Windows Mobile SMS Year 2016 Bug

Found this on the mailing list. It might be useful for you.

There is a SMS bug for Windows Mobile Device during the 2010 welcoming. If you one of the people who got all SMS coming from the 'future' - year 2016, then this post might help you.

Here is what the bug will do in your phone :

• All message received since 01/01/2010 will appeared as year 2016 message.
• Will have effect on WM6.1, WM6.5 and some of non-Windows Mobile phone.
• It is not because of the ROM so it will not be disappeared even if you reinstall or upgrade the OS
• Only happened to a few service providers
• Few vendors have notice this bug but there are no official response from them (such as HTC and LG)

This bug is happened perhaps because of the date-time misprogrammed function. The date time should have used Binary Coded Decimal (BCD) and hexadecimal. The BCD of 2010 is 010110 which is also 16 in hexadecimal numbers. This what makes a few phones interpret year 2010 becomes 2016.

At the moment, there is a temporary solution. All Windows Mobile user whom experience the bug could download this program and install it to your phone to fix it.