In the mid-February, a weird bug just
occur in many iPhones and other iOS device that results in bricking or unusable
smartphone. The bug is “January 1, 1970” date setting, when user change it to
the correct date, the iOS device will automatically reboot, without entering
the main system. Base on the speculations, a reboot loop is the result when
integer underflow that causes many iOS device to reset the date at the maximum
and many of it, can’t handle the process.
But, a good news came out, the
recent beta of iOS 9.3, provides developer and beta tester earlier on this
week, fix the recent weird “January 1, 1970 bug” resulting on many iPhones and
other iOS device to brick.
The iOS 9.3 beta 4, the date
setting have maximum date of December 7, 2000 at 7:00 Pm E.T, which means that
it will not reach a beyond the maximum date, and this will fix the weird “January
1, 1970” bug, even though they are brick now.
According to MacRumors forums,
those iOS devices that are struck on boot loops can now be restored into fully
working condition using this iOS 9.3 beta 4.
“This update fixed the 1970
date bug. Had two retail units stuck in boot loops do to some pricks setting
the date to 1970 and restoring in DFU mode did not help. But restorting to this
BETA update made both devices go back to normal.”
Many attempts are being made to repair this problem, still on that time
no specific repair had been release, but a video being released, involving on
repairing this problem by removing the battery which require a screw and doing
it in a risky self-repair. But Apple, address this problem and promised to fix
in the update of iOS 9.3.
Apple’s iOS 9.3 is currently in beta 4, only available to developer and
public beta tester; on the other, it’s nearing the end of beta testing period. The
iOS 9.3 will debut on the spring following the launch of the new iOS device
such, new iPhone 5se, new iPad Air 3 and other Apple smartwatch on March 15,
according to Apple.
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