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Re: Some Nokia N900 Hong Kong Edition Screenshots

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Originally Posted by syncdot (Post 642802)

That's a good find! You're absolutely right, the patch allows your IMEI to be usable by Penpower.

Here's a translation by myself if anyone is having difficulty following w/o knowing Chinese.

1. This step is basically telling those who already has Chinese localization in their N900 to uninstall it by first changing the system language to English.

2. In App Manager, search and download mscim-n900-ppinputmethod. (I believe as of now it's only available in extras-devel, and so the usual warning applies)

3. Download the patch provided by the link (NOTE: I've tried downloading but apparently you need to be a member of the forum with at least '5 forum currency'...) Extract the files on to desktop.

4. Upload the 4 extracted files into "usr/lib/scim-1.0/1.4.0/Helper" in your N900 and replace the existing ones. The example uses WinSCP, but I'm sure you can use other method such as SSH.

5. Get your IMEI number (i.e Settings > About)

6. Open X-Terminal enter these commands:
sudo gainroot [press enter]
sed -i"s/033336155/xxx/g" /usr/share/scim/pphwrwp/database/libpprecog.so [press enter]

Where xxx is the last 9 digit of your IMEI.

7. When all is successful with no errors, restart N900. Then you can change the system language to Chinese Traditional HK, Chinese Traditional TW, or Chinese Simplified PRC, and then enable the MSCIM input methods. Here's the settings for the MSCIM in their order:

- Activate GooglePinyin
- Activate Zhuyin
- Activate Pinyin
- Activate Handwriting
- Activate Cangjie

8. To uninstall everything, change the system language to English and uninstall "mscim-n900-ppinputmethod" and "n900-locales-ppchinese" via App Manager.

Hopefully this is helpful for those who want to experiment. As stated I'm unable to download the patch. I'll try to sign up for the forum tonight after work and see if I can download it and test out this badass penpower input.

Edit: The author of that post had a small review of Penpower. Basically he said that it's still full of bugs. For instance, when you are typing Chinese, if you don't close out of the input window, the input window will stay on the screen. He also specified that the Penpower app takes a lot of rootfs space. According to him, it's about 40mb. I guess I'll have to free up my root before attempting this out.

I have managed to register and download the patch. am i allowed to attach it here?

Just to let you guys know that the patch does work and the writing pad comes up and is working

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Originally Posted by Souseke (Post 642571)

if you press that red icon to the left it allows you to change between different methods. the only thing i miss with the mscim method is the sym button for various symbols.
i will experiment with the patch tonight...

Yes, I figured as much. But when I press it, nothing happens. Is it working for you (in the "Chinese Pad" mode)?

Great news and thanks for the translation :) I'm gonna try it just to see how it works..

And, since the content of the package is actually under the LGPL licence, as attila77 pointed out, I think its not illegal to modify it and redistribute? Please correct me if I'm wrong because I don't know much about it.

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the red icon has always worked for me. its working with writing pad mode but i now have no use for it as you can write symbols on the writing pad

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Originally Posted by Souseke (Post 642869)

I have managed to register and download the patch. am i allowed to attach it here?

Just to let you guys know that the patch does work and the writing pad comes up and is working

That's very good news! I've registered and seems like you get 50 forum currency off the bat so I was able to download the patch too. I'm not sure about attaching it here - Perhaps host it on other server and link it?

I'm still in the process of figuring what apps I can delete to free up my rootfs. Just wondering how much free space did you have prior to installation and how much after?

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i had about 51MB on rootfs before installation. its now down to 23MB so when pr1.2 comes out, i am going to have to remove penpower first before upgrading.

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I am unable to register there, the verification email just does not arrive (tried twice)... Could you please send the patch to lukkash<you-know-what>email<dot>cz? Thanks!

Although, as I already said, the files in the package are released under LGPL so it should be ok to attach the patch here (since its not illegal to modify and distribute the files).

Re: Some Nokia N900 Hong Kong Edition Screenshots

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Originally Posted by lukash (Post 644368)

I've emailed it to yourself, however here is the link
https://www.yousendit.com/download/O...cGtGOFJFQlE9PQ

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Can you please reupload the patch? The file from that link has expired unfortunately :(

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cane someone host that patch again ?

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so what does this do? support handwriting input??

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Originally Posted by Souseke (Post 644770)

I've emailed it to yourself, however here is the link
https://www.yousendit.com/download/O...cGtGOFJFQlE9PQ

The file has expired, can you repost it?
Many thanks.

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It's been awhile since my last post. I managed to finally test out the MSCIM Pen Power input after upgrading the phone to PR 1.2 firmware - which was a great choice, because I had plenty more rootfs space without deleting any apps. Even more better, the whole installation took only a couple of megabytes in the rootfs (instead of the 40MB mentioned in the Chinese website). It was only a 2% increase in my usage capacity.

Just to reiterate, this is to allow the Chinese input method found on the HK N900 to be used on phones with non-HK IMEI and I've to say it works brilliantly. The original installation file is already on the maemo extras-devel repository (with the same usual warning!!) and following the instructions posted on this Chinese forum. So all credit goes to them. For those who can't read Chinese and want to try, I've translated the instruction on a couple of posts back. For people who wants the patch, I've uploaded to here.

My thoughts:

Easy to use and works flawlessly
Handwriting recognition works perfectly - but only for Chinese characters though. Surprisingly scribbly Chinese is right on the mark, while numbers and English alphabets are harder to recognize and require a more "precise handwriting"
There's a couple of drawbacks, however:
- On-screen keyboard is gone.. for good
- FN-SYM/CTRL symbols layout is gone too (but can be compensated through handwriting recognition i.e ~ ^)
- Maybe it's me or maybe it's the program, but it doesn't work in MicroB... tried a couple of key combos but the input still didn't not appear. Only method was to type the Chinese in notepad and then copy over to MicroB.
- When typing in PinYin, you can only type one character at a time

Overall, I think this is a great Chinese input package, and best of all it doesn't gobble my rootfs! Out of all the input methods, I prefer the handwriting recognition because it's precise and fast.

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there has been an update to penpower. do not update as the patch does not work anymore :(

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The penpower still works fine here after the update. What does not work for you?

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it says invalid imei

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Originally Posted by Souseke (Post 725581)

it says invalid imei

Just reapply the patch and it'll work. (i.e go through replacing the files and then doing the command line thingy)

Sorry i missed out on what you said earlier. Have you tried restarting the device after applying the patch? Mine gave me the IMEI error after updating, but went away after the patch.

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i did do that. what i forgot to do was restart the phone. doh! everything is working fine now.

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hi does anyone know if there are Chinese apps or a Chinese catalog? Would be great if there's a real mahjong game.

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Originally Posted by holysocks (Post 725612)

hi does anyone know if there are Chinese apps or a Chinese catalog? Would be great if there's a real mahjong game.

People are having hell lots of fun running old dos games with DOSBox, and I'm sure you wouldn't have problem finding hundreds different versions of DOS mahjong games from...google. XD

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hello, anybody can send me the patch file for penpower n900, i can't download through the link above. Thanks.^^

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i found another location to download the patch:

http://www.maemoers.com/viewthread.php?tid=3105

and its from another maemo forum

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I installed penpower (1.0.0-2010072302) and also the patch on a phone purchased in Australia (and with Australian warranty I believe). Later, I removed penpower (and everything related to mscim) and re-installed because of what I thought were conflicts with programs like google-pinyin. Strangely, I don't have any complaints about IMEI now, even though all the patched files in /usr/lib/scim-1.0/1.4.0/Helper have been replaced with the originals! Just as strangely, I wasn't able to access penpower when I rebooted after the first install, even though I thought I had installed the patch and used the "sed" command correctly.

It is a shame that mscim gets rid of the onscreen keyboard. I have this awful feeling that the predictive text is also missing after installing mscim.

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guys, i found a much better tutorial and its simple to install, just need the app manager or faster app manager: watch this video, it incldues how to install, and usage. don't need to know chinese to understand (lol ironic)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouqhm...eature=related