(keitai-l) Re: another P503 bug!!!

This is not a hoax and has been discussed in the relevant Japanese mailing
lists for the last week or so.
It's only been confirmed for the P503i. Various workarounds have been
proposed (such as renaming teh month to 'Apl' for the P503i (no b.s.!) or
avoiding April dates altogether.
However this is considered a fairly severe bug and is probably going to harm
Panasonic (especially as they already had to recall once).

Regards,

	Harry


> -----Original Message-----
> From: keitai-l-bounce@appelsiini.net [mailto:keitai-l-bounce@appelsiini.
> net]On Behalf Of Renfield Kuroda
> Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2001 7:41 PM
> To: keitai-l@appelsiini.net
> Subject: (keitai-l) Re: another P503 bug!!!
>
>
> Has anyone actually CONFIRMED this? I don't have a P503 but I am very
> suspect of anything announced on April 1...
>
> r e n
>
>
> Gary James wrote:
> >
> > There is another bug in the P503.  It is to do with the handling of
> > dates.  The bug technically makes it impossible for any P503 users to
> > download i-appli made during the month of April to their phone .
> >
> > The reason for the bug is that the engineers at Panasonic used "Apl" as
> > the short form for April, whereas the standard(?) form (I believe used
> > by all the other models) is "Apr".  When a user tries to download an
> > i-appli that was built in April (thus having a "LastModified" entry in
> > the JAM file that specifies "Apr") the phone will show an error message
> > and not allow the download to continue.
> >
> > It's not too hard for developers to get around this problem.  They could
> > edit the JAM file manually and lie about the build date.  Although this
> > would make the P503 happy it's basically a hack and could cause more
> > problems - never a good thing!
> >
> > Of course, i-appli made by developers who don't know about this issue
> > won't work.  This is obviously going to cause DoCoMo and Panasonic more
> > embarrassment!!!
> >
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