Chinese Language Unreadable on Phone

I purchased my Nokia 6680 from Dubai and now am using it in China. I am not able to read Chinese text in it as they cannot be identified by this phone. Instead I get BOXES in place of Chinese characters. How this problem can be resolved? If anybody has any information pls respond.

That is because the phone bought outside the Chinese speaking region does not include Chinese fonts to display Chinese characters.
You could try asking a Nokia service center in China whether they can put Chinese version of phone software (firmware) on your phone.

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I wanted to buy this phone in HK, and if i had bought it there everything would be great. But they had it sold out, so i tried to buy it in Holland, then Belgium, France but the price was killing ( double the HK's price). Finally i found it in Bulgaria at a reasonable price.
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I want to tell Nokia that they finally did a phone that is working! I have been using Nokia for 10 years, and this is the first one which is really good !
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Regardless of the language of your Nokia Software Updater, the phone is still the same and will always have the same languages.
As others had already said in this thread before you posted, the solution is to go to a Nokia Care Point and have them install a Chinese language pack for you. There may be a charge for this. Also note that you will have to have the language pack re-installed if you have to reset the phone for any reason (including a firmware update).
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I wanted to buy this phone in HK, and if i had bought it there everything would be great. But they had it sold out, so i tried to buy it in Holland, then Belgium, France but the price was killing ( double the HK's price). Finally i found it in Bulgaria at a reasonable price.
Now i am in the middle of a big struggle how to make it read and write simplified chinese. Some friends told me that it is easily done if i go to a 'service' and they FLASH my phone, but as i know that after your phone has been flashed, it is usually ready to be thrown away, i dont really dare to do that, so i thought that there could be a better solution.
E-71 is my phone, and this one is a really masterpiece !
I want to tell Nokia that they finally did a phone that is working! I have been using Nokia for 10 years, and this is the first one which is really good !
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i have change my phone language to english. but the phone shows chinese language in the internet pages and with call details. how to change it. why is this occuring?

If the phone is not unlocked, let's say for example it is locked to another carrier such as at&t, when you put in the Tmobile SIM in, the phone would complain about the SIM.
Does your phone do that? If yes, then the party that sold you the iPhone4S (if you purchased it from another person) may have not done the unlocking properly, and that may explain why Tmobile is insisting on the phone being locked.
If you purchased your iPhone4S new from Apple, did you pick Tmobile, or did you choose unlocked?
If you picked the Tmobile choice, then it should come up ready to use.
If you picked the unlocked choice, then you would need to visit Tmobile to purchase a nano-SIM and usually they should be more than willing to help you, since you're paying for their service.
But as you have indicated, this phone is under AppleCare, so if it doesn't work with a supposedly good Tmobile SIM, the quickest way to fix this is to get a replacement phone. When we troubleshoot we always try the least time consuming methods first.
You may have noticed it, that a good number of unfortunate uses of the iPhone4S have had their wifi become strangely disabled after upgrade to iOS7. Your situation is the reverse, your wifi is useable but not your cellular network.
In the mean time, you can apply for a Google Voice account (see http://www.google.com/voice), and obtain a free North American telephone number. You can then download one of many free Google Talk applications. Set it up, and you will be able to call and receive phone calls using your wifi. This would be just for the transition period before you get a useable phone.
Google voice provides average voice quality calls to and from US & Canada numbers for free for 1 hour per call. You can use this as a temporary work around while you are waiting for your replacement phone.
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I'm based in Manila and just bought a Nokia E72 cellphone here locally in the Philippines. The unit is labeled E72-1.
I needed a cellphone which can display Chinese-language (both Traditional & Simplified Chinese) characters.
Unfortunately, this E72 I bought here only has the English language.
I've read that the Nokia E72 in Hong Kong / Taiwan / Singapore can display both English and Chinese language.
Is it possible to have the Nokia E72 add a Chinese language pack to display Chinese characters? I really need the Chinese display capability since I regularly have contacts who send me important SMS messages with Chinese characters.
If it's not possible to add the Chinese character display capability, I may be forced to let go of this Nokia E72 and perhaps have to order it instead from Hong Kong (or perhaps Taiwan or Singapore) where I presume the Nokia E72 there will have the English + Chinese display capability built-in.
Although not as important as the Chinese-display capability, I would also like if it could have Chinese language input capability installed on this E72. Is this also possible?
Note that I don't need the phone system menus/commands to be displayed in Chinese language (and actually prefer them to be English language). I only need the phone to display/input Chinese characters in the SMS messages.
Please advise so that I can make a decision as soon as possible, whether to let go of this locally-bought E72 with only English language and instead procure a unit from abroad with the Chinese language display (and input) capability.

I'd like to add some more information which may or may not be exactly useful for those who have the same issue as mine:
Adding as much Chinese as possible on the E72 without Chinese language pack:
http://europe.nokia.com/support/product-support/e72/software
Mobile dictionary language packages Translate words into the language of your choice. Add new languages to your pre-installed Mobile dictionary application from Mobile dictionary download page >>Text-to-Speech language packages and voice packages
Let your phone read your messages out loud with Text-to-speech, a tool which allows you to listen to text messages, multimedia messages, and emails. To utilize your Message Reader application download language packages and voice packages at the Text-to-speech page >>
1) Using the above page, one can download Chinese dictionary (Traditional and Simplified Chinese versions available).
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So, it appears that the dictionary app can display Chinese characters (at least Simplified Chinese) after installing, although the SMS messages still display "square boxes" where there are Chinese characters.
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Any Care Point should be able to do this for you.
There may well be a charge for this because the absence of Chinese support on a phone intended for the UK market where Chinese languages are not official languages is not a fault in the phone and therefore has nothing to do with the warranty.
Note that there is the possibility that a language pack installed independently of firmware may well be wiped when you update the firmware. The product code of your phone will not be changed, which means that Nokia Software Updater is going to pull down the original software and language packs for THAT product code when it's time for an update.
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Hi,
I needed the Chinese Language too, personally I understand that for certain combination of the languages is not possible (due to Nokia did not make that specific combination).
However, could I know how I can make a "choice" of choosing which combination of languages? That Nokia already make available?
Actually, I own a N73 and it was installed with Chinese simplify language earlier.
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The phone you bought is most likely a 'grey-import' intended for a market elsewhere than China, and the person who unofficially imported it added the Chinese language pack to make it look legitimate without caring that you would lose that language in any update.
As Farby states, the only legimate way to have it added back is to ask a Nokia service point. For future reference, it is best to check these things when buying phones because this kind of thing becomes more and more common - the big problem is that if you phone genuinely isn't one intended for sale in your country, then the Nokia warranty won't be valid.

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The phone you have was evidently not intended for the Chinese market. Chinese language would have been in it otherwise.
You will have to take your phone to your nearest Nokia Care Point and ask them to install a Chinese language pack. They may charge for this even if your phone is new since there's nothing actually wrong with it. Also note that a reset or a software update will erase the language pack and you'll have to return to the NCP and have it installed again.
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