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I purchased a Sony a6100 from china but unfortunately, it does not have the English language on the Menu. How can I install the language in the camera?
Since you can"t read the screen in Chinese, and the language/date menu only appear on first startup, it seems… this MIGHT help you… 1. Online version. Of your owner manual: is here if you need it. 2. Video of a sony similar to yours being changed from Bahassa Indonesia to English is here3. A different video of a sony also being switched to English,. here Neither is exactly your model, I think the second one is closer, if neither is workable, search for more I saw at least one more. I also found a forum saying sony has stopped putting all languages in phones sold in certain markets to curtail gray-market sales… so that might be a factor. Hopefully not and one of these will help. I found vague reference to possible evasive tactics if the phone lacks english, but no actual fix. Good Luck. If no joy: a good lemonade recipe.. you have a device to help learn Chinese for your next visit.
Nick Liwewe that is Sony’s way of stopping the sales of their equipment on the grey market. You probably have a camera that only has Thai, Hindi and a few select other language only. Those are the languages the camera is locked to. For some cameras hacks like this one work. For some other cameras you could use the Open Memory Teak posted on Github and see if it works for your camera https://github.com/ma1co/OpenMemories-Tw… You could try and use an English user manual and utilize the pictures to access your cameras features. It would be cumbersome but at least you could use it. Does anybody still use Rosetta Stone for language learning? I think I still have a copy of that….;-)
