Android 4.2 brought a lot of really neat features to the Samsung Galaxy Nexus and the ASUS Nexus 7, but there’s one very glaring mistake that somehow got past Google’s quality control: December is missing! Outside reports have also verified this issue on the Samsung Nexus 10 and LG Nexus 4.
Granted, this is an isolated problem that only seems to affect the People app – namely, when editing a contact to add an event like a birthday or anniversary, the option to select any date in December is simply not there. It’s important to note that this does not affect the Calendar app, which makes sense: since Google published its Calendar app in the Play Store, updates to it are not dependent on OS updates. (Therefore, those headlines on other sites about Google cancelling Christmas are a little misleading…)
Google is aware of the problem and will most likely fix this issue in its next incremental Android update – probably Android 4.2.1 – but there’s currently no expected timeframe for when we can expect this update to roll out. Google also tends to wait and bundle lots of bug fixes and enhancements all together, rather than sending out updates very frequently to address single issues, so it may be a short while until this is fixed.
In my testing, it’s still possible to add December dates to your contacts through Google’s web interface, and these will show up properly when you view them on a device running Android 4.2. You just can’t add December dates from your device. Oh, well – you win some, you lose some. And in this case, Google lost December.
“September” or December (para 2 line 2)
Oops, my bad. Corrected it now – I’m just as bad as Google, apparently!
Kinda annoying. Doesn’t affect me cos I dont have a nexus 10 yet. Waiting for more stock in the UK so I can order one.
Obviously this is evidence of another left-wing attack in the War on Christmas.
Not a big deal for me as this really only affects contacts’ birthdays. After all I don’t add birthdays every day. In the expected update, though, it would be good if they not only fix this, but add the possibility to schedule biweekly events – this is (as the workaround for the missing December) only possible through the web and it would be nice to have it on-device.