Android phone - wrong time edit: SOLVED!!!

[glen]

Twice now, my phone has suddenly had the wrong time on it.
One time, I called 611, and they "sent a singal to my phone" and I think I took out the battery, what ever. It fixed it.
Today I called, and they just told me to manual reset it by changing the clock. This defeats teh purpose, however, of having the time synced to the cell towers.

Has anyone else had this problem?
What is causing it?
What is the solution?

 

[Bateluer]

What carrier, what phone? I assume unrooted? Set the time zone on the phone to your local time zone, if its not already.

 

[alent1234]

few times my HTC Inspire said i was in texas when i was really in the north east

 

[rcpratt]

I had this issue when I was in KC a few weeks ago. It correctly moved to central time upon arrival, but sometime in the middle of the night it decided to go back another two hours, causing me to nearly be late to my meeting. It corrected itself an hour or so later.

 

[glen]

What carrier, what phone? I assume unrooted? Set the time zone on the phone to your local time zone, if its not already.

T-mobile
HTC G2
Time is set to Automatic (Use network-provided values)

That is the root of my concern. How can a phone set to use the network to sync the time, be off?

 

[Mopetar]

Has this occurred in the same area in both instances?

One possibility is that a wireless access point that the device is connecting through has an incorrect physical location associated with it and that the device is using location services based on that access point and setting other phone information based on it.

 

[Oyeve]

T-mobile
HTC G2
Time is set to Automatic (Use network-provided values)

That is the root of my concern. How can a phone set to use the network to sync the time, be off?

I had this on my tmo behold 2. I had it rooted and it always thought I was in boston or washington, i forget. I think thats their main tower or some crap like that. Are you rooted or something?

 

[AstroManLuca]

When we switched to standard time a couple weeks ago, my phone acted up by not only setting my clock back an hour as it was supposed to, but also changing my time zone. In practical terms my phone had set its time back TWO hours (making it one hour slow). I was able to work around it by setting it to manual time and picking the proper time zone.

It was fixed when I updated my PRL (preferred roaming list). I suspect it may have just required me to restart my phone. This was a Samsung Epic running Android on Sprint.

 

[glen]

An odd side effect of this is that the date is also incorrect; therefore, when a new txt message arrives, it will appear out of sequence. So, on my phone, the date changed to something like the year 2000. So, all new txt messages, were at the TOP of the screen.

 

[YoungGun21]

I have had weird things like this happen. Normally a restart fixes it. One time I updated my PRL (*228) and I think that fixed it.

 

[glen]

I have had weird things like this happen. Normally a restart fixes it. One time I updated my PRL (*228) and I think that fixed it.

SOLVED!
T-mobile finally figure out the problem.
I am using a 2g sim card, and I need a 3g card because of network changes.
I had no idea what sort of card I had, or even that there were 2g and 3g sim cards. Why didn't they notify me or figure this out the first time?

 

[Bateluer]

I have had weird things like this happen. Normally a restart fixes it. One time I updated my PRL (*228) and I think that fixed it.

GSM networks, AT&T and TMO, don't have PRLs.

 

[vshah]

SOLVED!
T-mobile finally figure out the problem.
I am using a 2g sim card, and I need a 3g card because of network changes.
I had no idea what sort of card I had, or even that there were 2g and 3g sim cards. Why didn't they notify me or figure this out the first time?

afaik there's no such thing as a 2g or a 3g sim card. I've been using the same sim card for at least 8 years on tmobile.

perhaps the new card has newer access points or something stored on it though.