[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario Software Upgrading] edhaas:
Official German Aku 3.3 Rom-In English! (Sort of)

OK, I'm addicted. I couldn't just be happy with my nice x-plore 1.1 rom because my wifi stopped on me, and there's always the possibility that the "other rom" will be better, faster, etc. So, the latest official Wizard rom is this one, but its in German. So what to do? Try to get it to run in English, or as close a possible. In the end, I "almost" succeeded, and think I was on the right path, but the reality of needing a functional Wizard for daily life superseded, and I'm back to x-plore for now until the bug hits again. So, for those who want to pick up where I left off, here's what I learned:

How to get the thing running in English (pretty much).

First of all, you should be pretty comfortable flashing roms, and with the WM5-6 interface. This will help when you are confronted with a familiar icon with an unfamiliar label.

Step 1) Back up your old rom, in the likely event you get tired of the whole thing and want to go back the tried and true.

Step 2) Flash the new rom. (you know how to do this already, been there, done that, several times). I soft-reset before the extended rom loaded, so I don't know what that does.

Step 3) Using file explorer (look for the familiar icon, it's called datum-something), create a new subdirectory in the windows directory called "Start Menu", (no quotes), in this subdirectory put a shortcut to "fexplore.exe" which you'll find in the windows directory.

Step 4) Load a registry editor, and using it's search function, search for "MUI", anywhere you find keys with that name, replace any values you find of "407" or "1031", with "409" or "1033" respectively. Exit the registry editor, wait about 10 seconds, and do a soft reset.

When the machine reboots, you will see the interface has changed dramatically to mostly English, and is generally usable by English speakers who are familar with WM5-6. However, issues remain:

1) You will have to build your own start menu by copying the folders in the German one to the "Start Menu" folder you created above. You can copy and paste the whole programme and settings (I forget the German name) folders from one place to the other.

2) Change your region and time settings to correct values.

3) Connect with activesync as guest, and load your backup program, and backup your work so far to your sd card.

4) Next, you can rename all the shortcuts which remain in German (many will revert to English on their own), to English.

Now you can start loading programs and setting up as you'd like. If you re-synch with outlook, initially you will see Kalendar, etc for Calendar, but that goes away after a few times. You can use a tweak to change the left softkey label to English (the right one changes on its own).

Generally, I liked the clean interface, and it seemed pretty quick. I would have kept working on it except for the following: The interface between Pocket Informant and the phone app, didn't work. (I'm used to tapping on the phone number and the phone automatically dialing). This was the breaker for me, and I didn't have time to figure it out.

Other issues (that likely could be resolved): 1) The onscreen keyboard remains in German. You could load your own keyboard (Resco, Fitaly) and they work fine. Or you could probably copy the appropriate English version into the windows directory from an English rom. 2) The word completion and spell dictionaries are in German. I turned them off, but again you could probably copy English ones in. 3) You will need to copy the templates into a new "Templates" directory in order for the Office applications to be happy. 4) If you want the tray, etc, copy the shortcuts in the "Autostart" folder into a new "StartUp" directory

Well, thats about as far as I got with it. I think with enough time one could do an almost complete transformation. But maybe its easier to just wait for T-Mobile to give us the WWE edition down the road!

Regards,