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Emulators randomly crashing

Anybody else having a problem where Gameboid and GBCoid keep randomly going back to the select rom screen? The apps aren't force closing either and when it does happen it says in the notification bar "Gameboid is running" as if I just pressed the home button or something. Other emulators such as N64oid or SNESoid don't do this either. Idk its just really annoying because the emulation itself is fantastic. If it helps I'm running Starburst rom v1.3 and the kernel it comes with but I don't think that matters because it was happening before I was rooted. Anyways thanks in advance for any fixes and sorry for the long post.
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Happens to me. It's definitely something with the device. Ever since I started running midNIGHT rom v2 I haven't had a crash. Although I only tried it about 10 minutes
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Same with me. I'm on starburst rom and I can even play for 5 min without it crashing

Do you guys have any ideas on why this is happening or what we could do to fix it?
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This also happens to me on stock. Kinda frustrating, but I have confidence it will be solved in the future.
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rsalinas1 said:
Do you guys have any ideas on why this is happening or what we could do to fix it?
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I have no I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling and different roms. Nothing works

suwu10 said:
I have no I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling and different roms. Nothing works
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This sucks, at least im not the only one.

I wonder if its just our variant of sgsii...
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N64oid crashes on me as well and psx4droid won't work at all...
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mdeathike said:
N64oid crashes on me as well and psx4droid won't work at all...
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That's strange. What ROM/kernel are you using? N64oid never crashes on me. (Except for certain roms, such as Zelda).

Stock rom and the latest zedomax kernel. It doesn't force close either.. Just ends the Rom and brings me back to the Rom selection screen.
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this happens with just about any kind of game I play, not just emulators. any kind of tower defense game or plants vs zombies or anything that requires some sort of graphics. games like spades or dominoes or games with low graphical requirements seem to be fine. ive been rooted from day one and have always had a custom kernel and rom. my gf's e4gt was stock until about a week ago and her's did the same thing. you can play for 5 - 10 min then the games would just close. no FC, just close. battery temps rise as well when this happens. I wonder if its not a dodgy gpu or gpu driver?

henbone11 said:
this happens with just about any kind of game I play, not just emulators. any kind of tower defense game or plants vs zombies or anything that requires some sort of graphics. games like spades or dominoes or games with low graphical requirements seem to be fine. ive been rooted from day one and have always had a custom kernel and rom. my gf's e4gt was stock until about a week ago and her's did the same thing. you can play for 5 - 10 min then the games would just close. no FC, just close. battery temps rise as well when this happens. I wonder if its not a dodgy gpu or gpu driver?
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Mine's the opposite. Runs fine on n64oid, Alchemy, Cut the Rope, and even Beats. But Gameboid and GBcoid both randomly crash (without prompting a FC.)

I believe I may have found the culprit, at least for me. I was having the same issue as many of you, SNESDroid would just go back to the main screen without a FC. Then while trying to play the same parts of the game all over again, I decided to fast-forward everything and I noticed for the longest time the game didn't crash on me. So I decided to try something out and disabled the sound in the settings menu. So far the game hasn't crashed on me. It's unfortunate that I don't get to hear anything though, but I'd rather play a quiet game that doesn't crash. Than hear some audio and have the game crash on me every 5 - 10 mins.

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I believe I may have found the culprit, at least for me. I was having the same issue as many of you, SNESDroid would just go back to the main screen without a FC. Then while trying to play the same parts of the game all over again, I decided to fast-forward everything and I noticed for the longest time the game didn't crash on me. So I decided to try something out and disabled the sound in the settings menu. So far the game hasn't crashed on me. It's unfortunate that I don't get to hear anything though, but I'd rather play a quiet game that doesn't crash. Than hear some audio and have the game crash on me every 5 - 10 mins.
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I will try this out when I can, but like others, why does it only do this with Gameboid and GBCoid and not the heavier emulators like N64oid?
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I've tried the about with gameboid but still get random crashes

Anyone try using Chainfires 3d driver? market

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Anyone try using Chainfires 3d driver? market
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It still crashes. Just checked
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Has anyone made any headway with this? I've tried a variety of tricks but Gameboid keeps crashing within 5 minutes of starting the game.

I've had the same problems with some emulators from the android market. They would crash within a mintue or two. So I uninstalled them and found NESoid and SNESoid. They last longer but they still crash with no FC message. I'm running Starburst v1.5 and Zedomax OC Kernel
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App/game resolution issues here.

Can we make a list of all games/apps we notice stretching or other issues due to the screen size/resolution issues here for review please?
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sounds like a good plan

doodle jump is really bad
lane splitter noticeable but not too bad

Yeah I have problems with age of zombies and also on fruit ninjas it seems pixelated but age of zombies force closes all the time so halfbrick is messing up and spirit hd freezes as well but looks good
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menacke said:
Yeah I have problems with age of zombies and also on fruit ninjas it seems pixelated but age of zombies force closes all the time so halfbrick is messing up and spirit hd freezes as well but looks good
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I'll give age of zombies a go and see what I get (probably the same thing)

[Q]Fruit ninja graphics Low quality?
Tried fruit ninja and fruit ninja free on my sgsII. all graphics (even the load screen) are very blocky/low-res. The game looked better on my nexus one. Angry birds and other games look great on the sgsII.
Anyone have a fix?
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1301222

menacke said:
Yeah I have problems with age of zombies and also on fruit ninjas it seems pixelated but age of zombies force closes all the time so halfbrick is messing up and spirit hd freezes as well but looks good
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Same problem on fruit ninja and fruit ninja free.
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Drag Racing has noticeable lag as well.
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benrodian said:
Tried fruit ninja and fruit ninja free on my sgsII. all graphics (even the load screen) are very blocky/low-res.
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I tried Fruit Ninja Free on my sgsII. I noticed it was blocky at first but once the game started going, it was okay. Resolution seemed okay. When I would go back to the launch screen though, it would often crash.
If you have a solution, I'd like to hear it too.

benrodian said:
Tried fruit ninja and fruit ninja free on my sgsII. all graphics (even the load screen) are very blocky/low-res. The game looked better on my nexus one. Angry birds and other games look great on the sgsII.
Anyone have a fix?
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By graphics I assume you mean everything including playing the game right?
Just downloaded it on my phone, main screen looked fine, not stretched at all. Started a new game and it took a second to start recognizing my swipes, but after that it worked great. Game looks and plays great. The only thing i've done that could possibly make a difference is download spare parts and turn off compatibility mode.
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Looks great, but just froze up when I started it again...
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Looks like it is now unplayable... Freezes every time I try to play it.
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i have fruit ninja hd and it looks great...has anyone tried any games from gameloft on this phone besides the asphalt adrenaline?

If you need your fruit slicing fix and fruit ninja isn't working for you, try Fruit Slice.. Free from the market
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Dragon fly is laggy like a mofo
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Dragon fly doesn't lag in mine.
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Golf 3 HD
Wont show color or graphics
Its white n with lines..
Download n look at it to see if everyone has the same problem.
Tmo Galaxy S2

I try golf its not compatible.... :-(
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landrian18 said:
I try golf its not compatible.... :-(
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I know it sucks...i bought 9mm and it didnt work either. will this be updated it?
Tmo Galaxy S2

Reckless racing for graphics... :-(
pinadala gamit ang galaxy s2 (premium xda)

detour http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1315737

Dead Space Works Again!! (CM7 Official version)

I have been trying to get dead space to work since i upgraded to gingerbread...it only worked on froyo for powervr (at least for me lol) because it always froze the phone or crashed...i tried the new version and it runs perfectly on my epic with cm7...thanks CM7 team..
p.s. off topic, there is a street fighter IV game for android floating around the internet and I think it awesome..

so how is it CM7 gets Dead Space and GTA3 to run? Can these games run on other ROMs?

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so how is it CM7 gets Dead Space and GTA3 to run? Can these games run on other ROMs?
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I' m not sure, deadspace always forced closed on me on the normal gingerbread and froze on cm7 but ea recently updated the deadspace game and rockstar updated the gta3 game for powervr phones (samsung and some motorolla phones), try the new versions of the apps and see if works for you..what rom are you on?
p.s. I have been running cm7 since november so I am not sure about other roms

iv been switching back and forth between Marcusants and CM7, mainly because I want to see how the CM7 holds up. Found out Marcus's ROM has way superior battery life and im sticking with that. I read somewhere that if you get it to play on CM7 then back it up you can restore it to any other ROM. Might try that out.
Edit: I just successfully installed GTA3 on Marcusants ROM. Just had to wait while the content was downloaded, make sure you let it do its thing when its downloading at 100%, DO NOT CANCEL and it should install fine

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iv been switching back and forth between Marcusants and CM7, mainly because I want to see how the CM7 holds up. Found out Marcus's ROM has way superior battery life and im sticking with that. I read somewhere that if you get it to play on CM7 then back it up you can restore it to any other ROM. Might try that out.
Edit: I just successfully installed GTA3 on Marcusants ROM. Just had to wait while the content was downloaded, make sure you let it do its thing when its downloading at 100%, DO NOT CANCEL and it should install fine
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I would not download everything again, that would be a pita especially since I dwnloaded those 400+MB of data over 3g -.- but I just backed everything up with titanium and even the sdcard data I copied it to my backups folder
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This is true finally dis game iz sweeet
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Right. And on cm7 I don't have to OC cpu or gpu or run any plugins or reduce quality. GTA III, Dead Space, ShadowGun, MC3, everything runs super smooth. God I love cm7.
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p.s. off topic, there is a street fighter IV game for android floating around the internet and I think it awesome..
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The version I have is HD and meant for tablets so I can only see part of the 720p image lol.
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My experience has been that Shadowgun and Dead Space both drop frames all over the place regardless of what rom I run. With a lot if onscreen action they both become slideshows. I'm on CM7 and it is not any better. Maybe 15 fps is acceptable for a phone game though.
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optimiss said:
The version I have is HD and meant for tablets so I can only see part of the 720p image lol.
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that are different versions for screen sizes and a version that works for our phone...there are specific instructions on getting the game to work...the game is awesome but it keeps crashing when i have to face "c viper" in tournament mode..

optimiss said:
My experience has been that Shadowgun and Dead Space both drop frames all over the place regardless of what rom I run. With a lot if onscreen action they both become slideshows. I'm on CM7 and it is not any better. Maybe 15 fps is acceptable for a phone game though.
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Running Marcusant v.1 bml - both those titles are perfectly smooth, given that I set the cpu governor to lock @ 1200mhz. DON'T USE PERFORMANCE GOVERNOR. It can drop and lock @ 800 or 400. Just keep it on ondemand ans set min and max the same. ;-)
also on earthbound's 3.3.0 250MHz/60Hz
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Tirregius said:
Running Marcusant v.1 bml - both those titles are perfectly smooth, given that I set the cpu governor to lock @ 1200mhz. DON'T USE PERFORMANCE GOVERNOR. It can drop and lock @ 800 or 400. Just keep it on ondemand ans set min and max the same. ;-)
also on earthbound's 3.3.0 250MHz/60Hz
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Thanks for the tip
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[Q] Modern Combat 3 problem/bugs/glitch?

Recently I've been playing Modern Combat 3 and Im addicted to it.
But I'm facing one problem/bug/glitch, it's that sometimes, either I'm playing multiplayer or campaign, in the middle of that mission/game. I can't reload/throw grenade/swap weapons. And after my ammo went out, it won't auto reload and when I aim down my sights the player vibrates. Anyone facing this problem or solution?
EDIT : Sorry if this question was asked.

I have that too. It gets unstuck if you jump over a object. Thats the only way I found to get past this glitch...
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I'll have it a try.. I'm stuck in mission 11 where you need to take out that 2 tanks.

Well i get something strange too : sometimes, and tbh, i guess if theres really alot of **** going on screen, my movement doesnt work anymore ^^ hes just running forward and my touchpad doesnt recognize anything. Same with the right tp : just cant look. Is there anything wrong with the kernel, cause i recognized when not using the full 2.0 ghz (doomlord) it happens less.its Still hapening but not that often then.card is sandisk 16gb cls 4. Vr on performance with (usually when gaming) 1.4 to 1.6 ghz. No taskkiller or something.

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I'll have it a try.. I'm stuck in mission 11 where you need to take out that 2 tanks.
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Same here glad I'm not the only one can't figure out how to get past this point. It wont let me pick up the rocket launcher and does the bug explained above.
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spineforu82 said:
Same here glad I'm not the only one can't figure out how to get past this point. It wont let me pick up the rocket launcher and does the bug explained above.
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yeah... I just can't pick up that f***ing rocket launcher. xD

Giankwang said:
yeah... I just can't pick up that f***ing rocket launcher. xD
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I finally got it I did what they said above. There is a crate at the wall of the corner were you turn to the tanks. You can jump over this crate. So I tried to get the rocket launcher and the bug happened so I double backed to the crate and jumped over it and it cleared the bug.
Went back to get the launcher and the bug happened again so I went back and jumped the crate again .
I did this process about three times and then finally it let me pick up the launcher.
I can finally finish this game now
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spineforu82 said:
I finally got it I did what they said above. There is a crate at the wall of the corner were you turn to the tanks. You can jump over this crate. So I tried to get the rocket launcher and the bug happened so I double backed to the crate and jumped over it and it cleared the bug.
Went back to get the launcher and the bug happened again so I went back and jumped the crate again .
I did this process about three times and then finally it let me pick up the launcher.
I can finally finish this game now
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Yeap! Got it done! Thanks guys!
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sesamo said:
I have that too. It gets unstuck if you jump over a object. Thats the only way I found to get past this glitch...
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Thank you! I will hit the thanks button when I'm using comp.xD
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Vice City is Available NOW!

Nice Vice
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Nice!
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I think I'm going to wait for the games to drop in price of before I get it. I think I picked up gta3 for either 0.25 ¢ or 0.99
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GTA Vice city+ Nexus 7= Awesomeness Christmass :=)

Nexus 7 + GTa vice city - F from School=Books :/

dfavefenix said:
GTA Vice city+ Nexus 7= Awesomeness Christmass :=)
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you are missing plus PS3 controller

Very Nice, thanks for sharing.

I bought it the day it appeared and had to wait till it was fixed. I'd been checking every time I went to the market just in case. Took six and a half hours to download on my crappy connection but my god its worth every minute of the waiting...
"TAKE.......THESE BROKEEEEEN WIIIIINNNNNNGS.........."
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vice city look better now than when it originally came out! very impressed with the game. awesome to have flash fm back!

Anybody else have the problem where the draw distance for cars is really bad. So bad that when overtaking a car on the opposite side of the road a car can appear before I've passed. I've looked through settings and haven't seen anything
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has anyone tried typing "nuttertools" cheat for weapons.. i did and the gamw crashed..
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ehmjay said:
has anyone tried typing "nuttertools" cheat for weapons.. i did and the gamw crashed..
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I did and it worked fine. Same goes for preciousproctection. Make sure your outside not in a building. I did it right outside the save building.
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How are you entering cheats?
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Jordanooo said:
How are you entering cheats?
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USB OTG and a keyboard. Or "in-game keyboard" on the play store. its a straight PC port so PC cheats work, but some will crash the game.
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YESS finally my fav gta game. will try it out later today

The one thing I've found that's quite annoying is the touch controls on the missions where you are riding shotgun. The fire button seems to send the aim all over the place. Anyone else found this?
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Jordanooo said:
Anybody else have the problem where the draw distance for cars is really bad. So bad that when overtaking a car on the opposite side of the road a car can appear before I've passed. I've looked through settings and haven't seen anything
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Was playing on my S3 and having this problem. Suddenly I'm a horrible driver because oncoming traffic doesn't appear until they're almost on top of me. There is a draw distance setting, but I turned it to full, and it didn't change it.
I don't recall ever having this issue with GTA 3.

warlock257 said:
Was playing on my S3 and having this problem. Suddenly I'm a horrible driver because oncoming traffic doesn't appear until they're almost on top of me. There is a draw distance setting, but I turned it to full, and it didn't change it.
I don't recall ever having this issue with GTA 3.
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That's what I mean. I can't be a 'rebel' driver anymore without crashing. Hope it gets fixed in an update
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ÜBER™ said:
Make sure your outside not in a building. I did it right outside the save building.
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Seems like it only works outside the save hotel. Anywhere else I tried it, it fc'd.
My BT keyboard controls the game just fine.

It has like lag spikes and I turn off the fps limiter so I don't know what to do now anyone have the solution?
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