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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
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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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.
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.
bigc07 said:
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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Well, as you may or may not know, CM10 has an option to slide your finger on the status bar on the top to change brightness. I enabled that, and initially it worked. I then started using the brightness button in the notification bar, and after like 3 clicks it got stuck on auto mode. Now no matter how many times I click it or go into display and turn off auto, restart, remove the button from the notification bar, etc, the widget stays on auto (it still changes brightness, it just says its on auto) and I can't enable the status bar brightness slide, which I personally favor over the button. Does anybody know how to get rid of the glitch? Would reflashing work?
Thanks,
thejrcrafter
thejrcrafter2 said:
Well, as you may or may not know, CM10 has an option to slide your finger on the status bar on the top to change brightness. I enabled that, and initially it worked. I then started using the brightness button in the notification bar, and after like 3 clicks it got stuck on auto mode. Now no matter how many times I click it or go into display and turn off auto, restart, remove the button from the notification bar, etc, the widget stays on auto (it still changes brightness, it just says its on auto) and I can't enable the status bar brightness slide, which I personally favor over the button. Does anybody know how to get rid of the glitch? Would reflashing work?
Thanks,
thejrcrafter
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I had this same issue on CM9. For some reason once you turn on auto with the notification bar you cannot turn it off with the other setting. The way I fixed it was to use SQLiteEditor (a paid app by root explorer) to manually edit the settings database. Then I went into the setup for the notification bar to remove the option to toggle through auto so it would not happen again. If you don't want to use the paid app, another solution is to wipe data and start over, then immediately go to the notification setting and disable the auto toggle.
leapinlar said:
I had this same issue on CM9. For some reason once you turn on auto with the notification bar you cannot turn it off with the other setting. The way I fixed it was to use SQLiteEditor (a paid app by root explorer) to manually edit the settings database. Then I went into the setup for the notification bar to remove the option to toggle through auto so it would not happen again. If you don't want to use the paid app, another solution is to wipe data and start over, then immediately go to the notification setting and disable the auto toggle.
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Thanks. I already tried removing data for the "Settings Data" App. Should I disable auto toggle first? It also has this error in the homescreen widget (the one with all the system toggles like btooth, wifi, brightness, etc). Also, would any SQLite or other database editor work? Where would the database file be found?
Thanks again!
thejrcrafter2 said:
Thanks. I already tried removing data for the "Settings Data" App. Should I disable auto toggle first? It also has this error in the homescreen widget (the one with all the system toggles like btooth, wifi, brightness, etc). Also, would any SQLite or other database editor work? Where would the database file be found?
Thanks again!
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Yes it is probably a good idea to turn off the toggle first.
Any database editor that works will do. But I don't know of any free ones that have a GUI to make it easy. The free ones are command line apps that are a pain.
The settings database is in /data/data/com.android.providers.settings/databases/settings.db
leapinlar said:
Yes it is probably a good idea to turn off the toggle first.
Any database editor that works will do. But I don't know of any free ones that have a GUI to make it easy. The free ones are command line apps that are a pain.
The settings database is in /data/data/com.android.providers.settings/databases/settings.db
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Had the same problem on my Nook HD running CM10.1 on the hybrid install and this fixed it today. My issue was that I think I clicked "auto" while adjusting on the slider and then the brightness was stuck and the "auto" was not checked nor was it selectable. Flipped the bit from 1 to 0 and now it's working ok. Doing a CWM backup now so I'll have the fix in my gold install.
Had this problem on my Samsung T679. Just fixed it and figured I'd record the steps for my own and other's reference. I'm cheap and like doing things the hard way, so I didn't spring for SQLiteEditor. I found that sqlite3 was already installed on the phone.
Before starting: use cwm to make backup, just in case.
1. Force-stop Settings app.
2. Get /data mounted read-write.
3. Open a shell (recommend via ssh/adb, because we have some typing to do).
4. cd /data/data/com.android.providers.settings/databases
5. rm settings.db-shm settings.db-wal (not sure about this step, but the change didn't seem to stick otherwise.)
6. sqlite3 settings.db
Here is my session, you should get the idea:
Code:
sqlite> .tables
android_metadata bookmarks system
bluetooth_devices secure
sqlite> select * from system
...> where name like "%bright%";
71|status_bar_brightness_control|1
278|screen_brightness_mode|1
605|expanded_brightness_mode|0OV=I=XseparatorX=I=VO1OV=I=XseparatorX=I=VO3OV=I=XseparatorX=I=VO5
607|screen_brightness|30
sqlite> update system
...> set value=0
...> where _id=278;
sqlite> .quit
screen_brightness_mode needs to be changed to 0. Don't forget the semi-colons. Now fire up the Settings app and you should be able to enable the status-bar swipe brightness control. I had to toggle it once before it worked.
What does the "Auto update of time and date" on starting mean?
Please see the attached screenshot of my mobile phone while starting. I just wonder that what the "Auto update of time and date" means?
http://dl-1.va.us.xda-developers.com/3/3/1/3/2/6/9/Auto_update_of_time_and_date.jpg?key=KtgFcVGaSBudmzNAc-E_4w&ts=1431653976
Thank you for any explanation about that in advance.
I'm gonna take a guess in the dark... but I think it means it is auto updating your time and date. lol
You might have Automatic date and time or automatic time zone set in your date and time settings.
If you don't want that, you can deselect and set your own time and date (without it checking online/over your network).
PS
You can also go into your Sounds and Notifications settings and change what notifications you see on your lock screen, etc
Hi,
I use the ACALENDAR app on my Moto G5 Plus and even though the phone is using the new daylight savings time zone the calendar still displays the events in a different time zone...so all my reminders are starting one hour before. The phone Home Time Zone is set to (GMT-2:00) Brasilia (I live in Rio de Janeiro...but there isn't a time zone for Rio). In ACALENDAR I went to advanced setting, then I selected USE HOME TIME ZONE and set Brasilia - Pará (but here it is displayed as GMT-3...even though the actual time is shown correctly).
rawfa said:
Hi,
I use the ACALENDAR app on my Moto G5 Plus and even though the phone is using the new daylight savings time zone the calendar still displays the events in a different time zone...so all my reminders are starting one hour before. The phone Home Time Zone is set to (GMT-2:00) Brasilia (I live in Rio de Janeiro...but there isn't a time zone for Rio). In ACALENDAR I went to advanced setting, then I selected USE HOME TIME ZONE and set Brasilia - Pará (but here it is displayed as GMT-3...even though the actual time is shown correctly).
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Is the time and timezone displayed correctly in Settings -> Date & time?
Are you running stock, or a custom ROM?
It sounds like an issue with the app if you're seeing everything else correctly on your phone.