the title tells all about it. my phones clock goes back to 8 am Jan 6th 1980 whenever i change the battery. been happening since i bought a battery on a chinese market a few months ago but didnt with the one i have had before that. however, it still happens with a high quality batteries. can a bad battery damage a phone?
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Help clock restarting with battery pull
- Thread starter gawriele
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If you take too long to swap the batteries, then the phone will lose some of its current information - after all, this is why problems can often be resolved by powering down and removing the battery for a few minutes. As has been said above, if you have selected for the phone to set the clock automatically, it should pick up the correct info fairly quickly. However, I routinely change my battery without losing the time/date - the trick is to power the phone down and then, having already got the replacement battery to hand, quickly swap the batteries over - it should only take a second or two.