[UPDATE] Auto time and timezone can't turn off permanently (I'll just have to live with it)

[lanceschuler60]

I travel alot for work and need to manually change my time on my phone on occasion and leave it there to be on a local time, such as a cruise ship. I turn off auto time and auto timezone. But after a day or so it turns itself back on. I'm assuming when i take it out of airplane mode or we pass by a tower. It will keep turning itself on without my assistance. Which puts me on a different time than what i need to be. Has anyone seen this and do you know how to turn it off permanently. i am running android 14. I go into settings/general management/date and time and switche the toggles to have automatic date and time to off and automatic time zone to off.

Thanks for all and any information.

 

[B. Diddy]

Welcome to Android Central! Which phone is this?

 

[lanceschuler60]

Welcome to Android Central! Which phone is this?

S23 ultra running 14 and UI One 6.1

 

[B. Diddy]

I don't use a Samsung as a daily driver, so let me see if @mustang7757 has any thoughts.

 

[mustang7757]

It should automatically do that

 

[B. Diddy]

It should automatically do that

But the problem is that the OP wants to keep those toggles off in certain situations, and they keep toggling back on by themselves.

 

[mustang7757]

But the problem is that the OP wants to keep those toggles off in certain situations, and they keep toggling back on by themselves.

Haven't tested it but if it default back on I don't see anything you can do about that

 

[B. Diddy]

I can't quite tell from doing a web search, but do Samsung devices on One UI 6.1 still have a scheduled Auto-Restart option? If so, could it be that the options are defaulting back to ON after a scheduled auto-restart?

 

[lanceschuler60]

yes, it will toggle back on by itself. i would like to remain off permanently. I know it sounds weird, but believe it or not there are places in the world that the time change is 30 mins instead of an hour. i work for a cruise line and there's nothing worse than waking up in the morning and being late becasue we passed a tower on land and my phone decided to change times. ha!

 

[mustang7757]

I can't quite tell from doing a web search, but do Samsung devices on One UI 6.1 still have a scheduled Auto-Restart option? If so, could it be that the options are defaulting back to ON after a scheduled auto-restart?

Yes in Device Care settings

 

[lanceschuler60]

thanks for the responses. I'll just have to live with it. Doesn't look like there is a way to correct it without some programming of some sort. It must turn itself back on when i come out of airplane mode and recieves a signal from somewhere. That's the only thing i can think of.

 

[lanceschuler60]

Just another update. Working for a cruise line, i travel alot. I'm currently in the Caribbean. so last night we had to change our clocks ahead one hour. So i did it manually before going to bed, so when i woke up i would be on local time. I woke up and my clock was right. Now here's the bizarre part, i checked the toggles for auto time and day, they were off. then i went and checked my email via the ships wifi. Played a game for a few minutes and surfed the internet some. As i was doing all of this, my toggles for auto date and time toggle on withoout my input. Wth!

 

[B. Diddy]

Although it's unlikely, maybe some 3rd party app is causing this. See if the problem also occurs in Safe Mode to rule that out: https://www.samsung.com/us/support/answer/ANS00062983/

 

[mustang7757]

I wonder if OP has a sim card if removed just use wifi if it would stay

 

[methodman89]

Have you considered setting a countdown alarm instead? ie You go to bed at midnight, need to get up at 7am, set an alarm for 7 hrs duration.
Good luck