Hi all I am desperate. I just ordered my TyTn II from Expansys Hong Kong.
It is only after ordering that I realized that it is in the Traditional Chinese Language and not the World Wide English language. The Expansys UK site has the English units but I have already ordered.
What does Traditonal Chinese mean. Will the software be in Chinese. Will the QWERTY keyboard be in Chinese. And since I don't know Chinese will I not be able to use it.
In the meantime I have also e-mailed Expansys regarding the mistake I have made and let us see what they have to say.
Please help me in understanding what Traditional Chinese means.
there are two ways to write chinese: traditional and simplified. traditional is obviously the older one, where as simplified allows for less strokes per character.
they are not english
i dont know how it'll turn out on the phone though, just wanted to clarify what traditional was for you
Traditional Chinese is a Chinese script written by people unaffected by the Peoples' Republic of China's simplification of the Chinese script. Primary users are Hong Kong, Taiwan and their respective diasporas. At any rate, you can't type Chinese - it's not alphabetical.
Most phones sold in Hong Kong have both English and Chinese pre-installed, but that's not true for all phones, especially smartphones. There's a chance that you can switch yours to an English interface when you get it - I haven't bought a HTC device in Hong Kong, so I can't give you a definite answer.
They have an english one too on Hong Kong site too, so why don't give them a call?
srmz said:
In the meantime I have also e-mailed Expansys regarding the mistake I have made and let us see what they have to say.
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As long as they have not shipped, Expansys usually do not object to cancelling the order. No worries there.
Hi,
New user but I felt I could add something to your problem.
I bought a TyTn2 in HK, and my understanding is that they ship 2 versions- chinese and english. There is no setting in the phone to change the language, and the diff language versions actually run different roms.
If in the end you get a chinese version, my understanding is english apps will work and the icons are fairly self explanatory.
If you are still struggling, then I guess you can hope that an english ver rom will take.
Grump
Chinese version do have a chinese keyboard which allow easy entry of chinese words.
It will work with all english and other language apps.
I am a chinese TyTNII user because I need Chinese input.
If you don't need the chinese input, just cancel the order and make a new one.
Thanks to everyone for all your responses.
What I have done is to cancel my order and made a fresh one at the Expansys UK site instead of the HK site.
And now the wait begins and once again thanks to all
Regards
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Hi. I have recently purchased a new Note 9 N9600 from an eBay seller in Hong Kong.
There are a few of issues:
1. Coming from a Note 8, the display on the Note 9 seems to be quite blue in comparison. Where whites appeared to be slightly warmer on the Note 8, it is noticeably more blue on the Note 9. Is this normal?
2. Despite setting the language to English during intial setup after first boot, there is still a lot of chinese on throughout the UI. Is there a way to set everything to english?
3. Despite being the same keyboard app, the keyboard layout is totally different to my Note 8. Is there a way to change the layout?
Thanks in advance!
Byte_76 said:
Hi. I have recently purchased a new Note 9 N9600 from an eBay seller in Hong Kong.
There are a few of issues:
1. Coming from a Note 8, the display on the Note 9 seems to be quite blue in comparison. Where whites appeared to be slightly warmer on the Note 8, it is noticeably more blue on the Note 9. Is this normal?
2. Despite setting the language to English during intial setup after first boot, there is still a lot of chinese on throughout the UI. Is there a way to set everything to english?
3. Despite being the same keyboard app, the keyboard layout is totally different to my Note 8. Is there a way to change the layout?
Thanks in advance!
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Turn off blue light filter two finger swipe down you will see it there and if you go to settings then screen mode you can change the cool and warm!
Have you tried going into settings general management, language and input, Language to download USA OR UK or where ever you are to set it to that?
Keyboard is in the same spot as language and input select keyboard from there!
I can confirm that the keyboard on the HK N9600 is slightly different to other Note 9s.
When you switch to symbols, the keyboard looks more like a T9 dialpad. No way to change that.
I solved this issue by flashing to the southamerican firmware (Brazil for example).
There are other minor differences in the HK firmware as well, for example you cannot change the sort order for your contacts in the phone or contacts app (first name, last name)
Also resolved by flashing it to south american firmware.
And there are also still bits of Chinese, for example in Bixby or Bixby vision. The language there seems to be connected to the CSC of the phone.
Since there is no pure English variant firmware for the N9600, I have only managed to change the Chinese parts to Spanish with the south American firmware.
I didn't have the problems you outline with my 9600. English is still a national language in Hong Kong, on first booting, two language options given were Cantonese or English. Selected English and it's perfect.
Maybe it's not a HK version, but a mainland China version?
I also have the N9600 HK version (CSC TGY).
Some things remain in Chinese for example some parts of Bixby, or Bixby vision suggestions.
Thanks for all the feedback.
I actually purchased the phone for my brother after he cracked the display of his Note 8. (International variant)
The information that I described in the first post is feedback that my brother gave me but I haven't seen it myself.
At this stage, I can't confirm whether the Note 9 that he has is a HK variant or a Chinese mainland variant. How can I check this?
The Hong Kong based eBay seller that I bought the phone from is shipping what they call "Global variants" of every phone that they sell, or at least the next best option if there is no global variant. Meaning that in terms of bands and region specific firmware, they try to select the version that is as "Global" as possible. In this case, since I asked for an N9600 (because I wanted Snapdragon), I believe they shipped the HK variant.
My brother did inform me this morning that he thinks he managed to change all the language settings to English but his keyboard layout is still different from his Note 8. (I don't know how it differs because I haven't seen it yet)
Other than that. He thinks that the phone seems to be quite normal. (Comparing to the experience he had with his Global Note 8 with Exynos SoC)
Byte_76 said:
Thank for all the feedback.
I actually purchased the phone for my brother after he cracked the display of his Note 8. (International variant)
The information that I described in the first post is feedback that my brother gave me but I haven't seen it myself.
At this stage, I can't confirm whether the Note 9 that he has is a HK variant or a Chinese mainland variant. How can I check this?
The Hong Kong based eBay seller that I bought the phone from is shipping what they call "Global variants" of every phone that they sell, or at least the next best option if there is no global variant. Meaning that in terms of bands and region specific firmware, they try to select the version that is as "Global" as possible. In this case, since I asked for an N9600 (because I wanted Snapdragon), I believe they shipped the HK variant.
My brother did inform me this morning that he thinks he managed to change all the language settings to English but his keyboard layout is still different from his Note 8. (I don't know how it differs because I haven't seen it yet)
Other than that. He thinks that the phone seems to be quite normal. (Comparing to the experience he had with his Global Note 8 with Exynos SoC)
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*#1234# will give you a CSC number which will give you a country of origin..
N1NJATH3ORY said:
*#1234# will give you a CSC number which will give you a country of origin..
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Okay the response to that code was CSC: N9600TGY1ARL3
Can anyone tell me, what are the differences between the HK N9600 and the Global N960FD? (I tried searching around but the answer is not clear. )
Does the N9600 have fewer features or reduced functionality compared to N960FD? (I saw in another thread that someone mentioned lack of VoLTE on N9600. Anything else?)
I didn't do extensive research before ordering the N9600 but I had read that the Snapdragon variant has better battery life and slightly better performance this year than the Exynos variants. these are the only reasons why I chose the N9600.
I am not concerned about rooting options and assumed that otherwise, the Note 9 variants are all much the same.