Bongo Chef - easy way to freeze the game!

Date: 12/23/2013

Bongo Chef Version 1.0

Description:

There’s an incredibly easy way to put Bongo Chef in incredibly bad shape.

That’s a sentence I’ve always wanted to write.

Anyways, there’s this game called Bongo Chef.  The game is similar to a whole host of recent fruit slicing games that seem to be all the rage.

There is a very easy to reproduce bug with Bongo Chef.  It is much easier showing the bug than it is describing it, so if you’re interested, please take a look at the screenshots below.

I’ll try to sum it up, briefly.  Basically, there’s a pause option in the lower right hand corner of the screen.  Pushing this pause option activates a menu that has a resume, restart, and home option.

It takes a little two finger dexterity, but you can very easily to get the fame to freeze with this menu partially off screen.  If you coordinate two fingers and press the pause option, as well as the area of the screen where the play option appears, the game will freeze.

I’ve gotten this bug to reproduce 12 times in a row.

I kid you not when I say that I actually did find this during regular use.

Steps to reproduce:

1.     Download and launch Bongo Chef

2.     Select “Arcade Mode”

3.     Select “60 Seconds”

4.     Select “Tap to continue”

5.     (prepare two fingers) in a bongo-playing fashion hit both the pause option in the lower left, and the general area where the resume play option appears on screen

Result:  There’s an easy way to freeze Bongo Chef – mashing the pause option and the restart game option

Expected:  Freezing Bongo Chef shouldn’t be that easy

Download and launch Bongo Chef on a Kindle Fire.

Use two fingers, and in a "horse trot" motion, toggle the pause option and the restart options at the same time...

You'll get the app frozen, the screen looks like this.

Factory King(dom) app - not located in the app store!

Here's a first for me.  I downloaded a game called "Factory king" from the app store, and.....

This was the error message that I got when I tried to launch the app.  I'm guessing something was screwed up during the submission process.  It'd be nice to get, say, a .99 cent free credit for going through the trouble of reporting something like this.  Anyways.  I'll check and see if this developer has the same problem with all of their apps...

Ice Rage Free: Funky error message

Date: 10/09/2013

Description:

I just downloaded Ice Rage Free from a company called HeroCraft.

Game seems fun, but this error message pops up after about 3 minutes of gameplay.

Glow Hockey Lite on the Kindle Fire: Changing settings in pause menu then quitting out of game crashes the app

Date: 10/08/2013

Glow Hockey on the Kindle Fire – Version 1.2.5

Description:

Found a minor bug with the Free version of Glow Hockey on the Kindle Fire.

It is a crash.  I found that it is very easy to reproduce on my Kindle Fire.

This crash is easier to show than to describe, so please take a look at the attached screenshots.  I’ll also describe the crash in words.

Here are the basics of the crash: 

After entering into gameplay, if you quickly pause the game, then toggle options in pause menu, then quit the game, the game will crash.

I have gotten it to continually crash on an error message that says:

“The application Glow Hockey (process com.natenai.glowhockeyamazon) has stopped unexpectedly.  Please try again.”

Steps to reproduce the crash:

1.     Launch the free version of Glow Hockey on a Kindle Fire (version 1.2.5)

2.     Select “CONTINUE FREE VERSION”

3.     Select “PLAY”

4.     Select any difficulty

5.     Immediately pause the game

6.     Toggle “SOUNDS” (or vibration or particles options) either off or on

7.     Select “QUIT”

Result:  On a Kindle Fire, pausing Glow Hockey, toggling pause menu options, then quitting the game crashes the app

Expected:  On a Kindle Fire, pausing Glow Hockey, toggling pause menu options, then quitting the game, should not crash the app

Please Note:  I originally found this crash while my Kindle Fire was NOT conntected to the internet.  It also reproduce while connected to the internet.  I was the guy who wrote this functional bug about the iPhone app some years ago.  You can also watch a video of the crash.

Select "PLAY"

Select any difficulty level, head directly into gameplay...

Pause the game.  From the pause menu, change any settings...

Change a setting like "PARTICLES" and then select "QUIT"

The app will crash.  This happens to me 100 percent of the time.

Dots on the Kindle Fire: Returning to app from Twitter login screen leaves your stranded on a "Loading..." message.

Date: 09/07/2013

Dots on the Kindle Fire

Description:

I’ve found a very, very minor bug with the Dots app on the Kindle Fire.

If you haven’t downloaded Dots, you should.  It’s a lot of fun. 

Here’s the bug in simple terms: if you try to return to the Dots app from the Amazon Silk browser’s rendering of the twitter log in screen, you’ll get stuck on a screen that says “Loading….”.

You can exit out of this screen by using the back button, but you can’t make the loading message go away by tapping the screen.  It was slightly confusing to me.

This is easier to show than it is to describe, so if you’re interested, take a look at the screenshots below.

Please Note:  Doing the exact same steps with the Facebook Connect option gives the user an informative error message that is dismissible.

Steps:

1.     Launch the Dots app on the Kindle Fire

2.     Enter into a game

3.     From the “TIMED MODE” results screen, select the “Connect Twitter” option

4.     From “Authorize PlayDots to use your account?” twitter login, return to the Dots app using the back arrow at the bottom of the screen

5.     Press anywhere on the screen while “Loading…” is on screen.

Result:  Exiting from the Twitter login screen back into the Dots app using the back arrow results in the user being stranded on a screen that continually says “Loading….”

Expected:  Exiting from the Twitter login screen back into the Dots app on Kindle Fire shouldn’t result in the user being stranded on a screen that says “Loading…”

Repo Rate: 5/5

Exit out of the twitter login using the back arrow at the bottom of the screen....

Try getting rid of this message.  

Oddly named app available to download on the Kindle Fire - ?????TouchPal Contacts?

Date:  04/13/2012

Description:

There's a very oddly named app that currently available to download on the Kindle Fire.

It has a listed name of ?????TouchPal Contacts?.  I am going to guess that this name is a typo.

ABC News App - Twitter Sharing not working on Kindle Fire

Date: 03/09/2013

Description:

I've played around with the ABC News App for Kindle Fire a couple times now, and i've enjoyed it.

I was reading an article today, and tried to tweet out the story from inside the Kindle Fire app.

Twitter sharing does NOT appear to be working.  If you click on a Twitter icon from a story, an error message appears that reads, "An error occurred please try again later."

Download the iOS version and twitter sharing works fine.

ABC News - please fix twitter sharing in the Kindle Fire version of the ABC News app.

Steps to get this issue:
1.  Download the ABC News App for the Kindle Fire
2.  Go to any news story in the ABC News App
3.  Click on the twitter option for any news story
4.  Note the error message of, "An error occurred please try again later."

Result:  Twitter sharing does not appear to be working with the ABC News app for the Kindle Fire

Expected:  Twitter sharing should work from within the ABC News app for the Kindle Fire

Go to any news story in the ABC News app for the Kindle Fire.

The "Facebook" icon works fine, as does the e-mail icon.  But if you click on the Twitter icon.....

Nothing happens!  You just get this error message.  Twitter sharing works fine with the iOS ABC News app.

UNO Kindle Fire Edition - Keeps crashing when not connected to wi-fi

Date: 03/01/13

Gameloft's UNO Kindle Fire Edition (some version before 3.7.1)

I've gotten the same exact bug for 3 weeks in a row with Gameloft's UNO for the Kindle Fire.

Figure that I might as well write it down.

Here's what I keep seeing: on the weekends, my Kindle Fire will usually get connected to Wi-Fi.  During the rest of the week, it is not connect.

When it is not connected to Wi-Fi, if I launch Gameloft's UNO for the Kindle Fire, I am presented with a message that says:

"Download must be performed through a Wi-Fi connection and we did not detect any connection activated.  Do you want to configure your Wi-Fi connection now?"

If I select "Yes" to this prompt, the Kindle Fire throws up an error prompt of, "The application Settings (process.com.android.settings) has stopped unexpectedly.  Please try again."

No matter how many times I select this "Yes" prompt, I keep getting this crash.

It wouldn't matter that much, except the game also presents me with a "Later" prompt.  If I select "Later" - it just dumps me out of the application without warning.

I've gotten this now multiple times.  And the weird thing is, if I manually go into the Kindle Fire's setting screen (even though there's no wi-fi to be found around me) the crash will stop happening. 

Slightly curious.

Repro Steps for what I have been seeing:

1.  Go some place and have your Kindle Fire auto-connect to one of it's trusted wi-fi networks
2.  Go some place else out of wi-fi range of a trusted network
3.  Launch Gameloft's UNO for the Kindle Fire
4.  Note the "(process com.android.settings) crash

Result:  While not connected to wi-fi, Gameloft's UNO for the Kindle Fire app will continually crash,after I select "Yes" to an in-game connect to wi-fi settings prompt

Expected:  No crash from selecting "Yes" to an in-game connect to wi-fi settings prompt that's present by the UNO for Kindle Fire application

NOTE:  Please see attached screenshots.

I am not connected to wi-fi.  I launch UNO on the Kindle Fire.

I see a prompt like the one above.  I select "Yes" to this prompt....

I get this error message, ten for ten, until I manually go into the Kindle Fire settings screen. 

Pinterest on the Kindle Fire: App displays an error message from "+" searches

Date: 2/23/13

Pinterest Kindle Fire App (version 1.3.3)

Description:

There’s a minor problem with the Pinterest app on the Kindle Fire.

If you run a search for the “+” character, the user is presented with an ambiguous error message.

An error message titled “Sorry” appears, along with the text, “Something went wrong on our end.”

Steps to reproduce:

1.     Download the Pinterest app on a Kindle Fire

2.     Log into your Pinterest account (it’s not just for girls, really)

3.     Run a search for the “+” character

Result:  The PInterest Kindle Fire app displays an error message if the user searches for the “+” character

Expected:  No error message from running searches for the “+” character on the Kindle Fire 

Note:  This also happens over at their website.

Searches for the "+" character bring up this error message.