Posted by Asheyna on September 17th, 2009 | 0 comments
So by now I hope you’ve heard, Google released Android 1.6 to the developer community. Yay for donuts! Should be seeing it available for upgrade possibly as early as October which would be awesome.
There’s no mention of an SMS time stamp fix yet, you can be sure if there isn’t one I am going to be an unhappy geek. Which may finally motivate me to get off my butt and flash with Cyanogen as I’ve been meaning to.
Some things that are mentioned:
Different screen sizes and resolutions – Ok this could be neat, will have to see what the options are
New txt-to-speech API – Never tried the old one, may have to do for comparison
Market upgrade – This is the one I’m most interested to see aside from the time stamps… a quick search of *everything* could be useful. And will ti work better? I often get failures when I’m searching.
As more information is released I’ll share what I find. Let me know your thoughts! For now I’ll leave you with the official introduction video:
Ok, I’ve had the HTC Dream for a while now. And guess what? I still love it! Really, it only gets better the more things you find out it can do. For those who follow the world of open source probably heard about the release of Google Latitude. (More on what I think about this later!)
Between my grandpa and I we have come across some neat little programs. So what am I using right now?
NEW!
Google Maps +Latitude The ultimate in any stalker’s arsenal! hehe. Don’t worry, your location isn’t given out at random, you invite your friends to join your network. Even there you have many privacy options. From letting certain friends see your exact GPS location to only showing others which city you’re currently in. You can turn it off whenever you like to prevent anyone from seeing where you are.
There’s also two methods for determining your location. Wifi/3G which is not as accurate, and GPS which is dead on.
3G Watchdog I don’t haveunlimited data plan, but 500MB is actually a lot when it comes to mobile phone data. However, with using programs such as Latitude I do want to keep an eye on how much bandwidth I’m using. This program tracks the uploaded and downloaded data (you can define what your quota is and when it refreshes). It also tells you useful information like how much bandwidth you will have used given your current rate when your quota ends.
NewsRob Because a girl can never have too many RSS feeds to follow hehe. Seriously though it’s a nice light application that syncs with Google Reader so you don’t have to set up all your subscriptions again. You can star and share posts right from your phone!
In an effort to keep all 5 of you my dear readers in the loop as to what’s going on with the Android SMS Time Stamp Issue I spoke again with Tech Support this morning.
A message has just been released to all Android Tech Support agents this morning regarding this issue. There is a scheduled firmware update for mid July. Apparently this will resolve the SMS Time Stamp being locked onto EST for all received messages. Good on them for staying ontop of it, although waiting til July so I can finally have properly threaded txts? Bah.
Guess we’ll just have to deal with it til then. Be sure that as soon as that update is available I will tell you where to get it and walk you through the install!
June 9, 2009 – SMS Time Stamps
Status: Unresolved – Reported
So we’ve got our first glitch on the phone. All my received messages are showing as being sent 3 hours after I receive them. Text messages I’ve sent are showing the correct time so a conversation that went like this:
Becca: How’s the wrist?
Me: Bit painful still
Becca: Awww
Actually winds up looking like this:
Me: Bit painful still ~Sent 8:15AM
Becca: How’s the wrist? ~Sent 11:14AM
Becca: Awww ~Sent 11:17AM
Needless to say this is highly annoying. I’ve tried the typical fixes, IE: setting my time zone manually and letting the Rogers network set it automatically. Becca is in the same city as me, however this problem also occurs with people in different cities and on different networks.
Called technical support, after telling me to do what I already did (I really just need to start making them put me through to Advanced Tech Support right away) he’s got me on hold while he talks to Advanced Technical Support.
I’ve searche the blogs, forums, etc. There’s not a ton of info, this being a new phone to both the Rogers Network and to Canada. The only info I can find involves editing the registry, and while I will play with that on my computer… I won’t risk messing up my phone.
Service Call with Rogers (REF# – WR05969735) : He’s contacted Advanced Tech… it’s a known issue. He’s added my contact info to the already open ticket so I’ll be getting a fix as soon as they figure one out. Let’s hope it’s soon… I txt way too much for this crap.
