I received a GSM Blackberry 9900 yesterday. I know that it was looked at by the submitter before it came in, and would have been on the cell network prior to submission.
Before powering the phone up completely, I performed a Physical Extraction while it sat inside a Faraday Box so it never hit the network in my possession. After the physical extraction completed, and while inside the Faraday Box, it booted up showing the date/time to be roughly 36 hours ahead minus 20 minutes or so. I put it into Airplane Mode then poked around at the Date/Time settings thinking perhaps it was set to have it's date and time manually set by the user. The settings were set to the standard Automatic settings. It was also showing in the proper time zone.
I have never seen this before. Usually the date/time will be current, or if the battery was pulled earlier, the time would be roughly when the battery was removed. I can't think of a proper explanation as to why the date/time would be in the future. Has anyone come across a similar scenario with this model of BB, or any other Blackberries for that matter?
Was the battery removed or completely discharged? I have a 9930 in my lab that has been off the network since March 29, 2013. I just booted it up, and it thinks it is Friday, October 5, 2012 at 1449. Not only is the time and date wrong, it's gone back to a time when this phone was in service.
It was submitted off but the battery was still inside and almost fully charged.
I did remove the battery to photograph the backplate prior to starting analysis of the phone. It was only removed for about 10 minutes or so though.
So you are seeing a date/time you can't explain as well? Do you know what version of software the phone is running?
What if the owner/user deliberately, or by mistake, kept the date/timestamp incorrect?
I think you're going to find this with all phones that have had the battery removed and turned on without a connection to the network. The phones are built to assume they can contact a cell tower to set the date and time and have no battery backup for the clock like a computer would.
I've got a Casio (android) that thinks today is May 29, 2013 at 1432. Two other older Blackberrys (9530 and 9650) have similar date issues.
The 9930 is running BBOS 7.1.0 bundle 2123.
Thanks for your input guys!
trewmte
Wouldn't the automatic setting of the date/time prevent that? My understanding is, if you have it set to automatic, it will update as soon as it connects to the cell or bb network. If set to manual, you can change it. If set manual, then switched to automatic, I would assume the date would change fairly quickly. I haven't tested this yet. So seeing this setting set to automatic, but the date on the phone being in the future confuses me. Unless I'm wrong on my current assumptions on how the setting works. When I have a chance I will test this feature out on a sample phone.
Bulldawg
Right Bulldawg, I usually see incorrect times more often than correct times when dealing with phones where the power is off for an extended time, or the battery removed. I've just never had the phone set to the future, which has got me stumped on explaining…
No not automatically, it asks do you want to set to time
Thanks alot, I will test this out!
A little more testing with the 9930…
I connected it to the network. The time was immediately updated to the correct date and time. I put it back in airplane mode and removed the battery for about 10 minutes. The time is now equal to 31 minutes in the past–before I removed the battery. This phone appears to lose more than 1 minute on the clock for every minute the battery is disconnected. I also can't explain the future date, but if this phone can lose more than one minute on the clock per minute of real time, I don't see any reason why another phone can't do the opposite.
The 9650 I have keeps good time through short battery removals.
Might these be of help to you
A blackberry user complaining about clock being 24-hrs ahead of real time
..when I click on the "wrench" for Options, then click on Date/Time, it shows my correct date and time info, no problem; however, below a line showing my date/time is Network Time and Network Date and these are exactly 24 hr AHEAD of the correct time! Like right now, the Network date/time shows Mon, Jan 23, 2006 541pm. It's Sunday, Jan 22 at 441pm….
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And here is a more recent complaint about clock being ahead of time
..This morning, when i woke up, it was displaying 1946 Monday, 15th Aug. - upon checking settings, it was showing this as the "network time" - when i told it to update time, it changed to 0645 Wednesday, 17th aug - and the alarm went off!!….
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