First impressions

[Ifanafi]

Gemini and add-on received (day late because of US Customs). No problem with that.

Surprised to see the device display GERMAN text instead of English.

What now?

Configuration made difficult by having to translate every thing....

Why am I not surprised by this cock-up.

[Yev]

Tried that, it literally only drops them as far as the edge of the current home screen, it won't let me drag them to new ones.

Ok, drag it just off the end of the last homescreen. A new one will pop up. I will see if I can get a screen cast showing how to do it.

Nope. It's as if the homescreen is locked somehow. I can drag it right to the edge of the screen so far that half the icon is off the side, but it does nothing, just snaps back the moment I get past the edge.

I struggled for ages with this too until I hit upon it by accident. The secret is not to drag the icon to the edge of the screen. Instead, drag it to between the first screen and the permanent vertical bar that shows the telephone icon - in the vertical area which I've marked with a yellow X in the attached screenshot. Then it moved the icon to the second screen, for me. Does that work for you?

[Yev]

Gemini and add-on received (day late because of US Customs). No problem with that.

Surprised to see the device display GERMAN text instead of English.

What now?

Configuration made difficult by having to translate every thing....

Why am I not surprised by this cock-up.

I got that too. Just tap on the language and select English instead.

[Ifanafi]

Done. Got English (Austria).
That's ok for slogging through setup.

BTW, Shift @ generates " (quotation mark).
Pecking around looking for the @ symbol.

Found. Done.

Applying various culled and noted to-do's, don'ts, recommended tweaks.

Cheers.

P.S. Gemini is AMAZING. Soon this little bugger will replace my un-luggable, aged laptop for 90% of daily use.

Gemini and add-on received (day late because of US Customs). No problem with that.

Surprised to see the device display GERMAN text instead of English.

What now?

Configuration made difficult by having to translate every thing....

Why am I not surprised by this cock-up.

I got that too. Just tap on the language and select English instead.

[gymbo]

Tried that, it literally only drops them as far as the edge of the current home screen, it won't let me drag them to new ones.

Ok, drag it just off the end of the last homescreen. A new one will pop up. I will see if I can get a screen cast showing how to do it.

Nope. It's as if the homescreen is locked somehow. I can drag it right to the edge of the screen so far that half the icon is off the side, but it does nothing, just snaps back the moment I get past the edge.

I struggled for ages with this too until I hit upon it by accident. The secret is not to drag the icon to the edge of the screen. Instead, drag it to between the first screen and the permanent vertical bar that shows the telephone icon - in the vertical area which I've marked with a yellow X in the attached screenshot. Then it moved the icon to the second screen, for me. Does that work for you?

Thanks, was having the same problem...

(I actually "solved" it by force rotating with the Planet icon in the app bar, so I believe it's an issue with the phone being landscape-oriented... But that could be tiresome to do all the time.)