Bought Samsung Galaxy II in China, need to change alerts, etc. to English I just bought my phone here in China and have changed the language settings to English.  I get all my alerts, error messages, ets. in Chinese characters.  Wish I could read them, but since I can't, how do I make my phone communicate to me in English?  I am a total Android newbie having dumped my iPhone and it's lackluster battery for this phone.  As soon as I tweak it a bit, I'll be thrilled.
By the way, pretend I am in kindergarten when explaining what to do, otherwise I'll have to ask my son to help and I really don't want to give him more tech power over me than he already has.  

Thanks in advance for the help!
You could get a US/UK Firmware from samfirmwarec.com and flash it with heimdall / odin. But you will lose your warranty and I can not guarantee that it will work (it could even leave your phone in an unusable state).
Flashing can be done with three easy steps:


get your phone in download mode
connect it with usb
configure heimdall/odin and start the process 


There are some other things that you need to be aware off, but everything is documented in the links I included. Maybe you son will also help you. :)