topic Re: Phone doesnt keep up with the time in Android Devices

Phone doesnt keep up with the time

chezz100 — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 09:16:34 GMT

Hello

My Samsung S23 has started to not keep up the correct time. Friday I was late for work because my alarms did not go off because at 7.40 am my phone reckoned it was 01.39 am. And today at 08.30 my phone said it was 02.29.

Re: Phone doesnt keep up with the time

Northerner — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 09:37:16 GMT

Hi @chezz100

This is odd what are your settings under settings - general management.

Also what are your location settings.

Thanks

Re: Phone doesnt keep up with the time

chezz100 — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 09:58:17 GMT

Date and Time are all set to on.

Location is on with emergency location services and location accuracy on.

Cheers

Re: Phone doesnt keep up with the time

bristolian — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 11:13:39 GMT

Almost certainly a device issue rather than network one.

When did you last power-restart your phone?

Re: Phone doesnt keep up with the time

chezz100 — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 11:47:04 GMT

Several times. I'm having wifi problems were I lose connection and it says 'connected without internet'. And I've used up my data because of this. So I turn off data when I'm in the house and I'm thinking that during the night I'm losing wifi again so the phone is not updating the time correctly.

Re: Phone doesnt keep up with the time

bristolian — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 11:56:05 GMT

Although there is some kind of network-time-update happens particularly at clocks-change time, the phone shouldn't need this just to keep time - otherwise every single mobile device would lose time when it doesn't have an internet connection.

"Connected without internet" is usually a symptom of the router you're connecting to, not having an onward internet connection, but there are some alarm bells ringing here, of whether your phone has an underlying fault.