The bug tracker at https://code.google.com/p/android/ is for AOSP issues. Anything to do with a device specific issue should be reported to the OEM and not logged in that bug tracker.

The reason that this hadn't been closed before is probably the lack of resources to cope with the number of non-AOSP bugs reported in that tracker. The more critical issues will ripple up from OEMs to Google if necessary, and that is unlikely to happen via the community focused AOSP bug tracker you've linked to.