This is literally killing me.
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The Real Abed
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Me too! Are people manually making the game send the notifications? Or is the game doing something it shouldn't be and sending them without permission? I'm leaning towards the latter. In which case someone needs to report this game to Apple to have it taken down because this is bullshit.
I don't own this game. I should not be receiving notifications. The fact that FaceBook does the same thing in that it lets you send a challenge or request to someone that doesn't use the game or app you are using is everything that's wrong with social gaming.
I Googled hoping that others on the internet were also getting these messages out of the blue but no luck. Is this game brand new? Or recently updated?
The Real Abed
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I just got another one. Same person. Same score apparently as the rest. Is this game fucked up?
It needs to stop! Anyone else getting these besides disallow_bg and supposedly Talon?
Maybe it's a push server problem? In which case it might sort itself out. I notice a pattern though. Oddly, it must be the same notice because every time another comes in, all the others in the list change to the current received time. I keep declining it and it keeps coming.
It needs to stop! Anyone else getting these besides disallow_bg and supposedly Talon?
Maybe it's a push server problem? In which case it might sort itself out. I notice a pattern though. Oddly, it must be the same notice because every time another comes in, all the others in the list change to the current received time. I keep declining it and it keeps coming.
I just got another one. Same person. Same score apparently as the rest. Is this game fucked up?
It needs to stop! Anyone else getting these besides disallow_bg and supposedly Talon?
Maybe it's a push server problem? In which case it might sort itself out. I notice a pattern though. Oddly, it must be the same notice because every time another comes in, all the others in the list change to the current received time. I keep declining it and it keeps coming.
Yes, and they are awful.
http://forums.toucharcade.com/showthread.php?t=162773&page=3
If the post in this thread is legit, the developers added a button where someone could send all their gamecenter friends a challenge. Dumb.
Looks like ill have to trim some folks out of my friends list unfortunately.
The Real Abed
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That won't work. It's an iOS feature. (Challenging other members) I'm beginning to think it's not a fault of the user sending the message or the game itself but rather Apple's servers.
I wonder if it's the same people attached to all the messages we're all getting. I'd post the names but I don't want to embarrass them in case they have nothing to do with why it's repeating.
I temporarily turned off sounds so they won't bother me anymore until this stops.
Does it start with a K? I've unfriended a few people.
What...why do I have a special character. I have to change that.
Also, my battery is fucking ridiculous. Not much usage, but compared to my Galaxy S2 running CM10...wow
https://www.dropbox.com/s/sjh1vjhqd41iibl/2012-11-05 19.22.37.png
The Real Abed
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Just checked my iPad NC and it's actually 4 different people now. All of them GAFfers. Which is why I don't unfriend them. One of them a well known member with a crazy PSP squirrel as his avatar. I won't name which one. But maybe he can shed light on it. The other names I don't recognize.
And no, none of them start with a K. At least not their "normal" names. I have a TRF, a DG, a FB and a JTP. You know who you are.
Just checked my iPad NC and it's actually 4 different people now. All of them GAFfers. Which is why I don't unfriend them. One of them a well known member with a crazy PSP squirrel as his avatar. I won't name which one. But maybe he can shed light on it. The other names I don't recognize.
And no, none of them start with a K. At least not their "normal" names. I have a TRF, a DG, a FB and a JTP. You know who you are.
Haha. Flunkie.
Gaming Truth
Member
Why don't you use a map app that lets you fix mistakes on the map so they never happen again. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVksbb1Z4SQ&sns=em)
They also just had a facelift and added neat (and scary) features I've yet to enable.
One finger, imagine being able to flip back and forth with your thumb, it'd be great.
Just checked my iPad NC and it's actually 4 different people now. All of them GAFfers. Which is why I don't unfriend them. One of them a well known member with a crazy PSP squirrel as his avatar. I won't name which one. But maybe he can shed light on it. The other names I don't recognize.
And no, none of them start with a K. At least not their "normal" names. I have a TRF, a DG, a FB and a JTP. You know who you are.
Oh dear, I'm one of them. Sorry, I just assumed that it would only go out to the people that already had the game. Which would obviously make much more sense. Apple should definitely make it so people can block challenges, or give those of us who want to be involved an easy way to target only certain people.
The Real Abed
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How exactly does it work right now? It just sends it to every one of your friends? That's really silly. And pretty damn stupid of them. There should be an option attached to your profile to disallow any challenges or only allow them from games you actually own. I don't want to be spammed about a game I have no interest in. FaceBook has this same problem. My god, the height of the Mafia Wars and Farmville craze were a pretty damn annoying time to be around.
I've never gotten messages like this ever before, and only from this one game.
Once again, I don't blame the player. I blame the dumb programming in iOS and lack of options for your Game Center profile.
Mecha_Infantry
Banned
I don't know if it's because it's the iPhone 5 or the 6.0.1 update or both, but I now can have no icons on the homescreen springboard. Which is all I really wanted actually, before this, you were forced to have at least ONE icon/app. I'm so happy this is no longer the case. =)
It's been like that since pre-ios 6. SmokeyDave mentioned it a while ago and I've had it for a hole now. I thought they'd remove it with ios 6
Well Challenges just came with iOS 6 so I expect there will be a learning curve for everyone. This is the first one I've seen that sends it out to everyone, but I haven't really looked at how other games handle challenges, or if they even have them.
Ben Morales
Member
Even Facebook lets you click on the "x" in the corner of notifications to block them. I was getting tons of Farmville 2 requests and I clicked the little x and they stopped. I do the same for any and all future requests for games I don't play. Game Center definitely needs this functionality as well.
Edit: It seems any game with achievements or leaderboards is capable of sending challenges. If there is no in-game option, you can go into Game Center itself, tap on the achievement or high score you want someone to beat, and then it shows you a list of people in your friend list who own/don't own the game.
Edit: It seems any game with achievements or leaderboards is capable of sending challenges. If there is no in-game option, you can go into Game Center itself, tap on the achievement or high score you want someone to beat, and then it shows you a list of people in your friend list who own/don't own the game.
Now if only they let you put spaces in between apps. Maybe I want my top 2 rows empty Apple, is that so much to ask???
criesofthepast
Member
Hahaha I'm getting the same notifications for that extreme racer from flunkie. I don't own the game either. I got about 3-4 yesterday. Didn't really bother me. I actually downloaded the game and ill try to beat his high score sometime.Just checked my iPad NC and it's actually 4 different people now. All of them GAFfers. Which is why I don't unfriend them. One of them a well known member with a crazy PSP squirrel as his avatar. I won't name which one. But maybe he can shed light on it. The other names I don't recognize.
And no, none of them start with a K. At least not their "normal" names. I have a TRF, a DG, a FB and a JTP. You know who you are.
The issue is with the game. Game Center splits Challenges into two camps, one with friends that have the game you're issuing a challenge for and the other with all the friends who don't have the game. This game is overriding this from within the game itself and sends the challenges to everyone regardless of them having the game or not.
You can see the way Apple intends it to work if you go in via Game Center, tap on an achievement or score and pick Challenge Friends.
The Real Abed
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I'm now getting notifications from a 5th person with the game. This one with the initials TS. (Sounds like a female name)
Having some weird issues with my battery, did not use my phone at all and it showed 96% after about 10 minutes of being off the charger, so I turned off bluetooth, location services and anything else that could potentially draw too much power. After doing this, I lost another 4%. So I turned off, let sit for 2 minutes, then turned back on and the phone was a 99%. What is going on? It is a 4s, and I just want to know if my jank is broken.
Batteries trickle charge once at 90% up to 100%, discharges once at 100% back down to 90% if left plugged in while still displaying 100%. It doesn't update until draining from normal use occurs. Probably that you're experiencing.
This is normal, not just with iOS devices, same with laptops.
That's the whole point of this social gaming notification stuff, to add some viral aspect. The hope is that people go "I'm getting a bunch of notifications for this Extreme Racer game, wow it must be good, I'll go check it out!" But in reality it's pretty irritating. I've gotten 29(!!) challenges over the last few days for Extreme Road Trip 2. It's especially annoying because of Game Center's obnoxious "trumpet fan fare" alert sounds.
Apple needs to add some kind of toggle to allow friend requests but disable challenge notifications.
I wonder when M83 - Reunion will finally appear in an Apple product video. It's too perfect.
bigmit3737
Member
I just got an Iphone 4 and was wondering if there is some sort of Print Screen App?
I'm also wondering if there is a way to open multiple programs at the same time?
I'm playing a Japanese game that searches for other people to team up with, and during this time, I like to look up some words, or check my email. The problem is every time I go to check my email during this queue, I'm disconnected from the server, because I "closed" the game.
Thanks.
I'm also wondering if there is a way to open multiple programs at the same time?
I'm playing a Japanese game that searches for other people to team up with, and during this time, I like to look up some words, or check my email. The problem is every time I go to check my email during this queue, I'm disconnected from the server, because I "closed" the game.
Thanks.
anonymous_abc
Member
press both buttons (home+on/off) at once.
CrunchinJelly
formerly cjelly
Power button + Home button takes a screenshot.
bigmit3737
Member
Thanks guys, will give it a try later.
It does for updates. Free apps still require a password (which is reasonable in my view - I want a password to be required before someone who's on my phone can download an app that might upload my contacts book for example, or allow posting to Twitter).
0 reason for us not to have the option though. Not all of us give our phones to strange people to use.
Yeah. Is this the 5 or an older phone?
iphone 4s.
So I'm fairly new to ios6, just got a new iphone5 moving from a 3G on iOS 4.2. Yeah the speed bump cannot me categorised.
Anyway, there seems to be a bug that causes crashing during rearranging apps. Intermittent, but I'm bound to hit it if I spend minutes moving stuff around. Hope it's an ios6 bug and not a hardware fault - I've seen reports of it on other iPhone models though.
Also is there a large change log I can see? I've noticed a few nice little touches, like in messages of you scroll the screen down, the keyboard slides with it. Just wondering how many things have improved. I do feel ios6 is getting long in the tooth though. I don't want change for change's sake, but some of the paradigms of ios1 don't really hold true now.
For example long lists of nested menu? Settings is becoming a real maze.
Also the omission of cursor keys needs to be rectified for typing.
Anyway, there seems to be a bug that causes crashing during rearranging apps. Intermittent, but I'm bound to hit it if I spend minutes moving stuff around. Hope it's an ios6 bug and not a hardware fault - I've seen reports of it on other iPhone models though.
Also is there a large change log I can see? I've noticed a few nice little touches, like in messages of you scroll the screen down, the keyboard slides with it. Just wondering how many things have improved. I do feel ios6 is getting long in the tooth though. I don't want change for change's sake, but some of the paradigms of ios1 don't really hold true now.
For example long lists of nested menu? Settings is becoming a real maze.
Also the omission of cursor keys needs to be rectified for typing.
Crazymoogle
Member
The limitation to note is that it depends on which apple ID you're logged into at the time. If you have multiple accounts, or share apps, or have accounts with two different countries etc, updates will seemingly still ask you for a password if that's not your current login.
Ken Masters
Banned
How the hell do I stop these Game Center updates? And that horn sound? Jesus
pretty sure you do that in the notifications part of settings. turn off sounds and banners for Gamecenter
Ken Masters
Banned
So I have a few devices using icloud to sync my contacts calendars etc. I have very few documents in the cloud, in fact my total data comes up to maybe 20 MB. And it has always shown as such when I log in to icloud to check storage.
However, I just got a new phone, set it up as new, and now my iCloud says 825 MB left of 5GB. What is taking up the storage?
I go to any of my devices, and it's the same: it just says iCloud 825 left of 5, currently using 20MB.
However, I just got a new phone, set it up as new, and now my iCloud says 825 MB left of 5GB. What is taking up the storage?
I go to any of my devices, and it's the same: it just says iCloud 825 left of 5, currently using 20MB.
Camera roll backup I'm guessing. Documents & Data never amount to much in iCloud, it's the other stuff that does. Did you check the full list of stuff backed up to your cloud on the respective backups?
New phone with one photo? Nope.
At any rate, I don't even use iCloud backup. I have it turned off on all my devices.