Harp freeze fix - try this first!
Feb 21, 2013 14:55:26 GMT -5
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Post by docno42 on Feb 21, 2013 14:55:26 GMT -5
As originally posted here:
Try:
1) Waiting until late at night (after midnight) or early in the morning (i.e. 4AM)
2) disabling the auto lock on your device if you have it set
3) Especially if you are on an iPhone, enable airplane mode and then only turn wifi back on. You can also turn on the Do Not Disturb mode in the general section of the settings app to further reduce the chance of interruptions (especially in the bonus donut round)
4) Plugging your device in to power
5) Double tap the home button on your device to bring up the application switcher. Press and hold on any app icon until they wiggle and show the minus button with the red background. Close out all apps by tapping on the minus button for each one.
6) If your really paranoid, reboot your iOS device (I would do this to maximize the amount of free RAM since you will probably get more donuts as described later on)
7) Launch Tapped Out and let it sit
If your lucky, it will eventually let you in instead of the app crashing. Once you get in, you will probably be presented with the bonus level/three box/donut screen. If you don't hit three donuts on the first time don't waste money picking another box - just confirm the donuts you got and you will more than likely loop back to the same pick a box for donuts screen and get even more donuts. You will probably loop over and over. Mine went for 10 minutes or so and I got about 100 donuts before the app crashed; I wish I would have rebooted my iPad before trying that last time - oh well. Once the app reopened, my town was back to normal - now just with more donuts!
If you have yourself, or know a friend/family member/whatever who has an iPhone 5, iPad 4 (the one with the lightning connector) or iPad mini those devices have more RAM and people seem to have a much higher success rate getting back into their Springfield's with those devices. Josh has also been very kind in helping out some forum members who don't have access to newer devices - for those who feel comfortable it's a very nice gesture (and he has some good advice about temporarily changing the password and then after he's done for you).
I suspect it finally worked for me because I tried really early in the morning (2AM EST - I'm a night owl, what can I say?) as the Origin servers were probably not as loaded as during the day. That's my theory anyway. At least one other on here posted that they had success at midnight so there may actually be something to my theory.
I did not get in on the first try! I was in the 20 or attempt range before I got back in, so don't expect this to work on the first try. If it does consider yourself lucky
If you do manage to get in before they fix it, you can get a nice boost in donuts due to the glitch. And no, I feel absolutely no guilt in these donuts - I didn't ask for them nor did I go out of my way to trick the game into giving them to me unlike several of the cheats that have been posted previously; I got them as part of normal gameplay. Well, as normal as buggy gameplay can be considered anyway.
Maybe this can be stickied to catch people's attention? It's buried in a couple of the other threads, but not everyone reads all the pages of every thread.
Try:
1) Waiting until late at night (after midnight) or early in the morning (i.e. 4AM)
2) disabling the auto lock on your device if you have it set
3) Especially if you are on an iPhone, enable airplane mode and then only turn wifi back on. You can also turn on the Do Not Disturb mode in the general section of the settings app to further reduce the chance of interruptions (especially in the bonus donut round)
4) Plugging your device in to power
5) Double tap the home button on your device to bring up the application switcher. Press and hold on any app icon until they wiggle and show the minus button with the red background. Close out all apps by tapping on the minus button for each one.
6) If your really paranoid, reboot your iOS device (I would do this to maximize the amount of free RAM since you will probably get more donuts as described later on)
7) Launch Tapped Out and let it sit
If your lucky, it will eventually let you in instead of the app crashing. Once you get in, you will probably be presented with the bonus level/three box/donut screen. If you don't hit three donuts on the first time don't waste money picking another box - just confirm the donuts you got and you will more than likely loop back to the same pick a box for donuts screen and get even more donuts. You will probably loop over and over. Mine went for 10 minutes or so and I got about 100 donuts before the app crashed; I wish I would have rebooted my iPad before trying that last time - oh well. Once the app reopened, my town was back to normal - now just with more donuts!
If you have yourself, or know a friend/family member/whatever who has an iPhone 5, iPad 4 (the one with the lightning connector) or iPad mini those devices have more RAM and people seem to have a much higher success rate getting back into their Springfield's with those devices. Josh has also been very kind in helping out some forum members who don't have access to newer devices - for those who feel comfortable it's a very nice gesture (and he has some good advice about temporarily changing the password and then after he's done for you).
I suspect it finally worked for me because I tried really early in the morning (2AM EST - I'm a night owl, what can I say?) as the Origin servers were probably not as loaded as during the day. That's my theory anyway. At least one other on here posted that they had success at midnight so there may actually be something to my theory.
I did not get in on the first try! I was in the 20 or attempt range before I got back in, so don't expect this to work on the first try. If it does consider yourself lucky
If you do manage to get in before they fix it, you can get a nice boost in donuts due to the glitch. And no, I feel absolutely no guilt in these donuts - I didn't ask for them nor did I go out of my way to trick the game into giving them to me unlike several of the cheats that have been posted previously; I got them as part of normal gameplay. Well, as normal as buggy gameplay can be considered anyway.
Maybe this can be stickied to catch people's attention? It's buried in a couple of the other threads, but not everyone reads all the pages of every thread.
