netherlands english on my HTC desire

[Guest memoreks]

Hi all,

Here's a head scratcher for all of you to mull over. Recently whilst on holiday in the Netherlands I decided my Legend wasn't man enough, so I treated myself to a new sim-free HTC desire from one of the mobile shops in Amsterdam. In the language options it has Netherlands (english) so I was happy. However, once home and able to use data once more, I found that this controls more than just the language of the interface. All my Google searches have dutch ads on them, for instance, and now when I install Amazon MP3 it tells me to select UK English instead, and refuses to go Amy further!

So my question is this: how can I get UK English on to my phone as a language option? I'd rather not install a cooked ROM, as my experience of these in the bad old days of WinMo often left me with a somewhat random selection of features put together for the specific cooker who made it.

Many thanks,

Memoreks

[Guest A380]

Have you tried a factory reset with a UK sim in it?

My experience is that my Desire (Android) thinks I'm German because of my German sim card, no other reason.

[Guest wvn]

The answer is so simple, that I fear I must have misunderstood your question.

Home screem -> Menu -> Settings -> Language and keyboard -> Select language, then select "English (United Kingdom)".

Should work.

Wouter

Hi all,

Here's a head scratcher for all of you to mull over. Recently whilst on holiday in the Netherlands I decided my Legend wasn't man enough, so I treated myself to a new sim-free HTC desire from one of the mobile shops in Amsterdam. In the language options it has Netherlands (english) so I was happy. However, once home and able to use data once more, I found that this controls more than just the language of the interface. All my Google searches have dutch ads on them, for instance, and now when I install Amazon MP3 it tells me to select UK English instead, and refuses to go Amy further!

So my question is this: how can I get UK English on to my phone as a language option? I'd rather not install a cooked ROM, as my experience of these in the bad old days of WinMo often left me with a somewhat random selection of features put together for the specific cooker who made it.

Many thanks,

Memoreks