# Sending application to phones

**URL:** <https://forum.dimagi.com/t/sending-application-to-phones/591>\
**Category:** Users\
**Created:** [July 4, 2011, 8:02am UTC](https://forum.dimagi.com/t/sending-application-to-phones/591 "2011-07-04T08:02:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![Marije\_Geldof](https://dimagi.b-cdn.net/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/13edae/32.png) [@Marije\_Geldof](https://forum.dimagi.com/u/Marije_Geldof)\
**Post date:** [July 4, 2011, 8:02am UTC](https://forum.dimagi.com/t/sending-application-to-phones/591/1 "2011-07-04T08:02:15Z")

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Hi,

Last week I was demonstrating some users of my CommCare application  
here in Malawi, how, when I send an updated version of the application  
to their phones through CommCare HQ, they can download this onto their  
phone and restore their user data from the server. As a result of this  
I have two questions that I hope someone might be able to help me with

1. The users I work with use the Chichewa, rather than the English  
version of the application. However, when I send the application to  
their phones, it downloads by default in the English version, which  
requires someone logging in as admin to change the language to  
Chichewa. I was therefore wondering whether there is a way that I can  
either send the application to download on their phones in Chichewa,  
or otherwise for users (rather than admin users) to be able to change  
the main language of the application themselves?

2. The phone automatically offers to download the file into the Games  
folder, is there any way to select the destination of where the file  
goes and have it downloaded onto the memory card instead?

Thanks!

Marije Geldof

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**Author:** ![Amelia\_Sagoff1](https://dimagi.b-cdn.net/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/ecd19e/32.png) [@Amelia\_Sagoff1](https://forum.dimagi.com/u/Amelia_Sagoff1)\
**Post date:** [July 4, 2011, 3:18pm UTC](https://forum.dimagi.com/t/sending-application-to-phones/591/2 "2011-07-04T15:18:19Z")

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Hi Marije,

1. In CommCareHQ, when you click on the name of the application, you should  
see a screen which lists "Supported Languages". The first language in this  
list is the default language of the application. It's currently set to  
English, which is why your app downloads by default to English. You can  
alter this by reordering the list of languages so that Chichewa is on top.

2. Unfortunately, there's no way to change where the application downloads.  
Most phones allow you to copy an application from one location to another  
(try hitting the "options" softkey when the app is highlighted), so you can  
copy it from games to the memory card that way. Just in case you're  
interested, though, we've been getting a lot of good feedback about keeping  
the application on the phone's local memory rather than the memory card --  
it's much less likely that the application becomes corrupted, or that a CHW  
will accidentally delete it.

Hope this helps!  
Amelia

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>
> On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 1:32 PM, Marije Geldof wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Last week I was demonstrating some users of my CommCare application  
> > here in Malawi, how, when I send an updated version of the application  
> > to their phones through CommCare HQ, they can download this onto their  
> > phone and restore their user data from the server. As a result of this  
> > I have two questions that I hope someone might be able to help me with
> > 
> > 1. The users I work with use the Chichewa, rather than the English  
> > version of the application. However, when I send the application to  
> > their phones, it downloads by default in the English version, which  
> > requires someone logging in as admin to change the language to  
> > Chichewa. I was therefore wondering whether there is a way that I can  
> > either send the application to download on their phones in Chichewa,  
> > or otherwise for users (rather than admin users) to be able to change  
> > the main language of the application themselves?
> > 
> > 2. The phone automatically offers to download the file into the Games  
> > folder, is there any way to select the destination of where the file  
> > goes and have it downloaded onto the memory card instead?
> > 
> > Thanks!
> > 
> > Marije Geldof