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.
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Hi,
i recently run on a problem with last.fm scrobller. Iam premium user, but when I want to play something, I got message that its not available in my country.
Is there anywhere in android chance to change location of my phone to USA for example?
thx
cyber-mythius said:
Hi,
i recently run on a problem with last.fm scrobller. Iam premium user, but when I want to play something, I got message that its not available in my country.
Is there anywhere in android chance to change location of my phone to USA for example?
thx
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I think that works the same way it does on computers. Depending on your network.
So maybe there's a similar trick to bypass this as you can do with a computer using a proxy.
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UPDATE : Just had a look on Google and didn't find anything related to your specific problem but there are plenty of people having troubles with the market and the non-availability of some apps in their country. Some managed to solve this using a US-based VPN. Maybe you should try that.
Could try a proxy
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The MoreLocale 2 app (available in the Play store) does exactly what you're looking for. I needed it to change from US(canada) to US(us) for the Amazon music app.
It seems a fair few people are having issues configuring Google Now to give them the smooth female voice, images in the search content and the ability to send texts, set alarms etc.
Follow this tutorial and you should be sorted in no time.
The problem is that the phones native language should be set to US English, and the Google Now search needs to be configured to use google.com
Configuring Android Language
Go to Settings
Language & input
Language
English (United States)
Downloading Language Packs
Go to Settings
Language & input
Google voice typing (settings)
Download offline speech recognition
English (United States)
Configure Voice Search
Go to Settings
Language & input
Voice Search
Language
English (United States)
Configure Text-to-speech
Go to Settings
Language & input
Tech-to-speech output
Google Text-to-speech (settings)
Language
English (United States)
Configure Google Now
Go to Google Now
Settings
Privacy and accounts
Tick box for "Search on google.com"
Note: If you are in a Google Apps domain (rather than gmail.com/etc.), you will need to enable this feature as an administrator:
Google Apps Control Panel -> Settings -> Mobile -> Org Settings.
Click the checkbox beside "Enable Google Now." for the "organization" which should have access to the service.
(thanks to Rob Boek for pointing this out).
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Now you should be all good to go. Give it a try and let me know
No "search on google.com" (even though it does it automatically for me) in privacy and accounts settings. Just Manage location settings, location and google search, show recent searches, and manage web history...
anton2009 said:
No "search on google.com" (even though it does it automatically for me) in privacy and accounts settings. Just Manage location settings, location and google search, show recent searches, and manage web history...
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Interesting.. Not sure on that one. Take it you're in the US
I can't seem to download any language pack for the voice recognition. I see many languages listed but they keep failing to download. Is it because I'm not in the US?
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I can't seem to download any language pack for the voice recognition. I see many languages listed but they keep failing to download. Is it because I'm not in the US?
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Im not in the US either but i've managed to get mine working and downloaded. Are you on Wifi?
Thanks, this worked for me. I had my settings configured for Australia.
Evostance said:
Im not in the US either but i've managed to get mine working and downloaded. Are you on Wifi?
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I tried both wifi and data. No go. Sometimes it tries to download but it will just disappear by itself. Nothing is installed.
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I can't seem to download any language pack for the voice recognition. I see many languages listed but they keep failing to download. Is it because I'm not in the US?
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Language pack for UK downloaded fine for me, however it does seem to take an unusually long amount of time (~10 mins)
Well seeing that there's a country besides each language, I figured that I can't download any because I'm not in any of them...
musashiken said:
Well seeing that there's a country besides each language, I figured that I can't download any because I'm not in any of them...
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Thats very odd, i dont think thats the case as I just download Chinese succesfully
Hmm, maybe it's the new franco JB kernel? That's the only thing I changed from bigxie's rom. I'll probably look around my location settings again.
I can't get it to open any of my apps....
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rasinell said:
I can't get it to open any of my apps....
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I dont think it can do that
Evostance said:
I dont think it can do that
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That's pants. The old search would and it has the search phone selections like it used to... seems odd that they'd remove functionality from it
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rasinell said:
That's pants. The old search would and it has the search phone selections like it used to... seems odd that they'd remove functionality from it
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You can still search for the app and click on it
Evostance said:
You can still search for the app and click on it
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So you can. Thanks. I Missed the little phone icon
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Thank you so much for this information! I can now add alams and send texts. I cannot get it to open applications though, no biggie!
Thanks again
EDIT : One last thing, it now thinks that I am living in the US and automatically gives me forecasts for Washington. I have to say "Weather forecast in Swansea" to get my location. Any way of changing this?
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Thank you so much for this information! I can now add alams and send texts. I cannot get it to open applications though, no biggie!
Thanks again
EDIT : One last thing, it now thinks that I am living in the US and automatically gives me forecasts for Washington. I have to say "Weather forecast in Swansea" to get my location. Any way of changing this?
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Turn on location settings. Mine works fine
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Turn on location settings. Mine works fine
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They are all on, it still gives me information for US though.
If I select "search on google.com" it gives me US results, if I un-tick it, it gives results for my location
Please forgive me, I have searched but 'Google Now' isn't a great search term...
Basically, I get no voice feedback when using voice search or the Google Now app on my 4.1.1 Jelly Bean update. Initially I was underwhelmed by Google Now and wondered what the fuss was, until I discovered it should be talking back to me in a Siri-like fashion.
I had the leaked 4.1 I/O release previously and same issue. Language is English and I have voice prompts turned on in the search settings.
Any ideas? It's a Google stock ROM and it never worked, so I really don't know what it could be.
Edit: Nevermind, same discussion here. Too bad there's no time-limited delete functionality here, feel free to delete.
Try this
There is my solution:
- Set your locale to whatever you want
- Set the Google Now Voice Language to English US
- Voice Output to Always
- Remove the tick(untick the box) on Hide Offensive Words
I spent hours of tinkering with this and tried all kinds of options, but in the end that solved it for me. This is because recently there was an update to Google Search, which is the application designation for Google Now and it introduced this bug.
I have my locale to my native one English UK en-GB and everything works like a charm as it should be and as it used to work before the update.
goliath969 said:
There is my solution:
- Set your locale to whatever you want
- Set the Google Now Voice Language to English US
- Voice Output to Always
- Remove the tick(untick the box) on Hide Offensive Words
I spent hours of tinkering with this and tried all kinds of options, but in the end that solved it for me. This is because recently there was an update to Google Search, which is the application designation for Google Now and it introduced this bug.
I have my locale to my native one English UK en-GB and everything works like a charm as it should be and as it used to work before the update.
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I have same problem with google now and this setup not helped
How about this
vintermut said:
I have same problem with google now and this setup not helped
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Make sure that you have downloaded the offline speech recognition in English US and maybe try asking something like "What's the time?". It will not talk back to all questions. Only the ones that were specifically pre-programmed. If it still doesn't work, try putting your system locale to English US and restarting your phone. And most importantly update your Talkback, Google Search and Google Voice search apps to their latest through the Play Store.
What I did now officially works on my O2 HTC One S and 3UK HTC One X, so it works for sure on those two.
I hope this helps
\Hello,
My parents were in the US for a while, so they bought me a Nexus 7.
They also bought one for each of them and theirs were activated while in america, so they have magazines, movies and books working when they got back.
For me the only thing working is Play Music but, since it works, made me wonder if it is possible to get movies/books/magazines working...
It has to be possible..
Have anyone done that already?
If so, how?
Thank you!
In the UK?
leandroqm said:
\Hello,
My parents were in the US for a while, so they bought me a Nexus 7.
They also bought one for each of them and theirs were activated while in america, so they have magazines, movies and books working when they got back.
For me the only thing working is Play Music but, since it works, made me wonder if it is possible to get movies/books/magazines working...
It has to be possible..
Have anyone done that already?
If so, how?
Thank you!
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Music is still a grey area but should work, no problem with books or movies, magazines not so much.
I use a vpn for this and switch off the gps and location services......works 99% of the time.....im in ireland
How does it work out in terms of billing? Does it go through all right?
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I use Zinio. It has a much better magazine selection and is available worldwide, I think. It does work in Canada.
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I set up my nexus 7 this way, put irish credit card on it and got the play credit on my google account.
I was wondering the same thing i heardu can unlock them but u cant buy anything, atleast not in Canada.
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I also recommend Zinio. Usually have some good special on magazine subscriptions too.
I got the Books to work using a VPN. I was able to download a couple of free ones. Didn't try buying any but I presume it would work if you get the US Play Store working through a VPN.
Using DroidVPN and Market Enabler you can access the US Play Store, but without a US credit card you cannot purchase anything from movies/books/magazines/music (even if it's free!) So maybe if you can get a prepaid US credit card it will work but I'm not sure..
Great ideas.
Thank you, guys.
I used this method to buy stuff from Google Play: http://goo.gl/mHhY8
In short, use VPN to access the Google Play, either through the web or the app. I personally use Hide My Ass! and Super Free VPN to buy books and music.
Once I bought them I can access the contents without VPN.
Any ideas why Google now on the JellyBean update don't show cards? It's just a voice search, unlike Google now on my Galaxy Tab 2 running Cyanogenmod?
mzaza said:
Any ideas why Google now on the JellyBean update don't show cards? It's just a voice search, unlike Google now on my Galaxy Tab 2 running Cyanogenmod?
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Set the phone language in english and it will appear the cards.
mzaza said:
Any ideas why Google now on the JellyBean update don't show cards? It's just a voice search, unlike Google now on my Galaxy Tab 2 running Cyanogenmod?
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Set the phone language in english and it will appear the cards.
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+1
Also, i believe the cards only show up when relevant. On my nexus a 'weather card' only shows certain times a day if i dismiss the card. So just bare in mind that the card function only works when relevant i think.
mine is not talking just showing card, i already downloaded the locale select and set the language to english US, but when i go to settings>language&keyboard>system language. there's no English US. is it possible to install english US? because my phone only have english for asian countries.
Mine works like a charm