Persian [پارسی] iOS 5-6 Keyboard

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Follow these steps to enable persian keyboard on iOS 5&6 with or without a jailbreak.

If you have backed up your device, after doing these steps and want to restore or update your iDevice, you do not need to follow these steps again. Just restore from the latest backup on iCloud or iTunes.


iPhone iTouch iPad Mini iPad

Jailbreak Method

Step 1.

  • For iOS6 add chronzz.mobi to Cydia (if you dont know how follow this guide)
  • For iOS5 add ios5.chronzz.mobi to Cydia (if you dont know how follow this guide)

Do not install iOS5 Repo on iOS6. you will have problems. For iOS6 add iOS6 repo & for iOS5 add iOS5 Repo. If you have iOS5 and have chronzz.mobi in your source delete it.

Step 2.

  • For iOS6 Find and Install [Persian iOS6 Keyboard or Persian iOS 6 Keyboard and Calendar. (Includes Hijri Calendar)]
  • For iOS5 Find and Install [Persian iOS5 Keyboard]

Jailbreak Method via SSH

Step 1.

  • For iOS6 add chronzz.mobi to Cydia (if you dont know how follow this guide)
  • For iOS5 add ios5.chronzz.mobi to Cydia (if you dont know how follow this guide)

Step 2.

  • SSH into your iDevice

ssh root@ipaddress
Step 3. 
apt-get update
step 4. 
apt-get install com.chronzz.persianios5
step 5. 
killall -HUP SpringBoard

Non Jailbreak Method

Step 1.

  • First you need to backup your iDevice with iTunes

Step 2.

  • Download iBackUpBot for your System

Step 3.

  • Open iBackupBot and find the backup you just made, then load it.

Step 4.

  • Find
Library/Preferences/.GlobalPreferences.plist
  • and open the file. (if your software isn’t registered you’ll have to press cancel and then it will open)

Step 5.

  • Find
<key>AppleKeyboards</key>
  • and after
  • add the following code
<string>fa@hw=Persian;sw=Persian</string>
  • make sure it looks like the screenshot

If you don’t want Persian Locale (Hijri Calendar), move to step 6

Optional step to activate persian locale
  • Using the same file

Library/Preferences/.GlobalPreferences.plist
  • scroll down and find
<key>AppleLocale</key>
<string>en_CA</string>
  • and change the string to
fa
  • after
<key>AppleLocale</key>
<string>fa_IR@calendar=persian</string>

Step 6.

  • Restore your iDevice using iBackupBot, right click on your backup file and select Restore

Step 7.

  • Reboot your phone and you should have persian keyboard activated.

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  • November 10, 2011 at 12:21 pm #3212
    chronzz
    Key Master

    Use this forum to ask for help, suggestions and feedback

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    May 22, 2012 at 10:27 am #3664
    Gholam-Reza Vakilzadeh Ebrahimi
    Participant

    hey there, did all these. persian keyboard worked on both iphone and ipad. but perisan locale didnt work on either. iphone 4 new ipad ios 5.1.1 non jailbreak

    May 22, 2012 at 12:35 pm #3665
    chronzz
    Key Master

    @gholam-reza I have not tested it on the new iPad but i have tested it on the iPhone 4 and it worked. can you show me a screenshot of the modified file so i can see how u did it. thanks

    May 22, 2012 at 1:07 pm #3666
    Gholam-Reza Vakilzadeh Ebrahimi
    Participant

    @chronzz : numbers and time format worked. Persian calendar didn’t. How can i post a screen shot here?

    May 22, 2012 at 2:01 pm #3669
    chronzz
    Key Master

    @gholam-reza I just tried it with the new iPad and it worked take a look at the screenshots Lock Screen and Calendar.

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    May 22, 2012 at 2:05 pm #3671
    chronzz
    Key Master

    @gholam-reza use any image upload service [chronzz.net] and post the link here

    Edit: I have just added a Upload Image Link under the reply box

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    May 22, 2012 at 2:30 pm #3673
    Gholam-Reza Vakilzadeh Ebrahimi
    Participant

    @ chronzz: thank you, this time it worked. Is there a solution for iranian calendar too?

    May 22, 2012 at 2:35 pm #3674
    chronzz
    Key Master

    @gholam-reza not for a non jailbroken iOS Device but for jailbroken there is, [Search google for it].

    June 22, 2012 at 2:06 am #4104
    Shervin Guilani
    Participant

    It works and you are Awesome! Thanks a lot! on IPAD 2

    June 22, 2012 at 8:34 am #4105
    chronzz
    Key Master

    @shervin you are welcome

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