22 July 2116 -- wrong Date & Time

[Anna]

Hi guys,

once every few days, sometimes weeks, my phone's system time leaps to 22 July 2116, which of course has a lot of side effects (on axolotl, geary, calendar and so on). 

Has anybody else experienced this? And is there a fix?

Best, Anna

[mudflap]

Hi guys,

once every few days, sometimes weeks, my phone's system time leaps to 22 July 2116, which of course has a lot of side effects (on axolotl, geary, calendar and so on). 

Has anybody else experienced this? And is there a fix?

Best, Anna

I don't have this exact issue, but I do get the time mess up. What I've noticed with the time messing up is: sometimes my phone locks up, and I can't get the screen to turn on. I end up resetting it by holding down the power button for 15 seconds. I noticed that if I do this out of range of my wifi network, the time can switch to a few hours previous to the current time. Sometimes the date gets messed up. If I don't do anything else, it never fixes itself until I get back in range of my wifi network. It's like it only syncs the time over wifi. I think the time should sync with the phone network time, not the wifi network time. 

[8bit]

This was fixed with a recent kernel patch https://lore.kernel.org/linux-sunxi/2021...and.org/T/

You can apply the patch and recompile the kernel https://gitlab.com/mobian1/wiki/-/wikis/Kernel-Build

Distributions based on the megous kernel have the patch already. https://github.com/megous/linux/releases...10519-1214

Manjaro, Arch Linux Arm, have the patch. U-Boot has also been patched, it would sometimes hang at boot without it.

[mudflap]

This was fixed with a recent kernel patch https://lore.kernel.org/linux-sunxi/2021...and.org/T/

You can apply the patch and recompile the kernel https://gitlab.com/mobian1/wiki/-/wikis/Kernel-Build

Distributions based on the megous kernel have the patch already. https://github.com/megous/linux/releases...10519-1214

Manjaro, Arch Linux Arm, have the patch. U-Boot has also been patched, it would sometimes hang at boot without it.

thank you! great info!
Although....I have to admit, I have no idea how to recompile a kernel - any chance I can just get the update through the plasma discover app? If not, don't worry about it, I'll just wait for the fix to become "general".

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This was fixed with a recent kernel patch https://lore.kernel.org/linux-sunxi/2021...and.org/T/

You can apply the patch and recompile the kernel https://gitlab.com/mobian1/wiki/-/wikis/Kernel-Build

Distributions based on the megous kernel have the patch already. https://github.com/megous/linux/releases...10519-1214

Manjaro, Arch Linux Arm, have the patch. U-Boot has also been patched, it would sometimes hang at boot without it.

thank you! great info!
Although....I have to admit, I have no idea how to recompile a kernel - any chance I can just get the update through the plasma discover app? If not, don't worry about it, I'll just wait for the fix to become "general".

ok, maybe I spoke too soon- I looked at your https://gitlab.com/mobian1/wiki/-/wikis/Kernel-Build - it actually looks do-able. I will study that and see if it's something I can do..... thank you!

[8bit]

thank you! great info!
Although....I have to admit, I have no idea how to recompile a kernel - any chance I can just get the update through the plasma discover app? If not, don't worry about it, I'll just wait for the fix to become "general".

You could open an issue on Mobian https://gitlab.com/mobian1/devices/sunxi...obian-5.10

[bcnaz]

Hi guys,

once every few days, sometimes weeks, my phone's system time leaps to 22 July 2116, which of course has a lot of side effects (on axolotl, geary, calendar and so on). 

Has anybody else experienced this? And is there a fix?

Best, Anna

I simply set the correct time and date in settings,    and turn off the 'Automatic Date & Time'

Even after reboots and updates it keeps showing the correct time.

Unless you are crossing time zones  often ?   That should work until the Dev's  get that resolved.

[Anna]

Thank you guys!

Switching off Automatic Date and Time seems straightforward enough.

I wonder whether the issue might already be resolved: I haven't encountered any problems since my post and recently there have been so many updates and so many great improvements that I am presently really happy with my phone.

[bcnaz]

I have been doing that for months and I have not noticed any negative effects,

While I do regular 'updates' I also do complete fresh installs pretty often.

BUT I am also still running from the sd card.... I still have the Post Market OS on the eMMC from the factory.