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Clock drifting, won't hold time

I have noticed on all 3 of my Atrix HDs that the clock will not hold the correct time. I usually notice it when it is 10 or more minutes off. Sort of makes it unreliable as a reminder/calendar/alarm device.
Is anyone else seeing this, or have any idea what might be causing it, or how to fix it?
In an attempt to fix it, I turned off the network time feature, but I just realized that it was still off my 10 minutes. I downloaded clocksync from the play store. Now that we have root (and this problem existed on my unrooted phones) I am going to see if this program will keep the clock more accurate. I just worry about the battery drain... though I doubt it will be much.

boufa said:
I have noticed on all 3 of my Atrix HDs that the clock will not hold the correct time. I usually notice it when it is 10 or more minutes off. Sort of makes it unreliable as a reminder/calendar/alarm device.
Is anyone else seeing this, or have any idea what might be causing it, or how to fix it?
In an attempt to fix it, I turned off the network time feature, but I just realized that it was still off my 10 minutes. I downloaded clocksync from the play store. Now that we have root (and this problem existed on my unrooted phones) I am going to see if this program will keep the clock more accurate. I just worry about the battery drain... though I doubt it will be much.
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Is it the clock itself that is not keeping the correct time or the clock widget? If it is the widget; are you using a stock widget or a 3rd party widget?

Dark9781 said:
Is it the clock itself that is not keeping the correct time or the clock widget? If it is the widget; are you using a stock widget or a 3rd party widget?
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Its the system clock. I use a fancy widget clock, but when i go into the android system settings it also shows the error.
I must be catching it because i have previously not been trying to fix it, yet it is often times right.

boufa said:
Its the system clock. I use a fancy widget clock, but when i go into the android system settings it also shows the error.
I must be catching it because i have previously not been trying to fix it, yet it is often times right.
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In the date and time settings do you have both automatic date & time and automatic time zone checked? If you do there may be a problem with retrieving the correct time through the network. You may want to uncheck them and set your time manually.

Dark9781 said:
In the date and time settings do you have both automatic date & time and automatic time zone checked? If you do there may be a problem with retrieving the correct time through the network. You may want to uncheck them and set your time manually.
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I have unchecked them, an AT&T data feed issue from my local tower was my first thought. The reason I posed the question was that it is still doing it even with manually setting the time.

boufa said:
I have unchecked them, an AT&T data feed issue from my local tower was my first thought. The reason I posed the question was that it is still doing it even with manually setting the time.
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I assume you are running the latest firmware. I'm stumped. I want to say it could be a hardware or software issue, but on all 3 Atrixes. Just not likely. Did you try seeing if the clock syncs properly with the network in other areas where there are different towers? It just really sounds like a network issue.

You've clearly set something wrong. Maybe post screenshots of all possible settings menus?

Weather Widget update

Hi,
I wonder if there is any way to make the Accuweather widget to update the location automatically ?
I come from a Note 2 which widget automatically updates its location, and it is something I lack.
Of course the possibility to pickup something from the Play Store remains but still I would be keen to use
the genuine apps.
thx !

I would like to know this too! Cant get it to update location
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Ditto, I like the weather widget would like to stick with it. Anyone?
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On my one you click on the app which makes the settings appear in the top right corner, then you can set it to use your location every half hour, you also have to allow location services in phone settings.
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Ah ok I see what you're saying, after coming to work my phone still says my old location and I've been here more than half an hour, but even then it's not exactly accurate.

wonneil said:
On my one you click on the app which makes the settings appear in the top right corner, then you can set it to use your location every half hour, you also have to allow location services in phone settings.
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Ah ok I see what you're saying, after coming to work my phone still says my old location and I've been here more than half an hour, but even then it's not exactly accurate.
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Thank you for your reply. I have already done that. the weather forecasts and trends are updated every hour (it's the way I have set it up) but not the location.

The Sony-built-in News/Weather widget allows this, by the way. There is Accuweather and then there is "News & Weather". See if that works for you.

lloydbf said:
The Sony-built-in News/Weather widget allows this, by the way. There is Accuweather and then there is "News & Weather". See if that works for you.
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yes I'll give it a try !
Even if the Sony widget is quite ugly !

Indeed, the Sony widget is updating its location. I'm going to stick with it a bit.

Weather not updating on watch. WHY?

Why is my weather not updating on my watch. I have it set to update every hour. It doesnt at all. I have to go into gear settings then weather and toggle off then on the location for it to update.

idle0095 said:
Why is my weather not updating on my watch. I have it set to update every hour. It doesnt at all. I have to go into gear settings then weather and toggle off then on the location for it to update.
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I had a similar problem recently, mine was also set to one hour & when I realized it was off by more than ten degrees I knew something was wrong.
I checked when the last time it had updated was and it was over 5 hours earlier. At that point, I tried absolutely every thing I could think of to get it working and NOTHING worked.
I finally figured out that the acuweather site was not working right. The next morning, it started working just fine again all by itself, and I hadn't changed anything..........

Mine has been like this since day one. Over 10 days now.

You have to use the stock weather app, it syncs with the gear.. I had the same problem, switched back to stock weather and everything works as it should..

I had this problem, Im using a custom rom.. You want to make sure you have accuweather widget installed.. theres also a weather service apk. Pretty much anything related to weather must be on your phone to be safe.
These may be considered "bloat" to some, without them the weather wont update.
Also I had to reinstall galaxy gear manager, now my weather updates hourly.

same here. today i try login to samsung play store update the gear manager and than the weathter show up.
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popcity said:
You have to use the stock weather app, it syncs with the gear..
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Are you saying you have to use the stock weather widget on your phone? I use Beautiful Widgets on my phone, but BW uses accuweather. My Gear says it's 72°, my phone says it's 46°. The Gear says it was last updated @ 10:42 AM on 10-4. It's 9:15 PM on 10-25. I didn't even own the Gear on 10-4.

dscline said:
Are you saying you have to use the stock weather widget on your phone? I use Beautiful Widgets on my phone, but BW uses accuweather. My Gear says it's 72°, my phone says it's 46°. The Gear says it was last updated @ 10:42 AM on 10-4. It's 9:15 PM on 10-25. I didn't even own the Gear on 10-4.
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As far as I know, you have to use the stock weather widget to update the gear weather watchface..

Answer: Location service must be turned ON
I just purchased a Galaxy Note 4 and for an added $55 deal I got the Gear 2 Neo smartwatch with it. I am having tons of fun with both the phone and the watch. I thought I would do a Google search on how to fix the issue with the Gear 2 Neo not updating the weather application when I have the Location button turned off and it brought me to this page.
Yes that's right! You heard me. The issue with Accu Weather not updating is because the Location Finder must be active or the watch refuses to update. I have verified this several times over again. Definitely the result of not being able to find it's location through the phone because the phone's Location service is off.
I have solved this by pressing the Location button and turning it on momentarily to update the phone. Sometimes leaving the Location on for several hours when I wish to receive weather updates. This is very self defeating turning it on and off to receive weather, not to mention that if a Severe Weather Warning came through on my phone I would not receive it on my Watch unless I had the Location/GPS/Wifi finder service running. That's just stupid :silly:. I will be waiting for a fix unless I can find some alternative clock/weather watch face that will replace this broken AccuWeather application.
I hope this helps you understand what is happening to your watch when it fails to update weather. And yes, it is also true that only the Default Weather application will send updates to the watch even with the Location turned on, that I have found so far. Though I'm still new at this and if I find and alternative I will certainly post it here for everyone.
Edit: Wow I just noticed the age of the last post before mine. OMG! I can't believe this problem still exists and hasn't been fixed yet over the last year. Complete brand new model and it still happens, this is sad.

Banteel said:
I just purchased a Galaxy Note 4 and for an added $55 deal I got the Gear 2 Neo smartwatch with it. I am having tons of fun with both the phone and the watch. I thought I would do a Google search on how to fix the issue with the Gear 2 Neo not updating the weather application when I have the Location button turned off and it brought me to this page.
Yes that's right! You heard me. The issue with Accu Weather not updating is because the Location Finder must be active or the watch refuses to update. I have verified this several times over again. Definitely the result of not being able to find it's location through the phone because the phone's Location service is off.
I have solved this by pressing the Location button and turning it on momentarily to update the phone. Sometimes leaving the Location on for several hours when I wish to receive weather updates. This is very self defeating turning it on and off to receive weather, not to mention that if a Severe Weather Warning came through on my phone I would not receive it on my Watch unless I had the Location/GPS/Wifi finder service running. That's just stupid :silly:. I will be waiting for a fix unless I can find some alternative clock/weather watch face that will replace this broken AccuWeather application.
I hope this helps you understand what is happening to your watch when it fails to update weather. And yes, it is also true that only the Default Weather application will send updates to the watch even with the Location turned on, that I have found so far. Though I'm still new at this and if I find and alternative I will certainly post it here for everyone.
Edit: Wow I just noticed the age of the last post before mine. OMG! I can't believe this problem still exists and hasn't been fixed yet over the last year. Complete brand new model and it still happens, this is sad.
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I'm using the Gear S2 and the issue is still present! Pretty sad after all these years!

Literally am having this issue right now... SAMSUNG FIX THIS!!!!

Same here. Galaxy watch 46mm and Galaxy S10+. I believe that it auto updates while my phone is on wifi, but it does not update on LTE even if i try to force it on watch. If my phone is not on wifi it updates thru Galaxy wearable app.

[Q] Latest update broke notifications?

Hi
Does anyone else have problems with notifications? For me they work for few hours and then they stop working and only rebooting the phone fixes it.

It happened to me today...
Non of notifications alerted on my gear 2....
Restarting the gear, no change, restarting the phone... the notification is back

I do have notification but I don't get any details about it, no preview of the messages at all, just that I should check details on my phone... ridiculous! they do it on purpose...

I have found that I only get notifications on the Gear when the phone screen is on. If the phone screen is off, no notifications except Gmail.

Similar issues
hene193 said:
Hi
Does anyone else have problems with notifications? For me they work for few hours and then they stop working and only rebooting the phone fixes it.
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Yep, having similar issues, however I get the notification on the phone, however it doesn't vibrate for all apps, behaviour is very inconsistent. I have emailed samsung support but am not holding my breath

hurdlejade said:
I do have notification but I don't get any details about it, no preview of the messages at all, just that I should check details on my phone... ridiculous! they do it on purpose...
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With the new gear manager update i seem to be getting my notifications more consistantly, but also, like you, have lost all detail to them. Only the fact that I got a notification and what it came from (text, email,...). It no longer gives the text or email body.
I would love to hear if someone has a fix for this.

Milimbar said:
With the new gear manager update i seem to be getting my notifications more consistantly, but also, like you, have lost all detail to them. Only the fact that I got a notification and what it came from (text, email,...). It no longer gives the text or email body.
I would love to hear if someone has a fix for this.
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see here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-gear/help/solution-notifications-issue-t2885697

munzil said:
It happened to me today...
Non of notifications alerted on my gear 2....
Restarting the gear, no change, restarting the phone... the notification is back
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I'm getting exactly this issue.
Hopefully we'll see a fix for this. I'm sure Samsung is right on top of it.
:/

The issue is you updated galaxy gear manager.
There is a new setting in it to control it the notification has a preview, or just to tell which app gave the notification.
Seems like this setting only works for tizen os.
I updated to tizen using these instructions and all works again.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-gear/help/how-to-properly-flash-tizenmod-t2886991
(kies3 wasnt recognizing my phone) .
Good luck.
I didn't feel the need to update to tizen. I liked android and my watch styler. But preview of messages is a necessity.

evilution said:
The issue is you updated galaxy gear manager.
There is a new setting in it to control it the notification has a preview, or just to tell which app gave the notification.
Seems like this setting only works for tizen os.
I updated to tizen using these instructions and all works again.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-gear/help/how-to-properly-flash-tizenmod-t2886991
(kies3 wasnt recognizing my phone) .
Good luck.
I didn't feel the need to update to tizen. I liked android and my watch styler. But preview of messages is a necessity.
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Weird. That option has always been available

I dont rememeber which thread i got this File saprovider , all you have to do is Force close GearManager , then uninstall Saprovider "settings > application manager " then install the one from link.
this should fix everything , stop battery drain and make it works as it should be, notification and media control ... etc
Just incase , stop auto update from samsung app market.

Tried the saproviders.apk mod, and it still didnt bring back complete notifications.
All WhatsApp notifications show as "WhatsApp" instead of the senders name, which is kinda useless.
Cant stop Gear Manager from updating, as there is no option.
If you hit cancel, it will exit. If you hit update, it will update even without samsung Apps, as it's updating independently now.
I know this because I don't have Samsung Apps on My phone.

yeah its damn force update again and mess up everything again

I'm getting notifications, but no popup on my gear. They show in the notifications app on the gear, though. Sad days...

[Q] Gear 1 no longer receiving notifications

Recently I had to do a factory reset on my Note3. It retained Root ok, and I used Titanium Backup to restore everything. Afterwards there were two things that no longer worked one of which is: Notification are no longer being relayed to my Gear1. Other data is being relayed: example - the weather appears correctly in the clock; apps like RunKeeper and Vivino work properly, S Voice works fine, alarm clock messages appear ok - indeed everything works fine except that I no longer receive any notifications.
I've done the obvious such as checking that notifications are turned ON in Gear Manager, and I've done the less obvious such as uninstalling PushBullet because some say it intercepts notifications at a very high priority level, but still I get no notifications come up on the Gear 1.
I reckon that most of the value I get from the Gear1 is in receiving notifications.
Any ideas and suggestions most welcome.

sdemills said:
Recently I had to do a factory reset on my Note3. It retained Root ok, and I used Titanium Backup to restore everything. Afterwards there were two things that no longer worked one of which is: Notification are no longer being relayed to my Gear1. Other data is being relayed: example - the weather appears correctly in the clock; apps like RunKeeper and Vivino work properly, S Voice works fine, alarm clock messages appear ok - indeed everything works fine except that I no longer receive any notifications.
I've done the obvious such as checking that notifications are turned ON in Gear Manager, and I've done the less obvious such as uninstalling PushBullet because some say it intercepts notifications at a very high priority level, but still I get no notifications come up on the Gear 1.
I reckon that most of the value I get from the Gear1 is in receiving notifications.
Any ideas and suggestions most welcome.
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What app are you using on your phone for text messages? What's the other problem?

Santaclauswitz said:
What app are you using on your phone for text messages? What's the other problem?
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I'm using the standard SMS app that came with the Note 3 - I've not installed anything for SMS.
The other problem is that Tasker and Secure Settings between them are no longer able to turn the Pattern Lock ON/OFF. There are several combinations as to how this can be done. Normally I use the one based on the Xposed Module, but I've tried all permutations and some report an error attempting to turn off the Pattern Lock, and some don't; but either way they don't succeed.
Out of interest, I did the factory reset because my Note 3 for some reason suddenly would no longer stay locked onto my home WIFI - it kept dropping off and using up my data plan. I tried loads of things to get around that but nothing worked apart from the factory reset.
I had a Titanium Backup of everything, so I did the reset, checked I still had root (which I did) and then restored everything with Titanium Backup.
Afterwards all was seemingly OK but not the Notifications to Gear1, and not the Pattern Lock switch.
I tried the following to get around the problem but none of the ideas worked:-
Freeze all of the KNOX modules
Uninstall Pushbullet (I had read somewhere that it makes a very high priority grab for your notifications)
Uninstall the Gear software and go back to a really early version of Gear Manager. That didn't change anything, so I'm back on the latest Gear Manager now.
Cheers
Steve

Forgot to say - pretty important really - it's not just SMS notifications that are no longer coming to the Gear 1 - it is ALL notifications.
Apps like RunKeeper, Vivino, TasGear, Samsung Voice etc all communicate properly but NO notifications whatsoever arrive at the Gear 1 any more.
Cheers
Steve

do you have a problem with saproviders application? freezes or something, or battery draining on Gear ?
I have a Galaxy S4 DUOS , and rooted SVA rom and i have a high draining on Gear and no notifications from SMS/MMS application.
My GalaxyGear is unusable - it discharges after 5-6 hours
Maybe root on Phone or different Rom is responsible for that ??

I don't think I have a problem with th Saproviders app.
Battery life has always been 2 days on my Gear1. However since I've turned off the arm movement detection it is managing 5 days on a charge.
Presumably you've tried doing a reset on your Gear?
Cheers
Steve

sdemills said:
I don't think I have a problem with th Saproviders app.
Battery life has always been 2 days on my Gear1. However since I've turned off the arm movement detection it is managing 5 days on a charge.
Presumably you've tried doing a reset on your Gear?
Cheers
Steve
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At the beginning i don't have this problem.
I don't know when its starts (maybe after update Gear?)
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Yes - reset Gear and S4 - no improvement
reflash rom for S4 and gear - no improvement.
After install gear Manager , when Gear connect to the S4 I have a notification "application saproviders has stopped"
sorry for my bad English i hope that you understand what i am trying to explain.

I'm in agreement of the likely cause of the gear manager problems with kwiatki75. I'd clear cache and data then uninstall saproviders. Before launching gear manager which will then reinstall saproviders. It's definitely been discussed somewhere in this forum. If that doesn't work do the same with all the gear components leaving gear manager to last then fresh install gear manager.
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As for secure settings..... I don't use any kind of lock screen but I do use secure settings to remove the key guard opening the phone. I've found you have to do some specific things to get the tasks to work.
A1 secure settings screen and lights on (I use 5 sec a2 will function immediately)
A2 wait 1 sec
A3 secure settings key guard disabled
A4 wait 1 sec
A5+ your task
Last A secure settings enable key guard.

I think your advice is sound. Before reading this I used Titanium Backup to restore SaNotifProvider and its data back to Jan 2014. That fixed the Gear Notification problem.
System Settings ought to work as I've not changed my previously perfectly working Tasker scripts. However I notice your suggestion indicates forcing the screen on and waiting 5 secs before attempting to disable/enable the Pattern Lock. I'll give that a go and report back what happens.
Cheers
Steve

sdemills said:
I think your advice is sound. Before reading this I used Titanium Backup to restore SaNotifProvider and its data back to Jan 2014. That fixed the Gear Notification problem.
System Settings ought to work as I've not changed my previously perfectly working Tasker scripts. However I notice your suggestion indicates forcing the screen on and waiting 5 secs before attempting to disable/enable the Pattern Lock. I'll give that a go and report back what happens.
Cheers
Steve
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The first action is just screen on time. It doesn't affect the speed of the action. I'm not even sure it adds to overall screen on time. The wait (under task) are 1 sec. I think the task description is something I posted maybe in tasgear......