(I searched before posting, and couldn't find any similar threads.)
Ok. So I was having dinner with my family, and the topic of our birthdates came up. My mum wanted to know on which day of the week my dad was born, so my sister took out her iPhone 3GS to find out. However, it didn't have any option to jump to a specific date.
Cue sniggering and some minor anti-Apple comments from me.
I whipped out my SGS and searched for his birthdate in 1948. "Wednesday!" I said confidently. "Hmm. That's funny. I always thought it was a Friday." came my dad's reply.
By this time my sister was on the internet and looking up Google Calendar. "Dad's right. It was a Friday." she said, holding up her dim, grimy, non-SAmoled screen to our faces and drawing sagely nods from my folks. "So, care to tell us again how great Android is?"
I was red-faced the rest of the evening. And not because of the wine.
The calendar app is also one day off on my mum's birthday in 1952. However it reports an accurate day for myself and my siblings.
I played with the calendar a bit and found that it goes back only to 1st Jan 1902, which starts on a Monday (that is off by two days according to Google calendar). Strangely, the second half of the month is missing, or rather, greyed out and unclickable. Not sure if that accounts for the discrepancies, but I'd bet not, since it eventually gets the later dates right.
Was this introduced in FroYo? Or do you guys still running 2.1 have this too? (I'm on stock DXJPA.)
Any way to replace the default calendar??
Stock JPP everything seems normal, no grey dates and 3rd of January 1902 is Friday
Don't know what to tell you, mate.
Take a look:
Looks right to me. Running stock XWJPA / XEE
Thanks guys. Maybe it's just DXJPA? Anyone else has this problem?
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Mine looks like mstrandbo's calendar, except in French. JPU here.
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Sup guys,
Idk if you have been experiencing the same problem as me, but whenever I receive a txt, the timestamp is always 4 hours before the real time. Is there any way to correct this?
yeah mine has been the same way since about 5 this morning. Im rooted with TwistedZero V5. any help is greatly appreciated.
I have experienced the same problem as of around 7 this morning EST. I am going to try to update again
go post this in general or in the thread for the rom
This used to happen on me (I'm in Canada) before 1.5 released.
Are you using cupcake?
If not, you can turn your time zone to +0, or use "Handcent SMS" from the market.
This has happen to me in the past with Tmo, they said it was because of tower maintenance or something it took them about three months to get it right it sucked the whole freakin time. Hope it doesn't take that long for yall
it is tmo because my friend that has a sidekick id is messing up too
You're all overlooking to real cause. Somebody from the past is clearly trying to contact you.
I'm using the Rogers ROM and I'm having the same issue since sometime late last night. I've set my time zone temporarily to Casablanca (GMT+0) and it makes it slightly better, the times are still kinda wacky but it's closer to normal.
I'm in Alabama btw...Birmingham area.
im in mobile,al and its the same here on jachero 1.64
GenericNode said:
You're all overlooking to real cause. Somebody from the past is clearly trying to contact you.
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This is clearly the right answer.
(ppsssttt, SMS time stamps are handled by the carrier. Dont tell anyone, guys. It's a SUPER big secret.)
And Im still on 1.6. The update was 151mb and was my second one in a month. There is 2 new apps in the launcher, Creatouch(makes patterns when you touch the screen) and TopApps. This last update I had was around 4 weeks ago and was around 70mb.
The setting in my phone now are:
Firmware: 1.6
Baseband 1.1.31
Kernel: 2.6.29-rel semc-androidATsemc 2
Build: R2BA026
Any ideas why I keep getting useless updates that barely make a change, other than adding apps I cant remove?
Cheers, Phil (eagerly awaiting 2.1)
PS, the re-captcha on registration is bloody hard, took me 15-16 goes to beat it, almost gave up
guiness book with topics like these?
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guiness book with topics like these?
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Hehe, nice one
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Sorry, I did a quick browse, but I've not been on the forum since I owned my Wizard(even had to reg a new account). Im guessing its nothing to get excited about then
Cheers anyway!
And sorry for another useless post
Nothing at all.
Just so many people over excited about the update they think anything and everything is an update.
they get excited every time they get a text and their phone beeps thinking its the update.
and before they actually check if it is, they come here and post about it.
so yea, we get quite a lot of these threads, lol
you guys have your pussys jumping.....jesus!!!! i`m tired to see topis like this
New Market is release now...I just got the new UI .... Check it out..
is it? really?
i got one 4 days ago
Not everyone has this yet. It's still on the roll-out.
I don't have it available for my SGS & SGT in the UK.
no new ui for me yet. I hate one of the new changes in this update. The one where they have reduced that time down for refunds from 24 hours .... to 15 minutes!!!!!
I generally only use it when my daughter has been clicking away and bought things she shouldn't have but 15 mins is ludicrious.
go to the market and leave it on the homescreen for 5 minutes, then exit, when you go back into the market the new UI should appear
u can find .apk in previous threads, just browse it. u can manually update it, it works without a hitch (i'm on official JPO).
Oh nice, I just went into Market and yes its new, I am in the UK, it looks quite nice
Same for me... Got the new Market OTA yesterday. Im on JPO!
there is already a thread for this
Anyway to Force the update?
I got it pretty much the day after it was announced, which surprised me. I find it a little laggy though?
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I got it pretty much the day after it was announced, which surprised me. I find it a little laggy though?
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yea it is a little laggy,
over all I think i prefer the old market
I am now stuck with this POS phone and my wife has one to. I purchased this phone because radio shack said there is a shorter waiting list for this one and this one is better than the EVO. I like the display and the slide out keyboard and the evo side to side comparison is like night and day but now the evo is way better than the epic by far. my phone has the mysterious back syndrome when browsing with the keboard open and I am now sick of it. no flash is now causing my browser to crash when a pop up comes on and fully loads. that is new because I used to be able to x out of them a few weeks ago. And every other epic problem it has I found it. Samsung and sprint stuck it to me. everyone waiting for the 2.2 update should just face the fact there is none. Explaine the nexus s with 2.3? I beleive the problem is hardware and nobody is going to waranty a billion phones. I will never buy anything samsung again.
I need to know the easiest way to root my phone and how and what ROM has working gps,bluetooth, and doesnt crash to often (my stock one crashes once a month). I didnt want to go this way but then I cant use the phone as sprint sold it to me either. I was told the same thing everyone else ,within a couple weeks 2.2 would be availible, usb to hdmi adapter cable, flash support .ECT. the 4g speeds i have tested in 2 states only acheived 2 down 1 up . screw sprint and samsung. sprint has the crappiest coverage of all the carriers and I switched because i wanted the evo instead I got this. I am going to waste more of my time and file a BBB case against them for the lies!
wow.. are you serious... your going to complain about the phone and expect somebody to help you? how do you get anywhere in life?
Why don't you start reading?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=770388
If you don't like the phone just switch to an evo.. nobody is holding a gun to your head.
Oh and you posted in the wrong section. reading your thread again.. you must be joking.
Lol epic is a POS. I guess he never owned a Moment.
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Lol epic is a POS. I guess he never owned a Moment.
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He never owned a evo either. The evo is just as much of pos the epic is. They both got there flaws but I choose my epic over my evo
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I do have an evo but don't like the android keyboard, the display sucks but it does have flash player, hdmi out, and got froyo before the epic came out. I could say that sprint friken did a hard reset on my phone yesterday to "fix" the issues I am having with the phone and forgot to tell me that my calender of appointments would be gone so I am venting a little, but when I siighned up for the phone there were lies told to me ,mainly the 2.2 update that everyone is still waiting for. And it only took 3 tries to send this from my epic because it keeps backing out of the browser with the keyboard open, that wouldn't bother you? Other phones have a keyboard calibration menu. Sprint did telll me they are going to send a new phone today so yahoo.
I did read a lot of the link that you posted for me but get confused by the problem people are having just by plugging their phone into their computers. I figured that problem out the first day after a few hours and found out the epic sucks to much power out of the USB and screws you. Now the thbread is 99+ pages of confusion and I was looking for a shortened version of the story with a good rom link . Wow I made this post without backing out of the browser for once.
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Wow I made this post without backing out of the browser for once.
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So basically your clumsy thumbs are hitting the back button or the home button and you are pissed at your phone for that? That is all I am gleaming out of your nonsensical posts. How about you do this:
*Write a list like this of issues you are having with your phone
*Use plain language and drop the emotions
*Explain exactly what happens and what you are doing if anything to cause it
I'm loving the Epic. Not very happy with Sprint over the whole update, but thanks to this site I could care less when their update comes out. Loving the Midnight Rom on the Epic. Would like to check out a few more, but going to do some more reading before I do.
If my thumbs were hitting the back button that would be an easy fix, cut my thumbs off. my phone from day one backs out of even texting by itself even with it 3 feet away from any human at random. This backing out by itself only happens when the keyboard is open and I actually have slide marks on the buttons because after i type something "quick" I have to close, it otherwise at any time the page back button goes haywire. all the way back to the begining. I am not ripping on XDA or any of its members so sorry if I came off that way. I paid for the top of the line sprint phone and use it for work and home and am tired of waiting for stock update to fix these problems. I know XDA and its members are going to be the one that supports this phone because history shows. I got a good deal at new egg on the evo and use that for 1 thing. browsing the internet and when it comes to a flash file, it plays it, my epic boots me out of the browser.
Odin flash to DI18 and then update to DK28...beautiful! I highly suggest the flash so that it is clean before the update. It doesn't like a lot of changes, such as apps and rooting.
Anyone on the DI18 on here able to replicate this? I remember the browser actually being more stable, but that could just be me.... See if the replacement does the same thing, I dont think it will... unless there was a stock browser update on DI18 I dont know about. but if it FCs on keyboard open, and you are on stock, never had flashed anything... try a new one... dont give up, the software is not perfect either way, stock or leaked DK28... and will be until we get source on something... then the Devs will perfect it. Besides, stock is boring... modify!
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If my thumbs were hitting the back button that would be an easy fix, cut my thumbs off.
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Friendly advice: When asking for assistance, please make note of your emotional well-being at the time so you do not come across as a hormone-addled teenage girl auditioning for drama club. Trust me, I have a 17 year old girl; I see this daily and this is exactly the over-reaction I have come to expect from her. i.e., ME: "You have to do your homework before you can get on Facebook.", HER: "MY LIFE IS OVER!!!! I HAVE TO TALK TO MY FRIENDS NOW! I'M DROPPING OUT AND BECOMING A STRIPPER!!!!" ME: "..." HER: "hrmph. FINE!"
If you have a hardware problem, it's covered under manufacturer's warranty and the phone will be replaced. You already stated that you have one on the way so is the drama really necessary?
The GPS on these phones is hinkey even with 2.2. Mine seems to work flawlessly on Quantum but it freezes up after about 20 minutes of walking with cardiotrainer on. Better than 2.1, at least, because it always gets a lock in seconds.
Good thing about Android is that you can actually download other applications that perform the same function for testing. For instance, in regards to your browser problem, there are multiple browsers to download. Personally, I use Dolphin because it was the first one I tried with tabbed browsing and I love it. There are probably better ones out there, but this one suits my needs. Try multiple applications to see if your phone's hardware's the problem or if it's a software issue.
Can you give me your Epic POS (and yours wife too). And buy yourself another an EVO? PM to send you my address...
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looking into why I lost my appointments on my phone I found out that my calender is stuck syncing. so i can wright off my calender ever comming back. It took me 3 months of just waiting for this update to fix the phone and the rest going through sprints tech support and even samsung to get the new phone. they didnt just say here is a new phone to try. I sure am going to root the new one the day I get it.
Anyone getting text messages from the future while on roaming? Is there a solution to fix this little probelm? I'd rather not have to use a 3rd party messaging app. I like the stock one. I'm running SRF 1.1.0.
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What do you mean by "the future" ....
i don't roam alot but im confused by your question...
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iSaint said:
What do you mean by "the future" ....
i don't roam alot but im confused by your question...
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It means that when he gets a text, it says its from a time later in the day. If he gets a text at 2p.m. the phone says he got it at 6 or 7 p.m.Usually only happens while roaming, and its a Samsung mms.apk problem, if you flash the aosp messaging, it doesn't have that problem.
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Even while roaming, I only got a slew of "future" txts when I was out of my hometown...although it was the same time zone :-/
OTOH, I remember when it was New Year's Eve/Day with my old Touch Pro a few years back, and I got txts from 1/1/2013. I rejoiced in telling everyone that the Mayans were wrong and we wouldn't all die in the end times. :-D
respond back to that text from the future and ask the person for the result of the Game 2 Mavs vs Heat game. I would like to make me a few bets if ya know what I mean. ;P
I used to get these on my iphone lol but they would be from YEARS in the future and would be empty. ****ed with me for a bit. Ive never heard of anyone having this issue or even heard of the issue itself before. I just figured the iphone was a piece of **** later on lol
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I have this problem quite often because I'm roaming at work. It happened on my old Hero as well. There are some apps in the market that have seemed to work, though they seemed hacky last I tried, and resigned to just live with it. Just now a search on the market revealed http://market.android.com/details?id=com.mattprecious.smsfix , which looks pretty good. Haven't tried it.
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I have this problem quite often because I'm roaming at work. It happened on my old Hero as well. There are some apps in the market that have seemed to work, though they seemed hacky last I tried, and resigned to just live with it. Just now a search on the market revealed http://market.android.com/details?id=com.mattprecious.smsfix , which looks pretty good. Haven't tried it.
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I was about to post about this before I read the entire thread. I had this same problem from day one with my Epic at work because the signal at my cube for either side isn't that great and I flip between Sprint & roaming on Verizon constantly without using Roam Control to force it to stay on Verizon (which is what I typically do since Verizon's signal strength is a little better comparatively where I sit).
Anyway, I discovered the SMS Time Fix app months ago and have been using it ever since...and it works *almost* flawlessly. I still get the occasional text that somehow slips past the app's resident process, but about 98% of the time it works perfectly and adjusts the timestamp on incoming texts. So I definitely suggest grabbing that and using it for anyone with this problem.
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It means that when he gets a text, it says its from a time later in the day. If he gets a text at 2p.m. the phone says he got it at 6 or 7 p.m.Usually only happens while roaming, and its a Samsung mms.apk problem, if you flash the aosp messaging, it doesn't have that problem.
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Yeah it gets annoying trying follow a conversation when all the texts are out of order. Now if I could get her to text me the winning powerball numbers.
I'll check out the aosp messaging. Thanks for the tip.
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