Translation Project Firmware Translation
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Firmware Translation
for Mi Band 3
for Mi Band 3
As you might know, Mi Band 3 stock firmware contains translations only for 10 languages.
To be exact:
- Chinese (both Traditional and Simplified)
- English
- Spanish
- Russian
- Korean
- French
- German
- Indonesian
- Polish
- Italian
- Japanese
- Thai
Despite the fact that in this Smart Band version Chinese developers included support for more languages comparing to their previous devices, it still isn't satisfactory as many phrases lack translations, which are rough enogh. In addition, I believe Xiaomi isn't going to support other languages besides mentioned above.
That's why I decided to gather people together who could contribute to the translation project of Mi Band 3 firmware by adding their native language to it.
If you are interested in this project and willing to help us,
we kindly invite you to our translation portal:
translation.geekdoing.com
If your language is missing on translation service, please write here and I will add it!
we kindly invite you to our translation portal:
translation.geekdoing.comIf your language is missing on translation service, please write here and I will add it!
They started selling "translatable" MB3 as Korean version of MB3 which is a slightly modded version of Chinese MB3 where user has to use a "modded" version of Mi Fit apk they(Youmi) offer to update into Korean firmware. Very weird and unusual way of selling a product... but it is happening here in Korea. As soon as they started shipping these Korean translatable MB3, they uploaded their custom apk on their website via Google drive and they claim that they did not make the app but received the file from Xiaomi.
These so called "Korean" MB3s are NOT the exact same products to you get anywhere else because these things are bricked when used with the official Mi Fit app; it should be only paired with the modified apk mentioned earlier. So there is no expectation for updates to both the Mi Fit app and the MB3 itself. So there's no advantages other than the language by . Using the Youmi's modified Mi Fit app on the Chinese version of MB3 doesn't update it into Korean firmware as well.
The reason why many Korean people still buy Chinese MB3 overseas is the price: Youmi's MB3s are highly, highly overpriced. MB3's official price is 169 CNY which is about 25 USD, where this Korean MB3 costs 44 USD (without the delivery charge), which doesn't make the MB3 a budget product anymore.
Therefore I believe no Korean translation will be supported via update of Mi Fit app at all times. I know, this is a very sad news to Korean, where they have to choose between price and update vs. localization. But since installing custom firmwares on Xiaomi devices are not a restriction to Xiaomi's terms and conditions, it is best for us to build custom Korean translated firmware.
Here I will link the modified Korean app distributed by Youmi, I just hope this helps making the Korean custom Firmware and other unsupported languages. I am widely open to supporting and concerning the Korean custom firmware, let me know if I can do anything or answer questions.
This is the download of the apk:
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Thank you for the information. I already got this APK and the only difference it has comparing to the original Mi Fit app is that it has *.ft.kj font containing Hangul characters (but this file also exists in Mi Fit beta builds). AFAIK Korean version of MB3 has factory programmed variable in it's flash memory, but firmware is the same for both bands. So, it means that there is some function in firmware that checks the availability of this variable and enables Korean lang. As soon as I understand it I will make Korean FW for original MB3.
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