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tl;dr version: having the 'low space' warning on your Android phone results in the rejection of SMS messages. Even when there's actually e.g. >10mb of storage available. The bug has been present since 2009 and appears not to have been fixed yet by Google.
appears not to have been fixed yet by Google Or by anyone whining on the bug tracker who say this issue is ruining their life.
tl;dr version: having the 'low space' warning on your Android phone results in the rejection of SMS messages. Even when there's actually e.g. >10mb of storage available. The bug has been present since 2009 and appears not to have been fixed yet by Google.
appears not to have been fixed yet by Google Or by anyone whining on the bug tracker who say this issue is ruining their life.
This is one of the examples where I'm concerned about my own professionality because i can't grasp why Google would overlook such an error for such a long time. Maybe there is a reason but my feeble mind can't bend around it?
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appears not to have been fixed yet by Google Or by anyone whining on the bug tracker who say this issue is ruining their life.
I really don't think that the "if you're not happy about a bug, fix it or shut up" mentality in open source projects is very helpful. Obviously solving issues like this is considerably more difficult and time consuming than complaining about them and many people complaining about them don't have the time and/or skills to solve them. However, they are real, existing issues that bother users and not complaining about t…
Earlier quoted context omitted.
appears not to have been fixed yet by Google Or by anyone whining on the bug tracker who say this issue is ruining their life.
I really don't think that the "if you're not happy about a bug, fix it or shut up" mentality in open source projects is very helpful. Obviously solving issues like this is considerably more difficult and time consuming than complaining about them and many people complaining about them don't have the time and/or skills to solve them. However, they are real, existing issues that bother users and not complaining about t…
I encountered this recently. Really exceptionally poor engineering for a communication device. My solution: flash Cyanogen ROM, force all apps to install to the SD card. No more concerns about running out of internal memory.
I disagree. You can not judge their entire engineering based on this particular bug. From my little experience developing an Android application, I have to say that they have done a pretty good job in the engineering/API design part.
tl;dr version: having the 'low space' warning on your Android phone results in the rejection of SMS messages. Even when there's actually e.g. >10mb of storage available. The bug has been present since 2009 and appears not to have been fixed yet by Google.
I get the low space message with what seems like a fairly limited number of apps installed, caches cleared and as much as possible pushed to SD ... what is the actual capacity there? HTC Incredible in my case ...
Related: I've had all of my SMS messages deleted 3 times on my HTC Incredible from this bug: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=5669
But I have to say that comment [1] might be going a bit far comparing the loss of some SMSes to the burning of the library of Alexandrina
[1] http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=5669#c415
I really can't believe this bug made it through to production. Why would carriers accept software with this kind of bug? I know I was blaming my carrier the whole time, and I bet others have been too.