Upgrade to WM6 Russian first, Hard-SPL needs an SPL higher than4.xx
You can try Hard-SPL indeed, but flash official WM6 first(!!!)

Hard-SPL (http://rapidshare.de/files/38148213/HardSpl_WM6.rar.html)

*Upload by papamopps

[auricle]

Thanks very much for the info Dutchman! It's becoming clearer.

Where can I find information about each ROM and what they contain? There isn't a WIKI page for them yet.

[papamopps]

Thanks very much for the info Dutchman! It's becoming clearer.

Where can I find information about each ROM and what they contain? There isn't a WIKI page for them yet.

http://rapidshare.com/users/5EWZ4

every official rom....

[ivanmmj]

Upgrade to the russian WM6 first, before HardSPLing and verify that you have the correct SPL version before you start.

[auricle]

Thank you all kindly for your help. I'll let you know how I get on.