BST change causing return of time issues

[Guest Metztli]

Has this happened to anyone else? The time problem had become a rare thing for me but it's been all over the place today so far.

[Guest pudpoh]

No issues here, only ever saw the time problem once, months ago, rebooted and it hasn't done it again.

[Guest neson]

Yes, the BST change has completely tumbled the clock on our Hudl2. 

 

Even manually setting the time is pointless, as it drifts erratically.

 

Worryingly the non-charging issue also recurred on Sunday for the first time since the big update...

[Guest state-it]

Mines fine and behaving well... 

[Guest Metztli]

Mine has settled again after a drain to 0 and a couple of reboots.

[Guest]

....... back on topic .......

 

BST change not been an issue from my experience. My hudl2 is set to obtain it's time from my local NTP server (just an extra function added to a debian file server).

 

The only 'odd' time issue I've occasionally observed over time has only ever been at power on - once booted up, on the initial lock screen, the time can be presented for a split couple of seconds as '12:00' until the wireless network connects and is then automatically corrected to the correct time i.e. it's queried the NTP time server on my network - this I've proved through network sniffing and packet capture on the debian server network port.  ;)

 

I don't know enough about the internal circuity of the unit to understand if this is an occasional issue or a feature.  :ninja:

[Guest mhardyman]

My clock is all over the place, totally inaccurate. (Rooted) I've been using Clocksync to keep it roughly in order. Didn't notice if BST was the trigger but noticed around that time. Have had no success with reboots etc.

[Guest crusader58]

I've not had clock issues since changing to a UK server in the gps.conf file which can be found within the

system\etc folder.

 

here are the settings I use:-

 

NTP_SERVER=uk.pool.ntp.org

XTRA_SERVER_1=http://xtra1.gpsonextra.net/xtra.bin

XTRA_SERVER_2=http://xtra2.gpsonextra.net/xtra.bin

XTRA_SERVER_3=http://xtra3.gpsonextra.net/xtra.bin

SUPL_HOST=supl.google.com

SUPL_PORT=7276

 

backup your gps.conf to a safe location and then replace the current entries with those given above then reboot

 

EDIT:  the link formatting in the text above should be plain text, I can't prevent it from displaying as a link rather than plain text.

Edited April 13, 2015 by crusader58

[Guest mhardyman]

Thanks for the info, went via a cut and paste into a google doc to remove link formatting. Not sure how necessary, but didn't fancy risking it. Will post back results in a few days.

*******

2Days later

All working perfectly, many thanks for the tip.

Edited April 15, 2015 by mhardyman

[Guest crusader58]

For those of you who don't wish to manually edit your gps.conf file but are rooted there is an app on the Play Store that will do it for you, plus it backs up your original file.

it's called topNTP, there are various settings you can choose from till you find the best one for you...it also optimises the file so that you get a faster GPS fix (for those of you that use GPS.)

[Guest mhardyman]

Sadly seems to have gone wrong. Seems to be losing time. Might have a go with topNTP. Don't really want to do a factory rest. Only thing I have done recently is freeze hudl updates and install kodi. (xmbc)