Add Cyrillic Support (Bulgarian / Russian
letters) to your Nokia 9300i mobile through Psiloc Crystal
Cyrillic
Since quite some time, I'm researching on how to add Cyrillic
letters support to my Nokia 9300i.
Russian language has emerged (was conveyed) some many years ago to
Russia as a derivative from Bulgarian. The initial Cyrillic
alphabet as hopefully we all know was created by
the Saint
brothers Cyril and Methodius who developed the cyrillic
alphabet in the 8th century. Later on some of their invented new
alphabet letters went through a development (simplification) done
by the 7 pupils of the Holy brothers.
Many people are not aware that the Slavonic language e.g. the
created alphabet and consequently language by st. Cyril and
Methodius was prepared with the ultimate Goal to translate The Holy
Bible.
Anyways let's go back to the initial task of adding cyrillic
support for Nokia 9300i.
Since Russian language is again cyrillic and contains all the
cyrillic letters which are available in the Bulgarian alphabet as
well. Finding any software that is able to do russification of the
Nokia 9300i environment would do the trick of adding cyrillic to
the Nokia.
Few months earlier I tried a couple of ways to add the slavonic
cyrillic letters support for my native language Bulgarian.
One of the Softwares I tried and I couldn't make work was called
RUNokia
. This bit of software was initially developed to work on Nokia
9210, so I tried it knowing that most of the applicaitons developed
for the Nokia 9210 mobile platform are also compatible with Nokia
9300i's mobile platform.
Well obviosly I was wrong,
RUNokia failed to run on my Nokia
for a complex reasons.
However this time I was lucky, I succeded in adding the
cyrillization using the:
Psiloc Crystal Cyrillic S80 product
Here is a screenshot on how Psiloc Crystal Cyrillic localization
for Nokia 9300/9500 looks like:
To install Psiloc Crystal Cyrillic on your Mobile:
1.
Download
the Psiloc Crystal Cyrillic for the s80 platform
2. Transfer the the file
Psiloc_CrystalCyrillic_s80.sis to
your mobile through bluetooth.
- Enable the bluetooth on your mobile pressing the keys :
Chr +
Left Arrow Key simultaneously.
- Use your favourite bluetooth program to transfer the file to your
mobile.
I personally use the Linux Bluetooth Applet to transfer the
application to my mobile.
3. Install the application using
Nokia 9300i's File Manager
program
- Install by pressing twice the
Psiloc_CrystalCyrillic_S80.sis
application program
4. Now go to your newly installed Psiloc Crystal Cyrillic
program.
The program should appear whenever you have selected it to appear
with the icon:
Cyrillic on Symbian
- When the Psiloc Crysatal Cyrillic on Symbian interface pops up
you will have to change two values:
I. In Psiloc Crystal Menu: Enable Cyrillic on Symbian should
equal Yes
II. In the Advanced menu, I recommend you change the Email
Format to: UTF-8 or your desired charset
5. As a next step we'll have to register the application
Fortunately Psiloc are providing a Free registration code, here are
the concrete instructions you'll have to follow to register the
psiloc cyrillic application:
(below instructions are a quote from psiloc cyrillic website)
If you would like to get this application for FREE, please
register using this license code:663542671392124 and then
follow the registration procedures listed below:
1. Download and launch the application using your mobile
phone.
2. Select "License" from the "Options" menu.
3. Select "Activate application."
4. Select "Activate application" (using the license code).
5. Once the prompt appears, please carefully enter your LICENSE
CODE, which you will find in your order confirmation and press
OK/Accept.
6. A prompt will appear asking you to connect to our server either
via the Internet or via SMS to complete the registration process.
Please choose one of the two options to complete the process.
7. Application is licensed.
In order to follow the aforementioned procedure you'll either have
to use an e-mail as a registration mean or use directly the
Internet.
I decided to the net, So before I can register succesfully using
the internet I had to connect my phone to the Internet.
The Wireless connection to a nearby wireless router was established
using the Nokia embedded browser by selecting my wireless network
of choice.
I advice you to approach the situation in the same way or otherwise
you won't be able to succesfully register the Psiloc Cyrillic
program.
Now as a last step before a tiny box appears allowing you to change
between Russian and English language, you will be asked to restart
your mobile phone. Just accept the restart dialog confirmal and
wait for your mobile phone to reboot.
As soon as it boots again you will be able to change between the
Russian and English language key pressing
Ctrl + Chr
While your mobile input is switched on to Russian charsets, expect
the phone to be a bit more sluggish.
Now as you have the Cyrillic character set via the Russian
language, you can use the Russian charsets to type in Bulgarian
Language.
However there is one major nasty thing about it, the keyboard
character order equals to a normal cyrillic Russian, keyboard. So
it will take you a while before you're adherent to the Russian
cyrillic typeset.
But anyways, thing in life are not perfect, get used to that
:D