how do you change the date format in the HD2? I want it to be dd/mm/yyyy not mm/dd/yyyy
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Regional settings/Date
d'oh! nice one mate!! knew it was something simple
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I love the Special Edition ROM!!!!!!!!! BUT, I really miss *one* thing: hypenation. I live in the US, and I like my phone numbers to look like this: (555) 555-1234. Unfortunatly, the SER uses the O2 ROM, which is from the UK, which means it doesn't do hyphenataion. There's gotta be a registry entry for this. Anyone know it?
Strange: we based the first Special Edition ROM on the Qtek ROM which did do hyphenation: I remember us having to set this:
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ControlPanel\Phone]
"CountryCode"=dword:00000000
In order to make it stop doing that. However, setting it back to '1' doesn't turn it back on on the O2 ROM.
i did the same thing and the registry mod doesn't work on the 02 rom.
alex
There's something about these O2 ROMs. I seem to remember the provider logos also being hardcoded instead of using the normal registry mechanism. We could theoretically take the phone app from the Qtek ROM, I guess. But mixing and matching between ROMs could quickly become more complicated than would be warranted by solving a phone-number hyphenation issue.
Wow...now I feel pretty smart, because I've already seen that country code key and changed it to one.
WAIT!
Just as I was typing this message, I figured it out. Don't ya love dumb luck? Anyways, we were all close. Instead of changing the country code to 1, just delete that key all together.
ejdmoo said:
Instead of changing the country code to 1, just delete that key all together.
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Good work!
All these petty problems. Serves them right for not living in the default country.
Reminds me of ordering stuff online recently, and being told I live in an 'invalid country'. By which the site meant it wasn't the US or Canada.
wow,
thanks for the tip. that did it.
alex
I've got my regional settings set for South Africa but the date format is in yy/mm/dd. I want to change this to dd/mm/yy. Is there any way of doing this in the registry and will it mess any applications such as Word, Excel, Outlook etc.?
Thanks.
Yes, look for Short Date Format
in http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=WM5_Tweaks_Other
Thanks.
I see under my registry that the SSdte key is not there. Do I need to add it and if so how (I'm using Total Commander)?
I'm a bit of a noob at the registry thing
Well, I still cannot get this right. Anyone been able to do this.
Quad said:
Well, I still cannot get this right. Anyone been able to do this.
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HKLM\nls\overrides
SSDte = dd/MM/yy
hang.tuah said:
HKLM\nls\overrides
SSDte = dd/MM/yy
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Brilliant, it's working.
Many thanks.
After a short search, I found enough info to allow me to edit the registry to get my trin to show the US date format (MM/dd/yy) instead of the Asian format (dd/MM/yy).
I'm sure this is old hat to many of you out there, but for those of you who would like this "fix", here it is (credit to mikechannon for the pieces of the puzzle):
Go to HKLM\nls\overrides
create a string called SSDte
give that string the value MM/dd/yy (or anything else you want from the legend provided here )
Then hold the power button down until you get the message that data may be lost. Tap yes and then long press the power button to restart.
If you don't do it this way, your changes may be lost and you will have to repeat the process.
I hope this helps someone who, like me (a silly American), may have been getting continually confused by things like how I got to the 28th month on 28/2/07!!!
psargent said:
After a short search, I found enough info to allow me to edit the registry to get my trin to show the US date format (MM/dd/yy) instead of the Asian format (dd/MM/yy).
I'm sure this is old hat to many of you out there, but for those of you who would like this "fix", here it is (credit to mikechannon for the pieces of the puzzle):
Go to HKLM\nls\overrides
create a string called SSDte
give that string the value MM/dd/yy (or anything else you want from the legend provided here )
Then hold the power button down until you get the message that data may be lost. Tap yes and then long press the power button to restart.
If you don't do it this way, your changes may be lost and you will have to repeat the process.
I hope this helps someone who, like me (a silly American), may have been getting continually confused by things like how I got to the 28th month on 28/2/07!!!
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Well... being no silly american I just used Settings Regional Settings.... didnt that work for you?
saminegm said:
Well... being no silly american I just used Settings Regional Settings.... didnt that work for you?
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WOW. I even saw that when I was looking for the answer - I just must have looked right over it! <Red face of embarrasment> Well at least it got me some more reg editing experience!
I'll see you all later when I post some more pointless info.
There is one thing I'd like a reg hack for... and that's to change the word 'mobile' in contacts to 'cell'.
Actually, make that two things, the keyboard is the wrong format or something, the enter key and backslash keys need fixin' -- but I guess it won't be a quick reg hack either.
Hi,
I flashed my ROM to an english ROM with regional settings on English (United States). Is there a way to prevent Windows mobile from interpreting incoming phone calls as US phone numbers ?
I mean in France we have 10 digits numbers which we usually display by pairs of digits, i.e. 01 23 45 67 89. However when someone calls me, WM shows (012) 345-6789, which is annoying. Can I disable that formatting and just make it display 0123456789 ?
I didn't put France as a regional parameter because then the days are displayed in French (lundi, mardi, ...) while the rest of the OS is in English (how f'ing stupid is that ??).
Thanks for any help !
Anyone ?
What if you enter the numbers as +33xxxxxxx (+33 for France, of course) or something along those lines. Does that work? Having the "+" sign, might do the job.
In the regional settings you can adjust the format for each single element. So set it to "French" and then change the date format to your needs.
johnpatcher said:
In the regional settings you can adjust the format for each single element. So set it to "French" and then change the date format to your needs.
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Does that affect the way phone numbers are displayed? I didn't think so, but maybe it does.
Chris Cross said:
Does that affect the way phone numbers are displayed? I didn't think so, but maybe it does.
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To be honest, I don't know I'm still waiting on my Touch HD, which is my first PocketPC with Windows Mobile Phone Edition, whereas my x51v just is a "normal" pocket pc.
johnpatcher said:
To be honest, I don't know I'm still waiting on my Touch HD, which is my first PocketPC with Windows Mobile Phone Edition, whereas my x51v just is a "normal" pocket pc.
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I just looked at my Touch HD and I don't see that it would change the phone number display. I only see that you can change how other numbers, and decimals, and currencies are displayed.
Anyway, let's hope your HD gets there soon.
I always enter the phone numbers in the international form (+<country code><phone number>. For france it's +33 followed by the 9 digits of the phone number). That way, I don't care from where neither to where I'm calling, it always works fine.
ZoZo2 said:
Hi,
I flashed my ROM to an english ROM with regional settings on English (United States). Is there a way to prevent Windows mobile from interpreting incoming phone calls as US phone numbers ?
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Thanks for any help !
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This has always been a pain with WinMo, and I haven't seen any definitive answer yet. There is a lot of discussion about the problem on these forums and in other WinMo forums as well. Used to come up regularly in the Hermes forums and I think I posted the same question a year or more ago.
I think Google is your friend here, but it will probably take a lot of searching.
In the meantime, roll on WM7. (Lots of wishful thinking...)
hi, Friend "ZoZo2",
Change your regional settings From US to UK. I think your problem will be solved.
i live in hongkong and i've set my region to USA on the phone. everything work good except the phone number format as it displays like (123)456-78. but i actually expect it to display like 12345678; with no bracket & minus sign. problem is if i set my region to hongkong, some apps like opera will then display in chinese menu! pls help, what i want is to have everything display in english yet phone number will display as 12345678 (with no bracket & minus), is there any registry hack or sort out there?
If you want that kind of phone number format then set it to UK.
Canaan said:
If you want that kind of phone number format then set it to UK.
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thanks for replying. i tried but doesn't work out the way i want. i guess it's the area code thing, because there's no area code concept in hongkong. any other suggestions?