Help Date on lock screen not displaying properly

chuck95 · May 9, 2011

My epic's lock screen isn't displaying the date properly. As you can see, today it's showing Mon May... and then the rest of the date is cut off.

This didn't used to be a problem. It's almost like the clock's font is too big, but I never changed it, nor have I even found a place to do that.

Any ideas? I've tried turning it off and on, and changing the wallpaper, to no avail.Thanks.

By the way, does anyone know today's date?

ijeggert · May 9, 2011

got that same trouble myself. I think likely all that are running the touchwiz have that issue, but I could be wrong.

rounsy222 · May 9, 2011

Thats a bug in the os, happening even with custom roms too that are using stock fonts. The only way i know how to fix it is to change the font, if your rooted you can use an app to do this, if your stock then idk :-( maybe someone else might have a better answer than me.

chuck95 · May 9, 2011

No, I'm not rooted.
I can't pinpoint exactly when this started happening, but I could swear it was fine for a while after I got the 2.2 update a few weeks ago.

Gavisann · May 10, 2011

Its only the month of May, so far anyway. I just thought it is funny that it is printed, "May." and not "May".

Poweranimals · May 10, 2011

I just got my phone and it does the same thing.

loclhero · May 12, 2011

Yet another F**king reason why the update was a worthless piece of shite. Mine started the same thing the minute that update came down. Along with the non-stop music alert whenever I get an email or any notification. And nobody anywhere seems to have any idea how to correct this crap?

Kelmar · May 13, 2011

Local hero

This is a solution if you root your phone.

For the notification issue, change your notification tone and see if that helps.

cmurff · May 14, 2011

My friends samsung epic is having this exact problem..

I however am not on my droid x rooted running liberty

lala7320 · May 14, 2011

loclhero said:
Yet another F**king reason why the update was a worthless piece of shite. Mine started the same thing the minute that update came down. Along with the non-stop music alert whenever I get an email or any notification. And nobody anywhere seems to have any idea how to correct this crap?

Loclhero I have a solution for the notification problem. It drove me crazy as well. Go into your email, select an account (if you have multiple), then pressthe menu button, press more, and then select ringtone (android system if you have an app for ringtones) and then silent and ok. This should solve your problem.

Hope this helps!

rounsy222 · May 14, 2011

cmurff said:
My friends samsung epic is having this exact problem..

I however am not on my droid x rooted running liberty

Ya its a font issue in the epic's build and it sounds like it only affects the month of may. Once it switches to june it should go away.

nstg8r · May 14, 2011

I went into settings and changed my date and time to "manual". Changed the date to different months, and yes, it's only May that this happens.

chuck95 · May 14, 2011

Oh, that's good to hear! Glad it's only May that's a problem! (hopefully there will be a firmware update before next may)

loclhero · May 22, 2011

Kelmar said:
Local hero

This is a solution if you root your phone.

For the notification issue, change your notification tone and see if that helps.

Well, I'm pretty much a dork with stuff like rooting. As for the notification, nothing that I do has stopped this. I've reset to standard ringtones a dozen times and it always defaults to this weird sound. Pretty fed up but thanks for the suggestion.

loclhero · May 22, 2011

lala7320 said:
Loclhero I have a solution for the notification problem. It drove me crazy as well. Go into your email, select an account (if you have multiple), then pressthe menu button, press more, and then select ringtone (android system if you have an app for ringtones) and then silent and ok. This should solve your problem.

Hope this helps!

Ummm...unless I'm missing something, you're telling me to just turn off the notification ringtones? That's what I've done out of frustration. Obviously I'm trying to be able to hear a ringtone when i get email. And one that does not continue THROUGHOUT the night unless I get up to turn it off.

nstg8r · May 23, 2011

loclhero said:
Well, I'm pretty much a dork with stuff like rooting. As for the notification, nothing that I do has stopped this. I've reset to standard ringtones a dozen times and it always defaults to this weird sound. Pretty fed up but thanks for the suggestion.

Try selecting a specific ("system") ringtone instead of "defaut", "current" or "silent".

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