Adding other T9 languages to your phone

[Guest de vetnek]

after puzzling around and grabbing bits 'n pieces here an there. I would like to share my gained knowledge.

In many cases (from what I noticed on the forum) people have difficulties adding T9 Language packs to their phone.

What do you need? and what extra steps you need to do?

-get the right language pack for your phone. possible sources can be found on the internet and here on modaco.

-copy the languagepack to your phone. preferably /windows directory but it can be any other location.

so far the easy part

First we have to tell the phone which languages are available

- Jump into your registry with regedit (or similar)

- Get your Local Id here (displayed in LCIDhex column) http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/referen...xp/xp-lcid.mspx

- Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\T9 input Method\MUI\Languages select values and then available. This value determines which languages can be chosen from in your t9 menu.

- In value data you can add you local ID (separated by comma)

- Press done

Now we link the t9 DLL file with the righ registrykey

- Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\T9 input Method\LDBs press values. Here you see the current local ID's installed.

- add a new string value. Value name should be your local ID no.

- Value Data should contain the right path and filename of your T9 dll file.

save all and restart your phone.

It should work now.

this has been tested on a Star100 with a cooked 6.1 Rom. I'd be glad to hear if it works on other phones or that it needs some mods for different phones. However I think in general it will be quite the same.

Edited September 15, 2008 by de vetnek