How can I change the language on the M8?

Hello,

I have my Meizu M8 now but it's in chineese. I cant finde the option where I can change the language to English! Please help me - I dont know so much about the M8...and cant speak cheneese and not so good English...

Sorry, the title must be "How can I change the language" :-(

Hi
Seems like you are german . Ive made a quick help for you .


If you got a newer firmware its a little different , but at least you will know to point which button .

How to make screenshots from the menu?

This is deffinetly worth a sticky in my mind

Originally Posted by honeynut

How to make screenshots from the menu?

http://www.meizume.com/minione-m8/78...ps-tricks.html

Originally Posted by honeynut

How to make screenshots from the menu?

Hold M button and Off button together for two seconds. photo gets saved in camera album

You don't have to hold those two buttons for 2 seconds actually. Just press them both at the same time and that's it.

well thats saves me two seonds

Originally Posted by Rabsi1

well thats saves me two seonds

and also saves you a reset to the original FW.... Be careful about those buttons omn the device, as each button has many uses, pressing the wrong buttons will do something that might not be reversible....

I have an M8 and I cannot use it because I cannot change the language to English using the instructions provided by this forum.
I have got to the part of the settings menu where you can choose between English and Chinese.
I select English and a blue dot appears next to it then nothing happens.
I have tried to turn the phone off and on again in order to save the new setings but everything is still in Chinese. What exactly
does 'reset' mean anyway? And why does the screenshot above show Chinese selected as the language?

Thanks to AlexNesterov it is possible to loacalize about 80% of the language in the OS programs and message boxes. Here are his instructions:

If you want, you can download this archive with cab-installer http://www.filehoster.ru/files/cm9664. It can translate most of the system applications and messages in English.
Just copy the cab to M8 (folder \Disk), run it and then restart the phone.
To check the changes run Windows\control.exe

These mui-files taken from CEnet4.2 and packaged in cab-installer.



I believe that the self extracting cab file must be copied using the Windows Explorer inside the M8, which is all in Chinese of course, and the language must first be set to Chinese in the settings/language menu. Restart and choose English.



I have not done this myself as without an English user manual I cannot work out how to launch programs and copy files within the M8 file system explorer.

The instructions given by honeynut are incorrect and have led me to be tearing my hair out in frustration for the last few days. After selecting English in the settings language options DO NOT restart the phone. Instead hold down the power button for five seconds and then select the middle option in the dialgue box that appears. The screen then goes blank and the Meizu logo appears for a few seconds. Once the animated logo dissapears restart the phone. Here is a thread showing how it should be done properly using screenshots as a guide: HELP! I dont know how to change the language to english


The fact that I had installed the system mui files fro Windows CE may have contributed to my success.

uhm...
i am afraid to ask...
but how DID you restart the M8?
and did you do step 6?