iPhone 5 Showing incorrect Time. Unable to send text messages.

Ok here's my problem. My time on my iPhone is incorrect. I check my settings it's on automatic and it is set to my Hawaii time zone. I am unable to send text messages because I believe the time is not the same as the server. When I try to send a text it says Go to Date & time settings. This happens at least once a day. My time would be incorrect for 10 mins then go back to correct time. This happens on LTE and on WiFi. I also have rebooted the iPhone. One last thing. I check my battery usage. It's says 4,294,967,278 days on Standby. I guess the time is messing up my stats. Anyone have the same problem? Please help. If not I hope new ios update fix this.

iPhone 5, iOS 6

Posted on Sep 25, 2012 12:22 PM

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Nov 1, 2012 12:20 PM in response to Roids1869

Call Apple and Sprint. Turning off LTE and setting to Manual time are not a solution. Guess what!! I called Sprint. They said that they are not aware of this problem. And, they asked me to contact Apple.


I called Apple (again) and talked to supervisor. I heard the same thing from what I heard last time when I spoke to supervisor. He said that it's network problem.


Again, it's always customers who suffer from this non-sense. When I called Apple, I knew that I would hear the same thing. I knew that there will be no fix. But, I did it. Supervisor at Apple said that he does not hear much about this problem... Yea... right... I asked him to google it.


Apple, customers are spending days and days to live with this bug. Please fix this or even announce or admit that you have issues. And, give like some Apple Store gift cards to those early buyers to show the appreciations for finding and providing temporarily fixes while Apple is being quite and ignoring the issues....

Nov 4, 2012 8:16 AM in response to jayR02

Hmm...


I think this is something in the Verizon network, not Apple per se. (or, specific to the combination of Apple and Verizon). Here's why...


My boss and I have the same phone, and noticed (weeks back) that we had the wrong time/date, but it was the SAME wrong time/date. So the two phone MUST be getting the time from the same place.


Fast forward to the last week or so and I haven't seen the phone "time shift" in a while. Nothing on the phone has been upgraded or changed, so I think Verizon is quitely adjusting something in their network?


Has any two other people (in close proximity) witnessed this "same wrong time as the other guy" phenomenon? As I said, maybe it something unique to how the iPhone 5 interprets the information from Verizon; all I know is I've not touched the phone in a while and all seems well suddenly...


Anyone else?

Nov 4, 2012 1:58 PM in response to InfernoLS3

I'm not sure how it ties in to the big picture, but this is not only a verison issue. It's happening on Sprint as well. It's a toss up if it's an iPhone problem or a network problem, but either way we're the ones who paid good money for a product/network that just wasn't quite ready. Unfortunately I'm outside my 14 day window with Sprint to return, but I can always try the lemon law policy since I know it won't be fixed. I'm just concerned with my travel and how much I've always relied on the maps and clock. I know there are work arounds at least for the map, but I didn't buy a next generation phone to use work-arounds.

Nov 4, 2012 4:06 PM in response to jayR02

It will be interesting to see if there is any change with the DST change. It acts like there is a bug in the LTE chip that's causing the issue. If you notice the time is off press the power button at the top and turn it back on. You'll notice that not only is the time off but the date is as well. Strange issue that it is having. Probably someone programmed a default time server in to the phone and its broken.

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