Text message timestamp
 

Anyone else having issues with their text messages coming at times 5 and 6 hours away when they are roaming? I work in the basement of a building so my phone roams in and out of service down here and every time I get a text message in the morning it's time will say 2:45 or 3:45 or later. I had the same issue with me Hero but after I updated it to 2.1 it stopped so I just assumed it would not do the same thing on the EVO but it is and it's very annoying.

Re: Text message timestamp
 

Nothing yet.

http://www.forum.ppcgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=124026

Re: Text message timestamp
 

Im getting the issues too but im not even roaming when it happens. I found out that its something within HTC not sprint. I guess verizon and att are having the same issues with htc devices. I was thinking of trying a hero or eris fix to see if it works but im too scared i dont want to hurt my baby lol. I was told that HTC might have a fix within the next week or 2 though.

I HAVE to fix the SMS timestamp
 

So...I have figured it out...when I am roaming, which is 99% of the time I'm at work (ie most of the day), the SMS time stamp is all sorts of messed up.

On the Touch Pro and Touch Pro 2 with Windows Mobile, when we first had the 2016 SMS bug, the first solution, was a registry hack that set the phone to reference it's own clock when receiving an SMS rather than the network...I need to figure out a way to do that in Android. Right now the timestamps are all sorts of screwed up, and messages go in before and after each other all over the place, and my replies wind up all over the place too.

Does anyone have any idea how I might be able to accomplish this? This is my first Android phone, so I know very little about working with it.

Wirelessly posted (TP2 Biznitch: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 2.1-update1; en-us; Sprint APA9292KT Build/ERE27) AppleWebKit/530.17 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Mobile Safari/530.17)

This happened on my tp2 too. I don't think there is any thing to fix this though.

Re: I HAVE to fix the SMS timestamp
 

that is the sprint network, it didn't do it on NRG custom roms though

Re: I HAVE to fix the SMS timestamp
 

No, my point is it's NOT the network, it only happens when I'm roaming. On windows mobile the solution was to change the registry to just time stamp the SMS on the phone itself whenever it recieved it (so the only downside there was if the phone was turned off, it would look like everything came at once when it was turned back on rather than carrying valid time stamps)...this is a disaster, it's making me want to tell sprint to take the phone back.

Wirelessly posted (TP2 Biznitch: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 2.1-update1; en-us; Sprint APA9292KT Build/ERE27) AppleWebKit/530.17 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Mobile Safari/530.17)

Is search around there might be a fix for the hero or something to make it use the phones timestamp instead of the network timestamp. This happened to me whenever I was roaming with my tp2. I just got used to it not working.

Re: Text message timestamp
 

Yes, there was a regedit to make it use the phone time instead of network time.

Go to HKLM\Software\OEM\SMS

Add the following DWORD value (or change it):

Name: RecvTimeStamp
DWORD Data: 1
Base: Dec

Re: I HAVE to fix the SMS timestamp
 

Roaming means your on a different carriers network...so your timestamp is going to be off and txt messages and such may be delayed getting to you. Thank god Sprint has free roaming on most plans, but this is something that doesn't justify taking your phone back and returning it....its the fact you work in a cement basement and get no digital coverage....

Do your phone work outside just fine? In normal day to day use while your not at work?

Re: I HAVE to fix the SMS timestamp
 

My phone only does it when I'm in the basement at work but regardless it still shouldn't do it. It did the same thing on my Hero until I updated it to 2.1 and after I did that, the the timestamps were correct so it really doesn't make any sense unless it is an HTC thing and they will address the situation when they make 2.2 (Froyo) available for the EVO I hope.

Re: I HAVE to fix the SMS timestamp
 

No I will state AGAIN, it's not Sprints network, it's whoevers network I am roaming on causing the problem.

I work about 8 feet from a gigantic window and I'm nowhere remotely close to a basement.

It's not delayed, it says the messages are coming from the future...like 5 pm when it's still only noon...and it happens live as I bounce messages back and forth, further proof that there's no delay...or at worse a few seconds of delay.

As soon as I'm not roaming, it's perfect again, and when I was able to edit the registry on the old TP2 there was no problem either...

I'll call Sprint customer service after work and see what they say...

Re: I HAVE to fix the SMS timestamp
 

That actually sounds a Airave issue...I know that's a known issue with the Airave...and I have one...and can vouch for it with the timestamp being in the future...There's no way of knowing if your connected to one or not unless you know the company, or a surrounding company has one. I guess if your phone is connected to a different tower than Sprints, then you may also get the issue...

The issue with the TP2 on New Years Day that made it say 2016, was a software issue and was resolved within a few weeks...if this ends up being a issue caused by the network...then expect a update to your phone pretty soon...

You can expect glitches with new phones with the first few batches, thats why I wait for a few months before buying mine....Actually I have to wait to get my $150 credit...but even if I didn't I still would have waited....

I have a feeling Sprint/HTC will release a updated ROM with Patches and stuff to help the Evo out here in the next month or so...or atleast till 2.2 comes out.

Re: Text message timestamp
 

The 2016 issue came and went, but there was also the texts from the future issue when roaming.

I don't believe there are any Airave's in our building...and our building is far enough away from our neighbors here on lovely Day Hill Road in Windsor CT that I don't think it'd be due to them either...don't really know though...just know the phone says I'm roaming, and when I go outside it isn't roaming anymore.