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rk-Sleep(Location based phone flight mode switcher)

Ok, built a new app phone switcher (flight mode on/off) based on the cell tower location.
System automatically switches the phone OFF based on the time you set when you are at predefined location (Say Home). When you are at home, say from 10:00 PM to morning 6:00 AM no one can call your mobile. But if you are not at home, then phone is ON even at night. This also saves your battery life and privacy too.
It is working on Hermes, and I have tested it on WM5 emulators. Will NOT work on WM2003.
Please check the link to the application under my signature.

I have a question, can it only change to "vibrate" instead of turning off the phone? That would be more appropriate for me. Thanks for your answer

Nice App! How about changing call forwarding (when busy, no answer, etc...) baased on location?
If the phone could forward all calls automatically, or forward when you press "hang up" based on location it would safe battery and reduce radiation using the phone.

szturchen_pl said:
I have a question, can it only change to "vibrate" instead of turning off the phone? That would be more appropriate for me. Thanks for your answer
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Nice Idea!, I will do my homework to find out what it takes to do that

ahlok_hk said:
Nice App! How about changing call forwarding (when busy, no answer, etc...) baased on location?
If the phone could forward all calls automatically, or forward when you press "hang up" based on location it would safe battery and reduce radiation using the phone.
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Since the application do not keep polling for location, if it does not know the current location for some reason(reason = In the original post) then there might be problems such as wrongly 'forwarded' calls...
But its a great idea. I keep it in mind

past 21:00 hours
does not seem to work if you go past the apointed hour? radio stays connected

david.dupuis said:
does not seem to work if you go past the apointed hour? radio stays connected
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Are you saying.. You were not at appointment time at sleeping location... And you came in late... and the phone does not turn off?
If so it is by design.. As i am not keep polling to find out the locaton. Just because then the application has to be running in the background or keep getting activated say for every 5 Minutes.
But let me know if you are saying the samething too.

not shutting off past sleep time
I think we're saying the same thing. Last night I installed the software set the home location and set the sleep time to 21:00 to 6:00. Actual time was 22:00. I expected it to shut down the radio and it did not.

Hi,
does not work for me
Install works fine, Test is OK, device went on Flight Mode and Back.
I set Sleep Location and Times and clicked Enable button.
When I want to save an error occurs lile: "InvalidCastException at Save. Please report this!"
The settings won't be saved then. I tried to manually edit the cnf file with
found cell values and True State, and saved this back to device, but when
time comes, nothing will happen.
I am on Schaps WM6 3.57a german and O2 Germany Provider.
What I was found out is, everytime I start the program it
randomly changes the location behind the dot.
Once it is xxxxx.8311 and the next time it is xxxxx.48311
May this be the culprit?
Any suggestions welcome bc I would really love this tool working
Olioaglio

david.dupuis said:
I think we're saying the same thing. Last night I installed the software set the home location and set the sleep time to 21:00 to 6:00. Actual time was 22:00. I expected it to shut down the radio and it did not.
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OK for this i have to implement a constant polling mode.. Which i will do it for next release.

Olioaglio said:
Hi,
...The settings won't be saved then. I tried to manually edit the cnf file with
found cell values and True State, and saved this back to device, but when
time comes, nothing will happen.
...Once it is xxxxx.8311 and the next time it is xxxxx.48311
May this be the culprit?
Olioaglio
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If you don't mind can you send me your cnf file?
Since your Location keep fluctuating... May be its failing to ON/Off
So when you are at home (Sleep Location) and if you keep refreshing the location (Button Refresh Location) you are getting diffent values?
Let me know

Something similar, sort of
I use Teog's CallFilter instead. What I like about it is that I can set the filter to only allow calls through from specific people. This way if there's an emergency in the middle of the night I'll get the call. It doesn't work on a schedule, you have to run it when you want it and disable it when you don't. But it is a simple app that runs with just a click after it's configured and has worked over several different operating systems. Would work well for meetings, movies, etc. too.

tytnguy said:
If you don't mind can you send me your cnf file?
Since your Location keep fluctuating... May be its failing to ON/Off
So when you are at home (Sleep Location) and if you keep refreshing the location (Button Refresh Location) you are getting diffent values?
Let me know
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Check PM
Olioaglio

Hi tytnguy,
thanks for fast PM. You were abolutely right with the idea of interfering date format. I customized my HTC Home with the SDTe Override string (by HTCustom Proggie) to display the week day, which turned out to be the culprit that your prog did display the error message at Save.
So I deleted this in registry and the app now saves without a glitch. So I set the time (1 minute in the future) again and saved. When the time comes, the turning wheel appears, but nothing happens. I figured out, that the Status page says: "Out of location so NOT switching off the phone", so this is maybe, why the program starts but do not turn to flight mode as suggested.
Since I set the home location and did not even move a meter from this position I cannot imagine, why it does display I am not in the sleep location?!?! Any ideas
Olioaglio
edit: It WORKED now for the first time !!!! Great!!
Just wondering, what happens when I just do the phone in another room in my flat, where maybe it is in another broadcast cell....
Think, it won't work then!! Is it possible to create, let's say, kind of a radius, where the program activates??
So my sleep or home location is maybe a bit more then just one room or even my desk
edit 2: May it work, if I set the SDTe string to override again, after saving correctly? Or will the app then stop working again? Sorry for those dumb questions though.
Thanks anyway!!! Great program!!

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OK for this i have to implement a constant polling mode.. Which i will do it for next release.
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Would constant polling mode affect the battery drain significantly?
If yes, I would suggest a check box in your proggy to toggle this option on/off
Just my 2 cents
Olioaglio

Olioaglio said:
...what happens when I just do the phone in another room in my flat, where maybe it is in another broadcast cell....
May it work, if I set the SDTe string to override again, after saving correctly? Or will the app then stop working again? Sorry for those dumb questions though.
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Olioaglio,
Can you set the home location from the other room?
If you change the date format to someother non standared format it will not work. Since program needs to keep saving the stuff on each try.

Update 1.0.1
Multiple location on the schedule: If you want to set more than one location as you 'Sleep Location' you can do it now. On the sleep location box bring the context menu up, and choose 'Append to location' now add the new location to the list. You can add any number of sleep locations!
Now if you were not at home at set time, system will keep polling based on the poll time you specify. So as soon as you reach home your phone will be switched off.
If you turned on your phone manually after the rk-Sleep set it to flight mode, then your phone remains on till next scheduled sleep session

Olioaglio said:
Would constant polling mode affect the battery drain significantly?
If yes, I would suggest a check box in your proggy to toggle this option on/off
Just my 2 cents
Olioaglio
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Olioaglio,
No it should not make any significant affect on the battery.
I have programmed it to poll only on sleep time if you are not at home. But since I am not running the program in the background, it is ok.
The new update I release just keeping your problem in mind. So you go to both your rooms where you get different towers. Update both as your sleep location.

tytnguy said:
Olioaglio,
No it should not make any significant affect on the battery.
I have programmed it to poll only on sleep time if you are not at home. But since I am not running the program in the background, it is ok.
The new update I release just keeping your problem in mind. So you go to both your rooms where you get different towers. Update both as your sleep location.
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Thanks, will monitor it...
Olioaglio
UPDATE:
OK, tested it now... Dude, the 1.0.1 really works like HELL!! I'm totally satisfied for now.
The Append function is very good thing, since I found 8 (!) different cell locations (about 3 with GSM and 4 with 3G) in my 3-room flat. They are always fluctuating even at the same place, so maybe this was the problem of the others, who tested the program with having only one location saved. But with the Append function AND the new Poll function (which also works great), it absolutely ROCKS!! Had no problem with several tests. Battery consumption with poll function really does NOT seem to be more than without poll.
Just some suggestions if you plan to make updated release. The Append function is not easy to find, I had to read your instructions three times to get it. Maybe you'll find another way. Also an extra tab with a list of all appended cells would be appreciated.
I would have another idea for an "extended" flight mode. Maybe you could add some checkboxes for Phone, Bluetooth, Wlan and Beam for - lets say - "Extended Flight Mode" options. So one could save even more battery as with just the phone function off. With the checkboxes you would have the choice what to turn off/on, when rk-Sleep will engage.
Best regards,
Olioaglio

tytnguy what about vibration mode? have you had time to check into that? Regards

How to turn off the daylight saving time adjustment?

Since I upgraded to 6.5 I've been having trouble with the time setting. The "My Location" service correctly locates me in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia (GMT +8) but it keeps adjusting the time one hour ahead as if we were in daylight saving time. Mongolia stopped using DST a while back.
Any thoughts on how to manually disable the DST adjustment and still keep the My Location service turned on?
Thanks

chinggis said:
Since I upgraded to 6.5 I've been having trouble with the time setting. The "My Location" service correctly locates me in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia (GMT +8) but it keeps adjusting the time one hour ahead as if we were in daylight saving time. Mongolia stopped using DST a while back.
Any thoughts on how to manually disable the DST adjustment and still keep the My Location service turned on?
Thanks
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Use Advanced Config. It is in the last batch of options.

I used Advanced Config to turn off automatic daylight savings but no luck. After the reboot I set it to the proper time but a few minutes later it jumped an hour ahead.
It seems to do it after I update the weather which triggers "my location." Perhaps it is a My Location bug and not WM. I'll try and leave My Location turned off for a while and see if the phone keeps the correct time.

Need app to disable APN/save battery

I really like the idea of disabling the phone's APNs when it's just sitting idle to save battery. Unfortunately I've not found an app that can do this reliably.
I first tried Juice Defender/Ultimate Juice which is so configurable that I thought I'd hit a winner. It's (supposed) ability to automatically enable the APN for a short period every so often seemed like the perfect balance of powersaving/data syncing.
Unfortunately it didn't work out this way and messed up my APNs and internet access completely, even after uninstalling (until after a few reboots).
I tried Sleepy Battery just today. Again, the app didn't work as promised - it didn't re-enable the APN after the phone woke up, leaving me with no internet. Again, this app had made a change to my APN that I had to go back in and correct, after I had uninstalled it.
Has anyone got any advice, or can recommend an app that actually works for this use?

I personally use use APNdroid, it allows to switch 3g on and off and has a widget with it. It doesn't automatically turn the 3g on or off depending on your use, that's something you'd have to do yourself...
Hope that helps!

Try sleepy battery, juice defender, or another app I think it's called sweet dreams.

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I really like the idea of disabling the phone's APNs when it's just sitting idle to save battery. Unfortunately I've not found an app that can do this reliably.
I first tried Juice Defender/Ultimate Juice which is so configurable that I thought I'd hit a winner. It's (supposed) ability to automatically enable the APN for a short period every so often seemed like the perfect balance of powersaving/data syncing.
Unfortunately it didn't work out this way and messed up my APNs and internet access completely, even after uninstalling (until after a few reboots).
I tried Sleepy Battery just today. Again, the app didn't work as promised - it didn't re-enable the APN after the phone woke up, leaving me with no internet. Again, this app had made a change to my APN that I had to go back in and correct, after I had uninstalled it.
Has anyone got any advice, or can recommend an app that actually works for this use?
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Thats really strange, I've had great results from JuiceDefender/UltimateJuice. It turns APNs off when in standby and turns them on for 15 seconds every 5mins to allow everything to sync. Really can't fault it.
I'd maybe suggest giving it another go? I believe there's an update coming soon from the developer to sort out some issues with the Desire. This might solve your issue.
Not come across any other app's that do what JuiceDefender does as well as it does.

Ramedge said:
Thats really strange, I've had great results from JuiceDefender/UltimateJuice. It turns APNs off when in standby and turns them on for 15 seconds every 5mins to allow everything to sync. Really can't fault it.
I'd maybe suggest giving it another go? I believe there's an update coming soon from the developer to sort out some issues with the Desire. This might solve your issue.
Not come across any app's that do what JuiceDefender does as well as it does.
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I really wanted to like Juice Defender. Hopefully the update will help, so I'll wait a while for that.
In the meantime I'll give APNDroid and Sweet Dreams a try. Thanks guys

I would recommend getting the juicedefender and ultimatejuice is well worth the purchase! juiceplotter is also a great free add on. They will save you on battery and will automatically control your apn and wifi.

Just a quick question on JuiceDefender actually. I just bought UltimateJuice to try, love all the options it gives you. But, my question is this...
I have my apps (Facebook and the likes) set to sync once every 2 hours. I also have UltimateJuice set up to turn APN on once every 2 hours to allow syncing. Will these two points in time automatically sync up with each other? I can just see Facebook trying to update at 14:00, 16:00, 18:00 etc while UltimateJuice turns APN on at 15:00, 17:00, 19:00 etc.
Hopefully not though. Anybody know? Thanks.

aljwatson69 said:
Just a quick question on JuiceDefender actually. I just bought UltimateJuice to try, love all the options it gives you. But, my question is this...
I have my apps (Facebook and the likes) set to sync once every 2 hours. I also have UltimateJuice set up to turn APN on once every 2 hours to allow syncing. Will these two points in time automatically sync up with each other? I can just see Facebook trying to update at 14:00, 16:00, 18:00 etc while UltimateJuice turns APN on at 15:00, 17:00, 19:00 etc.
Hopefully not though. Anybody know? Thanks.
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I have wondered this, I if you've only got APN turning on every 2 hours you might as well set Facebook to sync every 2-3minutes because, my guess is that it won't attempt to sync if there is no data connection.

Hmm, possibly. I've set Juice to turn data on once an hour. I'll leave it like that for tomorrow and see how it goes. It currently claims to be extending my batter life by 1.88x, and if that remains consistent and it actually can do that then I'll be very impressed.

I've now tried APNDroid and I have to admit it seems like it does save some juice. But I forget to turn it off/enable my APNs frequently, and therefore don't get my data coming through for long periods. I need an automatic app.
Sweets Dreams does not fit the usage I want the app for.
So have gone back and tried Juice Defender again for today, and it seems to be working ok this time round. However it reports that it's multiplied my battery life by 1.95, but that is a complete load of rubbish. My phone was unplugged literally 12hrs ago, and I'm now down to 14% battery.
My use of the phone isn't excessive - searched the Market for maybe 5-10min, installed 3 apps, and uninstalled about 4 apps. Browsed internet for maybe 15min total. Sent and received 12 text messages each way. A few emails have come in that I've dealt with. No gaming action at all, no calls, wifi is completely disabled, I had just a couple of widgets updating infrequently (every few hrs) but I got rid of them early this evening.
What do I have to do to get some sort of half-decent battery life out of this thing?

sometimes u want to have data syncs when the phone sleeps, for example twitter if you have new mentions. I used quick settings (http://www.appbrain.com/app/com.bwx.bequick)
long press on the search button brings this up so you can change it quick.
You could change the sync frequencies to longer gap inbetween updates to improve battery life. I turn on my APN the entire day and I still get about avg 14hrs of usage

I use Data on Demand from the market. It's simples! Just turns data off when the phone is asleep. Doubles the battery life!
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AMoosa said:
I use Data on Demand from the market. It's simples! Just turns data off when the phone is asleep. Doubles the battery life!
Sent from my HTC Desire
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I like it! simples indeed!

I use juice defender/ultimate. It works incredibly well and I can now easily get 2 days use. I have a rooted Desire with MCRr3.
Without this software I stuggled to get 1 day.

After my first couple of days with UltimateJuice I must say I'm pretty impressed. Syncing seems to work fine with the schedule I have set up. I have it turning APS off at night, having it on when I have the screen turned on, and off when the screen is off and then turning back on to sync everything once an hour. Greatly improved battery life so far.

[Q] No 3g during night hours, sleep mode?

Dear all,
Is anyone else experiencing the following problem?
When the phone goes to sleep mode during the night hours it wont receive any messages for whatsapp etc. It seems that it turns off the 3g connection when you turn the screen off during the night hours.
Does anyone know a possible fix for this?
I have gone through all the settings and could not find anything about this.
Cheers.

I recently got this on my Desire Z too, and I have not changed any settings on that. Then I noticed it's happening on my One X too..

no 3g late night
Hi there, i have a motorola photon. in the settings menu you can go to what is called battery and data manager. then tap on battery mode. it's default is set to nighttime saver, which will kill your syncing after 15 minutes of inactivity in the hours between 10pm and 5am. i set mine to performance mode. this will sync all of the time and i don't really care if it takes up battery since i am awake and ready to pop in a new battery off my kick a$$ battery dock wall charger!! hope this helps....

SharkDog2 said:
Dear all,
Is anyone else experiencing the following problem?
When the phone goes to sleep mode during the night hours it wont receive any messages for whatsapp etc. It seems that it turns off the 3g connection when you turn the screen off during the night hours.
Does anyone know a possible fix for this?
I have gone through all the settings and could not find anything about this.
Cheers.
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I think it's got something to do with what HTC said about "the phone learning" when you check things like mails ect.. so after it has learned that you do not check mail (for instance) during the night it disengages activies... or not

@mykeyvee, there are no such options in the stock rom on this phone.
Anyone have any other ideas?, i want everything to be synced 24 hours a day.

SharkDog2 said:
@mykeyvee, there are no such options in the stock rom on this phone.
Anyone have any other ideas?, i want everything to be synced 24 hours a day.
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I don't think it's anything to do with settings. My Desire Z is on 2.3.7 and only recently have I got this bug.
My One X is stock unrooted. No settings for power saving.

Accounts and sync>sync schedule>smart sync
Is this what is effecting you
http://www.htc.com/help/www/howto_iframe.aspx?id=141796&type=1&p_id=440
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unfortunately this only works with the mailw hich i do not user, the phone seems to do this with whatsapp and gmail aswel.

SharkDog2 said:
unfortunately this only works with the mailw hich i do not user, the phone seems to do this with whatsapp and gmail aswel.
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This. I woke up and my 3G wasn't even on. I had to disable and enable data again to get connected.

Same problem here. Whenever my phone is in standby mode for a longer period of time (as far as I've seen it doesn't matter whether it's during the night or day), the data connection (3g) is disconnected.
On my previous phone, a desire Z, there was a setting 'data always on' which addressed this issue. This setting however seems to be missing on all android 4 phones.
**edit:
Contacted Dutch HTC support; they claim it's a feature. Hope they restore the setting in the future..

I have noticed this too this morning.
I woke this morning and went into the battery settings and you can see the graph that all data was shut off over night.
How do we fix this.

Piss. Wondered why it used virtually no battery overnight...
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Exactly same here...just as u switch on the screen....it connects to wifi or 3g instantly...
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I have received email overnight though....
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I was thinking that maybe it was just the 3g/wifi connection which was going into a sleep mode after a long period of inactivity.
I've tried increasing my mail sync at night to once in 30 minutes to prevent the 3g connection from going to sleep and disconnecting. (had it at once in 4 hours)
Now when i wake up and turn the screen on, the 3g icon is already there, and my mail has been synced last in the previous 30 minutes.
Fixed it?

Same issue here, weird thing is that I can't seem to tie it down to either a specific battery-percentage nor a specific time of the day. It's really annoying though, as I would like my device to be connected 24/7. Tried setting a mail-account for 15 min update, so will see how much wifi/3g has been on tomorrow.
Edit: Definitely not a battery issue, but rather a time issue. Battery is at 80% (used the phone little today) and 3G/wifi has been disconnected for the past 2 hours even when mail is set to check every 15 min. I can see that for many people it's not important at night, but I wish we at least had the option to turn it off :/

Possible Fix
Download this app.. Minimaltext
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.devmil.minimaltext&feature=search_result
Create a widget 1x1, under the tap behavior, select start another activity, then select an activity. Scroll now to settings, expand it, choose power saving setting..
Leave the rest default then press okay.
Click the widget and you will find some settings, including put data connection to sleep when screen is off. I haven't tried it. Hope this helps.

Not a bug!
This is not a bug, but a feature : scheduled standby mode
If on Sense 4.x, settings are similar to Sense 3.5, you should go into settings > power then scroll to standby mode. Default setting is auto, which means that the phone learns your sleeping phases and disable every wirless connections during this time when your screen is off, and enable it again automatically when you wake up (even if your screen is still off).
You can disable this feature, or (my favorite option) manually set the duration when you allow your phone to enter and exit deep standby mode.
(For me it's a great feature, as I really dislike having my phone producing airwaves close by my head when I'm sleeping. Before I went to Sense 3.5 on my DHD, I didn't have this option and had to enable plane mode before sleeping ant enter my PIN code every morning to exit plane mode, which was less convenient).

If you want to disable this, download smartsync disabler from the play store. Im pretty sure there is a thread on xda too with an app available to download.

...Or read my previous post... Market's bloatware is not needed, setting for this should be in power settings, as on Sense 3.5.

time is not synced in the mornings by 5 minutes everyday

All, i'm having a huge problem. beginning last weekend, whenever I wake up I find my phone clock has become nearly 5 minutes slower.
Because of my sleep schedule on the weekdays, its always 5 minutes late by the time i wake up. strange thing is, within 10-15 min of my phone being "awake" I assume the auto clock sync corrects the wrong time and by the time i'm i'm driving to work the clock's time is right.
i tried turning off wifi one night i think a couple days ago to see if it was some type of strange wifi issue and i found that with wifi turned off, my phone was almost 20 minutes off on the time.
This has affected strangely my alarm clock as well and sometimes it doesn't even go off and i naturally wake up and check and it shows the screen where the alarm clock is running, asking me to "dismiss" or "snooze"
This is super cumbersome, is ANYONE else having this issue with the hox? my only conclusion is while i am sleeping and my phone is on standby for many hours something isn't quite doing its job. maybe something like the phone time being off, i don't know, like 30 seconds an hour or something. I'm still on 1.73.
during the day while my phone is turned on every 30 min to an hour, my clock is perfectly sync'ed.
please help.

turn off auto updating and manually set it - does it still happen?
it could be a conflict between phone time and network time, and the phone stops checking when asleep?

phil112345 said:
turn off auto updating and manually set it - does it still happen?
it could be a conflict between phone time and network time, and the phone stops checking when asleep?
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that's a good test to try. will do that tonight, turning off network sync and leaving it on manual. will report back tomorrow AM

chillsen said:
All, i'm having a huge problem. beginning last weekend, whenever I wake up I find my phone clock has become nearly 5 minutes slower.
Because of my sleep schedule on the weekdays, its always 5 minutes late by the time i wake up. strange thing is, within 10-15 min of my phone being "awake" I assume the auto clock sync corrects the wrong time and by the time i'm i'm driving to work the clock's time is right.
i tried turning off wifi one night i think a couple days ago to see if it was some type of strange wifi issue and i found that with wifi turned off, my phone was almost 20 minutes off on the time.
This has affected strangely my alarm clock as well and sometimes it doesn't even go off and i naturally wake up and check and it shows the screen where the alarm clock is running, asking me to "dismiss" or "snooze"
This is super cumbersome, is ANYONE else having this issue with the hox? my only conclusion is while i am sleeping and my phone is on standby for many hours something isn't quite doing its job. maybe something like the phone time being off, i don't know, like 30 seconds an hour or something. I'm still on 1.73.
during the day while my phone is turned on every 30 min to an hour, my clock is perfectly sync'ed.
please help.
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Are you using a custom kernel? Some kernels can have time slew issues. Most people don't notice it. I use Clocksync from the market to keep synced.
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Evil-Dragon said:
Are you using a custom kernel? Some kernels can have time slew issues. Most people don't notice it. I use Clocksync from the market to keep synced.
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i've only rooted it for titanium back up. kernel is factory. i am definitely going to look into clocksync as well after tonight's test. thank you.

i can confirm after i turned off network clock sync that it indeed was not the problem and that there is something inherent in the software that is slowing down my clock on my phone overnight. thing is i don't have any crazy apps. this is so strange.
anyways i have downloaded ClockSync and seeing if this will fix the problem. thanks