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time slows down?

Hi,
I recently noticed my time will start to slow down.
I don't plug my phone to active sync often or at all.
but i noticed after 1 week, my time will be 30mins behind.
does anyone have this issue.
I do have my phone sync with google, could that be an issue?
thanks

Try going to the TIME settings (by clicking on the clock panel) and going to Time and Date and checking autoset time (or whatever it says). This way it gets the time from your operator. That should solve your issue.

i already have that enabled.
thanks

If you're syncing with your PC or an Exchange Server, the device will take the time from there. Check that.

Yea, it gets the correct time when i sync it from the pc, but i don't do that often.
so im not sure what could be causing it.

same problem with my dash, still dunno to solve this...

hmmm... what is the clock speed on your phone? i cant imagine any other reason to the clock being a half hour off except maybe your clock speed is screwing with the actual clock itself.

2 questions
Ray_jai:
1. Does your clock slowly arrive to 30 mins delay or the 30 mins all at once.
2. In which time zone are you.

Mine isn't slow but goes faster instead!!
Does anyone know a solution to this?

@ Azurn/Ray_Jai/ or anyone with this issue...To test to see if my idea was correct (since i do not suffer from this issue), please try running your phone at NORMAL CLOCK (no OMAP GUI, OMAP CLock Set, or OMPA CLock running at all) for the duration that it usually takes for it to get that significant amount behind or ahead and see if the results are the same.
I had another device a while ago that I overclocked, and it seemed that the "OS" couldn't keep the time right with the overclock....

For some reason, I have found that enabling Automatic Time/Time Zone helps in this regard. Check it out in Date and Time.

I'm still having trouble with Time here. I do not know how to remove omapclockkeep.exe from start up and i always see it after resetting my phone.
Auto Time/Time Zone did not help either. It still speeds up 1 hour every time. Please help.

This may sound odd, but narrowing it down, i see only 2 not-so-real (but the only ones i could think of) solutions.
Either :
1) Something with your make of the phone may be "defective" in terms of processor speed and coding etc. (im no hardware expert, but I have had this happen to other devices of mine).
2)Ask some friends with the same carrier in YOUR AREA...do they experience this problem as well? Maybe there is latency in communications between the cell towers and your phone (phones in the area) in which case you should tell the carrier about that issue.
Besides that, I honestly don't know and HOPE that someone does figure it out!

Thanks for your reply, Cyclone. But I am facing this problem after I installed the WM6.5 EVO Rom. Before it was working fine. Do you know what I is the normal Mhz for Omap in this phone?

I am not entirely sure...but to eliminate the over-clocking, just go into the OMAP Clock program that gives you the ability (with a check-box) to enable or disable and unselect it. Then go into the OMAP Clock GUI and set both idle and active to 0 ... (0 means NO CHANGE).

Disable automatic time/time zone
my phone never slows down or speeds up with that disabled. Disabling it doesn't sync time whatever time you set your phone at it just keeps time from the time.
Let me know if this helps

[Q] Battery starts draining at exactly 5am.

I started using JuicePlotter yesterday, and noticed that at night my battery barely drains, if at all (hooray for setcpu!). Until exactly 5am when it starts draining heavily at a steady rate. I've done all of the obvious stuff (I think), like making sure I have nothing set to begin syncing at that time, but I can't seem to pin it down.
Does anyone know of a way to find out what's turning on at 5am and draining the battery?

Do you have an Exchange sync setup?
If you do you may want to check and see if your Peak times start at 5AM. If so you may want to set it to update less frequently.

Does JuiceDefender run on a schedule and keep 3G off until 5am?

Thanks for the suggestions guys
I have exchange set up, but its set to "as items arrive" for both peak and non-peak hours (which is set to 8am anyway - yeah, being on call 24/7 sucks).
I'm also not using any kind of timing app like juice defender to schedule anything.
One wierd thing I noticed that may be tied to this, is that certain apps like twitdroyd and fb update immediately when I open the apps, even though they're set to refresh manually, and not to update when I open the apps. Still trying to figure that one out.

Night mode is enabled from 2 am to 5 am. Depending on your settings, Data/3G/Wifi are disabled between those times.

nslouie said:
Night mode is enabled from 2 am to 5 am. Depending on your settings, Data/3G/Wifi are disabled between those times.
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This sounds promising - can you tell me how to check any night mode settings? (searching turns up nada)

fachadick said:
This sounds promising - can you tell me how to check any night mode settings? (searching turns up nada)
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He is referring to JuiceDefender, I bet. I would guess a lot of people who use JuicePlotter also use JuiceDefender. It does exactly as he described: turns data off from 2am to 5am. I use it, and it does help. It also keeps data off when the screen is off during the rest of the day, except for a quick check every so often.

hankbear said:
He is referring to JuiceDefender, I bet. I would guess a lot of people who use JuicePlotter also use JuiceDefender. It does exactly as he described: turns data off from 2am to 5am. I use it, and it does help. It also keeps data off when the screen is off during the rest of the day, except for a quick check every so often.
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rats - I was hoping he was referring to something in regular settings. I'm not using JuiceDefender, or anything similar.

well if you do have it setup for everything to be off between 2 - 5 then wouldn't that make sense that as soon as 5 hit your apps will start syncing even Google apps as they have been trying to sync that whole time and just started queuing up and finally your radios turned back on. I have not used juice yet so i do not know much about it just throwing in some pennies.
One other thing the refresh manually is only for when the app is closed as soon as that app opens its going to sync with its servers. When you set it to manual then that means when you open the app you manually refreshed it and the phone did not do that while idle or you were busy on some other app. Its like twitter for desktops if you set your refresh manually then while the app is open it will not refresh until you hit refresh

fachadick said:
rats - I was hoping he was referring to something in regular settings. I'm not using JuiceDefender, or anything similar.
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One thought: Do you have a good signal in the spot where your phone sits at 5am? A bad signal is the best way to drain a battery fast. A friend's house has an awful Sprint signal, and my battery will drain in four or five hours there, even with no use, whereas I get well over 24 hours with average use in good signal strength areas.
Back when I first got my phone, I used System Panel to figure out what was causing the battery drain. I liked using it so much, I even ended up purchasing it. The history part is what you want, and it will work without paying for a bit, so you can find the problem.

xlrdxrevengex said:
well if you do have it setup for everything to be off between 2 - 5 then wouldn't that make sense that as soon as 5 hit your apps will start syncing even Google apps as they have been trying to sync that whole time and just started queuing up and finally your radios turned back on. I have not used juice yet so i do not know much about it just throwing in some pennies.
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that would make sense if I was running something like that, but I'm not - as a part of my job, I need to be able to reply immediately to specific emails. At any hour. Total PITA, but hell, it's better than not having a job, right? JuicePlotter's pretty neat though - it just sits in the background monitoring your battery levels and graphs them. For example, it was showing an almost horizontal line from when I stopped using the phone the night before until exactly 5am when it started a gradual decline.
xlrdxrevengex said:
One other thing the refresh manually is only for when the app is closed as soon as that app opens its going to sync with its servers. When you set it to manual then that means when you open the app you manually refreshed it and the phone did not do that while idle or you were busy on some other app. Its like twitter for desktops if you set your refresh manually then while the app is open it will not refresh until you hit refresh
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Are you sure about this? I mean it makes sense, but I would be willing to swear that back when I was running stock I would open FB or Twitdroyd and it would wait for me to hit refresh before syncing with their servers. Twitdroyd, for example, I would set to keep 80 tweets, and I would check it only occasionally, so I could read those 80 tweets whenever I wanted. Now when I check it, because it syncs immediately, I lose anything older than the most recent 80 tweets. As a workaround, I've increased the number of tweets to keep, but it's still annoying.

ok so hmm what rom are you using. not wanting to bash the dev but could it be that rom?

hankbear said:
One thought: Do you have a good signal in the spot where your phone sits at 5am? A bad signal is the best way to drain a battery fast. A friend's house has an awful Sprint signal, and my battery will drain in four or five hours there, even with no use, whereas I get well over 24 hours with average use in good signal strength areas.
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My signal's not great, but the phone didn't move between 4am and 5am, and the battery only started draining at 5am.
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Back when I first got my phone, I used System Panel to figure out what was causing the battery drain. I liked using it so much, I even ended up purchasing it. The history part is what you want, and it will work without paying for a bit, so you can find the problem.
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I actually purchased SystemPanel this morning with the hope that it would help me get to the bottom of this (I had been using the free version for a while, and now I had an excuse to buy it). It shows me history of battery, device usage, and cpu activity, but even if I see that the cpu or the device is being used, I'm still not sure how that's going to help me pinpoint what's going on. First I need to build up some history anyway though.

Clock issue

Please forgive me if this is a known issue, I just got my TP2 last month (and almost immediately dove into Android).
I seem to be having an issue with my phone keeping time. On boot, the phone syncs with network time, and all is well. However, over about a 12 hour period, my phone loses 10 minutes. As a result, I'm woken up (at least) ten minutes late in the morning.
Android is set to sync time with the network, and if I put the phone into and back out of airplane mode, time syncs and all is well again... but it continues to slowly lose time.
This happens with all recent kernels, on a RHOD400 (Sprint). Is this a common issue?

yup its a well known issue, download clocksync from the market and set it to sync the time every hour. Its the only workaround till one of the devs is able to work on it.

Couldn't have said it better myself
This happens with older kernels as well, this issue has been present since the beginning AFAIK. Clocksync works wonders! One of those apps that should probably be burned in, but we're tryin to stick as close to AOSP as possible in the "reference" FRX builds.

Sounds good! As long as I have a workaround, I'm set for now.
Have the notifications for clocksync on... it's amazing how much the offset varies. Some hours it's just a fraction of a second, others it is over a minute! Interesting... anyway, clocksync fits the bill perfectly, thanks!

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

Anyone having issues with the clock regularly falling behind?

Ever since I've been using this phone I've seen the time on the clock constantly fall behind the real time. It's set to update with the network time, but I can regularly see it throughout the day being off by 2-5 minutes, with sometimes up to 10-20 minutes behind. It seems to update with the network periodically, which brings the time back in sync, but within a few hours it starts falling behind again.
I figured the clock skew may be due to eugene's CPU Sleep App, but I haven't seen anyone specifically complaining about that issue.
I'm running DietICS 7.20.12 on an AT&T GS3, I didn't spend much time on the stock rom, so a hardware issue isn't entirely ruled out. I've done searching across the forum for clock/time skew issues like this and have turned up nothing so far. This is the system time that is having issues as it shows in the top bar, on widgets, on the lock screen, and in the shell (date command).
Anyone seen this before or have any ideas of things to try?

Stock ROM doesn't seem to have this problem, so I'd look into the ROM you have loaded.

wonton164 said:
Ever since I've been using this phone I've seen the time on the clock constantly fall behind the real time. It's set to update with the network time, but I can regularly see it throughout the day being off by 2-5 minutes, with sometimes up to 10-20 minutes behind. It seems to update with the network periodically, which brings the time back in sync, but within a few hours it starts falling behind again.
I figured the clock skew may be due to eugene's CPU Sleep App, but I haven't seen anyone specifically complaining about that issue.
I'm running DietICS 7.20.12 on an AT&T GS3, I didn't spend much time on the stock rom, so a hardware issue isn't entirely ruled out. I've done searching across the forum for clock/time skew issues like this and have turned up nothing so far. This is the system time that is having issues as it shows in the top bar, on widgets, on the lock screen, and in the shell (date command).
Anyone seen this before or have any ideas of things to try?
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Are you using an app or something that disconnects data when the screen is off? I'm not sure if that would cause it, but it seems logical, no data = no time sync.

stevesprivateaccount said:
Stock ROM doesn't seem to have this problem, so I'd look into the ROM you have loaded.
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If I can't come up with anything I'll try this, I just haven't seen anyone having issues with the time on DietICS
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Are you using an app or something that disconnects data when the screen is off? I'm not sure if that would cause it, but it seems logical, no data = no time sync.
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Nope, data is on all the time.

For those who are interested, it appears this was somehow due to having network time enabled. Previous phones I've had have been able to use network time without issue, but for some reason this just can't keep the time in sync. I've disabled network time and set it manually and haven't seen anything more than maybe a minute at most.