Google engineer Dan Morrill, on why everyone’s Droid’s camera issues seem to have mysteriously fixed themselves this week:
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.
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.
Great. It’s like my Droid camera has a period. A *24.5 day* period, then acts all sweet and nice for another month.
Mark my words: Skynet will be born due to a 24.5-day cyclical timestamp rounding error. And she’ll be *pissed*.
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