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My Iphone time off by 5 minutes... my wife's is fine.

My iphone is off by 5 minutes from my wife's iphone. We had a bet as to whose iphone was incorrect.

Turns out I have to do the dishes all week.

My Iphone 3G is 4-5 minutes behind every clock I can find that keeps accurate time. I looked up the official time online as well as a few other friend's iPhones. Mine is off.

My wife and I both have iPhone 3Gs.... and live in the same house. We have not jailbroke our phones or anything. I have never dropped it, I keep it in a case.

Any ideas how to fix this timing issue?

I've done a shut down restart. Let the battery drain dead. I sync to my computer on a daily basis.

I've searched for answers but have never found anything.

Thanks.

Fraky

Macbook Pro, Mac OS X (10.5.6), Duo Processor

Posted on Jun 4, 2010 10:28 PM

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modular747

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Posted on Jun 5, 2010 12:50 AM

Did you setup your phone for automatic time synching with the carrier?

Settings > General > Date & Time > Set Automatically > ON

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Oct 19, 2010 9:34 PM in response to myklbee

disabling 3G works only until i re enable it. once i re enable the time goes back to being 5+ minutes fast.

marcas91

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Oct 20, 2010 8:59 AM in response to myklbee

My iPhone 4 is 7 minutes faster than every other clock I can find, and I even looked at my MacBook Pro and its time is fast, too. I live in the Louisville area, but with my Mac being fast, too, I'm led to assume that it's an Apple time server problem, not a carrier issue. I have friends in Lexington and Elizabethtown with iPhones whose times are correct, and non-iPhone friends here in Louisville who have the correct time, as well. iOS issue, or Apple's time server?

marcas91

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Oct 20, 2010 10:00 AM in response to marcas91

Never mind that last part..my MacBook isn't ahead...It was one clock on which I was basing my Mac's error. The iPhone 4 is wrong, though.

Oct 20, 2010 5:19 PM in response to Fraky

Checking in from Louisville too just to say my iPhone 4 developed this 5 minutes ahead problem just this week. It's got to be an AT&T problem since my iPad and home mac are fine. In fact, when I disabled 3G my iPhone went back to telling the correct time. Must be a bad tower around here somewhere. I'll have to pay the local AT&T store a visit and ask about a new sim card.

Oct 20, 2010 5:29 PM in response to AllisonM.

In Frankfort, KY here--

My wife and I have had the same problem for the last several days. Both of our phones about 5 minutes fast from all other clocks. Just returned home from church where four of my friends compared the times on our phones. 4 different iPhones, 4 different times - all within 7 minutes of each other, but all different.

Seems regional. All in the Dallas area from earlier in the thread. All in the central Kentucky region in the latter parts of the thread. All I know is I'm tired of being woken up 5 minutes early!

myklbee

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Oct 21, 2010 10:19 AM in response to JeremyT323

Mine will stay on the correct time for awhile after turning 3G back on. Yesterday it stayed all day. Today, I've had to turn 3G off twice already. My co-worker is getting the same thing now.

Once anyone visits a store, let us know what answers/resolutions you get. I can't get in until the weekend at the earliest.

Oct 21, 2010 2:17 PM in response to Fraky

Go Louisville!

Yea, mine only works for a few seconds once switching back 3G back on.

The Edge network definitely corrects the time.

I have noticed that my time is getting steadily more jacked up. Today the the phone is now 8+ minutes faster... it started at being 5+ minutes fast.

Don't have time to go the Apple store so hopefully someone else can chime in about that experience.

You know this only makes the 4.1 update that much more worse. Slow txt, slow calander, slow everything, and now the frikin clock doesn't even work... Or mebe I'm being hard on the little guy... The phone is 2+ yrs old at this point.

Oct 21, 2010 3:37 PM in response to Franz Liszt

I am in Lexington and have noticed it seems over the past week or so that my iPhone 4 has been ahead 7 minutes of the time on my Macbook Pro, other clocks in my house and even our DVR unit.

My friends have thought I was just being crazy or that my iPhone 4 had another "issue" and I said I know it is wrong.

Any help from anyone would be great! I don't know what to do about it other than set it myself, but I'd like to keep it synced correctly.

Thanks!

marcas91

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Oct 21, 2010 3:42 PM in response to Franz Liszt

I've called AT&T and so have the rest of my friends and family members who are experiencing the problem (i.e. everyone in the area with a 3G phone). The problem is that the 3G towers (in Kentucky?) are set faster than the Edge towers. Not an Apple or iPhone/iOS problem, but a service provider error. They said it should be resolved by Wednesday.

My Iphone time off by 5 minutes... my wife's is fine.