Year 2016 SMS Bug, Y2KX Bug?
So after a long night of partying and bringing in the New Year how many of you woke up this morning and looked at your phone to see who had wished you a Happy New Year and noticed the date said 2016 were we all just transported to the future or could this be the rumored Y2KX bug we have heard about?
So unless something crazy happened last night, this has to be a bug which has been confirmed from several US Carries that seem to be experiencing this SMS bug. We survived Y2K only to be plagued with a Y2016 bug. Subzero1312 from PPCGeeks noticed that Today's date 010110 is binary for 16 (hex) possibly? Not much is known about this bug but here is what we know about the bug so far (credit WMExperts):
- Any message received on 1/1/2010 shows up as the year 2016
- WM 6.1 and 6.5 users have reported the bug and doesn't seem to be ROM specific. (Some non Windows phones have reported this bug)
- Some T-Mobile users have reported they are not experiencing this bug.
- HTC and LG are aware, but have not made an official response yet.
Stay tuned for more information on this bug and an possible fixes or official annoucments.
Updated: Here is the fix provided by our very own PPCG member ziggy471!
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Yea I thought I had a really long night when I seen that….lol
Here’s the fix:
http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showpost.php?p=1454414&postcount=1
Z
I don’t think its a fix as much as a workaround the problem, the registry edit is just changing the way the timestamp shows up of the message. I think this is more of a network/carrier issue maybe because this registry edit has been around for sometime now.
According to posts on Twitter it’s not US specific. Also has been reported on HTC, LG and Palm devices. Check out http://search.twitter.com/search?q=1%2F1%2F16 for current tweets.
@tsowen – I know, but since we don’t have access to their servers to fix the real problem, it’ll at least work for now.
Z
When I saw my text…I was bugging out! I was omg is the Y2k…6?
I thought it was funny. I’ve been telling people, its my proof the world is not going to end in 2012.
Wierd, see no problem here… Sprint HTC Hero
Stock Message: [IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v303/SnakeBoi/2010/14741453816_ORIG.jpg[/IMG]
Handcent Message: [IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v303/SnakeBoi/2010/14741363998_ORIG.jpg[/IMG]
i dont believe it is efecting the Androids. at least not mine or any of my coworkers.
but the fix does work on the MOGUL as i just repaired a customers issue with it.