{"id":606002,"date":"2009-11-18T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-18T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mediabistro.com\/mobilecontenttoday\/android\/droid_users_can_enjoy_autofocus_until_december_11_then_autofocus_date_bug_returns_143507.asp?c=rss"},"modified":"2009-11-18T03:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-18T08:00:00","slug":"droid-users-can-enjoy-auto-focus-until-december-11-then-auto-focus-date-bug-returns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/606002","title":{"rendered":"Droid Users Can Enjoy Auto-Focus Until December 11. Then, Auto-Focus Date Bug Returns!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" alt=\"owlstatue.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mediabistro.com\/mobilecontenttoday\/original\/owlstatue.jpg?resize=420%2C314\" width=\"420\" height=\"314\" \/><\/p>\n\n<p>Remember when the first generation Zune stopped working on (I believe) December 31, 2008 because of a leap year date calculation problem? Well, Google has joined Microsoft in creating a date based bug. This item in Engadget is almost surreal...<\/p>\n\n<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2009\/11\/17\/motorola-droid-camera-autofocus-fixed-in-secrecy\/\">Motorola Droid camera autofocus fixed in secrecy? (Update: it's a date-related self-correction)<\/A><\/p>\n\n<p>Here's a <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2009\/11\/17\/motorola-droid-camera-autofocus-fixed-in-secrecy\/comments\/23182303\/\">comment to article attributed to a Google Android engineer<\/A>: <em>There's a rounding-error bug in the camera driver's autofocus routine (which uses a timestamp) that causes autofocus to behave poorly on a 24.5-day cycle. That is, it'll work for 24.5 days, then have poor performance for 24.5 days, then work again.<\/p>\n\n<p>The 17th is the start of a new \"works correctly\" cycle, so the devices will be fine for a while. A permanent fix is in the works.<\/em><\/p>\n\n<p>So, Droid users (like me) should be able to auto-focus until around mid-day December 11. A Verizon technical note discussed here earlier talked about a December 11 Droid update. So, a permanent fix may be available by then.<\/p>\n\n<p>To be honest, I'm not too impressed by the Droid's 5-megapixel camera so far with or without autofocus. It has a very grainy look IMHO.<\/p>\n\n <p>New Career Opportunities Daily: The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediabistro.com\/joblistings\/?c=rss\">best jobs in media<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember when the first generation Zune stopped working on (I believe) December 31, 2008 because of a leap year date calculation problem? Well, Google has joined Microsoft in creating a date based bug. This item in Engadget is almost surreal&#8230; Motorola Droid camera autofocus fixed in secrecy? (Update: it&#8217;s a date-related self-correction) Here&#8217;s a comment [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-606002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2xEe","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=606002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606002\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=606002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=606002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=606002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}