Updating X500 to WM6 in any Language

E-ten X500 is a light-weight GPS-enabled Pocket PC that comes with Windows Mobile 5 installed. They provide updates to WM6 but the download page limits you to downloading the language version that comes with your device.

Here are the direct links to the World-wide English WM6 and Traditional Chinese WM6 ROMs. Or you can try these custom ROMs.

To cross-flash your device to another language, say English (WWE) to Chinese (CHT), you'll need to flash the ROM using the microSD card technique instead of using the PC-based USB approach. You'll also need to patch the ROM (temp.bin) file at offset 0x38 with the bytes: 0A 3D 72 F4 to disable the device check. You may be able to use the technique in this thread if you're not comfortable with patching the binary file.

ROM Images for HTC Tornado

The HTC Tornado has been branded as iMate SP5, Qtek 8310, Dopod 577W, etc. This page shows the various versions of ROM with download links from different manufactures. For example, you can flash a iMate SP5, which is English-only (2.5.331.2), to Chinese/English (and also get AKU 2.0) by flashing it to the latest Taiwan (2.5.37.0)/Singapore (2.5.39.2) Dopod ROMs.

SPV-developers.com has some useful utilities to SIM unlock and application unlock the phone after a ROM upgrade.