
Damn
I was hoping I could skip Christmas this year.
Google has begun rolling out a patch for Android 4.2 "Jelly Bean" that fixes a bug that caused the month of December to vanish from the system's built-in People app. People is the Android contact-management app, first introduced with Android 4.0 "Ice Cream Sandwich." In addition to storing the usual names, phone numbers, and …
I have to agree - Firefox Beta(*), the kid's favourite "Plants vs Zombies", the Android clock/timer - all have crashed repeatedly and seemingly randomly since the 4.2 update. I don't recall them crashing at all in the two months or so prior to that. The kids still love the Nexus 7, most apps seem unaffected and it's still very smooth to use, but it's most definitely less stable overall than 4.1.2.
(*) Yeah, it's beta. But it worked remarkably well 'till the 4.2 update.
Exactly, I bought one. I liked it, then 4.2 made it into the glitch monster. Firefox alone now crashes constantly, my favorite games freeze and become unresponsive, And for the nerve of saying I am having a problem the Android Fanbois are spanking me down for not heeding to the revealed word of Android. I'm supposed to just shut up and pretend that the fly in my muffin is a blackcurrant.
In a few weeks I've gone from wanting to replace my iPhone 4s with a Nexus 4 to looking forward to my iPad Mini from my inlaws this Xmas so I can sell this thing and get my money back out of it.
What I want to know is, why does that People app thingy now have data fields for "RFID Government Tracking Number", "Blood Type", "Body Odour Stink Rating" and most oddly "Fuckability"!?
I'm guessing these are something to do with up-coming services Google will soon be offering!
I got the update to 4.2 the night before last and while the month of December is missing (from the bit where you add an event into a contacts profile), it seems a bit smoother on the Galaxy Nexus.
Haven't yet tried to produce a proper "sphere" with the camera, but my efforts in my cube have shown that (a) it's quite easy to use, and (b) it's pants on close up stuff