I'd like to change the locale of my nexus 4 to France but still have it running in English. Is there absolutely no way to do this?
By locale you mean what specifically? If you can give an example of what you are trying to achieve.
Sent from my Nexus 4
I'll give you a small example:
The locale is set according to your device language.
In google now you can only use voice search for your phone's language. If it's in english you can only use english voice commands, if its in french you can only use french voice commands.
The voice commands language is selected by your locale, some people would like to have their phone in english but to be able to use voice commands in their own native language.
The OP wants to know if theres a way to separate the two.
There was a program MoreLocale2, that could do such things. I was using Ukraine(English) locale. That gave my proper date/time formats and English interface language. Unfortunately that program is incompatible with 4.2+. Since then I looking for substitute.
That said, you can set Google Now voice commands language independent from system locale. There is 'Voice' option in Now's settings.
I just set Language to English and keyboard to Danish (switchable to English). Maybe this also forces me to use English date formats etc, but I'm ok with that.
So this won't work anymore? Any alternatives I could find?
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Though Nexus One is available in few countries, some owners like me speak languages that aren't supported by default. I type in my local language about half of the time so this is a big deal.
My country (Philippines) in the list of the available Locales. My language (Filipino/Tagalog) isn't supported by the dictionary too. The "User Dictionary" feature is very useful, but I have too many words to add for me to have a decent dictionary.
What can I do to have a the dictionary for my native language?
will the nexus one support displaying traditional chinese on websites like yahoo.com.tw ? i don't want to change the entire os to chinese but in case, for example if i have a chinese song, will the characters display? also is there support for chinese input? what about chinese voice input?
... the stock music app displays music in japanese, korean and chinese (that I can confirm). Just download a zhong guo keyboard from marketplace, voice input works in other languages but not as well. e.g. when i say: Watashi wa anata o koto ga suki desu. it searched for "watashi wa balls"... lol
how do you do voice search on other language without changing the locale setting in Setting?
I don't think that's possible is it?
Let me write it in math:
Navigon + HTC Desire language set to English = You can only chose navigation voices in english (even though a lot of other languages are installed)
Now, I want the phone menus to be in English.
But I'd like to be able to chose another navigation language in Navigon.
Anybody know of a way to make that work?
The langauge files are there in the install, but trying to rename them doesn't work - they must have embedded some sort of langauge setting in the data files to prevent them being renamed.
Changing the language of the phone works, but I don't want to do that (why doesn't really matter)
one more, please...
Just wundering, I would like to do voice-txt in a different language. I know I can type it in with a keyboard software, the thing is that I dont know how to read/write in that language, I can just speak it.
Is this possible to install an apk file or something? Normally, if you get an android device in lets say europe, they would use some sort of european voice engine to search and do the typing, would I need to install the acutal european android?
the street are always in English in the standard English mode. naturally. but some users in non english countries like myself would like to see the maps in my native language without changing the entire UI cause it doesn't look that great in Hebrew.