[Sable] tOz666:
If anybody is interested in translation, here's a quick and dirty howto, focused in spanish, but can be adapted easily to any available langpack:

This part of the tutorial works for every device I tested that has wm6.1 only in english (i look at you, chinese-made clones)

Basically, i've used RealVGA and the spanish language pack (ESN).

With that installed you'll have all basic wm6.1 apps and menus translated in your language. However, the MUI files included in langpacks are from previous builds of WM6.1 and some apps (notes and Pocket Excel, for example), will not work or show incorrectly placed text and items (memory settings dialog).

What we should do is obtain MUI's from an appropriated build of wm6.1, here's one that will work.

Download your language pack and extract it somewhere in your hard drive.

The files in the packs are distributed in folders, we basically need every .mui file, but to obtain the files there is some work to be done before, if we look in the Base_Lang_xxxx folder, well see some more folders like gwes.exe.xxxx.mui, filesys.exe.xxxx.mui, etc. inside these folders there are files like imageinfo.txt, imageinfo.bin and S00.

We need to convert these three last files into the final file, that will be named like the parent folder, for example gwes.exe.0c0a.mui

for that we'll use nueRecMod, converting the files is easy, just drag and drop a

folder

containing imageinfo.txt, imageinfo.bin and S00, S001 to the nueRecMod executable and the final MUI file will appear. that's the files we need.

Collect them all, its easier to do if you do a search in the main folder of the pack and search for *.mui files, NOT folders), and take them to other place.

Spanish users no need to worry, here's the files I converted

Then just install realVGA cab, and then the realVGA langpack.

DO NO RUN REAL VGA NOW

, just now copy the files you prepared earlier from your storage card to the Windows folder of your hw6915,

overwriting existing ones.

I recommend to use Total Commander for that, windows file explorer will/can give errors and/or not allow you to do such task.

With files in place you can now run RealVGA, choose your language and apply changes. The device will reboot, and if all went well you'll see your hw6915 with wm6.1 in your language :D:D:D

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You'll see some errors telling you that bluetooth stack failed to start, that can be fixed easily, that happens because RealVGA didn't put your startup windows folder in your language, and startup has an item to run the bt stack, apparently.

Just create a folder inside windows with startup in your language, and copy all startup files into that folder. In Spanish, the folder must be named "Inicio"

Then change the registry key HKLM\System\Explorer\Shell Folders\StartUp to match your language, ex. "\Windows\Inicio". Reboot and it will be fine now.

If your want your hw6915 hardware keyboard in your language, change the regkey:

HKLM\Software\OEM\Qwerty\Layout

in hexadecimal, from 20409 to your language code, that's 2+languagecode, for spanish keyboard its 20c0a for example. You have languagecodes here

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However for the case of the hw6915 it's not perfect yet, we have translated the standard wm6.1 part of the ROM, but no HP-specific apps (camera, settings apps, bluetooth dialogs, etc). The easiest method I found is, copying the MUI and EXE files from one of my phones with spanish rom to my other phone with wm6.1 (I have two hw6915, one with NO GSM :()

Sadly the only easily identifiable files are MUI files, i'm in the process of testing which files are hw6915 specific and putting them to wm6.1

Right now I have almost all HP settings dialogs translated (think these are from the mui's), bluetooth dialogs (copied all bt*.dll files and got the interface translated, yay) keyguard (its just keyguard.exe, no mui for this, exe already in your language), and I'm missing camera and some settings dialogs, will find 'em and put 'em when I have the time. I've also obtained the ipaqwireless today plugin and i'm using it in wm6.1 with no problems, however the todayplugin for battery time, brightness,and storage status locks out the phone, be warned or you'll have to hard reset. Also obtained HTM files that are for translating help, and all.

I tried to find a tool that dissects the ROM file of wm5 upgrader into the actual files, without messing with a device with an already installed ROM, but none I tried worked. That's a pity, because that can be useful to obtain files and put them available to everybody with not so much problem. Also it would be great to cook roms with the languages integrated for people to flash it with no hassles.

These are my findings as of now, any questions, feel free to ask ;)