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Discussion in 'Bugs, Issues & Inquiries' started by Mr. Chompers, 21 Sep 2017.

  1. Mr. Chompers

    Mr. Chompers Well-Known Member

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    If I understand correctly when you first install Battle Bay, it downloads the basic files from the Google Play Store. Then when you first run it, it downloads extra files from a server or something. When we put it on one account it works. Now when we try to have Battle Bay on two accounts, (Android, different Google accounts, same device), when we run it the screen just stays black. I think it has something to do with downloading the extra files. So maybe we can manually copy them over and that would fix it? If so, what are the names, and where are the extra files?
     
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    Are any of the accounts admin?
     
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  4. Miika

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    What you are describing sounds totally plausable. The game is split into .apk and .obb files. They are both served from Google Play servers but are in different files. Using multiple accounts on one device is not part of our normal testing so I can't be sure if that is the case, but the OBB file missing usually manifests like that so that the game gets stuck to an empty screen because it doesn't have any assets to show anything.

    Unfortunately I can't figure out anything that might help you right now because I haven't tried that ever yet. :(
     
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  5. CaffeinatedChris

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    The /Android/obb folder is accessible by all users by design, as OBB files are designed to be a "shared resource" and not contain any per-user data - and that's where the single OBB file lives (under com.rovio.battlebay, of course)

    My money's on permissions in the main /Android/data/com.rovio.battlebay folder - the "second copy" of the game thinks it needs to create these files anew, and the "first account's copy" has already created and claimed ownership, so the "second account" can't overwrite them. Assuming there's nothing preventing it from working, I should try this on a rooted device with debug logging and see where it hangs up.
     
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    Did it work?
     
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  7. Mr. Chompers

    Mr. Chompers Well-Known Member

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    I don't know what I did, but it works now.
     
    Mr. Chompers, 25 Sep 2017
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  8. behumble

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    I run the two google accounts on one device just fine :)
    Although for one scary min when i logged into my main it started the game over .-.
    Quickly deleted game data and went back and worked fine haha. main reason im hesitant to play second account
     
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    Glad to hear that, having fun?

    Its two user accounts. Two people using the same device on different accounts...
     
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  10. Mr. Chompers

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    :p:p:p
     
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    Sorry, dumb question. :p:D

    How's that mk2 defender holding out against mk3/4/5s?
     
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  12. behumble

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    At the same time?
    Just one device. two accounts.
    Same here :)
    Either that or im being especially stupid today
     
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    Like on a PC? Two users? Not two google accounts on one user, two users...
     
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  15. behumble

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    Hm oh. Like when u power on phone, different users?
    Or is this is on a PC? im hopeless sorry
     
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    Thats ok.
    Yes, like when you power up a phone, different users with different settings and different permissions and different levels (Admin and standard for pc)
     
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  17. behumble

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    Woooahh didnt know u could do that haha.
    good to know it works out tho :p
    Thanks for explaining it to the hopeless :oops:
     
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