Sunday, January 9, 2011

Bizarre Bug: Google phone system sends SMS to the wrong apear

Is rare, it is rather embarrassing: Some smartphones with Google's Android operating system to send SMS to any arbitrary recipients from the address book. Now Google promises remedy for SMS-roulette - six months after the first error message. The disaster took its course well in New Zealand: end of June 2010 report to the owner of a Google phone that its Nexus One sent SMS messages to random wrong numbers.


The user with the New Zealand e-mail describing the malfunction very dry, like that ever happen only software developers have been sending SMS to recipients A. SMS successfully sent to recipients A seems to be. X receiver gets the message. One can easily describe the problem to a head such that those who sent to Google's mobile operating system SMS should only write lyrics that he can send good conscience to all contacts in their address book - because anyone can get this message.

Meanwhile, nearly 7,000 users track the repair history of this bizarre bug in Google Android forum for nearly 1,500 calls for help have now been added to the first error message. Many users do not see things as relaxed as the author of the first error message. Some comments: "I can not believe that such a fundamental function has not been repaired!" "I feel let down by Google.

: - / "In the first six months is also not much happens - the error was not classified as critical, perhaps Google's view, were simply too few affected devices this has changed now, a Google representative said the BBC now. we have examined the matter is now developing a solution why it took so long Google says the BBC.

"It took us longer to trace the error, it seems very rare, though." It should, however, cold comfort for people . be who texted her boss with the Android phone is a "good morning darling" or offensive Maybe the Google engineers pour the faulty code SMS application in a new program - a text equivalent of the popular Web chat roulette.
Posted by Manlio Gandolfi at 6:56 PM

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