While the blogosphere was busy writing reviews about the Motorola Droid, the common problem pointed out by most of the product reviewers/early buyers was the Camera Auto-focus issue. Droid’s 5MP camera was unable to auto-focus while capturing photos, making it quite a difficult task for clicking a clear picture from the inbuilt camera.

It was quite a shame for a 5MP camera(Droid) to perform poorer than a 3.2 MP camera(iPhone) but suddenly things got in place by itself and every guy who was complaining about the auto-focus issue in droid was happy to see everything fixed.

At the backstage, the problem had been identified by Motorola and Google and it was decided to update the Droid’s software with required bug fixes on Dec 11, 2009. It was actually a pleasant surprise for even Google and Motorola to see the problem disappearing by itself but the real cause behind this sudden bug removal was the nature of bug.

A guy from Google’s Android team has confirmed that there’s a date-related bug in the Droid’s camera software that leads to it having cycles of good and bad focus that depend on the date. The thing is that the good cycle had started recently and everything went fine by itself. As told by the one of the Android’s staff member, this good cycle will last till Dec 17 and the permanent bug fix will be provided via Over the Air(OTA) software upgrade before the good cycle ends.