Great 3D chinese launcher [Plz Translate] - Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]

Great 3D chinese launcher [Plz Translate] - Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]

hey guys yesterday i found this cool launcher ...
i downloaded it and it works on i9100 miui v4, but the only problem is that i cant understand anything in it
plz guys I need someone can translate this launcher
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
YOU CAN DOWNLOAD IT FROM HERE
Edit: Thankfully SifJar is working now on the translation.
The majority of it is now translated (to a degree). Only weather (and cities) are Chinese + the choices are limited to chinese cities
Download Latest Translated version HERE

Looks like a kinda nice launcher. I took a look to try and see how much work it would be to do a translation: I used grep to search in res\layout for "text" (which will generally be followed by something needing translated), and there is quite a bit needing translated by the looks of things.
EDIT: About 128 phrases.
EDIT: There is also array.xml and strings.xml in res\values. I've done both of them, there wasn't much there:
array.xml: https://www.dropbox.com/s/yl6hru5wap17ld5/arrays.xml
strings.xml: https://www.dropbox.com/s/24n0t6pdc4in9gd/strings.xml
rough list of stuff needing translated in res\layout: https://www.dropbox.com/s/td30sfgk3waijiw/grep.txt
There are also a few images in res\drawable that contain Chinese characters
EDIT: If I have time at some stage, I may try to translate some more of it. Don't have time right now, but it does seem like a nice launcher.

thx man ! ...
however, to noobs like me, what does all this mean ?
if you can recompile the apk and reupload a translated/semi-translated version it would be really cool

I tried to recompile it, but I must have done it wrong because it won't install...
EDIT: Think I need to sign it, I'll figure that bit out tomorrow. Never done this sort of thing before, so I didn't realise I had to do that.
EDIT: OK, here is a very early version: {link gone, see first post for current link}
The only noticeable difference is the title of the app now shows as "Nine Latitude 3D" which seems to be the right name I think. There are a few other bits and pieces translated (e.g. some weather stuff), but I can't find where they are displayed.
I will try and do some work on this tomorrow if I find time and present a progress update within 24 hours.
EDIT: Note that translation will be done using Google Translate, as I don't speak Chinese. I'll make educated guesses based on the results as to what each string should read, but some may be inaccurate.

Very nice man... Thx for your time
Sent from my GT-I9100 using Tapatalk 2

Randomly came across this and find this launcher very interesting! Would definitely love for this to be translated into English! May even have a little gift for that person! :beer:
Sent from my SGH-I777 using xda premium

SifJar said:
I tried to recompile it, but I must have done it wrong because it won't install...
EDIT: Think I need to sign it, I'll figure that bit out tomorrow. Never done this sort of thing before, so I didn't realise I had to do that.
EDIT: OK, here is a very early version: https://www.dropbox.com/s/7rwqqe10kymggtz/nine_latitude_3d.apk
The only noticeable difference is the title of the app now shows as "Nine Latitude 3D" which seems to be the right name I think. There are a few other bits and pieces translated (e.g. some weather stuff), but I can't find where they are displayed.
I will try and do some work on this tomorrow if I find time and present a progress update within 24 hours.
EDIT: Note that translation will be done using Google Translate, as I don't speak Chinese. I'll make educated guesses based on the results as to what each string should read, but some may be inaccurate.
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Thanks for the translation.
Can you please put the english xmls on values folder and the original(chinesse) on values-cn(or whatever code used for chinesse), because if the device is setting to another language than english, the chinesse xmls used.

nice find
keep us update PLS

Need translation .
Sent from my HTC Wildfire S A510e

dancer_69 said:
Thanks for the translation.
Can you please put the english xmls on values folder and the original(chinesse) on values-cn(or whatever code used for chinesse), because if the device is setting to another language than english, the chinesse xmls used.
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OK, will do that from now on. Will hopefully have a bit more translated today, and so will do as you suggested with the next release. This is my first time translating, so I wasn't completely sure exactly what way it should be done. Thanks for the advice.
EDIT: Translated about 30 more strings or thereabouts, should probably get this "finished" today (I say "finished" because it won't be a great translation, and will probably take a bit of trial and error still to come up with more accurate translations)
EDIT: There are a few more strings that I initially thought, but I should still be able to do this today I reckon.

Finished translating everything in \res I can find. But it seems most stuff must be in smali or something I guess (anyone a bit experienced know if this could be right?). There is still a fair bit in Chinese here.
Anyway, here's the current link: {link removed, see first post for current link}
I'll try and look into smali, but there are a LOT of .smali files in this, and I don't even know where to start. But I will have a look and see if I can figure out a bit more. From all the smali files I have looked at so far, there is no Chinese in any of them. So I don't really know where all the rest of the Chinese is.
EDIT: I don't know very much about smali files, but I have found that lines like this one are Chinese:
Code:
const-string v1, "\u6b63\u5728\u4e0b\u8f7d,\u8bf7\u7a0d\u540e..."
I have managed to work out how to convert this to Chinese (and then I can translate to English), but it is a very laborious process requiring to convert each character individually, certainly with the tools I have found so far.
EDIT: Unless I can find a better way to do this, I'll post instructions for what I've worked out so far and give up personally. I don't really have time to spend translating like this.

thanks a lot for your work and time

Little bit translation. OK thanks . I have few problems like galary , music Widgets not working.
Sent from my HTC Wildfire S A510e

idhbar said:
Little bit translation. OK thanks . I have few problems like galary , music Widgets not working.
Sent from my HTC Wildfire S A510e
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Those problems aren't anything to do with me. They don't work without the translation either (for me, at least).
In case people miss my above post, I have figured out how to translate more, but it is a very long drawn out process, which isn't worth the hassle for me at least, so unless I find a much better way to do this, I will probably give up soon. But I will post directions for said long drawn out process in case anyone else wants to continue where I leave off.

@sifjar I know the widget prob associated with launcher , no relation with translation. Thanks again for your great effort . Anyone facing the widget problem ?
Sent from my HTC Wildfire S A510e

OK, so I'm done with translating this I am afraid. The translation of the .smali files is just far too long and laborious a process, especially when I don't really want the launcher that badly. I was doing this more as an experience building exercise, sort to "see if I could", and I now know that I could but it would be a lot of effort. Anyway, as promised, here is a tutorial for translating the .smali files, and hence the rest of the launcher.
EDIT: This method is slightly more difficult and laborious than necessary. See my post on the next page for a simpler method which encompasses steps 9+10.
Requirements
Android SDK installed
apktool - https://code.google.com/p/android-apktool/
grep - http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/grep.htm
Decent text editor e.g. Notepad++
A few sites linked below
The latest copy of my partial translation (see above)
Guide
1. Setup apktool and grep properly so you can run them from the command line anywhere you want.
2. Open a command line where you have the APK of the launcher.
3. Run this command:
Code:
apktool d nine_latitude_3d.apk
4. Navigate into the nine_latitude_3d.apk folder created
5. Navigate into the smali folder inside that one
6. Open a command prompt and use the following command:
Code:
grep string *.smali > results.txt
7. Open results.txt in Notepad++. This file will show you which .smali files contain strings, and what those strings are. You're interested in ones which look like this:
Code:
const-string v1, "\u6b63\u5728\u4e0b\u8f7d,\u8bf7\u7a0d\u540e..."
8. Open the .smali file containing the first string you found, then use Ctrl+F to find that first string
9. Now you need to convert that string into Chinese. Each Chinese character is represented by a hexadecimal number, seperated by \u. So in the above example, the first character is the hexadecimal number 0x6b63 [0x just indicates this is a hex number, you can ignore this, I just put it there to be more "correct"]. To convert to Chinese, you need the number in decimal. You can convert between hex and decimal here: http://www.statman.info/conversions/hexadecimal.html - copy the hex number into the box and click "to decimal". In this example, it is 27491.
10. You can convert from decimal to Chinese character here: http://www.chinese-tools.com/tools/converter-unichar.html - you need to put &# before each decimal number and ; after each. You can convert more than one at a time. So for my above example string, I would convert each number to decimal and end up with this:
Code:
&# 27491;&# 22312;&# 19979;&# 36733,&# 35831;&# 31245;&# 21518
but without the spaces (if I don't put the spaces, the forum automatically converts them to Chinese
(note that when there is a comma between characters, a semi-colon is not necessary)
11. This will give you a Chinese string such as the following:
Code:
正在下载,请稍后
Translate this with Google Translate or whatever to get something like this:
Code:
Downloading, please wait
12. Back in your .smali file replace the string, so the end result would be something like this:
Code:
const-string v1, "Downloading, please wait..."
13. Repeat steps 8-12 for every string found in the first .smali file
14. Repeat steps 8-13 for every .smali file where a string was found
15. Navigate into the first sub folder of the smali folder ("a") and repeat steps 6-14, translating every string
16. Do the same for all the other sub folders of the smali folder
17. Once you have translated every string in every smali file, navigate back out of the smali folder and then back out of the nine_latitude_3d folder
18. Open a command window and type the following:
Code:
apktool b nine_latitude_3d nine_latitude_eng.apk
19. Sign nine_latitude_eng.apk
20. Test the APK and hope it works
Like I said, it is very laborious. Considering there are probably at least a few hundred strings, and each takes maybe a minute or two (compared to the strings in the XMLs in \res\layout, which took a few seconds each), it would take many hours to complete the translation.

SifJar said:
Finished translating everything in \res I can find. But it seems most stuff must be in smali or something I guess (anyone a bit experienced know if this could be right?). There is still a fair bit in Chinese here.
Anyway, here's the current link: https://www.dropbox.com/s/ozhy41i4tpd0occ/nine_latitude_eng.apk
I'll try and look into smali, but there are a LOT of .smali files in this, and I don't even know where to start. But I will have a look and see if I can figure out a bit more. From all the smali files I have looked at so far, there is no Chinese in any of them. So I don't really know where all the rest of the Chinese is.
EDIT: I don't know very much about smali files, but I have found that lines like this one are Chinese:
Code:
const-string v1, "\u6b63\u5728\u4e0b\u8f7d,\u8bf7\u7a0d\u540e..."
I have managed to work out how to convert this to Chinese (and then I can translate to English), but it is a very laborious process requiring to convert each character individually, certainly with the tools I have found so far.
EDIT: Unless I can find a better way to do this, I'll post instructions for what I've worked out so far and give up personally. I don't really have time to spend translating like this.
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I can help you.......!! I have a good knowledge in xmls and somewhat in smali......i can join you in translating....maybe i'll join you by monday!!! I am not a chineese too.....we can try n bring out fantastic launcher!!
What do you think??

balamu96m said:
I can help you.......!! I have a good knowledge in xmls and somewhat in smali......i can join you in translating....maybe i'll join you by monday!!! I am not a chineese too.....we can try n bring out fantastic launcher!!
What do you think??
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I decided to run a little test. I set grep to search for \u, which appears in every string needing translated. I made it search in all the sub folders of smali. The resultant results.txt was 302 lines long. i.e. there are about 302 strings needing translated. This is far too huge a task for me to take on. If you want to do it, go ahead, but I'm afraid I simply don't have time.
EDIT: I might try and make a script to automate the process, somewhat at least.

SifJar said:
I decided to run a little test. I set grep to search for \u, which appears in every string needing translated. I made it search in all the sub folders of smali. The resultant results.txt was 302 lines long. i.e. there are about 302 strings needing translated. This is far too huge a task for me to take on. If you want to do it, go ahead, but I'm afraid I simply don't have time.
EDIT: I might try and make a script to automate the process, somewhat at least.
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Finding out the no. of strings to be translated is a great step!!
Translating is using google translate only na??
Why not share work??
I'll try to translate at least 15 strings a day...u too try the same....at the end of 10 days we would have completed translating!!
If you can make a script, it will be great!!
Also, in the launcher, how to go to the app drawer?? I can see only running apps??

balamu96m said:
Finding out the no. of strings to be translated is a great step!!
Translating is using google translate only na??
Why not share work??
I'll try to translate at least 15 strings a day...u too try the same....at the end of 10 days we would have completed translating!!
If you can make a script, it will be great!!
Also, in the launcher, how to go to the app drawer?? I can see only running apps??
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You switch between screens by swiping at the bottom. One of them will show apps. You can change the apps displayed by tapping the circle thing at the right side and choosing one of the other options (it has options for user apps, system apps and I think favourite apps). The apps are displayed on multiple pages within the apps screen, swiping across where the app icons are shown should reveal the rest of your apps. Although I don't think it displays all of my apps, but I haven't checked too thoroughly.
As for translating, I certainly won't be doing anything until I have made a script at the very least (I reckon I should hopefully be able to create a script that will replace all the \uXXXX in the strings with the the corresponding Chinese characters, so that it will just be a copy & paste to Google Translate and back, the way it was with the strings in the XMLs). If I can't get a script like that to work, I probably won't be working on this anymore, sorry.
EDIT: If I do get a script like that to work, it'll take much less time. I did about 120 strings or something like that in about half an hour earlier I think.

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Tool to edit .CPL files

Hello,
I need a tool to edit CPL files. I have done quite a bit of searching on Google and here, but none of the tools found on the net are actually intended for CPL files, while threads here only mention people editing them, not how.
Why I want to do this - I would like to edit Japanese text inside these CPLs so that I can fully localize my device(s) into English.
These are some of the files:
- ShPowerMng.cpl
- ShUsbCnt.cpl
- ShWrlsMgrRes.cpl
- shutil.cpl
Thanks in advance!

cheeseus said:
Hello,
I need a tool to edit CPL files. I have done quite a bit of searching on Google and here, but none of the tools found on the net are actually intended for CPL files, while threads here only mention people editing them, not how.
Why I want to do this - I would like to edit Japanese text inside these CPLs so that I can fully localize my device(s) into English.
These are some of the files:
- ShPowerMng.cpl
- ShUsbCnt.cpl
- ShWrlsMgrRes.cpl
- shutil.cpl
Thanks in advance!
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did you try looking in the reg for it... i think its something like HKCU\***\MyCpl

irus said:
did you try looking in the reg for it... i think its something like HKCU\***\MyCpl
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Yes, of course, I have looked through each registry folder - this is how, for instance, I found out how to translate Today items and Button descriptions (HKLM/Software/MS/Shell/Keys).
Suggested from posts here about HTC devices, I looked for HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\ControlPanel\MyCpl --- but I do not have such a registry setting.
Is it a far guess to tell that the files I mention above are used instead of registry settings?
This is why I am looking for a tool to edit these files. Is there one?

Any resource editor would do, try reshacker

stepw said:
Any resource editor would do, try reshacker
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Thank you! Reshacker does open the files.
How to edit them, though, is less obvious than I thought. I was thinking there'd be strings of text I would just need to replace.
I'd like to ask for more help here, please.
For instance, I have:
Code:
STRINGTABLE
LANGUAGE LANG_JAPANESE, 0x1
{
101, "???????"
102, "Utility Applet"
}
1st Question: how can I see the Japanese text not garbled?
2nd: The two values above - do I just switch them somehow? 101, "???????" is the Japanese correspondent of 102, "Utility Applet".
Similarly here:
Code:
119 DIALOG 0, 0, 200, 110
STYLE DS_FIXEDSYS | WS_CHILD | WS_DISABLED
CAPTION ""
LANGUAGE LANG_JAPANESE, 0x1
FONT 8, "MS Shell Dlg"
{
CONTROL "????????????????\n??????", 1067, STATIC, SS_LEFT | WS_CHILD | WS_VISIBLE | WS_GROUP, 6, 6, 138, 24
CONTROL "???????(????)", 1006, BUTTON, BS_AUTORADIOBUTTON | WS_CHILD | WS_VISIBLE, 6, 42, 120, 12
CONTROL "???????????????\n(???????????)", 1007, BUTTON, BS_AUTORADIOBUTTON | BS_TOP | BS_MULTILINE | WS_CHILD | WS_VISIBLE, 6, 60, 126, 24
CONTROL "*RGB???????????????", 1068, STATIC, SS_LEFT | WS_CHILD | WS_VISIBLE | WS_GROUP, 6, 84, 138, 12
}
How do I change the language - LANGUAGE LANG_JAPANESE, 0x1?
And, of course, if I can't see the Japanese text, I can't translate it -- I tried the various fonts available in ResHacker, but none of them seems to support Japanese.
PS. After installing Japanese (East Asian) Languages support on my PC, ResHacker now offers a couple more fonts that have "Japanese" under "Script", e.g. MS Mincho, MS Gothic etc. but they are still unable to properly render the Japanese text of the CPL file, whose font is "MS Shell Dlg".

cheeseus said:
Thank you! Reshacker does open the files.
How to edit them, though, is less obvious than I thought. I was thinking there'd be strings of text I would just need to replace.
I'd like to ask for more help here, please.
For instance, I have:
Code:
STRINGTABLE
LANGUAGE LANG_JAPANESE, 0x1
{
101, "???????"
102, "Utility Applet"
}
1st Question: how can I see the Japanese text not garbled?
2nd: The two values above - do I just switch them somehow? 101, "???????" is the Japanese correspondent of 102, "Utility Applet".
Similarly here:
Code:
119 DIALOG 0, 0, 200, 110
STYLE DS_FIXEDSYS | WS_CHILD | WS_DISABLED
CAPTION ""
LANGUAGE LANG_JAPANESE, 0x1
FONT 8, "MS Shell Dlg"
{
CONTROL "????????????????\n??????", 1067, STATIC, SS_LEFT | WS_CHILD | WS_VISIBLE | WS_GROUP, 6, 6, 138, 24
CONTROL "???????(????)", 1006, BUTTON, BS_AUTORADIOBUTTON | WS_CHILD | WS_VISIBLE, 6, 42, 120, 12
CONTROL "???????????????\n(???????????)", 1007, BUTTON, BS_AUTORADIOBUTTON | BS_TOP | BS_MULTILINE | WS_CHILD | WS_VISIBLE, 6, 60, 126, 24
CONTROL "*RGB???????????????", 1068, STATIC, SS_LEFT | WS_CHILD | WS_VISIBLE | WS_GROUP, 6, 84, 138, 12
}
How do I change the language - LANGUAGE LANG_JAPANESE, 0x1?
And, of course, if I can't see the Japanese text, I can't translate it -- I tried the various fonts available in ResHacker, but none of them seems to support Japanese.
PS. After installing Japanese (East Asian) Languages support on my PC, ResHacker now offers a couple more fonts that have "Japanese" under "Script", e.g. MS Mincho, MS Gothic etc. but they are still unable to properly render the Japanese text of the CPL file, whose font is "MS Shell Dlg".
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Try PE-explorer, this one gives you more power and also will display an example of the form (for certain compilers).
Regards,
EqX

the-equinoxe said:
Try PE-explorer, this one gives you more power and also will display an example of the form (for certain compilers).
Regards,
EqX
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Thanks! Tried PE explorer as well. Just like ResHacker, it displays the form, but not the form is actually readable - ResHacker displays garbled chars in the script and the form, PE -- only in the script. Sadly, I still can't see, and copy, the Japanese text so that I can have it translated. Tried the various fonts in PE Explorer too...
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}

cheeseus said:
Thanks! Tried PE explorer as well. Just like ResHacker, it displays the form, but not the form is actually readable - ResHacker displays garbled chars in the script and the form, PE -- only in the script. Sadly, I still can't see, and copy, the Japanese text so that I can have it translated. Tried the various fonts in PE Explorer too...
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It seems that those scripts can handle only western language .
If you try to edit the form (like moving Tedit boxes etc..), is there any chance to grep the text?
And if you look in the hex editor, any chance to get it from there?
(there is a program that can get the text from a dialog, sadly I forgot it's name.)
Regards,
EqX

the-equinoxe said:
It seems that those scripts can handle only western language .
If you try to edit the form (like moving Tedit boxes etc..), is there any chance to grep the text?
And if you look in the hex editor, any chance to get it from there?
(there is a program that can get the text from a dialog, sadly I forgot it's name.)
Regards,
EqX
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Couldn't grip the text from the form editor - can move it around, but can't select it.
Can't find out how to see the file in HEX editor mode - this stuff is quite new to me...
The best idea I had was use OCR software to extract the text from a screenshot of the form. Abbyy Fine Reader 9 advertises Japanese/Chinese support but the copy I found doesn't have Japanese in its list of languages... so, I am stuck here, unless you can remember that program;s name
Regards,
Stefan

Little progress
I am having very little progress here...
I started editing the "ShPowerMng.cpl" file by looking at my other device and comparing tabs and options. And so I translated two screens. However, when I upload the file to the device, only the tab names are in English, while the other stuff I translated is still in Japanese
Tried resetting the device... no change.
When I copy back the ShPowerMng.cpl file from the device to the PC - checking if the file was successfully overwritten - it is translated, but why doesn't it show the English text?

cheeseus said:
I am having very little progress here...
I started editing the "ShPowerMng.cpl" file by looking at my other device and comparing tabs and options. And so I translated two screens. However, when I upload the file to the device, only the tab names are in English, while the other stuff I translated is still in Japanese
Tried resetting the device... no change.
When I copy back the ShPowerMng.cpl file from the device to the PC - checking if the file was successfully overwritten - it is translated, but why doesn't it show the English text?
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Could be that the cpl has a separate "strings" section in the resources, or that the ROM also contains a ShPowerMng.cpl.04**.MUI file (not sure that cpl files can have a mui).
Regards,
EqX

the-equinoxe said:
Could be that the cpl has a separate "strings" section in the resources, or that the ROM also contains a ShPowerMng.cpl.04**.MUI file (not sure that cpl files can have a mui).
Regards,
EqX
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Excellent point, .mui seems to be supported for .cpl's too. If there's a native mui file, this is where the resources should be translated. If there's none, it could be created for ease of translation, then you won't have to patch up .cpl's.
More details regarding MUI on Windows CE/Mobile are avaiable on MSDN:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa913592.aspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa912683.aspx
Most resource editors don't support unicode string resources properly, hence Japanese characters are replaced with question marks. MS Visual Studio resource editors may be able to handle them properly. Another freeware that claims proper unicode support is XN resource viewer, maybe you could get the chars displayed properly using it.

stepw said:
Excellent point, .mui seems to be supported for .cpl's too. If there's a native mui file, this is where the resources should be translated. If there's none, it could be created for ease of translation, then you won't have to patch up .cpl's.
More details regarding MUI on Windows CE/Mobile are avaiable on MSDN:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa913592.aspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa912683.aspx
Most resource editors don't support unicode string resources properly, hence Japanese characters are replaced with question marks. MS Visual Studio resource editors may be able to handle them properly. Another freeware that claims proper unicode support is XN resource viewer, maybe you could get the chars displayed properly using it.
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XN Resource Editor saves the day!
However, because it returns save error for some of the files (write protected), I open the resource in it, copy the caption text in Japanese, paste in Google Translate, take the text and paste it inside the corresponding box in PE Explorer because it has no problem saving the file.
I have made significant progress this way, THANK YOU!
There are still some unknown problems:
- on the Power Management file (ShPowerMng.cpl), everything is translated but only the title and the tab captions are shown in English - the rest is still displayed in Japanese.
- on the Utilities file (shutil.cpl) - again everything is translated, but this time the tab captions are shown in Japanese, while the tab texts are all in English.
- on the USB connection manager (ShUsbCnt.cpl) the situation is as in the Power Management - tab names are in English, texts are in Japanese.
- the ShSystemInfo.cpl file is fully translated but I cannot see its contents in Settings - when I tap "S01SH Firmware", which is this file, I see only one page with some text that I could not see while editing, while the texts I edited are hidden. The text I can see is about the firmware version - 1.05a (upgraded from 1.00) - in Japanese, and the texts I cannot see contain: "Firmware version 0.00 / NAND ver.: / NOR ver.:" and over 10 other screens with texts that I presume are various warning messages displayed by the system, e.g. "An invalid argument was encountered."
Thanks for the help, guys! I hope that I can finish the job...

Some strings, for instance tab captions and window titles may be dynamic and the strings could be manipulated in code. In this case you won't be able to find them in the resource sections.

Use Sisulizer, it correctly displays all the languages, including Japanese

the big question
So, what I am still struggling to grasp is, where exactly are the texts written?
stepw says: "Some strings, for instance tab captions and window titles may be dynamic and the strings could be manipulated in code. In this case you won't be able to find them in the resource sections." --- does this then mean that the texts, written inside the CPL file are just there for no reason:
[above is the resource being edited, below is a screenshot of the resource displayed - tab names are in English, the rest is not displayed...]
Maybe these texts are also written in some other file and when the two files are loaded, the first one has greater weight than the CPL?
I also tried, following your advice to try creating a MUI file - in Windows directory there is also a "ShPowerMng.cpl.409.mui" file but it doesn't seem to change anything.
Maybe there is some other file I need to edit as well?
PS. I realize this thread has changed its original topic - the tool to edit CPL files - but I don't want to start a new thread for something which very few people would be interested in.
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PSPS. Looking at this thread, I see that the following are displayed from "cplmain.cpl":
Settings>System>Backlight>Brightness = 20#ctlpnl cplmain.cpl,6
Settings>System>Backlight>Battery power= 20#ctlpnl cplmain.cpl,6,1
Settings>System>Backlight>External power = 20#ctlpnl cplmain.cpl,6,2
Unfortunately, this is the only CPL file that I can't copy from my device - I get "cannot copy" in total commander and "access denied" in activesync. Any idea how I can cheat this?

cheeseus said:
...Unfortunately, this is the only CPL file that I can't copy from my device - I get "cannot copy" in total commander and "access denied" in activesync. Any idea how I can cheat this?...
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try it with ROM Extractor 1.0. with that tool you can copy "non-copyable" files from device to storage card, and from there to your computer (via active sync). you'll have to do these steps on your device off course ;-)
see you

kel187 said:
try it with ROM Extractor 1.0. with that tool you can copy "non-copyable" files from device to storage card, and from there to your computer (via active sync). you'll have to do these steps on your device off course ;-)
see you
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Thanks! ROM Extractor did manage to copy cplmain.cpl but it cannot be edited - ResHack and XN Resource Editor won't open it, while PE Editor opens it but gives a warning of some errors ("Erros detected! File opened in Safe Mode."). Still, the Resources are not viewable (View > Resources is grey) so even if there is text that should be edited in there I cannot get to it.
So, maybe I am looking in the wrong direction?
Yesterday I managed to completely edit another one of the CPLs, Pointing.cpl, which deals with the pointing device on my S01SH - I still have to fix the sizes of a couple of text boxes because some text is cut off but that isn't difficult.
Where else should I be looking for stuff to edit/translate?

[THEME TOOL IDEA] Copy 9-patch from original files

While working on a ROM (for the hero), I have recently tried to do some theming by small changes (i.e. color changes) to the drawables in the framework-res.apk.
It appears the both for me, and the fellow that is helping me (floomat), these 9-patch files are giving a headache. We prefer editing them in some normal app (i.e. photoshop) but this seems to mess up the 9-patch "code".
I have written a very small program to apply the changes to a 9-patch image without disturbing the 9-patch itself. Note that this program is mainly meant as a "proof of concept" and hopefully one of the apk managing tools will pick up the ball and integrate it. In the meantime it might be useful even as it is (with some scripting around it most likely). Or it might be just a way to prove I am fool and there is simpler way to get around this I am not familiar with
"Program" and source: http://www.sendspace.com/file/sw4atc
(its really too small and simple to be called a program)
Usage:
Code:
java copy9patch original.9.png changed.png
Will copy the changes made to the changed.png over to the original.9.png but keep the 9-patch data of the original.9.png.
Its code (also included) and the way it works is very simple: It takes the size of the original image (i.e. 19x27), without the 1 pixel border with the 9-patch codes - so in our example it will be 17x25. Now it just copied the center 17x25 pixels from the changed.png over the original's center pixels. It has some very basic boundary conditions if the image sizes do not match but this could probably be handled better, possibly just by issuing an error in these cases.
If you want to use my code, change it, do whatever you like with it please do so and I'll be glad to checkout your result!
NOTE: I feel a bit uncomfortable posting this in the "G1 development" section but I see both apktool and apk manager are here....

erasmux said:
While working on a ROM (for the hero), I have recently tried to do some theming by small changes (i.e. color changes) to the drawables in the framework-res.apk.
It appears the both for me, and the fellow that is helping me (floomat), these 9-patch files are giving a headache. We prefer editing them in some normal app (i.e. photoshop) but this seems to mess up the 9-patch "code".
I have written a very small program to apply the changes to a 9-patch image without disturbing the 9-patch itself. Note that this program is mainly meant as a "proof of concept" and hopefully one of the apk managing tools will pick up the ball and integrate it. In the meantime it might be useful even as it is (with some scripting around it most likely). Or it might be just a way to prove I am fool and there is simpler way to get around this I am not familiar with
"Program" and source: http://www.sendspace.com/file/sw4atc
(its really too small and simple to be called a program)
Usage:
Code:
java copy9patch original.9.png changed.png
Will copy the changes made to the changed.png over to the original.9.png but keep the 9-patch data of the original.9.png.
Its code (also included) and the way it works is very simple: It takes the size of the original image (i.e. 19x27), without the 1 pixel border with the 9-patch codes - so in our example it will be 17x25. Now it just copied the center 17x25 pixels from the changed.png over the original's center pixels. It has some very basic boundary conditions if the image sizes do not match but this could probably be handled better, possibly just by issuing an error in these cases.
NOTE: I feel a bit uncomfortable posting this in the "G1 development" section but I see both apktool and apk manager are here....
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Huh. I've been wondering if this was possible. I haven't tried this yet but if it works, nicely done! I think that this would be a huge improvement and addition to the themeporter programs that are out there. There is a high demand for this in that area and in the area of HDPI>MDPI/MDPI>HDPI conversion. I'm certainly bookmarking this!

Awesome, just checked out ur source, so simple but effective
Anyway wanted to ask if ur ok with me incorporating it into theme-porter ? Link
Wht im thinking is perhaps when "Hdpi to mdpi" is on, it would resize the .9.pngs by 66%, after which it would transfer the .9 data using this program so (9-patch) code is preserved.
Let me know. Thnx
FYI : Just gave it a whirl, works perfectly.

Daneshm90 said:
Awesome, just checked out ur source, so simple but effective
Anyway wanted to ask if ur ok with me incorporating it into theme-porter ? Link
Wht im thinking is perhaps when "Hdpi to mdpi" is on, it would resize the .9.pngs by 66%, after which it would transfer the .9 data using this program so (9-patch) code is preserved.
Let me know. Thnx
FYI : Just gave it a whirl, works perfectly.
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Maybe my original post wasn't blunt enough, my code is just "proof of concept" because I am bit lazy in this department (themeing tools) - I'd rather spend my time compiling kernels (go figure ).
So my main goal for this post is for developers of apk managing tools and etc. to pick up the ball and go forward with this
And to be even clearer:
If you want to use my code, change it, do whatever you like with it please do so and I'll be glad to checkout your result!
(am also adding this to the main post)
Regarding your actual resizing idea, you might want to resize it with the 9-patch "codes" (in the 1-pixel border) because you want the codes from your original HDMI files just resized. This should work, just be careful with resizing algorithms which average pixels and such. If I understand correctly the edge pixels should be either white or black (defining stretchable and context areas). Need to play around with this until it works well.
Let me know if I can be of any further assistance.

erasmux said:
Maybe my original post wasn't blunt enough, my code is just "proof of concept" because I am bit lazy in this department (themeing tools) - I'd rather spend my time compiling kernels (go figure ).
So my main goal for this post is for developers of apk managing tools and etc. to pick up the ball and go forward with this
And to be even clearer:
If you want to use my code, change it, do whatever you like with it please do so and I'll be glad to checkout your result!
(am also adding this to the main post)
Regarding your actual resizing idea, you might want to resize it with the 9-patch "codes" (in the 1-pixel border) because you want the codes from your original HDMI files just resized. This should work, just be careful with resizing algorithms which average pixels and such. If I understand correctly the edge pixels should be either white or black (defining stretchable and context areas). Need to play around with this until it works well.
Let me know if I can be of any further assistance.
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Hmm k i'll spend more time with it, perhaps the resizing program im using causes mishaps. Currently when i resize it completely messes stuff up even though the resolution corresponds to a mdpi device.
I'll do the good ol' trial/error n let u know. Thanks for the (proof of concept)
Edit :
Ok so upon using ur code for transferring images of diff sizes u can obviously tell whts up
So one improvement im thinking off, is if the images differ in size, it could draw the border and eliminate anything outside it. Ugh gotta brush up on my java though :S

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I tested it out and it works great! Thanks!

I really hope someone takes this idea and runs with it! If I knew how to code, I would certainly look into this. Maybe I can get one of the Vibrant Devs to look at this....

erasmux said:
While working on a ROM (for the hero), I have recently tried to do some theming by small changes (i.e. color changes) to the drawables in the framework-res.apk.
It appears the both for me, and the fellow that is helping me (floomat), these 9-patch files are giving a headache. We prefer editing them in some normal app (i.e. photoshop) but this seems to mess up the 9-patch "code".
I have written a very small program to apply the changes to a 9-patch image without disturbing the 9-patch itself. Note that this program is mainly meant as a "proof of concept" and hopefully one of the apk managing tools will pick up the ball and integrate it. In the meantime it might be useful even as it is (with some scripting around it most likely). Or it might be just a way to prove I am fool and there is simpler way to get around this I am not familiar with
"Program" and source: http://www.sendspace.com/file/sw4atc
(its really too small and simple to be called a program)
Usage:
Code:
java copy9patch original.9.png changed.png
Will copy the changes made to the changed.png over to the original.9.png but keep the 9-patch data of the original.9.png.
Its code (also included) and the way it works is very simple: It takes the size of the original image (i.e. 19x27), without the 1 pixel border with the 9-patch codes - so in our example it will be 17x25. Now it just copied the center 17x25 pixels from the changed.png over the original's center pixels. It has some very basic boundary conditions if the image sizes do not match but this could probably be handled better, possibly just by issuing an error in these cases.
If you want to use my code, change it, do whatever you like with it please do so and I'll be glad to checkout your result!
NOTE: I feel a bit uncomfortable posting this in the "G1 development" section but I see both apktool and apk manager are here....
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Can U just tell how to use this code for bulk images?????

pratyush.creed said:
Can U just tell how to use this code for bulk images?????
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Hmm, haven't used this for a very long time and don't really remember whats going on here.
Still attached is the version which I have on my HD, and it does support bulk images if all the images are in a folder.
If I remember correctly (mostly going by the help that is displayed by running the program without argument):
Code:
fixResPngs drawable-mdpi drawable-mdpi.org
Will go over all drawable-mdpi/*.png files (possibly also sub dirs?! I really have no idea, sorry), and "fix" each such file. If I am not mistaken it needs a "reference" file only for 9 patch files which are identified by their ".9.png" suffix (regular pngs I think are just rewritten without any change which I found improves compatibility). In case of a 9 patch file, the original file with exactly the same name should be found under the directory given in the second argument. For example: If drawable-mdpi/aaa.9.png is processed the 9-patch data will be copied from drawable-mdpi.org/aaa.9.png.
Obviously it also still works on single files. It does *not* work on lists of files or lists of directories.
If anyone is interested in the code, I am sure I have it somewhere (I hope)....

erasmux said:
Hmm, haven't used this for a very long time and don't really remember whats going on here.
Still attached is the version which I have on my HD, and it does support bulk images if all the images are in a folder.
If I remember correctly (mostly going by the help that is displayed by running the program without argument):
Code:
fixResPngs drawable-mdpi drawable-mdpi.org
Will go over all drawable-mdpi/*.png files (possibly also sub dirs?! I really have no idea, sorry), and "fix" each such file. If I am not mistaken it needs a "reference" file only for 9 patch files which are identified by their ".9.png" suffix (regular pngs I think are just rewritten without any change which I found improves compatibility). In case of a 9 patch file, the original file with exactly the same name should be found under the directory given in the second argument. For example: If drawable-mdpi/aaa.9.png is processed the 9-patch data will be copied from drawable-mdpi.org/aaa.9.png.
Obviously it also still works on single files. It does *not* work on lists of files or lists of directories.
If anyone is interested in the code, I am sure I have it somewhere (I hope)....
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Gr8 work...u made themin a kid's job
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???
does the original still work cause im on windows 7 64 bit and i was able to copy the changes to original but not it makes no changes at all, so the original file doesnt get the changes...
please help!!

[APP][WIP] Android Windows 7 [The Translation]

Ok heres whats going on I'm attempting to translate this awesome launcher from here. http://www.joymms.com/english/ from Chinese to English
So that it looks like like the English part of the attached picture.
These are the instructions. I'm putting the decompiled files in Zip in the attachment. If you don't know Chinese send your Chinese to zergburger unless you are totally confident in Google translate.
You have to use apktool to decompile the apk, go through the smali files and find the \uxxx unicode strings. Take these strings and put them in a site like this: http://people.w3.org/rishida/tools/conversion/ which will convert the utf16 to the actual characters. You can then take that and paste it into google translator or whatever and translate the information.
Than put the new translated Charters back into the converter than take the string codes and replace the codes in the file save it than send them to me so I can compile all of them.
Good luck I really like this application and this is gonna take a while
Thank you samspoon for the instructions

Total 631 Smili files
3 Translated
117 That need Translation
2.5% complete
Code:
Need Translation:
AndroidWindows7$18
AndroidWindows7$19
AndroidWindows7$20
AndroidWindows7$21
AndroidWindows7$23
AndroidWindows7$24
AndroidWindows7$26
AndroidWindows7$30
AndroidWindows7$32
AndroidWindows7$33
AndroidWindows7
AppBarClock$1
AppBarClock$3
AudioStatus$1
BaseWindow
CalendarPicker
ChineseCalendar
DesktopIcons$3$1
DesktopIcons$3
DownloadProcessBar$1
DownloadProcessBar$4
DownloadProcessBar
Execute
ExecuteNaviBar
InstalledApps$1
InstalledApps
MainApp
MessageBubble$6
MessageBubble$7
MessageBubble
MyComputer$12$1
MyComputer$12
MyComputer$13$1
MyComputer$13
MyComputer$14
MyComputer$16
MyComputer$18$1
MyComputer$18
MyComputer
RandomChat$3
RandomChat
RunningAppBar$1$1
RunningAppBar$1
RunningAppBar$8$1
RunningAppBar$8
RunningAppBar$10$1
RunningAppBar$10
RunningAppBar
SelectDir$3
SelectDir
Setting$1$2
Setting$1
Setting
SettingDesktopBg$3
SettingDesktopBg
SettingDesktopIcon$1
SettingDesktopIcon$3
SettingDesktopIcon$5
SettingDesktopIcon$9
SettingDesktopIcon$SelectedListAdapter
SettingDesktopIcon
SettingSideBar
SettingStartMenuIcon$1$1
SettingStartMenuIcon$1
SettingStartMenuIcon$3
SettingStartMenuIcon$7
SettingStartMenuIcon$SelectedListAdapter
SettingStartMenuIcon
SideBarCalendar$1
SideBarCalendar$3
SideBarClock$3
SideBarMessageTips$1
SideBarMessageTips
SideBarUserStatus$1
SideBarUserStatus$4
SideBarUserStatus
SideBarWeather$1
SideBarWeather$4
SideBarWeather$6
SideBarWeather$8
SideBarWeather$9
SideBarWeather
StartMenu$2
StartMenu$3
StartMenu$4
StartMenu$5
StartMenu$6
StartMenu$7
StartMenu$8
StartMenu$9$1
StartMenu$9
StartMenu
SystemInfo
TaskListAdapters$ServiceListAdapter
TaskManagerCtrl
UnInstalledApps$2$1$1
UnInstalledApps$2$1
UnInstalledApps$2
UnInstalledApps
Usage$1$1
Usage$1$2
Usage$1
Usage
UserInfo$4
UserInfo$6
UserInfo
UserLogin$1
UserLogin$3
UserLogin$5
UserLogin
UserPass$3
UserPass
UserPreRegist
WeatherCity$7
WeatherCity
WindowsIE$5
WindowsIE
Code:
Are Translated:
AboutUs$4
AboutUs$5
AboutUs
I'm in the process of translating/organizing

Samspoon's version http://www.multiupload.com/9IWXYZ4L7Q

Just a word of advice but you should setup some format for translating... I.e say you have a string that you modify:
(for examples sake)
const-string v8, "\u78c1\u76d8\u5bb9\u91cf\u4fe1\u606f\u83b7\u53d6\u5931\u8d25"
now according to google translate this is close to "Failed to read disk"
so if you formatted the string so the old is there along with the new something like this:
const-string v8, "[[[\u78c1\u76d8\u5bb9\u91cf\u4fe1\u606f\u83b7\u53d6\u5931\u8d25]]][[[Failed to read disk]]]"
You could then make a bash script that will go through and replace the string with the proper translated information... You could then take these strings to search future updates to the app to make translating easier on you. Just a piece of advice not sure how good you are with scripting but if you are serious about this might as well make it workable for updates. Any format would do I was just giving you advice.
Hell pulling the strings into a single file and then having it like
STRING~TRANSLATED
in a flat file would allow you to do a mass-sed on all smali files i.e
for translated in $( cat translation )
do
string=echo $translated|cut -d~ -f1
english=echo $translated|cut -d~ -f2
for file in $( ls /path/to/smali/*.smali )
do
sed -e "s/$string/$english/" $file
done
done
at least that way you can easily keep updated and also allow for other languages to be localized.

samspoon said:
Just a word of advice but you should setup some format for translating... I.e say you have a string that you modify:
(for examples sake)
const-string v8, "\u78c1\u76d8\u5bb9\u91cf\u4fe1\u606f\u83b7\u53d6\u5931\u8d25"
now according to google translate this is close to "Failed to read disk"
so if you formatted the string so the old is there along with the new something like this:
const-string v8, "[[[\u78c1\u76d8\u5bb9\u91cf\u4fe1\u606f\u83b7\u53d6\u5931\u8d25]]][[[Failed to read disk]]]"
You could then make a bash script that will go through and replace the string with the proper translated information... You could then take these strings to search future updates to the app to make translating easier on you. Just a piece of advice not sure how good you are with scripting but if you are serious about this might as well make it workable for updates. Any format would do I was just giving you advice.
Hell pulling the strings into a single file and then having it like
STRING~TRANSLATED
in a flat file would allow you to do a mass-sed on all smali files i.e
for translated in $( cat translation )
do
string=echo $translated|cut -d~ -f1
english=echo $translated|cut -d~ -f2
for file in $( ls /path/to/smali/*.smali )
do
sed -e "s/$string/$english/" $file
done
done
at least that way you can easily keep updated and also allow for other languages to be localized.
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That pushes the limits of my skills, but I will put the translated versions all together to make future updates easier. I'm only in college I'm not a pro yet

You guys rock! you are all pros! yew cin dew eeeet!!! =) go go go!

here translate this txt file. I used magicks to strip the text from the smali files and removed duplicate lines. Instead of 431 lines to translate I brought it down to 296.
Format your translation like such so I can easily script it:
"THISISTHEUTFSTUFF"~"THISISTHETRANSLATEDSTRING"
For example:
"\u672c\u5730\u78c1\u76d8(C"~"Local Disk (C"
Once this is done I can inject this fairly easily back into the apk.
OH YEAH... One thing: In the strings you might see stuff like \n\n or just one. ANY STRING THAT HAS A BACKSLASH FOLLOWED BY 1 CHARACTER SHOULD BE RETAINED IN THE STRING. THIS IS USED FOR FORMATTING. \n IS A NEW LINE!
For example:
"\u7248\u6743\u6240\u6709 CopyRight 2009-2010\n\n\u5f00\u53d1\u5546\uff1a\u4e0a\u6d77\u5b87\u7a7a\u8f6f\u4ef6\u6709\u9650\u516c\u53f8"~"Copyright 2009-2010 \n\n Developer: Shanghai Aerospace Software Ltd."
I attached a txt file that has already been converted to the actual characters as well for the lazy peeps

Girls voice for the top of the hour...
We need to find a really hot sexy girls voice for the top of the hour sound...

samspoon said:
here translate this txt file. I used magicks to strip the text from the smali files and removed duplicate lines. Instead of 431 lines to translate I brought it down to 296.
Format your translation like such so I can easily script it:
"THISISTHEUTFSTUFF"~"THISISTHETRANSLATEDSTRING"
For example:
"\u672c\u5730\u78c1\u76d8(C"~"Local Disk (C"
Once this is done I can inject this fairly easily back into the apk.
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Wait explain, what did you do and where did this come from

Stalte said:
Wait explain, what did you do and where did this come from
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Linux is your friend!
hotrodownloads sampson$ apktool d AndroidWindows7.apk
hotrodownloads sampson$ cd AndroidWindows7/smali/App/Windows7
hotrod:AndroidWindows7 sampson$ for i in $( ls ); do grep -e "const-string" $i | fgrep "\u" | sed -e "s/const-string v[0-9], //" >> ~/Translation;done
hotrod:AndroidWindows7 sampson$ cd ~
hotrod:~ sampson$ sed -i -e "s/ "/"/" Translation
hotrod:~ sampson$ awk '!x[$0]++' Translation > Translation.txt
hotrod:~ sampson$ cat Translation|wc -l
431
hotrod:~ sampson$ cat Translation.txt |wc -l
296
hotrod:~ sampson$ vim Translation.txt
hotrod:~ sampson$
Had to pretty up translation.txt a little bit because it missed 2 const-strings but can't win them all.

Ok I finished the organizing and I'm about to start the translating I would like to see everyone who loves this pitch in a little bit and i mean with the translating.

@samspoon
If I could get you all of the strings and there translations could you do your quick trick to put them back into the apk??

Woops - forgot to search recursively... Missed a *ton* of ****
and yeah... There's some caveats though... the \n thing and if there are "s you need to keep the utf code and not use the " or it breaks the app. Aside from that works gravy... I'll have a rough google translated version up in a bit as well as all the missed strings
580 strings :\

Man, I wish I was as half as smart as you guys. Then I could be of some assistance. Im going to hang a picture up in my house with candles burning on both sides of you guys if you get this working.
Sent from my top secret hand held device. (first of all....hand held)

samspoon said:
Woops - forgot to search recursively... Missed a *ton* of ****
and yeah... There's some caveats though... the \n thing and if there are "s you need to keep the utf code and not use the " or it breaks the app. Aside from that works gravy... I'll have a rough google translated version up in a bit as well as all the missed strings
580 strings :\
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Are these all the strings for the entire app

Here's a really rough translation... pretty much enough to let you play around with it.
Honestly I don't even know if this is worth translating considering you have to pay them to get full features. Sure, I could patch the software to work without registering but that isn't very legal.
Also looks like I missed a few strings. Tell me if you want to keep going on

samspoon said:
Here's a really rough translation... pretty much enough to let you play around with it.
Honestly I don't even know if this is worth translating considering you have to pay them to get full features. Sure, I could patch the software to work without registering but that isn't very legal.
Also looks like I missed a few strings. Tell me if you want to keep going on
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Are you serious you have to pay for it??? Damn I'm about to jump ship over that one

Keep going. Has enough features to be useful.
Sent from my top secret hand held device. (first of all....hand held)

noxiouskill said:
Keep going. Has enough features to be useful.
Sent from my top secret hand held device. (first of all....hand held)
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Ok ok still going but could someone get me a cracked version because i'm about to spend 6 hours on this thing and I would at least like the full version for myself
Edit: 3 down 117 to go

Stalte said:
Ok ok still going but could someone get me a cracked version because i'm about to spend 6 hours on this thing and I would at least like the full version for myself
Edit: 3 down 117 to go
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To get any crack version lets get the must important things first n thats a English version to let evryone used it n than someone will get there hands on it n it's easier to make any mods or crack versions etc....even though it does have a pay version. These version still got alot of features. N its still useful
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[TOOL][BETA] ID Wizard

Hey
Aplologies if this is in the wrong place! Please move if necessary.
So a while ago I tried Untermenschs Resource Mapper.
It worked ok but it would sometimes miss ID's and sometimes would find ID's incorrectly where the same name existed for say a string and an id.
I was porting lockscreens through SGS2 firmwares, had excel 2003 installed and a bit of VBA knowledge so thought I'd give it a go myself.
It works on the same principal. Mod your framework-res.apk with the images, strings,ids,layouts etc etc. Compile and get your new public.xml.
I used this on files I had ported code across into from android.policy.jar and framework.jar.
When prompted, give the tool your old roms public.xml and the new one. Show it where the files are that you have ported the code across into and it will look up the IDs names and types in the old public and then find the new ID in the new public and change the file accordingley. It comments that line with the type and name for easy identification in the same way untermenschs tool did but includes the type as well.
IT OVERWRITES THE FILES, SO MAKE SURE THEY'RE NOT YOUR ONLY COPY, JUST IN CASE!
Excel 2003 is needed as I only realised afterwards that they removed filesearch from excel 2007 inwards. I will redo that part of the routine.
The code is scrappy and Im certainly no expert when it comes to VBA but this has worked 100% in the last 2 ports we have tried. The 10 lockscreens for SGS2 KL1 and 11 for SGS1 JW1.
Please someone try it and let me know how it goes. Would be nice to see if its working good for others or failing miserably.
If it saves someone as much time as it saved me in the last port it will be worth posting
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Extract UI strings from firmware / device

Hi.
Before I start with my question, just a little background. I work in a user guide development firm, and mainly work on Galaxy devices.
One of the most time-consuming process in my work is to match all UI strings (app names, menu text, labels, etc) of the actual device with the user guide.
This is currently being done with human power, with a staff looking at the user guide, check the device if this is correct, and annotate the draft PDF if the UI strings don't match.
If this was for just one language, it's doable. But with 40 or so languages (including Arabic, Cyrillic, Chinese), it definitely makes me want to puke.
This is a very tiring, eye-straining work that I'm trying to resolve, for everyone's sake.
I tried decompressing the Galaxy firmware myself, but the XML data is encoded into binary(for what reason I have no idea), and is not readable.
So now I'm turning to the masters and hope for any luck.
What I would like to know is ...
Hack the Galaxy firmware(md5), and extract UI strings for all language and save in spreadsheet or something, or
Mirror the device's screen on the desktop, copy the desired UI string, and paste it to a desktop application(e.g. Adobe Acrobat).
If the first option is possible, then I can utilize the data for some sort of automation, and would be the best.
If the second option is possible, then I would no longer have to type all kinds of foreign characters(this is also a very time-consuming work), and make some progress in timeline.
If all options are not possible, and there's absolutely no way of automating this process, then well... I guess I'll go see the eye doctor more often than now.
Any ideas or helps would be great.
Thank you.

Database Info

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