Japanese Handwriting Support On Us Sl-6000

[noromamai]

hi,

i've ben trying to get japanese handwriting to work on my US SL6000. Using the input files from older models doesn't work. I can't seem to find any japanese SL6000 roms from which i can extract the necessary files. if there is someone out there who has an japanese sl6000 and wouldn't mind helping me out, i'd like to have a copy of the rom or just the IME files. if there aren't any with these files, perhaps the IME files from a newer model C3x00 might work.... thanks in advance.

[DrWowe]

Here is the Japanese ROM in NAND backup form.  You can flash your 6000 with this and then copy all the files to a memory card.

http://www.externe.net/zaurus/flash/nand/b...0006.dbk-jp.bz2

[noromamai]

Thanks for helping out and so FAST!

Time for some tinkering...

[noromamai]

well, so much for tinkering...

i remember about more than a year ago i managed to extract the japanese handwriting files from a C series zaurus (which didn't work on the SL-6000) which was in a cramfs image.  but things are rusty these days (old age catching up probably) and i can't manage to extract anything from the above nand backup file. i used a extraction script i found via google cache on a forum from the site where i got the file above (http://externe.net/zaurus). edited it to work with SL6000 (partitions 7, 25 and 32mb) but none of the files worked.

i know i can use the above file to flash the whole zaurus, but i only want to do that as a last resort.

So if someone can help me out and explain how i can extract files from the above nand backup i would be eternally grateful.

[DrWowe]

i know i can use the above file to flash the whole zaurus, but i only want to do that as a last resort.

Yes you could extract them the hard way, by using a script that  strips the OOB NAND data, splitting it into partitions, and using the blkmtd driver and a loopback device to mount the jffs2 image.

But..  your "last resort" idea is just so much easier and faster.  Just make a NAND backup of your current state, flash the JP image, get the files, and then restore your backup.

[noromamai]

i flashed the nand (but made a backup of the current condition first) and it all worked fine. japanese rom running fine, except that the keyboard layout is messed up, which doesn't really matter coz i only flashed to get to the files i needed. but i decided to keep the jap rom because i deleted my nand backup with the US image *doh*. but now i need the keycode.tbl for the US version. if you have that for me, it would be appreciated =)