Fully Arabized HTC Hero Completed (Thanks Ayman)

n646464 · Jan 23, 2010

Hello All,

It looks like Ayman at Ce4arabs.com and owner of http://code.google.com/p/arabicandroid/ has did it i have finally with me a fully arabized Hero. The OS is in English put Arabic is supported everywhere, I have checked the following software and i can confirm it works in:

Native SMS Client
Facebook app
web Browser

Warning:
Please do a nandroid backup before you attempt anything.
Nobody is responsible if you brick or damage your phone

Please contribute to this cause and approach Ayman for contribution/credits/thanks I am only a messenger.

Ok this is how it is accomplished.

Wipe Phone and Flash CKdroid 1.5 ROM (Kagu should also work but not tested maybe some one can confirm)
After Flashing the ROM proceed to the download page in Ayman Project ( http://code.google.com/p/arabicandroid/ ) and click downloads.
Download " update_ar2_n1_corrSkia.zip " and flash it

You guys can also use morelocale 2 (in the market to change the region to Arabic) and anysfotkeyboard to type Arabic.

That’s it. I will be happy to help if you guys need it Please provide feedback to help other members & Ayman out.

awsy44 · Jan 23, 2010

This is excellent!, I'm going to give it a try with kagudroid 1.1 and feedback!

HishamN · Jan 23, 2010

Yes it's great work from Ayman, we need to support from xda-developers dev to add this Arabize to their ROMs like Mr. Adwin.

Regards

ioluas · Jan 23, 2010

Just to confirm, I'm run KaguDroid and I've used libwebcore for the browser for a few days and installed the full pack 5 minutes after I got his tweet and it works flawlessly.

In fact, this is the only reason I upgraded to KaguDroid. It didn't work for me on 1.5.

Many thanks to Ayman Alsanad for his great work. I'll be sure to drop him a donation, it's well earned

MaXo64 · Jan 23, 2010

Awesome!!
I tried extracting the libraries from his previous ROM and put it in Espresso/Hybrid and signed it .. didn't work !!
I think SenseUI (even Espresso's SenseUI) needs HTC modified libraries !!

Anyway, I'll try making a SenseUI ROM with these libraries.. or with Launcher2

but let me finish finals first :S

the guitarist · Jan 23, 2010

MaXo64 said:
Awesome!!
I tried extracting the libraries from his previous ROM and put it in Espresso/Hybrid and signed it .. didn't work !!
I think SenseUI (even Espresso's SenseUI) needs HTC modified libraries !!

Anyway, I'll try making a SenseUI ROM with these libraries.. or with Launcher2
but let me finish finals first :S

MAXO

.. glad to see you here .. i really hate the fact that we can only use the arabizer with vanilla android .. i mean honestly .. SENSE UI rocks .. it's a candy to the eye + can't live with out the people and the messages widgets .. anyway, hopefully they can find a way to apply the arabizer to modaco .. atleast then we'll have a stable , sense UI rom to use

awsy44 · Jan 24, 2010

the guitarist said:
MAXO .. glad to see you here .. i really hate the fact that we can only use the arabizer with vanilla android .. i mean honestly .. SENSE UI rocks .. it's a candy to the eye + can't live with out the people and the messages widgets .. anyway, hopefully they can find a way to apply the arabizer to modaco .. atleast then we'll have a stable , sense UI rom to use

I'm going to give the New ROM VILLAIN a try and see if the arabizer works on it, that should fix the problem since its sense UI with 2.1!

HishamN · Jan 24, 2010

awsy44 said:
I'm going to give the New ROM VILLAIN a try and see if the arabizer works on it, that should fix the problem since its sense UI with 2.1!

I tried it with all 2.1 ROMs with HTC sense with no succeed

I can confirm that SMS Arabize work on these ROMs but any Internet apps (web browser, Steal, Market and GMail) FC!

I can live with Arabize SMS only, but I could not solve the libwebcore.so?!

Hope some devs help us with that.

Regards

ermacwins · Jan 24, 2010

Yesssssssssssssssss
guys post a screenshot if the arabic font displaying on your phone please

the guitarist · Jan 24, 2010

ermacwins said:
Yesssssssssssssssss
guys post a screenshot if the arabic font displaying on your phone please

it works with any rom without SENSE UI for sure, try kugudroid, CKDroid or any other non sense UI rom ...

if u need screenshots check the Ce4arab the android section ..

Ahmadmz3 · Jan 24, 2010

Many thanks to Ayman for his heroic work , I would like to try it , but I really love sense UI and I don't want to give it up .

ermacwins · Jan 25, 2010

Are there anymore updates coming or is this final? Arabic texts are not fully connected but better than nothing

n646464 · Jan 26, 2010

HTC Sense UI with arabic support

OK quick update,

I have started a small project to enable Arabic on sense UI. Yes that means that you can use madaco ROMs also as well as original ROMs. Cool huh. So far i am collecting source and editing them going well but slow.

I am also changing the HTC keyboard to type Arabic (this can take a While).

I did also notice some problems we reading Arabic with English numbers and that the Arabic text is always left aligned (actually i believe that this is the problem) so i will have a look on this also.

I hope can post back soon.

HishamN · Jan 26, 2010

n646464 said:
OK quick update,

I have started a small project to enable Arabic on sense UI. Yes that means that you can use madaco ROMs also as well as original ROMs. Cool huh. So far i am collecting source and editing them going well but slow.

I am also changing the HTC keyboard to type Arabic (this can take a While).

I did also notice some problems we reading Arabic with English numbers and that the Arabic text is always left aligned (actually i believe that this is the problem) so i will have a look on this also.

I hope can post back soon.

You work is appreciated.

I can't wait for beta.

MaXo64 · Jan 26, 2010

n646464 said:
OK quick update,

I have started a small project to enable Arabic on sense UI. Yes that means that you can use madaco ROMs also as well as original ROMs. Cool huh. So far i am collecting source and editing them going well but slow.

I am also changing the HTC keyboard to type Arabic (this can take a While).

I did also notice some problems we reading Arabic with English numbers and that the Arabic text is always left aligned (actually i believe that this is the problem) so i will have a look on this also.

I hope can post back soon.

I'm working on that too.. if you want, we can collaborate

anyway, yesterday I added Ayman's libraries with "Villain 1.1" and signed it..
it booted, and it reads Arabic fine .. but the Browser, and Market FC !!
I guess HTC modified the LibWebCore, not just the Browser..
I tweeted Lox today asking if HTC released their libraries source code so I can compile the "HTC version" of LibWebcore (redo Ayman's work) .. but he didn't respond yet

anyway, since it's Final exams period, I'll focus on them first..
after that I'll try to solve the browser and Market issue

HishamN · Jan 26, 2010

MaXo64 said:
I'm working on that too.. if you want, we can collaborate
anyway, yesterday I added Ayman's libraries with "Villain 1.1" and signed it..
it booted, and it reads Arabic fine .. but the Browser, and Market FC !!
I guess HTC modified the LibWebCore, not just the Browser..
I tweeted Lox today asking if HTC released their libraries source code so I can compile the "HTC version" of LibWebcore (redo Ayman's work) .. but he didn't respond yet

anyway, since it's Final exams period, I'll focus on them first..
after that I'll try to solve the browser and Market issue

Do you know what is must weird thing, it's if you upload all Ayman libs to ROM with HTC sense the phone is work but as you faced any web apps FC and if you pushed libwebcore.so from original ROM and leave libskiagl.so and libskia.so the phone will not start at all! it will hang at Hero logo!

So I don't know if these libs are connected together somehow or not?!

I did a lot of research and I couldn't find an answer.

Can we share our experience on this problem?

Regards

HishamN · Jan 26, 2010

One more thing, try the Arabizer with any 2.1 ROM like Vanilla and Hikara because I found 1.5 ROM doesn't have libskia.so and 2.1 ROM does.

Regards

MaXo64 · Jan 26, 2010

HishamN said:
Do you know what is must weird thing, it's if you upload all Ayman libs to ROM with HTC sense the phone is work but as you faced any web apps FC and if you pushed libwebcore.so from original ROM and leave libskiagl.so and libskia.so the phone will not start at all! it will hang at Hero logo!

So I don't know if these libs are connected together somehow or not?!

I did a lot of research and I couldn't find an answer.

Can we share our experience on this problem?

Regards

I'm with you on this !!
we want an open knowledge and communication, not like other Arabic projects

I'll post any information I found regarding this ROM. and I hope all here will do the same.
and all my future ROMs and work will be Open Source and free (GPL). and if we collaborate on a ROM we must publish it as "XDA arabic community" or something like that

anyway, for now I have to finish some projects to start studying for Finals.
so see ya in two weeks

.. wish me luck

HishamN · Jan 27, 2010

OK I'll start:

Android 1.5 with HTC Sense (Modaco 3.1):

with libwebcore.so:

- Phone hang at Hero logo and it wouldn't boot at all.

with libskia.so:

- Nothing happen, because libskia.so is not included in Android 1.5

Android 2.1 with HTC Sense (Hik@ria 9.5):

with libwebcore.so:

- Phone hang at Hero logo and it wouldn't boot at all.

with libskia.so:

- Phone hang at Hero logo and it wouldn't boot at all.

with libwebcore.so and libskia.so:

- Phone boot with no problem, Messaging read Arabic very well BUT any web apps like Browser, Market and Gmail FC!

-----

I googled several times to find any HTC Sense source code or it's structure but no luck

.

So in my opinion we have to choose one of following Ways:

Way one:

- To find HTC sense source code to know why compiled libs not working.

Way two:

- Try to solve the FC apps.

Thanks

by the way MaXo64. good luck with your finals.

Regards

awsy44 · Jan 27, 2010

HishamN said:
OK I'll start:

Android 1.5 with HTC Sense (Modaco 3.1):

with libwebcore.so:

- Phone hang at Hero logo and it wouldn't boot at all.

with libskia.so:

- Nothing happen, because libskia.so is not included in Android 1.5

Android 2.1 with HTC Sense (Hik@ria 9.5):

with libwebcore.so:

- Phone hang at Hero logo and it wouldn't boot at all.

with libskia.so:

- Phone hang at Hero logo and it wouldn't boot at all.

with libwebcore.so and libskia.so:

- Phone boot with no problem, Messaging read Arabic very well BUT any web apps like Browser, Market and Gmail FC!

-----

I googled several times to find any HTC Sense source code or it's structure but no luck .

So in my opinion we have to choose one of following Ways:

Way one:

- To find HTC sense source code to know why compiled libs not working.

Way two:

- Try to solve the FC apps.

Thanks

by the way MaXo64. good luck with your finals.

Regards

Excellent work HishamN, your work saved us alot of flashing

, I think trying to sort out the FC's should be much easier than actually trying to fix or modify the htc coding.

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