Update of my Hantek DSO1102B left it with chinese menus - Page 1
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author: MrZANE
author_rank: Newbie
timestamp: April 09, 2013, 07:48:27 am
content: Hi.Anyone else who has tried the last firmware update (dso1kb_2.01.1_DSO1102B(130129.0).up) from Hantek for their DSO1xx2B?Mine changed to chinese and I can't find the right key combination to change it back (if it's even possible since I think I've tried most keys in the utility menu.Is there someone out there who could help me with what keys to press to change the language back to english, please?Or if there is someone who could post a reasonably new firmware that garanteed supports english?Any help would be much appreciated.Kind regardsJimmy

author: EV
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: April 09, 2013, 08:21:27 am
content: I don't know you model, but with DSO5102B it goes like this. Press utility button, the F6 to get page 2/3 and then F2 button to get English.

author: MrZANE
author_rank: Newbie
timestamp: April 22, 2013, 06:57:58 am
content: HiAnd thanks for your tip, but it seems there are some differneces between theses two models.First of there are only F1-F5 on these units and ingnoring that and going to page two with F5 the F2 Key still doesn't change the language, it goes to a sub menu.But thanks anyway for your time.Anybody else with other tips?TIA/Jimmy

author: tinhead
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 22, 2013, 07:05:19 am
content: the update contains for sure the english language.I don't remember the menu steps, but you can use this tool :http://peter.dreisiebner.at/dso-usb-tool/to either copy (if missing on your DSO) the English.la (attached, unzip it first) to /OurLanguages/ directoryand/or delete the Tridchn.lan and Chinese.lan from that directory.The you should as well delete the setting file (not sure if default setup will do it as well),simply do on the shell tab of the tool aboverm /param/sav/r*and then power cycle your handheld. It should then boot to the only existing language (English)To copy files you can use either the Read/Write tab (but sometimes it does not work, especialy with org drivers)or copy the stuff you wish to have on your DSO to flash drive and do manual copy in shell tab.The flash drive will be monted into /mnt/udisk/To chec the existence of these two language files above do in shell tabls /OurLanguages/to remove these two as well in shell tabrm /OurLanguages/Tridchn.lanrm /OurLanguages/Chinese.lanAfter copying what so ever to DSO you should once run as well from the shell tabsynccommand to ensure that cache has been flushed and content writen to NAND.

author: MrZANE
author_rank: Newbie
timestamp: April 22, 2013, 07:55:39 am
content: Hi tinheadThanks for the links to the nice tools.Using a variant (Renamed the Chinese.lan and Tridchn.lan files and then restarting) and of your suggestions did the trick.I'm very grateful for your help.Did you by the way have some more tricks for hacking (Licenses etc.) this scope maybe you could pm me some info?Once again thanksJimmyPs. If anyone else happens to have the same problem the menu for changing language is under Utilities, page 2(F5 to get to correct page), F2 (To get into system) and F2 again to change language (in other words almost like EV wrote)

author: tinhead
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 22, 2013, 08:20:54 am
content: Quote from: MrZANE on April 22, 2013, 07:55:39 amthese handhelds are based on the same architecture as on benchtop models, so in principle almost all hacks from herehttps://www.eevblog.com/forum/testgear/hantek-tekway-dso-hack-get-200mhz-bw-for-free/are working on handhelds as well (LAN, 2Mpoint, Video option, Bandwidth increase, etc.)Sure, handheld have different board and display, and there are some additions (DMM, dmm interface to DSO, power supply),but the "core" DSO is the same.