I've purchases a HTC Desire from the UK. When I search using the search box from the browser I always get UK results from Google.
Is there a way to change this to default to Australian search results?
Thanks,
Marat
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HTC Europe updates
http://www.europe.htc.com/en/support/
or US Cingular updates
http://www.htc.com/us/
Not sure if this has been covered but came accross this site earlier.
http://nimbu.amorvi.com/2010/04/add-turn-by-turn-navigation-to-htc-desire/
I know have full voice search on my desire and don't have to type an address in Google maps, I just tell it where I want to go.
Some good tips on the site.
*Sigh*
on the other hand you could use the official Google Maps which has full Navigation.
From that link...
EDIT: Please not that as of today 21/04/2010. Googe HAVE implemented turn by turn navigation for the UK. Simply use the default maps app that came pre-installed on your device to use this functionality.
killyouridols said:
*Sigh*
on the other hand you could use the official Google Maps which has full Navigation.
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I think you are missing the point, you can search the destination by voice using the google maps.
The link I submitted has a section to replace the Desire keyboard .apk with a voice search enabled one.
You mean this one?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=663608
claudefrog said:
I think you are missing the point, you can search the destination by voice using the google maps.
The link I submitted has a section to replace the Desire keyboard .apk with a voice search enabled one.
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Vague link...
You might notice that if we input wrong url in the default internet application, then it'll take us to Bing search.. Yess, its Bing, instead of Google
Do you have any idea how to change its default behaviour to use google as the default?
I'm using Desire bought in Germany.. Have made a search and all are directing to editing some sort of registry which I don't think that's apply for Android device...
Thanks in advance..
thats very strange, ive never heard of bing on an android phone as default as it should be google. If you have location enabled does ite ven change to bing.country or does it always default to bing.com not bing.it bing.co.uk etc?
I dont think there is a option anywhere in the settings to do this and if you wish to change it you will need to root.
If you root and install an unbranded non vodafone rom on i bet it will work.
Hi Alex, thanks for comment.
You can try this on u'r desire:
- Type wrong internet address on the url form
- It will bring you to Bing search (instead of google), which from there it will give lists of potentially correct url...
Mine is unbranded since I bought from amazon.de, so I'm very sure all Desire behaves like this..
Pity if its true that we can change it :-(
HTC Desire + XDA Inhouse App
Odd, if I do a URL wrong it just comes up with the Android "Web page not available" site.
It was baked into the ROM by your provider. The only way to remove it is to root your phone and install a generic ROM.
Hi i have searched and searched but cant come up with anything. I am runing skyraider 4.0. When i search for a businesses listing in the browser i can not click on the phone number link and have the dialer pop up automatically any more. Any one know why this may be or how i may be able to fix it?
also i should add that if i search with Bing the links work for the dialer. It is only google phone number links... do you think it is on googles end?
Hey guys, I can't seem to find an answer to this and I'm on a prepaid plan with 200mb, so my options are limited. I bought my GSM gnex from Google in the US. All of the language settings are English/US. I am in France now. If I try to do a Google search, everything is in french and I can see no option to change it. Even the Google play store is in French now, and I can see no option to change it. Help!
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Wouldn't it be under default languages?
Under language and input, everything is set to US English. As I said, I bought this and have used it in the US with no problem. Now that I'm visiting France, the web browser and play store seem to default to french without asking, and there doesn't seem to be an option for me to change this. Even regular Google searches come back french. Everything else on my phone is still in English.
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Dralanmage said:
Hey guys, I can't seem to find an answer to this and I'm on a prepaid plan with 200mb, so my options are limited. I bought my GSM gnex from Google in the US. All of the language settings are English/US. I am in France now. If I try to do a Google search, everything is in french and I can see no option to change it. Even the Google play store is in French now, and I can see no option to change it. Help!
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Odd. I'm in the Netherlands but my gnex is on English(US). Play store, Google now and search are all in English.
Wish I could help but I have taken my Nexus to a couple of non-English speaking countries and while searches and the Play Store are customized according to region, it never changed language for me. For searches, you could try going into settings> accounts> Google> search and then tick the last box to force your phone to use google.com rather than the local domain. I don't know how you could change the Play Store language though.
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Maybe download google translate.. ¿
Chrono_Tata said:
Wish I could help but I have taken my Nexus to a couple of non-English speaking countries and while searches and the Play Store are customized according to region, it never changed language for me. For searches, you could try going into settings> accounts> Google> search and then tick the last box to force your phone to use google.com rather than the local domain. I don't know how you could change the Play Store language though.
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I guess that's what I meant. All of my searches are customized for french, and even the play store apps now have french descriptions. Its kind of hard to search for tourist information in France when all of my search results are in french no matter how many times I try to redirect to Google.com instead of Google.fr.
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Update: that last tip did the trick. Chrome still shows french results but the main browser is now in English. I guess I can wait until I get home to read play store app update descriptions. Thanks.