Quick App: Clock Sync 18
While it’s an issue for a few CDMA Pre owners, the problem is a major complaint for GSM webOS users: network time sync just doesn’t work the way it should. In the US most Pre and Pixi owners can roam across the country and their phone will pick up and sync the time with local cell towers - useful for when crossing into different time zones. What’s not so awesome is how this sometimes just doesn’t work in Europe, but as always we can count on an enterprising developer to come up with a solution.
To the rescue here is content754 and the new Clock Sync app. This app is a simple utility that instead of trying to sync the phone’s internal clock with the network time connects to online time servers and gets an accurate read on the current hour. It can even run in the background and sync your time every few hours to prevent temporal shift. Judging by the near unanimous 50+ five-star reviews (many in languages this blogger can’t read), it’s a godsend for those with this problem.
Clock Sync is available now in the App Catalog for the low low price of absolutely free. Depending on when webOS 1.4 (which should fix the issue) arrives for GSM Pre users, it could be a godsend.
18 Comments
Cool.
I'm a Sprint customer. I have yet to leave my time zone, but my clock somehow manages to lose or gain time requiring a periodic manual time set. I'm not sure why a $500 (retail) phone can't keep time at least as well as a $10 gas station watch.
I'm also a Sprint customer who has moved into other time zones and has no problem with time on my Pre.
Even for CDMA users, if you disable the network timezone/time to get your exchange calendar working, the clock will be off. This app provides that counter for that.
Thank you!
I hadn't been able to figure out how to resolve a problem where my Google calendar entries appear an hour off, after the March time change. Things added in Google were appearing an hour too early on the Pre. Things added on the Pre were appearing an hour too late in Google.
I turned off network timezone, picked the correct one for me from the list, and now everything seems good.
Useful for people that don't use Exchange.
Of course, yet, I'll need to manually change the timezone when I travel. But I rarely cross time zones, so no big deal for the once every 3 years that it happens.
Thanks for putting that review up. I am just sorry that I started that project so late. Judging from the overhelming feedback the time issue was a major pain for a lot of people out there.
Nice to see that Palm will finally fix that issue. Until 1.4 arrives (especially in Europe) Clock Sync can certainly fill the gap.
Enjoy!
For all who are concerned about battery life: It's technically not running in the background but is triggered periodically. Search the forum for more details.
Is this why my alarms randomly delete or change to random times?
I DONT CARE ABOUT THIS LOL I WANT TO KNOW WHEN IS THE UPDATE COMING COME ON!!!!!! CAN SOMEONE CALL PALM AND TELL THEM TO HURRY UP!!!! DAMN LIERS!!!!IM ABOUT TO BRAKE THIS PHONE AND GO WITH ANOTHER COMPANY AHHHHH!!!!! PALM CANT KEEP THEIR WORD WHY SHOULD I KEEP THEIR PHONE!!!!
Not to feed the troll, but what exactly did they not keep their word on?
He's an angry elf!
Its a shambles that we even need this. Palm should have fixed it immediately.
Interesting that they allowed this in the App Catalog using unsupported API's, but wont let things like Dr. Podder or Music Remix in?
still 3 more days in february. Chill my man before you require a health professional to come to your aid. Good job Epocrates is in the app catalogue. This man needs meds. J/k......
still 3 more days in february. Chill my man before you require a health professional to come to your aid. Good job Epocrates is in the app catalogue. This man needs meds. J/k......
lol hahahaha I just want the update lol
all right!
I'm a Pre user in the states, and this has been bugging me since WebOS 1.3.5 came out. Is this a long-standing problem? I got my phone in the 1.3.1 days, and with the memory leaks I was restarting my phone so often that I wouldn't have noticed if there was a clock-skew problem. With most of those memory leaks plugged up my uptime has gone up quite a bit and the clock skew is definitely noticeable.
glad this is working so well. I had an issue with my Sprint Pre being off by 3 - 5 minutes. At least it was fast! so i didn't miss the start of anything. I would just get places early. Clock sync did the trick always have the right time now.
By the way, this functionality is also in Preset Reset. If you only need the clock refresh once a day, might as well do it when your phone resets.
If you need more frequent updates, however...
Did Derek really use the word 'godsend' twice within three sentences? :-) I mean I'm a believer in God and all, but I doubt He spends much time helping out with WebOS apps! LOL! But, I guess if you have this problem, it does feel like a blessing from the Almighty to get it solved.
Seriously though Derek, great job keeping us informed about apps like this. Keep up the good work!
Cool app!I appreciate your post as its helpful for us.Good job and would like to know its more uses..so keep posting.
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