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Language on Magic from Germany

Hi,
Sorry for this NOOB question, but just want to make sure...
I'm about to buy a Magic from eBay. It's from Germany and the seller received it from Vodaphone (but no simlock). Ofcourse I would like to change the language to English or even Dutch and use a qwerty keyboard layout.
I can do this without flashing right? (I'm used to WM being stuck to its lang)
Thanks in advance!
Patric.

PatricB said:
Hi,
Sorry for this NOOB question, but just want to make sure...
I'm about to buy a Magic from eBay. It's from Germany and the seller received it from Vodaphone (but no simlock). Ofcourse I would like to change the language to English or even Dutch and use a qwerty keyboard layout.
I can do this without flashing right? (I'm used to WM being stuck to its lang)
Thanks in advance!
Patric.
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Yeah, I got my magic from Germany. No problem changing the language to English with the stock rom. Not too sure about Dutch as I've flashed the rom since then. Dutch is definitely available on my current rom. Good luck with the bid!!

Hey, thank you! English only would be fine too! Yes, it's my 1st ebay bid! Really excited been lokking forward to an Android phone for long!
And since the Magic is hardware wise not that different from the Hero and I know this site...

how to change the language

Morning, I recently purchased a touch2 from Jordan and everything was in English. Well the other day my son got a hold of the pohne and installed a application that turned almost everything to Arabic. Now, I have NO technical know how when it comes to phones. I keep hearing that i can go in the registry and change it back to english. Do any of you guys know how to do that?
Ps. I tried the hard reset numerous times and it's still in Arabic. Also, I need step by step instructions...Thanks

I have the same problem. I have just bought the phone from the US and the interface language is in Chinese . I want to change it to English.

My phone was in polish loc. and after hard reset i changed loc. in to slovak

emilia_cy said:
I have the same problem. I have just bought the phone from the US and the interface language is in Chinese . I want to change it to English.
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To change the language you have to do Hard Reset. After the first run and customize you have to restart the phone.
Then you can change the language.

wojtekml said:
To change the language you have to do Hard Reset. After the first run and customize you have to restart the phone.
Then you can change the language.
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Honestly - is this really possible? I thought changing the language on any windows mobile phone always needs to flash the ROM, and maybe even need to unlock in some way (hard spl or whatever)...
Basically, if I could really change the language to english, I might be thinking to buy two of those Touch2 here in taiwan for my GF and me... but I can't read chinese, so changing to english would be necessary.
On the other hand, with the ROMs I saw there was no traditional chinese version, just "WWE Asia"... this kinda sounds like there are more languages inside there... hmmm... lets see, I'm off to a HTC store to test this

Yoc can try to install Sunnysoft Interwrite to change a language.
If you chave Sunnysoft Interwrite try to change language in start/settings/system/sunnysoft interwrite.
In home page of this program you can select language without HR, only SR.

yellowfever said:
Honestly - is this really possible? I thought changing the language on any windows mobile phone always needs to flash the ROM, and maybe even need to unlock in some way (hard spl or whatever)...
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I know this is a very late answer within this thread, but yes, that's how it seems to work. For example, I have a Touch Diamond purchased in Slovakia, it is the WWE version. After the first power on, it made me pick between 6 languages: English, Slovak, Czech, Hungarian, Polish, Romanian. Once the language is picked, it will update all the system files, and you cannot change the language again.
But if you do a hard reset (like I did today) everything is wiped and the phone will boot just like it did the first time - going through all the initial configuration, etc. And it will allow you to select the OS language again.
Now, I don't know what languages may be included with phones sold in Asia. Above is just to give you an idea how the localization stuff worked on my Diamond.

yellowfever said:
Basically, if I could really change the language to english, I might be thinking to buy two of those Touch2 here in taiwan for my GF and me... but I can't read chinese, so changing to english would be necessary.
On the other hand, with the ROMs I saw there was no traditional chinese version, just "WWE Asia"... this kinda sounds like there are more languages inside there... hmmm... lets see, I'm off to a HTC store to test this
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By the way, no, there is no way to change the language with WWE ASIA or also the traditional chinese HK version. You can hard reset as often as you want, no menu pops up.
So I guess that's a special feature of some select ROMs, like the one for the mentioned middle/east european languages.
But now with HardSPL we can at least flash all ROMs that are available, so I got my Touch2 from the store in Taiwan already flashed with WWE and HardSPL. Now I changed to WWE ASIA and that's pretty good already
In a nutshell: Changing languages (with a few exceptions) requires HardSPL and flashing a ROM.

There is no way on ASIA ROM cause its basicly not WWE, but Asia ROM. HTC has many ROMs with specific language in them.

yellowfever said:
By the way, no, there is no way to change the language with WWE ASIA or also the traditional chinese HK version. You can hard reset as often as you want, no menu pops up.
So I guess that's a special feature of some select ROMs, like the one for the mentioned middle/east european languages.
But now with HardSPL we can at least flash all ROMs that are available, so I got my Touch2 from the store in Taiwan already flashed with WWE and HardSPL. Now I changed to WWE ASIA and that's pretty good already
In a nutshell: Changing languages (with a few exceptions) requires HardSPL and flashing a ROM.
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You are fully correct....changing language is for a selected number of Rom's. Since quite some people (incl myself) like this idea have asked some Rom cookers to built this feature as standard eg. have dual language options. Sofar unfortunately no reaction.....
So I think basically it is possible but not available. If more people ask for it.....it will happen someday either via HTC or XDA.

Rom Milestone 2 - Polish Language

Hello !
I have Motorola Milestone 2 form UK and i want Polish menu. What am I have do to add Polish menu ?

kolakkk said:
Hello !
I have Motorola Milestone 2 form UK and i want Polish menu. What am I have do to add Polish menu ?
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You would need a European ROM for that but I have not seen one available anywhere.

even in eropean ROM there is not polish language, but you can try Morelocale2 appllication on you own risk

When I used EU ROM on my Milestone 1 it surely had Polish.

Szadzik said:
When I used EU ROM on my Milestone 1 it surely had Polish.
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But in milesotne 2 we not have polish lang. In Morelocale2 we can add polish location, but Android is only 1/2 in pl lang, all moto app and apps modified by motorola its in Eng lang.

kolakkk, wait on polish premiere Milestone 2, maybe soon?

i'm waiting too... I've asked Motorola Polska about the date of polish premiere, but they said they have no idea. They are talking with distributiors...

Yesterday I askd them on their Facebook profile about MS2 in Poland. They wrote me it will be probably in second half-year 2011. God...

[Q] Multilanguage ROMs

Hi,
which custom ROMs have more languages than the original ROM (it has english & spanish)
For myself I need german.
Thanks,
tie

CyanogenMod ROMs have vast international language support, including four flavors of German: Deutschland, Liechtenstein, Osterreich, and Schweiz.

Unfortunatly I have a seriour problem with CM http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=985032
So an alternative would be nice

tie82 said:
hi,
which custom roms have more languages than the original rom (it has english & spanish)
for myself i need german.
Thanks,
tie
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i need greek languages can help me anybody

Until the CM7-problem does not occure on your phone I can suggest this ROM for you
The alternative ROM I use right now is RoyalThunder, also greek is available

tie82 said:
Until the CM7-problem does not occure on your phone I can suggest this ROM for you
The alternative ROM I use right now is RoyalThunder, also greek is available
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Thank you i have and second problem with sim lock

tie82 said:
which custom ROMs have more languages than the original ROM (it has english & spanish)
For myself I need german.
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You mean that some vendor/provider had the audacity to truncate the native Android multilanguage support and restrict it to two languages only??? I wonder what vendor/provider is dense enough to do something like that.

yes, they did
Maybe they were to lazy to add multi language for their own stuff and then they removed all
and the worst is ... t-mobile is a german provider

European language pack

hi is there any firmware i could use to get missing language from Europe? I tried all apps as more locale but all is still in English. Thank's a lot for any answer.

What language are you missing in the standard Android set up?

patruns said:
What language are you missing in the standard Android set up?
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I want the Serbian language to add or custom rom with the Serbian language.

I have Serbian option for the keyboard (Gboard), but I don't see an option for the whole phone. Interestingly, my Nexus 5 (also LG) had it.

im looking for Polish