At random times when I open any different application, the clock jumps forward 5 hours. It was ok with the version 3 software, but once I finally got the OS4 installed, its been wacked out. Any ideas why? Or how to keep it from happening
Well like I said, my problem with 4.0 goes far beyond the time/date problem. But I guess I'll try to restore before I throw my iTouch across the parking lot! lol
Tried the restore last night. Now I have the correct time, but I am still ahead one day. Here is a suggestion from another thread:
You need to connect the iPod Touch to iTunes and use the "Restore" button in iTunes to reinstall all the software on your iPod Touch. And when iTunes ask you if you want to backup all the settings on the iPod Touch before you "Restore" it, you have to answer NO. If you answer yes then whatever system setting that is causing the system time problem will remain in the iPod Touch.
After the 'Restore' is complete, you can sync your iPod Touch with iTunes and let iTunes sync the backup of your iPod Touch (apps, etc.) back to the iPod Touch.
After doing this my iPod Touch now shows the correct time zone AND the correct time.
Before I finally figured out that the Restore without backing up the settings was the way to fix the problem I tried:
a) Restore WITH backing up the settings (didn't help)
b) "Reset Network Settings" button (didn't help)
c) "Reset All Settings" button (didn't help)
I'm having the same problem with the clock setting itself farther and farther back. However, I'm having the additional problem of the screen not responding. Sometimes the slider won't work to activate the screen, sometimes I'll get in, open an app, and it will stop responding while I'm working in the app. The center button will close the app, and I can still turn the unit off, but the screen itself will not respond. If I reboot, it instructs me to connect to iTunes and iTunes says it can't read from the device and has to perform a restore.
Is anyone having the screen problem or just the clock?
For the full restore without backing up settings, does it preserve application data? Is it only resetting the iPod settings?
I tried the reset/restore process as described by MacOldTimer and it solved my problem. Thank you very much.
The actual reset process is pretty fast, but restoring the information took me a couple of hours.
I tried the same thing on my wife's iPod touch to solve some problems she was having with her mail; unfortunately we still could not get it to work when we restored from her backup; so we reset the iPod as a new one and manually re-entered her mail information. That did the trick.
Mines 40 years, 9 months, 17 days, 4 hours and 7 minutes behind the times. When i try to manually set it the setting wheel just automatically moves back to jan 1970. I also got the iOS 4 update (4.1).
