Is ankidroid 2.0 actually in a daily useable state and is there any chance of it breaking my decks? I recently got a nexus 10 and I basically use it for everything now except work and Anki. I also have an iPhone but want to update to the S3 or Nexus 4 and the only thing stopping me is the fact that the Anki app works perfectly on ios.

It's in a usable state and nearing release now. I use it on my Nexus 10 every day, so I know that that particular device won't be a problem.

Ok, so the time has come and I'm finally a fond owner of a Samsung Galaxy S2
Is there any profit I have in rooting my device?

Rooting your device will help you make back ups, include additional fonts, freely remove unnecessary system apps that you don't like and most importantly, you can flash custom ROMs with much better performance and languages support.

If you decide to root your device, proceed cautiously.

Congrats!

As I use a number of Japanese applications on my android phones, it is frustrating that android phones sold outside of Japan use a simplified Chinese font, rather than a Japanese font. While most characters are displayed correctly, a significant number are not. For example 直 and 誤. If you root your phone you will be able to substitute the correct font. For me this was the major reason for rooting. However, as undead_saif notes, there are many other advantages to rooting as well. Again, be careful.. and enjoy!

Tori-kun Wrote:Ok, so the time has come and I'm finally a fond owner of a Samsung Galaxy S2
Is there any profit I have in rooting my device?

Actually, Jellybean (android 4.1) recognizes and displays Japanese characters perfectly, and it seems like the SGS2 gets an official release sometime in January. (You never know though http://www.sammobile.com/2012/12/18/andr...i-delayed/)

I've got an S2 myself and flashed a leaked version a while back, and I'm happy with it.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthre...?t=1994313
There's a bit of work that goes into that though, you'd have to dig through the thread and learn what odin is. But like what's been said, there are many advantages to rooting if you like your phone.

> Actually, Jellybean (android 4.1) recognizes and displays Japanese
> characters perfectly

I have Samsung Galaxy Nexus running stock Jellybean and it does not display Japanese characters perfectly without modification. Neither 4.1 nor the current 4.2 do so without rooting and substituting the appropriate files. So just because your phone is running Jellybean, there is no guarantee it will display Japanese characters perfectly.

Oh really? That sucks, I thought it must have been universal if my GS2 had it.

I also used to have CyanogenMod 10 for a while, it was completely localized in Japanese and the font was fine.

@TwoMoreCharacters:

I'm a fanatic when it comes to nice looking fonts and I find the Apple font for hiragana, katakana and kanji is just very neat! Does anyone know by chance what font that is? Is that Hiraginoっけ.

I wonder what mod to use.. I want to have a fully accessible device that has an increased performance (due to removed unnecessary services etc) and an extended battery life, if possible. I've heard CynogenMod is very popular among rooted phones. Any advice is appreciated.

Of all the Roms I've used, CyanogenMod had the highest performance scores, though on other Samsung devices. It also has ALL language support! Even Right to left ones with full localization as mentioned above. But some other ROMs might have some additional really handy options not found in CM.
There must be some guides on SGSII forum on XDA.

Yes, that's where you'll (eventually) know everything you need. Probably.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=1055

I checked an I have JB 4.0.4 installed as it seems and since there are contradictory sources on the internet telling me it's either totally safe to root and mod or not, I'm a bit at a loss.. I'm not a computer freak, so

I read after rooting your phone you can set up what Japanese font you'd like to use with Fontomiser, however, I couldn't find anything on how to implement the Google Japanese IME with the Samsung keyboard... I don't understand the "Google Input" I have here, but it seems to work by audio/sound (you have to say the words and they will be deciphered.. or at least the phone tries to decipher what you said lol).

Sorry for asking newb questions T-T

No problem. For the keyboard I use this:

cangy Wrote:the jelly bean keyboard allows switching between japanese and english with a single tap. here's one back ported: https://play.google.com/store/apps/detai...jelly.free

I searched in a Jelly Bean device for the options to enable Japanese but couldn't find any, try this, it's indispensable for me.

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Ankidroid is now in its last beta (23) before the release of 2.0. The current release seems pretty stable and I have had no issues with it (or beta 22).

For a japanese IME I installed "Google Japanese Input". When you are given the option to use a keyboard (say entering a web url) an icon should appear in the top 'taskbar' that looks like a keyboard. You can then pull down the bar and an option to 'select input method' should be there.

I find the Google IME good in qwerty mode the 9 button style keyboard is confusing (and takes you back to the days of old nokias...)

You probably should check the xda forums for rooting:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthre...?t=1826497

Ok, so what I did so far is this.

* Softwareupdate to 4.0.4 via WiFi
* Download-Mode -> Odin -> CF-Root v5.6

This seemed to have worked out because I have SuperSU as an app and CWM, too. I can boot into recovery mode.

I had to flash the original Android firmware onto my phone and do the above process again after I tried installing CyanogenMod v10 which ended up in my phone keeping to boot and boot (stuck at the boot screen for the mod).... I was afraid I bricked my phone, but appearantly I did not *puh*

I could see Speedmod being fast.. but CyanogenMod is fast, too and has Japanese keyboard Shall I try v9??

Edit: Oh, I cannot do the Software update from 4.0.3 to 4.0.4 anymore via WiFi... Strange. And my phone does not react anymore when I turn it around, although the settings are all correct

There are several releases of each version, maybe the one you've flashed didn't get an update yet. How did you decide on which version to download?

Did you follow an in-depth guide to flash CM10? Maybe you skipped an obvious step. Did you clear data/factory reset after flashing CM10?

TBH, I would start with rooting the official firmware because it's stable and has all the phone's functions working, like camera and HW acceleration. Then when you get bored with it and get more comfortable with Android, flash a custom ROM. You'll also feel the difference!

4.0.4 is Icecream Sandwich, I don't have developer knowledge or anything but if you want the best I'd still suggest getting a JB (4.1+) rom even if there's currently only a leak and the unfinished CM10.1 to go with.

And yeah, if you got bootloop while flashing CM you must have missed that you need to do a data wipe in recovery mode before or after flashing. (Doing backups there before flashing just about anything is also good practice.) CM is based on the original, clean android software and not Samsung's "bloaty" modifications, so going between an AOSP rom like CM and a Samsung rom always require wiping data.

In the first-time-installing instructions in the thread they're not suggesting wiping dalvik cache anymore :o Something to consider maybe, but following them to the letter should be fine:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthre...?t=2036229

Also, now that you're rooted you might want to look at some very useful apps that require root, like Titanium Backup. With TB you can backup all apps and their current data, and a lot of other things. That's useful when doing data wipe - backup the user apps (USER apps, not system apps) and restore them after flashing CM for example. They do recommend against it, but from what I understand it's because there have been a few cases when someone has done something wrong. There seems to be a general consensus in among posters in the threads that restoring user apps is fine.

Also this is just my experience, but I never really managed to find and install a suitable Japanese friendly font on anything below JB. The only fonts I found would show Japanese just fine while anything not in Japanese looks like crap :/ Maybe not that much of a problem if you're completely localized in Japanese, but on the S2 that would be CM, and the newest CM has JB anyway.

No idea how long its been there, but last night I found out that Swype supports Japanese input!

Switching input on Android has always been really annoying for me, because I always preferred Swype for English and Google IME for Japanese. Swype does a fairly nice job at supporting Japanese, and you can switch between languages with the push of a button.
It supports both a flick style keyboard and a regular swype style keyboard.

You just need to be sure you are running the beta version: http://beta.swype.com/

Finally!! Swype works awesome with Japanese on SGS2! Get it while it's hot

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Zgarbas Wrote:Also, I tried to use Aedict a while ago, and after a fresh install it simply would not download the dictionary... I downloaded all 20+mb of it three times, it would go way past the loading bar and never actually finish the download. Anyone else get that?

On JED the first dictionary link would never work for me, I had to use the second. I would not be surprised if it was the same file...

Does anyone have any experience with the dictionaries available on the Dejizo app? The app is free and comes with the: Taishukan Genius (En>Jap and Jp>En) and Meikyo dictionaires for 2/3 months. There are a number of dictionaries available for Dejizo and I would imagine they are of higher quality than the edict ones.

There's a way you can get the full version of ATOK (not trial) for free, even if you're not from Japan, but it involves a "not so honest" (or legal, for that matter) method.

Find Blackmart 0.99.2.44 (or 0.99.2.42 - has less ads and needs less permissions, but constant notifications about an updated version...) and install ATOK through that. Your device must be rooted. Edit: Apparently it doesn't have to be.

You can also find N2 TTS (Japanese TTS) and 7notes with Mazec (Japanese handwriting input) on there.

I didn't tell you that.

Edit:
Google Japanese Input is better than ATOK and free.

I just got an Android phone recently, and I've been wondering something...
Does anyone know an aozora bunko formatted text reader which lets you select and copy sentences? I like Vertical Text Reader, but it only lets me select a word at a time.
I like to copy sentences containing new words to a notepad app, so I can put them into Anki later.
I'm currently using CoolReader, because it lets me select sentences, but it doesn't format the text files nicely like Vertical Text Reader.

toshiromiballza Wrote:You can also find N2 TTS (Japanese TTS) and 7notes with Mazec (Japanese handwriting input) on there.

Sorry for the bump, but this was the most recent and most relevant thread I could find.

I've been wanting to install N2 TTS, but Google Play store says it's incompatible with my device.. is there some trick to it or is it not compatible with newer versions of Android or such?

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toshiromiballza Wrote:You can also find N2 TTS (Japanese TTS) and 7notes with Mazec (Japanese handwriting input) on there.

Sorry for the bump, but this was the most recent and most relevant thread I could find.

I've been wanting to install N2 TTS, but Google Play store says it's incompatible with my device.. is there some trick to it or is it not compatible with newer versions of Android or such?

If you are outside Japan, you need to use a Japanese VPN to buy some Japanese apps.

But it's free. :/

I haven't seen it mentioned anywhere (Such as in the app for the WWWJDIC which recommends it) that such a thing was required.