I've noticed that the main screen, the screen that has the lock pad that slides up is missing the date. It has the day of the week and the month, but the date is missing. I can barely see the numbers at the top but it has been cut off. I called Sprint they refreshed it and they were unable to fix it. I now have to take it to a store. I'm wondering if anyone has any pointers, its driving me crazy!
OMG, my phone is doing the EXACT same thing! I noticed it this morning. Its driving me nuts. I called Sprint, did a refresh, that didn't help. So glad to see I'm not the only one!
On my Samsung Epic 4G when I press the power button to lock the screen and then press it again to try unlocking it shows the time on the right and trys showng the date on the left and it cuts it off half way of the shaded box for that stuff
I got the same issue...I wish I would've seen this thread before I did a factory reset. but oh well.
I'm gonna try and flash back to the previous update and see if that fixes the issue. Hell, I don't even know when this issue actually started until a dew minutes ago.
If you noticed, it's just because it started the month of May. I guess it's normally set to cut off or abbreviate accordingly, but if you turn off automatic under network time and manually change the date and go to april or june, it displays properly again. Go back to May and it's funky lol.
If you noticed, it's just because it started the month of May. I guess it's normally set to cut off or abbreviate accordingly, but if you turn off automatic under network time and manually change the date and go to april or june, it displays properly again. Go back to May and it's funky lol.
I guess I will just live with it until June ;-) If you change the lock screen to use a pattern, it does show the date properly.
I'm so glad I read this thread. Now I know that its not just my phone. I called Sprint back and asked them if I still needed to take the phone into a local store this week regarding this issue. The rep placed me on hold for a few minutes and told me this has been a problem and they are working on a way to fix the issue. She told me that it should be fixed within 24 hours.
I find it odd that this happened. You would think with all of the "bug fixing" Sprint and Sammy did with 2.2 they would have noticed that May is messed up on the lock screen. My GPS works so I am happy
The root cause of this bug is pretty obvious: The text of the dates such as "May. 04" when rendered in this font is slightly too long to fit in the window allotted by the display, so the interface tries to wrap it. "Mar. 04" fits, but "May. 04" doesn't because of character spacing.
This is aggravated by the inclusion of the dot (period) character, which is superfluous because May is not even an abbreviation. Actually, the dot should probably be omitted for any abbreviated months, such as "Apr" or "Sep" anyway for cleaner style. Just making that tweak, or increasing the size of the window control slightly, would probably fix this -- at least in English locales.
Since "May" is the longest month, the occurrence of this bug will likely go away at the end of this month. Hopefully it will be fixed before May 2012.
Can we make bets that Sprint or Sammy will not fix this super simple problem this month... or before May 2012...
Good luck with that. I think there is no way they would push out a release to fix this minor bug during the next four weeks. After May, the symptoms will go away until next year.
Fixing the bug itself is probably easy. Pushing out a firmware release is a huge deal. So it's a no-brainer to wait for the next maintenance release.
Last edited by boomerbubba; May 5th, 2011 at 10:42 AM.
Fix for the date problem everyone is having.
Credit is due to the ones who fixed it
Follow the thread over to XDA and give thanks, I am just a messenger TouchWiz Lock Screen Fix - xda-developers
Fix for the date problem everyone is having.
Credit is due to the ones who fixed it
Follow the thread over to XDA and give thanks, I am just a messenger TouchWiz Lock Screen Fix - xda-developers
Device(s): Samsung Epic 4G - Rooted with RandomROM Hawk 2.3
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Fix for the date problem everyone is having.
Credit is due to the ones who fixed it
Follow the thread over to XDA and give thanks, I am just a messenger TouchWiz Lock Screen Fix - xda-developers
Do you have to be rooted to apply this file? I'm a little surprised there's no instructions at all...honestly, it doesn't bug me that much, and like I said in my previous post, when it switches to June it will be fine.
Do you have to be rooted to apply this file? I'm a little surprised there's no instructions at all...honestly, it doesn't bug me that much, and like I said in my previous post, when it switches to June it will be fine.
Seeing as it is a Zip File AND on XDA Forums, I assume you have to be rooted in order to apply the update. Probably as easy as flashing the file in CWM, IF you are rooted.
Seeing as it is a Zip File AND on XDA Forums, I assume you have to be rooted in order to apply the update. Probably as easy as flashing the file in CWM, IF you are rooted.
The rep placed me on hold for a few minutes and told me this has been a problem and they are working on a way to fix the issue. She told me that it should be fixed within 24 hours.
Device(s): Samsung Epic 4G - Rooted with RandomROM Hawk 2.3
Thanks: 21
Thanked 7 Times in 5 Posts
Meh, I can handle this 1 month a year...besides, I usually get a new phone every 2 years. The Epic will be really old compared to whatever smartphones are on the market in 2 years, I'm sure.
The Samsung EPIC 4G is Sprint's specially branded version of the Samsung Galaxy S. Samsung announced all their Galaxy S devices simultaneously, and the EPIC 4G has several unique features and capabilities that help it stand out from ... Read More
Lock screen quirk?
date on lock screen cut off - Epic 4G
