For those of you who are wondering why Bing Map shows only the "Current Position" button and not the other features like "Search whats near by", "Navigation" etc., just change your Region on your phone to "US" or "UK" or any country other than India or the currently selected one. You can do this by Home->Settings->Region+Language->Region Format. Go to Maps again and you'll find all the features waiting to be used by You.. By doing this, You'll also start getting some "Boxes" on the wall paper when you press the Search Button which will take you to Bing Search. Once you press the Box, you'll notice some interesting information about the wall paper you're seeing...
Always a great tip. People familiar with the platform are well aware of this, but newer people wouldn't be.
I'm in Canada, so I solved the navigation problem by getting a Garmin GPS unit
However in some language interface this cannot be solved by just setting the search language to US/UK, e.g. Chinese (Traditional/Simplified), Korean and some East European languages like Czech, Polish etc.
Waiting for Microsoft to make the user interface on different languages a bit more fair.
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Hi everyone
First of all, great forum here, I know it since some time and I'm also using a custom ROM for my Kaiser, but I think this is actually the first time I'm posting.
Let me explain my situation I am from Switzerland (and so is my company, where I am the Cell Phone Fleet Manager). Believe it or not, but in Switzerland, there are four official languages (German, French, Italian, and something called Romantsch which noone speaks).
Problem is that we're going to open an office in the French part of Switzerland (me and the rest of the company are located in the German part). And the employees there obviously would like to have phones.
Now, although they do speak French, they're not using a French AZERTY-Keyboard but a German QWERTZ-Keyboard. However, they want a French OS, and even worse, they want to be able to type all their freaky accents (é, à, è, ç, ...).
Now I checked back with HTC and they do not offer such a phone combinations. I also checked with our cell phone network providers, and they only offer the English phones in the French part... which leads me into trouble. What kinds of phones should i get them?
My idea is to buy German phones (that way I have the QUERTZ-Keyboad layout printed on the phone). Then load the French ROM and then load the German Keyboard driver back onto the French ROM. Question is: Is that possible?
Or do you have any better ideas?
Thanks
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anyone ... ?
maybe this can help:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=459253
it is definitly possible.
I got my phone out of Hong Kong with a german Keyboard and an english rom.
Back at home i installed the german keyboard drivers. I will look up the post for u.
here ya go: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=440779
Der_wahre_Phi said:
it is definitly possible.
I got my phone out of Hong Kong with a german Keyboard and an english rom.
Back at home i installed the german keyboard drivers. I will look up the post for u.
here ya go: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=440779
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Any ideas how you can get accents to work on a FUZE keyboard? Someone developed an application that would do what i need, however I don't know how to re-map the SYM key to another one... I don't have it in my keyboard as a standalone key...
not quite sure if it will help.
I just overread the whole thread, but maybe you'll find somthing in there.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=417271
was just going around though the apps of my polaris and i found out i got no handwriting recognition on the keyboard settings :S
the "keyboards" available to me are the touch keyboard and the normal keyboard but no handwriting option available, do i have to Download it or something? if so, where can i find it?
best regards to all
Microsoft thinks that some languages aren't supported and thus they remove that feature.
I used this for my Swedish phone:
http://www.smartmobile.se/files/Qtek 9100/enableRecognizersSVE.CAB
Not sure if it works for any language, but I guess it should. Just remember to turn on accented characters, so you get the non-English letters as well
do a search on transcriber cab file
ok, i got the enable recognizers thingy, i can select it but nothing happens, i'm kinda new to this pda thing, but wasn't handwriting recongniton a "major" feature of pda's? i'm trying to use it on portuguese atm...
I had an HD2 flashed with DFT stock WP7 ROM and loved it so much I went out to get a dedicated WP7 device...
But when I had the DFT ROM when I did a bing search, say for 'pizza', it would show me the local pizza shops, show their location and navigate me there...
With my Quantum, when I bing search pizza it's more like google search, simply bringing up web links to all the big pizza franchises' websites...
What's going on?
so you also shouldnt have voice search...
its language and regional setting, set to uk or us, restart and you should be good to search...
just today i was wondering if it might be possible to change the settings by registry keys,
like stick to your original region & language
but enable voice search, local search + waypoints, bing trivia and all those nice little features....
Worked a treat... Thanks...
Where is the bing vision and audio? I installed the rom mango on HD7, escaped from the htc, I can not find it anywhere.
use the search button on the phone, bing vision is the eyeball looking icon on the bottom, and bing audio is the music note.
If I remember correctly Bing services like vision, music and local scout are region dependent. In Germany there's no local scout for example. Changing the settings for the search language to English (US) makes the services appear though.
Simple as that, can bing map display in chinese? If not, when will it be able to??
Im finding it very annoying to read english translated street names in Taiwan, and i prefer chinese....
i know this is a bing map related issue, but i was wondering if its possible?
Maybe not just chinese, maybe other countries language!!