I just bought a 9.7" Galaxy Tab S2 at our local BestBuy (San Jose, California). Brought it home, turned it on, entered my Google account email and password. Everything went fine except for that leftmost swipe screen that Samsung calls "Briefing" and uses to display various aggregated news. 95% of that page is in Indonesian language! When I activated my tablet, I selected "English (United States)" as the language. Everything is "English" in my Google account. All my language and location settings are US English, US English and only US English. Yet the Briefing page articles are in Indonesian. Maybe 5% of them are in English, but the overwhelming majority is not.
I contacted Samsung Support and they connected to my tablet through their "Tutor" app. They couldn't fix it. That page is still in Indonesian.
I did two factory resets, trying not to enter my Google account info. No change. "Briefing" page articles are in Indonesian. There's was a brief moment after one of the factory resets when "Briefing" page refreshed to US-specific articles in English for a short period of time. But it didn't stick: after another refresh it switched back to Indonesian again.
In the end Samsung support gave up and said that the device is apparently defective. I'll try to exchange it at BestBuy tomorrow (being almost sure that the next device will suffer from the same problem).
Has anyone experienced anything like that? Maybe I'm missing something simple?
Actually I just saw that on my Note 5. Only just a couple of hours ago it started. Must be Flipboard having trouble or something.
I also think it's flipboard, as in the setting you select the language in the app, it has nothing to do with the google.
Well, the thing is, S2 does not have Flipboard app installed out of the box. It only has this Briefing app, which seems to be like a "reduced" version of Flipboard, responsible for displaying that leftmost screen one can sweep to. There are no region and language settings in Briefing.
However, we did try to install Flipboard app (Samsung support also tried to do it). Flipboard app does seem to have region settings and everything looks fine inside Flipboard: everything is my region-specific (i.e. US-specific) and everything is in English. But that unfortunately has no effect on the "Briefing" screen: that screen remains in Indonesian regardless of what I do in Flipboard app.
The briefing app is flipboard, if you install the full version, and log in, it should connect, I get the same content whether it's the briefing widget or from the download flipboard.
I just tried and changed the location, and I get the contents which is related to my location from flipboard or briefing.
kms108 said:
The briefing app is flipboard,
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Yes, it is but it is still a separate app with its own settings. Which seems to be not changeable.
kms108 said:
I just tried and changed the location, and I get the contents which is related to my location from flipboard or briefing.
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Where exactly in Flipboard do you change the location? The only relevant setting I see there is "International Content Guides" currently set to "United States" in my case. Changing that setting has no effect on the Briefing page anyway. Why would it? This is an account-specific setting anyway, and Briefing app does not work with accounts.
I am also experiencing Indonesian flipboard news on my briefing also.
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Yes, it is but it is still a separate app with its own settings. Which seems to be not changeable.
Where exactly in Flipboard do you change the location? The only relevant setting I see there is "International Content Guides" currently set to "United States" in my case. Changing that setting has no effect on the Briefing page anyway. Why would it? This is an account-specific setting anyway, and Briefing app does not work with accounts.
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Same as what you have mention, I set it to UK, and my login details on briefing and the flipboard is identical., I log out on briefing the flipboard app also does the same, same for log in.
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... and my login details on briefing and the flipboard is identical., I log out on briefing the flipboard app also does the same, same for log in.
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We might be talking about different things... My Briefing does not have any login details - it simply has no "login" features . Flipboard does.
I presume that Flipboard (if installed) is supposed to supply the additional data feed to Briefing, so in that way they share the account information. But unfortunately so far it didn't seem to help to resolve the language issue. Maybe I'm somehow supposed to install Flipboard and then set up Flipboard to completely "override" (or "overwhelm") the "default" Briefing feed? I.e. the English feed from Flipboard is supposed to "push out" the original Indonesian feed? So far I was not able to do that.
In any case, it is strange. S2 does not come with Flipboard app pre-installed. Which means that when one buys a tablet in US, out-of-the-box one gets a device with Indonesian news feed in Indonesian language and apparently no way to change that without installing an additional app (?!). And even after installing that additional app, the problem does not seem to go away.
On top of that, Samsung support was not able to figure it out after fiddling with my device for an hour.
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We might be talking about different things... My Briefing does not have any login details - it simply has no "login" features . Flipboard does.
I presume that Flipboard (if installed) is supposed to supply the additional data feed to Briefing, so in that way they share the account information. But unfortunately so far it didn't seem to help to resolve the language issue. Maybe I'm somehow supposed to install Flipboard and then set up Flipboard to completely "override" (or "overwhelm") the "default" Briefing feed? So far I was not able to do that.
In any case, it is strange. S2 does not come with Flipboard app pre-installed. Which means that when one buys a tablet in US, out-of-the-box one gets a device with Indonesian news feed in Indonesian language and apparently no way to change that without installing an additional app (?!). And even after installing that additional app, the problem does not seem to go away.
On top of that, Samsung support was not able to figure it out after fiddling with my device for an hour.
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see if you get this information, on briefing top right hand corner on the home page, there is three dots, touch that and you should get settings, underneath the setting word, you should get the login or logout.
If you are logged in, you touch the icon and a pop up will give you the option open profile in flipboard or log out.
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see if you get this information, on briefing top right hand corner on the home page, there is three dots, touch that and you should get settings, underneath the setting word, you should get the login or logout.
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Yes, you are right. With Flipboard installed, I do get the option to log into Flipboard or log out of it on Briefing page. Unfortunately the content of Briefing page is still Indonesian.
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Yes, you are right. With Flipboard installed, I do get the option to log into Flipboard or log out of it on Briefing page. Unfortunately the content of Briefing page is still Indonesian.
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May be you do have a problem with yours, can you take it back to the shop and see if they can check this out, using a remote system to check is not always a good option.
Same here, have a Tab S2 and can't get the Daily Briefing out of Indonesian. On Verizon. I'm going to just disable it.
bleh
I have the same problem on my s6 I don't want to have a huge news app I just like the swipe screen to check quick but now it's all in Indonesian and I'm pretty pissed at this bloat ware with no language option
I logged into my flipboard account inside the briefing app. Does not help, still in Indonesian. And btw, how can you get the briefing app content to be the same as flipboard? The briefing app comes with pre-fixed categories (with only word filters) from curated content. Flipboard on the other hand, allows you to add your own feeds and these feeds definitely don't show up in the briefing app.
I just visited BestBuy again. All their S2 devices on display suffer from this issue, no exceptions. Their Samsung support guy, while surprised, couldn't do anything about it. (They have a dedicated Samsung support stand.)
On the other hand, while talking to the guy I did a couple of refreshes of my Briefing page and it suddenly switched to English. Incidentally, by that moment we had already uninstalled Flipboard app from my device. Go figure...
This problem just started happening yesterday on my S2 as well. I have temporarily turned it off, but it is pretty annoying.
I'm guessing it's a problem with Flipboard itself. Maybe they're having some issues or something? I hope this resolves soon. I kind of enjoy having something to read without opening another app.
JohnXena said:
This problem just started happening yesterday on my S2 as well. I have temporarily turned it off, but it is pretty annoying.
I'm guessing it's a problem with Flipboard itself. Maybe they're having some issues or something? I hope this resolves soon. I kind of enjoy having something to read without opening another app.
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It's fixed now. You can get an update for Flipboard from Google Play, then reboot the device.
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Yes, it appears to be working correctly now. I did not even have to update (or even install) Flipboard. I even did a factory reset and after the reset the Briefing screen continues to work correctly.
It appears that the problem was on the server side. I just happened to buy my tablet at the exact same time.
Glad it's sorted out.
So I finally received my Chinese version Mate 20 Pro Emerald variant and I spent the last 24 hours setting it up, now it's finally getting into a more or less stock android feeling. I decided to write a post because man, I've never spent so much effort just trying to setup a new phone.
Ordering
I ordered the phone from Huawei T Mall store on Nov. 11th. I paid about 1250 CAD through Alipay for the phone and ~ 600 RMB having my friend sending it to me via DHL. I also had to pay some import tax getting it into Canada but it's just bad luck, plus the tax really depends on how much you declare the value to be.
First Impression
I had a Oneplus 5, I like the cleanness of its ROM, it's close to stock android and I was using the Rootless Pixel 2 Launcher which makes it essentially a stock Android device. The Mate 20 Pro is a bit heavier than the Oneplus 5 and it's just slightly bigger.
I started with applying the tempered glass screen protectors I bought also from Taobao when I ordered the phone. Sadly I can't seem to get it in the right place, and it's greatly affecting the screen responsiveness and accuracy. I ended up throwing them away.
Turning it on, and I'm already having issue with the initial setup process. First of all, I was asked to create a Huawei ID. But guess what -- I live in Canada but Canada isn't an available option in the region list, somehow US is. I mean, this phone is not even available in US, why would you provide that as an option but not Canada?
I went ahead choosing US as the region. It asked for phone verification, that worked for me because US and Canada share the same country code.
After that, I uninstall a bunch of pre-installed apps -- they are mostly popular apps in China, plus a few useless utilities made by Huawei. I uninstall about 25 apps during this process.
Then I tried to restore all my apps from the old phone, first step would be getting Google Play Service working. Surprisingly Google Play Service is pre-installed. but I wasn't able to update it through the Huawei App Store, because US Huawei ID apparently is not supported. In fact I can't use any of the pre-installed Huawei apps, they are all blocked. So I deleted my account and created a Chinese one instead.
I was able to access the app store and update Google Play Service, along with Play Store. Google backup apparently didn't work. I ended up using the Huawei "Phone Clone" app to transfer all my stuff to this phone. It does the job pretty well.
Getting third party launcher working on Chinese ROM (If you have a global version then this may not apply to you)
Spent sometime getting all the apps logged in and tweaking settings, I started to look into replacing the stock launcher. But then you can't change launcher on the Chinese rom, so I did some research and here is what I did:
1. Install a third party launcher. I chose Nova Launcher here. Never used it before but Rootless Launcher kept crashing and for Rootless Pixel 2 Launcher, there is an annoying security alert saying "Google is using microphone" that kept popping up.
1. Enable developer mode
2. Enable USB Debug
3. Connect the phone to PC
4. Access ADB shell
5. uninstall stock launch: pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.huawei.android.launcher
6. Reboot
A few notes on using this 3rd party launcher hack:
* I also installed the Nova companion app to have Google Feed panel access.
* You need to allow Nova companion to auto-launch in Settings -> Apps -> App Launch, otherwise rebooting the phone will make Google Feed panel disappear.
* If you select gesture navigation in system setting, swiping up from bottom may not work.
Getting Google Assistant to work
The phone has the Huawei voice assistant by default, and changing the default Assistant app to Google doesn't work. The shortcut still only bring up the Huawei voice assistant. The fix is to uninstall the app using the same process above. The package name is com.huawei.vassistant. After reboot, I was able to access Google Assistant using the home button (I still prefer three key navigation). "OK Google" doesn't work on Home screen though.
Make sure push notifications are working
I also noticed I don't receive push notifications most of the time. For example, I have Duo Mobile which is used as an authenticator at work. Having the screen on, I didn't receive the push notification. I had to launch the app manually to see the authentication request. Here is a workaround:
1. Settings -> Apps -> App Launch
2. Find the app you wish to receive push notification
3. Disable auto manage, it will ask you how you want to manage manually, choose Auto-launch and Run in Background at least
Known Issues/Todo list
Here are some of the things that I'm having issue with but haven't figured out a solution yet. Please let me know if you know a solution to any of them:
1. Google Pay Contactless does not work. This is almost a deal breaker. From what I've read, it seems to be just Chinese version doesn't work.
1. LastPass accessibility setting gets reverted to off randomly. This seems to related to when I close all apps using the trashcan button on recent apps screen.
2. Default Assistant app setting mysteriously gets reset to None. Still don't understand why.
3. Text in the notification just look so bad. Also not sure how to tweak that.
4. The security alert for app using microphone keeps popping up in Google Assist and Google Feed. I'm not sure how I should feel about that...
Things I like about this device
1. Chinese version supported dual SIM. I believe the global version does not.
2. photos in low lights are awesome.
3. charging is super fast! I also got the wireless charging thing.
4. I'm happy with its battery performance so far.
5. It's a faster device overall. The games I play run smoother on this phone comparing to Oneplus 5. I understand OP5 is an older phone but that's the only reference point I got.
That's what I had so far. I'm also keeping an eye on the progress of FunkyHuawei Mate 20 Pro support -- I'm looking forward to flash the global version ROM hoping it has better google integration and less chinese-oriented useless "features".
Hope it helps!
Thanks for sharing
Does the device show as being certified in the Google Play Store? If not, this would probably explain why contactless via GP doesn't work
Minotaur said:
Does the device show as being certified in the Google Play Store? If not, this would probably explain why contactless via GP doesn't work
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Yes it shows as certified in playstore.
henexekrar said:
Yes it shows as certified in playstore.
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Hmmm interesting... is there an error message or such that might indicate why GPay doesn't work?
Minotaur said:
Hmmm interesting... is there an error message or such that might indicate why GPay doesn't work?
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when attempting to enable contactless, the following messages appear in order:
contacting your bank...
your bank is verifying your card...
added feature cannot be setup. contact your bank to resolve this issue.
I called the bank and they said they didn't get the request so they don't know what error it is.
I contacted Google and haven't got a response.
Did you already have the card in your GPay wallet, and were re-verifying, or did you add it from scratch? Guessing it may not make a difference though.
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Did you already have the card in your GPay wallet, and were re-verifying, or did you add it from scratch? Guessing it may not make a difference though.
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I had the card in the wallet for a long time. Used it with my old phone without issue.
Does it support Band 66? Thanks
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I was in China last week and almost bought the Mate 20 Pro. After reading many reviews I decided to not buy the Chinese Version and pay a little more to get the Google version from Hong Kong
Any updates?
Were you able to find any way to get LastPass working properly?
Accessibility features keep resetting for me right away.
Hi, have your version finger-id? I bought a mate 20 pro red in aliexpress but i can't find the finger-id......
John_nl_74 said:
Hi, have your version finger-id? I bought a mate 20 pro red in aliexpress but i can't find the finger-id......
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The LYA-AL00 with 6 GM RAM and 128 GB storage has no fingerprint sensor. It only uses face, pattern, and password unlock.
I have problem with Android Auto on Anroid 10. It looks like AA is preinstalled because in the Settings>Apps & Notifications I can deactivate the application or uninstall updates. However, I don't see the icon in the installed applications. I found that solution should be to turn on Autolaunch option in Additional Settings in the App, but I don't have that option there. Is it possible that this is due to the fact that AA is not officially supported in the Czech Republic? Any idea how to solve it?
https://support.google.com/androidauto/answer/9468382
Here is your answer... I wanted to install the app "android auto for phone screens" like suggested in the support article but got the message" not available in your country"
Funny thing is that on my pixel 3a android 10, its working just fine here in Greece, i just have the system language set to english so that the assistant works....
Edit: here is the apk Android auto for phone screens
Android auto for phone screens solved it! Thanks
From time ago when i receive a Whatsapp, Telegram msg while i'm in Android Auto and touch to hear it the Assistant reads it in English (I'm Spanish)
It's ridiculous and difficult to understand spanish messages readed like english...
Any way to solve this?
I'm from Brazil and solved it this way:
(probably should work for you, but with Spanish instead of Brazilian Portuguese)
1. Change your Android language to English (Config > Sistema > Idioma e Entrada)
2. Restart your smartphone
3. Start the Google app > Settings > Voice, select Spanish
4. In your car ask for a message to be read (should already be read in Spanish)
5. Now you can set your Android language back to Spanish
From what I've read (not tested) if the phone is restarted you'll have to do everything again.
I'll try tomorrow. Regards
It is already solved with the latest GOOGLE update
Not for me (Dutch, living in the Netherlands); I use older Google version (Google_v11.19.13.21.arm_apkpure.com.apk), works fine in Dutch - newest Google version in play store still heavy (well funny!) English accent..
For me (Dutch, Belgium) it is also solved with the latest Google version
If your language not in assistant, switch back to google now. Then AA works like with old Google version.
[REQUEST] Module to Disable Google Assistant
Now that the US Virgin Island trick to avoid Google Assistant has been fixed, a module that disables Google Assistant will really help us who doesn't like it and want to use Now On Tap. Thanks!
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