Shalim

Can someone help me , on display on my screen GPS on Rx8 its in Japaneese I want it in English can someone help me please....!!!

Teedat

Read the manual?

SPHINX144

haha this reminds me of the episode where Jeremy in topgear is test driving/racing the GT-R in japan and accidentally exits the GPS screen and can't figure out how to get back in.

04RX8man

take japanese lessons? haha should b inthe manual

Shalim

hmmm i stuck in Japanese languages and your are making jokes, My problem is how to set it to English cause all the text for navigating in Chinese, so please friends help me if you can. Also how get get my country map? im in Mauritius?

Chavy

soo is it chinese or japanese?

SPHINX144

there should be someone who speaks the language where you live.

ken-x8

According to the owner's manual, there's a language choice in the menus. Hard to find it if you don't read the current language.

Maybe someone here who has GPS could work their way to the language choice, then tell Shalim how many clicks/turns/whatever of the controls gets to English?

Shalim - the only way to get your country map is to get a version of the CD that has it. If the CD you already have does not, you're stuck buying one from Mazda. And hoping they cover it.

Ken

Conundrum

iTrader: (1)

Or take a shot of the screen so some one who can read the screen but no GPS can help you.

Spinning Sushi

iTrader: (21)

Get someone with GPS and set it on the home screen.
Do the same with yours.

Just do the same thing the other GPS is doing until you get to the right screen.

Eventually, you'll both get to the proper screen and setting.

Shalim

ok guys thanks for taking the time to read and understand me, but one thing I wanna know if someone here has the GPS in his car RX8 Car, I need to know if these setting for changing language have in it or not? Please help me out of this, I don't know if Japanese or Chinese what I know Ive been imported from Japan that why I think its in Japanese , I don't even have any friends who understand this, as I turn ON the Screen it show the Logo Nav system then show the Map with text Japanese even when press the button all menu seem the same text jap, plz plz plz help me friends I would great appreciated !!!

04RX8man

^call mazda.....or go to mazda dealer and tell them to fix it!

Rotary Xperiment

Dude, I have the same problem. I'm afraid there is no way to adjust the language. The JDM version RX-8 (imported from Japan) is for the Japanese market only, so the only language that everything will be in will be Japanese. Even the clock is configured to the GPS and til today I cannot work out how to change it from Japanese time.

As for the local map, as what other members are saying, you need to get a CD with the local maps on it. I haven't tried it, as my Rx-8 is a series 2 and every damn thing is linked to the touch screen, so didnt want to mess with it...

Shalim

Ive just contact the Mazda Dealer from my Country, they tell me they dont have any info nor how to change the language to English im tired with this now, anyway if the language stuck on Japanese the only thing that I will be grateful if I get it is tha Map the DVD Panasonic map only for japan, I need it for south Africa im in Mauritius, As on Garmin I do have it but would be appreciated if anyone can help me find a way so i can use the screen for gps only... plz help.

ken-x8

I think you're stuck with whatever Mazda puts on their DVD. In the "Interior, audio and electronics" forum here there are a number of threads on updating the maps. The only thing that people have come up with is getting the newer disc. Nobody's even raised the topic of stuffing someone else's maps onto a copy of the disc - which is copy protected anyway.

Maybe you can take your problem to the "Interior..." forum and see if any of the folks who have worked with the GPS and the screen can suggest something.

Ken