[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] Alcibiade:
You just got your X01HT and would like to use the latest WM6 ROM in English with your Softbank account ?

Here is a quick guide, gathering information that has been exchanged and spread accross many threads on this forum (Searches can be fastidious, I know that well...)

I have been reading this forum a lot, keeping on asking questions to everybody, so it's time I contribute a bit to help by describing step by step how I switched my Japanese WM5 Softbank X01HT to a WM6 English device

This post is target at Gaijins who want an English WM6, but still want to be able to use Japanese with it. For a Japanese MUI or ROM, I guess Asukal will probably publish something :)

***EDIT: for a 100% Japanese ROM, you can now have it here: http://buzzdev.net/index.php?option...um_query=read,40,30486,30597,page=2#msg-30597 ***

I was first willing to cook a ROM including all these, in order to spare some space on my HERMES. I had already cooked an "intermediary" one when Tadzio issued his method to make a "shrinked" OS ROM that would allow you to use the spare space from the ROM

Since this, no point in adding all these mods in my ROM :)

First: making flashing safe

Download Hard-SPL-V2 from the great Olipro to avoid bricking your device. Here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=296722

Install it

Then, get your ROM.

Download the_passenger ROM shrink version of LVSW 20070320 ROM (More space available) and install it (Read threads about flashing ROMs if you are not familiar with that...)

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=8YJATBPG

Install the Softbank AP Settings for your internet connection. You really WANT that. Big thanks to itamae without whom we'd be stuck on first of April this year... (Or I'd still be using WM5)

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=298031

Now you need a Registry editor

I am used to PHM Regedit. You can find it there for free:

http://www.phm.lu/Products/PocketPC/RegEdit/

To map properly your Softbank Keyboard, do the following registry modifications:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Oem\Qwerty] "Layout"= 30411 (Hexadecimal base)

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\keyboard layout\Preload] "Default"= e0010411

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\keyboard layout\Preload\1] "Default"= e0010411

More details here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=286787&highlight=keyboard+x01HT

To allow the video Call key to appear on your phone keypad, modify the registry as follows:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Security\Phone\Skin] Enabled = 1

Optional: getting rid of useless trayapp (It looks nice... but it Slows down the Hermes and you can replace it with better apps)

Delete TrayApp key from [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\init]

Fix the disappearing micro SD (Doesnt really work for mine... But could work for yours...)

[HKLM\System\StorageManager]"PNPUnloadDelay" = dword:8196 (Decimal base)

[HKLM\System\StorageManager]"PNPWaitIODelay" = dword:8196 (Decimal base)

More details here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=294324

Now time to have your Hermes speak Japanese :)

Japanese fonts

Use the excellent work from Asukal, that you can find here:

http://www.asukal.jp/WM5/LetsJapanNo5.zip

I did have a problem with it: once I executed it, I could not sync with my Exchange server (Quite a pain for my push email account...)

Asukal found the solution: edit the registry, and change

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Mobem\CE-Star] "MyNLS" = "\windows\wince.nls"

Japanese input

Not using for myself, but these work perfectly (I tried):

http://www.asukal.jp/WM5/BagojsINPUT.zip

*** EDIT

If you prefer a Japanese input without the annoying "Floating bar", ie just the same input way as your original WM5 Softbank ROM, just downlaod and install the "MS IME31 J" link from Asukal's page:

http://hn801.hkes.com/Data/SIP/IME_31J_QVGA_F.zip

*** /EDIT

Silent mode switch

You're going to be missing the Softbank unique way of switching to silent mode (Only available in Softbank ROM)

The way to go around this is by using Vibra

Details available here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=277811&highlight=vibra

Download here: http://xdaforums.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=31657&d=1164714506

MMS

Softbank's MMS System is a pain because it's incompatible with "classic" MMS systems...

You can download Softbank's software... But... it's slow, big, bulky, ugly, etc... If you dont mind missing the emoticons, you should go for MMSLite

Regedit, Look for Arcsoft. Delete all references to Arcsoft (Sometimes need to be done in several times, some entries being in use if you have by mistake launched MMS Composer once since your flash of the OS...)

If you dont do these eletions, MMSLite will actually not install...

Downlaod and install MMSLite

http://xdaforums.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=33982&d=1170599400

It should work perfectly !

I you have enough courage (And ONLY after having installed Hard-SPL 1.11 !!!), you can try flashing your radio

You dont have to... but the latest 1.38 does seem to grant an improved battery life

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=297925

Now you're done, you have a great phone with a faster OS, more storage space, improved battery life, that works perfectly with Softbank AP, can use Softbank proprietary MMS system, and can read and write Japanese :)

After, there are lots of other things you can do, like mounting your Extended ROM to gain extra space, Unlock the SIM, etc, etc... But it is not the purpose of this thread. Have fun reading the forum, it is well documented in other threads

Have fun !!