requires a security certificate on the server. But the initial time on the phone was before the time that the certificate was issued on the server, so the connection would fail and the phone wouldn’t boot. Bob’s fix was to catch that failure condition and set the initial time on the phone to the day that he fixed the bug. Bob also tracked down a networking problem that was specific to mobile data. Android phones were experiencing severe outages that seemed like a problem with bad carrier network infrastructure.
