text messages from the future Y2KX issue

[laxman12786]

Originally Posted by psycho_maniac

i like this theory. seems like an easy fix also seems like a fix on the server side right? not on the phone side? should we call in and complain? would they even understand what were are talking about when we mentioned this? there solution is to do a hard reset or send in the phone to get a different one.

Yes, I like it too. The only issue I see with it is that again, not ALL Sprint TP/TP2's are having this issue. Could it be that some towers/data centers/whatever are running different versions of transmission/relay software?

If they were, it's possible that some have a hex date variable whereas others use binary or decimal. That would explain why not all of the seemingly same phones with the same ROM versions experience the trouble. My guess would be that this is the case and only in isolated areas are the CDMA towers/relay stations running the newest version of the software which no longer uses a hex date code - and if that's true every phone in that area will work correctly.

Do we have any confirmed phones that exhibit the problem and one that does NOT in the same small geographic area? Similarly, are there multiple phones in the same small geographic area that do NOT exhibit the issue at all?

ORRRRR, am I just completely crazy?

[pastert33]

Originally Posted by NeroDan

I think the problem is more that since it puts times for outgoing and just a date for incoming, threaded messaging gets all sorts of out of order.

Yea that is a problem for me as well as looking at the msg tab and see 2016 as a date.

[bkrodgers]

Originally Posted by kabuk1

I honestly don't see this as that big a deal. We all know what year it is, I doubt anyone's gonna mistakenly think it's 2016 based on a text message.

I like the hex theory too though. Makes sense.

It's not so much that the year is wrong, it's that because incoming are affected and outgoing aren't, threading is messed up. The other problem I see is that I like to save my texts. Unless the fix for this corrects the texts I've received, these ones will ALWAYS be in front of new texts that come in after the fix. That will be irritating, so I'll probably end up deleting whatever texts have come in with 2016 on them.

[Ruh]

Has anyone anyone tried changing the clock/date to somethime other than today (if that is even possible) to see if the year fixes (including retroactively). Or...has anyone who is in a timezone that puts them into tomorrow (if that makes sense...).

Assuming the issue is with the date being 1/1/10. That means we will have issues on: 1/10/10, 1/11/10, 10/1/10, 10/11/10, 11/01/10, 11/10/10, and then similar dates into 2011....o.O

[darklyte27]

so from wiki

Decimal: 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
BCD: 0000 0001 0010 0011 0100 0101 0110 0111 1000 1001

[aamon17]

Originally Posted by MightyMike

lol, if my phone looks like this in the year 2016, I'm going to be one super pissed mouse!

HTC Innovation my ass

LOL! . . . Mike, I don't have the bug on Impact 12/28. Which rom are you running now?

[NeroDan]

Originally Posted by Ruh

Has anyone anyone tried changing the clock/date to somethime other than today (if that is even possible) to see if the year fixes (including retroactively). Or...has anyone who is in a timezone that puts them into tomorrow (if that makes sense...).

Assuming the issue is with the date being 1/1/10. That means we will have issues on: 1/10/10, 1/11/10, 10/1/10, 10/11/10, 11/01/10, 11/10/10, and then similar dates into 2011....o.O

No effect. It still gives a date of 1/1 for the timestamp.

[shatner]

I am having this issue too! Glad to see it isnt just me, I am on stock ROM also. Now can you imagine the phone technology in 2016?!

i HAD that problem this morning... went to sync with internet time and everything was fine again. Has anyone here tried that yet??

edit: im on mightyrom war 12/30

[mulhiny]

Originally Posted by g00s3y

i HAD that problem this morning... went to sync with internet time and everything was fine again. Has anyone here tried that yet??

edit: im on mightyrom war 12/30

Could you explain the process? I never heard of "sync with internet time"