Anyone upgraded their iDevice?

theredjacket · April 23, 2013 2:00PM

It's not an Apples to Oranges comparison--
I play on my ipad 1 and iphone 5 (better handles the graphics)
Since whacking day begun--my game on the iPad crashes a lot, especially logging in and out, and visiting other towns.
So I usually visit with the iPhone 5--which is more robust.
If I get enough donuts maybe I can exchange them for an ipad mini

FrinksIntern · April 23, 2013 2:15PM

martiansupia wrote:

It's not an Apples to Oranges comparison--
I play on my ipad 1 and iphone 5 (better handles the graphics)
Since whacking day begun--my game on the iPad crashes a lot, especially logging in and out, and visiting other towns.
So I usually visit with the iPhone 5--which is more robust.
If I get enough donuts maybe I can exchange them for an ipad mini

Yea.. I play on a samsung galaxy 2 and an iPad 1 and the ipad crashes when visting friends sometimes, but other than that I haven't had too many issues. In fact sometimes my android lags more, athough I think that this is because of the fact that I use the mobile internet on my phone sometimes...

scarf_man516 · April 23, 2013 2:27PM

I bought an iPhone 5 in small part because of the harps. My 3gs had been on its last leg for a long while, and the harps nudged me over the edge into upgrading.

Agimortus · April 23, 2013 2:27PM

I don't think it has much to do with your device. I play on the iPad 2, Galaxy S3 and on the iPad Mini and I can't say that any one of those handles the game any better than the other. I will say the iPad 2 crashes quite a bit with Whacking Day.

scarf_man516 · April 23, 2013 2:36PM

Agimortus wrote:

I don't think it has much to do with your device. I play on the iPad 2, Galaxy S3 and on the iPad Mini and I can't say that any one of those handles the game any better than the other. I will say the iPad 2 crashes quite a bit with Whacking Day.

I still play a second town of similar size on my 3gs, and I will say it does make a difference. The 3gs is sloooooow compared to the 5 and its way faster processor.

chrisp530 · April 23, 2013 2:46PM

I play mostly on my iPhone 4 and have never had crashing issues. Shortly after the Christmas update I was crashing a lot, but that was happening to everyone regardless of device. I also play on my iPad 4 and it definitely moves more smoothly and with less lag, but there doesn't seem to be much of a difference.

Agimortus · April 23, 2013 2:51PM

scarf_man516 - "I still play a second town of similar size on my 3gs, and I will say it does make a difference. The 3gs is sloooooow compared to the 5 and its way faster processor."

I don't have an iPhone so I can't compare those. For me with the devices I can play on, it really doesn't make a noticeable difference. If I'm still playing when I get an iPhone (probably when the 5s/6) comes out, I can say otherwise (:

Bart-man5674 · April 23, 2013 2:54PM

I play on iPad 1 when I goon an iPad mini it works a lot better

SimonLYW · April 23, 2013 3:00PM

Agimortus wrote:

I don't think it has much to do with your device. I play on the iPad 2, Galaxy S3 and on the iPad Mini and I can't say that any one of those handles the game any better than the other. I will say the iPad 2 crashes quite a bit with Whacking Day.

The device definitely has an effect on performance, the iPad Mini and iPad 2 are essentially the same thing so it's expected that performance would be similar between those 2.

theredjacket · April 24, 2013 2:19PM

Thanks for all that input, I guess I'll hold on for now and wait for iPhone 6 or something. Buying a new device to play on top of the donuts I've spent. This game IS "life-ruiningly fun"

DIrishB · April 24, 2013 3:12PM

I also play on my iPhone 4 and usually have no problems in terms of game performance. It's crashed maybe 2 or 3 times in several months of me playing. I also recently downloaded and installed iOS 6 (due to the game recently requiring iOS 5 or higher to play), and both before and after the update my game plays fine.

On that note, your crashing problem may be related to too much of your phone's memory being taken up. I'd check to see how much available space you have and if necessary delete some pics, music, or apps you don't need.

michaelnel571 · April 24, 2013 3:23PM

Not an iDevice, so perhaps pointless to the conversation, but I've been playing on my Nexus for a few months and if it has crashed even once, I don't recall it.

diggz82 · April 24, 2013 3:27PM

Yeah I play on a 4 and do get a fair amount of lag sometimes - was debating an upgrade

emmcee1 · April 24, 2013 3:36PM

theredjacket wrote:

I've had lots of trouble with latency and crashes throughout the history of the game (especially at Christmas when it was snowing), but I am operating on an iPhone 4 and was wondering if anyone has upgraded from an older iDevice to a newer one and if it had led to any improvement with those sorts of issues?

Thanks in advance for your comments.

Nope I started on an iPhone4 now on the 5 and its exactly the same no difference at all,still crashing extremely long log in/out. But every other app has improved speed wise in terms of loading. Ea just uses a "no frills" or "home brand" servers,there a joke.

emmcee1 · April 24, 2013 3:39PM

:evil:

BruceJennerFace · April 24, 2013 6:15PM

I play mostly on an iPad 2 and when I'm away from that I use my iPhone 4. Not much a difference. A little faster on the iPad 2, but nothing really signifigant.

gcoleman957 · April 24, 2013 6:35PM

i play on an i5 and haven't had any crash since i started. which was around sept-oct.

Samwellthefirst · April 24, 2013 7:30PM

Always played on iPad2 since Halloween never had any of the game ruining glitches that have affected people (or donut giving glitches

)

Hoping to get iPhone5 soon just trying to find time to go down to EE and find out price. BEST PRICE. Hopefully wont start getting problems when I'm logging in and out of origin all the time as other users have complained about,

Fingers crossed

sherryt07 · April 24, 2013 7:58PM

theredjacket wrote:

I've had lots of trouble with latency and crashes throughout the history of the game (especially at Christmas when it was snowing), but I am operating on an iPhone 4 and was wondering if anyone has upgraded from an older iDevice to a newer one and if it had led to any improvement with those sorts of issues?

Thanks in advance for your comments.

I was using a 4th gen iPod, and I would crash all the time; especially at Christmas. I upgraded a month ago to a 5th gen iPod and things have definitely got lots better. Almost no crashing, except for the new 20 minute server reload. But that's been happening to everyone so it's not device specific.

redmms · April 24, 2013 9:21PM

ive got an iphone 4s and a ipad mini, the 4s does take a little longer to load and to visit friends, the mini is very quick which is usually what i use, or the pc app which is super quick.

Linky2g · April 24, 2013 9:23PM

i play on a sgs3 and it is mostly fine. if i play for hours at a time it will get quite hot and start to lag eventually but it cools down rapidly once the game is exited.

Anyone upgraded their iDevice?

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