02-08-2018, 10:47 AM | #46 |
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Where?
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02-08-2018, 08:08 PM | #47 |
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I’m looking at my cheap ESQ watch as I write this. I find devices other than my iPhone to be unreliable
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02-09-2018, 01:55 AM | #48 |
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On the clock front, computer clock chips are ridiculously bad. 5 minutes per week clock drift isn't unusual even on $20,000 servers. The usual excuse you're given is "connect it to the Internet so it can get the time". Amazon doesn't make the chips in the Kindles, so has no ability to make the clock work any better.
Note that my Jeep Wrangler's clock (displayed on the face of the stereo head) lost 5 minutes per week too. And that thing costed $35,000! And couldn't sync to the Internet, so I was always resetting the clock on the thing. Bad clocks are just a plague upon the tech world right now. SIGH. Back to the shape thing -- I wish there was a battery case for the Oasis 2. That would solve two problems -- it'd solve the battery life problem, and it'd solve the "it doesn't lie flat on the table" problem. Maybe there is, and I just haven't found it on Amazon's site yet? Dunno.... |
02-09-2018, 12:53 PM | #49 |
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02-10-2018, 06:50 AM | #50 |
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I looked and it depends on device. Both my PW3 and O2 are still on 5.9.2.0.1, the PW3 does not allow automatic time syncing while the Oasis does.
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02-10-2018, 07:38 AM | #51 |
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02-10-2018, 08:00 AM | #52 |
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Mine is under (All) Settings->Device Options->Device Time. There you can either set manually or a option of Set Automatically (ON/OFF).
Mine is the 3G version, I check later if the non-cell version has that option or not. ETA: Yes, the cell feature makes the difference. Regular (32 gb) O2 does not have the automatic time. The only other 3G Kindle I have is an old KT, which also has automatic time setting as option. Last edited by DuckieTigger; 02-10-2018 at 08:13 AM. |
02-10-2018, 12:14 PM | #53 |
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Yes mine's the Wifi version.
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02-11-2018, 09:53 AM | #54 |
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Mine has been on airplane mode for 1 month, and is within 1 minute correct!
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02-11-2018, 09:55 AM | #55 | |
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I think they are off when you overclock your device (change the clock and cpu modifiers). But standard PC's are very reliable! Even cheap $300 ones! |
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02-13-2018, 01:26 PM | #56 | |
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(In the Kindle's case, it corrects every time you connect via wifi, but often fails to adjust for daylight saving time changes, and *also* loses the time every time you hard-reset it. This is downright ridiculous, really, given that the Olson timezone database which lets you accurately adjust to DST changes anywhere in the world is far older than the Kindle and *the Kindle has a copy of it*, in fact at one point it had two distinct copies. It just doesn't bother to consult either in the user-interface code.) |
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02-13-2018, 03:55 PM | #57 |
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Our server at work sets the clock on our local computers--it seems to gain a minute every couple of months. It'll be off by as much as 10 minutes before the techs notice and correct it.
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02-16-2018, 02:09 AM | #58 | |
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Point: Computer clocks suck because computer vendors figure you'll just get your time from the Internet. (And as someone else pointed out, temperature is a big issue there too... my clocks get slower during the winter, when the average temperature of my server room declines to around 60F from its summer average of about 75F). So anyhow, I'm not upset about the Oasis clock being inaccurate. As long as it auto-syncs its time with Amazon's servers at the same time that it syncs everything else I'm happy. |
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02-16-2018, 10:32 AM | #59 |
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02-19-2018, 07:15 PM | #60 | |
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I don't really have an exclusive offline pc, as every pc I own, will need updating at least once a year. Even laptops or tablets. |
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