How to change your cellphone’s keyboard layout to German QWERTZ on Windows Mobile 6.1

Wow, what a headline… Anyway, I’ve upgraded my HTC S730 / Wings yesterday from Windows Mobile 6 to 6.1 and noticed the keyboard layout was set to QWERTY with no natural support for Umlauts 😦
So I did some research and found a way to solve this problem.

1. Download ‘Koteshi’s Windows Mobile 6.1 customizing pack‘ and unzip it.
2. Go to ‘german keyboard layout’ and copy the file ‘eT9.Wings.0407.kmap.txt‘ to your cellphone’s ‘Windows‘ folder
3. Start your favorite registry editor for windows mobile devices. Mine is CeRegEditor which can be downloaded at ceregeditor.mdsoft.pl
4. Locate ‘HKLM\Software\Tegic\eT9\IME\KeyboardLayouDlls‘.
5. Change the value of ‘000007FF‘ to ‘eT9.Wings.0407.kmap.txt‘.
6. Reboot.

Done! ^^ Wasn’t that hard, was it?

How to install German T9 on your Windows Mobile 6.1 cellphone

This also works on Windows Mobile 6. Here we go:

1. Download ‘Koteshi’s Windows Mobile 6.1 customizing pack‘ and unzip it.
2. Goto ‘german T9‘ folder, copy the ‘german.cab‘ file to your cellphone and start the installation from there.
3. After you rebooted you will be able to use German T9 🙂

How to install a Chinese font on your Windows Mobile 6.1 cellphone

First of all: This also works on Windows Mobile 6.
So, let’s begin.

1. Download ‘Koteshi’s Windows Mobile 6.1 customizing pack‘ and unzip it.
2. Goto ‘chinese font‘ folder, copy the ‘wm6szh.cab‘ file to your cellphone and start the installation from there.
3. After you rebooted your cell, you are able to read chinese characters.
4. Remember you can only read them. If you want to write chinese you propably need ‘CE-Star‘ or ‘Monster Chinese‘ cause they provide an IME

Known issues with 6.1:

• Background of your homescreen looks plain green.

Solution:

• Switch your Home Screen at ‘Start\Settubgs\Home Screen‘ to ‘HTC‘, go to the homescreen and then switch it back to ‘Sliding Panel Media‘

That’s it 😉

How to upgrade to Windows Mobile 6.1 on HTC s730 / Wings

I’ve created a little package which includes all the files needed for installing Windows Mobile 6.1 on your HTC S730 / Wings cellphone. Kudos to Alcaline over at xda developers who have cooked this wonderful rom.

REMEMBER: BACKUP YOUR FILES BEFORE YOU PROCEED CAUSE THEY WILL BE GONE AFTER THE UPDATE. USE AT OWN RISK!

Now let’s have some fun:

1. First of all you need to install something on your cell called ‘HardSPL’. This will allow us to install our flash rom.
2. Download windows-mobile-6.1-htc-s730-wings.rar so you’ll have all the needed files and unzip it.
3. Remove all SIM and SD CARD!
4. Connect the USB cable.
5. Start the ‘SDA_ApplicationUnlock.exe‘ file located in the unzipped HardSPL folder to unlock your cellphone.
6. Create a SPL backup by running ‘spl-backup.bat‘ from SPL-backup-kit folder.
7. Copy ‘sspl-0.91-wings.exe‘ to your cellphone and run it from there. Your cell will reboot and you get the ‘dev mode color screen’. After some time USB will appear on the screen.
8. To make sure everything will work fine, unplug and replug the usb cable. Your PC might want to install the cellphone and if it asks for some driver, use the ‘htcrt_devices.ini‘ file.
9. Now it is time to flash the ‘hardspl-0.91-wings.nbh‘ by running ‘CustomRUU.exe‘ from flash-hardspl-wings folder.
10. Cross fingers 😉
11. OK, if this worked we are now able to upgrade to Windows Mobile 6.1 🙂
12. Run the before mentioned ‘sspl-0.91-wings.exe‘ on your cell. Your mobile will once again reboot and you get the ‘dev mode color screen’ you already know. After some time USB will appear on the screen.
13. Now start ‘ROMUpdateUtility.exe‘ which is located in the RUU_Wings_HTC_WWE_Alcaline_61 folder.
14. If everything goes well, your cellphone reboots and you have done it! Congrats ^^

PS: MAYBE your phone behaves a bit strange after the first start mine did so. Simply reboot again and everything is normal.

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Have you ever tried so hard that the solution for your problem semmed so obvious and you didn’t got it?
My case was the the camPRX flasher tool. That’s why I created a small tutorial so all the guys out there won’t have the same problems.

Here you’ll get my tutorial and if you need further help, contact me via ICQ (#325-507-008) or MSN (koteshi@web.de).

Have fun 🙂

***UPDATE***

Koteshi’s little tutorial for running Chotto Shot WITH cam on a PSP with 2.71-SE B

With the camPRX application you are able to flash the usbcam.prx and the usbmic.prx
to your custom 2.71 SE firmware and run the PSP camera (Chotto Shot) without updating to 2.80.

Files needed:
– chotto-shot.iso.cso
– usbcam Superscription Flash v0.2
– the 2.80 PRX files (usbcam.prx , usbmic.prx)

Place the included files as follows:
ms0:/usbcam.prx
ms0:/usbmic.prx
ms0:/PSP/GAME150/271SE-UC/EBOOT.PSP
ms0:/ISO/chotto-shot.iso.cso

– Start “usbcam Superscription v0.2”
– Select the the option * Copy usbmicPRX from ms:/usbmic.prx” and press X
– After that select * Copy usbcamPRX from ms0:/usbcam.prx” and press X
– If you did everything right there will a text appear telling you the files were
copied successfully
– press start to exit
– start the chotto shot iso by selecting it like you did with the flasher tool in the XMB menu
if you get the following errors:
-> 80020321 – make sure you have an UMD inserted. Don’t know if Chotto Shot is NOUMD compatible and was too lazy to test it 😉
-> 80110306 – you’re savegame is corupted. Make a new one 😉
– The cam’s red light should be blinking for a short time when you start this iso
– After lots of Japanese Katakana, Hiragana and Kanjis you should be able to run the cam now
– Have fun :o)

I hope you guys will get this to work. If someone wants to contact me cause you don’t found the needed files so far, leave a comment and I will contact you.