T-Mobile SDA Time Change When Roaming

[bradkap]

I traveled from Ohio to Illinois this week. Took my new SDA with me. Worked well. I wish it had more internal storage memory, I had to really monitor that. But I noticed that the time does not change on the SDA like it did on my other Nokias. I called TMO and they said that the devise does not support that service. Can anyone clue me in as to how to make the SDA change to the network time ?

Or are all SDA owners just going to have to learn to live with this ?

[Mike Temporale]

Or are all SDA owners just going to have to learn to live with this ?

Bingo. This isn't just the SDA. Windows Mobile devices don't read the time from the tower. I have heard multiple different reasons on why this is the case. I don't know for sure, but I think it's due to the fact that not all carriers support this feature on their networks. :(

[Sven Johannsen]

I'm kind of glad it doesn't. I do believe that I have actually noticed that my older phones that react to the time, also revise your TimeZone for you. I'm sure you are all aware of what happens to your appointments when your TimeZone shifts. Great if that is how you work, disaster if you weren't expecting it. One thing I dislike about my SPOT watch is that it does adjust the timezone when I travel and that skews all the appointments on it. I don't mind it fixing the time/zone, i just wish for an option on what to do with appointments.

[me]

It has nothing to do with the phone. T-Mobile doesn't do that. (I don't know if other GSM carriers do.)

When I was previously with Sprint, the towers set the time on the phone, and I was surprised when I got off an airplane in a different time zone, and the phone showed the correct time, whereas my watch didn't yet.

Kind of a cool feature.

But since on T-Mobile, with different phones, that doesn't happen. The time is how you set it, and it can be synced to your computer's time with ActiveSync. But the phone towers transmit no time information.

[Rocco Augusto]

But since on T-Mobile, with different phones, that doesn't happen. The time is how you set it, and it can be synced to your computer's time with ActiveSync. But the phone towers transmit no time information.

it all depends on the phone youre using. i use to sell t-mobile devices. some would update from the towers some wouldnt. its all about the device.

[San Fermin]

It has nothing to do with the phone. T-Mobile doesn't do that. (I don't know if other GSM carriers do.)

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Cingular had this feature (with my sony T610)- it was annoying because their towers weren't sync'd... I'd go to work, and there'd be a warning on my phone that the time had changed, then receive the same warning on my way home... I work and live in the same time zone, so the difference was just that the towers were reporting slightly different times.

Could have just been an issue with the fact that some of the towers were ATT and some Cingular... but maybe not.

[Jerry Raia]

I'm kind of glad it doesn't. I do believe that I have actually noticed that my older phones that react to the time, also revise your TimeZone for you. I'm sure you are all aware of what happens to your appointments when your TimeZone shifts. Great if that is how you work, disaster if you weren't expecting it. One thing I dislike about my SPOT watch is that it does adjust the timezone when I travel and that skews all the appointments on it. I don't mind it fixing the time/zone, i just wish for an option on what to do with appointments.

I'm with you. I am in and out of time zones frequently. I never change the TZ on either device nor would I want it to change

[Sven Johannsen]

Just got back from a trip two TimeZones east. When I got there my SP5 on Cingular dutifully changed the time. I didn't bother to look and see how it changed it, clock or TZ, just knew the time was right. (I use a watch to tell time. It is a MS watch though, SPOT, so it's OK) I'm not a big calendar user either, and I was at a class for two weeks with a set schedule, so I didn't have any appointments to pay attention to. BUT, I did set the one measly alarm you get with the clock function to wake me up each morning. (Actually a backup to the room clock radio). It worked fine at 5:45 everyday.

So now I am back home and the alarm is going off at 3:45 AM. Yea, that's 5:45 where I was. It didn't shift back when I got home. The TZ is set for two TZs right. I could have sworn the time was right, but now that I've fixed the TZ, I'm not sure.

So what have I learned. Be careful when you travel. Seems that sometimes the network will fix your phone, sometimes not. Just make sure you check and see what it did.