So yesterday my phone kept setting itself to Central time, a full two hours behind my time. I would set it back manually, and within 30 seconds of my re-checking the box to allow the network to set the time, it would roll back by two hours.
After spending most of the day wondering why this only started now (after having the Magic for over a week), I realised that I had turned on wireless Location the previous evening.
Sure enough, once I turned it back off, my time zone corrected itself. Anyone have any idea why the Location service would cause this kind of behaviour? Are individual cell towers sending bogus time information independently of the whole network?
I'm running the Rogers version of the 1.4 Hero ROM.
(Xposted from Hofo)
Since earlier this week (Tuesday or so) my Rogers Samsung Galaxy S Captivate has started to believe it's in the Pacific time zone instead of the Mountain time zone. I live in Edmonton, AB. I'm running Gingerbread 2.3.3 and I've rooted the phone using the reboot loop kernel method as shown on a thread here.
If I turn off automatic time I can select Mountain time manually to get the right time displayed on my device. I figured it was some sort of DST related thing but it's not - the phone still selects Pacific and is still an hour behind the correct time even though DST has now ended.
I've noticed the phone doesn't pop up "auto update of time and date" on top of everything when it's connecting to the network (say, turning flight mode off) like it did on Froyo (2.2) so I wonder if that's related. The really weird part is it flashes Mountain time for a second then goes back to Pacific while coming out of airplane mode.
Ideas, anyone? This is really frustrating. I'd rather not have to maintain the clock on my phone for no particular reason.
nice to see a fellow edmontonian here, but i would think your first bet would be to call rogers and see if there is anything up on their end. as the auto-update of time is "network provided". and i had not been having that issue when i was on that crappy rogers gingerbread.
I have an unlock Samsung Galaxy Relay with Android 4.0.4.
With the options of keeping date and time zone synchronized with the network, I was getting the wrong time (GMT 00:00 insted of my actual GMT -03:00). So I decide to disable the automatic syncrhonization and set the time zone fixed.
But every time I power off my phone an restart it, this settings are automatically reset (date and time zone syncrhonized with the network activated) and my time wrong once again.
Is there any way to fix this?
By the way, I don't have in the stock rom any option to synchronize with an NTP time server .
I have the same issue on my Xperia Arc S but with my data setting set to "2G only". It always comes back to "WCDMA (prefered)/2G" when I restart the phone, since the update to ICS 4.0.4.
So unless that is coincidence, I think it's a problem of Android 4.0.4.
Just recently purchased a Shield K1, and the first thing I did was update to 7.0, everything is working great except for the time function. I travel alot for work, between time zones, and whenever I go from Eastern to Central time zone, the time on the tablet does not update automatically. I have the date and time settings set to Auto Update, and my time zone is set to Eastern time zone. I've tried restarting the tablet and also tried connecting to different networks, but the time won't update. Any help would be appreciated!
I have a G7 Power international version running on Consumer Cellular (AT&T). For the past month, once a week or so the clock will be off by several hours (4 or 5). At 10:15 PM last night (US EST), it showed 3:15 AM (which was Greenwich Mean Time). When this has occurred, rebooting the device has restored the correct time. All my phone settings are set to use automatic date and time. Is there any way to determine if this is a device or a network issue? Thanks.
I guess is a network issue. You should try setting off the automatic time zone and setting the correct time for your zone. Sorry if I don't write correct in English
You probably need to change cell phone towers or apns settings. I *228 for verizon
cgrimm9 said:
You probably need to change cell phone towers or apns settings. I *228 for verizon
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I'm on Consumer Cellular (AT&T), and the only apn I have is the one they supplied.
The only thing I can think of is restarting the phone or putting it on airplane mode for a while and back
cgrimm9 said:
The only thing I can think of is restarting the phone or putting it on airplane mode for a while and back
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
When it occurs, a restart does in fact cause it to go back to the correct time. My question is why this is happening in the first place. Thanks.
If restarting the phone I did not reread the first post on the second reply at first I thought there was a number to call to change cell phone towers but at and t don't have that option restarting the phone does change cell phone towers. If you want to verify its a network issue of the time changes again turn on airplane mode for 5 min turn it back on and the time re adjust then I would lean towards you r network
cgrimm9 said:
If restarting the phone I did not reread the first post on the second reply at first I thought there was a number to call to change cell phone towers but at and t don't have that option restarting the phone does change cell phone towers. If you want to verify its a network issue of the time changes again turn on airplane mode for 5 min turn it back on and the time re adjust then I would lean towards you r network
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Consumer Cellular said that it doesn't appear to be the network; no other users on the same network have reported an issue. They suggested a factory reset. My device received a security patch back in December, so I wonder if that's the culprit. The issue hasn't recurred in a few days, so I'll hold off for now but will likely reset if it happens again, but I'll try the airplane mode first. Thanks.
cgrimm9 said:
If restarting the phone I did not reread the first post on the second reply at first I thought there was a number to call to change cell phone towers but at and t don't have that option restarting the phone does change cell phone towers. If you want to verify its a network issue of the time changes again turn on airplane mode for 5 min turn it back on and the time re adjust then I would lean towards you r network
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
It happened again yesterday. Turning on airplane mode, then turning it back off (after a few seconds) caused the time to revert back to the correct time zone. Does that mean that (a) it is in fact a network and not a device issue, and (b) a factory reset would likely not resolve the problem? What can be done if it's a network problem, particularly since Consumer Cellular indicated that it's not? Thanks.
Update: I got on a chat with Motorola support, and they had a tech support person call me. (That's pretty prompt service for a budget phone.) She said that it could be the security patch and offered to troubleshoot, even if it takes days. She had me clear data for the Clock and Settings apps, then power off/on. She's leaving the ticket open and sending me an email to let her know if the problem recurs in the next few days. We'll see.