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GPS disabled :(

Hello every body
i just bought a cruise one month ago, but with a disabled GPS feature because it's not allowed in my country (grrrrrr) and i'm asking if i could enable it with changie the registry with out change the standard ROM to keep the warranty ?????? please help
thank you

Let me guess, Egypt? Or some other ME/NA country?
I am not aware of any other way except for flashing a different ROM. You could try searching the forum to see if there's an alternative method, but changing the ROM is your best bet.

What's the theory behind not letting people use GPS?

A.Habib said:
Hello every body
i just bought a cruise one month ago, but with a disabled GPS feature because it's not allowed in my country (grrrrrr) and i'm asking if i could enable it with changie the registry with out change the standard ROM to keep the warranty ?????? please help
thank you
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I think if you put on a standard WWE rom. Warranty should be fine not so sure though.

Same problem here (yes Egypt)
The problem is If I use a new rom I'm afraid I'll lose the ability of writing Arabic in SMS Which is very important to me. Does any one know of a rom that will use English and Arabic with an open GPS.. Is the version used in the Gulf area ok?
NB: I need my menus and Mobile in English not Arabic. I only need Arabic in writing some notes and in SMS

There are many threads on the forum about Arabizer software. Mobidiv or something. Haven't tried it but many ppl have deployed it on WWE ROMs successfully. Meaning you will have English ROM with menus and everything, but will have the capability to read and write in Arabic. Here's a linke to one such thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=400758

T*Omnia English Translation of menus and Dialogs from Korean..How??

Hello all
A friend of mine is living in Korea will bring me his new T-Omnia next week. The ROM that comes with it is in Korean and he has some trouble navigating though it as everything is in Korean. I tried to find a WWE ROM for the T*Omnia but got nothing.
Question: is there an easy way to translate the menus and dialogs to English.

It won't be that easy. The T*Omnia is sold only in Korea, so no WWE ROM's exist for it. There are software solutions that can translate the menus in russian or bulgarian but I don't think something similar exists for english as it is the default language if WinMobile If course you can try to hack some other translation of WinMobile (bulgarian for example) and apply it to the T*Omnia but there are still 2 issues:
1. No guarantee that such a solution will work with korean ROM. It's intendet to localize WWE ROM's. On the other hand a friend of mine localized a NL Diamond ROM successfully, so it may be worth a shot
2. The T*Omnia has a (still) non-standart resolution. Just look at the HD compatibility list for problematic apps So this is also a possible issue.
Anyway. Here is the link to such a localization program. It supports a number of languages, so it may be of some help to you.
http://sunnysoft.com/software.php?idarticle=146

you could always cook us an english rom- i would love a T*Omnia running english!!!

none of the software in the link seem to have the ability to localize to english
i guess having the ability to simply have the main menus in english is "good enough" untill Samsung releases a WWE version of the rom. if someone can help with that, that would be great.

anybody can help with this?

I second this - I have a sch-m490 could anyone cook an english rom.

Same here, need that rom badly. Anyone please?

BUMP please help with this. Im in korea and i really cant use my phone right now. I couldnt enjoy my omnia. Please please help.

Please guys im so desperate here. Anyone please.

Original Dutch Vodafone ROM?

Hi there,
I have been stupid enough to start messing around with my Dutch HTC Magic, from Vodafone, without making a backup first. I bricked it but was able to get it going again, thanks to a link on this forum. I have loaded an original English HTC ROM.
Though both the camera app and the keyboard app are way better than those originally loaded on the phone, I am beginning to be really p.... off with having the dutch words I type be changed into english words and missing the speed benefit of the previous dutch predictive spell check.
Therefore I'd like to install the original Dutch ROM again.
Can anybody here direct me to somewhere where I can get my hands on the original Dutch Vodafone ROM?
Thanks in advance
Jan

Multilingual ROM

Hi all!
A lot of users want to use several input languages in their devices. Why not cooking a really multi-language ROM supporting UIs in different languages and multiple keyboard layouts? It is possible as some devices (e.g. Samsung OmniaPro) are delivered with a ROM supporting UI and HW/SW keyboard resources in several languages which every user can switch. I've also read about such custom ROMs for HTC Touch. Additionaly, in ROMs for non-latin languages (like Russian, Chinese) user can switch between latin and national keyboard layout by pressing the SYM button, and there are solutions like AEKMap.
What is to be done to create a ML ROM work, is to integrate
1) *.mui system files for several languages
2) an app (basically a registry updater) where user can activate a particular UI language and which keyboard layouts (one, or two, or maybe three?) have to be switched by pressing the SYM button.
My personal use case is as follows: I own a HTC P4350 with standard German ROM (6.0) and QWERTZ layout and need two things: 1) the additional Russian input for the hardware keyboard and 2) Russian UI. The only way now is flashing a Russian ROM - which will alas change QWERTZ (Ger) to QWERTY (Eng) and then using a tweak to set the layout back to QWERTY (yes, I've read those threads).
I've experimented a little bit without flashing, just by copying *.0419.mui files to the device (0419 for RU) and editing the registry like advised in http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=366756. However there is obviously more to be changed or added than I could discover. The best method to catch all the differencies is probably to compare two registries of same ROM version but in different languages, or to check solutions for other devices.
What do you think? Can someone try to cook a ML ROM? No matter WM 6.0, 6.1 or 6.5.

You see the main problem in doing that is the conflicts that would occur in creating a ml ROM.
But what we can do is install apps like FingerKeyboard with ml support and doing as you're doing.
But the conflicts I am talking about may render your device useless.

Tribulattifather, thanks for your point.
1. Why should there be conflicts with P4350 if there are apparently none with other devices? Which conflicts for example?
2. FingerKeyboard is for the screen keyboard, but I'm talking about the hardware keyboard.
Look at this:
msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa911786.aspx
msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa913008.aspx

I apologize, I forgot to mention the problems in my last post. You see, I have actually tried to adopt a similar theory. The problems that I faced where in the process of cooking the ROM. The ROM would not boot. And when I finally got 1 ROM that was a German/WWE combo, the device would constantly shut down because the device was trying to call to an operation expecting one thing and getting another.
But maybe we can figure something out from an already cooked ROM in WWE. I will experiment and let you know what I find out.

Tribulattifather, what you describe sounds more like a kitchen problem, because, as I've already mentionned, there are official multilingual WM ROMs. I have another mobile device, a Samsung OmniaPro P7330, which runs under official WM6.5 with a ROM supporting English US, English UK, German, Italian, French and Spanish UIs. There is a menu item in Regional Settings for switching the UI, it requires a soft reset, and voila, after the reboot everything is in another language (but not the keyboard layout).
On the other hand, official ROMs for non-latin languages like Russian support two input methods, one for Russian and one for English.
It would be great to figure out how it works. Can a look into registry dumps from a Herald with Russian firmware and from my multilingual-UI'ed smartphone help you?

Middle East issues

Ok, so I am still a newbie, and not yet allowed to ask questions in developers threads.
Well, I am left with no choice but to address the topic as a whole, not specifically to a special ROM.
The issue we have in the Middle East is the lack of Arabic support in many custom ROMs. I have been observing this issue for a long while, and ROMs with Arabic support come up way too long after the original ones appear. This means that we are either forced to stick to the stock ROM provided by manufacturer, or always agree to use an older version.
Sticking to original ROMs is a pain as you must know. I for instance have been having trouble with HTC ROMs forever. First, I got the Desire, when it was the number 1 in the world. HTC stuck me with an Islamic app that wouldn't be turned off, and that drew my battery (and my patience) out. Then came the sensation, in which HTC stuck me with their own car dock app with locations that I cannot change. The problem is that it runs locations in the background, which heats up the device. I also do not want to use GPS all the time. I ended up waiting for it to launch, then existing directly. Pretty convenient ha?
And yet, when I turn to custom ROMs, I am most of the time forced to try the ROM so I know whether or not it supports Arabic.
Would you developers pleaaaase list right to left languages support in the ROM specifications when releasing a new ROM? Please?

I agree with you, the pre-installed islamic apps are useless and don't function properly thus wasting space and battery and custom ROMs not supporting arabic lang. forces us to stick with the stock ROMs
There is a paid app in the store which installs several arabic fonts, I forgot the name of the app but the price is around 6 dollars and requires root.

Android 4 ( ICS ) Supports Arabic and rtl languages by default, so all the new roms based on it will be able to view Arabic texts correctly.
Additionally there are some patches that can be installed on gingerbread and froyo to add Arabic support, but I haven't tested any of them.
And I totally agree with you about the Islamic apps, they are useless and take a lot of space, I rooted my phone just to delete them.

I know how that feels man, thanks for the awesome dev community ive been using CM7 for the past 6months(it supports Arabic language). And Ive flashed CM9 ICS on my SGS 3 weeks ago and its awesome .. as they mentioned, ICS has native arabic support.