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[Q] Search settings wrong (outside US)

I did try searching so apologises if this has been answered before.
I recently bought this phone, and it works great (I'm in the UK). BUT, and this happened on other phones with android, is using the search app, and for example typing in amazon, it'll take me to search listings with amazon.com. Where as if I search from my pc it'll give amazon.co.uk as first result. This is even worse for product searches, where it'll return the prices in dollars, I have enabled the "use my location" option in the search settings but still to no avail, it seems in the browser there's a string that has US, where I want it to be GB, or at least use the GPS and realise I want UK prices. I tried editing build.prop but nothing. Any ideas?
example when I search using hotkey from the desktop: www dot google dot com /m?hl=en&gl=us&client=ms-android-verizon&source=android-launcher-widget&q=amazon
Maybe if the hl=en&gl=GB it'd work as I want?

Did you install morelocale 2?

Thanks this worked straight away! I never thought I'd need to install a specific app just to have my location changed.. I'm assuming this changes some config file somewhere in the phone then. Is it a bug with Android because my friend also said he has the same problem.

courtn00b said:
Thanks this worked straight away! I never thought I'd need to install a specific app just to have my location changed.. I'm assuming this changes some config file somewhere in the phone then. Is it a bug with Android because my friend also said he has the same problem.
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Well, the droid 3 only has english and spanish settings. This means that it will also USA phonenumbers e.g. 581-102-1233, so morelocale is needed to fix it. (for the netherlands, at least). It will make apps/browsers etc think you're in xxx country

Ah, does the morelocal2 download extra settings then? Because yes my phone numbers are displayed correctly now as well. Strange because the phone was never meant to be used outside the US

courtn00b said:
Ah, does the morelocal2 download extra settings then? Because yes my phone numbers are displayed correctly now as well. Strange because the phone was never meant to be used outside the US
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I don't know exactly. What do you mean it wasn't mean to be outside the US? It's a global phone - just by verizon

I meant it wasn't sold in the UK or anywhere else in EU, I had to import mine. But yes I know it's a global phone, just not globally sold

courtn00b said:
I meant it wasn't sold in the UK or anywhere else in EU, I had to import mine. But yes I know it's a global phone, just not globally sold
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I know but morelocale 2 is not droid 3 specific - it's for android, so it doens't matter that the droid 3 is not sold anywhere in the EU

Ok just discovered an inconvenience with the dialer. Got uk settings but it wants +44 on my phone numbers.. otherwise it just adds + to the last 7digits resulting in failed call. Any suggestions as I don't fancy changing my entire address book

[Q] htc one doesnt have google now although 4.2.2 update

hi,
my htc one does not have google now function, although I updated the phone to 4.2.2 which should enable it right ? what to do

5kordez5 said:
hi,
my htc one does not have google now function, although I updated the phone to 4.2.2 which should enable it right ? what to do
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can you elaborate? Google now works just fine for me, you need to press and swipe up the home button.

You are probably on non-english locale which blocks Google Now from initializing.
Move phone language to English US or UK, Initialize google Now and then switch back to your current locale.

orenfl said:
You are probably on non-english locale which blocks Google Now from initializing.
Move phone language to English US or UK, Initialize google Now and then switch back to your current locale.
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thank you, that helped. Now it works

[Q] Nokia 530 Cortana newbie

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Just purchased a UK unlocked Nokia Lumia 530 to play with. Ive noted that Cortana does not seem to be installed even though I am running Cyan which I thought was the latest version of 8.1?
Ive made sure my regional settings and keyboard are set to UK as I had read that this could cause issues if set incorrectly.
Any pointers would be appreciated

phupton said:
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Just purchased a UK unlocked Nokia Lumia 530 to play with. Ive noted that Cortana does not seem to be installed even though I am running Cyan which I thought was the latest version of 8.1?
Ive made sure my regional settings and keyboard are set to UK as I had read that this could cause issues if set incorrectly.
Any pointers would be appreciated
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normally it must be there.
location = UK ?
language = UK ?
speech = UK ?
keyboard can be any language

ceesheim said:
normally it must be there.
location = UK ?
language = UK ?
speech = UK ?
keyboard can be any language
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Yep, all of the above settings are set. I did note that when setting up the phone and often after a restart it defaults the date to 1st July 2014 so I've had to manually set the date. The sim, phone and account are all new.
Im assuming that I should see an application called Cortana listed. The particular feature I'm after is the quiet hours feature of Cortana.

phupton said:
Yep, all of the above settings are set. I did note that when setting up the phone and often after a restart it defaults the date to 1st July 2014 so I've had to manually set the date. The sim, phone and account are all new.
Im assuming that I should see an application called Cortana listed. The particular feature I'm after is the quiet hours feature of Cortana.
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did you look under settings ?
is there Cortana or quiet hours ?
because if i remember you need to turn on Cortana first.

Ive been right through the settings and cannot see anything about Cortana or quiet hours anywhere.

phupton said:
Ive been right through the settings and cannot see anything about Cortana or quiet hours anywhere.
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test it by setting everything to USA , and look if it then works

Set the phone to US. It restarted a couple of times and downloaded various language packs but no Cortana.
I cannot see Cortana in the app list or anywhere to enable it in settings.
Im well versed with IOS and Android including rooting and fiddling with Cyanogenmod so am not a total numpty when it comes to Mobile devices but due to being a Windows Phone newbie I could be getting something basic wrong...
Thanks for your help so far.

Woohoo.. Got Cortana working by fiddling with the regional settings. I've now got the phone set as A US phone and it's now working. The language for the keyboard can stay as a UK keyboard so the £ appears correctly when typing. Weather reports in Cortana show as Fahrenheit and not centigrade but I can live with that for now.
I guess this means that Cortana is not fully supported on my phone in the UK yet?

phupton said:
Woohoo.. Got Cortana working by fiddling with the regional settings. I've now got the phone set as A US phone and it's now working. The language for the keyboard can stay as a UK keyboard so the £ appears correctly when typing. Weather reports in Cortana show as Fahrenheit and not centigrade but I can live with that for now.
I guess this means that Cortana is not fully supported on my phone in the UK yet?
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Cortana for UK comes with WP 8.1 Update 1 which is only available on some of the new devices & on Preview for Developers users.

Can anyone tell me is there is any heating up due to signal reception problem in lumia 530
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sonydiaZ said:
Can anyone tell me is there is any heating up due to signal reception problem in lumia 530
Sent from my D2005 using XDA Free mobile app
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Ive only had my 530 for a week and have not made/received many calls as yet BUT I have noted that the top of the phone does seem to get hot when on a phone call.
Ive signed my device up to the developer program which allowed me to download an update to the phone and hey presto, Cortana works when phone is set to the UK. Problem solved...

I guess Cortana doesn't speak the King's English ?

latino147 said:
I guess Cortana doesn't speak the King's English
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Any news on windows phone 10 for the Nokia Lumia 530?
If i buy the windows dev license will i be able to update to 10?
Thanks

Google Assistant with Language English India.

Google Assistant with device language set to English India can't even respond to cricket score. Anyone else facing this issue? It used to work before.

Google assistant

Anyone notice on their new pixel that the new assistant is not working? The assistant is Still the old one, which you'd need to keep squeezing or repeat the hey google phrase.

What language are you using? It didn't work for me when set to English (UK), but works when set to English(US). It seems it is limited to English(US) at the moment.

Also cannot be used with a GSuite account, has to be a personal Google account.

I've switch to english US and have always used a personal Gmail account. Not sure why it's not working. Might just wait for google to fix the damn thing.

hero4eva said:
I've switch to english US and have always used a personal Gmail account. Not sure why it's not working. Might just wait for google to fix the damn thing.
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Are you using Google beta app? Didn't work for me when I got the phone until I left the beta.

elreydenj said:
Are you using Google beta app? Didn't work for me when I got the phone until I left the beta.
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I'm not using any beta apps. Just reformatted the phone and still same thing, no new assistant. I give up

elreydenj said:
Are you using Google beta app? Didn't work for me when I got the phone until I left the beta.
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Thanks that worked for me
Sent from my Pixel 4 XL using Tapatalk

Where are you from? It is U.S. exclusive. Not just the language setting English(US). Don't know if you knew that. I'm from germany and I won't get it until they open it for us...

I got my phone yesterday (in the UK) and once I set it the assistant to us US English it installed an update and just works using the new assistant style, so it's not U.S. exclusive in that sense. Thankfully they've also added UK English voices for the assistant to use when talking back (when set to U.S.)

sycx2 said:
Where are you from? It is U.S. exclusive. Not just the language setting English(US). Don't know if you knew that. I'm from germany and I won't get it until they open it for us...
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I'm from Australia, but has set the language not english US, still no luck

After giving up a few times, I notice that I was missing the google home app. After downloading the home app, in settings there were an option under continue conversation where you can enable or disable "shared devices". I disable that option and, What do you know, after squeezing the phone for the assistant, it automatically update itself to the new assistant. Hope this help others too.

set to english US and it updated and works
in settings > assistant > languages
not language and region.

Any way to get continuous conversation to work without the gestures?
I don't use it

I just got off chat with Google rep and they told me it's a known issue that they are trying to fix.

troymz1 said:
I just got off chat with Google rep and they told me it's a known issue that they are trying to fix.
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What's a known issue?
That the language has to be set to US?

virtyx said:
What's a known issue?
That the language has to be set to US?
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Mine is set to us and doesn't work.

TheUndertaker21 said:
Any way to get continuous conversation to work without the gestures?
I don't use it
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Go to settings, search "continued", and toggle the option. Works with squeeze, "Hey, Google", or tapping the assistant icon on the search widget.
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EeZeEpEe said:
Go to settings, search "continued", and toggle the option. Works with squeeze, "Hey, Google", or tapping the assistant icon on the search widget.
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Only works with gestures.
I have 3 nav enable. I don't do Google gestures or any gesture for that matter

TheUndertaker21 said:
Only works with gestures.
I have 3 nav enable. I don't do Google gestures or any gesture for that matter
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Oh! My bad. Didn't realize that was necessary. I read gestures and was thinking Motion Sense gestures. [emoji2359]
I know Android is all about options and all and sucks that it's not an option for the button based navigation but why not use gestures? It's very fluid and quick.
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Sorry to hijack the thread but is anyone else having issues with the squeeze for assistant feature? Mine seems very temperamental.
If I leave my phone locked for a bit, then lift it, it unlocks and the squeeze is not working. I then have to tap on the power button to lock it again, unlock and it starts working again.