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Game locks / freezes iPhone completely when returning to it
Had this happen to me twice already. When returning to Trials Frontier that was running in the background, it sometimes completely freezes the phone completely.
I think it has something to do with bad cell phone reception and the phone trying to log into Apple's game center account and have it fail (had the game freeze a couple of times for several seconds when returning to it, but usually then game center's "welcome back" message pops up and everything's fine). That, or when returning to the app it communicates with Redlynx / Ubisoft servers to sync game states and it freezes because of poor internet connection quality.
What happens exactly:
- game displays the last screen you've left off, but nothing happens, it's frozen right from the moment you return to the app that was still running in the background
- the iPhone's home button does nothing
- the iPhone's power button switches off the display when clicked. After that, you can't get it to turn back on, it just stays dark. I can't remember if game sound was still playing, I often have my phone muted.
- in that state, when you hold down the power button, nothing happens. When you hold down the home button, you hear the Siri signal, but nothing more. The screen stays dark in both cases.
- the iPhone needs to be hard reset by holding down both power and home button together for a couple of seconds.
This is on iPhone 5s, iOS 7.1 (have not updated iOS yet) .