In what may possibly be the most bizarre bugs to ever ship, Google’s Android OS attempts to carry out every single word you type as a command:
When I first read this I didn’t believe it. Then I read it again, and again, and finally tried it for myself. It’s true. Don’t believe me? Save anything you’re working on (this will reboot your phone!), open the keyboard tray on your G1, ignore anything you see on the screen, and type these 8 keystrokes:
-r-e-b-o-o-t- . Poof, your phone will reboot. This only works on a real phone, not in the emulator, and only with firmware version 1.0 TC4-RC29 and earlier.
Google’s already issued a fix, but this is a fun one. Unfortunately, “Marilyn Monrobot Massage” is not a recognizable command on my G1.
Worst. Bug. Ever. [ZDNet]
Amazing.
And, I’m still holding out for the Adrienne Barbeaubot. Blonds never were quite my thing. (Sorry, Joel.)
It says to type these 8 keystrokes (“reboot”) but do you mean 6?
“Egg Freckles”.
People who have an Android phone: google “rm -rf /*”. Lots of pages on that subject.
Or how about a fake captcha? Type the text you see in the box…
#3: That’s cold-blooded.
DON’T DATE ROBOTS!
Who said anything about DATING?
#3: But don’t do it on an unfixed Android phone, is the bit I think you forgot to add.
John, that’s nothing: try typing b-r-i-c-k.
Open source, remember? A patch is already out and this has already been fixed.
Fixed as of update RC29. The latest over-the-air update is R30.
It only worked with [return]reboot[return] No other commands worked. I don’t think it really had root, so the rm -rf /* wouldn’t have worked. (not that I had the guts to try) It was fixed before it was discovered though. The r30 update was making it’s rounds before anyone mentioned this.
#3: That’s cold-blooded.
and disemvowel-resistant too.