i600 Spurious private messages firmware bug confirmed

[Guest The PocketTV Team]

we just confirmed that the Samsung i-600 has the same firmware bug than the Motorola Q, i.e. it sends spurious private messages to all running applications.

this firmware bug is documented here: http://www.modaco.com/Motorola-Q-Spurious-...la-t242539.html

in the case of the Samsung i-600, the spurious messages are sent when the phone is flipped open or closed. the message sent to all application is 0x000080ca - which is in a range reserved for private use (e.g. interthread-communications) inside applications and should NEVER be sent to an application unless it expects this message to be sent.

this can cause applications to randomly crash or misbehave when the Samsung i-600 is flipped closed or opened.

i think that the Samsung i-600 is also known as the Sprint PCS Vision Smart Device SP-i600 (as we had other reports of this from people using this device).

we have received reports that the same firmware bug also affects the Asus P525.

it is important that people creating WinCE platform make sure that they test for this bug, since MSFT does not currently test for it.

Edited December 23, 2006 by The PocketTV Team

[Guest rjefferis]

we just confirmed that the Samsung i-600 has the same firmware bug than the Motorola Q, i.e. it sends spurious private messages to all running applications.

this firmware bug is documented here: http://www.modaco.com/Motorola-Q-Spurious-...la-t242539.html

in the case of the Samsung i-600, the spurious messages are sent when the phone is flipped open or closed. the message sent to all application is 0x000080ca - which is in a range reserved for private use (e.g. interthread-communications) inside applications and should NEVER be sent to an application unless it expects this message to be sent.

this can cause applications to randomly crash or misbehave when the Samsung i-600 is flipped closed or opened.

i think that the Samsung i-600 is also known as the Sprint PCS Vision Smart Device SP-i600 (as we had other reports of this from people using this device).

we have received reports that the same firmware bug also affects the Asus P525.

it is important that people creating WinCE platform make sure that they test for this bug, since MSFT does not currently test for it.

Just as a heads up here. The I600 doesnt flip open or anything, think you may have your wires crossed.