Hi,

Does anybody know how to read and write in Chinese on a BB 8100? Will the older version of OS/DM software work on 8100?

Any tips would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

undemi

It seems that there is still no multi-lingual version of DM 4.2 just yet. So is it okay to run version 4.1 on Pearl instead? Any gotcha's? I would hope to have the support of Chinese, Japanese, French and German. Thanks!

undemi

i think korean german and french work on the new update.

zenxacred,

thanks for your reply. however i got the new update from t-mobile website and could not find any languages other than US/UK English...

did i miss anything? I probably would give OS 4.1 a try later on...

undemi

BlackBerry Handheld Software v4.2.0.61 (Multilanguage) for 8100

https://www.blackberry.com/Downloads/browseSoftware.do

I will try it now

same question.
and the link you gave above doesn't work.

Ok, sorry, i posted a url after I signed in and part of it was chopped off, go to

https://www.blackberry.com/Downloads...C068A355BBA31A

instead......let me know if it works for you, since i just downloaded the software and still have not tried it yet

so ein pech

the new update only includes languages and input support of the following:

UK English
French
German
Italian
Spanish
Portugese (Brazilian)
Catalan
Dutch
Turkish

Input Support:

Portugese
Danish
Swedish
Afrikaans
Greek

Also supported are:

Semitic characters and fonts (normally includes Arabic, Hebrew, etc; not too sure though)
Korean characters and fonts

So I am only partially satisfied.......don't know how they picked up the list, really surprised to see Catalan support there, no offense, only because not too many people are using it anyway

Anybody having or knowing where to get the chinese.alx and japanese.alx?? (I never tried them before but would really like to have them!)

undemi

Well, nothing useful for me, guess I will keep waiting...

I tried to add the chinese.alx which comes with the StarHub BB7200 OS...it appeared that it was loading the Simplified and Traditional Chinese fonts and characters into the BB, (together around 1MB), however at the end, it DID NOT WORK, language list stayed the same (english, french, german)



undemi

At least I can read emails and websites in chinese now! Hooray!

Just need to figure out how to do the input though, since my (Language list/input option list) still does not show chinese. And I don't see any Localization menu, yucks!

Kevin, you must want to give it a try as well rather than waiting I will try to find the japanese.alx and add it..... i guess this is an endless game


undemi

Where can i find these language packages? Will Roger wireless download upgrade work on my t-mobile 8100?

The language packs are built into the OS. It your choice if you want to install them or not. The Rogers OS will work with your T Mobile 8100. You'll have to delete the vendor.xml file though.

How did you make the Chinese display work? I just want sim-chinese. I do not need input chinese.
Is there any screenshot?

"The language packs are built into the OS. It your choice if you want to install them or not. The Rogers OS will work with your T Mobile 8100. You'll have to delete the vendor.xml file though."

I am sorry but i am new at this, can you please guide me on how to delete this xml file from. I downloaded the roger install but it is one big binary.

thanks for the help.

I dowloaded the roger wireless update and installed it on my PC, and at the end, all it says that installation finished but it didnt push anything to my blackberry so i am not sure whether i need to initiate the update from manually, but it didn't seem to have installed the OS on the 8100. I checked the status on the 8100 and it still shows the initial version from T-Mobile.

PLUG. IN. YOUR. BLACKBERRY. TO. THE. COMP.

I've found a way to make Chinese display work. You just need to download these two files and load it with AppLoader. Pearl reboots after the update and comes back in 5 minutes.

(Edit: Can't post links yet. Just remove the "REMOVEME" part in the URLs.)

1. net_rim_font_chinese.alx
wREMOVEMEww.hipalm.com/attachment.php?aid=16527

2. net_rim_font_chinese.cod
wREMOVEMEww.hipalm.com/attachment.php?aid=16526

Enjoy!

Pinchao

THX FOR YOUR HELPFUL TIP!!!!

needed to remove the vendor.xml and then it would do the update.

Got it, works great! Thank you very much.

I have followed the direction to install the chinese font into my 8100. However, when I sent a testing email to myself, I can only see partial Chinese characters. Just curious, the font is for simplified chinese or traditional chinese?

Thanks.

The font is for Simplified Chinese only.

OK, I tried to download the ROM for 7290g from

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After extract the downloaded file, goto

C:\Program Files\Common Files\Research In Motion\AppLoader\<ROM Folder>\java

Dig out the file net_rim_font_chinese_hong_kong.cod and create a file net_rim_font_chinese_hong_kong.alx.

You can also come to this site to download the files.

iceycake.blogspot.com/2006/10/viewing-chinese-with-t-mobiles-rim.html

Use the Application Loader to load in net_rim_font_chinese_hong_kong.alx and here you will have the traditional chinese font in the BlackBerry 8100

That's awesome! Thank you for your tips!

I've not been here for a few days...wow...

Basically I think I made myself clear that what I did was grabbing the chinese.alx which includes the .cod files for both simplified and traditional chinese...(it is highly advised to install both fonts, otherwise you might have partial display issues)

I got my chinese.alx from the StarHub OS for other blackberry models (also older OS version, i only installed the chinese.alx on top of my 4.2 Rogers OS), however Chinese display worked on both emails/web sites though the Languages list did not show chinese, only English/french/german...

The only thing is still I could not write in Chinese.

Did anybody succeed in being able to input Chinese on BB 8100 yet?

undemi

Hi there,

I am new to the group. After reading all the posts, I am excited about the ability to read simplified Chinese from my 8100. However, I am also confused with the seemingly conflicting posts.

I'd highly appreciate if someone could summarize what one needs to do to get a 8100 to read Simplified Chinese?

You can follow the instructions in my post above (#18). You can also download the files from iceycake's site. (post #23).

I did quite a bit research in the past few days but wasn't able to find a way to make it work. How long does it normally take for RIM to release a multi-language OS that includes full Chinese/Japanese/Korean support after the product has been shipped? Does anyone have any empirical data?

The BlackBerry OS is built by multiple modules. I'm sure the Chinese input methods are just one of the modules. Anyway, the 8100 is my first BlackBerry and I'm experimenting the device with the JDE/emulator. Once I have any more clue, I will post here (unless RIM releases the CJK version of 4.2 ROM).

Chinese will not be included in the Multilanguage releases, so don't expect to see it until one of the Asian carriers releases the 8100. It will specifically state 'Chinese' in the release.

Japanese input is not available, nor will it be for another 6-9 months. I believe Simplified Chinese is the only Mandarin input available. Korean input is available, I believe.

after all, they do not look like really big files...maybe we could do some modifications ourselves to make it compatible with the new Rogers 4.2 OS??

chinese is not included in the multi-lang release, i guess it mainly is because in china or in Asia, there're not too many BB users, otherwise chinese support would be vital in the success of BB....

japanese people do not seem to like blackberry too much, however what the heck..

yeah, that would be great if someone can figure out a way to make the Chinese input work with the 4.2 OS.

Jibi, thanks for sharing the information. Any chance we can get a pre-released version of the Chinese module for pearl?

heh. i honestly don't have it. if i receive something before it's released to the public, then i'll be happy to share, though. give it about 1-2 months, though. something should be available from the asian carriers at that point, i would think.

jibi, you are the man! Have you got your 8100 yet?

pinchao,

Since I am mainly interested in simplified Chinese, so I suppose post #23 is out of the question?

As to your post of #18, I am not able to download the files you mentioned from the web pages provided after 'REMOVE' is removed. In fact I was getting message like "附件文件不存在或无法读入，请与管理员联系". Any suggestion?

Bo

I guess the links I posted don't work anymore.

You can go to iceycake's site to download both simplified Chinese and traditional Chinese fonts. Thanks Iceycake for hosting the files.


iceycake.blogspot.com/2006/10/viewing-chinese-with-t-mobiles-rim.html

Yep. Boy Genius sent me one this past Friday and I received it late Saturday.

Congras! Enjoy the pearl.

Man, I gotta say, I just love the chinese display, Thanks again.