I've a qtek 8500 and live in the EST zone and have the phone set to that time zone. When I travel say to San Jose and enable the automatic update feature everything gets way screwed up. By that I mean it will be hours off, now I can reset the time zone to say Turkey and the phone resets to the correct time but everything in outlook then gets reclocked to a different time reflecting the difference between Athens and here. It's maddening & I know just disable the auto feature which is what I do but I've got this cheapo Sony phone that this never happens to. Any ideas about how to fix this?
thompsd said:
I've a qtek 8500 and live in the EST zone and have the phone set to that time zone. When I travel say to San Jose and enable the automatic update feature everything gets way screwed up. By that I mean it will be hours off, now I can reset the time zone to say Turkey and the phone resets to the
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I think you're describing a "feature" of Windows Mobile - appointments shift to reflect the time in your current timezone. Windows assumes you set appointments in your home timezone for the time they occur at home, and that it should shift them for the current timezone. This is great unless you schedule a meeting for when you're travelling....
example: at home in EDT today you put on your calendar a 10am next Wednesday meeting with your PDT colleagues in SJC. When you fly to SJC on Monday, and the phone sets itself to PDT you'll see the appointment at 7am! Windows thought you meant 10am EDT because you put it in that way.
If the meeting is 10am in PDT, you'll have to put it on your calendar at 1pm - as that's what time it will be in EDT for a 10am PDT meeting. That's pretty confusing when someone calls to confirm - "our meeting is at 10am, right?" and you look on your calendar at see 1pm. The best advice I've seen is to simply put the times in the description - or to never change the device's timezone
For many years I did the latter, just changed the time on the device and kept the appointments from shifting. I've recently given up on that and started doing the "set adjusted time" method....
YMMV of course!
Richard
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Every once in awhile I will create an appointment for a specific time on a specific date. Then, later on I will notice that the start and end times are shifted ahead exactly one hour. For instance, an appointment from 1:00p - 2:00p is shifted to 2:00p to 3:00p.
I am using WM2003, the latest and greatest T-Mobile ROM.
Has anyone seen this issue or have any suggestions on what might be causing this?
Thanks!
-Jason-
Mate, are you sure that this is not related to either day light saving or a different time zone setting?
Yes, I'm sure. Both the PocketPC and my desktop computer are set for the same time zone, and both are set to use Daylight Saving Time.
The problem happens randomly to different appointments. Today I had an appointment set to go from 12 noon to 8pm. For the last week, it showed up correctly on my calendar.
Today it was correct until I happened to notice at about 5pm that the appointment had shifted to 1pm to 9pm.
Another appointment I have for a few weeks from now moved from 9am to 10am.
Very weird.
I have exactly the same problem. I noticed it happens more frequently arond the period of DST change. Very weird and annoying. If anyone could help, this would be great. Thanks
Just wanted to thank Sin and let everyone know how well the upgrade worked. Only quirk seems to be that the cursor control still seems to relate to portrait mode when in landscape mode. Good on ya mate. Awesome
Device auto resets after sin merge update
Quirky issue with hard resets...Device will hard reset occasionally when battery is swapped out...also will hang on occasion then hard reset. No distinct pattern is discernable for the cause..
Any suggestions to cure or lengthen the time span between resets? Is this a common problem users face?
rom vers 2.06.00 WWE
radio vers 1.18.00
protocol vers 1337.38
sin.merged v2.0
model ph10b
Bugs I faced with SIN Merged ROM
I seemed to have some weird issues after the upgrade. My issues are as follows:
1) If I change around with the settings of the phone or PDA like view bigger fonts, change lighting brightness, the device will freeze and require a soft reset to recover.
2) My weekly alarm which runs every monday night at 10pm will also runs automatically at Tuesday morning at 10am. My alarm that runs at 9pm every sunday will run by itself on 9am every Monday as well.
3) XPUSCALER does not work. It freeze the device and causing it to hang on bootup (after softreset). Hence have to Hard Reset the device to recover.
Does anyone face with the same problem as I do? Other than those problem mentioned, the 2003SE provided by SIN works great!!
alarm at wrong time or day
u'll need 2 go into regional settings & set your time zone correctly.
good luck
Double alarm
What I meant to say is that, I set the alarm to right every night at Sunday 10pm and at Monday 9pm.
The alarm rings on every night at Sunday 10pm and Monday 9pm. However on top of that, it also rings at Monday 10am and Tuesday 9am.
Regional settings are ok. So I'm just wondering if anyone facing such thing with reoccurance alarm ...
I switched to CM7 on Wednesday, and now the clock is off by one hour. it thinks eastern time is gmt -4, not gmt -5, and when I manually set it, it switches back.
AceBlade258 said:
I switched to CM7 on Wednesday, and now the clock is off by one hour. it thinks eastern time is gmt -4, not gmt -5, and when I manually set it, it switches back.
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Do you have automatic checked in settings--> Date & Time, that works for me.
Does your GPS work properly?
Yeah, it's checked, and I have a GPS lock when I'm outside. It's kind of an odd issue, but I think I know what the problem is: most clocks are set by GMT and our devices just calculate the time based on time zone (i.e. GMT -5:00 is US Eastern Time). For some reason though, my phone has eastern set to be GMT -4:00...
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Yeah, it's checked, and I have a GPS lock when I'm outside. It's kind of an odd issue, but I think I know what the problem is: most clocks are set by GMT and our devices just calculate the time based on time zone (i.e. GMT -5:00 is US Eastern Time). For some reason though, my phone has eastern set to be GMT -4:00...
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Eastern time currently is -4:00 GMT due to daylight savings time. There is an app that may solve your problem, It syncs with Atomic time. https://market.android.com/details?id=ru.org.amip.ClockSync
I've been having an issue that I thought was due to the ROM I'm running (dastin1015's CM10.1 Wild For The Night - Jun 21) until my dad reported it on his handset (not a smartphone, some Eriksson flip phone thing). The network-based time changes to an hour behind the actual time, with relative frequency.
When I view the clock/alarm settings it shows our timezone (EST) as GMT -4 instead of GMT -5, and also implies the phone thinks I'm not located in this timezone. It will display a "home" time (which is the correct time) as it does if you are traveling outside of your time zone, and display the current network-based time as an hour behind the real time.
Someone on the Sprint community forum mentioned that toggling airplane mode once (on and off again) should temporarily fix the issue. It does, but almost always, the phone will revert to the incorrect time a few minutes later.
Screenshots illustrating the problem:
http://goo.gl/89OJR
http://goo.gl/qSM9r
http://goo.gl/GbvUz
Has anyone else experienced this? If so, were you able to fix it? I use my phone as my alarm clock and I need the time to be accurate.
I have experienced this, but only on the stock unrooted ROM. I have been running Dastin's WFTN for longer than I can remember, and haven't had this problem with it. Sorry, I know that isn't very helpful to finding a solution for you, just thought I would confirm that I have seen the problem before.
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I've been having an issue that I thought was due to the ROM I'm running (dastin1015's CM10.1 Wild For The Night - Jun 21) until my dad reported it on his handset (not a smartphone, some Eriksson flip phone thing). The network-based time changes to an hour behind the actual time, with relative frequency.
When I view the clock/alarm settings it shows our timezone (EST) as GMT -4 instead of GMT -5, and also implies the phone thinks I'm not located in this timezone. It will display a "home" time (which is the correct time) as it does if you are traveling outside of your time zone, and display the current network-based time as an hour behind the real time.
Someone on the Sprint community forum mentioned that toggling airplane mode once (on and off again) should temporarily fix the issue. It does, but almost always, the phone will revert to the incorrect time a few minutes later.
Screenshots illustrating the problem:
http://goo.gl/89OJR
http://goo.gl/qSM9r
http://goo.gl/GbvUz
Has anyone else experienced this? If so, were you able to fix it? I use my phone as my alarm clock and I need the time to be accurate.
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Go to settings-time and date, and disable nework time. That way you can set any time zone you want
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I live in Saskatchewan, Canada, which doesn't do daylight savings time and uses the same timezone (CST) all year.
My phone is set to use network-provided time and timezone, and it's an hour off this morning due to using CDT instead of CST. I changed the phone manually to a different timezone and time, then changed it back to "network-provided" time and timezone, and it flipped to the correct time and timezone.
So it seems like something is wrong with the phone, and not with the network.
I talked to the cell provider support, apparently it's affecting a bunch of Android phones.
If you find a solution to this, please let me know.
I live in Iran and this new year, the stupid parliament decided to discard the daylight time saving. But apparently they haven't make the necessary arrangements with the phone companies and Time Authorities. My galaxy phone is using network-provided time, and it's an hour ahead. I tried changing the time manually but Banking apps and VPN won't work with manual adjusting of time.