Hi,
In order to get the news from my country, i need to set the locale of the phone to match my country.
I need to set both language and country.
This works fine (with "MoreLocale2" app) but it changes the localisation of my phone.
I only want to change the locale for this app.
(I don't want to change the OS language or the time/dates formats. It looks better in English..)
Any ideas how to achieve this?
You're not the only one... As far as I can see, it seems to set the country given to the IP address of the Wifi link or, when available, from GPS coordinates. If geoip location is unavailable, I think it falls back to the current locale set in the OS, which is a problem for me, given that I set Spanish as the language, but live in Latinamerica, so most of the news it gets are irrelevant.
So there's no configuration option. Too bad...
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Hi,
I have a vague memory of a setting for my Magician (win mobile 2003) where one configures the phone number format to not use parantheses in random places (as if they were north american area codes). I would like to place dashes and parantheses where I like!
Any tips... ?
look if the regional settings is set correct
thanks, that helped it, I had it set to a tweaked US setting.
Does anyone know, btw, where the regional settings are located in the registry... ?
Regional settings are taken from a file called wince.nls, not from the registry.
You can however put overrides in the registry to replace some of the nls settings.
Search this forum for nls override, there was a big post on all available strings to put there.
The key to look at is:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\nls
hi there
im writing for this popular problem. im running android 2.2 on lg optimus one.
"Cannot change Google Maps units" from google's forum
what would i have to edit in the phone (i have root) in order to change english language's settings from imperial to metric?
i set the "locale" for "italy" and doesn't work. only way to do it is to change the main phone's language to something European for example, but not English tho i would like to have the language itself as english.
so since if i set italy it works, it should be a string that can be copied from the "italian" option basically... under "units" or something....
JUST TO BE MORE CLEAR: if i change the "main" phone's language works ok, but not setting en-IT.
i tried this modify found on another forum, which CHANGES the language and locale successfully, but not the units because english sticks to imperial so it's the setting of the very english setting that needs to be changed....
$ adb shell
setprop persist.sys.language en;
setprop persist.sys.country IT;
stop;
sleep 5;
start
To verify that your change was successful just use
$ adb shell getprop persist.sys.language
any expert can give me quick headup on this???
thanks
gabrio
nobody on this one???????
i just spent 3 hours searching online but nothing.... i found the following:
this is linux:
[email protected]:~/google-app-engine-jappstart$ locale
LANG=en_GB.utf8
LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
LC_CTYPE="en_GB.utf8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_GB.utf8"
LC_TIME="en_GB.utf8"
LC_COLLATE="en_GB.utf8"
LC_MONETARY="en_GB.utf8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_GB.utf8"
LC_PAPER="en_GB.utf8"
LC_NAME="en_GB.utf8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_GB.utf8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_GB.utf8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_GB.utf8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_GB.utf8"
LC_ALL=
LC_MEASUREMENT: measurement units // this is the parameters needed to change, i saw so many people with the same problem.
from android developers:
You can use getDefault to get an appropriate locale for the user of the device you're running on, or getAvailableLocales to get a list of all the locales available on the device you're running on.
Locale data
Note that locale data comes solely from ICU. User-supplied locale service providers (using the java.text.spi or java.util.spi mechanisms) are not supported.
i have no clue how to use this, do i have to install a java SDK? eclipse? i used to program years ago and i dont remember.....thanks!!
looks like latest google 5 maps update now reports in meters/kms!
Metric units with lang=en?
Did you get maps to show metric units with English lang? How? This has been a deep-rooted issue for me since I got my phone. Please explain what you did?
Phone: Samsung Vibrant (Galaxy-S variant)
OS: Froyo 2.2
Carrier: T-mobile (US)
Location: Boston, USA
hi
as far as i can tell, i have changed the locale with this :
http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/resources/localization.html
lookup for "Changing the emulator locale from the adb shell" from this URL i just gave you, there's an example on how to do it via adb.
but then something weird happens, with latest google maps, if i have my Italian sim card, i see in kms/metric, whereas when i put in the phone my O2 card, which is UK, and now i am in UK, it displays miles/imperial, with same locale, en_IT.
i'm italian but with O.S. in english so i want en_IT.
really confusing!!!
gabrio
Ok first off if this is the wrong place to post this I apologize but I tried searching and can't find anything about my phone.
I just purchased a Toshiba Regza phone from AU in Japan. I have changed the regional settings to English and all the menus and mostly everything is in English but the problem I am having is that the email program that everyone uses here to send instant email back and forth is still in Japanese. I have contacted AU KDDI about this and they say there is no way to change the language to English from within the email program itself. My wife is Japanese and she has looked at every setting within the email program itself and cannot find any language settings.
As far as I have found out, the "email" system here in Japan is actually a MMS messaging system on steroids that uses an email address instead of the other persons phone number like in the US. I think a very long time ago some of my friends in Japan had email addresses with there phone number(at)docomo.ne.jp
I have looked on the marketplace and I can't seem to find anything that will work with the AU system.
Does anyone know if there is an app that can replace the stock email program to send and recieve email with my xxxxxxxx(at)ezweb.ne.jp? If there is where can I find the settings for AU's email system? Do they use IMAP. POP or because it is MMS it is totally different?
I love this phone, the camera is awesome the screen rez is really great watching 1 seg TV and the video quality is great. I really don't want to have to do anything to it that will brick it because it's brand new and my wife would kill me LOL Only thing is I cannot use the email program to it's fullest extent.
thanks for taking the time to read this and for any help you might provide.
Unfortunately there is no fix or alternative, as carriers in Japan have their mobile mail services tightly locked down and you require their express authorisation to develop an application for it.
The mail application for the IS04 is as bad as it gets, as are various other software related aspects of the phone... which is a shame because otherwise it's quite a capable device.
Hopefully issues like this one will be addressed at the same time as the rather late 2.2 update, but I wouldn't keep your fingers crossed.
I've been trying to extract the carrier mail application from other the au android devices and modifying it so it can install/communicate with au's servers on the IS04, but I've gotten nowhere with the security.
In case you run into any other trouble, other problems people have had with the IS04 include battery charging issues (phone runs off battery once it reaches 100% and never starts charging again, even while plugged in), contact list problems (multiple and non interchangeable contact lists for different applications), various settings resetting themselves (aforementioned mail application mainly), lost emails/contacts and weird memory restrictions (for storage).
For the record, DoCoMo's version of the Regza phone (and their other Android devices) use a relatively decent universal phone mail application, while au has gone with letting the manufacturers put together their own. I'll let you work out which decision turned out better.
In the meantime, I suggest having your wife translate the settings so you can have it up and running the way you like, and then just memorising the basic navigation and functions.
Edit: To answer your question, correct me if I'm wrong but I believe the weird MMS system for all three major carriers in Japan is still using the I-mode transport protocol.
just FYI:
2013 is around the corner and with Android 2.2.2 now (still) on the Regza IS04 nothing has really changed much.
The mail app - and other default apps - are still in Japanese only and will not be changed.
The general feedback from their tech support is: Learn Japanese or get lost (though said very politely, with smiles and bows and not in such a direct manner )
Have a great 2013 all
I live in a country where it is obligatory to dial long distance company prefix for calling other areas and countries, thus I can´t have all numbers stored in an international standard notation. Like I can´t store a UK number like +44 1273-701648, I have to store it like 00XX441273701648 (where XX is a two digit long distance company code, like 23 or 41 ). Same with in-country numbers - I can´t store them neither in international nor in regular local form, for example - I live in area code 011, so to store a phone number in area code (081) 3421-3266, I have to store it as 0XX8134213266 (where XX is a two digit long distance company code, like 23 or 41 ). At the same time, I have to store numbers in my own area without any prefix at all. So far so good, as long as I don´t leave my area or country.
If I will go to another area, like (081) - I will have to cut off all 0XX81 prefixes since I will be in roaming locally there. At the same time I will have to add 0XX11 to all numbers from my native area code. Worse - if I will go to an area from which I have no numbers stored let´s say 019, I will have to keep ALL locally stored codes, like 0XX81... BUT also add 0XX11 to all phones from my native 011 zone.
When roaming abroad it is somwhat easier - I´ll have to cut off 0XX and add country code +55 to ALL numbers. But also I´ll have add area code 11 to all phone numbers from my native 011 zone.
When I was using WM6.5, Magicall by Mobiion was able to do it for me. Is there anything similar under Android?
Did you check android settings?
There is an option for automatic prefixes, atleast on my i9000.
It might be possible to make a widget that gives quick access to enable/disable the prefixes.
Dark3n said:
Did you check android settings?
There is an option for automatic prefixes, atleast on my i9000.
It might be possible to make a widget that gives quick access to enable/disable the prefixes.
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Nothing like this on my X10 mini pro. At least visibly, but I´ll try to look into it. Thank you!
Thank you everyone for feedback. I was advised to try out Prefixer and it is exactly what I needed.
The Samsung keyboard app comes preloaded with the input language of the phone's region (let's say Korean). Of course you can add other input languages and the keyboard app will remember the last language you used for normal text inputs. However, that's not the case for password fields - there, it always defaults to the preloaded language and does not remember your recent language selection (that means you can change the input language in a password field, but next time it will be the preloaded language again).
The only way to change it is to disable the preloaded language (removing it is not possible), then it seems to default to the earliest (not disabled) installed language, and still doesn't remember a different language selection. I don't know if that's just a bug or if there's some hidden setting for this. Since it chooses the earliest installed language, is there a way to change the language list hierarchy somewhere in the settings/properties? That would at least allow me to set the default password field language to the most convenient one, even if it still doesn't remember the last used language.
This issue is not device specific because it affects the Samsung keyboard app (on the recent Android versions) and how it handles password fields. Is there a possible workaround?