hello

a friend of mine will give me a 7610. its a thai phone who is probably made in china.
This phone come with thai and chinese menu and T9 for message.
I would like to have at least both french and english T9 and it will be great if I can also get chinese font and/or T9

I go back in france next week and I wonder if I go to a nokia service center and ask them to flash with french FW if it will work or not ? I heard that language might be in a chip that cant be changed.
I also heard that PPM must be changed.
can I break the phone if I try to download FW from another region

If I must keep built in language, how can i get also french for T9 ?
I look at q9tech but its only for chinese input

hope someone know something about that... Thanks...

An authorized Nokia service center can change the set of languages by reflashing the phone. No hardware modifications are required.

I called Nokia France. They said phone might change a bit in some country and they dont know if it will work or not. They say it's better to call service center.
Phone may have a rom for builtin language who is not flashable. Especially chinese who needs more space to put all characters.

Nokia service center say its impossible but in a way who means """we dont know but we do not want to try to avoid trouble if something wrong and anyway, if you do not buy in our shop, go to hell"""

I can ask here but my chinese is not good enough. Anyway they will say "yes its possible". If I ask if I can make coffee with my mobile, they will say yes.

Did somebody buy a phone in asia and change FW and/or language in EU ?

An authorized Nokia service center can change the set of languages by reflashing the phone. No hardware modifications are required.