Chinese Language/Input on N95 8GB?

bum · 9 Jan 2008 at 18:54

As the title said folks. I just got my N95 8GB on 3 network yesterday. Amazing phone with amazing camera, totally love it except it's much more complicated compared to the usual mobile phones. I am still trying to figure out much about Symbian OS and firmware upgrade.

Every year I go to China for fair bit times visiting friends, family etc (hence, I need Chinese text input in order to send/receive texts). Usually whenever I get a new phone, I would always just go to a phone dealer in China Town to get my phone changed (debranding, getting Chinese version of OS)

However, with this N95 8GB, I know it's an expensive and complicated phone and I would rather try to change it myself than just handing it out to strangers easily. I know you can update firmware yourself and customize the OS for quite a bit. So please would anyone who's experienced with N95 and Symbian OS shed some light on how, if possible I could add Chinese input on my N95 8GB?

Do I need to debrand it first from 3 network and install new OS? Thanks in advance

Wingz · 9 Jan 2008 at 19:19

I have a software for the N95 which lets me type in Chinese but because my phone is from the UK it can not read Chinese so would need to flash the firmware with a language pack which has English and Chinese.

bum · 9 Jan 2008 at 19:29

Wingz said:
I have a software for the N95 which lets me type in Chinese but because my phone is from the UK it can not read Chinese so would need to flash the firmware with a language pack which has English and Chinese.

So that pretty much means debranding and getting new firmware right? I attempted to update the firmware (ver. 11) but probably because it was branded by 3 network it wont even let me get the latest version (ver. 15)

Wingz · 9 Jan 2008 at 20:02

bun said:
So that pretty much means debranding and getting new firmware right? I attempted to update the firmware (ver. 11) but probably because it was branded by 3 network it wont even let me get the latest version (ver. 15)

you need to change the product code on with phone (see Here) if you change the code to 0555181 it will flash a Malaysian firmware which has English, Bahasa Melayu & Simplified Chinese.

edit: or use 0557980 for China/Hong Kong, should have English in it as well.