Friends Kingdom: Re: [iPad] Re: Trouble with Amazon account only on iPad

Thanks for the hint about iCloud, Ted. I used to play several Facebook games but now the only ones I play are Words With Friends and Pyramid Solitaire Saga; I gave up on Farmville and its clones, as being just too irritating. I do realise that you have to close individual apps on an iPad and I often power it down when in a hurry, rather than sleep it. When we got home, I did indeed restore from my iMac, but the failure incident occurred in the first of our two weeks away. I wondered whether, having got it powered down, I should have left it like that and packed it away until our return. This would have been a real pain in the neck under the new regulations where you have to turn it on to prove it worked!

---In iPad@yahoogroups.com, <tfwagner2001@...> wrote :

1. This is why I look for games that link to Facebook, like Candy Crush, because they store the save game data on Facebook. I also look for games and apps that have iCloud backup.

2. I have my family use iCloud backup on their devices, because they backup every night when connected to wifi and don't need to be backed up to a computer. They can restore from iCloud (their latest backup) as well.

3. Don't depend on the iPad case sleep mechanism to put all apps to sleep. A lot of games will continue to burn up your battery unless you quit out of them or hit your power button. It only takes a second to do that.

4. When you got home you should've restored from your iMac.

Ted

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On Jul 19, 2014, at 3:04 AM, "susan.platter@... [iPad]" <iPad@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

I wonder if anyone else has had the following experience. I took my iPad Air with me, when we went on holiday to Austria earlier this year and was happily playing games on it - its main use for me. Wanting to take a break, I left it in the middle of a Hidden Object Scene by closing the Apple case to make it sleep. When I came back later, the iPad was totally non responsive. I did several of what is termed a "hard reset", with no result. My husband had his MacBook Air and a Mifi with him, so was able to browse for a possible solution. What we found was that, to fix the problem by doing a Restore from his MB Air, the iPad had to be turned off completely but mine would not do that; the screen button for powering off was not responding to touch. The Camera app was, however, still operating but from a slightly different screen touch position. After a lot of trial and error, this eventually clued us up as to what was happening: the touch positions had shifted. Weird, eh?

Having established that, we used the power-off button again and I raked my fingers repeatedly across the screen, thus using as many powering-off instructions as possible because of the shifted touch position. After several tries, it worked! It then had to be plugged into iTunes on the MacBook and to have a Restore but our first attempt resulted in the wrong download (I forget what), so the whole process had to be restarted, along with the iPad. With my new technique, I managed to turn the iPad off again by raking the power-off screen and this time we got the right Restore process going. It took quite a long time to complete.

Of course, my iPad ended up as "belonging to" my husband as a result of the Restore from his laptop and, on returning home, had to go through a process of re-education! I had long been in the habit of backing up to my iMac, so had all my apps but my games, some of which had progressed quite a long way, were zeroed by the holiday Restore and will need to be replayed from the start. I had somehow thought that there would be "saved game" files, like conventional computer games, but it seems that this is not so, unless you know different...

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