A small iPhone bug
Posted on Fri 19 Jun 2009 at 6:37 PM PST. Filed under Software.
The following “garbage” bug happens once every 20 alerts or so from AT&T after I hang up on a phone call (the bug could totally be AT&T’s of course, but I smell it’s the iPhone’s). It happens both with firmware 2.x and 3.x. I don’t remember it happening with firmware 1.x. English, French and Greek are enabled in the keyboard layouts — if that helps.

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Looks like a corrupted version of:
[Links removed because no HTML was used as this forum requests]
It looks to be ATT’s fault…
No, this is not the same thing as what your links suggested. This is a character display problem, not a calculating bug of a price.
I have had 2.x (whatever came with my iPhone 3G and 2.1, 2.2 and 2.21) and as a developer, have had 3.0 beta 4 and beta 5 as well as 3.0GM on my iPhone. I have never seen this issue (I have the UK, Swedish and Emoji keyboards enabled.) Either this is a 2G specific error, or it is an ATT error (I’m on O2 in the UK, so can’t comment.)
O2 don’t send alerts though – they send text messages to tell users @stuff@, so maybe it is a bug in whatever mechanism ATT is using to send you information?
My point was that the messages aren’t likely supposed to be sent at all.
That was why I was pointing out the links.
Also, the corruption looks typical of bad data sent by the server. You are correct that it could be a message display problem, but usually garbage in, garbage out is the correct answer.
Given ATT’s track record, and my own personal experience with their “service”, I tend to believe they’re just sending bad data to your phone.
It’s of course possible that the bug is AT&T’s. It’s just a funny bug one way or another. 😀
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