Timezone Change in pCloudy Device through Appium

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I am using Appium - Java - UiAutomator2 - pCloudy combination for mobile automation . The mobile should run on specifc time zone like Australia . pCloudy is not providing any method to change it and they were saying through script timezone needs to changed . Could you please help me how i can change time zone before i trigger my app in pCloudy through appium - java code ?

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I don’t think Appium can do this natively. But you can do it with ADB if you reboot the device after the change:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8062827/how-do-i-change-timezone-using-adb

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Thank you for reply . This require rebooting device after running the ADB commands . I have not tried this option because my devices are on pCloudy .

Is there way to handle through location change like i see few command like below

driver.setLocation(new Location(49, 123, 10));

Will this change timzone according to the location given ??

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Yes, I believe I mentioned device must reboot. I have not used pCloudy, very few here are experts on these device farms. I did look to see if they have support/discussion board, but I think that’s only for paying customers.

For the location change–no idea. Maybe someone else here can chime in on that issue, or you could run some tests…

Good luck!

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I am running the ADB commands to change the timezone in andriod mobile .
Code :
String cmd =“setprop persist.sys.timezone “America/Chicago””;
Object obj = driver.executeScript(“pCloudy_executeAdbCommand”, cmd);
System.out.println(“ADB Command:” + cmd);
System.out.println("@Output: "+obj);

obj prints Invalid Command.

Any thing wrong in this code ?

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Now i switched to Android emulator to change the timezone . I want to change the timezone in emulator device .
In the example, what’s needs to be updated to change the timezone in the emulator ?
Example :
Map<String, Object> args = new HashMap<>();
args.put(“command”, “echo”);
args.put(“args”, Lists.newArrayList(“arg1”, “arg2”));
String output = driver.executeScript(“mobile: shell”, args);
assert output.equals(“arg1 arg2”);

The commands i want pass is

setprop persist.sys.timezone “America/Chicago”

Could you please help me on this ?

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Map<String, Object> args = new HashMap<>();
args.put(“command”, “echo”);
args.put(“args”, Lists.newArrayList(“setprop persist.sys.timezone”, “America/Chicago”));
Object output = driver.executeScript(“mobile: shell”, args);

is this correct statement ?