The AT&T download pages offer US and EastAsia versions of older OS versions for some older model phones but not OS 6 as of this post. If you find one from another carrier and you want to install it on an AT&T phone, you'll probably still have to trick it by deleting a little file in the installation package that identifies the carrier. There are excellent and detailed installation instructions elsewhere on the Crackberry forums.
I can't believe RIM expects people to put up with this though. Even for their latest phone and OS??? We're well into the 21st century at this point! Other smartphones are fully multilingual, support Unicode, include Asian fonts and locales, and include or offer easily OTA downloadable Asian input methods. RIM is falling farther and farther behind...
If you just want to read East Asia Language, you can just install this attached COD file, which I extracted from 5.0.0.602. It worked for me. It will display Chinese, Thai, Japanese correctly. Let me know if it works for you?
Hi Guys, you can download this file and add it to your 9800M loader files at
for example:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Research In Motion\Shared\Loader Files\9800M_v6.0.0.214_P6.4.0.99
or
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Research In Motion\Shared\Loader Files\9800M_v6.0.0.214_P6.4.0.99
It should enable the East Language - Chinese, Japanese, Korean.
Do note that the input functionality does not work on the .214 but works on the previous builds, apparently due to a change in the virtual keyboard settings which is probably why they have not released this.
