Clock screwing up SMS messages...

[RedWings]

I have noticed recently that my SMS messages have problems at times displaying in the correct order due to the time.

I'll send someone a message, which they'll reply to. I'll then reply to their message and it'll put the message above their message like it was sent earlier than when I received it. It'll show like a minute difference on the timestamp.

One example is my sister send me a message with the timestamp 3:10pm. When I replied, the timestamp of my message was 3:08pm so it put my message above hers. When she replied back, it showed 3:09pm.

Message #2 (outgoing reply) 3:08pm
Message #3 (Incoming) 3:09pm
Message #1 (Incoming original) 3:10pm

Where it should have displayed 1,2,3.

 

[Mr. Rock]

I've had my EVO for a month and I started having this same issue also.
rev004

 

[pretext]

I've started experiencing the same issue this month, have had my Evo since launch.

 

[RedWings]

I've had my EVO for a month and I started having this same issue also.
rev004

I've started experiencing the same issue this month, have had my Evo since launch.

Either of you rooted?

I recently rooted using Unrevoked but I'm not sure if the problem started before or after.

 

[NDchem2014]

I have the same issue and I'm not rooted. Could it be a reception issue? I know if my reception is really bad, times and locations start to get weird.

 

[rjw]

I've noticed the same issue starting a week or two ago. I was just getting ready to do a factory reset on my phone..

 

[RUSH]

I guess this doesn't happen to all phones. I just check mine... No problem here. Will check occasionally though.

 

[Snipperdo17]

Same thing here. Sometimes it shows a text sent several hours later than the actual time and then that text stays at the bottom until a text comes later than that time.

 

[Mr. Rock]

I'm not rooted.
I am assuming that all of the phones are using the network to set time? In my case..the times that the messages get out of sync is when they come in less than a minute apart. It seems like one of the phones clock is lagging. I will experiment with that and see if it matters.

 

[Mr. Rock]

I manually set my time on my EVO ahead and then sent text messages back and forth between my girlfriends Evo. The incoming messages on my phone came in in the order of my wrongly set time...NOT the network time. Example..I set my time to 5pm (it's really 1pm)....so all of the messages returned to my phone came in ahead of mine sent...although the ones sent to her phone from me came to hers at the correct (set to network) time.

 

[RedWings]

I manually set my time on my EVO ahead and then sent text messages back and forth between my girlfriends Evo. The incoming messages on my phone came in in the order of my wrongly set time...NOT the network time. Example..I set my time to 5pm (it's really 1pm)....so all of the messages returned to my phone came in ahead of mine sent...although the ones sent to her phone from me came to hers at the correct (set to network) time.

So is the phone showing the incoming message with a date stamp of the "real" time instead of your manually set time while the outgoing are showing as your "fake" time?

 

[Mr. Rock]

I know its confusing..sorry.

On my phone (set to the wrong time..in manual mode) showed my text messages..on my phone with the time set on my phone....but the incoming texts from the EVO set to network time..came in at the correct time and ignored my manual settings.
The next test i guess would to set the other phone to the wrong time too...I would guess they would all be out of sync...in that case...the EVO text messages ignore network time.

****Edit for test****
I set both Evo's to a wrong time and sent messages back and forth. It appears that ALL incoming messages (users to your phone) use network time, BUT your sent messages on your phone use the phones clock..NOT network time. That would explain the lag sometimes i guess.

 

[pretext]

I'm not rooted. Happens when I have spotty service, but I know why it happens then. But will also do it sometimes when I have full service. It will happen when the times of the messages are real close together like mentioned earlier.

 

[dusty78]

It happens to my phone when the location is all F'd up. Sometimes my phone tells me i'm in a different time zone and the time is off by 6-7 hours. when this happens my texts are all out of sequence.

 

[pretext]

Their having the same issue over in the evo shift forum also.

 

[moach1]

I know its confusing..sorry.

On my phone (set to the wrong time..in manual mode) showed my text messages..on my phone with the time set on my phone....but the incoming texts from the EVO set to network time..came in at the correct time and ignored my manual settings.
The next test i guess would to set the other phone to the wrong time too...I would guess they would all be out of sync...in that case...the EVO text messages ignore network time.

****Edit for test****
I set both Evo's to a wrong time and sent messages back and forth. It appears that ALL incoming messages (users to your phone) use network time, BUT your sent messages on your phone use the phones clock..NOT network time. That would explain the lag sometimes i guess.

Makes sense, however I am not getting the miss time stamp all the time, just sometimes. It is hit and miss. I have had days where it has not been a problem, then days where it happens once or twice, and days where it is common.

 

[Hayze]

This has been happening to me for a while now, is there anyway to like reset your time to the network time? I feel like that may solve it, but I haven't been able to find anything to do that.

 

[Stokes]

Been happening for me for a while too. For about a week or so here in the Chicago area. Maybe Sprint is doing something with the network? Getting it ready for Gingerbread?

 

[philby]

I experienced this issue this morning (Rooted, GoSMS). I was texting with someone and it kept grouping their messages all together with mine grouped all together, even though we had been back and forth over a 20 minute span.

I changed a setting in GoSMS menu to display in order of sent/received instead of the timestamp and it "fixed" my issue.

Perhaps since its also happening on the Shift its a Sprint thing and the timestamps are messed up while they're testing something?

 

[j0eycasco]

Getting the same problem. Not. Rooted. Very aggravating.

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