Device Incompatibility
LordMel
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so my little brother has been playing mcoc on his tablet for quite some time now (Samsung Galaxy Tab A), but recently due to lag and signing into the wrong account I suggested he uninstall and reinstall the game... but when he went to reinstall it wasn't appearing in the app store, after searching on the online version of the play store we found it but only to see a message saying that his device is not compatible with the version of the game. this doesn't make sense as he was just playing the same version a few hours prior. he is also running android version 10 so I'm not sure what's happening and how we can fix it>
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@WoodyNailsome ...
https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/252864/mcoc-missing-from-playstore#latest
Odd that any requirements might have changed BEFORE the new update actually comes out, and they haven’t announced any new requirements.
Might give a clue to help see why other's are saying Not Compatible (without Google detailing WHY) ?
This bug needs to be resolved IMMEDIATELY before a lot of users get locked out. Please reply @Kabam Miike @Kabam Zibiit @Kabam Vydious @Kabam Porthos @Kabam Lyra
https://help.kabamsupport.com/hc/en-us/articles/360052392992-Device-Compatibility
(I know I’ve seen that before on one of Kabam's 3 different games that have Compatibility listings, but honestly can’t remember if that was specifically on this MCOC one before today ?)
Above is the only reply so far about the incompatibility (from another thread).
But a 2nd different thread has ppl saying now that it seems to be showing up in Store again (so maybe fixed ?? or at least for some ppl ??)
https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/253077/mcoc-gone-from-google-play#latest
@Subhu , @PaoHudson
All these similar threads should probably be MERGED, regarding Android Devices and the current Update. And figure out why some Android players can’t get the latest game update.
People have provided different bits of info in each thread.
https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/253022/no-update#latest
https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/253077/mcoc-gone-from-google-play#latest
https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/252864/mcoc-missing-from-playstore#latest
https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/252385/unsupported-device#latest
https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/253356/issue-with-updating-the-game#latest
@Kabam Miike , @Kabam Vydious ... Any word on this ?
(Last Month's Minimum OS Requirement for Android Devices was OS 6 meaning they would've jump 5 OS' in 1 Month, side note the Lastest OS Version for the Newest of Android Devices is OS 11 and I doubt Kabam would intentionally lock out Everyone Except for the Newest Devices...)
Hope this is fixed soon, I haven't been locked out of the game yet but this morning I got the Update Now Notification...
(side thought, could this have anything to do with Facebook SDK and maybe App Play Store using parts of that SDK, and if there is some new (bugged) part of the SDK it is causing problems for just some ppl ? aka, similar to previous times when Facebook SDK error was causing ppl to not be able to login to MCOC itself ? Although that was on a much wider bugged scale)
I guess I could use a File Manager to completely remove Facebook from my device and see if that works, but I never had an issue like that before...
It caused massive errors the last time they had some internal bug in there.
Didn’t even matter whether you were using Facebook Login into game or those other apps or not, it just made them not work at all.
(but doubt that is the issue here again)
KABAM, any insights into why ?? (seems to be on a range of different Android versions and devices).
Is it affected by Region/Country ?
Samsung: Galaxy Tab A (2019 and 2020), Galaxy Tab E, J3 V, J7, Galaxy Sky (S320VL), J3 Luna Pro, J2 Core.
LG: K10, K8.
RCA: 10 Viking Pro
Nokia: 1 (Android 10 Go)
Device Compatibility Info is Still Outdated, why has there been 0 Communication on this Topic?! (Not counting the Generic Robot Like response of "Please fill out this form" on one of the Forum Posts)
Also I forget where I read it but someone reminded me, usually when there's a Compatibility Shift like removing One Whole OS they'll notify us At Least 1 Month in advance. So if this somehow isn't an Error/Bug then why were we not notified and why is the Device Compatibility Support Page Still Outdated?
The Reports have shown it's incredibly Inconsistent on what Devices do and don't work, many OS 6-8 are apparently Incompatible but then there's some people with OS 9-10 Devices saying it's Incompatible as well!
Like give us Something Kabam!
- There is no communication that the game has new device requirements
- Analyzing the specs from V29.2.1 vs V30.1.0 there seems to be no significant difference:
Supported ABI's are the same (armeabi-v7a, arm64-v8a), minimum android version is the same (android 6 or higher), the features in the manifest file are the same.
There are however some new packages and permissions added:
uses-permission
But my guess is that's not what could be making the game incompatible.
So looking at the android developer page of compatibility https://developer.android.com/guide/practices/compatibility it may seem they have (either accidentally or intentional) updated some settings in the Google Play Console:
Filtering for technical compatibility (such as required hardware components) is always based on information contained within your APK file. But filtering for non-technical reasons (such as geographic locale) is always handled in the Google Play Console.
What also bothers me is the lack of communication from Kabam addressing this issue. I haven't read a comment that they are looking into this issue, alerted the developers team or some explanation if this is intentional or not.
Hey, what are the new packages and permissions added? @Knordy