Originally Posted by syncdot

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.

Originally Posted by Souseke

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...

Originally Posted by Souseke

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

Originally Posted by lukash

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).