{"id":65278,"date":"2012-11-22T12:31:44","date_gmt":"2012-11-22T10:31:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=65278"},"modified":"2012-11-22T13:43:44","modified_gmt":"2012-11-22T11:43:44","slug":"2-5-year-old-android-bug-getting-fix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/65278-2-5-year-old-android-bug-getting-fix.html","title":{"rendered":"2.5-year old Android bug getting fix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A bug which has been around in the <a title=\"Android\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/221979-Google-Android\">Android<\/a> OS for over two-and-a-half years is finally getting fixed with a new update.<\/p>\n<p>The bug, which originally appeared in 2010, causes the issue of not being able to resolve a hostname on a local domain.<\/p>\n<p>Known as Issue 8030, the bug isn\u2019t a problem for most users, but has caused disgruntled comments on the code.Google page since being found.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Google\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/314567-Google\">Google<\/a> finally responded, saying \u201cThe fix for this has gone in thanks to Kevin Tang. It will be available in the next major release.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Users complained about how long Google has taken to respond. Google answered, saying that \u201cit was a matter of prioritization and resources. We don\u2019t have people to put on every requested feature and we certainly were not idle during this time. I apologize it took so long.\u201d<\/p>\n<h5>Source: <a href=\" http:\/\/www.androidpolice.com\/2012\/11\/21\/google-acknowledges-2-5-year-old-networking-bug-promises-fix-in-next-android-version\/\" target=\"_blank\">Android Police<\/a><\/h5>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Related articles<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permanent Link to Samsung Galaxy S3 Android 4.1 Jelly Bean update\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/65192-samsung-galaxy-s3-android-4-1-jelly-bean-update.html\">Samsung Galaxy S3 Android 4.1 Jelly Bean update<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/60843-samsung-htc-android-jelly-bean-for-sa.html\">Samsung, HTC Android Jelly Bean for SA<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/63392-google-nexus-4-and-10-pricing-announced.html\">Google Nexus 4 and 10 pricing announced<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google finally responds to frustrated users<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":340900,"featured_media":58187,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[397,17086,167,17088,7979],"class_list":["post-65278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-android","tag-android-bug","tag-google","tag-issue-8030","tag-quicknews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65278"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/340900"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65278"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65310,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65278\/revisions\/65310"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}