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clock stuck on 9:42

buymeaniphone

buymeaniphone

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Feb 8, 2007
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San Antonio, Texas
I just noticed last week that the time on the top of the screen on my iPhone is stuck on 9:42 and never changes. When I put the phone in standby and bring it back up it shows the correct time on the "slide to unlock" screen but after unlocking it the top still says 9:42. The last app I installed on the phone was Extended Preferences, so that might have something to do with it. When I try to uninstall it, it gives me an error saying Main Script execution failed! Not sure what to do, any ideas?
 
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dsgalit

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Nov 13, 2007
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buymeaniphone said:
I just noticed last week that the time on the top of the screen on my iPhone is stuck on 9:42 and never changes. When I put the phone in standby and bring it back up it shows the correct time on the "slide to unlock" screen but after unlocking it the top still says 9:42. The last app I installed on the phone was Extended Preferences, so that might have something to do with it. When I try to uninstall it, it gives me an error saying Main Script execution failed! Not sure what to do, any ideas?
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On the extended prefs app. you installed there should be a "fake time" option, i think you turned it on and thats why that fake time
'9:42" is always showing! Try going back to it and turn it off. On why you can't uninstall the app., i dont know why you shouldn't be able too! :confused:
 
GoCubsGo

GoCubsGo

macrumors Nehalem
Feb 19, 2005
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I had this issue, the uninstall issue and it seemed by installing BSD it helped. Not sure if that'll help.
And on a side note, I read this as "clock stuck on 1942. ;)
 
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chriscoyne

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Nov 2, 2007
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Thank You - This was driving me crazy.

dsgalit said:
On the extended prefs app. you installed there should be a "fake time" option, i think you turned it on and thats why that fake time
'9:42" is always showing! Try going back to it and turn it off. On why you can't uninstall the app., i dont know why you shouldn't be able too! :confused:
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Thanks buddy.....This was driving me crazy. For others with Extended Preferences go to Settings/Interface/Fake Time. Then turn it off.

Worked for me. Thanks

Chris
 
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SheepNutz

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Jul 1, 2007
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Kantuckee
If you're time is stuck like me, and you can't uninstall or reinstall extended preferences, then here's a quick and easy fix. Go into your iPhone's directory via SSH, navigate to /private/var/root/Library/Preferences and delete the file com.apple.springboard.plist. I read about it from another forum, and it worked like a charm.
 
buymeaniphone

buymeaniphone

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Feb 8, 2007
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San Antonio, Texas
So for some reason I decided to update my phone to the 1.1.3 firmware and dump all my hacks and the clock is still stuck on 9:42, so now I have no way of using SSH to get inside and remove any files. I could try to completely restore it but I'd have to reset all my settings. I never thought having an inaccurate clock would bother me so much.
 
Santa Rosa

Santa Rosa

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Aug 22, 2007
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Along the same lines, my iPhone is 1.1.3, O2 UK fully legit no jailbreaking unlocking etc and my countdown timer always adds 19 seconds to the time set, so 1 minute countdown is a 1.19 countdown in the timer!!!

Anyone else had this problem know of a reasonable fix??
 
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