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O2 Atom clock losing time! Can't fix??

Hi all,
Really hoping someone knows the fix for this!
For no apparent reason the system clock on my Atom is not keeping time. I've had the device for three or four months and was fine until now. On Saturday morning I woke to find my Atom's clock was 15 minutes behind. Since then, I've been unable to get it to operate to time. I set it and it gradually falls behind again.
I've watched the clock in the settings menu and it appears to stall at random times. The seconds will count (for example)... 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, pause, 34, 35 and so on.
It will do this two or three times each minute, so over an hour I lose about three minutes. That's significant.
I tried a hard reset - didn't work. I updated to the latest ROM and that didn't fix it either. Everything else seems fine.
Because I tried hard resets and ROM upgrades I'm currently running my Atom with no third-party apps until it gets sorted - therefore it can't be anything to do with any program conflicts either.
Hopefully someone has a suggestion on something for me to try. I've only located one other Atom owner who experienced this and hopefully there are more of you out there with fixes!
Cheers.

to my mind, it's hardware problem
service center help you

More likely to be software
I suspect it is more likely to be caused by software ... system timer ticks ...
Have you installed any system type software eg. seems popular installing some anti-theft application that is hidden but keeps running in background even after a soft reset ?
Or some unofficial released ROMs ?
Try hardreset then flashing with official released latest ROM. After that use for awhile without installing additional apps and try to make minimal configurations and see if the clock still skips ... with each additional configuration / software, check to see if clock affected ... this will allow u to narrow down the cause.
If after flashing the clock still pauses then it is most likely hardware.

Tonight G1 (ADP1 with Cupcake) has downloaded and installed many aplications

Hello here,
very strange thing happened tonight:
in the morning I have found that my Android Dev Phone 1 (updated to Android 1.5/Cupcake few days ago) has downloaded and installed at least 20 (rather more) applications! Most ot them were alreday installed on the phone, so they were now either upgraded or - in most cases - just updated = installed once again. Some of them I have just tried long time ago (back in December/January) and then removed them. Tonight they were downloaded and installed once again.
It looks like the phone, for some strange reason, has tried to download and (re)install all applications which were ever installed.
The whole download+insallation process was still ongoing: there were 2 active downloads and also a warning about running out of memory space. I have cancelled these two downloads.
NetCounter says that around 20 MB of data were downloaded in the night.
aTrackDog has lost all info about installed applications: they are (74 pcs) all now marked as freshly installed and their version numbers aren't verified.
Yesterday I did really nothing special: just checked my emails, visited some web pages, and went to bed. The phone was "sleeping" too (I thought).
Any idea what could be the reason for this strange behaviour?

ADDITION: I have found out that OLD versions of those applications were installed tonight, so most of the already installed programs were actually DOWNGRADED tonight!
Now I have 13 applications with "Update available" under "My downloads" in the Market. 8 or 9 of them I had tried several weeks or months ago and then uninstalled. Now I've got these old versions again. Remaining 4 or 5 were downgraded.

vygi said:
ADDITION: I have found out that OLD versions of those applications were installed tonight, so most of the already installed programs were actually DOWNGRADED tonight!
Now I have 13 applications with "Update available" under "My downloads" in the Market. 8 or 9 of them I had tried several weeks or months ago and then uninstalled. Now I've got these old versions again. Remaining 4 or 5 were downgraded.
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Well... out of the 264 apps that I have on my G1 only about 8 said that there was an update available. Everything else works and acts the same. Of those 8 that had an update available Weatherbug was one of them and they added the option to change the text color in the status bar (which is definitly a new feature) thus it was an actual update. So are you suggesting that the 256 apps were instantly downgraded to a earlier version? Could you imagine how much broadband that would require assuming that each one is at LEAST 100kb and could be at the most 6mb in size? Just 100kb x 264 apps =26400kb (26 MB) minimum. I don't think my G1 used that much without my knowledge.
I just think that the majority of your apps had an update.

I'm only suggesting that *MY* (not every, indeed) ADP1 without my knowledge has re-downloaded and re-installed most of the applications I've ever used before. Some of them were installed again (after they were removed long time ago), same downgraded. One of these downgraded applications had the last update on January 15th, so tonight I've got a version which is at least 110 days old!

it has happed to me twice the past couple of nights, it downloads and installs like 20 or 25 apps that i had previously uninstalled like 3 days before. very strange, it didnt happened last night...so i have no clue as to why...i havent seen a reason or solution...
i just rooted and installed jf1.5 last saturday, maybe that had something to do with it

Thank you for the confirmation!
Yes, I also think that this is some strange bug of v1.5.
I use my ADP1 since December and got this problem for the first time yesterday, few days after cupcake upgrade.

What the f$%&#?!....
I went to luch one hour ago and when I came back my ADP1 has already downloaded and installed 10 applications, two installations were failed (because of low memory) and 6 further downloads were ongoing. Again over 20 MB of traffic used without my permission within short time, and again several old applications re-installed and few others downgraded.
It must be a serious bug!!

This has happened to me multiple times in the past few days (only had the G1 about a week), ever since I rooted (though I rooted within a day or two, so that might not mean anything).
I've run JF RC33, plus all the Cupcake builds (Dude, Haykuro, JF..) and I think I've run into this under each of them. Usually shortly after I flash a new one. My theory has been that the Market thinks I still have the apps installed but doesn't see the version info (since the app was wiped) so it downloads an "update." Not certain, though.

On my G1 I have never seen an update from the market get automatically downloaded. I get a notification that updates are available but I have to trigger the update manually. Is there a setting somewhere for this?

Well i runs official 1.5 for ADP and i havnt had the problem (yet) - so i guess its not a bug in official software
//M

that has been happening to me too
i will wake up and my notifications will say that an application has been installed
then it will say updates are available
wierd

m.klinge said:
Well i runs official 1.5 for ADP and i havnt had the problem (yet) - so i guess its not a bug in official software
//M
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I have an official ADP1 with official Cupcake upgrade; no modifications. So it must be sobe bug in the official Android 1.5 build.
Today it happened again, for the 3rd time in 5 days. Again over 30 applications re-installed, 20+ MB of traffic used. Weired!!

I had this happen, but only with 1 app, and only 2 times (once on TheDude's cupcake and once on JF's) and it never happened again...so I dunno.

power settings opens by itself. help!

from the moment i switch my phone on the power settings keeps opening itself. it doesnt occur during any specific task, just randomly and constantly. it wil be open before tf3d loads, and i will have to close it about 6 ties before it stays closed. i dont want to hard reset because i have my phone set up just right except for this nuisance, but i will as a last resort.
has anyone ever experiened this before on any ROM? im ising the latest energy rom.
ay help will be much appreciated
p.s. i had to close it a total of 8 times over 2 occaisions while writing this on my phone, just to guve you an idea of frequency

downesey said:
has anyone ever experiened this before on any ROM? im ising the latest energy rom.
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I am certain it is not the latest EnergyROM. You have the 19 Oct Build which was full of problems including the one you have. Unfortunately NRGZ28 hasn't updated the change logs so it appears that 19 Oct is the latest. In fact there have been two updates, 21 Oct and 25 Oct. Go to his download link and you will find these builds. Both are excellent builds. I am using the 21 Oct build which is just about flawless IMHO
Hint: It often pays to subscribe to a thread related to your specific ROM so that you can receive email news about any problems that are cropping up. The problem you have was being reported almost hourly shortly after the ROM was released on 19 Oct.

downesey said:
from the moment i switch my phone on the power settings keeps opening itself. it doesnt occur during any specific task, just randomly and constantly. it wil be open before tf3d loads, and i will have to close it about 6 ties before it stays closed. i dont want to hard reset because i have my phone set up just right except for this nuisance, but i will as a last resort.
has anyone ever experiened this before on any ROM? im ising the latest energy rom.
ay help will be much appreciated
p.s. i had to close it a total of 8 times over 2 occaisions while writing this on my phone, just to guve you an idea of frequency
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Sounds like your power button itself may be faulty or its constantly pressing down, possibly jammed down. See if you can manually lift it slightly

Fallen Spartan said:
Sounds like your power button itself may be faulty or its constantly pressing down, possibly jammed down. See if you can manually lift it slightly
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His problem is with the power settings (shows battery charge remaining) popping up. If the power button is jammed down, wouldn't that just bring up the shut down screen?
I am a die-hard EnergyROM user, so I am pretty sure he has the bug-ridden 19 Oct build where everyone was complaining about the power settings popping up. I believe NRGZ28 withdrew the build, it was so bad.

abwyatt said:
His problem is with the power settings (shows battery charge remaining) popping up. If the power button is jammed down, wouldn't that just bring up the shut down screen?
I am a die-hard EnergyROM user, so I am pretty sure he has the bug-ridden 19 Oct build where everyone was complaining about the power settings popping up. I believe NRGZ28 withdrew the build, it was so bad.
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I stand corrected then

thank pal, i should stay more up to date i guess, thanks im flashing to the latest ROM now

Modifying Outlook email sync date range

Normally the date syncing range for emails is 3, 5, 7, and 30 days, or ALL and for exchange account it is 1 days, 3 days, 1 week, 2 weeks, 1 month, ALL. Does anyone know a way to make a longer range without using the ALL option, like adding 3, 6, 12 month ranges?
It's really weird that 1 month is the longest range ms put in before ALL. It's kind of like telling a cop that his weapon range consists of handcuffs, steel toed boots, an ASP and a 40mm Bofors gun.

Camera picture time saved

When I take a picture and save to storage card the save time is 5 hours later than when the picture was actually taken. So if taken at 12am it saves to card with time 5am. This doesn't happen if I transfer files to card from pc. I am not sure if this is rom dependent I am using Elegance E-CHT 9.5 but was also there in 8.5. Any thoughts?

Are you by chance in the eastern time zone? If you are sounds like it might be saving them with a timestamp of the GMT time zone, Eastern time is -5 from GMT. Check the time zone settings on your phone.

Well I am in Chicago area so time is -6 here and that is what the phone is set to. Strange issue not sure what is going on.

Pipeman597 said:
Well I am in Chicago area so time is -6 here and that is what the phone is set to. Strange issue not sure what is going on.
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Adjust for Daylight Savings Time and you get -5, so there you are.

So the camera app is using GMT. Is there a setting to change that? It seems odd that it doesn't use local time.

It might be your rom. I'm using the stock TMOUS rom and it saves the time correctly -- I'm in Chicagoland also so, it's not a "location bug"

I just tested this with the Energy June 19th rom , camera saves time to local time, so that problem is not here either ...

Well I looked a little closer and if I enable time stamp it is correct local time on picture but in file manager and file properties it is GMT. Weird issue but not worth loosing sleep over. I am using E-CHT Elegance 9.5 rom.