My Phone Thinks it's January 1st, 1970. How Do I Bring it Back to the Future?

[marbud]

I've never actually seen that movie, I'm sorry if I don't understand any references.

Okay! So, here's the run-down. I have an LG Lucid 2. I am in England right now studying abroad for the year, and I have suspended my phone service, and have only been using wifi when it's available. When I got into the UK, my phone was still on USA Central time. I have searched the phone, and the manual, and an online version of the manual, and have not been able to find a way to change the date and time manually. Now, this ordinarily wouldn't have been a problem, but then I took my SIM card out (wanted to see if the SIM cards they've been giving away here would fit in my phone if I got it unlocked from Verizon and not have to get a new phone to use here, but I did not put the other SIM card into the phone) and put it back in and started the phone up. This is when it time-traveled. It started back up at 6:00pm, January 1st, 1970. So now, a lot of my apps aren't working because they're demanding I change my date and time, but when I go to do that, the only options I have are to change the date and time /format/. I just want to get my phone onto the right time. I even tried to hard reset it, but when I held both the power button and the volume button after turning it off, it came to a screen that said something like "Downloading Screen, Do Not Unplug Device Until Finished" or something like that. If I didn't touch it, it would stay like that. If I touched the power button like the manual says to do, nothing happened. I could only get one thing to happen - which is for it to start back up again with all of my apps and media and settings. So. That didn't work. Please help. Please. I am tearing my hair out over this and after waiting an hour, staring at the livechat button, willing it to turn on, I've had no luck.

[Ann154]

Uncheck the automatic date and time setting and manually change the time. Some of the older Android phones don't retain the date and time during a reboot if there is no SIM card in the device.

[marbud]

Would that be under "Date & Time"? Because when I click on that, literally the only things that pop up are "Select Date Format" (so either dd/mm/yyyy or mm/dd/yyyy, things like that) and a check box for "Use 24-Hour Format."

[B33]

In your settings as Ann154 pointed out it should be in your Date & Time and Listed as Automatic Date and Time.. then this may proceed ( use network - provided time ) and uncheck the setting.. 

But this phone may not have that option I'll keep looking in the Meanwhile here is the Manual or the Link to look at it..

Lucid™2 by LG Support | Verizon Wireless

[B33]

This Video might help ya give it a look.. follow the link below..

How to Change Time on Android Device - YouTube

[marbud]

Yeah, I already looked through the manual, unless there's something I missed 😧

[B33]

Just for asking can you post a screen shot of the Date and Time settings,  Like shown below"  press either the Lower volume and power or upper volume and power the 2 that snaps a screen shot once you've done that if ya know how to post a S.S.  post it to thread and that way it will give us a Look at your settings..

Here's a Screen shot of my Droid Maxx with the Date and Time..

[IMI]

After the latest update my date and time are in the past and will not allow any corrections, or overrides.  Nothing works!

[Veesmove]

I am having the same issues wrong dates 1970 when i go into my apps manager

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