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!!!
>
> [ Did you check the archives? http://www.appelsiini.net/keitai-l/ ]
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