Hey everyone,
First post here, but I've been reading for a while, since I was deciding on a new phone.
Anyhow, judging by the title you can probably guess what I'm interested in. I recently bought this phone as I'm studying abroad in Greece. But my Greek isn't that good and apparently the phone (or windows mobile 6, I'm still new to this) is hard coded in Greek.
I really want to change the language, and I know a few things about computers I believe
So, is there anyone knows if there is a way around this? I'd prefer not to flash my hard drive as making a 350 euro phone a brick with no warranty seems to not entice me.
1) Is the language embedded in the LG KS20 or Windows Mobile 6
2) Is there a string in a .dll or something I can change to reset the language to English? Or, any software you guys know of capable of doing this? Or should I just go back to the company and ask them to mail me a new one (which will prob take a month )
*Ps: I saw the plugin thread that seems to be a hot topic, but I saw that it was originally in French or Dutch (not sure what ROM was dumped) and was translated to English. But I didn't know if it was the same for all language, as I said I'm new to this.
Best wishes, and hope I can get some feedback,
Sheky
hey guys
i have a big problem. i am living (temporarily) in germany and i cant speak german. since i bought a samsung galaxy s and i know from friends that all android devices you can switch language , i didnt worry a lot and i went to pay 650 euros for a new xoom 3g.
when i got home big surprise!! i cant switch to english! it has only german language.
if you are wondering if i know where the menu is, yes i do....
what to do ? if you guys need more details i can even provide print screen...
mospantagruel said:
hey guys
i have a big problem. i am living (temporarily) in germany and i cant speak german. since i bought a samsung galaxy s and i know from friends that all android devices you can switch language , i didnt worry a lot and i went to pay 650 euros for a new xoom 3g.
when i got home big surprise!! i cant switch to english! it has only german language.
if you are wondering if i know where the menu is, yes i do....
what to do ? if you guys need more details i can even provide print screen...
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Go to the settings ("Einstellungen"). Then select Language & input (German: "Sprache ...") and then "Sprache auswahlen"
ok so i was sure you wouldnt understand me.
that is why i attached 2 pictures.
i am already in that menu and there is no language other than german to select
please take a look
mospantagruel said:
ok so i was sure you wouldnt understand me.
that is why i attached 2 pictures.
i am already in that menu and there is no language other than german to select
please take a look
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So you're screwed. Bring it back. It only has German. No possibility to switch to another locale, no matter how hard we try to understand you.
i understand that this could be a solution yes.
but i was thinking maybe somebody knows if i upgrade to 3.1 with usb host cable....maybe that would work?
and also since that 3.1 rom image is taken directly from google, shouldn't void my warranty right?
i am waiting couple more hours for more opinions maybe someone here can help me!!
then i take it back to the store
i can tell you this thing has ruined my user experience ...a lot!
mospantagruel said:
i am waiting couple more hours for more opinions maybe someone here can help me!!
then i take it back to the store
i can tell you this thing has ruined my user experience ...a lot!
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I think it's to early to tell if the 3G Verizon 3.1 image might work on a German 3G Xoom. If I were you I would trade it for the Galaxy Tab 10.1v. They should be available in Germany by now. It's a perfect Honeycomb tablet and will support English. (You need to double check this of course in the store)
Good luck, take it easy
thanks appelflap!
i have an update for those who are intrested in this... just called motorola germany, they speak english, and i asked them if this is a policy of motorola or it will be available in the future.
motorola support told me "no no no, no way its our policy" and by next official update i will definately get english. they said its just because its the initial release of the honeycomb thats why... i asked them when the upgrade and they said they dont know and they prefer not to speculate.
oh well... should i believe them? i still have 14 days by german law and also according to the store policy to take it back so i figure i just wait a little bit...
galaxy tab 10.1 might have been a very good option ...if it had hdmi and microsd, which is important for me...
You can try to install a free app called MoreLocale2 from Android market.
https://market.android.com/details?id=jp.co.c_lis.ccl.morelocale&feature=search_result
This app contain lots of language packs.
Bigmille that was genious!!!! thank you so much!
oh boy...
Bigmille said:
You can try to install a free app called MoreLocale2 from Android market.
https://market.android.com/details?id=jp.co.c_lis.ccl.morelocale&feature=search_result
This app contain lots of language packs.
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Only works if they have built in the locale translations in the Honeycomb system. Could be working for english because Honeycomb is original in English. Don't see why they have hide the English locale though. BTW it will not work for the keyboard.
With such a switch you ask apps to look for translations. Apps need to provide the translations though.
everything is in english now. keyboard also, skype, google maps, android market, everything in english.
i selected us english in the MoreLocale2 app, even though in the settings/ language options i still cant chose other than german, which is so weird....
i will post a pic later, now i am playing with my new toy
thanks so much for help. if anyone else has the same problem i am glad i opened this thread...
mospantagruel said:
everything is in english now. keyboard also, skype, google maps, android market, everything in english.
i selected us english in the MoreLocale2 app, even though in the settings/ language options i still cant chose other than german, which is so weird....
i will post a pic later, now i am playing with my new toy
thanks so much for help. if anyone else has the same problem i am glad i opened this thread...
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That's great. Congratulations. Now if this only could work with dutch
Very strange they decided to hide this locale option on the German Xoom.
Well this is great! It also works with the Galaxy Tab 10.1v for Dutch. The translations aren't finished yet but it's working, sort of. Now I won't have to wait till they release the translations here in the Netherlands.
Ha! Now I don't have to return the Tab and can I sell the Xoom to my neighbor
Thank you!
Hey guys, I tried posting in the miui development thread but I guess I don't have enough posts under my belt and I figured this is the next best thing. I'm currently running miui 1.8.26 and starting from 1.8.15(I think) The korean font on all of my apps shows up completely broken (just rows of squares). Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, all the forums etc. The keyboard comes up, though one of the letters is a square, and I can type. Can anyone think of any fixes for this? I also posted in the miui forums but it's not nearly as active as xda so I thought I'd give it a shot.
Thanks,
JiHo
Any help??
Yah. same here. I installed Revolover 2.5.1 in Asus TF 101. I am really loving it and you guys are awesome. but, there is an interesting thing is that the korean font set is only broken among othere major asian font sets such as chinese, japapnes, Thai and so forth. anybody can take a look into it? I am not a developer but it seems to me that there was a codepage error for korean at the final compilation...? ^^;
Asus Transformer 101
I am not sure what program you installed to type and read korean. I don't use korean as much so it might not help. Have you check your settings?
i tried searching the forums about this, when found nothing... posted this.
about 3 days ago i bought a Galaxy S4 i337 smartphone from AT&T. the phone is great and all but it seems to have a problem with Hebrew. no matter what i installed from Google store, firmwares or even just tried to change the settings - nothing works with hebrew. theres no hebrew UI and most importantly - it cannot send hebrew messages.
when i download a hebrew keyboard and try to send a message with the phone - it says "Message may be corrupted on recipient device change input mode to automatic".
what can i do to make this Galaxy S4 support hebrew? i figured it has something to do with the input code but i dont know how to change it to Cyrillic or unicode...
would appreciate the help cause i dont want to change here phone to HTC.
thanks in advance..
Hi everyone,
I have a big problem, i don't know what happened, but suddenly the hebrew disapeared from my samsung keyboard. As usual, when I want to input hebrew text, i swype the space bar to switch to hebrew. And two days ago i had lost my hebrew keyboard and all was left was english(US) and french.
So I checked out the languages in the parameters. I still have the hebrew in the menu languages, as well as in the speech recognition from google, but it has disapeared from the input list of the samsung keyboard. actually I found it back in the trash of this list. So thinking I could restore it by downloading it again from the server if it was really deleted I emptied the trash, sadly nothing happened, no new language to download when updating from the server.
Has anyone got a clue ?
I guess hebrew is flagged as deleted somewhere in the parameter files, so it is no longer proposed to download.
Btw, my phone is a Galaxy S4, of course, GT-I9505 JDQ39.I9505XXUBMEA Android 4.2.2 rooted.
Thnks in advance to anyone who might help.
stunned
Hi everyone
So no one can help me, even just give me a hint, I thought you big bunch of android geeks would answer me...lightning speed...
It seems I reached the limit ????:laugh::laugh:
Seriously, i'm in some trouble with this keyboard that's gone. And I dont wanna install third party one just for that...
So please help me.