Database errors each time I play

stevece80 · 05-05-2011, 01:34 PM

So I'm having a problem when I play the game. No matter what I do, the game won't save properly. If I exit normally, or if my screen locks, or if I switch to another app - the game closes and restarts and the saved game says its corrupted and that there's a database error. I have the option of having it try to recover the game, or to cancel, but when I go to click either option, nothing happens.

I'm on the Verizon iPhone, 4.2.6, jailbroken.

Here's the screen I'm getting. Can someone let me know what I'm doing wrong?

I ended up staying up until 3:30am playing the game with the 1923 Red Sox, managed back to back pennants (1 WS) in 1927 and 1928, and closed down before going to bed, and got the same error I got with the 2011 season I started hours earlier. Same deal today, I was in a meeting that I wasn't involved in, so I was playing the game on the side. The screen locked and the game shut down - and I got this same message when I tried to reload.

Goodsox · 05-05-2011, 01:40 PM

http://www.ootpdevelopments.com/boar...e-problem.html

Have you tried rebooting your idevice? That might help.

stevece80 · 05-05-2011, 02:01 PM

I rebooted and the files I've saved still won't load and give me the same error message.

I started a new league, simulated a few weeks, and then switched applications. It didn't immediately shut down this time which is good. I shut down the app and the file loaded this time. I suppose the moral of the story is to reboot the iPhone after installing any reasonably large game or app.

Thank you.

Sebastian Palkowski · 05-05-2011, 02:14 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by stevece80

I rebooted and the files I've saved still won't load and give me the same error message.

I started a new league, simulated a few weeks, and then switched applications. It didn't immediately shut down this time which is good. I shut down the app and the file loaded this time. I suppose the moral of the story is to reboot the iPhone after installing any reasonably large game or app.

Thank you.

I try to understand if we have a bug or not, so maybe you can answere me a question:

By any chance, is your device jailbroken and you have some form of Cydia apps installed? We had a beta tester who had this and he had the same problems. After he removed it, he had no problems anymore.

stevece80 · 05-05-2011, 02:31 PM

I have a few Cydia apps, but for whatever reason rebooting stopped the game from closing whenever I'd switch apps and as a result corrupting the files. I have been speaking with people that are jailbroken and haven't had any of the issues that I'm having (and they didn't reboot before playing). It's probably just a fluky thing that's affecting a small number of users.

Sebastian Palkowski · 05-05-2011, 02:40 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by stevece80

I have a few Cydia apps, but for whatever reason rebooting stopped the game from closing whenever I'd switch apps and as a result corrupting the files. I have been speaking with people that are jailbroken and haven't had any of the issues that I'm having (and they didn't reboot before playing). It's probably just a fluky thing that's affecting a small number of users.

I will ask the guy from the beta test which Cydia App caused the problems. After he removed it, he had no crashes with iOOTP anymore.

stevece80 · 05-05-2011, 03:54 PM

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Originally Posted by palli

I will ask the guy from the beta test which Cydia App caused the problems. After he removed it, he had no crashes with iOOTP anymore.

I'm actually crash-free after the reboot. Like I said, probably something minor that was cleared up by the reboot.

bmgst8 · 05-05-2011, 03:57 PM

I have actually been getting the same error message on my iPod Touch 2nd gen... i have tried rebooting the device many times, yet it still brings up the error every time that i try to continue a previous game

CD1083 · 05-05-2011, 04:07 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bmgst8

I have actually been getting the same error message on my iPod Touch 2nd gen... i have tried rebooting the device many times, yet it still brings up the error every time that i try to continue a previous game

Rebooting won't fix a previously corrupted save file.

Create a new league and it should fix the issue.

I had the same problem but haven't had any issues since creating a new league after the reboot.

bmgst8 · 05-05-2011, 04:09 PM

I've actually created new game files each time, but I've still received the error message... I've been using the major league file each time

Sebastian Palkowski · 05-05-2011, 04:12 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bmgst8

I've actually created new game files each time, but I've still received the error message... I've been using the major league file each time

Do you have any Cydia apps installed?

bmgst8 · 05-05-2011, 04:21 PM

No, nothing like that installed

Sebastian Palkowski · 05-05-2011, 04:29 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bmgst8

No, nothing like that installed

Strange. You have a 2. Generation iPod Touch which we not officially support BUT I heard nothing like that from other user. Did you try a new, clean install from iOOTP and reboot your device: Reboot device

Memory is critical on the old devices BUT as far as I tested it (and so far we had no complains from user with older devices) it should work.

Andreas Raht · 05-05-2011, 04:52 PM

Probably a dumb question, but: do you have enough free "disk" space on the device?

bmgst8 · 05-05-2011, 04:52 PM

Looks like that worked... if something changes i will let you know... thank you for your help and keep up the great work with these games!! love iootp and ootp 11!!

ms2002 · 05-06-2011, 12:09 AM

If you have "Activator" installed as a Cydia app (or any other app that modifies what the home button does or background processes), then you should uninstall it.

When I beta-tested iOOTP, I had the same problem. When I removed 'Activator,' it worked fine and always saved my progress.

xarxa · 05-06-2011, 11:00 AM

I am also having the "Database Problem" issue.

Using an AT&T iPhone 4 running 4.3.3
Never jailbroken/unlocked the phone
Installed/uninstalled multiple times, trying things like installing after a reboot and rebooting immediately afterwards.
Phone has over 2.5GB of free space, so I doubt it's running out of storage

Whenever I see the dreaded "Database Problem" screen and click on the OK button, nothing appears to happen. In other words, the button doesn't "depress" or change colors or anything. Sometimes it sits there forever, but sometime the app quits after a few minutes. Reloading the app and trying again yields the same result. The "Load Game" screen shows zero saved games.

I've lost multiple leagues in different phases (Majors first month, Majors halfway through first season, Majors first offseason (in true Braves fashion, 101Ws and a postseason sweep-out), Fictional halfway through first season). I'm at a total loss here and the game is essentially worthless without reliable saving. I don't want to devote time and effort when I know it could go up in a cloud of smoke at any moment. I'm actually holding off on rating the game because I don't want to give it a single star - I'm a big OOTP fan and have longed for the game literally years before it was even announced (like so many others, I imagine).

I work in software engineering for a living so I appreciate the nature of developing and releasing software products. My goal with this post is not to get angry or try to rip into anyone, but to help get the issue resolved by trying to provide any pertinent information I have and stress just how important I feel the issue is. Heck, I've joined the forum today solely to post on this issue.

If you guys need any help with troubleshooting by having me try a few things with my phone (aside from mailing it in, of course

), PLEASE let me know. I've waited so long for this game and for it to have such a crucial issue really bums me out. Hopefully it can get resolved soon!

Thanks so very much for finally bringing OOTP to the pocketable platform! I really, truly do appreciate it and I look forward to leading the Braves to the Commissioner's Trophy soon.

CD1083 · 05-06-2011, 11:04 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by xarxa

I am also having the "Database Problem" issue.

Using an AT&T iPhone 4 running 4.3.3
Never jailbroken/unlocked the phone
Installed/uninstalled multiple times, trying things like installing after a reboot and rebooting immediately afterwards.
Phone has over 2.5GB of free space, so I doubt it's running out of storage

Whenever I see the dreaded "Database Problem" screen and click on the OK button, nothing appears to happen. In other words, the button doesn't "depress" or change colors or anything. Sometimes it sits there forever, but sometime the app quits after a few minutes. Reloading the app and trying again yields the same result. The "Load Game" screen shows zero saved games.

I've lost multiple leagues in different phases (Majors first month, Majors halfway through first season, Majors first offseason (in true Braves fashion, 101Ws and a postseason sweep-out), Fictional halfway through first season). I'm at a total loss here and the game is essentially worthless without reliable saving. I don't want to devote time and effort when I know it could go up in a cloud of smoke at any moment. I'm actually holding off on rating the game because I don't want to give it a single star - I'm a big OOTP fan and have longed for the game literally years before it was even announced (like so many others, I imagine).

I work in software engineering for a living so I appreciate the nature of developing and releasing software products. My goal with this post is not to get angry or try to rip into anyone, but to help get the issue resolved by trying to provide any pertinent information I have and stress just how important I feel the issue is. Heck, I've joined the forum today solely to post on this issue.

If you guys need any help with troubleshooting by having me try a few things with my phone (aside from mailing it in, of course

), PLEASE let me know. I've waited so long for this game and for it to have such a crucial issue really bums me out. Hopefully it can get resolved soon!

Thanks so very much for finally bringing OOTP to the pocketable platform! I really, truly do appreciate it and I look forward to leading the Braves to the Commissioner's Trophy soon.

Just to confirm.

You're installing, rebooting and THEN creating your league?

xarxa · 05-06-2011, 11:11 AM

I did not do it every time, but I did do it twice, including my most recent and longest-surviving league (Majors first offseason). As soon as iOOTP was redownloaded, I rebooted the phone, and then made iOOTP the first app I opened. iOOTP "survived" through a lengthy FaceTime conversation last night (I would think that would be one of the most resource-intensive things the phone could do), but this morning, the only app I had open between iOOTP working and then getting the DB Problem was beeJive GoogleTalk.

I suppose I could try running the game for a while without opening beeJive GT. I wouldn't think a chat app could snuff out iOOTP, but I haven't done any iPhone development so I'm no expert.

HavenHunting · 05-06-2011, 06:43 PM

I had the corrupt file problem. But what happened for me was I loaded a new league then later deleted it. I still had another league saved. I hit the continue button, instead of load and the game was trying to load the league deleted.

05-05-2011, 01:34 PM	#1
stevece80 Bat Boy Join Date: Aug 2004 Posts: 6	Database errors each time I play So I'm having a problem when I play the game. No matter what I do, the game won't save properly. If I exit normally, or if my screen locks, or if I switch to another app - the game closes and restarts and the saved game says its corrupted and that there's a database error. I have the option of having it try to recover the game, or to cancel, but when I go to click either option, nothing happens. I'm on the Verizon iPhone, 4.2.6, jailbroken. Here's the screen I'm getting. Can someone let me know what I'm doing wrong? I ended up staying up until 3:30am playing the game with the 1923 Red Sox, managed back to back pennants (1 WS) in 1927 and 1928, and closed down before going to bed, and got the same error I got with the 2011 season I started hours earlier. Same deal today, I was in a meeting that I wasn't involved in, so I was playing the game on the side. The screen locked and the game shut down - and I got this same message when I tried to reload.

05-05-2011, 01:40 PM	#2
Goodsox Hall Of Famer Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Chicago Posts: 2,866	http://www.ootpdevelopments.com/boar...e-problem.html Have you tried rebooting your idevice? That might help. __________________ GoodSox Go White Sox!

05-05-2011, 04:52 PM	#14
Andreas Raht Administrator Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Hollern/Stade/Germany Posts: 8,992	Probably a dumb question, but: do you have enough free "disk" space on the device? __________________ Andreas Raht andreas@ootpdevelopments.com Out of the Park Developments

05-06-2011, 11:00 AM	#17
xarxa Bat Boy Join Date: May 2011 Location: Atlantaish, GA Posts: 14	I am also having the "Database Problem" issue. Using an AT&T iPhone 4 running 4.3.3 Never jailbroken/unlocked the phone Installed/uninstalled multiple times, trying things like installing after a reboot and rebooting immediately afterwards. Phone has over 2.5GB of free space, so I doubt it's running out of storage Whenever I see the dreaded "Database Problem" screen and click on the OK button, nothing appears to happen. In other words, the button doesn't "depress" or change colors or anything. Sometimes it sits there forever, but sometime the app quits after a few minutes. Reloading the app and trying again yields the same result. The "Load Game" screen shows zero saved games. I've lost multiple leagues in different phases (Majors first month, Majors halfway through first season, Majors first offseason (in true Braves fashion, 101Ws and a postseason sweep-out), Fictional halfway through first season). I'm at a total loss here and the game is essentially worthless without reliable saving. I don't want to devote time and effort when I know it could go up in a cloud of smoke at any moment. I'm actually holding off on rating the game because I don't want to give it a single star - I'm a big OOTP fan and have longed for the game literally years before it was even announced (like so many others, I imagine). I work in software engineering for a living so I appreciate the nature of developing and releasing software products. My goal with this post is not to get angry or try to rip into anyone, but to help get the issue resolved by trying to provide any pertinent information I have and stress just how important I feel the issue is. Heck, I've joined the forum today solely to post on this issue. If you guys need any help with troubleshooting by having me try a few things with my phone (aside from mailing it in, of course ), PLEASE let me know. I've waited so long for this game and for it to have such a crucial issue really bums me out. Hopefully it can get resolved soon! Thanks so very much for finally bringing OOTP to the pocketable platform! I really, truly do appreciate it and I look forward to leading the Braves to the Commissioner's Trophy soon.

05-05-2011, 02:01 PM	#3
stevece80 Bat Boy Join Date: Aug 2004 Posts: 6	I rebooted and the files I've saved still won't load and give me the same error message. I started a new league, simulated a few weeks, and then switched applications. It didn't immediately shut down this time which is good. I shut down the app and the file loaded this time. I suppose the moral of the story is to reboot the iPhone after installing any reasonably large game or app. Thank you.

05-05-2011, 02:31 PM	#5
stevece80 Bat Boy Join Date: Aug 2004 Posts: 6	I have a few Cydia apps, but for whatever reason rebooting stopped the game from closing whenever I'd switch apps and as a result corrupting the files. I have been speaking with people that are jailbroken and haven't had any of the issues that I'm having (and they didn't reboot before playing). It's probably just a fluky thing that's affecting a small number of users.

05-05-2011, 03:57 PM	#8
bmgst8 Bat Boy Join Date: May 2011 Posts: 10	I have actually been getting the same error message on my iPod Touch 2nd gen... i have tried rebooting the device many times, yet it still brings up the error every time that i try to continue a previous game

05-05-2011, 04:09 PM	#10
bmgst8 Bat Boy Join Date: May 2011 Posts: 10	I've actually created new game files each time, but I've still received the error message... I've been using the major league file each time

05-05-2011, 04:21 PM	#12
bmgst8 Bat Boy Join Date: May 2011 Posts: 10	No, nothing like that installed

05-06-2011, 12:09 AM	#16
ms2002 All Star Starter Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Chicago Posts: 1,493	If you have "Activator" installed as a Cydia app (or any other app that modifies what the home button does or background processes), then you should uninstall it. When I beta-tested iOOTP, I had the same problem. When I removed 'Activator,' it worked fine and always saved my progress.

05-06-2011, 11:11 AM	#19
xarxa Bat Boy Join Date: May 2011 Location: Atlantaish, GA Posts: 14	I did not do it every time, but I did do it twice, including my most recent and longest-surviving league (Majors first offseason). As soon as iOOTP was redownloaded, I rebooted the phone, and then made iOOTP the first app I opened. iOOTP "survived" through a lengthy FaceTime conversation last night (I would think that would be one of the most resource-intensive things the phone could do), but this morning, the only app I had open between iOOTP working and then getting the DB Problem was beeJive GoogleTalk. I suppose I could try running the game for a while without opening beeJive GT. I wouldn't think a chat app could snuff out iOOTP, but I haven't done any iPhone development so I'm no expert.

05-06-2011, 06:43 PM	#20
HavenHunting Minors (Double A) Join Date: Jan 2011 Posts: 150	I had the corrupt file problem. But what happened for me was I loaded a new league then later deleted it. I still had another league saved. I hit the continue button, instead of load and the game was trying to load the league deleted.