If you happen to own a Nokia or any other Symbian device you might consider dealing with an annoying bug, the “Curse of Silence” which will prevent your handset from receiving any SMS messages. How is the bug activated? Well when a user uses more than 32 characters and includes a small identifier that marks a message as Internet Electronic Mail then the bug will be triggered. At that point the device will automatically stop receiving SMS messages without letting the user realize the problem.

There’s no patch for fixing the issue even though it was found a few weeks ago and signaled to Nokia already. Unfortunately quite a lot of devices are affected by it so check out the list to see if your Nokia phone can be a potential victim:

S60 3rd Edition, Feature Pack 1 (S60 3.1):
Nokia E90 Communicator
Nokia E71
Nokia E66
Nokia E51
Nokia N95 8GB
Nokia N95
Nokia N82
Nokia N81 8GB
Nokia N81
Nokia N76
Nokia 6290
Nokia 6124 classic
Nokia 6121 classic
Nokia 6120 classic
Nokia 6110 Navigator
Nokia 5700 XpressMusic

S60 3rd Edition, initial release (S60 3.0):
Nokia E70
Nokia E65
Nokia E62
Nokia E61i
Nokia E61
Nokia E60
Nokia E50
Nokia N93i
Nokia N93
Nokia N92
Nokia N91 8GB
Nokia N91
Nokia N80
Nokia N77
Nokia N73
Nokia N71
Nokia 5500
Nokia 3250

S60 2nd Edition, Feature Pack 3 (S60 2.8):
Nokia N90
Nokia N72
Nokia N70

S60 2nd Edition, Feature Pack 2 (S60 2.6):
Nokia 6682
Nokia 6681
Nokia 6680
Nokia 6630

Here’s a weird but pretty big bug reported by Android users. Basically, at any time that you would happen to type the word “reboot” from your keyboard the Android device, the G1 will do exactly so, it will reboot itself. Firmware 1.0 TC4-RC29 or earlier is affected by the bug so watch out what you start typing. Besides the whole reboot thing you should also be aware that combination of “rm and rf” might trigger some responses from the G1.

If you got the RC30 upgrade for your G1, you might be safe, but you’d better test if, just to be sure.