iOS transfer current ipad game to iphone?

[lfcawc]

can this m=be done?
I can barely play game on iPad 2....constant crashing after being in the game for 5/10 mins..game becomes slow and unresponsive then crashes.....visiting neighbours is almost impossible...a crash occurs after trying to go from one neighbour to the next...is it worth me moving to iPhone??

 

[Agent_L]

what iPad is it? On mu iPad mini1 it runs great despite abysmaly slow ios9 so I guess any iPad should be ok, maybe except ancient history like the original iPad. Does it even run on original iPad?

 

[lfcawc]

ipad 2....it worked well before....I have a lot of apps which crash now...ever since ios9

 

[Agent_L]

ipad 2....it worked well before....I have a lot of apps which crash now...ever since ios9

Sorry, I obviously missed that you've stated it from the beginning.
So as iPad mini1 is a carbon copy of iPad2 internally, it should run on yours as well as on on mine. Maybe the difference is that I already had iOS9 when installed AC. Contact support, maybe they can somehow save your state as you reinstall game.

 

[lfcawc]

@greensmith

Can this be done? (im asking as you are our resident expert! )

 

[Gt city]

@greensmith

Can this be done? (im asking as you are our resident expert! )

I did not find out, what type of iPhone. Consider you have iPhone 5 or more. I can tell you, i had iPhone 4S, and it worked too slow, later i switch to android phone, and would not changed. For now

But it might be, that it will work. Try to write to GI and ans them for restore code, they will let you know.

 

[lfcawc]

@Gt city

IPhone 5s

Im currently trying to delete a lot of photos/apps from ipad to free some space to see if things improve!

 

[greensmith]

The only way I could see transferring an AC game from an iPad to an iPhone is to do a backup on the iPad, then reset your iPhone back to its "blank" state, then try to restore the iPad backup onto the iPhone. It's risky and I don't know if it would even work. You might want to ask Apple support if it is even possible.
Unfortunately, there's no way of transferring a single app from one device to another. You might also want to ask GI support if they can give you a code that would do the transfer.
Cheers,
Tom

 

[Agent_L]

@lfcawc I'm sorry I mislead you. I've did some more testing and indeed - after visiting few (2-3) neighbors with very big cities the game crashes inevitably. I haven't noticed it either because I tried it on people with smaller cities. As iPad2/iPad mini1 have only 512MB of ram and this bug is clearly dependent on complexity I think it's a memory leak.
So to answer your question: I think that playing on iDevices with more ram (eg iPhone 5 and 6 have twice the ram and 6s has 4 times more) should make this bug happen less often.
Or we can hope devs will fix it, eventually.

Free2Play Any word on that bug? iPad mini 1, iOS 9.2.1

 

[Rsorour]

@lfcawc ...I am dealing with the same symptoms ... I have been limping along since I upgraded to iOS 9. After assessing the situation and reDing other testimonials and complaints, I summarized the options we have:

Option A: do nothing and wait for update that supposedly will resolve memory leak issue. Not sure of the timeline but Ivan promised early this year. It could be the next update. Ivan and Team will be working on developing a defragmented version that is more stable with older devices. That's what I was told. If is an interaction between a complex game, an older device, and a slow iOS 9, then I'm not sure if update will resolve the problem as our thorn in the neck will be the iOS 9 situation.

Option B: contact G!; request a restore code; delete app and re-install. Tread Very carefully here as I got to know with the latest quest that many of our games have not sync'd with G! Servers since December and may be even earlier. If your Walk in the Clouds buildings have not recieved any neighbor visits, then your game most likely is stuck in the past and you will lose a lot of progress.

Option C: upgrade your hardware. If this doesn't solve the problem, then we are doomed. According to @Jamiegsi who had the same issues, the game worked fine on iPad Air when it was transferred from an ipad2.

I hope this helps
Ramy

 

[Agent_L]

iPad Air has 1GB of RAM, twice as much as iPad2.
Air2 and mini4 are even safer bets with 2GB, 4× more than iPad2 and mini1.

 

[ravo]

ipad 2....it worked well before....I have a lot of apps which crash now...ever since ios9

Me too. I want to transfer my game from my iPad 2 across to my new Samsung Tab S. Can this be done?