Comments on: Date/Time and Time Zone Settings: BEWARE!

By: Damond Horner

Damond Horner — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 15:48:52 +0000

It’s been said, that if you live in New York and you have an appointment, in let’s say LA, when you set the meeting for 1600 and you get to LA and reset your time, the meeting will be on schedule… however, if you don’t do that it will show the meeting at 1300.

Everything should work together, it’s a smart phone…

1600 is 1600 where ever you may be… The time and calender should be able to reflect this.

By: Kelly Carter

Kelly Carter — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 07:46:42 +0000

Jim,
I don’t know of an app that addresses this issue, but I haven’t searched for one.

Thanks for your contribution to this discussion.
Kelly

By: Jim Black

Jim Black — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 05:03:59 +0000

Kelly,

I just wish to add my moral indignation to that of all the others who would like their phone to display the correct current time in whichever city they happen to be in.

I have both a wristwatch and a mobile phone. When I travel somewhere, the wristwatch maintains the time of my origin (unless and until I change it). I therefore require my mobile phone to automatically update to whichever time zone I am in. This is particularly critical when I am in some intermediary airport and need to make a connecting flight. Which time zone is Tucson (or Las Vegas, or Kansas City) in anyway? Mobile phone networks broadcast time accurate to the second. There are Nokias available on eBay for 99 cents that can adjust to this.

Nuts. Wish I had read your web page before I bought this turkey.

But… shouldn’t there be some application available that would fix this?

–Jim Black, traveling engineer.

By: Al

Al — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 17:01:49 +0000

Kelly,
Interesting article and site in general. My boss just got a BB Flip on Verizon network. In the time setup, the timezone is correct, the Time is correct and the Network time is correct. The time is displayed correctly in the window on the cover of the phone. The clock app shows the correct time.

But – when you open the phone, the time displayed on the main screen is incorrect – not by an hour, but pretty random. For example, when all other displays showed 12:45 PM, the main screen was showing 8:43 AM.

Any ideas?

By: Kelly Carter

Kelly Carter — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 14:32:34 +0000

Michael,
Thanks for the feedback. I now own four BlackBerrys, and it’s kinda stupid when all four read a slightly different time of day.
Kelly

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 01:04:49 +0000

Hi Kelly,
What a great resource for people with BB phones! I can’t tell you how good it is to see so many other having this same issue with “automatically updating the time”. It never fails, the internal time gets out of sync with the network time. I have to keep updating it myself. Even after AT&T helped me, it went out of sync. My hope is the people who make improvements with BB systems with get this one right. It seems like a “no brainer” where so many basic phones do this. Thanks for all the great infomation too.

By: Kelly Carter

Kelly Carter — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 02:21:57 +0000

Roman,
Glad you found your answer…and returned to tell me.
Kelly

By: Roman H.

Roman H. — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 21:20:59 +0000

Never mind…. I found it… I needed to press the blackberry button while taking pics and go to options and allow all pics to be saved on memory card.

By: Roman H.

Roman H. — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 21:18:58 +0000

I put in a 3GB memory chip in my Curve 8330 and when I take Pics my phone will not save them on to it. Says “File System Full” How do I make my phone save my new pics on my memory chip?

Thanks,

Roman

By: Kelly Carter

Kelly Carter — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 20:57:16 +0000

William,
I wish we had a good way to get our (customers) ideas to RIM. Not sure if they read sites like these. Appreciate your feedback!
Kelly