Problems with setting time and date in phones

[Nabil mansouri]

Hey group,

I bought some ZTE scores X500 phones to run a survey in Haiti. I have developed the forms and one essential part of the forms is to take the date and time without the operator having to manually input the information. Yesterday I was trying to change the date and time to match the local time in Haiti, but I wasn't able to do it. I even called the manufacturer of the phones and they said that the time and date could not be changed manually by the user. Does anyone know if I can download some type of clock app into the phone and have the forms read the time from the downloaded app instead of the time that is showed by the phone system?

Any leads would be greatly appreciated as I have to run this survey pretty soon,
nabil

[Neil Hendrick]

These are Android phones? And you can't manually change the time in the settings? Madness.

Idea #1: Seriously, change it in the settings.

Idea #2: Maybe you could put an activated SIM card in each one for just long enough to set the time from the local phone network.

Idea #3: as long as all the phones times are the same, and they are all wrong by the same amount, you could just let them record the date and time incorrectly and then after you aggregate your data, open the CSV in Excel and transform the dates with an Excel formula, adding or subtracting the appropriate number of hours.

~Neil

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[Neil Hendrick]

Just a wild guess here, but what if you turn on the phone's wi-fi and connect to the internet, will they correct their time settings?

On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 8:57 AM, Nabil mansouri <nabil.m...@gmail.com> wrote:

Unfortunately the phones doesn't allow me to manually change the time and date. Also to my distress, these phones run on CDMA technology so I can't put a SIM card on them. And they are all giving me wacky times and dates..... I'm really disapointed with the Cricket ZTE Score x500 I wouldn't recommend it to anyone.

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