Hello all,

Just got the N900 and think I've messed it up already
Don't really know what I did - spent several hours installing some apps then went to bed. The battery died and when I next turned it on all the language localizations had gone, so things like wdgt_va_24h_time instead of the clock.

I went to copa_ap_cp_name (think this is Settings), cpal_ti_language_and region and tried to change it back to English. However under the cpal_fi_pr_device_language dropdown menu, there are NO options. I tried changing this yesterday and all the languages were there. The options under cpal_fi_pr_your_region are still there, however it changes to Algeria (the first option) after a reboot no matter what I set it to.

I tried apt-get install --reinstall locales in the terminal as recommended on some other forums and it did some installing but didn't help. All languages are still present in /usr/share/locale/ with a folder LC_MESSAGES in each language folder.

On this forum there are Arabic, Bulgarian, Greek etc. language packs. I presume these would add languages to the device. Is there a way to get the English language pack back? I would rather not reflash unless there's a way to keep all the other settings and emails? btw, how do i type things like > and | in the terminal?

Thanks!!