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*update*

I finally go the dictionary working on my samsung S5230.

In short the steps are:

1) get an mini SD memory card (i couldn't transfer the unpacked jar file with the samsung new pc studio to the internal phone memory, as there seems to be a strange number of files restriction. Further it seems that the S5230 cannot handle big jar files, that's why you have to unpack the jar file)
2) unpack the *.jar file of the dictionary on your computer
3) transfer the unpacked *.jar file to your mini SD memory card (don't use samsung's tool, use an SD adapter and your cardreader)
4) install the "empty version" of the dictionary
5) reboot the phone
6) run the empty dictionary and go to "Settings->Dictionary -> Browse" and point to the directory where you copied the unpacked *.jar file to
7) run the dictionary and have fun

Thanks to all the good people for all the work with the dictionary! it's a great piece of software...

cheers,
Thomas

[All in all, i'm giving up on dictionarymid for now]

@ Issue #1

To make it clear. On my samsung the filebrowser does not show any filesystem for most of the time. When i restart (reboot) the phone, i can see the filesystem of the phone - but not always. Anyway imho i can live with that, as we have to set the path for the dictionary only once. But issue #2 is the nitty-gritty in here.

@ Issue #2

In my previous post, i couln't translate any word, not even the most simplest one with only a few translation results.

This time i used the German-Chinese version of \DictionaryForMIDs_3.1.2_ChiGer_HanDeDict, as it seems that the jar file is smaller here, so i can transfer it faster to the mobile device.

So i used 7zip (7zip.org) to decompress the jar file and tried transfered all the 1.430 files to my phone. Takes ages too. and after about 1000 files tranfered i get the error message: "Max entry exceeded" from the smasung "new pc studio". Maybe i try to organize a miniSD card and try it there again...

All in all, i'm giving up on dictionarymid for now. i don't have enough time to install, deinstall, and so on. I like the idea of the project but my time is really limited, so i might try some of the future versions of dictionarymid.

It would be nice if someone can keep me updated regarding a working version for the samsung S5320.

cheers,
t_rain

[issue #1]

Hi,

with your suggestion in @2 i could manage to first install the empty version of the dictionary, then use the browser to point to the *.jar file with the dictionary and finally start the application.

But there are still remaining issues:

issue #1
The browser looks nice, but on my samsung S5230 phone it loads the filesystem only every second, or third time i restart the phone. That is somehow strange. So if there is anyone else using this samsung out there, pls try to reproduce that.

issue #2
After pointing to the DictionaryForMIDs_ChiEng_CEDICT.jar in the browser, i restart the application. Restart the phone (just to be sure).

Then start the application. The first screen with the user-data question appears after 5 seconds or so, BUT the Start Window with xy Chinese entries and xy English entries shows up after more than 2 minutes. That is way to much for my understanding. When i enter a search-word, it takes another 2 minutes or so to finally display the following

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(...max nr of hits reached)

All in all, it somehow works to manually point to the dict file, but i can't look up words. Besides it is way to slow. I tried the other direction (Chinese to English) too, but the same result, i.e. no result...

So i hope my error report somehow helps. I guess the S5230 is an extremely popular phone nowadays, so I strongly hope that someone can find a solution for the remaining problems.

@ Gert, what are your ideas?

It would add so much value to my phone, if i could run this application!

Thanks a lot in advance,
t_rain

[@ 1]

Hi Gert,

@ 1
I did exactly as you exlained, but no result, still the same "JAVA ERROR, invalid Format". I know that i have to install the *.jar file... Seems to be a Samsung specific problem then...

@ 2
The file you gave me works fine, at least the empty dictionary. And i extracted the *.jar file, transfered it to my mobile.
The only problem that i still have is that i can' tell the application where the dictionary file is.
I tried the following in the Dialog -> Settings -> Dictionary path:

"file:///Internal memory/DictionaryForMIDs_ChiEng_CEDICT.jar"
or
"file:///Internal memory/"
or
"file:///"

none of them worked.

I think the problem is that i have no clue how they call the "root" directory of the phone memory on the samsung. I copied everything to the phone memory, and in the "Pc Studio" software from samsung it says like that the phone memory is referred to as "Internal memory".

Can anyone help here? What path do i have to enter...

Thanks in advance,
t_rain

[Phone]

Hi forum!

First of all thanks to all the good people here that made all the effort to let us use this great application on our mobile phones.

I just want to report my problems with the current version of the English-Chinese version of dictionarymid - i hope there is someone that can help me out here.

Phone
Samsung s5230 (bought in china, so there is chinese input available)

The problem:
I first downloaded: DictionaryForMIDs_3.4.0_ChiEng_CEDICT.zip from the download section. Installing went smoothly, but then when starting the application there is an error message like:

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JAVA ERROR
invalid Format

That's all. no more debug output.

The same problem with the somehow "patched" file from GERT :
http://www.kugihan.de/dict/download/test_versions/3.4.0/CEDICT_from_312/DictionaryForMIDs_3.4.0_CEDICT_old.jar

The only thing that runs is the "empty" version, without any dictionary. So i installed the empty version and downloaded the dictionary file (cedict_ts.u8) directly from http://www.mdbg.net/, to be specific it was the following file:
http://www.mdbg.net/chindict/export/cedict/cedict_1_0_ts_utf-8_mdbg.zip

Then i transfered the dictionary file to my mobile phone (to the internal memory) and started the application. As expected it says "No dictionary loaded", so i went to settings and tried to get the path to the dictionary file right.

But exactly here is the problem, whatever i tried, nothing worked. Then i read the somehow related post: http://dictionarymid.sourceforge.net/forum/index.php?topic=150.msg855#msg855 But still, i didnt get it working, i just copied the dictionary file into a folder called "cidian" and then tried to set the path for the dict file to:

"file:///Internal memory/cidian"

But no effect, still the old "no dictionary loaded" problem. Does anyone know if this is the correct path for the Samsung S5230 phone model, or what do i have to enter in the dictionary path?

I hope there is someone out there that can help me and get this great and useful app finally running on my samsung.

Cheers,
t_rain