Apologies to all if this has been addressed recently, but I couldn't find anything from 2012. Having received my Nexus 4 this week I'd like to start using Chrome again as it is very fast (unlike with the Nexus S where it was barely usable). My question is, how do you change the default search engine in the omnibox? I am in France and the default is google.fr but I'd prefer .com or .co.uk. Settings gives me three options other than google.fr:
-Ask jeeves (UK ask.com)
-Yahoo! UK and Ireland
-Bing.com
Seems a bit odd that only the google option is in French. Is it possible to change this without rooting?
Many thanks,
Matt
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I did some searching around the web and haven't been able to find a way to get UK English on my Vibrant. I did notice while playing with my store's demo Nexus S device that it supports the language by default (as well as several others), so my question:
Would it be possible to grab the UK English language from a Nexus S system dump and "import" it to my Vibrant (if so, how do I do it)? Or is it just a feature in Gingerbread that I'll have to wait for a proper port to get?
Thanks.
So, am I just SOL until I get a full 2.3 ROM?
Probably so. When you buy a U.S. Market phone these things happen...
Hi all,
I've just been playing around on my new Galaxy S III and thought I would have a go on S-Voice.
Has anyone else from the UK realised that it will answer more questions if the language in the settings is set to US rather than UK??
For example on UK language I asked 'do you like me' and got the answer 'I'm not sure what you mean by Do you like me' But if I asked it the same question with the language set to US I get 'Absolutely' or 'What's not to like' or 'probably'. I can ask a whole load more questions when it's set to US but it pretty much only recognises the weather request when set to UK
What's the deal with this?? It seems S-Voice has more answers if the language is set to american? :/
my friend's S3 recently received an update to JB. he updated it through Kies. He decided to test the new feature of the google search app called Google Now but he cant see it. Going to the settings of the said app, there should be an option for Google NOw there, but in his phone, there is none. Even the UI which is supposed to show mountains and cards is not in his S3's google search app, his is just plain search box UI.
What could be are the problems?
Look at your apps, it's simply called Google. (blue box, white G) and when launched it gives some info on Google now and asks if you want to use it. In Applications Manager it says Google Search.
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Look at your apps, it's simply called Google. (blue box, white G) and when launched it gives some info on Google now and asks if you want to use it. In Applications Manager it says Google Search.
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Nope, it did not ask any questions whether we would like to use Google NOw
THE ANSWER IS: language of phone should be English(UNited States)...tsk tsk..
Well the language of my phone us English (United Kingdom), but thanks for your comment, I hope you get any further help you need with that kind of attitude.
I got the One X+ last night from Telus (in Canada) and the voice search doesn't seem to be talking back regardless of what I change. I've also made sure the volume is up.
I've found that it seems either HTC or Telus has only provided English (Canada) as the only English selection in the devices system language. Could this be the culprit?
Is anyone else having issues with voice search talking back on a Telus HTC One X+?
Edit: Answered my own question. As I suspected, that was the cause of the issue. Gotta love when companies cripple features on phones by changing silly settings. Installed Locale Select (can't post the link, it's called Set Locale and Language in the Play Store) and changed to English (US) and it's working fine now.
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Edit: Answered my own question. As I suspected, that was the cause of the issue. Gotta love when companies cripple features on phones by changing silly settings. Installed Locale Select (can't post the link, it's called Set Locale and Language in the Play Store) and changed to English (US) and it's working fine now.
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Hey Archangel
I had the same issue and was wondering why was it not working, but now thanks to the idea you had now it talks back to me too.
Thank you very much :victory:
Hi Everyone.
I'm hoping someone will have a solution for me coz this problem is driving me mad now. Anytime I use Google Now/Voice search, the response is being read out in US English, as opposed to UK English, it used to be in the UK variant but something, somewhere must have changed.
I've resorted to restoring a UK ROM and wiping the device totally, including local storage so it got returned to being a device straight out of the box.
No matter have many settings to do with region that I find and make sure is set to English UK, it always speaks in US. Whats even more frustrating is, it's only this that's doing it, anything else that uses TTS speaks in the correct English, UK.
Any help would be great, even if someone knows what the language data is stored so I can delete it and see if it's then forced to use the UK variant. I've checked all around my actual Google account to see if it's getting a language setting from that, but again, everything is set to UK.
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