Hi all,
When setting up the phone for the first time, which locale do you guys select? I'm from the UK and while I'm able to set the timezone and all that stuff to United Kingdom, when loading up themes or certain apps, it still thinks I'm in Hong Kong (or wherever I've chosen) becuase of the default location selection.
Thoughts?
I selected India coz I am in India did you try changing time zone after setup the device
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Would like to know an answer to this too...
I also would select India or Indonesia. The OTA updates are coming with this selection much faster.
what effect does it have on your apps?
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Hello All,
I purchased new Samsung Galaxy Note 7000, By accidentially country location selected as United Kingdom which is supposed to be India @ Settings / About Phone.
Could anybody please let me know how to select INDIA default.
Thanks,
Sathish
Hello guys,
I've faced a problem, which I need to resolve.
As you probably know, such Samsung services as Galaxy Apps, Themes, Galaxy Entertainer, etc. are strictly depends on region.
In most of regions they are working flawless, while in some regions they have lack of features or didn't work at all.
I'm living in Seychelles right now, and when I try to download some themes, I'm receiving an error "Theme store is not supported in this country".
When I open Galaxy Apps it show me the warning like "Your device or country is only available for limited service". And there is only a few apps, only from Samsung.
Trying to find a workaround I've found the following:
1. Galaxy Apps determining your location by IP address when you are running it at the first time.
(I've set up my wife's SM-G935FD while we were Ukraine and everything is working well even in Seychelles)
So, I reset my phone to the factory defaults. Then I configured a VPN-tunnel to Ukraine (where the all services are working) and connect the phone to wi-fi with ukrainian IP.
Galaxy Apps believed that my location is Ukraine and all of the features were available.
2. When I switched to the seychelles IP address everything was fine for a while. Samsung services still thought that I'm in Ukraine.
But in the end of the day when I've tried to install some themes suddenly I've faced the same problem: "Theme store is not supported in this country"
It's looks like Samsung services are updating their location periodically.
3. Galaxy Apps determining the location by IP and not depends on GPS.
I've tried the FakeGPS solution. It works for any GPS-based apps. Even for google ones. But no luck with Samsung services.
Does anybody know where exactly Samsung services store the information about their location? And how it can be edited manually?
My phone is rooted. So I have a full access to the system.
Did you try to change your CSC? You can do this with Samsung phone info app. But all your data will get deleted.
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Hi DIZAZTER
Did you find a solution? I also live in Seychelles and I am having the same issue. I bought a Gear S2 and i can't get any apps to install on it since galaxy apps is limited. VPN works with google apps but not with galaxy apps apparently.
Any help would be very much appreciated
I had that problems 2 or 3 years ago and I contact the support center. Isn't possible to do anything. The problem is connect to the country networks. So the device always will know which country you're at the moment. Unfortunately even that language goes to the country in self on samsung store.
I just need some help if someone is willing...
1. I just moved to Canada from France where I used to have an Android phone and Android tablet. I've changed every single location setting imaginable in every single settings menu on my new Blu Life One X and STILL the Play store insists on showing up in French with euros. Where do I make this change? The new phone has a Canadian SIM and logs in all day from a Canadian location. Even Google Maps knows where I am.
2. Notifications are pop ups to tell you that something is new in an app: a message, an update, etc.
Syncing is the application connecting with servers to update data.
Notifications seems easy to find but is there one SPECIFIC place to stop both of them if one wants? I feel like there are apps doing background syncing that I don't want to be doing so and can't for the life of me find where to get them to stop.
Thanks for any help guys. I appreciate it.
tinpanalley said:
I just need some help if someone is willing...
1. I just moved to Canada from France where I used to have an Android phone and Android tablet. I've changed every single location setting imaginable in every single settings menu on my new Blu Life One X and STILL the Play store insists on showing up in French with euros. Where do I make this change? The new phone has a Canadian SIM and logs in all day from a Canadian location. Even Google Maps knows where I am.
2. Notifications are pop ups to tell you that something is new in an app: a message, an update, etc.
Syncing is the application connecting with servers to update data.
Notifications seems easy to find but is there one SPECIFIC place to stop both of them if one wants? I feel like there are apps doing background syncing that I don't want to be doing so and can't for the life of me find where to get them to stop.
Thanks for any help guys. I appreciate it.
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Are you sure the language setting is correct in your system settings? It may have to be set to Canadian(French).
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Droidriven said:
Are you sure the language setting is correct in your system settings? It may have to be set to Canadian(French).
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Why would it have to be set to Canada - French?
tinpanalley said:
Why would it have to be set to Canada - French?
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I'm assuming so that the phone itself instead of just your apps would know which region it is in, therefore, showing the currency for that country. Using just location services may not be enough.
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Droidriven said:
I'm assuming so that the phone itself instead of just your apps would know which region it is in, therefore, showing the currency for that country. Using just location services may not be enough.
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Ok, but why specifically French in Canada?
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Ok, but why specifically French in Canada?
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Not necessarily French but at least CANADIAN, its about getting the phone set to the correct region, not necessarily a specific language. You WERE in France so I suggested French, that's all.
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Sign into Google Wallet and click the Settings icon in the top-right corner.
Click Edit next to the "Home address" listed and update the address (please note this is different from the "Address book" which holds shipping addresses).
Open the Google Play website and navigate to any paid item available for download at Android Apps on Google Play.
Click to begin a download until you reach the 'Accept and buy' screen (no need to complete the purchase).
Close Google Play and clear your browser cache if you're on a desktop or laptop computer.
Wait 30 minutes.
Re-open the Google Play. You should now see the Play Store that matches the country in your legal address.
(If this doesn't work, remove any existing cards)
Hi all.
I have just bought a Gear S3 in India. Everything works perfectly apart from the one thing that the galaxy apps store is partially in Hindi.
I have a Oneplus 3. I have reinstalled all the apps 3 times but no change. I have also tried to use a different samsung account but that doesn't work either.
I have also contacted the samsung service center and also called the support center but they are also clueless. Is there any way to change it to english completely?
Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks.
I had this issue in Vietnam. Unfortunately it seems that the Galaxy App Store sets its language based on the location of your Sim Card. When I came back to Australia and registered on an Australian network, it fixed itself and is in English.
Interestingly, when roaming in Singapore, the language remained Vietnamese, so I think you can't be roaming for it to get the language to change.
I have the same issue with my LG G3.
Unable to change the language from Hindi. Please reply if you have found an option to change the language to English.
SankethBappal said:
I have the same issue with my LG G3.
Unable to change the language from Hindi. Please reply if you have found an option to change the language to English.
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I have talked to their customer care numerous times as well as visited their smart cafes but they still appear to be clueless about this. Interestingly this problem does not occur when connected to samsung phones so that's why I assume it is not a high priority for them.
You can google "market enabler", install it and change SIM region to something like [us] T-Mobile
When try to open Apps Store again.
xda link for enabler
Is it support hindi sms
Hi guys,
A new version of good lock has been released some time ago, but the problem is that I don't live in the UK or other but I'd like to test the app out,
I tried installing it from services like apptoide, but I always end up with a network connection problem that seems to be appearing because of this particular reason (not living in Singapore, US, UK and other).
I'm living in Poland so it does not seem like I'm going to have this thing supported where I live, so I'd like to ask if there is any workaround for it to work, I've seen some posts about installing and using the old version of goodlock, that required you to install activity widget app but that's not the case