HTC 8x with Cortana ?

[Peter McNeill1]

Unlocked 8x from Rogers, Canada, no dice with Cortana. Wonder if Rogers has something in the ROM that prevents it even tho I've set everything to US English.

 

[SharkLaserz]

Unlocked 8x from Rogers, Canada, no dice with Cortana. Wonder if Rogers has something in the ROM that prevents it even tho I've set everything to US English.

Did you manage to set language to US English?

 

[eduardopl]

I have an AT&T branded 8x. Have you tried just changing speech language ?

 

[AnilJassi123]

I have an 8X bought from 3 in the UK, I'm experiencing exactly the same. English US shows up but cannot remove English UK, all steps were followed correctly but still no Cortana, the only thing I haven't tried is the hard reset but I'm not going to bother.

 

[AnilJassi123]

BTW: the HTC app with the giant clock on my phone doesn't work if you enable background images. Does 8X behave like that as well?

Do you mean this? (Top left corner)

 

[Victoroos]

Yeah, but you'll probably need to update the HTC hub...which most can't now :S

 

[Laurentiu Paun]

anyway to flash a non-carrier version of win8 to an 8x, but with English (United States) inside?

 

[Victoroos]

I don't know whether you can flash to an HTC device...

 

[sinawins]

my htc 8x and my setting

 

[DJRedLine]

UK 8x changed settings to US and no Cortana shows for me either

 

[Victoroos]

my htc 8x and my setting
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Hmm. Is it an USA phone?

 

[tau417]

i have the same problem with clock on 8X , changed everything to US, still no Cortana, i tried hard reset also ..... :'(

 

[ethermite]

I’m also experiencing the same problem with the European (UK) HTC-8x. I'm unable to change the "Phone Language" to English (US) to enable Cortana.

I don't know whether you can flash to an HTC device...

You can but it's not for the faint of heart or the non-tech savvy. The htc8x development section on xda-developers forum 8x by HTC Windows Phone Development - xda-developers is a place to start. As the stock Europe htc-8x rom is available to download I suppose the missing language files could be added from different rom and then flashed to the phone.

Edited due to poor grammar.

 

[henry.gray]

On my windows the remove option for removing English united Kingdom is greyed out.

 

[sgraphics]

So there are three options right now for non-US/European HTC 8X I guess

1. Have someone flash a "stock ROM" on it for you
2. Wait until Cortana comes to Canada or UK (both seem to exist for non-US 8X)
3. Buy a Nokia

 

[Xarok]

I'm from the UK and I have changed my settings to US following Do you want to enable Cortana outside the US? Here's how you do it | Windows Phone Central

I don't have Cortana on my HTC 8X but I think the problem may be that the Store is currently unavailable and as Cortana is/has an "app" we cant install it at the moment because of this.

Maybe?

 

[webreid]

I have the same problem in Canada with my carrier. Changing the Phone Language is the critical step. A friend has an 8X with Rogers and he can change his Phone Language to English (United States) and therefore has Cortana. It's more a carrier issue than an HTC issue.

 

[webreid]

My friend has an 8X on Rogers and he changed his Phone Language to English (United States) and it works.

 

[Alexander Alexandrov1]

The same here with my 8S so not only 8x No Cortana for us.

 

[Radecho007]

My friend has an 8X on Rogers and he changed his Phone Language to English (United States) and it works.

Hmm I have a Rogers 8x unlocked using on Bell and I cannot change ny phone language...