Change Language

Looks great, Dutch or Swiss if im not mistaken
Tell us how did you do it?

Originally Posted by AlexNesterov

Originally Posted by nice2know_u

You don't need any extra softwares except the one Alexnesterov has, or Resource Hacker. It's really easy to do the translations, I figured it out for myself too

You have to copy all the .mui files from Windows directory with M8's browser to a folder on Disk, and then you can edit the files with one of the programs. Once you're done you have to overwrite the original files in Windows directory and restart the phone.

Please read the older posts next time.

You are all great... is this software can set the default keyboard to english? Can you share again the file from Alexnesterov, i cant see it anymore here on the thread. Thank you , thank you very much.

This is great... so it can make the keyboard default to English? Can you share again the software from Alexnesterov.

Thank you very much.

How do you copy a modified mui file back to the phone? i am uing vista and cannot get permission to over-write the file on the phone?

You have to do it within M8, with the file browser (explorer.exe).

would you have download an extra language, or just create it from scratch?

Any chance someone could post up a DETAILED tutorial on how to edit the phone's original files? Instead of all the cryptic answers and uninformative info? Thanks for trying to help, but not everyone can read completely through the blacked out lines :s

Originally Posted by tails2

Any chance someone could post up a DETAILED tutorial on how to edit the phone's original files? Instead of all the cryptic answers and uninformative info? Thanks for trying to help, but not everyone can read completely through the blacked out lines :s

When you read all posts clearly, it have to work.

step 1. Download Resource Editor
step 2. Find the MUI files on your phone (dir: Windows)
step 3. Open files with Resource Editor
Step 4. Edit with Resource Editor
Step 5. Save files to directory Windows
Step 6. Restart Mobile
Step 7. Check changes

I hope its Clear now.. Have fun

@Error: Thanks... just curious, do you read chinese?

Ok.. here goes my report of how to change stuff in M8: I choose to change the clock city name as well as keep the time from changing everytime i synced my phone to PC.

I am not a programmer/developer by far... Basically this cheats the system in displaying my city name and keeps the clock from resetting to the time of the city whose name i changed in the M8... I choose to change Beijing to Dubai; this method, i believe, doesn't add the city Dubai instead of Beijing, i think Beijing must be hardcoded in the clock software, but what it does is fool the system in reporting Beijing as Dubai. So, is not a real substitute from having a full world clock on the M8, plus its also not permanent, will have to be done after every fw. Also i don't know if this could be done in some simpler method.

Two step method involves changing a registry value as well as the mui:

For Registry Edit:

HKLM\Time Zones
If you expand the time zones key, you will see all the reported world time zones, pick yours; then enter that key name into the 'default' string of HKLM\Time Zones - replacing: China Standard Time

To change the city name in the clock program:
I use this resource editor:
XN Resource Editor
from the 'windows' directory of the M8 i copied clock.exe.0409.mui to my PC desktop.
Opened the file with the resource editor... goto string 42 or 43 and change the name of any city you want, keep the '|' in between the GMT number, city name and country name.
Also curious note, all GMT +/- are reversed in this string. For example Beijing is actually +8, but the number next to beijing is -8, don't know why. There are three chinese cities in the clock list all +8 GMT, those are the ones i choose to change... don't know if you can add a city here, didn't try, as i don't know much about this stuff.

Now save the file.
Copy the changed file to a temp directory on the M8.
Then goto 'documents' from the main menu.. goto windows folder and launch explorer.exe
now, in explorer find your changed file on the M8, copy it and place it in the windows directory. restart the phone.

NOTE: Explorer.exe is in chinese, but navigation and cutting pasting is easy to figure out. When it comes time to replacing the changed file in windows directory a chinese pop asks if you want to replace or not replace (just like in windows) - i don't read chinese but i pressed the very first button, and this apparently does the job.

Hope this helps, feel free to point out what i did wrong!

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Originally Posted by MaikelRunia

When you read all posts clearly, it have to work.

step 1. Download Resource Editor
step 2. Find the MUI files on your phone (dir: Windows)
step 3. Open files with Resource Editor
Step 4. Edit with Resource Editor
Step 5. Save files to directory Windows
Step 6. Restart Mobile
Step 7. Check changes

I hope its Clear now.. Have fun

Thank you very much MaikelRunia, the procedure are very clear,
and yet where can we get the item 1, the "resource editor"?

thanks to both of you for your help.

maikel, how did you add an icon that was previously not on the dektop? specifically the phone icon, and does it do what it should, as in access the phone function?

ohh.... Anxiousone.. just posted the link of resource editor.... thank you man..

Ok here goes how to modify the language on your phone:

1. You have to download Resource Hacker from here. I have only used this so don't know about other programs.
2. Go to the Windows directory of your M8 (from M8's file browser) and run explorer.exe from there
3. Go to Windows directory again (still on M8) and then View menu > 3rd option from the top
4. Press on the 3rd column's top to sort the files by extension, then select all files with MUI extension just like you would do it on your computer



5. After you selected the files go to Edit > Ctrl+C then go back to Disk directory and paste all files to a directory of your choice (File > Ctr+V) - The reason you have to do all this is because you can't reach the Windows directory from your PC.
6. You can now connect the phone to your computer and copy all those MUI files to a directory of your choice (be sure to backup the original files, in case something goes wrong)
7. Open one of those files with the Resource Hacker



8. After you edit something you have to press the Compile Script button, and then save the file in File menu.
9. Once you modified something copy the MUI file back to M8's Disk folder, and launch Windows>explorer.exe again
10. Select the file(s) you just copied on your phone, and go to Edit>Ctrl+C
11. Browse Windows directory and go to Edit>Ctrl+V
12. If a dialog box pops up asking you if you want to overwrite the original file just press the first button.
Note: in some cases the original file can't be overwritten. One workaround I found is to rename the original file to whatever you want, then you can copy your modified one
13. In order to see the changes you made, restart the phone, and if you did everything right, you now have a modified UI



I hope everything was clear, but if not, feel free to ask questions.

opps... looks like this is complex to do than expected... better wait to my gadget expert friend to complete the software to have the keyboard default to English. ... (just let me do the rubik's cube from 2x2x2 up to 7x7x7 and square 1... hehehe)

Hey, MaikelRunia can you post the dutch translation? i like to have it!

ciao

Its not yet ready..

Originally Posted by tails2

thanks to both of you for your help.

maikel, how did you add an icon that was previously not on the dektop? specifically the phone icon, and does it do what it should, as in access the phone function?

How to Change icon order and Name

Search for Phone and set ishide to 0

thanks, ill try it out