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Wiki/fully covered guide needed for magic

I think that this forum is a total mess with different recoveryfiles and troubles. We need someone with the knowledge to create a guide/wiki/information page which covers the different recovery files, what's needed for what etc.
Myself I am on a Vodafone with the latest updated original software. Can I backup EVERYTHING (including my recovery) before I start playing with the phone? A lot of ppl seems to be having troubles and I don't want to move into something potentially non working without being able to revert back to original. Or perhaps the recovery image that I have already is available? And then I can just flash with X (what recovery is recommended now) and install for example ION.
I'm not without computer knowledge but this forum is in such a mess that I'm not even sure what's happening

after flashing almost all ROMs from this forum i decided to stick with smartphone france firmware (http://wiki.smartphonefrance.info/firmware-htcmagic.ashx, recovery included). it loads fast, include all recent ota updates, and maintained. You can back up your current phone firmware + data by booting custom recovery image and using nandroid backup and later go back to that backed up state if you wish.

w3rw01f said:
after flashing almost all ROMs from this forum i decided to stick with smartphone france firmware (http://wiki.smartphonefrance.info/firmware-htcmagic.ashx, recovery included). it loads fast, include all recent ota updates, and maintained. You can back up your current phone firmware + data by booting custom recovery image and using nandroid backup and later go back to that backed up state if you wish.
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This my firmware thanks a lot for your support

@spfrance
didn't get any of a word from this wiki, but i'm using your roms and i'm totally satisfied. Thanks for that!
Dirk

Does this ROM come with English UK language and UK APN's?
Is the wiki available in English?
Cheers

LadFromWales85 said:
Does this ROM come with English UK language and UK APN's?
Is the wiki available in English?
Cheers
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This firmware come with English Langage
I don't include UK APN because i don't know them.
And the Wiki is only available in french ... the only one langage i can read and write easyly

come on. use translate.google.com

In that case, in a nutshell, how does it differ from the standard Google/Vodafone ROM? App variations/addions etc?
Is it possible to restore my texts/mms?
Cheers for any info!

As far as i can see, PDF Viewer, ANetShare is included.
I'm using MyBackup for backup and restore all my links Sms, MMS ... quit good.
I like it a lot and it seems to me that is running smooth and fast enought, just give it a try.
Cheers,
Dirk

May do just that, cheers for the info, diRm!

Web page in french : http://wiki.smartphonefrance.info/firmware-htcmagic.ashx
Ameliorations :
- Use JF Kernel for network functionalities
- Add Bluetooth PAN for use as Bluetooth MODEM
- Based on CRB43 Firmware
- Add somes utilities (aNetShare, PDFView, SuperUser Permission, ...)
- Rooted Boot
- Increase Volume
- MultiTouch Browser
- ...

Isn't it better to base the software on I.O.N instead? Since it obviously is faster than CRB43.

@spfrance,
which locale has your ROM integrated? I need german

Puky70 said:
@spfrance,
which locale has your ROM integrated? I need german
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german and all other languages from original vodafone rom are included there

This firmware support there folowing langages :
- German
- English
- Spanish
- French
- Italian
- Dutch
I have only test french an English Langage ... the only langages i can understand

cruzzade said:
Isn't it better to base the software on I.O.N instead? Since it obviously is faster than CRB43.
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yes same question?????

So far my phone only likes the default Vodafone ROM and the Ion ROM.
Tried Haykuro's 6.0 and no this Smartphone France firmware, both leave my phone stuck at splash1 indefinately.
My magic is rooted and I can access the restore utility by holding home and power. Any idea why this could be?

Have you tried WIPE before update???

Yes, I wiped before updating. I have also tried wiping after updating..
I have now wiped again and restored to the Ion ROM, phone boots fine.

ION work good on mine to,just the in-call audio problem!!!
is this Magic_13 faster or slover then ION?can anyone say?
I did extract the PDF VIEWER apk from the app folder in the magic_13 zip file,installed to my running ION and the app dont work,damed

Adding language in HTC keyboard?

Hello to everyone.
Please forgive me if you think that I'm not posting in the correct forum, but I think that posting in the general Sapphire forum would be more irrelevant.
I'm using Cyanogen's 4.0.4 ROM and I'm totally satisfied with it. I think he (with the help of many others) has done a great job, keep up the good work guys!
My only problem (and believe me it's a big problem for me) is that the HTC keyboard supports only the english language. I have tried many ROMs and some of them had other language support, but unfortunatelly I had others problems and had to drop them. So here I am with Cyanogen's ROM which I would be totally satisfied with, if I could use the HTC keyboard with my native language (Greek for my case).
I have tried everything, uninstalling and reinstalling HTC_IME.apk, HTC_IME.odex and libt9.so from JACxHERO's ROM that works with my language, with no success at all.
I assume that a lot of people like the HTC keyboard like me and would like to use it with their native language. So, if there is a solution and anyone knows it, I would really appreciate it to know.
Thank you in advance and again, keep up the good work!!!

I'm interested on the same issue. That's the only reason I keep using Hero ROMs.

I'm interested to...
Is there a way to add spanish language and T9 languages to the magics??? Like spanish for example?

This is the exact same reason why I'm still looking for an OS for my G2. Tons of kudos to whoever can tell us some about this.

+1 for me.

instead of installing other languages i wanna remove the damned chinese language in my htc magic..please help!!

you can try the following
I'm no expert guys but here is the command that activates Russian language in HTC.ime. It worked fine for me and English stays as a second language for the keyboard.
cd to the Tools folder within SDK and run the following command:
Code:
adb shell "echo ru > /data/property/persist.sys.language"
[code]
Then reboot the device.
Obviously you need to replace "ru" in above code by your respective language short name. Like "gr" would stand for Greek language I would imagine.

rubbish: thanks for your suggestion... but it doesn't work for me as far as HTC Keyboard (HTC_IME.apk) is concerned. I have French Canadian set on my device (i.e. fr set in persist.sys.language and CA set in persist.sys.country) and still, only English appears in the HTC Keyboard configuration panel.
I took a look at this page on the Android localisation topic, but find nothing really helpful to solve the problem with HTC Keyboard: http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers/web/localizing-android-apps-draft?version=10
As far as I know, HTC_IME.apk was intended to be used on Hero only, not on Magic. Having used Hero ROM for a couple of weeks' I can confirm that you can select any available languages for use with the HTC keyboard. So is there anything else missing (apart from libt9.so) from the Hero system stack in order to have the complete languages list on Magic?

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so no news =( ???

All right, let's try the following method although it's going to be trial and error, you'll see why. It will only work for HTC-based firmware I think (Hero ROMs should be OK). I'm on the different firmware at the moment (SPFrance) and it worked fine adding Russian as 2nd language to the HTC keyboard. The method described in my previous post was really for the system locale (although it was adding 2nd keyboard input as well just fine).
You'll need to pull a system file called "com.htc.android.htcime_preferences.xml" from the device. To do that enter the following command from within tools folder of your SDK folder:
Code:
adb pull /data/data/com.htc.android.htcime/shared_prefs/com.htc.android.htcime_preferences.xml com.htc.android.htcime_preferences.xml
[code]
This is one command, just copy and paste it. You should get the above mentioned file copied to your Tools folder. Then you need to edit it with Notepad. Now comes trial and error method. To add Russian you need to do the following:
Change: <string name="keyboard_language">0</string>
for: <string name="keyboard_language">6</string>
So it's a simple change of 1 figure (0 -> 6). The thing is I don't know (and couldn't find info) what figures are relevant for other languages. But there's no risk in trying, you can always push the original .xml file back to device. Try from 1 to 9 (missing 6 obviously unless you want Russian) and see how it turns out.
To push file back to device:
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adb push com.htc.android.htcime_preferences.xml /data/data/com.htc.android.htcime/shared_prefs/com.htc.android.htcime_preferences.xml
[code]
This is again a single command. Reboot the device afterwards.
Good luck!

:No-Frost: said:
I'm interested to...
Is there a way to add spanish language and T9 languages to the magics??? Like spanish for example?
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For spanish i could recommend an application called Better Keyboard, it is available though the market... it comes with english and spanish support... also has a language pack with some languages i don't remember ...

Great great tip Rubbish!!! I tried number 5 and I guessed portuguese right on first try! I was looking for this for months and couldn't find it anywhere.
Thanks again! You didn't save my life but will save me a lot of time typing

@rubbish You made my day!

Does this method works on Cyanogen's? Can anyone confirm it? I'm on a Hero ROM.
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rubbish said:
All right, let's try the following method although it's going to be trial and error, you'll see why. It will only work for HTC-based firmware I think (Hero ROMs should be OK). I'm on the different firmware at the moment (SPFrance) and it worked fine adding Russian as 2nd language to the HTC keyboard. The method described in my previous post was really for the system locale (although it was adding 2nd keyboard input as well just fine).
You'll need to pull a system file called "com.htc.android.htcime_preferences.xml" from the device. To do that enter the following command from within tools folder of your SDK folder:
Code:
adb pull /data/data/com.htc.android.htcime/shared_prefs/com.htc.android.htcime_preferences.xml com.htc.android.htcime_preferences.xml
[code]
This is one command, just copy and paste it. You should get the above mentioned file copied to your Tools folder. Then you need to edit it with Notepad. Now comes trial and error method. To add Russian you need to do the following:
Change: <string name="keyboard_language">0</string>
for: <string name="keyboard_language">6</string>
So it's a simple change of 1 figure (0 -> 6). The thing is I don't know (and couldn't find info) what figures are relevant for other languages. But there's no risk in trying, you can always push the original .xml file back to device. Try from 1 to 9 (missing 6 obviously unless you want Russian) and see how it turns out.
To push file back to device:
[code]
adb push com.htc.android.htcime_preferences.xml /data/data/com.htc.android.htcime/shared_prefs/com.htc.android.htcime_preferences.xml
[code]
This is again a single command. Reboot the device afterwards.
Good luck![/QUOTE]
Ok, now mmm What I don't know if with this we will get the predictive dictionary in our language... I mean, in my case, spanish dictionary...
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:No-Frost: said:
Ok, now mmm What I don't know if with this we will get the predictive dictionary in our language... I mean, in my case, spanish dictionary...
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Yes, you should get it. I got Russian predictive and there's no reason for Spanish to work differently.
To all. If you succeeded with above method please post what number worked for your language. For now we know that 6 adds Russian and 5 - Portuguese.

nop56773 said:
Great great tip Rubbish!!! I tried number 5 and I guessed portuguese right on first try!
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You must be a lucky person to get it on first try nop56773! I'm glad it worked for you.

rquattro said:
Does this method works on Cyanogen's? Can anyone confirm it? I'm on a Hero ROM.
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To get English environment with (in my case) Czech prediction keyboard on 32A with CyanogenMod 4.0.4, I just set the phone locale to Czech (important step, doesn't work without it) using standard phone locale settings - which switches both the environment and predictive language to Czech (note that the keyboard preferences still only show English as the only visible language choice, but it's not actually selected - the list just doesn't show the other choices) then I change the /data/property/persist.sys.country file to contain CZ (that should really be capitalized) and reboot phone. Works like charm (tested on multiple wipes). You can of course do the exact opposite, too - have the keyboard language set to English and UI language to your preffered language.
Basically - the persist.sys.country file controls your regional locale (including keyboard prediction) - in uppercase characters - and the persist.sys.language file contains your UI messages locale - in lowercase characters.

Tryied it out with no succes... Everytime I change the number I got english again =(...
My phone is 100% english xD...
There should be another way to put it in spanish I think right????

[Q]How to download and install more languages (Non-root)

Under Language & Keyboard settings -> Select Language -> locale, is there a way to install more languages into the phone without rooting or flashing a new ROM? My friend's Captivate only has English and French, and my other frieind's Optimus One also has a few languages to choose from. Neither of them want to root because they just got the phone and they simply just want the phone to work as a phone.

currently, i have a captivate which i got from rogers canada. I had eng/french locales, but i wanted japanese. after flashing a custom 2.2 rom, i got a huge ton of them including deutsch, spanish, italian, korean, (list goes on) but sadly no japanese locale. so in short, i don't think it is possible to install other locales unless they came either with you phone, or by updating your phone. but i could be wrong.. just what i think.

Thanks. I think Google should just let any Android users to install any languages they want on their phones since they are available already.
Anyone else?

Try moreLocale2 on market.

[Lang] I9000 SGS Japanese Keyboard

Japanese (日本語) Stock Samsung Keyboard (From SC-02B AKA I9000)
I am not sure if anyone types Japanese, but I do so here is how to do it on the Infuse 4G.
Download install-iwinn-1.zip to internal sdcard
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=YR8WA5WJ
Get into CWM recovery and choose zip and install the zip file.
Walla! You are done!
To activate, basicaly long press on any input field and change input method to Japanese Keyboard!
Removal: download remove-iwinn-1.zip which is in this post to your internal sdcard.
Boot into recovery, choose zip, and install zip. It will remove the keyboard!

i wish i could i can just about read, write, and speak english let alone a 2nd language, if not the one of the hardest languages in the world (so i'm told).

Is it possible to use this with the HTC desire HD? I tried, but got no result.

studychinese said:
Is it possible to use this with the HTC desire HD? I tried, but got no result.
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No idea..... what is the problem you run into?

No ability to select Japanese keyboard.

[Q] Greek keyboard

I have unlocked my chacha via HTCdev, rooted it and then flashed CM 7.2.0 from this link:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1291232
Then, i installed the greek keyboard (el keyboard) that i found in the above link. However, i cannot write in greek using the physical keyboard. If i try to switch between languages as i did with original rom (fn+space bar) it returns either www. or .com (depending on whether i use it at the begining or later). Can someone help me find a way to write in greek? Thanks a lot in advance