weird time/date issue

[foxinabox]

While the splash video was playing I clicked shutdown from the right thumbstick menu. Upon rebooting xbmc, all the system settings reverted and trying to set the time and date always results in something random from the 17th century....or the 90th century.

I guess something got damaged but the only suspicious log entry mentions that xbmc "failed to get eeprom user settings."

What do?

[Lion]

What version of XBMC are you using? From what I've found you might be using a very old build.
This log entry is directly correlated with your issue - it's generated by the function SetTimeZoneInfo.

[foxinabox]

3.5.3. The latest version.

[Rocky5]

Delete guisettings.xml or hold White + A on boot to wipe the guisettings.xml

[foxinabox]

I deleted it yesterday. It didn't work.

[Rocky5]

Do you have a virtual eeprom enabled?
( usually installed when the softmod is installed )

[foxinabox]

No, sorry. This xbox is tsop'd. There was never a softmod.

[spicemuseum]

Here's my guess:
- The time and date it's reporting is midnight on the 1st January 1970 (the start of the computing epoch (unix time)).
- Your X80X has had its clock cap removed.
- And, either:
- you unplugged your X80X from the mains power at some point, or
- your X80X is not connected to the internet.

[foxinabox]

None of those is true in my case, except for not being connected to the internet.

[Rocky5]

None of those is true in my case, except for not being connected to the internet.

The time isn't set on boot to a specific date in the last 10 years as you're no longer softmodded. ( the clock loop fix set the time to a preset date, on my softmod I set it to 1/1/2016 )

So you will need internet to set the time properly or you will need to set it manually in the XBMC settings & never unplug your Xbox or turn it off at the wall ever again.

[foxinabox]

I was never softmodded. This xbox is tsop'd. Manually entering the time or date in settings results in a random combo from the 17th century.

[Rocky5]

I was never softmodded. This xbox is tsop'd. Manually entering the time or date in settings results in a random combo from the 17th century.

You had to softmod it to flash the TSOP, but that irrelevant.

If you set the time and it's still going nuts, then god knows what up. It shouldn't be doing that.

What other dashboards have you tried as a primary dashboard?


Have you tried just removing XBMC altogether and replacing it with a clean copy?
Have you tried another dashboard instead of XBMC and get the same result?

[foxinabox]

After getting this board I plugged my xecuter in, loaded slayers and used the flash tsop option. So I dunno what you mean about softmodding.

Anyway, I'm just about to nuke everything and rebuild from scratch, Thanks everyone for trying.

[spicemuseum]

You had to softmod it to flash the TSOP, but that irrelevant.

I was once corrected when I made this claim. The tenuous argument made was that you could run the TSOP flash program directly from an exploit rather than installing a softmod.

In this case, however, the cat has been let out of the Fox's bag - he's hardmodded.

[Rocky5]

You had to softmod it to flash the TSOP, but that irrelevant.

I was once corrected when I made this claim. The tenuous argument made was that you could run the TSOP flash program directly from an exploit rather than installing a softmod.

In this case, however, the cat has been let out of the Fox's bag - he's hardmodded.

Yeah, I did type that out about using a chip but in this day and age it's more common for folk to softmod then TSOP.
( also the softmod is a software modification/exploit, so the save is a softmod in the technical sense )

[spicemuseum]

You had to softmod it to flash the TSOP, but that irrelevant.

I was once corrected when I made this claim. The tenuous argument made was that you could run the TSOP flash program directly from an exploit rather than installing a softmod....

.... ( also the softmod is a software modification/exploit, so the save is a softmod in the technical sense )

I don't disagree.

[foxinabox]

It turns my eeprom was corrupted, probably because I transplanted the physical eeprom from another xbox. Using the "last resort recovery" option on xblast OS fixed it completely.

Thank you psyko chewbacca.

Bumping thread to recommend xblast to any future readers with eeprom problems. What a beautiful piece of software.