Windows Phone Thoughts: Samsung BlackJack, BlackJack II and ACE Leap-Year Calendar Patch Available

"You might have noticed that 2008 is a leap year and while you (and even Microsoft's Outlook Mobile) noticed it, it seems Samsung's BlackJack, BlackJack II and ACE Windows Mobile smartphones have overseen it... Anyway, I've got my hands on a couple of patches, just small CAB files for your device, which corrects the issue described above. So if you are either using a Windows Mobile 6 upgraded BlackJack/SGH-i607 (the patch isn't working with Windows Mobile 5.0) or a new BlackJack II/SGH-i617 or a recently released ACE/SPH-i325 Windows Mobile Standard smartphone, you might want to install the patch to get the Home screen issue fixed."



Just like Mike (no pun intended), I was a little baffled to see that phone was trying to trick me into believing I was living one calendar day in the past. Now the good news is there is a fix for this annoyance. Arne Hess of the::unwired fame has a few patches in the form of CAB files on his site that will correct this issue for us. The only bad news is if you have to perform a hard-reset in the future, you will have to reinstall this patch. Hopefully, if we're lucky, Samsung will just release some fancy Windows Mobile 6.1 ROMs for our Samsung Blackjack, Blackjack II and ACE handsets.

EDIT: I have created a ZIP archive containing all three patches. You can download it by clicking here .