Installing Chinese input for Blackberry Bold

May 18, 2010 · 87 comments

Blackberry is good, but the only lacking feature is multilingual support. If you want to display (or type) any language other than English, normally it means some painful searching on the net for instruction, following by some painful installing process.

I did my search when I got my new Bold 9700, and here is a good guide I got from a Japanese site. I posted a Chinese version, here is the English one. It worked for me so hopefully it will be useful for you.

Here are some of the 70+ comments to prove it works.

a dai – Aug 2011 : Thanks a lot, finally it worked with your instructions. I wasted 10 days with those so called Guru II on BB Forum, they email to me as if I’m a total computer idiot. Your post is the best.

Brian – January 2011 : it was easy to follow and working all good now. thank you.

A – September 2010 : Thanks a million and more! I went to many website and witnessed that many people complained but your answer did work and brought my 9700 version Japanese, Korean and Chinese! Thank you so much!

David – October 2010 : Hi Richard, thank you thank you thank you. I have been searching on the internet – left to right and top to bottom and no prevail. Finally I found your posting. It works like a charm. Thanks again.

(If any links in the article don’t work, please leave a comment and I will try to fix them)

1) Download and install the “Blackberry Devices Manager” from Blackberry website. You can also find it from the CD that comes with your berry devices.

2) Language pack. You can find different language pack files from this page. I used “Hong Kong CSL Limited” one but I assume others shouldn’t be much different although I haven’t tried them. In the next page, you will need to choose your model. I chose “Blackberry Bold ™ 9700 Smartphone”. Next page, you should see three download options. You will need to choose “BlackBerry Handheld Software v5.0.0.680 (EastAsia)”. Then the rest is just filling the registration form. The file should be around 126MB.

3) Open up your Blackberry Devices Manager, and then connect your blackberry to PC. Next, run the “BlackBerry Handheld Software v5.0.0.680 (EastAsia)” file that you just downloaded. It will ask you to shutdown your device manager, just follow its instruction. After installation finish, you should see a message with an option asking if you want to open the Devices Manager, *Note* you don’t need to tick this option, just click on [Finish] to close the window.

4) The following few steps are quite important. Go to C:\Program Files\Common Files\Research In Motion\AppLoader folder, and delete the file named “vendor.xml”. And then run “Loader.exe” file, you should see the following screen:

Blackberry Chinese Input1

5) You should be notified for your Blackberry PIN, just click on next, then the software should start loading some data.

Chinese Blackberry 2

6) Lastly you will come to this screen, where you can choose which language to install. Once you selected everything that you need, click on [Next], and it will take about 10 to 15 minutes for installation. It’s normal to take a while, so don’t stop you or shut down your computer during the installation.

Blackberry Chinese Input 3

You should be able to see or write Chinese in your Blackberry now if you have reached this step. The same instruction can be used for Japanese or other Asian language. Do post a comment if you success following this instruction. Or thank my sponsor below:

Tagged as: Blackberry, Chinese, Mobile

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Ada December 21, 2010 at 6:35 am: It worked for me. Thanks!
Brian January 7, 2011 at 4:57 am: it was easy to follow and working all good now.

thank you..

B
Harry Xu February 9, 2011 at 12:56 am: Does this basically change the OS in your blackberry? Will this reset all the email and settings in your blackberry? After the new Chinese OS is installed, will all the display language change to Chinese?
G.E. Anderson February 18, 2011 at 3:46 am: It worked for me! Thanks for posting this.
Ivy February 26, 2011 at 10:32 am: Hi Richard,

I followed these until step 6, but there are no any language to install for me to select. Could you please help?

Thanks in advance!
munmun February 27, 2011 at 1:34 am: Thanks for posting this. If I do follow all your steps, would I loose the capability to use English as my main language??
Rachael March 2, 2011 at 4:22 am: thank you!!! it works!!! :)))
kim daehan March 17, 2011 at 5:07 am: hello.
i can’t download the language pack from here: http://na.blackberry.com/eng/support/downloads/download_sites.jsp, because the page is not opening.

What should i do? i need korean input for my blackberry bold.
John Bishop April 4, 2011 at 5:36 pm: This worked for me thank you, I also found a complete walk through video on Installing Chinese input for Blackberry Bold on the website http://www.setupblackberry.com/

Many thanks & keep up the good work !

John
jo April 11, 2011 at 5:42 pm: I don’t see any language related application available for me to select
al April 13, 2011 at 9:48 pm: it worked well for me….but when i update my firmware the blackberry doesnt read or write chinese. So now i downgrade it back.
siau April 21, 2011 at 3:41 pm: I can reach the “device application selection”, but there is no language for me to choose, why ? please help me.
agbucks April 25, 2011 at 6:49 pm: i can display and type chinese on my blackberry. however, when i send to a PC, all they receive is ‘?????’.

why is this?
Eric May 1, 2011 at 1:47 pm: it din work ? so how :( please help
Andrea May 6, 2011 at 4:51 pm: Works very well! Thanks so much!
Kristie May 8, 2011 at 4:56 am: Hi Richard,

Thanks for your blog! I tried downloading the software, but I wasn’t able to complete it. I think because I am working with a Mac. Do you know if there is special software for mac users?

Thank you so much!

Kristie
ling May 15, 2011 at 10:00 pm: When I’m doing step 6, I am not able to see the list of languages. Could you help me with this? Thank you!!
mei May 25, 2011 at 10:50 pm: is this applicable for os6? i just upgraded the software to os6, it doesnt seem working.. help
Wanna Lee May 29, 2011 at 10:04 pm: it is working good for me
Boris June 24, 2011 at 2:04 pm: Thanks a lot, it did work for my 9780 too, as the same way as yours. Choose the HK CSL Limited, it’s so great~
Wman July 27, 2011 at 12:29 pm: Hi richard, im from netherlands and using an original OS in Dutch for my bb9700 bold. Will my main-language DUTCH be lost after installing chinese on my bb9700 bold??
Frank August 3, 2011 at 2:08 am: it is not working for me. The last screen I have has no Chinese Language option available. I can not make the selection of install the language.
JARjar August 17, 2011 at 6:56 am: @Frank, you need to install the multilanguage pack first before you can have options for other languages.
Yoshi August 21, 2011 at 1:02 am: I used this for my bb 9700 it works great!! Planning to get the new 9810, wonder if it will do the same.
Richard.H August 21, 2011 at 9:14 am: Hi Yoshi, I’m not sure about 9810 but it should work I suppose. I tried to upgrade to OS6 yesterday with this method but it doesn’t work. Apparently Blackberry OS6 doesn’t support Asia Language pack yet? Hope someone can find me wrong and post their method here.
a dai September 7, 2011 at 7:19 pm: hi
Thanks a lot, finally it worked with your instructions.
I wasted 10 days with those so called Guru II on BB Forum, they email to me as if I’m a total computer idiot.
Your post is the best.

The BB made things so complicated, no wonder why their stock is down.
FatB September 17, 2011 at 3:46 am: hi
i installed the 9700AllLang_PBr6.0.0_rel2718_PL6.6.0.223_A6.0.0.615_Bell_Mobility_Inc and it works great. i can switch languages without problems.

There is one thing which i came across though, when switching back to english for text msg, the limitation of 70 characters (chinese character limit) of one message will stay. instead of 170 (or so).

will i be charged for 2 msgs when writing more than 70 or will china mobile recognise this?
somebody knows a solution or has information about this?
jay October 11, 2011 at 8:38 pm: Good
Kuri October 14, 2011 at 11:28 am: This worked for me fantastically. Thank you!!
Charlie October 27, 2011 at 7:27 pm: I tried the Taiwan mobile versiona and it worked for me. Thank you.
Whitney October 30, 2011 at 6:13 am: i can’t find step 4
Yvonne November 1, 2011 at 1:54 am: The Chinese thing worked out great, but now I’ve lost the possibility for Dutch input… Could you please help me with that? It’s not that I wouldn’t be able to use English, but I would like to use my mothertongue on my mobile phone. Please contact me.
Thank you
Steven December 1, 2011 at 7:51 pm: Works on my 9780 for Wind Mobile too!! I’ve been trying to sort this out for months.
ash December 1, 2011 at 10:31 pm: it cant be download..
it failed in 30%..
plz help me *_*
juan December 19, 2011 at 12:33 pm: i got the same problem as previous people. Everything worked well until step 6, I can’t see any of the languages to install, only appears already loaded apps in the device. Someone please help
LsDavid December 23, 2011 at 11:29 pm: thank you so much, Your explanation was very clear
soon January 9, 2012 (4 weeks ago) at 8:08 am: It works! You have helped me resolved the language display issue in my bold 9700 which the wireless service provider couldn’t resolve. Thank you very much.

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