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My Captivate thinks it's in the wrong time zone

(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.

[Q] One S/Sense 4.0 based ROMS and phone lock-ups?

I've tried a few Sense 4.0 ROMs based on the One S and with each I've had problems where the phone will become unresponsive. I can't unlock it, even though it's not dead (if I plug into my computers, the screen will show the lockscreen, adb works, if the kernel has sweep2wake the buttons light up, etc). I installed catlog a few days ago and when the phone locked up I reviewed the logs and noticed it happening around the time there was lots of WiFi activity (specifically, switching between WiFi and the T-moble data networks).
I next disabled WiFi and the phone was fine for a day; I enabled WiFi, went for a walk, and sure enough had the display freeze up again. It's become so predictable that it's very easy for me to reproduce now; turn on WiFi, leave my office, walk to a nearby building which has a access point on the same WPA2/PSK network (I'm on a university with campus-wide WiFi), spend about two minutes there (the phone network is weak in this building, so it may or may not be able to pick up the T-Mobile network in that building) , leave the building and walk across the campus. Within two to four minutes of leaving the building, the problem occurs.
I don't have the posting history yet to make posts in the dev sections, so I'm want to see here whether others who've had their phone become unresponsive can confirm that they have something similar happening. If so, think back to where you were when you noticed the problem. If you have left the vicinity of a WAP, try retracing your steps with WiFI on and see if it happens. Also, try turning off WiFi and using for a while to see if the problem still occurs or resolves itself.

[Q] Cannot disable mobile data

I am on the Verizon 2gb plan and typically use .5 -> 1.0 Gb per month. This has been for at least 6 months now. My billing cycle starts on the 7th and today when I checked my data usage I had already used about .5 Gb. Upon looking further I found that almost all of this was used by my SiriusXM app. Now, here's the thing, I have used this app for a long time. I only use it at home when I work in the evenings. I am always connected to my WiFi when home. Then I remembered I had noticed one time that I was home and saw at the top the screen the up/down data icon, then "3g", then the WiFi icon. I didn't give it much thought, but given this latest development I've been watching it and notice that it does the same thing on occasion. This is odd for 2 reasons. I have 4g coverage, and it should be off when connected via WiFi. If they are both on how do I know where the data is coming from?
This started after the last update from Verizon (I am not rooted). So I checked with them, but they had no knowledge of this and could only offer a "master reset". I declined. So, I thought in the meantime I would just turn off mobile data to be save. So I pull down from the top and turn it off in the bar at the top. It stays off until the screen times out or I plug in the charger, then it comes back on. I even set up a rule in tasker to turn it off when connected to WiFi, no joy. This is the ONLY tasker rule by the way, it wasn't even on the phone before this.
So, has anybody seen this and can you offer some suggestions?
Thanks,
Jim

If anyone has gotten restricted access changed i know why

So I unlocked my boot loader and went crazy flashing everything from radios to logos to a ported 4.2.2 (thanks topsnake) and all was good untill a few days ago. All of a sudden i would lose data and call reception my bars would go grey with the circle with a line symbol on it. It would then turn back on then off then on, you get the point. Then it would be fine for a while bit start all over again.
So I fxz'd and started from scratch no dice still happening. I go to Verizon and got a new sim still happening. I just about smashed my phone when I tried Google one more time and found an obscure post in the nexus 5 board here at xda. Seems they have had this problem before but it was do to the sim tray or so they thought. One member ran a log cat and tracked down the culprit. It as a widget of all things transparent clock and weather. It seems this widget when updating location information using only GPS location (there is an option to turn off) deactivates your sim card. It's like turning airplane mode on then off over and over until it finishes the update.
I unchecked use GPS for location and no more restricted access changed messages. Hope this helps anyone with this problem there may be other apps out there causing this issue or it may be an issue with kk I don't know. The frequency of the problem is determined by the duration that you have set the app to update. I had it set for every 15 min. So it was driving me nuts. If you see this every few hours you may have it at a greater duration.

Very nice. Port is 4.4.2 lol. You still running it?
Droid Maxx "Developer Edition"
Running Official 4.4.2 found here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2682919

Actually not yet I thought it may have been when I installed your port so I went back to stock. But now that I know what caused it and you ironed all the little bugs I'm going to flash again tomorrow.

Sounds good!
Droid Maxx "Developer Edition"
Running Official 4.4.2 found here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2682919

bigv5150 said:
I unchecked use GPS for location and no more restricted access changed messages. Hope this helps anyone with this problem there may be other apps out there causing this issue or it may be an issue with kk I don't know. The frequency of the problem is determined by the duration that you have set the app to update. I had it set for every 15 min. So it was driving me nuts. If you see this every few hours you may have it at a greater duration.
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I got the same problem today, for the first time on my Droid Maxx. Usually I do not reboot the Maxx for a long time, but due to recent rooting activities, the uptime was not much. And suddenly a few minutes ago, I saw the "Restricted Access Changed" message for the very first time.
I can see there are many users with the same issue on other Motorola phones in India, though. So this appears to be something common for Motorola.
I tried the GPS settings and it did bring the network back. I also tried selecting the other mode (default is Global) and select my service provider from the list, but registration failed. Finally I rebooted the device and the network came back. So, I am right now observing.

Incorrect Time

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
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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
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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
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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
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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.