game crashes when trying to connect to the internet

some of the games installed on my iphone 4s ( like zombie cafe, snoopy's street fair and ice age village) crashes when it tries to connect to the internet. i have checked my internet connection and it works just fine. but when i try to open these games with the internet on, it just crashes and phone goes to home menu. it only happened just recently. i can play these games before with the internet on. now i can only play these games if internet is off.

iPhone 4S, iOS 5.0.1

Posted on Jun 21, 2012 2:35 AM

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Posted on Jun 21, 2012 9:44 AM

Ok I was at Beelines Facebook page, and they posted this earlier today


"Due to some changes Apple made to their servers, various Beeline games are crashing during startup. We’re working to fix the problem. In the meantime you should be able to get into the games and manage them as needed by shutting down your device’s internet connection (airplane mode) before trying to open the game."


So there was something changed on Apple's side that is messing with certain games, looks like it is airplane mode until the developers can get their apps to work with the servers again.

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Jun 21, 2012 9:44 AM in response to JoshDesousa

Ok I was at Beelines Facebook page, and they posted this earlier today


"Due to some changes Apple made to their servers, various Beeline games are crashing during startup. We’re working to fix the problem. In the meantime you should be able to get into the games and manage them as needed by shutting down your device’s internet connection (airplane mode) before trying to open the game."


So there was something changed on Apple's side that is messing with certain games, looks like it is airplane mode until the developers can get their apps to work with the servers again.

Jun 21, 2012 7:46 AM in response to joijoi

I have some things that may work. The first one is turn off your wifi and try to run the game on 3G if it works there is a problem with your Internet rather then the game. Secondly delete the game and re-install it. ( You will most likely lose all you in-game data). Or thirdly completely turn off you phone restart it and it shall wok fine. This has happened to me as well.

Jun 21, 2012 8:09 AM in response to joijoi

I am seeing the same issue on my iPhone 4S (started yesterday evening for me (June 20th) ) Several games will only run when the phone is not connected to the internet (Specific ones I have seen are Smurf's Village, Bloons TD Lite, and Samurai vs. Zombies Defense, but only when you try and get bonus gems by visiting the tapjoy site through the game, oddly enough another game from the same developer Blood and Glory that appears to have an identical bonus gem system does not crash)


Anyone know if there was there a stealth update to iOS or something?


Also JoshDesousa, I have tried all the above, and still have the same issues. Crashes on Wifi, or 3G, however in airplane mode, everything is fine. Went as far as to do a restore on my phone to the default state, downloaded Smurf's Village to the clean phone, and it crashed just as before.


Looks like this is app related, but it would still be nice to know what caused these specific apps to suddenly die like this

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