Dom-D Posted April 23, 2014 Share Posted April 23, 2014 Hi, Recently brought a Samsung Galaxy S4 Mini off Ebay and am having an issue. The phone came with an app on it which was in Chinese/Japanese but the rest of the phone was in English. The phone seems genuine however after a factory reset, whenever I download something off the Play-store, once the item has downloaded a notification will pop up in Chinese/Japanese. I currently don't have a SIM in the phone, could this be the issue or would that not make a difference? Does anyone know how I can fix this? - Attached a picture of the notifications thing - Sorry for quality Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Dave Posted April 24, 2014 Share Posted April 24, 2014 Well, have you tried changing the language of your device by going on to the settings>Language and Input and change the language to English US. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dom-D Posted April 24, 2014 Author Share Posted April 24, 2014 I did that yet the notifications still stayed the same. D: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Dave Posted April 25, 2014 Share Posted April 25, 2014 Well, Do you try changing the country of your gmail account I think your gmail account country has been set to the China, try login into your gmail account and check the country you've selected. :huh: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lurkio Posted April 25, 2014 Share Posted April 25, 2014 I have also just purchased an S4 Mini GT-I9195 from eBay and noticed the same thing. Bizarrely it seems the phone is rooted straight out of the box. There is a Chinese Superuser app installed which is popping up some notifications. Try installing a "check my root" type app and see for yourself. I was planning to root the phone anyway but this seems really odd. Tim Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Dave Posted April 28, 2014 Share Posted April 28, 2014 @Lurkio Didi you say rooted?? Straight out of the box ??? :huh: :o Why you kept it send it back I am sure the device was previously used by some one as company people aren't going to give you rooted device !! I would say returning it would be better It might be a second hand phone. :blink: :wacko: I'll say sue them :angry: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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