tl;dr
Phone is wiped every time it starts. Used stock, cm7, and reflash. All fail.
I can't figure this out.
Device: r800x (SE Xperia Play)
Android: 2.3.3 stock
Bootloader: Unlocked via sonymobile website
Issue:
I bought a r800x. I joined a wifi network, and signed in with a Google account. I downloaded SuperGNES, a Super Nintendo emulator from the Google store. I transferred a game to the r800x from another phone over bluetooth. The controller worked, the game worked, and I saved in-game, and with the save state feature.
The phone ran out of power, so I charged it. When I turned the phone on, all the games were gone. Even the game saves.
Flash forward, cm7, and reflash to stock.
I installed Snes9x, and Snes9x+ from the Google store and it can open the last game it played, but it won't recognize any in-game saves.
So it must be the emulators or something?
Extra:
I noticed any file written to the r800x's external from a computer (/mnt/sdcard) do not get deleted. They're also flagged with RW permissions. The files that get deleted have RWX permissions.
This means all the cm7 files are still there.
I can save SNES ROMs to the SD card and they survive the startup wipe. They have RW- permissions and can't be used by apps. RWX ones get deleted, but can be used.
Any file brought in via bluetooth, download or cloud is destroyed on phone startup.
Snes9x load game path is in /data/data and the last game played survives, but doesn't recognize in-game saving. All emulator save states are wiped.
Solved
Reset the phone to factory. Tried downloading files/anything. It worked! Then downloaded Snes9x not from the play store, but the authors site.
The problem went away.
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So ehm, a friend of mine has a problem with his A100...
A few weeks ago he downloaded a, shall we say, less than legal version of NFS Shift, and despite numerous attempts at downloading the Data-file seperately, he never got past the "NaN Downloading Game Data 0 of 0MB" screen.
Bummer.
After trying for a couple of days, he saw a sale on the same game, bought it and downloaded it to his phone where it works fine.
The game IS compatible with the A100, but whenever he downloads the legal version to his tablet, he runs into the same problem as before.
Instead of downloading the (legal) game data file, he can't get past the "NaN Downloading Game Data 0 of 0MB" screen, and nothing gets downloaded.
My friend assumes that the cracked version of the nfs.apk somehow blocks or replaces the legal version from working. He has tried uninstalling the cracked version and installing the bought version several times, but so far nada.
Any ideas? Is there a particular file or directory he should try to delete?
Both phone and tablet are rooted, so is it possible to just copy the full game from the phone to the tablet?
Any help appreciated!
how do you know'the games is compatiable? I have tried the same version as your friend.
It's available for download in the market app.
Also, when you go to the www market: market.android.com, you can list which of your devices an app is compatible with, and NFS shows up as compatible with the A100.
(This is the NFS released by Electronic Arts Netherlands BTW. It's been released by a couple of EA-divisions, and a version released by one company, is sometimes compatible with different devices than a version released by different companies.)
I installed the apk that was included on my G2X and it works perfectly.
You could factory reset. It kinda sucks to do just to get a game to'work.
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Downloaded files still doesn't work.
I downloaded the files on an Epic 4g and then just switched the sd card into my A100, and the game still won't work. They are in the correct location but Sim City still tries to download them and doesn't see them on the card.
yourmomsdong said:
I downloaded the files on an Epic 4g and then just switched the sd card into my A100, and the game still won't work. They are in the correct location but Sim City still tries to download them and doesn't see them on the card.
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The acer will not run game data off your sd card (mnt/external_sd) automatically. It has its own internal sdcard (mnt/sdcard) and that's where it stores game data. You will need to copy it in there but which exact directory I'm not so sure since I don't have the game installed. Maybe someone else can reply to that.
If you want to run from your external SDcard you need to use GL to SD app from market. Theres a thread here if you want to read more about the app.
Just a bit of background info, I'm coming from a Samsung Moment with a hacked-to-work (but stable) 2.2 port, so I might not be "up to speed" on the latest tips and tricks. I bought my Galaxy Nexus (from Sprint) about a week and a half ago and within 5 hours, had it rooted and running CM9 2012/05/22 nightly (which is what I've still got).
What I'm attempting to do (as per the title) is move some of the larger apps (such as Jelly Defense, Inertia HD, Fireball, and the like) from /data/app to /system/app. While I realize this isn’t necessary at all given that I essentially have 28GB of space for apps, music and whatnot, I’ve seen Root Explorer say that I have ~300 MB within /system free, and I want to use that space more efficiently. I’ve done this countless times through Root Explorer on my Moment and never really gotten any errors.
My problem: So I move the apk's to /system/app from within Root Explorer, reboot, and attempt to play one of the above mentioned games, but either upon startup or a few menus in, I get an error message that reads "Unfortunately, [game title] has stopped." Moving it back to the /data partition makes it perfectly playable, but I've currently got most of the Google apps (Maps, Youtube, Goggles, etc) on /system/app and they all work fine. What am I missing?
Download remount from the play Store, from Stephen Streiccson.
Remount the /system/ partition, with remount,
Then download Root Explorer, copy and paste with that, done
Thanks for your help, but I don't need help mounting/unmounting the partitions as rw/ro, that can be done all through Root Explorer via the little toggle in the upper right corner. (I did try your method though and still got the same results.) I need help figuring out why the larger apps (games mostly) won't work, while all (and I do mean all) Google apps and other apps (such as the Amazon Appstore, Cerberus, Nova launcher, etc) work perfectly fine in /system/app. I mean, when I had my Moment, for awhile I had Angry Birds as a system app and besides the usual graphical glitches (for our antiquated Moments), it ran just the same as if it were installed in /data/app.
I have a brand new Ouya, running completely stock - not rooted or anything - and have sideloaded some emulators (YongZH stuff mostly) onto my Ouya. The ones I have tried work fine - with the exception of Gensoid 2.4.3 (the apk that I got from SlideME before YongZH pulled everything except N64oid)
If I go to a file browser, and install the apk and open it from the install screen, it opens fine. If I open a Sega Genesis .bin file using Gensoid, it opens fine. If I try to open it from the launcher - it closes as soon as it pops up.
Even deleting app data doesn't fix this.
I have done a factory reset, and reinstalled my apk files - still have the issue. Since the emulator runs fine, I can not figure it out, and think I may have a bad RAM sector, or it may be an issue with the Ouya launcher. Since the emulator does run, though, and I reinstalled the APK files in a different order, so I highly doubt it is stored in the same place in RAM, I can not figure out why it won't open.
Is anyone else having this issue? What could it be, and is there a fix?
Hi Chaps....
Honestly didn't know where else to go for help on this one...
First off.... I've been happily playing DT2 with my amazon controller since I first got my Firetv box (non rooted) v 51.1.6.3,.... right up until today,... when i was met with "Please update your application with a new version" and I was quickly kicked back to the fire os screen. I tried contacting madfinger games but it seems they have dropped windows and Amazon support. Ages ago I had moved a lot of my apps to an sd card,... but due to DT2 writing to the card a lot it became corrupted... so i reinstalled it to the firetv box then moved it to the sd card, backed it up to my pc and then put it back on to the firetv. (hope your still with me).
I just wanted to know if it would be possible to sideload the latest version 2-1.2.0 onto the firetv box.
I really don't understand why they dropped support for amazon because it ran like a dream on my box. (also lost 2400 in gold as well).
I noticed that the original DT2 that i backed up was an apk that was just over 488mb in size,... but the new apk that i've downloaded is only 25mb. (I'm still in the process of downloading the OBB data files, although I don't know if they will be of much use.
Is this just a waste of time chaps or does anyone know if i can get this to work.
I'm okay with adb push pull, ect... so just need to know if it'll work.
really appreciate any help as playing a game on a tv is a hell of a lot better than burning my eye sockets out on a monitor.... lol
I have absolutely no idea how i done this, but i'll explain as best i can.
I uninstalled DT2,... luckily its still in the cloud if it all goes belly up. I then installed apps2fire on my phone and downloaded DT2.
I then sent the main apk to my firetv. (probably went wrong here) but i ran the apk.... DT2 started to run but then said that it needed to download some files (around 250mb) but failed with an error code of "Download Failed Because The Resources Could Not Be Found".
Unaware of what this meant i then managed to locate the obb files on my file and wrote down the name of the folder they were in.
using es file explorer i created the same named folder in the same place on the firetv.
I then created another folder called dt2 on the phone and moved the obb file into it. I then used apps2fire and located to obb file and sent it to the firetv. so far so good. next problem was "where was the obb file". I managed to locate it, but only after i changed the folder view in es file explorer. I then copied and pasted the obb into the folder i created ealier within the obb folder.
I then ran DT2 again, but this time is said that it required files from the google playstore. I had a choice for the software to download what it needed and I let it do it's thing.
This time when I ran DT2 it started playing the intro... I skipped all the first parts so that i could log back in with my own details.
This time the game ran but the images look different to the original firetv version. Don't get me wrong, they look great. plus the amazon controller works perfectly.
I then closed the game.
when I went to go back to play it, the icon said that there was an update available.... (I had already gone through this once before, and it never worked).. but this time it did. and the xmas version is now installed.
This was a rough way of doing things, but i did some google searches and used details from these sites... (hope i can post these)....
https://www.reddit.com/r/fireTV/comments/2g7cgy/how_would_i_go_about_sideloading_a_game_that_has/
http://www.aftvnews.com/sideload/
http://filehex.com/dead-trigger-2/
http://ouyaforum.com/showthread.php?8829-obb-files-and-dead-trigger-2
all of this was done legally using programs available on firetv and an android phone. no other apk's or obbs were used.
Hope this helps in some way,....
seems I was a little too quick to say it was working...... as soon as i went to play in a tournament the start button had become greyed out.
but the firetv game controller still worked and by pressing "B" i was about to back out of the locked screen.
Also the "there is an update available" has returned to the main dt2 icon, but it always fails right at the very end of the loading bar.
I managed to play the game for about an hour and then tried the tournament since then its been very buggy.
Would it be anything to do with google play services chaps?
I just got my Sony Ericsson Xperia play and I think i got scammed. (I am a noob to computer things and tech in general so im sorry. I also am young and have no idea whats happening.) So first off, I try and root this, and it doesnt work, it says on Flashtool, {Part 1 of rooting failed, deleting and trying again} or something like that. Also it is a R800i model, but is Verizon, idk if that is supposed to be correct but i though R800i was for At&t. Also im trying to get games but they all fail, i have to get apks but people keep saying to put them in system/apps, which idk where that is on my SD card. I go to my Games file in the SD and see nothing in there, nothing at all. When i try and put my crash bandicoot apk in the game folder, i try and drag it in there and it wont let me, like it doesnt drop in the folder. I Dont know if im just a dumb kid or my Xperia Play is a fake, but i need serious help.
It's been like 20 days since you asked and I hope if you haven't figured it out on your own, that you at least didn't sold it because owning a Xperia Play in 2023 is just based. And there are no fakes.
How do you know it's a Verizon Play, just because of the logo? If you bought it from AliExpress recently, they are refurbished and matched with random shells (we used to have more Plays with a shell without carrier logos afaik but that's a little more rare now). It might be a R800i (carrier unlocked) inside, with a R800x (Verizon) shell.
Check the wiki in here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/xperiaplay/comments/ktz8hx
it literally has all the practical steps you need to follow to install ADB, fastboot and USB drivers, flashing kernels, recoveries and systems, sideloading apps and games... I sent a link to a page that has a link to the wiki, because this page has more useful stuff such as a link to a Discord server with other Xperia Play owners.
There's some stuff you might need to know first tho:
After you have installed ADB, fastboot, the drivers on you computer, unlocked the bootloader, flashed a neat custom kernel, recovery and ROM (I recommend the LuPuS kernel, TWRP and NXT Gaming respectively - bonus with NXT is that you don't need to root it), you'll get to the step of sideloading apps.
To install games, please don't install them to the internal storage even if you had to do it to save your life (that's "/data/app" at the root of the internal storage, because "/system/app" is for system apps... as the path name implies, and it's also at the root of internal storage).
Also don't mind the paths, you'll never need to put APKs there manually, if you install them (like you install any APK in any Android phone) that's where they go to behind the curtains and you don't really need to understand it, unless you want to ofc. Just in case you don't know how to install APKs the normal way, well, that wiki's got your back.
Normal apps like, idk, a terminal emulator, a file manager, you can install to the internal storage (that is, just install and forget about it). For games, you'll want to install them to the SD card (that is, just install them but then go to Settings > Applications > Manage Applications > [game name] > Move to SD card).
The first app you need to install is a file manager, the wiki teaches you how to install ES but I personally prefer FX. You can follow the same steps but just change the file name, and you can download it here: https://send.vis.ee/download/e1a641e6ee452023/#2sX0oEiwyUn1ciZKc7pAYQ - expires in 3 days.
And to install games, it goes beyond installing their APKs. You'll have to place certain files in certain folders (on the SD card), sometimes it's easier like with Crash Bandicoot, sometimes it's Dark Souls-hard like with some EA and Gameloft games... for that, you can ask for help in the Discord. They also have a lot of game links there.