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google maps language

hey guys,
do you know how can i set google maps to english? because it always gets the info from the regional settings and changes it's language to that. but i wanna keep my regional settings on what it's set, and set google maps english.
any chance to do that?

If your regional settings are for instance 'Dutch', in 'Program Files\GoogleMaps' delete the file 'gmm_nl' then copy and rename the file 'gmm_en_GB' to 'gmm_nl'.

Sloefke said:
If your regional settings are for instance 'Dutch', in 'Program Files\GoogleMaps' delete the file 'gmm_nl' then copy and rename the file 'gmm_en_GB' to 'gmm_nl'.
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oh thanks a lot!! it's great!

this won't work in V4.0
can't find the lang files
Any new solution?

jzhyok said:
this won't work in V4.0
can't find the lang files
Any new solution?
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Here is what I found and posted on the Google Mobile Help Forum:
Google Maps detects the language for the menues on some weird ways from the settings on your phone.
The Windows Mobile on my phone is "ENGLISH", but the regional settings are "JAPAN".
Out of this information Google Maps decides to show me the menus in Japanese.
Ok, I guess the developers of this software were never moving their a.. out of the office, so they have no idea what it means to live in a country where you cannot understand the language nor read the writing.
According to the Google Employees answers here, there is no solution for this problem.
Well here is a workaround (at least for me it works). Its a little bit tricky and I give no guarantee that it works for everybody:
Install Google Maps and start it. Make sure it connects to the internet and sets your current location (maybe not necessary).
If it shows the menues in a language you cannot understand, (Japanese, Chinese, Thai, French, Spanish, ....) then close Google Maps.
Go to the settings of Windows Mobile. Change your regional settings to "English (US)" or whatever language you need in Google Maps.
Maybe you need to reset your phone.
Start Google Maps again. Now the menus should be in the language you selected. Make sure it connects to the internet and sets your current location (maybe not necessary).
Close Google Maps.
Go to the settings of Windows Mobile. Change your regional settings back to "Japanese" or whatever language you need in in your phone.
Now the tricky parts comes.
On your phone in the folder \Application Data\GoogleMaps you see a file "i18n-strings.dat". Copy the file to your PC and open it with a hex editor. When you scroll through the file, you (hopefully) see at the beginning of the file something like en^".. en/strings_remote_"
I changed here the "en" to "ja" (as I am in Japan).
Save the file and copy it back to your phone into the \Application Data\GoogleMaps folder.
On the next start of Google Maps, I get the menus in English, even my Regional Settings are back to "Japanese".
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Of course the maps itself are still in the local languages, but that is something I can live with.
Hope this helps.
Device: HTC Touch Diamond 2
Carrier: Softbank
Country / Language: Japan / Japanese & English
OS / Browser / build number (if applicable): WM 6.5 5.2.21898 (21898.5.0.91)

BeeGee_Tokyo said:
Here is what I found and posted on the Google Mobile Help Forum:
Google Maps detects the language for the menues on some weird ways from the settings on your phone.
The Windows Mobile on my phone is "ENGLISH", but the regional settings are "JAPAN".
Out of this information Google Maps decides to show me the menus in Japanese.
Ok, I guess the developers of this software were never moving their a.. out of the office, so they have no idea what it means to live in a country where you cannot understand the language nor read the writing.
According to the Google Employees answers here, there is no solution for this problem.
Well here is a workaround (at least for me it works). Its a little bit tricky and I give no guarantee that it works for everybody:
Of course the maps itself are still in the local languages, but that is something I can live with.
Hope this helps.
Device: HTC Touch Diamond 2
Carrier: Softbank
Country / Language: Japan / Japanese & English
OS / Browser / build number (if applicable): WM 6.5 5.2.21898 (21898.5.0.91)
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I don't care about the menu, I just want the map to display English only, anyway to do it? Thanks

Hi, I just like to share what i did to solve the problem of language on mobile google maps.
1. Change the setting of "set location service option" to off and unmark the "htc location service" checkbox.
2.Set region to English.
3.Restart the phone.
4.download google maps software.
5. Turn on back the "set location service option" and mark htc location service" checkbox.
6.Install the google maps.
7. Run the application.
So far it work well. I,m in Germany but using english on google maps.
tchuss.

good luck!

HTCMail - now available for European Kaiser owners!!!

Saw that someone had posted about HTCMail being available to French users, but it seems to be available "in Europe" generally (German, English, Spanish, French, Italian - NOT Czech, Dutch or Russian yet)
Go to http://www.europe.htc.com/, select your language from the top right of the page (if not English), then click on the HTCMail tab. You can then register; the first stage of this is an IMEI check to ensure that you're using a Kaiser/TyTn II/etc.., then you can go on to choose "[email protected]".
The first two months are free, after which time it will automatically terminate your account if you don't sign up for a paid account (starting from €14.99 a month)....only ***** is that you can't download a copy of Outlook 2007 unless you pay some money.....
Still, it's gotta be worth a look for a freebie (lovin' the OWA2007 interface )
Oh, and you may want to backup your existing Exchange ActiveSync settings and associated mailbox on your Kaiser; the sign-up process downloads an HTC app that you install to your device that configures the Exchange ActiveSync/Direct Push....AND DELETES ANYTHING YOU ALREADY HAVE!!!
Like I said, it's worth a look...hell, what's another email account when you've got 9 already
Cheers,
Mark.

[Q] APK and settings translation

Hi guys,
as I am Lithuanian and i need my national input, I have to choose Lithuanian as overall phone language. But since most of the roms' additional settings and some apks are written only in English, the whole interface doesn't look that nice (with mixed languages). So I'm wondering, maybe there is a way to translate the English settings and apks to my national language? Or at least the names? There is that xdaAutoTool, but is it really the simpliest way just to change the word?

Simplest for translation and renaming apk is tool named "APK Edit v0.4e" but this application is abandoned and don't work on every apk.

Ackuna app translator

If you are looking for an easy way to translate your app's text, try Ackuna.com. You just upload your native files, and you can either choose a free crowdsourced translation, or if you absolutely need it perfect, you can choose the 'professional' option (which costs money). But the free option works great. When the translations are finished, you just download your files, and they're completely formatted in the new language.

getlocalization.com this one you are talking about, bcoz i sign up on this site with free account & uploaded string file & then i downloaded to pc but its still in same language & didn't translate into desired language?

[Project Idea/Suggestions] In-App Automatic Translate (a.k.a. google trans+chrome)

I have no idea if the project is feasible, and ideas/suggestions are welcome!
Project Idea -
What I want to do is translate all in-app text from one predefined language to another at runtime.
Say for example an app is in German (Not necessarily just the strings from *.xml, even text generated at runtime).
A user predefines the package name, and the required language conversion (say German to English).
Then whenever the user uses the required app, all the string, ANYWHERE in the app, are replaced by their translated equivalents.
Something similar to the way google translate works in chrome (minus the auto-detect page language part)
Project Implementation Proposal -
[*]Get all text drawn on the screen by hooking
TextView.class, "setText"
TextView.class, "setHint"
"android.view.GLES20Canvas", "drawText", etc.
[*] Use an online translation service (preferably Microsoft Translator as its free) to translate all the strings.
Note - Cache these translations offline since they will likely be needed often.
[*] Use beforeHookedMethod to replace any such String methodHookParam
Note - I understand that using any such online translation service will result in significant delay.
but if the delay is of an acceptable level, I would consider this project a life-saver. Perhaps caching the translations should suffice?
Any ideas, suggestions, criticism welcome!
I am new in developing for Xposed, but not new to development in general.

I have finished the module, and uploaded it here - http://forum.xda-developers.com/xposed/modules/xposed-alltrans-completely-translate-t3539878/page1
Translate any app, from any language to another.