Zaurus Stuff

Here is a "complete" step by step introduction for converting a C-760 Sharp Zaurus from Japanese to English, its based on my experinces with different guides. This guide requires you have a SD-card and a card reader for your PC, you could also use a CF-card, then just replace everywhere it says /mnt/card/ with /mnt/cf/ - comments etc. are welcome at laze(at)jemi.dk

Step 1 - Menus and icons:

Follow the guide at http://downloads.conics.net/pda/zaurus-sl-c700/eng-inst/index.html
When done enter the timezone in settings and click each city in the row on the left, they will then change to english names.

Step 2 - Remove jap software and install the terminal:

No need for the japanese software, unless you live in Japan - a better ebook reader can be found www.killefiz.de/zaurus/
Use the add and remove function from settings and uninstall all possible packages

When everything is uninstalled, install the terminal by copying the IPK file from the Zaurus cd onto your SD card. Insert the SD-card into the Zaurus and then install it from there by browsing the SD-card using Documents and double clicking it.

Step 3 - Input methods:

From a terminal do the following:

		su
		cd /opt/QtPalmtop/plugins/inputmethods
		rm -i * 		(Answer NO to the ones begining with "libqkeyboard" yes to the other ones)

Download all the files except the readme.txt from http://moria.ionkov.net/zaurus/c760/, copy the files to your SD card - insert the card into the Zaurus and then start a terminal and do the following:

		su
		cp /mnt/card/lib* /opt/QtPalmtop/plugins/inputmethods/
		cd /opt/QtPalmtop/plugins/inputmethods/
		ln -s libqhandwriting.so.1.0.0 libqhandwriting.so.1.0; ln -s libqhandwriting.so.1.0.0 libqhandwriting.so.1; ln -s libqhandwriting.so.1.0.0 libqhandwriting.so
		ln -s libqkeyboard.so.1.0.0 libqkeyboard.so.1.0; ln -s libqkeyboard.so.1.0.0 libqkeyboard.so.1 ; ln -s libqkeyboard.so.1.0.0 libqkeyboard.so
		ln -s libqunikeyboard.so.1.0.0 libqunikeyboard.so.1.0 ; ln -s libqunikeyboard.so.1.0.0 libqunikeyboard.so.1 ; ln -s libqunikeyboard.so.1.0.0 libqunikeyboard.so

Step 4 - English Hancom Word:

From a terminal do the following:

		su
		cd /home/QtPalmtop/bin
		rm word-eucJP.rc

Step 5 - The movie player menus:

Download these two files - http://homepage.mac.com/tz1/movieplayer.qmid and http://homepage.mac.com/tz1/libsl.qmid and copy the files to your SD card - insert the card into the Zaurus and from a terminal do the following:

		su
		cp /mnt/card/movieplayer.qmid /home/QtPalmtop/i18n/en/
		cp /mnt/card/libsl.qmid /home/QtPalmtop/i18n/en

Step 6 - Remove Japanese intelligent input:

From a terminal do the following:

		su
		rm /home/QtPalmtop/lib/libkke.so* 
		rm /home/QtPalmtop/plugins/applets/libfepmonapplet.so*

Step 7 - Make AddressBook and more function properly:

If you know how to use Vi then use and edit the files locally as described below else copy them to the SD-card.
From a terminal do the following:

		su
		cp /home/zaurus/Settings/AddressBook.conf /mnt/card/AddressBook.conf

Now put the SD-card in the PC cardreader and edit the file AddressBook.conf on your pc and change the following:

		Category0 = Work Phone 
		Category1 = Work Fax 
		Category10 = Home Zip 
		Category11 = Home State 
		Category12 = Home City 
		Category13 = Home Street 
		Category14 = Birthday 
		Category15 = Work Country 
		Category16 = Home Country 
		Category17 = Work Web Page 
		Category18 = Home Web Page 
		Category19 = Work Mobile 
		Category2 = Work Zip 
		Category20 = Work Pager 
		Category21 = Anniversary 
		Category22 = Nickname 
		Category23 = Middle Name 
		Category24 = Spouse 
		Category3 = Work State 
		Category4 = Work City 
		Category5 = Work Street 
		Category6 = Emails 
		Category7 = Home Mobile 
		Category8 = Home Phone 
		Category9 = Home Fax

Also in the same file change the Items section to this:

		Items = Work Phone,Work Fax,Work Zip,Work State,Work City,Work Street,Emails,Home Mobile,Home Phone,Home Fax,Home Zip,Home State,Home City,Home Street,Birthday,

In the same way as describe above copy the files described below and do the edits described.

	In /home/zaurus/Settings/qtmail.conf and /home/zaurus/Settings/qtmail_account.conf change "accountname = Synchronization"

	In /home/zaurus/Settings/sharplist.conf there's a line 'strings=' -- fill in a semicolon-delimited list of some good default schedule items.

	A bit farther down is a list of some default to-do list items. Again, erase the Japanese and fill in that strings= line with some default items.

	Also, in /home/zaurus/Settings/todo.conf change FontLogicalSize=0 to FontLogicalSize=-1 to make a bit more room in the To-Do applet for English text

When all done copy the files back using the same manner in reverse, like this:

	cp /mnt/card/AddressBook.conf /home/zaurus/Settings/AddressBook.conf

Step 8 - Install sync software:

Download the "5500v31u.zip" from http://community.zaurus.com/project/showfiles.php?group_id=5
Unpack the zip and start "setup.exe" from the \Pcsoft in the folder where you unzipped.
When completed, connect the Zaurus (you should get an "add new hardware" wizard) select "manual install" and "have disk", browsing to the correct folder on the original japanese CD (D:\USBdrivers\Network - where D is your CD-rom drive letter)

If you aren't confronted by the "add new hardware" wizard, you should right-click on "My Computer" and properties, make your way to the device manager (under hardware), find the Zaurus under USB or Unknown devices and click reinstall driver under it's properties. Then use the above process.