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Adding Vietnamese Font to iPhone

Saturday, November 24, 2007 By kevmille

I used jailbreakme.com to unlock another iPhone here in Vietnam thanks with the help of the IT guy at ViGroup last night (Here is a nice guide to jailbreak the iPhone with firmware 1.1.1 which is supposed to work with firmware 1.1.2 as well -> JailBreak iPhone the easy way).

My friend would not let me unlock his iPhone until we found a way to put the Vietnamese fonts on his iPhone so he can view Vietnamese language websites. No problem, his IT guy found a webpage that explained how to install Vietnamese fonts on the iPhone.

  1. In Installer, select the ‘Sources’ icon, press ‘Edit’, and then press ‘Add’
  2. After the ‘Add Source’ window pops up, add this source: iphone.billydragon.net and press ‘OK’
  3. It should now be refreshing the sources
  4. Select the ‘Install’ icon and then scroll to the bottom until you see ‘Vietnamese’
  5. Select either VietFonts FW.1.0.2 or VietFontsFW.1.1.1 depending on which firmware you have and hit ‘Install’
  6. Presto, you should be able to view Vietnamese language websites now

VietFonts FW.1.1.2 does not seem available yet but it should be in a couple of weeks. Be sure to install the English-Vietnamese dictionary as well.

As I always told my students, there is no need to pay $30-100 to get your iPhone unlocked in Vietnam if you can do it for free online in under 5 minutes. Many argued that the mobile phone shops would add Vietnamese font support for an extra fee that they would not be able to do on their own. Nope, they can do it on their own 🙂

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  1. Patrick says

    Saturday, November 24, 2007 at 4:26 pm

    Yeah, iPhone, that’s what I meant. No, I don’t a 700-buck rip off. If it was $400, I’d consider it.

  2. SaigonNezumi (Kevin) says

    Sunday, November 25, 2007 at 5:06 pm

    But at cost, it is $440 for the 8 Gig including tax. Nobody will sell you one in Saigon for under $500 at least when they can sell it for around $700.

  3. Palm says

    Wednesday, December 12, 2007 at 11:20 am

    Do they unlock iPhone FW 1.1.2 in Saigon somewhere? Do you know a place? I will be back in Saigon in january with 5 of them =)

  4. SaigonNezumi (Kevin) says

    Wednesday, December 12, 2007 at 2:43 pm

    If you get an iPhone with 45 listed in the serial number, they will have to open up the phone here. It will not be cheap to unlock it. Hopefully a new anySim unlock will come out.

    I got my iPhone up to firmware 1.1.2 now with the help of my high school student 🙂

  5. Steve says

    Monday, January 7, 2008 at 10:44 am

    Hey Kevin
    Where did you download English-Vietnamese dictionary for iphone I can’t find nowhere
    Thx

  6. SaigonNezumi (Kevin) says

    Monday, January 7, 2008 at 10:56 am

    You will need to add billydragon.net as one of your installer sources:

    http://www.billydragon.net

    Do not forget to add the Viet fonts as well.

  7. hawy says

    Monday, January 14, 2008 at 7:21 pm

    Chao Kevin,

    I dowloaded both the Vietnamese fonts and the English-Vietnamese dictionary. The fonts work in Safari but the dictionary does not show up as an application. What am I doing wrong ? (I have firmware 1.1.1).

    Best regards and thanks.

    hawy

  8. SaigonNezumi (Kevin) says

    Monday, January 14, 2008 at 7:34 pm

    You will have to enable it, I think you do that from the dictionary if I remember right.

  9. hawy says

    Tuesday, January 15, 2008 at 1:39 pm

    Thnaks for the prompt reply. But the dictionary does not show up as an icon after installing, so how to enable if there is nothing ?

    Best Regards

  10. SaigonNezumi (Kevin) says

    Tuesday, January 15, 2008 at 2:38 pm

    When you are in the dictionary application, double tap the it. A list of modules should pop up.

  11. hawy says

    Tuesday, January 15, 2008 at 6:19 pm

    In the meantime I realized that the dictionaries are not stand-alone applications but are used in conjunction with the appliaction idict. Thank you anyway.

    hawy

  12. Palm says

    Wednesday, January 16, 2008 at 2:16 pm

    Anyone know where in Saigon I can unlock (downgrade or something so I can use Install.app) my Ipod Touch shipped with firmware 1.2?

  13. SaigonNezumi (Kevin) says

    Wednesday, January 16, 2008 at 2:46 pm

    @hawy: I sold my iPhone but I remembered having the same problems. You have to use them with the dictionary app from Installer. Once it is installed, you open the dictionary. You will not see the apps. I had to double tab to get the set up menu to enable the Vietnamese dictionary.

    @Palm: Try this address:

    TNHH Tan A Long
    76 Bui Vien (Pham Ngu Lao Area), District 1, HCMC
    Telephone: 08-8373811, 08-9207551

    They speak English there as well.

  14. PK says

    Thursday, January 17, 2008 at 7:33 am

    Did you give you iPhone away for free?

  15. an says

    Sunday, March 9, 2008 at 4:22 pm

    do you have viet language packs for i phone yet?

  16. SaigonNezumi (Kevin) says

    Sunday, March 9, 2008 at 5:52 pm

    Yes, please read the post above

  17. dung huynh says

    Thursday, March 27, 2008 at 11:14 pm

    can you give more detail how to do this not clear. When you are in the dictionary application, double tap the it. A list of modules should pop up.

  18. Uyen says

    Thursday, May 29, 2008 at 1:00 pm

    can the vietnamese dictionary run on wedict application? After installing viet font and viet dictionary, but I could not see the viet dictionary. Can any one know why is it?
    Thanks

  19. SaigonNezumi (Kevin) says

    Thursday, May 29, 2008 at 5:00 pm

    @Uyen: Currently it does not seem to work with firmware 1.1.4 yet. Try the older firmware. I have not tried it on my phone yet but will soon.

  20. Tai Phan says

    Sunday, June 1, 2008 at 10:54 pm

    After i installed the viet dictionary i can’t not find it anywhere to enable it
    can someone give me some instruction please.

    Thanks.

  21. SaigonNezumi (Kevin) says

    Tuesday, June 3, 2008 at 11:02 pm

    In WeDict, just tap the screen several times, an option menu will appear.

    Note, I could not get it to work with the latest firmware yet.

  22. Harry says

    Saturday, June 14, 2008 at 8:19 am

    For firmware 1.1.4 or 1.1.3, you need to move the files to mobile/library/weDict folder.
    Because most of the folders are no longer work in root directory of the library.
    For further instructions, you could contact me at [emailed removed].

  23. SaigonNezumi (Kevin) says

    Sunday, June 15, 2008 at 11:19 am

    Thanks for the info.

  24. Tom says

    Tuesday, July 8, 2008 at 9:24 pm

    Billy Dragon site broken. Anywhere else for a VN EN dictionary?

  25. bobby says

    Friday, July 11, 2008 at 9:59 am

    iphone.baidu.com or .net.
    add it to installer. Had to move my dictionary files to the right folder since i am on 114. I had installed fontVN FW for 114 from billydragon/sweet hear software, but some characters do not show up correctly. I would like to install VietFonts from baidu but 114 is not supported.

  26. SaigonNezumi (Kevin) says

    Friday, July 11, 2008 at 5:08 pm

    @bobby, Thanks for the info. Not sure what happen to billydragon.net. Maybe he is developing the new apps fro the AppStore.

  27. Julie Pham says

    Saturday, August 23, 2008 at 6:27 am

    My old iphone have been update to V 2.0, But now when I turn it on all I got is the image of the CD and the usb cable appear on the screen, not even emergency dial number pad. I connect it to Itune to get the restore , But I get the message “could not find the iphone”.
    Can any one can help?
    Thanks
    Julie.

  28. steve says

    Saturday, August 23, 2008 at 10:52 pm

    Julie
    Where do you live? You will have to put your fone in DFU mode yo do that turn fone off hold down Home+wake sleep button After exactly 10 seconds release the Sleep/Wake button. Continue holding the home button until you iTunes pops up a message telling you that it has detected an iPhone in recovery mode.
    Hope will help you

  29. SaigonNezumi (Kevin) says

    Sunday, August 24, 2008 at 10:59 am

    @Jullie: Did you update to version 2.0 or version 2.0.2? The latest is known to brick the old iPhones. 2.0 is fine. Use iTunes. If you are in Saigon, you can get it updated and fixed here. My students can do it too but it is summer holidays for a couple more weeks.

  30. Julie says

    Tuesday, August 26, 2008 at 3:50 am

    Hi all
    Thanks for responding.
    I’m in Dalat, I ‘m not sure wich verson my Iphone is. I try dail *#301# but it does’t works.
    Anyway if it is bricked by accident update, anyway we can do about it.
    Thanks all.
    Julie

  31. Julie says

    Wednesday, August 27, 2008 at 12:01 am

    Hi ALL
    I jailbrake my iphone already and find out is update to v2.02 by accident. Any way that I can unlock it now?
    If anyone know please tell me, Thanks
    Julie

  32. steve says

    Wednesday, August 27, 2008 at 12:48 am

    if you using MAC you can download PwnageTool to work with 2.0.2 firmware
    if using Win seach for QuickPwn GUI to fix (google is your friend )seach Iclarified for tutorial

  33. Julie says

    Wednesday, August 27, 2008 at 3:03 am

    Hi Steve
    woww Thanks a lot for greate help. By following yous advice I did it .
    Now my iphne works well.
    I am so happy now
    Thanks again.
    Julie

  34. steve says

    Wednesday, August 27, 2008 at 3:11 am

    Julie
    You’re very welcome

  35. Julie says

    Wednesday, August 27, 2008 at 10:48 am

    Hi
    All the vietnamese sourse is down, any where else?
    thanks
    Julie

  36. Steve says

    Friday, September 5, 2008 at 8:12 am

    Julie
    R U need dic data?you can get we Dict free from Apple app store or you have to
    use crack files to get we Dict pro then use Fugu or Win SCP to tranfer data to we Dict folder this should work fine

  37. Brinley Ang says

    Thursday, October 23, 2008 at 3:07 pm

    Sigh, both iphone.baidu.com and billydragon.net are down, and iphonebaidu.com is currently suspended by its isp. Is there any other iphone repos hosting the files?

  38. SaigonNezumi (Kevin) says

    Friday, November 21, 2008 at 8:50 am

    They should be available through another repository. If you are in Vietnam, you can just go to a mobile phone shop to get the fonts downloaded.

    Best of luck.

  39. Thanh says

    Thursday, March 7, 2013 at 7:50 am

    Hi, could I have your society phone number, I will go to SG, I’ve just bought a macbook pro. Thank you

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