my question is when I open the dailer screen there is numbers and letters how can I use the letters instead of the numbers.thanks
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hafezalayat said:
my question is when I open the dailer screen there is numbers and letters how can I use the letters instead of the numbers.thanks
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What do you want to use the letters for?
The dialer is the dialer for phone calls, it requires numbers to make a call. The letters are a hold-over on all phones from when your number was something like Klondike3-4632.
first thanks for your answer.but we have some USSD and secret codes for the phone that contains letters. also if they are not functioning then why are they in the Daimler screen
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hafezalayat said:
first thanks for your answer.but we have some USSD and secret codes for the phone that contains letters. also if they are not functioning then why are they in the Daimler screen
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What is USSD?
What secret codes for the phone require you type an actual letter in the dialer?
What phone lets you type an actual letter in the dialer? I've not noticed one, but I've never really looked into it.
They're there because all phones have them; some people and companies use letters to give out their phone number instead of all numbers: example, the local radio station tells you to call 800-777-KBIG; the KBIG aren't actual letters though, they're just an easy way to remember the phone number, and you would push 5244 on the actual phone by reading the letters on it. I even do this with my personal Google Voice number; I was lucky enough to be able to get one that actually spells my last name, so I just tell people to dial my last name and they easily remember the number.
You're the first person I've ever seen question this. Maybe we can both learn something here.
first the secret code is *#*#checkin#*#* to search for updates.
seconmd the USSD Unstructured Supplementary Service Data depending on the service provider
third the phone that can do this is xperia x10i with android 1.6
finally thanks
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See distortedloop's post again. The "code" you're talking about should be typed using the appropriate numbers based on the letters shown on the keypad. They don't have to show up as letters.
hafezalayat said:
first the secret code is *#*#checkin#*#* to search for updates.
seconmd the USSD Unstructured Supplementary Service Data depending on the service provider
third the phone that can do this is xperia x10i with android 1.6
finally thanks
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Like @kaimyn says...REREAD my post.
*#*#checkin#*#* doesn't require you to input the letters! Those letters are, just as described above, a way to make it easier for you to remember the secret code. You just replace each letter with the number on dialer keypad that shows that letter.
In other words the ACTUAL secret code to checkin isn't *#*#checkin#*#* it is *#*#2432546#*#*. Try it and see.
As for USSD, never heard of it, so can't help you there.
I'm fairly certain that with the stock dialer you cannot do what you're asking. Maybe some third party replacement dialer from the Market can do what you're after.
Btw, *#*#checkin#*#* and *#*#info#*#* are NOT USSD codes. They're just secret codes on Android. USSD codes are those codes AT&T and T-Mobile uses that you can get your bill balance, text used, minutes used. Example USSD code is #MIN#, #BAL# for T-Mobile.
And typing USSD codes is the same way, type the number that corresponds to the letter.
#MIN# = #646#
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Dled the latest skype from market, and i cant get the country code for usa. Also how would i exactly enter the numbers where it asks me to? In other words do i add any spaces or hypens or just the full number? Thanks
The country code for the united states its always 1, since they invented the first public telephone network
Uninstall reinstall
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Ok now its saying the password is to short. Needs 6-20 characters and i have 8.
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Ok now its saying the password is to short. Needs 6-20 characters and i have 8.
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maybe it wants symbols or uppercase chars?
just to let you know, the latest skype version is screwed up. i installed a previous version that works as well as skype can.
go to 4shared.com and download ' skype 2.0.0.45 '
I have tried to find this, but it doesn't seem as if there are any that work very well.
Looking for a caller info app (not one that adds full screen pix of my contacts). But has a connection to a database for all available landline caller's information, and, to the extent available, cell phone information (by "information" I mean city, state, name or business name).
I have found apps that will look up numbers, most have lousy info (only city and state), but in addition to better/more complete information, I would also like it to offer to complete a contact for a number not in my contacts and open up the "edit contact" screen (or something similar to this....I just want to be able to immediately add contact info and not have to go back through my call log, look up each number individually, and THEN add to contacts...that's horribly inefficient).
Amy help would be greatly appreciated!
Syntropic
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Get whitepages caller Id version 3.52... Works great
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Get whitepages caller Id version 3.52... Works great
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Thanks again.. This is awesome. Well worth the $6.99...probably the most I have ever paid for an app... But it really does have an immense library of information on phone numbers, both land line and cell!
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I have been seeing a lot of people on various forums complain about when they try and send a text they get an invalid recipient message. You must be rooted to fix this. In Root Explorer go into the CUST folder. Inside will be a cmcc, dualcu, and hw folder. (Lost+Found & Preinstalled you don't have to worry about) Go into cmcc--->cn--->xml and delete the mms_config.xml file. Do the same for the dualcu and hw folders. Then restart your phone. You will not get the invalid recipient message any more.
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I have been seeing a lot of people on various forums complain about when they try and send a text they get an invalid recipient message. You must be rooted to fix this. In Root Explorer go into the CUST folder. Inside will be a cmcc, dualcu, and hw folder. (Lost+Found & Preinstalled you don't have to worry about) Go into cmcc--->cn--->xml and delete the mms_config.xml file. Do the same for the dualcu and hw folders. Then restart your phone. You will not get the invalid recipient message any more.
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Thanks...It worked... hw folder didn't have "mms_config.xml" in it
If I were to want to use the X2 as is out of the box - no root or anything like that - would I run into that text problem?
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If I were to want to use the X2 as is out of the box - no root or anything like that - would I run into that text problem?
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Yes, it's not too big of a deal though as you can use another SMS app.
So I could get any SMS App from the Google Play Store? Another question... where's the best place to buy an X2 for use in the USA? I have read that if it says Honor on it then it's a Chinese version but that there is another version of the X2 for international and that is a "better" one for the USA. I don't know how to quote your previous post (I am kindof a Forum newbie). I got an email telling me that I had been quoted so I knew to come here. I wish I could figure out how to quote so you would get an email that I am back! Lol!
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So I could get any SMS App from the Google Play Store? Another question... where's the best place to buy an X2 for use in the USA? I have read that if it says Honor on it then it's a Chinese version but that there is another version of the X2 for international and that is a "better" one for the USA. I don't know how to quote your previous post (I am kindof a Forum newbie). I got an email telling me that I had been quoted so I knew to come here. I wish I could figure out how to quote so you would get an email that I am back! Lol!
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I don't think it matters which model you buy. You will not have LTE here in the U. S. The Chinese version has been out longer so it will probably have more development here on XDA. You can buy it on Gizok.com, on ebay or Amazon.
I've got a Thai 702L. No sms problem when used in Singapore.
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I've got a Thai 702L. No sms problem when used in Singapore.
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It has to do with the way the phone numbers are formatted here in the US. Huawei has something in the MMS_config file so that any other number format other than an international one won't send texts unless they send you a text first. Removing those files removes the format and lets you text any number without an issue.
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It has to do with the way the phone numbers are formatted here in the US. Huawei has something in the MMS_config file so that any other number format other than an international one won't send texts unless they send you a text first. Removing those files removes the format and lets you text any number without an issue.
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Then just using another SMS app is not really a "fix"? The only way to really fix it is to do that complicated thing that was brought up earlier in this thread? When I was told to just use another SMS app I went on the Play Store to look for one. There are a LOT of them! Do you have any recommendations? Will using that app also allow me to get pictures via texts? I get a lot of them!
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Then just using another SMS app is not really a "fix"? The only way to really fix it is to do that complicated thing that was brought up earlier in this thread? When I was told to just use another SMS app I went on the Play Store to look for one. There are a LOT of them! Do you have any recommendations? Will using that app also allow me to get pictures via texts? I get a lot of them!
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The problem doesn't happen with a third party sms app. It only happens with the default one. Textra is one of the best. It's fast and acts like the stock Google SMS. Yeah picture messages work fine with Textra.
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The problem doesn't happen with a third party sms app. It only happens with the default one. Textra is one of the best. It's fast and acts like the stock Google SMS. Yeah picture messages work fine with Textra.
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Wooooohoooo! Thanks!
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Text "invalid recipient" work around
You wont need to be Rooted to use stock messaging app and yes invalid recipient is an issue to some. Its only a formatting issue just as if you had a device from your local area and used it in a foreign country you would need to correct dialing codes. The easiest fix is to save all contacts in International format exactly as shown +1(area code) ###-#### or just download a app called Twitch contact formatter from the P.S. Run the app it will find all numbers then select output to international format and done.
1. I recommend you access and export a backup of your original contacts from PC.
2. Then run downloaded app and sync contacts to your g account once again.
If contacts do not update in cloud delete address book in cloud and re-sync from phone.*****BACK UP FIRST*****
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You wont need to be Rooted to use stock messaging app and yes invalid recipient is an issue to some. Its only a formatting issue just as if you had a device from your local area and used it in a foreign country you would need to correct dialing codes. The easiest fix is to save all contacts in International format exactly as shown +1(area code) ###-#### or just download a app called Twitch contact formatter from the P.S. Run the app it will find all numbers then select output to international format and done.
1. I recommend you access and export a backup of your original contacts from PC.
2. Then run downloaded app and sync contacts to your g account once again.
If contacts do not update in cloud delete address book in cloud and re-sync from phone.*****BACK UP FIRST*****
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Thanks for this information! I am on TMobile right now and Textra is a mess on TMobile. Apparently, TMobile doesn't support third-party messaging apps... Textra has a TMobile "fix" in the Settings (but I have been testing it on a Note 3 and have had terrible trouble with it). So your solution might be what I need to do! Thanks!
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Thanks for this information! I am on TMobile right now and Textra is a mess on TMobile. Apparently, TMobile doesn't support third-party messaging apps... Textra has a TMobile "fix" in the Settings (but I have been testing it on a Note 3 and have had terrible trouble with it). So your solution might be what I need to do! Thanks!
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I'm on T-Mobile and Textra works fine for me. I just set Textra as my default messaging app and it always works fine.
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I'm on T-Mobile and Textra works fine for me. I just set Textra as my default messaging app and it always works fine.
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Hi, aj, I even choose that TMobile "fix" in the Textra Settings and I had A LOT of instances of my texts not getting sent. Then a few would get sent at once hours later... I think you have answered my question which I called TMobile about and they couldn't answer... Even though I am in a TMobile "black hole" - always on E (Edge) with no phone network available for Internet and phone calls are even in-and-out... My texting on the TMobile messaging app and on home WiFi works just fine... I questioned TMobile and they said it was probably the interaction between Textra and TMobile... Now I am sure that it has to do with the terrible TMobile service here, instead... I am giving TMobile until December 1 to fix this situation. The local TMobile store (less than 2 miles from my house and right in the middle of this dead zone) told me that they're in the process of putting the nTelos towers they bought online with the existing towers and they said service would be a whole lot better. Otherwise, I am off to AT&T, I guess...
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Hi, aj, I even choose that TMobile "fix" in the Textra Settings and I had A LOT of instances of my texts not getting sent. Then a few would get sent at once hours later... I think you have answered my question which I called TMobile about and they couldn't answer... Even though I am in a TMobile "black hole" - always on E (Edge) with no phone network available for Internet and phone calls are even in-and-out... My texting on the TMobile messaging app and on home WiFi works just fine... I questioned TMobile and they said it was probably the interaction between Textra and TMobile... Now I am sure that it has to do with the terrible TMobile service here, instead... I am giving TMobile until December 1 to fix this situation. The local TMobile store (less than 2 miles from my house and right in the middle of this dead zone) told me that they're in the process of putting the nTelos towers they bought online with the existing towers and they said service would be a whole lot better. Otherwise, I am off to AT&T, I guess...
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You should be able to walk into a TMobile store and ask them to give you a signal booster. Do you get good coverage outside your house or is the coverage bad in your entire neighborhood? If the whole area is bad then the booster will do you no good though. Downstairs in my house the signal is not so great so they gave me a signal booster. I put one of them upstairs near a window and the second one downstairs and I get a great signal downstairs now.
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You should be able to walk into a TMobile store and ask them to give you a signal booster. Do you get good coverage outside your house or is the coverage bad in your entire neighborhood? If the whole area is bad then the booster will do you no good though. Downstairs in my house the signal is not so great so they gave me a signal booster. I put one of them upstairs near a window and the second one downstairs and I get a great signal downstairs now.
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I tested it and the signal is 4G LTE at about 2 miles away on one road entrance to downtown. All of downtown is E - including the TMobile office! Then it is hard to say... Rural areas that I rarely go into are on other sides so I haven't gone many miles into them to test it out... The northern part of our city is about 20 miles away. I go there and service is great. There are rural areas between us and the northern, developed part. I would say west of us (pretty rural) is bad almost starting at the sign which says "Welcome to Suffolk" about 30 miles away... In land area we are a big city. Old timey divided into little old towns. I am in the old downtown. I looked at the TMobile website and read about the signal booster and was excited until I read further and realized that it would not help... I had excellent service on Verizon... But CDMA was no longer an option when I decided to try the X2! I had no idea TMobile was so bad in my area. Especially since they opened a store less than 2 miles away! Lol!
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ez2me said:
You wont need to be Rooted to use stock messaging app and yes invalid recipient is an issue to some. Its only a formatting issue just as if you had a device from your local area and used it in a foreign country you would need to correct dialing codes. The easiest fix is to save all contacts in International format exactly as shown +1(area code) ###-#### or just download a app called Twitch contact formatter from the P.S. Run the app it will find all numbers then select output to international format and done.
1. I recommend you access and export a backup of your original contacts from PC.
2. Then run downloaded app and sync contacts to your g account once again.
If contacts do not update in cloud delete address book in cloud and re-sync from phone.*****BACK UP FIRST*****
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I have downloaded Twitch and read everything that I can about it on Google. I am not sure how to do backups. I go to Contacts and in the Menu there's an option to Export to sdcard. Is that what you mean? I have never backed up to pc and don't know how... Am I doing a backup just in case Twitch screws something up? To be honest, I am a bit OCD and the uniformity of how Twitch re-formats my phone numbers is very appealing to me. I wouldn't mind having my numbers formatted that way permanently. Would I still have to do a backup in that case? Does having the phone numbers formatted this way allow you to use the stock text messaging app (I'm assuming it is because it's already on my X2) instead of Textra? I LOVE Textra but for the time I am still on TMobile I cannot use it because of the terrible TMobile service in my area... Thanks for your time!
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I have downloaded Twitch and read everything that I can about it on Google. I am not sure how to do backups. I go to Contacts and in the Menu there's an option to Export to sdcard. Is that what you mean? I have never backed up to pc and don't know how... Am I doing a backup just in case Twitch screws something up? To be honest, I am a bit OCD and the uniformity of how Twitch re-formats my phone numbers is very appealing to me. I wouldn't mind having my numbers formatted that way permanently. Would I still have to do a backup in that case? Does having the phone numbers formatted this way allow you to use the stock text messaging app (I'm assuming it is because it's already on my X2) instead of Textra? I LOVE Textra but for the time I am still on TMobile I cannot use it because of the terrible TMobile service in my area... Thanks for your time!
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P. S. Does clicking on that sdcard-looking icon on Twitch re-format the contacts? Thanks!
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Update: I just did Contacts Menu on my Note 3 and cannot find the option to Export to sdcard so I guess that's not possible on my Note 3? I am going to Google it some more...
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VillaRegina said:
I have downloaded Twitch and read everything that I can about it on Google. I am not sure how to do backups. I go to Contacts and in the Menu there's an option to Export to sdcard. Is that what you mean? I have never backed up to pc and don't know how... Am I doing a backup just in case Twitch screws something up? To be honest, I am a bit OCD and the uniformity of how Twitch re-formats my phone numbers is very appealing to me. I wouldn't mind having my numbers formatted that way permanently. Would I still have to do a backup in that case? Does having the phone numbers formatted this way allow you to use the stock text messaging app (I'm assuming it is because it's already on my X2) instead of Textra? I LOVE Textra but for the time I am still on TMobile I cannot use it because of the terrible TMobile service in my area... Thanks for your time!
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P. S. Does clicking on that sdcard-looking icon on Twitch re-format the contacts? Thanks!
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Update: I just did Contacts Menu on my Note 3 and cannot find the option to Export to sdcard so I guess that's not possible on my Note 3? I am going to Google it some more...
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Hello,
You can try using the stock app but if your always on EDGE your phone will not preform as intended when EDGE was industry standard anything over 4 MEGA Pixel photos wasnt even a thought. At minimum you need to be on 3G or HSPA+ which is what Tmobile uses. Check your APN settings Google this ---> apn-settings.com/t-mobile-apn-settings-step-by-step-configuration/
Not sure if the new Tmobile 4G extender will work since the radio in the Mediapad X2 does not even support US 4g networks. At this point I suggest trying stock app if that doesn't work its time to switch carriers. I had to switch and never looked back I live in the city and in my dead zone only ATT worked for me. If you don't want to go threw the activation process just find a friend with ATT and invite them to your house check if they have good signal.
When you backup your original contacts I do mean EXPORT as shown here Google this ---> support.google.com/mail/answer/24911?hl=en
Twitch hasn't erased any of my contacts I only recommend export/backup as a standard with any personal info... Being victim of three hard drive failure in my PC and did I mention they where all in a row. Twitch does have the ability to return your contacts to original format.
As for you formatting they will always need to be set as International prefix in order to use stock messaging app. It works very good for me.
I am not sure about your last question about the SD looking icon? When you launch the app on the top right it should recognize your county format with a flag and to the right of that you have another drop down option select International prefix. At the bottom right of your screen select save and you should be done.
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Hello,
You can try using the stock app but if your always on EDGE your phone will not preform as intended when EDGE was industry standard anything over 4 MEGA Pixel photos wasnt even a thought. At minimum you need to be on 3G or HSPA+ which is what Tmobile uses. Check your APN settings Google this ---> apn-settings.com/t-mobile-apn-settings-step-by-step-configuration/
Not sure if the new Tmobile 4G extender will work since the radio in the Mediapad X2 does not even support US 4g networks. At this point I suggest trying stock app if that doesn't work its time to switch carriers. I had to switch and never looked back I live in the city and in my dead zone only ATT worked for me. If you don't want to go threw the activation process just find a friend with ATT and invite them to your house check if they have good signal.
When you backup your original contacts I do mean EXPORT as shown here Google this ---> support.google.com/mail/answer/24911?hl=en
Twitch hasn't erased any of my contacts I only recommend export/backup as a standard with any personal info... Being victim of three hard drive failure in my PC and did I mention they where all in a row. Twitch does have the ability to return your contacts to original format.
As for you formatting they will always need to be set as International prefix in order to use stock messaging app. It works very good for me.
I am not sure about your last question about the SD looking icon? When you launch the app on the top right it should recognize your county format with a flag and to the right of that you have another drop down option select International prefix. At the bottom right of your screen select save and you should be done.
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The sdcard icon is next to Save Selected. I just noticed that all of my contacts have a checkmark to the left. I am thinking they are all selected so that is what I will choose. Thanks for all that explanation about Edge. I am giving them until December 1 to upgrade these towers they said they bought... Then I am off to Cricket or AT&T... Thanks also for the Google link to help with the Contacts backup! That should work! I just want to thank everyone for the extra mile they go to with explanations for the clueless (me) lol!
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I forgot to mention ??? - 3 hard drive failures in a ROW!!! I am a pretty faithful pc backer upper... I have never done contacts... I will try!
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I'm using a Chinese version Nex S on T-mobile in the US. It works almost flawlessly but one thing keeps bugging me. When there are incoming calls, vivo dialer app always recognizes the US phone numbers as Chinese numbers. It sometimes returns a Chinese city name under the phone number sometimes just display "unknown attribution". I tried to replace the dialer app but it was not very successful. In Chinese forum, someone mentioned that all phone number attribution data are saved in a databased called numberdb2.bin in Attribution folder. I was able to locate the file but don't know how to open or edit it. I was curious if a global version Nex has a database that covers the US. Can any global version user please post the numberdb2.bin file from they phone? I will definitely replace the file and report back the result.
I have the exact same problem. Anybody know how to fix this?
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I have the exact same problem. Anybody know how to fix this?
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I don't mean to be a smart-ass, but sell it and buy the international version.
See if you can get the international *.bin file from a forum member then copy it into your folder. Keep us updated.