Here's the link to the defect

http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=2047


On Mar 10, 4:09 pm, Tyler Ernst <ernst.ty...@gmail.com> wrote:
> DO NOT EVER CHANGED COPY PROTECTION FROM ON to OFF OR OFF to ON.
>
> We found the problem, it is not related to the defect listed above.
>
> It turns out when we posted the update copy protection was turned off,
> but for our initial release it was turned on.  Which caused all our
> shared preferences to get lost, we could no longer create private data
> files, and the game started randomly crashing.
>
> We had a pretty popular online game with rankings.  This problem
> caused everyone who updated to lose everything.  In the past few days
> we've lost over 30% of our active installs, and our rating and sales
> have gone down the crapper.
>
> Please fix this bug asap, or atleast disable the option to modify copy
> protection from the developers page.  Sorry for being rude, but I'm
> pretty pissed.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Tyler
>
> On Mar 9, 3:16 pm, Tyler Ernst <ernst.ty...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Thanks that defect sounds exactly like what we're experiencing.
> > However we can't reproduce it from just installing from adb only when
> > installing from the market place :(
>
> > On Mar 9, 1:08 pm, focuser <linto...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > Please check outhttp://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=2066
>
> > > On Mar 9, 12:36 pm, Tyler Ernst <ernst.ty...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > > We have an online multiplayer game that saves some login information
> > > > in the SharedPreferences.   Our app is copy protected and everything
> > > > was going really well until this weekend when we released an update
> > > > for it.  It seems that at least some of the people are having their
> > > > SharedPreferences deleted when they updated too the new app.  As you
> > > > can imagine our users are furious because they're all loosing their
> > > > profiles, and our ranking is dropping fast.
>
> > > > We've tried to reproduce this a hundreds ways but are unable.  We're
> > > > wondering if this could be related to installing a copy protected app
> > > > over a copy protected app?  Since that's the only situation we haven't
> > > > tested and can't test.  Has anyone had similar issues, or know a fix?
>
> > > > Thanks,
>
> > > > Tyler
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