Hi all,
This is my first post here so please be kind and help a complete nube.
I recently purchased a V1277 android dual sim phone from China via Amazon UK. Superb phone and very pleased. However, in setting up the phone I noticed that the language option only has English US available. Not too much of a problem you might think but it means many apps set themselves via the language set so as a result I only have access to Amazon US for instance. A further worry is that my dual sims keep telling me I'm roaming even though they are registered in the UK.
The phone is unbranded but is an Android 4.0.4 MTK6577 Dual Core 1.0GHz 512MB/4GB 4.3-inch Capacitive Screen 3G Smartphone with WiFi GPS HDMI bought from DrakoTec via Amazon UK.
Under the Settings/Language area there seems to be a restricted list of available languages available and specifically only English, which is English US. The strange thing is I can select an English UK keyboard.
Any ideas on how one might change the language to English UK via some hidden menu or are we talking of rooting only?
Many thanks in advance for you help.
Colin155
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colin155 said:
Hi all,
This is my first post here so please be kind and help a complete nube.
I recently purchased a V1277 android dual sim phone from China via Amazon UK. Superb phone and very pleased. However, in setting up the phone I noticed that the language option only has English US available. Not too much of a problem you might think but it means many apps set themselves via the language set so as a result I only have access to Amazon US for instance. A further worry is that my dual sims keep telling me I'm roaming even though they are registered in the UK.
The phone is unbranded but is an Android 4.0.4 MTK6577 Dual Core 1.0GHz 512MB/4GB 4.3-inch Capacitive Screen 3G Smartphone with WiFi GPS HDMI bought from DrakoTec via Amazon UK.
Under the Settings/Language area there seems to be a restricted list of available languages available and specifically only English, which is English US. The strange thing is I can select an English UK keyboard.
Any ideas on how one might change the language to English UK via some hidden menu or are we talking of rooting only?
Many thanks in advance for you help.
Colin155
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Well it looks as if I have managed to solve this myself .
Discovered an interesting app called Set Locale and Language, by brucedior, in the Play store and it works. Even rebooted and it kept the change so anybody else having an issue with missing languages check out that free app.
Colin155
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I apologize for not being able to post in the appropriate thread, but I am following these instructions for adding not-officially-supported languages for the Nokia Lumia 900 device that I purchased with AT&T.
I have succesfully flashed my desired languages (Finnish and Norwegian) to be included with the already included English and Spanish languages. I didn't update the core OS, and left it at 7.10.8112.7.
However, as expected, there are some "bugs". Really I have only noticed two.
Nokia Scout tells me when I open it (translated): "Scout isn't available in this land or in this region". This may be app-related and I frankly don't think I care too much about Scout since I don't know what it is.
My second problem is more bug related and problematic to me. The "nokia blue" theme does not appear in the list of themes for the windows phone. Thus, when switching to one of the two new languages, the theme gets defaulted to purple, but apps with live tiles think it should use green. Manually selecting a theme fixes the problem, but I really would like nokia blue.
Is this possbly related to outdated language files? If so, how can I download the latest language files?
Hi,
I got your email and I'll answer here so others can see too. The problem with Local Scout is that it's not available in Finland. Be sure to set only Display Language to Finnish and leave others as US. That way those apps *should* work. (Also needs US Live ID) The second problem is that accent colors are language based, so you cannot fix it. It will only work on languages that the Lumia 900 came with.
jessenic said:
Hi,
I got your email and I'll answer here so others can see too. The problem with Local Scout is that it's not available in Finland. Be sure to set only Display Language to Finnish and leave others as US. That way those apps *should* work. (Also needs US Live ID) The second problem is that accent colors are language based, so you cannot fix it. It will only work on languages that the Lumia 900 came with.
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I noticed the Lumia 900 is started preorders today in Finland.
Is it possible I can flash the nordic ROM or something once someone gets it?
Dead Man Posting said:
I noticed the Lumia 900 is started preorders today in Finland.
Is it possible I can flash the nordic ROM or something once someone gets it?
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That might be possible, but since the European version of the Lumia 900 has different hardware so you might loose 4G and maybe 3G too.
Dead Man Posting said:
I apologize for not being able to post in the appropriate thread, but I am following these instructions for adding not-officially-supported languages for the Nokia Lumia 900 device that I purchased with AT&T.
I have succesfully flashed my desired languages (Finnish and Norwegian) to be included with the already included English and Spanish languages. I didn't update the core OS, and left it at 7.10.8112.7.
However, as expected, there are some "bugs". Really I have only noticed two.
Nokia Scout tells me when I open it (translated): "Scout isn't available in this land or in this region". This may be app-related and I frankly don't think I care too much about Scout since I don't know what it is.
My second problem is more bug related and problematic to me. The "nokia blue" theme does not appear in the list of themes for the windows phone. Thus, when switching to one of the two new languages, the theme gets defaulted to purple, but apps with live tiles think it should use green. Manually selecting a theme fixes the problem, but I really would like nokia blue.
Is this possbly related to outdated language files? If so, how can I download the latest language files?
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you managed to add languages in your phone, I followed the intructions and I can not flash it, i would like to know how you did it please, I would like to add the French language because I I tired to use Spanish
Same Here. How did You do it?
lovehrman said:
you managed to add languages in your phone, I followed the intructions and I can not flash it, i would like to know how you did it please, I would like to add the French language because I I tired to use Spanish
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I also have an AT&T Phone and for the life of me cannot figure out how to add the Display Language. I am trying to Flash a French Display Language.
How did you do yours?
Thanks
Hello everybody,
I've just bought a Surface Pro today in Beijing China. (Day 1)
Unlike the Chinese version of Surface RT I also own, it appears to be impossible to change the UI to English (or French). From the control panel language section, I always get a message in Chinese saying this Chinese version of Windows can't use English.
If I set my local settings to English, most of the Metro app work in English, but all the Metro settings or desktop side will of course stay in Chinese.
I haven't found any separated language pack to download and I fear that won't be possible to use without at least a registry hack.
Is there a workaround to solve this big problem ?
Or is it possible to flash a stock ROM of the US version ? Where could I get it ?
Thanks for your help, it would be highly appreciated.
BiNoO
Did you bought the Pro Chinese? or the other one?
I will be there in some days, and I was thinking in buying one from me.... seams that I will not.... unfortunately :crying:
So have u changed the language to English. I have bought Chine edition too and wanted to change the language
Hi everyone,
Hope this is the proper place to post this. I wasn't able to find a forum specific to the GT-I8552.
Anyway, I picked up this phone last week while on a quick trip to Taiwan. Didn't have much of a chance to use the phone while there and now that I am no longer there, I'm surprised to find that the phone does not offer any Chinese language input options. There are a total of 45 different languages shown under the "Input languages" options, but no options for any version of Chinese.
A friend has a Samsung Galaxy Note 2 purchased in Canada and her phone is setup to use the Samsung keyboard. On the space bar, there are options to switch between the various languages by swiping it. In her case, she can easily switch between English, Chinese (Simplified) and French.
I would love it if such an option is available for the Samsung Galaxy Win. Does anyone know the secret of enabling or downloading the Chinese languages?
This phone has been fantastic for me with the exception of no Chinese. Please help! Not sure if it can help, but I am attaching a screenshot of the specifics for my particular phone.
Thanks so much.
Kenneth
Hello everybody,
First off I'd like to thank all the developers and contributors to this Forum, you're doing a great job :good:. Although this is my first post, I've been following this forum for a while now and learned lots of good things.
Now the problem...
I have a Samsung Galaxy Core LTE (SM-G386W) from Fido Canada. It only came with 5 default system languages (English, French, Korean, Chinese and one more - don't really know what it is) and I'd like to know if it's possible to install others. I bought this phone for someone that doesn't understand/speak any of the languages above, I'd like to enable/install Romanian language pack.
Phone is rooted. I tried already a bunch of apps such as Language Enabler but the results aren't satisfactory, a few app names and messages get translated but the menus stay in English. Besides when I go to Language and input menu, it shows me Romanian (Romania) selected but if I press on it, the drop down list still only shows the original 5 languages I can chose from. Therefore I assume the enabling is not permanent nor complete.
I also tried flashing a ROM from the similar model in Europe (SM-G386F) but it didn't go through.
Any ideas anyone?
Thank you.
Hi mceuca
i have the same problem with the exact model phone.
How did you solve your issue?
Please help
Hello, just looking for some guidance on how to change the language on today feed page on P40 pro.
New with this phone and doesn't matter how I try too change still showing in arabic (I'm leaving in the ME, but the phone is set as US and English), even on Microsoft news shows normal in english (underwood that the feed comes from MS news).
Any Information and help appreciate.
thank you
Malenca
Where did you buy the phone or what region is the ROM? I ask as i know if you have a Chinese version, then whatever you do, the assistant is in Chinese. May be its the same with yours and that you have an Aribic version. If so, i doubt if you can change it. I couldn't on my Chinese version.
Malenca said:
Hello, just looking for some guidance on how to change the language on today feed page on P40 pro.
New with this phone and doesn't matter how I try too change still showing in arabic (I'm leaving in the ME, but the phone is set as US and English), even on Microsoft news shows normal in english (underwood that the feed comes from MS news).
Any Information and help appreciate.
thank you
Malenca
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I would agree with the above comment - depending on where you bought it from matters, in the past ive owned bought from china devices and i had the same issue, i had even tried to uninstall it and redownload the english version and it wouldnt work