14 DAY TRIAL // Android, Google's mobile operating system, should soon taste a series of fixes, some of which are meant to solve issues that many users of the platform signaled in regard to the SMS application on their devices. As previously reported, some Android phones were sending text messages to the wrong recipients, which was seen as a major issue by end-users, but which Google claims that is not that much of a deal.
However, after many news sites reported on the presence of this issue on the Android OS, Google reportedly marked the bug as critical, and has since confirmed that a fix for it should be released soon.
Here's what Google states on the matter: “some users have reported that their SMS messages are being delivered to the wrong people. It took us some time to reproduce this issue, as it appears that it's only occurring very rarely. Even so, we've now managed to both reproduce it and develop a fix that we will deploy.”
Another issue that Android has been plagued with in regard to the SMS app was that a different message was displayed on the screen than the one the user has been trying to open.
The same as with the previously mentioned issue, Google has developed a fix for it, even if it does not consider that there are many users affected by the problem.
“When some users tap to open a message in the Messaging application, they're seeing a different message appear instead. We don't believe this issue is affecting many users, but we've developed a fix that we're preparing to deploy,” one can read in a response the company offered for these issues (via TechCrunch).
When exactly would these fixes be delivered to end-users hasn't been unveiled as of yet, but it might not be long before they start to appear into the wild as software updates.
Many have accused Google for not listening to users' needs, since the first reports on the first SMS bug described above are about six months old, but it seems that the company has managed to finally come up with a solution for this.