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I did that. The screen turned black, and there was no way to bring the game back, other than killing the app. Ridiculous.
What iPhone do you have?
5s
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#32I really appreciate that they were able to make a change quickly and provide transparency about the issue and resolution.
Though, I always feel kind of bad about the whole torch-and-pitchforks almost certainly resulting in some poor sap(s) working 24/7 to fix the issue ASAP when it really could have been fixed, oh, Thursday. (assuming the absence of malice, it's just important it get fixed reasonably soon) Especially considering they doubtless have all kinds of other major issues on their plate- like the server load problems.
As much as I don't like the torch and pitchforks approach; this is the kind of oversight that should be found long before an app is released. It also shows that the market won't tolerate broad security overreaches.
I certainly want to try Pokemon Go, but after seeing these articles, I decided to wait.
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#33On Android, Pokemon Go requests permission to access your contacts. I declined this access, and the app still seems to work (modulo the crashes & bugs that others have reported).
Accessing the camera and location I can understand, but I don't want to give Pokemon Go access to my contacts.
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#34It is indeed fixed but updating iOS app alone does not change the permissions. I had to sign out of the app, revoke the permissions on google and then sign back in.
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For those with battery concerns, turn on Battery Saver in the settings. With that enabled, when the phone is rotated upside-down (i.e put in your pocket), brightness drops to 0% and 3D rendering is disabled, both of which help. A little. Constant GPS and battery sucking can't be fully mitigated.
I did that. The screen turned black, and there was no way to bring the game back, other than killing the app. Ridiculous.
This is a known bug with the app. In power save mode, sometimes the app will stop responding altogether. I had a few instances where I was in power save mode, found a Pokemon and tried to tap it and it would not recognize my actions. I had this happen on Android.
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#36On Android, Pokemon Go requests permission to access your contacts. I declined this access, and the app still seems to work (modulo the crashes & bugs that others have reported). Accessing the camera and location I can understand, but I don't want to give Pokemon Go access to my contacts.
I assume that its for a yet to be implemented find friends feature, but I was also concerned at that permission request.
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#38Keep in mind you dont have to login with your google account - you can create a free pokemon club account and use that.
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#39Bit of OT Played Pokémon GO yesterday (iOS 1.0 version) and it was very buggy. Many bugs looked like they were server side (requests freezing), but there were strange rendering errors (like seeing only waves on the ground where Pokémon are, and not the actual Pokémon on them) that could be fixed by restarting the app several times. The phone also got absurdly hot, I never play on it, I don't know if it's normal for i…
Yep. Lots of other people are getting this, too. And it sucks. They all seem to be server load problems, but what gets me is that some things just don't need server updates, and they do them anyway. Oh, so you need to check in with the server every time I toss a pokéball. Niantic, it's like you've never heard of caching, combining packets, and client side prediction, or anything clientside for that matter. Sure it's not as secure, but what are you more afraid of, people commiting fraud on your trivial pokeball tossing minigame, or people uninstalling your crashy, broken game, because you didn't understand that releasing a good, free game based on one of the most popular game series the world has ever known would result in a lot of popularity, and that you maybe should have optimized for bandwith? Mmm. I can almost taste the lag.
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#40This is the same message that was released to the press yesterday. I'm surprised Google itself has not said anything, as they are also at fault for not showing the permissions workflow in the first place.
Are you sure the login flow used the official flow API and not collected the login credentials themselves to "helpfully" register the user?
I haven't used to app so I have no idea, just a thought.