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Angry Birds on your Desktop

Hey guys, I'm posting this in the evo games because I have an evo and play lots of Angry Birds on it, but recently came across an Angry Birds for Desktop thru Intel AppUp. Sorry that it's not really related to our beloved Evo, but just wanted to share a way to play some Angry Birds when we give our Evo's a rest. Here is the link. http://www.bestbuy.com/site/regular...50006.c?id=pcmcat221700050006&DCMP=rdr0002439
Angry Birds is only free temporarily BTW.

Wow... its great now we can play Angry Birds on big screen on our desktop.

Ya, I have it on the 20 inch desktop, my laptop, and the wife's netbook. The graphics look really clean also. I need to load it on the tv-pc

It wants $4.99 for Angry Birds after I installed the platform. Anything special I need to do?
Never mind...I registered which it claimed would give me the game for free but when I went to click on it, the whole thing crashed. Very buggy software either way and it makes you reboot just to install it. Not sure what system files it needs access to but I'm pretty sure I am uninstalling this.

Angry Birds Rio on HDMI out is 10x better than the first releases.. Highly recommended for any HDMI or DVI input screens. Longer HDMI obviously recommended.

neodorian said:
It wants $4.99 for Angry Birds after I installed the platform. Anything special I need to do?
Never mind...I registered which it claimed would give me the game for free but when I went to click on it, the whole thing crashed. Very buggy software either way and it makes you reboot just to install it. Not sure what system files it needs access to but I'm pretty sure I am uninstalling this.
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Yep, same thing happen to me. 2nd time today i was misled. Saw on facebook to install the Bing toolbar and receive 400 xboxlive points..

Maddball said:
Yep, same thing happen to me. 2nd time today i was misled. Saw on facebook to install the Bing toolbar and receive 400 xboxlive points..
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I eventually got it to work. It's just buggy. I had to sign up on the Intel app and then it crashed. When I restarted it I was able to download the game but overall kind of a pain in the ass experience.

sorry you're having problems. i had to register with the intel appup program but had no problems on my desktop and laptop. it did say $4.99, but when i clicked on it, it gave the option to download for free. I did have a minor setback on my wife's netbook. It kept giving me an error message when i clicked the angry birds icon on the desktop. Found out that I have to have the intel appup program running for angry birds to run, but only on her netbook. the desktop and laptop don't have this requirement.

Ok. Thanks. I'll give it another shot.
neodorian said:
I eventually got it to work. It's just buggy. I had to sign up on the Intel app and then it crashed. When I restarted it I was able to download the game but overall kind of a pain in the ass experience.
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geez, I am sooo not going to get any work done..

no mac support? booooo!

no linux support either =(

Yeah rio makes all the other angry birds look terrible. It is amazing looking.

Bleh, gave me error messages >_< Not worth my time imo, so I just uninstalled the Intel thingy. I saw this a few days ago but I thought it was a scam.

Ya, Rio plays and looks amazing. Wish they had it on the Intel appup.
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bweisholtz said:
no mac support? booooo!
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Ah, I see you missed the news a few months back . It's been on the mac app store forever, just have to edit a text file within the app itself to get it to work for free. There's various tutorials for it online:
http://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/exkm1/mac_app_store_exploit_discovered_on_first_day/
Worked for me Not sure if this still works, but yeah.

[Q] SwiftKey X keyboard

So I saw this post this morning on Engadget and it looks to be pretty awesome for the tablet world. But when i go to the market my TF is not compatible with this app. Nothing states in that post that it wont work, just says tablets running Android 2.X/3.X. Anyone able to download the apk from somewhere else??? I would really like to have this keyboard for typing on my TF!!! Thanks
http://www.engadget.com/2011/07/14/swiftkey-x-virtual-keyboard-launches-for-android-tablets-we-go/

I'm guessing SwiftKey forgot to tick the Transformer if they restricted the devices, no other reason as far as I know.
Hope they resolve it soon.

I have it running on mine but I downloaded it from the beta program site. The last version is smooth as butter.

"Update on tablet compatibility: We've worked out why Android Market says Xoom, Tab10.1 is incompatible with SK Tablet X - we're fixing now."
Swiftkey wrote that on twitter a few minutes ago, so hopefully its just a market issue.

Sweet, i hope it's a simple fix!!!!
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its up!! just got it on my TF )

Really? I just restarted my Transformer to make sure. I cannot find it in the android market unless I use the browser to go to the Swiftkey site and then link to the market. When I try to install it says "App not found".

yI just got it as well. Had to get it through the markets website.

skydirt said:
yI just got it as well. Had to get it through the markets website.
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You mean you bought it on the market website in the browser?

Think I'll stick with Thumb Keyboard.

Cory1234 said:
You mean you bought it on your computer and then transfered?
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If you use the market from the website, you choose what device you wish to install it on. The it then automatically gets pushed to the selected device

I couldnt find it through the app store via my TF but i went to android market on the PC and found it. I bought it and i was able to see it in my apps on the TF where i was able to install it.

Also worth noting, and it is on sale for $1.99 for to first 48 hours. I'm typing on it now and it seems better than thumb keyboard. Way more accurate
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Yeah, I'm quite tempted to get it but is it a big improvement over Thumbs?

evilmerlin said:
Yeah, I'm quite tempted to get it but is it a big improvement over Thumbs?
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If you have the Swiftkey VIP access you could download the APK of the beta. It expires on July 20th. I went to the VIP site and downloaded the beta and loved it. So I purchased the app on the market.
You could always buy it and get a refund within 15 minutes.

Go it, tried it, and eh.. Prediction is nice but the comfort, customization, and overall size and tweaks and stuff are MUCH better with Tablet Keyboard.

LightningXCE said:
Go it, tried it, and eh.. Prediction is nice but the comfort, customization, and overall size and tweaks and stuff are MUCH better with Tablet Keyboard.
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+1 it makes me love the tablet even more.

I still dont see it in the market place???
I use it on my Droid X and it feels great! But I'm using Thumb now on my TF and it's good... but I want to tray Swift to see if it's as good.
Also, does the TF support haptic feedback? Does it have the vibrating motor? I want it to vibrate when I type, it makes it so much easier!
Thanks!

I think the thing to bear in mind is that it brings up a spell check box when using the Transformer keyboard. That makes it unique and indispensable.
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vinhtvu2 said:
I still dont see it in the market place???
I use it on my Droid X and it feels great! But I'm using Thumb now on my TF and it's good... but I want to tray Swift to see if it's as good.
Also, does the TF support haptic feedback? Does it have the vibrating motor? I want it to vibrate when I type, it makes it so much easier!
Thanks!
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https://market.android.com/details?id=com.touchtype.swiftkey.tablet.full&feature=search_result
Buy it from there and install it onto your TF101 via the website.
And no, it doesn't have haptic feedback. The phone version does, this makes me wonder if its related to Honeycomb or hardware.
I prefer having it off anyways. It uses more battery when its enabled.
For everybody else, if you're going to buy this.. buy it now, it's returning to $4.99 after today.
What's in this version:
Improved compatibility with custom DPIs and larger phones
Fix Quick Period not sticking bug
Learn from SMS only shown on relevant devices
Only show haptic feedback option on relevant devices
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That was in the latest update. hmmm.

gt racing motor academy??

has anyone got this to work on the transformer?
saw it on the iPad and it looked awesome.
i have it running on my vibrant but i want to take advantage of the Tegra 2 on this larger screen.
every time i start it it just close. no force close, no error that my device isnt supported, just closes.
very unfortunate.

That's probably because the version released to the market is not compatible....
Go to The Market on your Transformer and it's not listed.
Go to The Market on your PC and your Transformer is not listed as compatible.
So, I don't know how you even managed to download it, let alone install it in the first place?

i downloaded it since its a free app on my samsung vibrant and then grabbed the APK and side loaded it onto the transformer. you can also download the free APK using google as well.
there are a lot of games that are not listed as :compatible: but still work on the tablets and transformer as well but for many reaons are not in the market for the device.
thats why i decided to try this game on the tablet but now see it really doesnt work.
i figured other people are working hard to get other games to work on the trnsformer such as the spider man game etc so why not ask about this one?
looks like i got my answer though, thanks

nextelbuddy said:
i downloaded it since its a free app on my samsung vibrant and then grabbed the APK and side loaded it onto the transformer. you can also download the free APK using google as well.
there are a lot of games that are not listed as :compatible: but still work on the tablets and transformer as well but for many reaons are not in the market for the device.
thats why i decided to try this game on the tablet but now see it really doesnt work.
i figured other people are working hard to get other games to work on the trnsformer such as the spider man game etc so why not ask about this one?
looks like i got my answer though, thanks
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No problem... Shame as it looks a nice game.

World of Goo now available on Android!

Heads up! If you haven't already played through World of Goo stop what you are doing and play this game now! If you have played the game, you will be happy to know its available on Android now and its on sale for $2.99 until Dec. 5!
TRAILER
DEMO
BUY

Amazing Game!!!!!!! Thx

Just bought it on my Nook Tablet

got it for Wii forever ago and never finished it. great game though
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Great game
let the fun begin

Won't work on N1, really. Is the N1 getting that old now. They state the game should run on most devices 2.2 and above.

Have to try this ..

justflikwalk said:
Won't work on N1, really. Is the N1 getting that old now. They state the game should run on most devices 2.2 and above.
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Unfortunately the game is also not available for the ZTE Blade with CM7.

Tried it on my Sensation...didn't like it at all. Same thing over and over...just click and drag to make a frame for them to got to the pipe....this one is not for me.

I love this game from Wii. I'm happy for this port to android.

thx, i'll try it

the_scotsman said:
Tried it on my Sensation...didn't like it at all. Same thing over and over...just click and drag to make a frame for them to got to the pipe....this one is not for me.
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I'm disappointed to hear that. My first play through I thought exactly the opposite that as soon as I get used to playing one way they change it up completely. Like the balloon balls and the fire balls and then the digital flingy balls towards the end..

IPB_Refugee said:
Unfortunately the game is also not available for the ZTE Blade with CM7.
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I got it working by downloading it from here
http://worldofgoo.com/dl2.php?lk=demo&filename=WorldOfGooDemo.apk

Hello justflikwalk,
thanks for the hint! I will surely give this game a try. After reading your reply, I looked at the official developer's site (which is mentioned @Google's market), 2dboy.com. There I found this information:
UPDATE: If you are having trouble getting World of Goo on your Android device, try this:
Android Market imposes some device-specific limitations on the size of applications that can be installed. If you can’t see World of Goo on the Android Market, try installing directly from here:
Demo version:
worldofgoo.com/dl2.php?lk=demo
Full version:
worldofgoo.com/shop.php?platform=android
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But their explanation is faulty because World of Goo Demo is 28M and Where's My Water is 28.8M. And I was able to install Where's My Water from the market without any problem.
The full version of World of Goo is 47M. Fortunately there is S2E for CyanogenMod!
Kind regards
Wolfgang

Poor TF700 app support: Nexus 10 era

From the release of the Infinity, there has been low compatibility with apps and especially games. Some have said it is related to lack of developer support for the high res screen. Others have suggested the Nexus 10 will force developers into support for the new generation of where's-those-pixels tablets.
Both Skype and Rock star announced tablet optimised app releases in the coming fortnight (the latter for Vice City). The TF201 is on both compatibility lists but no Infinity. Is this deliberate? Or did hardly any Infinities sell and hence support for it make no business sense? In addition I don't see many EA or Gameloft releases, both old and new, supporting our machine.
Perhaps I'm being impatient and this is just the early adopter first world problem. Or maybe it's another reason to jump ship to the N10.
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Not just the TF700. The Note 10.1 has the same issue. As does pretty much every other HD tablet.
They work fine. I've got nearly every supposedly 'not-compatible' game running, no issues...
The thing is this. Devs made their games in a low res. They're too lazy to re-release the games with a higher resolution. (adding the infinity to the list won't change the ingame res, it'll still be upscaled.)
All they have to do is update the texture packs, but they simply won't. Of course not,
EA has always been too arrogant for customer support. (Don't believe me? The EA Master Server was dead every day in BF2, and they haven't changed anything, not even a cable, 8 years, 7 Triple-A games and 9 expansions later. The Master server still erases profiles&progress nearly once a day, fails twice a week completely and crapped out on the release night of BF3 and stayed down for almost 3 days...)
Gameloft is Ubisoft's mobile section, so that speaks for itself in terms of a completely non-existent customer support.
To be fair, though, Gameloft has a decent amount. EA is just an arse:
Gameloft:
Nova 3: This app is compatible with your ASUS Transformer Pad TF700T.
Modern Combat 3: Fallen Nation: This app is compatible with your ASUS Transformer Pad TF700T.
The Amazing Spider-Man: This app is compatible with your ASUS Transformer Pad TF700T.
Men in Black 3: This app is compatible with your ASUS Transformer Pad TF700T.
Modern Combat 3: Fallen Nation: This app is compatible with your ASUS Transformer Pad TF700T.
The Amazing Spider-Man: This app is compatible with your ASUS Transformer Pad TF700T.
Riptide GP: This app is compatible with your ASUS Transformer Pad TF700T.
EA:
Need for Speed™ Hot Pursuit: This app is compatible with your ASUS Transformer Pad TF700T.

ShadowLea said:
Riptide GP: This app is compatible with your ASUS Transformer Pad TF700T.
EA:
Need for Speed™ Hot Pursuit: This app is compatible with your ASUS Transformer Pad TF700T.
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Riptide is by vector unit, not Gameloft.
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t3ej4y said:
Riptide is by vector unit, not Gameloft.
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Hm... Yes, I see it. Odd, I typed in Gameloft and that one rolled out... Google managed to do something seriously wrong with their Playstore search bar.. Irony at it's finest. xD

Too bad on need for speed hot pursuit that we CAN'T DOWNLOAD THE ADDITIONAL FILES NEEDED TO PLAY. I called ea about it and they never called back, I knew they wouldn't becuase its an ongoing problem.

Ready2Mosh said:
Too bad on need for speed hot pursuit that we CAN'T DOWNLOAD THE ADDITIONAL FILES NEEDED TO PLAY. I called ea about it and they never called back, I knew they wouldn't becuase its an ongoing problem.
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I play hot pursuit daily, and most wanted?

Ready2Mosh said:
Too bad on need for speed hot pursuit that we CAN'T DOWNLOAD THE ADDITIONAL FILES NEEDED TO PLAY. I called ea about it and they never called back, I knew they wouldn't becuase its an ongoing problem.
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Please clarify. There's a hundred ways in which you 'can't download'. Error? Doesn't start? What?

I side loaded most of my gameloft games that's not available on the market and they work fine. Some games however will have smaller menu screens or smaller on screen buttons. An example is wild blood. Come to think of it's that the only one I recall right now. EA games however, you get a server error when games open. With the exception of NFS Most Wanted. It can open but plays slow. Like playing in slow motion. Theres a mod to make it faster though. Glu games are all available. Most other apps are too.
On nexus 10 almost all the games for gameloft, EA are available from the market and all work without issues. Once exception is wild blood is not available but can be side loaded but buttons are even smaller and menus are blank. So really not playable. Most other apps are available too.
It maybe a matter of not being able to test their apps so they dont make it in the compatibility list? But it does suck that tf700 out of the box is not supported by most. Seems like its the misfit of all the devices due to its unique screen resolution.

ShadowLea said:
EA has always been too arrogant for customer support. (Don't believe me? The EA Master Server was dead every day in BF2, and they haven't changed anything, not even a cable, 8 years, 7 Triple-A games and 9 expansions later. The Master server still erases profiles&progress nearly once a day, fails twice a week completely and crapped out on the release night of BF3 and stayed down for almost 3 days...)
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Never knew you were a gaming grrrrrl. (I know, never asked either. )

MartyHulskemper said:
Never knew you were a gaming grrrrrl. (I know, never asked either. )
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Yup. Pretty serious, too xD. Used to be in a clan (before we all parted ways), was clanleader for almost a year, as well as led several division. Even played in the ESL and Clanbase finals for SWBF2, BF2142 and FEAR. (we won swbf2 several times :highfive: )
Been out of it all for a while now, though. Too little free time, and the games are too bloody expensive (And there's no fun in it anymore, all those kids and aim assist.. (we used to call it aimbots, and they got you permbanned..... now it's part of the game )
Aaaand we're off topic again xD Oops...

With the increase of 1080p phones in the next year being announced, I would expect that app developers would start to catch up with high resolutions. It's always been a matter of time.
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ShadowLea said:
Please clarify. There's a hundred ways in which you 'can't download'. Error? Doesn't start? What?
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When you launch the game it needs to download additional files, when you click to do so you get error 5002, I called EA about it and they never called back, just look at the reviews for the game filter to tf700 and you'll see what I'm talking about.

Ready2Mosh said:
When you launch the game it needs to download additional files, when you click to do so you get error 5002, I called EA about it and they never called back, just look at the reviews for the game filter to tf700 and you'll see what I'm talking about.
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That's a resolution-not-found error.
Basically, it means the installer can't find the files related to the device's resolution. (Evidently, as they don't exist.) You can call them until hell freezes over, it's not going to be resolved.
There's only one way around that, and that is to download and install the SDdata manually. There's plenty of sites that offer them. I don't think it counts as illegal to manually download the data if you already paid for the .apk in the playstore.

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That's a resolution-not-found error.
Basically, it means the installer can't find the files related to the device's resolution. (Evidently, as they don't exist.) You can call them until hell freezes over, it's not going to be resolved.
There's only one way around that, and that is to download and install the SDdata manually. There's plenty of sites that offer them. I don't think it counts as illegal to manually download the data if you already paid for the .apk in the playstore.
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I think I remember this work around a while back. I will transfer the data from my prime to the tf700 and see how it goes. Thanks for bringing this up.
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ShadowLea said:
That's a resolution-not-found error.
Basically, it means the installer can't find the files related to the device's resolution. (Evidently, as they don't exist.) You can call them until hell freezes over, it's not going to be resolved.
There's only one way around that, and that is to download and install the SDdata manually. There's plenty of sites that offer them. I don't think it counts as illegal to manually download the data if you already paid for the .apk in the playstore.
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I redownloaded nfsmw to my htc one s, tried moving the sd data over via copy and paste and that didn't work, if you could pm me the work around that would be awesome. TIA

Ready2Mosh said:
I redownloaded nfsmw to my htc one s, tried moving the sd data over via copy and paste and that didn't work, if you could pm me the work around that would be awesome. TIA
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Same issue, same result. Not able to copy data from my S3 for this. Any solution?

My result with NFS most wanted is sideloading the apk from my s3 worked fine and it downloaded the data when I opened the game. Game is in slow motion however.
For NBA jam or Mass Effect when I transfer the apks and open the game I get an error. I copied the SD data also but same error on Mass Effect and on NBA jam the screen just flickers with the NBA jam logo.
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aznmode said:
My result with NFS most wanted is sideloading the apk from my s3 worked fine and it downloaded the data when I opened the game. Game is in slow motion however.
For NBA jam or Mass Effect when I transfer the apks and open the game I get an error. I copied the SD data also but same error on Mass Effect and on NBA jam the screen just flickers with the NBA jam logo.
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I have nba jam on my tf700 and I downloaded it directly from the market when it came out, works fine too.
Edit: Oh F Me, I must've not downloaded the extra files, now I get the server error 5002 crap. I am just about done with this, either google steps up, takes a hit to make customers happy and apply some rules to the market, or people are going to start to leave the android tablet market and seek refuge with apple, at least we know they have rules for supporting their devices. I know, I know- itunes, evil apple and closed system, but I am willing to live with that but I would be able to download and play every game on their market without worries that my device would be incompatible for years to come.
GOOGLE GET YOUR ACT TOGETHER AND FIX THIS, IT'S BEEN AND IS GETTING WORSE, NOT BETTER!

I wouldnt necessarily blame google though. They have set of guidelines that if followed, apps should upscale correctly to fit larger resolution screen. Devs are just lazy and unfortunately some of them don't support tf700.
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aznmode said:
I wouldnt necessarily blame google though. They have set of guidelines that if followed, apps should upscale correctly to fit larger resolution screen. Devs are just lazy and unfortunately some of them don't support tf700.
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I do blame google, they allow the apps on the market without trying to hold the devs accountable to following the rules. why have guidelines if they aren't going to be enforced in any fashion. Sure, our devices were the first to hit the 1080p resolution in the Android market, but **** none of the big players are interested in supporting it. Even if they say they support it they really don't. As an example, you can buy need for speed for the infinity, it says it's compatible in the market, you can download the base files, but your f'd trying to download the additional files needed to play. ow whos fault is that? Google for allowing it to happen or EA for even allowing the base file to be downloaded? In this case, it's both parties, but when it comes to overall compatibility it's on googles shoulders for not enforcing some sort penalty.
It really doesn't matter what I think, they got my money and I'll make sure I don't fall in the shame on me catagory.
Oh and the Zen pinball not compatible issue, they turned it back on for the tf700 after I had a nice conversation with them about it not working. I will cut and paste my emails and their responses. BTW it all happened in a 30-45 minute window.
This is how devs should respond to issues with their apps.
This is me emailing them about the problem with Zen Pinball after the latest update.
"Hi,
I am a little more than frustrated with your company right now. I had this game running perfectly fine before the latest update, which broke portrait mode, so I figured I would un-install it then re-install it to see if that would fix the issue. Low and behold my device is NOW INCOMPATIBLE, which is a crock of you know what, it worked great before this last update. My device is a tegra 3 device, this game is marketed as a tegra 3 game with enhanced visuals, my daughters FUHU NABI 2 is compatible, a friggin kids tablet is compatible but my $600 Infinity isn't? Pleae send me the old apk so I can play one of my favorite games again.
Thank You".
Their response,
"Hi Cris,
Thank you for your email. We are aware of the issue with portrait mode, and will be issuing a fix shortly.
I am not sure why your device is now listed as incompatible, but I will look into this right away.
These updates are tricky, there always seems to be issues that we could not test for, or weird settings that we need to look at in the Google Store."
My response back,
"I appreciate your timely response to this problem, I contacted google play and they looked on the blacklist and the infinity is listed on that, just an FYI. Once this issue is resolved can you please email me and let me know because it really was my favorite game on the market.
Thank You."
And their response,
"We are turning the device back on momentarily. Portrait mode will not work yet, but should work soon as well. Apologies for the inconvenience."
Talk about easy, I mean they gave personal responses, not canned, looked into the problem and made available again in less then an hour. This is great customer service and in turn make me want to buy more of their games.
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More information from Zen Studios
Hi Cris,
The device was turned on about an hour ago, but could take up to an hour longer to reinstate. Please let me know if things continue to not work for you a few hours from now.