iPhone advice needed...

[Lady Whistledown]

....I could google this of course but I know NSC to be populated with many iPhone geeks, plus my computer appears to have collected some crappy virus too so I don't trust it either.

My iPhone 3GS normally has the date and time set automatically to GMT, so it updates itself when the clocks go back or forward.

At some point this morning I noticed that it was displaying the date as Sunday 7th November 2010 and the time as about 0200. I hadn't touched any of the settings that would make it do that.

I've been able to reset it manually via the Settings menu, to show the correct time and date, but if I go back and change it to Automatic Update, it reverts to thinking it's (currently) about 1641 hours on Sunday 7th November 2010, and all the subsequent time zone options (Central European Time, Eastern Standard Time etc) are variants of that, rather than the correct time. If that makes sense....

And all the texts I sent this morning were relegated to the bottom of my text message folder because the phone thinks they were sent two days ago, whereas ones sent yesterday are shown as the most recent.

What gives, iPhone experts?

 

[Bry Nylon]

....And all the texts I sent this morning ...

I know nothing about iphones, because I don't own one, so I can't help with the principal issue. Sorry.

But the above caught my eye. All the texts you sent this morning?!?
How many texts do you send a day?!

 

[hitony]

Stop using porn sites on your iphone.....no more viruses....Simples ....

 

[Barrel of Fun]

You've quite clearly got your hands on a phone from Central Europe. I am guessing that you didn't ask many questions when you bought it...

 

[The Buttery Biscuit Base]

You could try just restarting the phone, which seems to cure most problems with my iPhone. Otherwise you could try going to Settings-General-Date & Time- Set Automatically.

Syncing with your Computer will probably help, it will update everything on the Phone.

Apple computers, phones etc cant get viruses due to no one having written one to corrupt their software, so dont worry about your phone being inected.

hope this is some help...

 

[The Buttery Biscuit Base]

*infected

 

[8ace]

Have you tried turning it off and on again?

 

[Bwian]

....I could google this of course but I know NSC to be populated with many iPhone geeks, plus my computer appears to have collected some crappy virus too so I don't trust it either.

My iPhone 3GS normally has the date and time set automatically to GMT, so it updates itself when the clocks go back or forward.

At some point this morning I noticed that it was displaying the date as Sunday 7th November 2010 and the time as about 0200. I hadn't touched any of the settings that would make it do that.

I've been able to reset it manually via the Settings menu, to show the correct time and date, but if I go back and change it to Automatic Update, it reverts to thinking it's (currently) about 1641 hours on Sunday 7th November 2010, and all the subsequent time zone options (Central European Time, Eastern Standard Time etc) are variants of that, rather than the correct time. If that makes sense....

And all the texts I sent this morning were relegated to the bottom of my text message folder because the phone thinks they were sent two days ago, whereas ones sent yesterday are shown as the most recent.

What gives, iPhone experts?

I had exactly the same thing happen to my 3GS today. Re-set it many times but on Auto it keeps reverting to the wrong date/time. I'd be interested in seeing what our Apple experts have to say too.

 

[Dave In Gloucester]

Sounds like this is a problem with iPhone 3Gs' on the latest iOS4.1 where they reset to 7th Nov 2am overnight?

Plenty more comments on the Apple Forums, but think the best solution at the moment is to sync your phone with iTunes if possible?

Sounds like even if you had it set to manual instead of auto clock the time went back a few hours so watch out for that!

 

[mistahclarke]

since the clocks change my iphone time is correct, but the alarm still goes off on summer time so I have to minus an hour

 

[The Oldman]

Whilst here in Canada I did hear a news item that Apple would be issuing a fix for this problem but it would take 2 or 3 weeks. Assume it's a worldwide problem not just North America although their clocks only went back this weekend.

 

[Lady Whistledown]

I had exactly the same thing happen to my 3GS today. Re-set it many times but on Auto it keeps reverting to the wrong date/time. I'd be interested in seeing what our Apple experts have to say too.

Cheers, that makes me feel better, at leas I don't think it's something I've done

I shall wait & see what happens when I sync it with iTunes.

BryNylon- when I said "all" the texts, I meant 5 or 6. It was a busy morning

 

[Bwian]

Cheers, that makes me feel better, at leas I don't think it's something I've done

I shall wait & see what happens when I sync it with iTunes.

BryNylon- when I said "all" the texts, I meant 5 or 6. It was a busy morning

Syncing didn't help me-nor loads of others who are on that Apple forum.

 

[Lady Whistledown]

Hmm, well my computer has picked up some crappy virus too, so I can't even touch iTunes until the SpyBot thing has finished running

Technology: it's brilliant isn't it?

 

[Beach Hut]

Hmm, well my computer has picked up some crappy virus too, so I can't even touch iTunes until the SpyBot thing has finished running

Technology: it's brilliant isn't it?

Have you got antivir, very good free virus software

 

[Cheshire Cat]

Hmm, well my computer has picked up some crappy virus too, so I can't even touch iTunes until the SpyBot thing has finished running

So that will be some time around the middle of next week then

 

[Pat McCrotch]

since the clocks change my iphone time is correct, but the alarm still goes off on summer time so I have to minus an hour

Same here

 

[Lady Whistledown]

Have you got antivir, very good free virus software

I have no idea, what I do have however is a brother who is a computer boffin by trade, who I summon up to my place every time I have an issue with it, and who has apparently just diagnosed and resolved the virus issue if not the iPhone one

Free IT support: like

 

[Rowdey]

Same here

Apple will issue and update for this soon, but in mean time delete all alarms, then set your new one but set repeat to NEVER.
you have to turn the alarm on each day, but it will work on time.