{"id":45255,"date":"2009-11-18T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-18T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mediabistro.com\/mobilecontenttoday\/android\/droid_users_can_enjoy_autofocus_until_december_11_then_autofocus_date_bug_returns_143507.asp?c=rss"},"modified":"2009-11-18T03:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-18T08:00:00","slug":"droid-users-can-enjoy-auto-focus-until-december-11-then-auto-focus-date-bug-returns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/45255","title":{"rendered":"Droid Users Can Enjoy Auto-Focus Until December 11. Then, Auto-Focus Date Bug Returns!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Remember when the first generation Zune stopped working on (I believe) December 31, 2008 because of a leap year date calculation problem? Well, Google has joined Microsoft in creating a date based bug. This item in Engadget is almost surreal…<\/p>\n

Motorola Droid camera autofocus fixed in secrecy? (Update: it’s a date-related self-correction)<\/A><\/p>\n

Here’s a comment to article attributed to a Google Android engineer<\/A>: There’s a rounding-error bug in the camera driver’s autofocus routine (which uses a timestamp) that causes autofocus to behave poorly on a 24.5-day cycle. That is, it’ll work for 24.5 days, then have poor performance for 24.5 days, then work again.<\/p>\n

The 17th is the start of a new “works correctly” cycle, so the devices will be fine for a while. A permanent fix is in the works.<\/em><\/p>\n

So, Droid users (like me) should be able to auto-focus until around mid-day December 11. A Verizon technical note discussed here earlier talked about a December 11 Droid update. So, a permanent fix may be available by then.<\/p>\n

To be honest, I’m not too impressed by the Droid’s 5-megapixel camera so far with or without autofocus. It has a very grainy look IMHO.<\/p>\n

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Remember when the first generation Zune stopped working on (I believe) December 31, 2008 because of a leap year date calculation problem? Well, Google has joined Microsoft in creating a date based bug. This item in Engadget is almost surreal… Motorola Droid camera autofocus fixed in secrecy? (Update: it’s a date-related self-correction) Here’s a comment […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}