Javulticat 2016 Fix for Touch Pro
Install this .cab to make your Touch Pro stop thinking texts are from 2016. It will work on custom ROMs, as well as stock ROMs (though I recommend you try the official fix first if you are running a stock ROM).
This fix works the same way as the official fix. That is, it corrects the root of the problem, which is that your phone misinterprets the SMS timestamp it receives from the network. This is in contrast to Ziggy471's popular fix, which makes your phone abandon using the network timestamp, and instead use your system timestamp. The main downside to this approach is that if a text message is delayed due to no reception, your phone being off, etc., the timestamp will be the time your phone receives the text message, even though it may have been sent hours, or even days, ago.
Currently verified to work on:
Sprint Touch Pro
Alltel Touch Pro
Should work on:
Any CDMA Touch Pro
(Not likely to work on a GSM Touch Pro, though those not afraid of having to hard reset can try.)
The .cab WILL NOT fix messages that already have an incorrect 2016 timestamp. To do this:
- Download CorrectSMSDate (CorrectSMSDate.zip, below. Made by HTC, not me) and try running it on your phone.
- If it works, great, you're done! If it doesn't work, continue with the rest of the directions:
- Install PIM Backup on your phone.
- Backup your texts, making sure that "Binary Backup (faster)" is UNCHECKED.
- Transfer the resulting file (with extension .pib) to your computer.
- Download the Javulticat Timestamp Corrector (JTC.zip, below), extract it and run it. Requires .NET Framework 3.5
- Select the .pib file you just created with the "Import PIB File" button, then hit "Correct".
- When the file is corrected, the program will exit. You will see a .pib file with "_JTC" appended to the end of its name in the same folder as the original .pib file. (The original .pib file is left unaltered just in case something goes wrong.)
- Transfer this "_JTC.pib" file to your phone.
- Run PIM Backup and restore the "_JTC.pib" file, selecting to overwrite existing texts (should be selected by default).
- Done!
Click "Thanks" if this helped!