Elevens iPhone 1.4.5 is out….
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… and finally fixes any outstanding crash/freeze issues I included when 1.4 was initially released.
An explanation to the introdiuction of crashes in the 1.4 release, though not trying to make excuses, is that developing for the iPhone and iPod touch and ensuring compatibility across everyone’s devices is by no means a simple task.
You would naturally assume that if it works ok on one persons device it would work on all “same” devices, but there are many factors that usually cause that not to be the case. Not rebooting your device often enough is a known issue that causes apps to run out of memory and crash. Having every feature on your device turned on (bluetooth, corelocation, push etc…) is also known to cause havoc between different devices. Let’s not even get into the jailbroken versus not issues.
To counter this, I have a bunch of devices I test all of our games on (Original iPhone, iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS, Touch v2) plus I have a bunch of testers with same or differing devices.
At the end of the day all I can do is ensure that my games work on the devices I have to test with (and those of my testers), and then hope that all works well for the masses.
In the case of the 1.4 release of Elevens, to this day, I still cannot reproduce the crash bugs on my devices I have on my desk, and what’s more, though I never doubt a customer when they tell me they have a problem, since 1.4 has come out, there have been over 1500 new high scores added to the high scores list submitted from devices that are running 1.4 and above, so clearly, the bug effects some and not others.
So, the good news is that with the help of a few patient customers that did suffer from the crash bugs, I have managed to track down the issues (over a few releases) and am confident that no one else should suffer from them once they upgrade to 1.4.5
For those customers that reported crashes as part of their reviews of the App, if the crashes have been fixed for you, please follow up your reviews with new ones. I feel that people should review the good as well as the bad.
