Game Center keeps crashing our games. How do we uninstall and reinstall "Game Center" on iPad2

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Game Center keeps crashing our games. How do we uninstall and reinstall "Game Center" on iPad2

Hi there, we use an iPad2 running iOS version 4.3.3 (8J2 - whatever that means), and we keep running into a persistent problem which is that games keep crashing after a few minutes. I am fairly certain this is somehow connected to how they interact with Game Center because we will get regular crashes every 5 minutes or so, except when, for some reason, the game warns us that it can't connect with Game Center. Then the game will run uninterrupted until the battery is flat!

This problem used only to be with a game called "Hay Day" but now it's starting to occur with other games (angry birds is the latest victim!). I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling the game itself, but this never makes a difference. I thought if I could somehow strip out Game Center and reinstall it, it might solve my problem.

I am hoping that someone has a solution. A friend recommended that I re-install iOS, but I have learned that you can on;y install iOS 6 now. I have not found one single person (including in these discussion fora!) who reports a good experience from transferring an iPad2 to iOS 6, and I understand that you can't undo it once you have transferred over.

Any suggestions - or have we just got a "bad apple"?

Cheers,

TF

iPad 2, iOS 4.3.3

Posted on Jan 20, 2013 7:15 PM

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ckuan

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Jan 20, 2013 7:34 PM in response to treefrog75

You cannot install Game Center, it is bundled with the IOS.

Check how much space left on your iPad (at least 10% space of your total)

Do a reset (Hold Sleep/Wake and Home buttons about 10 secs or more till Apple logo appears, ignore the Slide to Power Off that appears)

Note: You will not lose any data.

if no joy, you need to update to IOS 6.0.1.

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treefrog75 Author

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Jan 20, 2013 8:02 PM in response to ckuan

Thanks CK. I gave it a try but it didn't solve the problem (the one good thing about our issue is that it's regular, so the solutions are testable!).

It occurred to me that udating to the new iOS was the answer (how I wish we'd upgraded to iOS 5 when it was an option!!) - so we might just have to put up with this problem until Apple fixes iOS6 (the list of reported problems that it causes the iPad2 is huge, and the 6.0.1 patch, by all accounts, doesn't really address any of them!).

Cheers,

Jason

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