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American iPhone - English firmware?

sk8mash

sk8mash

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Dec 1, 2007
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Im buying an original iPhone of eBay, and there is an American one selling. I don't want the number being displayed all weird and American like. If I restored it in England with my iTunes, would it put on the English firmware with correct phone number display?

thanks
 
I don't know what this "English" firmware you're talking about is. Apple doesn't make a version specific to England.
 
the formatting of phone numbers and everything else can be changed in settings
all firmwares for the iphone are the same
 
Van Wildonher said:
Wow, English numbers are different than American ones? :eek:
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We all use the same digits, just that different parts of the world format dates, times, currency, etc differently.

Example:

In England they format time like this- 12.34 PM
whereas in the US we format it like this- 12:34 PM
 
Strange. I always thought the number 5 in England was the same as the number 5 in the US. Maybe 5 is really 6?
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ok i see what he means now (but there are some very stupid people on this forum)

this is the sort of thing i thought he meant:
apple US support: 1-800-275-2273
apple UK support: 08708760753

Example:

In England they format time like this- 12.34 PM
whereas in the US we format it like this- 12:34 PM
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apple thing english people have the time like this: 12.34 or 00.34 as the iphone only allows 24 hour clock when set to UK
 
philgilder said:
ok i see what he means now (but there are some very stupid people on this forum)

this is the sort of thing i thought he meant:
apple US support: 1-800-275-2273
apple UK support: 08708760753


apple thing english people have the time like this: 12.34 or 00.34 as the iphone only allows 24 hour clock when set to UK
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I can't believe people didn't realize that the above example is what I was trying to explain. I guess some people can be dense at times. Thank you, philgilder for having common sense.

Anyway, I can't remember seeing an option to change the number format. Are you sure I would be able to change this if I bought an American phone?
 
sk8mash said:
I can't believe people didn't realize that the above example is what I was trying to explain. I guess some people can be dense at times. Thank you, philgilder for having common sense.

Anyway, I can't remember seeing an option to change the number format. Are you sure I would be able to change this if I bought an American phone?
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yes, it will be fine
go into settings > general > international, and there you can change it
 
Perhaps you should have used more "common sense" when you were typing your post.

Are you talking about the date/time format? (you didn't say this) Or the phone number format? (which you did say BUT I don't see how it would be different)


Interstella5555 said:
Amazingly, people speak languages other than English outside the US as well.
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Really? Man, are you a teacher or something?
 
Van Wildonher said:
Perhaps you should have used more "common sense" when you were typing your post.

Are you talking about the date/time format? (you didn't say this) Or the phone number format? (which you did say BUT I don't see how it would be different)
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You have really never seen the difference between english and american phone number format?!
 
further to my earlier post, this is an American number:
(303) 555-1212

and a uk one:
(01234) 312507

these numbers may be real, i have no idea if they are
 
I have seen UK numbers before, but I have never called one so I didn't really pay any attention to it.

So basically you don't want the number you are entering to have dashes and parenthesis?
 
philgilder said:
further to my earlier post, this is an American number:
(303) 555-1212

and a uk one:
(01234) 312507

these numbers may be real, i have no idea if they are
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The iphone doesn't really handle uk numbers properly, but then that's not surprising as it doesn't have the number format database in it only a set of generic rules. It assumes one format and sticks to it. I imagine that's similar for different countries.

To quote wikipedia.. here's a list of example formats

(020) xxxx xxxx London
(029) xxxx xxxx Cardiff
(0113) xxx xxxx Leeds
(0131) xxx xxxx Edinburgh
(01382) xxxxxx Dundee
(01386) xxxxxx Evesham
(015396) xxxxx Sedbergh
(016977) xxxx Brampton
 
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