So I was in China and bought a Lenovo A560 phone with Android 4.3 on it and used it as a wifi hotspot for my regular phone because that was cheaper than global data roaming. Now that I am back in the US I would love to load a ROM or firmware that is all in english as opposed to Chinese. I have looked everywhere to download the firmware but it seems I cannot find it. I have also looked for a ROM but seems no one is really interested in this phone. Any one have some ideas?
As you said, there is indeed no forum or even an effort to make the Rom. The Stock Rom is supposed to include English as one of the Languages. You can contact Lenovo for the Stock Firmware.
You can go to Settings > Language & Input to change default Language.
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Three days back I bought a Motorola Xoom Wi-Fi MZ606 from China, to mys surprise this doesn't has Market apps instead it has shop4apps which has everything in Chinese. Am stuck and frustrated with this handicapped device, they won't return it either. Can someone please help me as how to install custom Firmware or even US Firmware or Indian Firmware so that everything comes in English along with the Android Market application and google talk..........plz help
Wow that's a real bummer, I just purchased mine from Hong Kong, ans was worried I would end up with the same issue, thankfully I have no such problem mine is all English. I really hope you can get this fixed.
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werist143 said:
Three days back I bought a Motorola Xoom Wi-Fi MZ606 from China, to mys surprise this doesn't has Market apps instead it has shop4apps which has everything in Chinese. Am stuck and frustrated with this handicapped device, they won't return it either. Can someone please help me as how to install custom Firmware or even US Firmware or Indian Firmware so that everything comes in English along with the Android Market application and google talk..........plz help
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As long as it isn't a Hong Kong variant, you could flash the US wifi stock images. Get them from the General section or direct from Motodev. All wifi models have same hardware.
thanx okantoni, but could you plz guide me the way through to flash US firmware into my xoom...
Hello Guys
i am complete noob with Motorola Phones and i need some assistance here
some how i was messing around with the RSD tool and i tried to flash into the ATRIX 2 the ROM from Razr (completely noob) so my phone stack on the flash mode and even if i try to restart phone comes back in the flash mode
unfortunately i manage to find and download the AT&T version i flash it with RSD tool but for bad luck software is lock and i cant get internet access through 3G only from wifi.
does any one know from where i can download the original ME865 stock rom with multilingual because as of now i manage to find only 2 one from AT&T and one from China version which has only Chinese and English language but even although you choose English some icons remains in Chinese language
thanks
Greeco said:
Hello Guys
i am complete noob with Motorola Phones and i need some assistance here
some how i was messing around with the RSD tool and i tried to flash into the ATRIX 2 the ROM from Razr (completely noob) so my phone stack on the flash mode and even if i try to restart phone comes back in the flash mode
unfortunately i manage to find and download the AT&T version i flash it with RSD tool but for bad luck software is lock and i cant get internet access through 3G only from wifi.
does any one know from where i can download the original ME865 stock rom with multilingual because as of now i manage to find only 2 one from AT&T and one from China version which has only Chinese and English language but even although you choose English some icons remains in Chinese language
thanks
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woops i messed up.
tylercarter said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1396650
try this. never flash firmware from another device. especially a new device.
scroll down till you get to how to flash fxz. its all there and even the stock rom. good luck.
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He is looking for the international version of the fxz for the ME865, not the Chineese, or US AT&T version.... he flashed our ROM and now his SIM is AT&T locked....
First question, do you have the MB865(American version) or ME865(Chinese version)?
NVM reread it and seen Jim's post
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He is looking for the international version of the fxz for the ME865, not the Chineese, or US AT&T version.... he flashed our ROM and now his SIM is AT&T locked....
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do we even have an international fxz? if we do does it work on our phone?
Originally the phone i took it with the ME865 Asian version probably because Chinese was not the main language when i start the phone.
after i mess up with the phone and i was not able to restart it
i download the USA version from AT&T but as i said the software is locked only with AT&T sim card so i cant use 3g network since my provider is from Middle East (Dubai)
i found later on and i download the Chinese version ME860 but main language is Chinese so after starting up the phone even if i choose English some part of the phone and some notifications remain in Chinese language.
what am looking is the Asia version ME865 or the official Rom comes from Motorola its self and not from any specific provider
sorry for the confusion but with my S2 i didn't had this problem that the only reason i regret buying Motorola
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He is looking for the international version of the fxz for the ME865, not the Chineese, or US AT&T version.... he flashed our ROM and now his SIM is AT&T locked....
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you are correct that's exactly my request and issue
thanks for helping me out coz my English are not that much good
Greeco said:
Originally the phone i took it with the ME865 Asian version probably because Chinese was not the main language when i start the phone.
after i mess up with the phone and i was not able to restart it
i download the USA version from AT&T but as i said the software is locked only with AT&T sim card so i cant use 3g network since my provider is from Middle East (Dubai)
i found later on and i download the Chinese version ME860 but main language is Chinese so after starting up the phone even if i choose English some part of the phone and some notifications remain in Chinese language.
what am looking is the Asia version ME865 or the official Rom comes from Motorola its self and not from any specific provider
sorry for the confusion but with my S2 i didn't had this problem that the only reason i regret buying Motorola
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Your first issue was flashing a ROM that does not support all the hardware. Now I can link you to the ME865 fxz, but it is the Chinese version, and it is not a "Motorola" blank slate, it is from a carrier, ALL ROMS that are stock come from a carrier, that is how it works.
Here is the true ME865 fxz, but that is the Chinese version, and you HAVE to flash that first, since that is the hardware you have, you might have to download some languages to from the market to get it all to work in your native language though:
http://4tel.mobi/edison_china_5.5.1-1_GC-86_EDSCHN-6_cfc_ME865_bbs.mfunz.com.rar
For good and for Bad luck i already have both version
i really appreciate your support i
new that the XDA guys are nice but i never expect so much
i will stick at the moment with the AT&T version till later on (i really hope) to get the availability with more stock Roms.
the thing is that the Chinese version you send me is the same as the one i have already and based on what i read on the net is only for china but the one was on my phone was the official Motorola unlocked software which as i see at the moment is not yet available for download
thanking you one thousand times for the support and hope in the near future to get what i am looking desperate for.
Hello friends, I'm trying to fix up a GT-N8000 for a friend, it's got ZCBLL5 firmware on it(he got it from china somehow). It did not come with the play store(or any google apps), and since he's an apple guy, he turned to me for help. As it's not my tablet, and i haven't messed much with samsung devices, i don';t want to brick it, so i'm turning to the xda community for a bit of help. We're located in canada, however i see there isn't a canadian firmwrae for this variant. Which would be the best region FW to install, and would it mess up the 3g ability, like would it mess up the IMEI or the CSC. Or would i be better off to root and sideload/flash GAPPS? And would the 3g still function here in canada with the chinese FW. Thanks in advance
Well the german firmware is the one which is updated first so I would advice either the German one or the Nordic one, once you do that you will stop receiving OTA and will have to manually update. I am from India and have installed german and Nordic ones cell services just work fine. The issue with IMEI getting messed to my knowledge will happen only with custom roms.
Once you install any of these roms you will get gapps automatically
Hi Everyone;
Today, i made a decision to update my GT-P5510 tablet to Android 4.2.2 via download its file from Sammobile...
But, there was only one problem here; I am living in Turkey but there is no offical update upper than android 4.0.4 for my country...
So, i need to use English version... I agreed that, i gone to website than dl the firmware than installed it to my tablet via Odin...
After the update i see a suprise!..
Dadadaa!.. My tablet updated to Android 4.2.2 successfully but still Turkish!
But i really cant understand how can it be? Can it be linked with Gapps (offically come installed with Stock ndroids as you know) why my language is Turkish?
So, if operating systems languages nıt important, why there is a lot of different language version for an offical stock rom?
Can anybody explain this surprise for me?
Thanks...
Let me tell you by an example:
It's not necessary for President to know people, but for the people they have to know President. :sly:
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Sorry but i cant understand what u mean clearly?
Do you mean, Samsung's android programers dont have to say this trick to you, but u must find it?
Sorry but i cant understand what u mean clearly?
Do you mean, Samsung's android programers dont have to say this trick to you, but u must find it?
any_body said:
So, if operating systems languages nıt important, why there is a lot of different language version for an offical stock rom?
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The difference between those versions is not just languages... Most ROMs contain many languages that you can select from, that's not really a surprise (although the selection varies by region). The difference in versions is what's called CSC (Customer Sales Code, or Consumer Software Customization, whatever it is). It determines the list of supported locales, and your default locale (language, formats), settings for your carrier(s), etc. Basically, it's a bundle of settings specific to a region of a product distribution.
As for how your phone automatically recognized your language, I am not 100% sure, but it could be by carrier, or by physical location based on the network. For example, when I installed European-based ROM on my old Galaxy S2, it recognized my language as English (Canada). The funny thing is that Canadian English does not even exist as an option in that ROM -- if I change it later to US or British, I can't go back to Canadian, because it's not listed! But it's still set like that during the initial setup. Go figure...
Hi everyone. I'm new to the forums.
I'm just looking for a 'once and for all clarification' on import sets purchased from online/local distributors, specifically for China hand sets.
These China phones that can be bought from online/local distributors:
1. are they usually flashed to English ROMs by the distributors? Or were they using stock China ROMs but distributors set them to English language? How can we determine this (if the phones had been indeed flashed)?
2. if they were flashed to English ROMs, will the OS be able to pull these updates from Lenovo database itself? Any OTAs available?
3. If you flash from China stock OS to an original/official Lenovo OS on your own, will it get updates? I read that people usually flash on their own because of Chinese bloat wares.
Thanks for the support fellas.