Apple's software geniuses find the clock baffling

[tech_guy]

Going back to alarm clocks, does anyone use the Gentle Alarm Android app? The CAPTCHA feature to test if you are really awake is genius.

Lol, I just downloaded the free trial but it doesn't ring on Wednesdays!

[john]

To make sure you saw in 1:1:11am on 1:1:11 ???

I didn't need an alarm to see that I saw that sitting at my PC

[tech_guy]

I didn't need an alarm to see that I saw that sitting at my PC

Ditto.

[Arthur]

Lol, I just downloaded the free trial but it doesn't ring on Wednesdays!

Sadly that's a limitation of the trial version.

[Arthur]

That just puts me right off Android if there is an issue where you send a text to say your other half that's maybe a bit entertaining and it could go to your brother or something!

Google are saying the bug has been fixed now. I think the bad press certainly helped.

Thanks to everyone for your patience while we've been investigating these reports. As it turns out, we believe there are two distinct situations being discussed on this issue chain. Fortunately, we have fixes for both of them.

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. Of course, double-checking the displayed message before hitting "Send" will prevent any messages from being sent to the wrong recipients. We've found in testing this issue, it is more likely to occur if you tap on a message before the Messaging app is fully loaded, so we recommend waiting for all the elements to load before clicking on the message you want to display.

Separately, 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.

While we don't anticipate any persistent problems, we'll continue to investigate in case we come up with additional ways to trigger these bugs. Thanks again for helping us improve Android. (Source)

Out of interest, how do you normally get these fixes? Is it generally quicker to use a third-party firmware like CyanogenMod because they are updated more often?