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Okay, anyone worried about trophies......go online to the playstation.com website and check your profile. My borderlands 72% shows up there so its synced and accurate, but its gone form my system. MakingMusic is right, if its synced and saved the next time we sync the console it should show up fine if its on the website.



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mikey said:
I manually fixed my time and it didnt solve anything. Now I have a broken PS3 with the correct time and date...great.

$300 clock, I fail to see the issue



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Last time I actually checked my trophies through the friend's list area my Heavy Rain trophies were at 48%. If checking it through the "Game" section of the XMB does nothing then my 68% on Heavy Rain will drop 20%.

That is pretty much all I would lose though, but it still sucks.


That is if that is what syncing is, because nobody answered my question yet.



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Even the smarty Cell can forget that February has only 28 days most of the time...






Ok, I know it's not the Cell's fault, but one would have thought that these kind of issues were a thing of the past...



Explanation as to what might be going on from iammeiam on gaf:

The going theory is that the PS3 is storing some form of date in GMT, then modifying that to get whatever you see in the on-screen clock. That modification process seems to be fine--the system can take 2/28/2010, 9PM GMT, add four hours, and get 3/1/2010, 1AM random time zone.

What's apparently effed, as speculation goes, is when the internal GMT-tracking rolls over to 3/1. It's either not rolling, or rolling to 2/29, at which point a system tries to add/subtract from 2/29, which it can't do because the front-end calendar doesn't have a 2/29/2010, and shit explodes. Seemed to happen around 4PM PDT, which I think is 12AM GMT, so.

And the PS3 launched in 2006; it's hit 4 2/28s so far. 2007 and 2009 were odd-numbered years; 2008 was an even, and a leap year. 2010 is the first even non-leap-year the system's been around for. If some sort of base-level math is choking on itself, it may have ruled out the odd 2007 and 2009 successfully, but is convinced the even 2010 is a leap year (this part I'm less sure of, but is why leap year could theoretically come into play at some point.)



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Xxain said:
makingmusic476 said:
radiantshadow92 said:
Xxain said:
Can somebody fuckin Xxplain this? is this related to the Heavy Rain patch? Ive been on PSN all day and haven't had any issues

no it has to do with psn and sony, i have never played heavy rain and neither have alot of people and still have the issue, its sony or hack or something, something is going down that we dont know about

Actually, the bug has nothing to do with PSN.  However, being connected to PSN can seemingly keep the bug from happening.

The bug is happening as a fault of the internal clock on the motherboard.


from wat? hows that possible without internet connection?

Like any electronic device of this kind (computers, console) theres a battery on the motherboard to keep the time running. But now im wandering: if the battery is scrap (like in my dreamcast, each time I start it, it ask me to select date and time) will it have the same consequences? lol



Euphoria14 said:
Last time I actually checked my trophies through the friend's list area my Heavy Rain trophies were at 48%. If checking it through the "Game" section of the XMB does nothing then my 68% on Heavy Rain will drop 20%.

That is pretty much all I would lose though, but it still sucks.


That is if that is what syncing is, because nobody answered my question yet.

check your profile through the Playstation website, whats there is what has been synced i believe.



OMFG...my PS3 just bricked on me!



Euphoria14 said:
Last time I actually checked my trophies through the friend's list area my Heavy Rain trophies were at 48%. If checking it through the "Game" section of the XMB does nothing then my 68% on Heavy Rain will drop 20%.

That is pretty much all I would lose though, but it still sucks.


That is if that is what syncing is, because nobody answered my question yet.

I know it syncs everytime you compare your list with somebody else's.  I'm not sure about just checking your trophies, though.

It says it whenever it does it.  "Please wait while your trophies sync..." or whatever.



When I check my trophies online is doesn't show Heavy Rain, but my trophy count is still the same.



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