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From: Zeb Carter on 16 May 2010 15:15
I have a HTC Touch Pro 2, carrier is Verizon, and I live in NW FL
(Central Time Zone).

Over the last few days, my location is showing up as Jacksonville
instead of the Panama City location it should be (weather tab). google
Maps shows me in Panama City. I have used the *228 option 2 to update my
roaming capability.

I can set the Home Time Zone to Central Time (DST enabled) but after a
certain interval it reverts back to Eastern Time.

I live at least 30 miles from the boundary between Central and Eastern
time zones so I don't think it's a tower issue.

Anyone have any ideas?
From: Beverly Howard on 16 May 2010 17:22
Seems like you are doing what you need to... would call the carrier and
escalate it to tech savvy support... the google maps would suggest that
google thinks the ip is in jacksonville.

Beverly Howard

From: Todd Allcock on 17 May 2010 11:21

"Zeb Carter" <Zeb_Carter(a)ymail.com> wrote in message
news:FvXHn.14030$0M5.11180(a)newsfe07.iad...
>I have a HTC Touch Pro 2, carrier is Verizon, and I live in NW FL (Central
>Time Zone).
>
> Over the last few days, my location is showing up as Jacksonville instead
> of the Panama City location it should be (weather tab). google Maps shows
> me in Panama City. I have used the *228 option 2 to update my roaming
> capability.
>
> I can set the Home Time Zone to Central Time (DST enabled) but after a
> certain interval it reverts back to Eastern Time.
>
> I live at least 30 miles from the boundary between Central and Eastern
> time zones so I don't think it's a tower issue.
>
> Anyone have any ideas?

When you start having multiple issues at once, you look for the commonality-
all three issues are location problems.

I think it is a "tower issue" of sorts- not that you're connecting to the
wrong one, but that the phone thinks the tower is in Jacksonville.

My first guess would be to blame Google for having the incorrect location of
the tower in their database, but that wouldn't cause the time zone issue.
Perhaps Verizon is broadcasting the wrong info from that tower? I'd give
their tech guys a call and see what they say.

In the meantime, can you disable the phone's auto time zone setting? In
generic WinMo, it's in Start / Settings / Phone and in a tab marked "Time
Zones." I don't know if that option exists on the CDMA WinMo phones, or if
HTC hid it somewhere else in their TouchFlo UI.


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