hello all you hackers and chefs!
got a quick question. everytime my brother heads out on the road, his main gripe with the touch pro 2 (official winmo 6.5 rom) is that it automatically changes his time zone as he moves on down the road. he needs to run his log book on east coast time zone only. the phone keeps updating the weather , gps location (obviously) and then the time zone. as long as the "my location" option remains in the clock setting area, this phone will continue to update the weather, gps location (obviously) & time zone. anyone know how to disable this function? In the words of my brother, "if i need to know the weather where i'm at, i'll just stick my damn head out the window of my truck. make this damn phone stop changing time zones!"
somebody please lend me a helping hand!!!??? PLEASE!!
bluevmax92 said:
hello all you hackers and chefs!
got a quick question. everytime my brother heads out on the road, his main gripe with the touch pro 2 (official winmo 6.5 rom) is that it automatically changes his time zone as he moves on down the road. he needs to run his log book on east coast time zone only. the phone keeps updating the weather , gps location (obviously) and then the time zone. as long as the "my location" option remains in the clock setting area, this phone will continue to update the weather, gps location (obviously) & time zone. anyone know how to disable this function? In the words of my brother, "if i need to know the weather where i'm at, i'll just stick my damn head out the window of my truck. make this damn phone stop changing time zones!"
somebody please lend me a helping hand!!!??? PLEASE!!
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Hello,
Did you check in phone/menu/options/time zones ... if it is unticked?
You can also disable the HTC Location services in the settings.
disable time zone for heavy duty trucker
User22 said:
Hello,
Did you check in phone/menu/options/time zones ... if it is unticked?
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not quite sure what you meant.
i have been all thru this phone trying to find the "magical setting" to disable this for him with no luck. he is on a long haul right now and i would love to give him the steps needed to resolve this for him.
to clear up anything for everyone wanting to help..... we have removed all cities except cincinnati, oh. from the weather area. the "my location" stays on; regardless. any other pointers?
You may be able to fix this with a mortscript...
i just found a command line tool to adjust the time zone.
maybe it will work on that phone and do something useful?
its at the mortscript examples...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=5495173#post5495173
go to setting>personal>phone>cdma or gsm services (im on sprint so it says that)>time synchronization>get settings & uncheck time synchronize with mobile network then go to clocks & alarms then set it for the time zone u need
If he is using Manila 2.5, then the easiest way is:
Tap on the clock and tick the city he wants as Home (this will automatically untick "My Location"). If his home town isn't already in the list, just add it by tapping "Add City".
It really is that easy
Keep on truckin' dude!
ok we found it
WE found how to disable it but it does reset if you ever soft reset the phone. thanks for all the help guys...
bluevmax92 said:
WE found how to disable it but it does reset if you ever soft reset the phone. thanks for all the help guys...
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It's a slippery resetter.... does not like to stick!
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Tap on the clock and tick the city he wants as Home (this will automatically untick "My Location"). If his home town isn't already in the list, just add it by tapping "Add City".
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That doesn't stick either! Every reset it will go back to my location - I also did the regedit under hkcu/software/htc/manilia... mylocation and set to 0 - didn't work!
havox22 said:
go to setting>personal>phone>cdma or gsm services (im on sprint so it says that)>time synchronization>get settings & uncheck time synchronize with mobile network then go to clocks & alarms then set it for the time zone u need
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I don't know if it's with all 6.5 roms but in the nrg jun22 21xx rom, gsm services isn't an option anymore.
petard said:
You can also disable the HTC Location services in the settings.
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That also didn't work for this rom - including the option to prevent all apps from using location service.
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My Hero shows wrong time in certain HTC clock and calendar widgets. It detects location correctly but shows the time in GMT, even though Clock app shows current as GMT -4 and Home as the right time.
What the hell?
I'm having a problem that's similar, but different. I have a new Sprint HTC Hero with the stock ROM, and I'm an Android newbie.
My home city is set to Arlington, VA (which is EDT time zone). In the date/time settings, it is set to use network-provided values, which appear correctly as 5:44 PM. In addition, this time is correct on the lock screen.
Then we come to the HTC clock widgets. They correctly show my current location as Arlington, and the weather forecast is even correct. However, the clock the my current location is incorrectly an hour behind, showing 4:44 PM.
If I tap the clock widget, I can confirm that the time at my home location is correct, and my current location is detected correctly, but the current time is an hour behind.
Finally, if I enable the GPS receiver for location, the current time becomes correct briefly, and then returns back to the wrong time. In general, I'd like to keep GPS off most of the time to conserve battery, so my location settings are based on wireless and cell networks.
Thanks for any suggestions..
Yup, mine pretty much does that. This HAS to be a bug in the widget because everywhere else, it displays time correctly.
indovina said:
I'm having a problem that's similar, but different. I have a new Sprint HTC Hero with the stock ROM, and I'm an Android newbie.
My home city is set to Arlington, VA (which is EDT time zone). In the date/time settings, it is set to use network-provided values, which appear correctly as 5:44 PM. In addition, this time is correct on the lock screen.
Then we come to the HTC clock widgets. They correctly show my current location as Arlington, and the weather forecast is even correct. However, the clock the my current location is incorrectly an hour behind, showing 4:44 PM.
If I tap the clock widget, I can confirm that the time at my home location is correct, and my current location is detected correctly, but the current time is an hour behind.
Finally, if I enable the GPS receiver for location, the current time becomes correct briefly, and then returns back to the wrong time. In general, I'd like to keep GPS off most of the time to conserve battery, so my location settings are based on wireless and cell networks.
Thanks for any suggestions..
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I noticed this today too, was in my inlaws house in Arlington VA and the time was off by an hour and showed current location as Arlington. But the time I setup for Herndon VA showed the correct time. But was also weird is that as soon as we got in the car to leave it changed to the correct time. And my location changed to "current" I think it was. So I think there's something with HTC getting Arlington VA confused with Arlington TX and thus the hour difference? Not sure
I was having the same issue, near as I can see it is a glitch with the HTC widget. The time for my home time is shown correct in the top right and on the lock screen, but the HTC widget was always an hour off. The way I got around it is to go into the time settings where it lists "local" and "home", press the menu key, and turn off the automatic network provided values, then reset the time zone to your current time.
Obviously the aggravating part about this is that if you travel to a different time zone you have to manually update the time.
I hope they come out with a fix for it soon!
Same here but it only occurs on the analog clocks.. the sense ui flip clock is fine
EDIT:
After messing around with my new Hero, I found that if you select a clock, the next screen will show you options to select current city or certain cities. Uncheck the "Show City Label" and select "current city"
That's what corrected this problem for me.. hope this does it for everyone else too!
Having this same problem with my phone Sprint HTC Hero. time zone is correct but its a hour off. even though network time in top coner is correct.
derynhaze said:
Same here but it only occurs on the analog clocks.. the sense ui flip clock is fine
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After messing around with my new Hero, I found that if you select a clock, the next screen will show you options to select current city or certain cities. Uncheck the "Show City Label" and select "current city"
That's what corrected this problem for me.. hope this does it for everyone else too!
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Thanks, that corrected the problem for me! BTW, sprint hero.
Same. Looks like it the widget is buggy.
mine also.. wrong time. sprint hero also
derynhaze said:
Same here but it only occurs on the analog clocks.. the sense ui flip clock is fine
EDIT:
After messing around with my new Hero, I found that if you select a clock, the next screen will show you options to select current city or certain cities. Uncheck the "Show City Label" and select "current city"
That's what corrected this problem for me.. hope this does it for everyone else too!
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I cannot find the "show city label" box...
Whosdaman said:
I cannot find the "show city label" box...
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It's only available for some clocks
Not sure if this helps, but HTC has many time zones wrong in it's internal database, I fixed mine:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=747697
Adrian.
hi im new to XDA and my hd2, however my weather location is saying "London" on my home page, I actually live in Warrington which is 200+ miles away , is this something ive done ??
just go into menu and manually add yours and any other location you want.easy......
I have done that, added both st helens and warrington, even gone as far as deleting all the other location's, yet i cant delete London , and it still shows on my "home page"
Do a little search for "disable location" on here, you'll see that it reports wrong current location for many people, who thus disable it.
Heres the thing that you have to do.
First add your location at the weather tab.
then go back to the main menu.
then click on the big clock and switch it to your location.
hope this helped.
Thanks Romeo, Worked a treat,
So I've had this problem with pretty much every T-mobile phone I (and anyone I know) has had while being at college. I am in central time, but am only about 20 miles from the eastern timezone border and T-mobile is always trying to tell me I am in eastern time.
All of my old phones have had a simple setting to turn off automatic updates of the time, allowing me to set it to central time and not have to fool with it. I can't seem to find this setting for the HD2 though. I don't want to turn off HTC's location as that will stop the weather tab from being able to find me, and that isn't really the issue anyway. If anything the GPS should be telling my phone I am in fact in central time.
Does anyone know where to find the setting that stops the phone from updating it's time based on what the network says? If possible, is there any way currently to have the GPS set timezones for us, as that is going to be more accurate than what tower you are getting signal from?
Thanks!
Idk if this will help you, but have you tried tapping on the clock on the home screen and you then can add your custom location or current location ....maybe there are other settings there also ?
Go to settings>menu>all settings> date and time, there you should be able to change the time zone.
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Go to settings>menu>all settings> date and time, there you should be able to change the time zone.
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This works fine but there is no option for Daylight savings time. Must have over looked it. Just select central time and manually change one hour ahead.
partie said:
This works fine but there is no option for Daylight savings time. Must have over looked it. Just select central time and manually change one hour ahead.
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I personally have called T-Mobile about this and even speaking with a Teir 2 I am disappointed. They reset my ports and the time zone correctly updated, then as soon as I left my house and headed downtown it changed. Guess what, as soon as I got back home later it changed back to Pacific.
On the HD2 the option to change the timezone is greyed out indicating that it is updated from the carrier. I have changed the other settings every which way with no avail.
My theory is that the HTC Sense "Weather" app automatically updates the Time and Weather based upon the GeoLocation info. The name of my city is Portland and I suppose it thinks im in Oregon!
I have tried the various clock settings but to no avail. I can click on the flipclock and change the time manually, or even pick my own location rather than using Sense's "My Location" option. This works for a little while, but when the wether updates it's weather data it also changes my location.
I have also gone into the All Settings->Clocks & Alarms and changed the time zone manually which also works temporarily, but again once Weather updates the timezone is changed.
BsB Tweaks has a setting for Auto Sync Clock which is precisely what I need turned off. Oddly enough, there is something outside of BsB that overrides it's setting and turns the Auto Sync Clock setting back on.
It completely boggles my mind what is going on here. In theory the Sense's weather app should not directly affect whether or not the system clock is synced with the network time/timezone data. More so, if Sense decides it must update the clock whenever it finds the weather location/data it should be able to update the clock based on what timezone my GPS location is within.
Maybe there would be a way to add this feature in, though I'm not sure exactly how to go about it as I haven't done any tweaking and hacking on WinMo in years. It would be best for everyone if our clock was synced with the My Location data, as this gives an extremely precise understanding of what timezone I am in.
The automatic timezone settings may be in the phone settings and not the clock settings. Try going into the dialer then select Menu--> Options and click the Timezone tab. Then uncheck the the box to automatically update.
I do not have a T-mobile USA HD2 yet (mine is on order), so this is an assumption as that setting is available on my Diamond. If you don't see a TimeZone tab, it could be that T-mobile is hiding it. In which case there is probably a regedit to re-enable the tab so this can be unchecked.
Hope this helps.
hadn't thought about looking in the phone settings for the clock synchronization, great idea! that may have lead me to the solution, I'll see what happens in the next few hours.
Here is what I did...
Settings-> all settings-> personal-> phone->GSM/UMTS tab-> time synchronization-> get settings> uncheck auto time synchronization
I don't think they could have hidden that simple setting anymore if they tried! hopefully that will do the trick, thanks!
Time Change
My phone was doing the same thing, thanks for the fix. Duhhh, did it again this time i manually added my city and the correct time for it however the tab with current location is still an hour ahead, crazy. Help...
HTC HD2 (Leo) Time Zone Problem (Greyed Out)
Almost - My HTC HD2 (Leo) goes: Settings ->Menu->All Settings->Clocks&Alarms
Then click the 'Time' tab, and there's a dropdown where you can choose your time zone. You'll almost certainly have to set the time dropdown as well (just under the time zone dropdown).
But you're right - they certainly conceal this most primary of settings very thoroughly!
Cheers, Mark
sullitf said:
hadn't thought about looking in the phone settings for the clock synchronization, great idea! that may have lead me to the solution, I'll see what happens in the next few hours.
Here is what I did...
Settings-> all settings-> personal-> phone->GSM/UMTS tab-> time synchronization-> get settings> uncheck auto time synchronization
I don't think they could have hidden that simple setting anymore if they tried! hopefully that will do the trick, thanks!
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Does anyone else have a problem with the factory installed htc weather/home screen clock widget not updating itself? There is an option to click for it to update automatically, but it will not stay checked.
Anyone else have this problem or just me?
Thanks
What is your update interval? Right below the "auto update" is the choice for sync interval.
I really like the Sense weather, but my big problem with it is in my city, it is not available when I search it to 'add'. However, when it knows New Port Richey when I'm in my house. So why can't I add the city otherwise? But I like the interface.
I try to set mine up to update every hour. But once I navigate away from the settings page and go back to it, the check is gone again. It won't stay checked.
I also have the problem, it will know my location, but I can't really add my city. I will put a city or zip, and it will just say city not found. It works for other cities though.
Nevermind, i figured it out. You were right about the sync in account/sync. I was trying to set it up under the actual widget settings, not the phone settings.
Thanks!
Hello,
I'm starting to hate my S7 Edge, and I'm really missing my Edge 6 Plus. Has anyone else had these problems and perhaps have any advice for resolving them? I've searched around and can't find any other reports of these problems.
First, if I'm traveling, *sometimes* I can't use the Google Navigation App if I'm in motion. For example, if I'm driving home, and I decide to get gas, if I say "OK Google, navigate to the Gas Station" It will of course find a close gas station, and allow me to choose which one. After I do so, the app will plot a course, but then will fail to acquire a satellite. The app will just sit there constantly saying "Acquiring Satellite" (or something to that effect, I can't remember the exact error) but it never does find the satellite. The only fix for this is to repeatedly turn off and on the Location services, until eventually it just works. Which is extremely infuriating not to mention dangerous while driving. I rememeber falling in love with my S6 Edge Plus because it had such an easy time navigating and this S7 Edge is so consistently terrible at locating my position.
Second, this is a problem I did not know I had until today: After mis-placing my phone, I went to the Google "Find my phone" web page on my computer, to force my cellphone to ring. I have used this service before with all my other phones and it never failed to force the device to ring. But this time, my S7 did not ring. Luckilly I was able to find my phone on my own. When I did locate it, i noticed that there was an icon in the notification tray saying "Ringing phone" and yet the phone was NOT RINGING! With the phone in hand, I tried to use the webpage to locate my phone by ringing it again. The same thing happened. It put a notification up that my phone was "ringing" in the phone's notification display, but made no actual noise.
I checked the settings - > Lock Screen and Security -> Find my Mobile, and it asks me for my Samsung Account Password.
Why my samsung account? Why not google? I don't understand.
So I signed in, and google location service is set to ON, as expected. Remote controls is also set to ON. There is a notification at the bottom that says to track and control my device, go to: findmymobile.samsung
So I go there, and I tell it to ring my phone, and what do you know? It rings my phone perfectly. Noise and everything.
How do I switch it over to google's service? I really don't like most of Samsung's software offerings, and would prefer to use native google apps out of convenience. I don't remember ever having this problem with any other galaxy device. Not even my tablet does this.
Can anyone help?
I haven't had any GPS problems with mine (U.S. Sprint version). What are your location settings? Make sure it's set to use GPS, and not just network or WiFi.
Find My Mobile and Android 's service are two different things FMM is Samsung's product. To make sure Google's is active, go to Device Administrators and make sure Android Device Manager is turned on. Then go to Apps, scroll to the bottom and tap on Google, then scroll down and tap on Security. Make sure 'Remotely locate this device' (and 'Allow remote lock and erase' if you want that) are turned on.
meyerweb said:
I haven't had any GPS problems with mine (U.S. Sprint version). What are your location settings? Make sure it's set to use GPS, and not just network or WiFi.
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I have GPS, WIFI and Mobile Networks turned on.
meyerweb said:
Find My Mobile and Android 's service are two different things FMM is Samsung's product. To make sure Google's is active, go to Device Administrators and make sure Android Device Manager is turned on. Then go to Apps, scroll to the bottom and tap on Google, then scroll down and tap on Security. Make sure 'Remotely locate this device' (and 'Allow remote lock and erase' if you want that) are turned on.
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-Android Device Manager is turned on in the Device Administrators Section.
-I am not sure how to complete the second instructions. I do not see "Apps" as an option in the Settings panels. Can you advise where to find it?
Thank you!
Kirren said:
-Android Device Manager is turned on in the Device Administrators Section.
-I am not sure how to complete the second instructions. I do not see "Apps" as an option in the Settings panels. Can you advise where to find it?
Thank you!
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Settings / Applications
Scroll to bottom, tap Google (on my Sprint S7 Edge, it's the very last item).
Scroll down until you see "Security" and tap there.
The first two toggles (on mine) are "Remotely locate this device" and "Allow remote unlock and erase."
meyerweb said:
Settings / Applications
Scroll to bottom, tap Google (on my Sprint S7 Edge, it's the very last item).
Scroll down until you see "Security" and tap there.
The first two toggles (on mine) are "Remotely locate this device" and "Allow remote unlock and erase."
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Ah, I was able to find the settings under Google, however both are already checked. Are there any other settings I need to check?
{{Edit: I toggled the setting just to test it, and now it seems to be working. I don't know why this worked, because the setting was already properly configured. But it works now. *shrug* Thank you so very much for your help and patience!}}
Glad to help. I seen lots of things get fixed when you toggle a setting. Something in the settings file got corrupted, and toggling the settings on and off rewrote what should have already been there. At least that's my guess.