[MCPE-35940] Severe crashing issue with 1.5.1

Game crashes on minecraft logo launch screen continually after it updates it's resource packs or whenever you exit a world and it says loading resources with wifi on. However if you only open the app with wifi disabled the app will not crash on a fresh reinstall and will continue not to crash until you turn wifi on and the stated above conditions occur to make the app crash continually. So it seems to be an issue with updating/accessing certain resource packs on the latest version.

App worked fine on 1.5.0, and for clarification no custom resource packs are installed and the issue persists through a fresh reinstall unless you use the workaround posted and use the app solely with no wifi.

Edit: The app seems to just crash again now even with the wifi workaround, as others have posted.

Edit 2: See Ishmaeel comment, temporary workaround is working for me while we wait for the issue to be fixed.

Linked issues

duplicates 1

MCPE-35078 Wont go past Initial white Minecraft page Resolved

Comments 24

Astrid Drolson 2018-07-21T01:15:50Z

Have same Problem since updated Minecraft

We updated 3 iPads today 7-20-18 to 1.5.1

A - ipad MD522LL/A OS Version 10.3.3
B- ipad MD525x?A OS Version 10.3.3
C - ipad pro (no probelm)

After update, both "iPad A+B" started to load to select world and than

never load a game and just crash back to iPad "desktop" view...

It was still running in Background, but just white. If i selected the white screen Mincraft task window. it went to first to Logos and crashed over and over. On one iPad we reinstalled Minecraft, same happens again. Opens once, never a actual world and crashes....

Also closing Minecraft PE and reopening, restarting iPad, nothing helps.

it goes till Minecraft logo and crashes.

Tried to start with WiFi disabled, did not help in our case, still crashes on Ipad A & B

Ipad pro had no problems, its stable

Matt Davis 2018-07-21T02:14:56Z

Same issue with an iPad Air MD788LL/B.

Sarah G 2018-07-21T04:55:25Z

Downloaded the update today. Now lags heavily on main screen and worlds screen. It sometimes crashes before I can get to the worlds screen. It ALWAYS crashes after a little time after I select a world. The progress bar on the "generating world" screen never gains a single bar.

I play 100% vanilla, no added content of any kind.

I tried closing all my programs and restarting, did no good. Even though I only opened Minecraft once it started up again.

Ipad Air 1 Model MD789LL/B

iOS 11.4.1

Edit: Starting with Wifi disabled worked. It was not lagging and loaded the world fine. I am not logged into an xbox account because of the previous no wifi freezing glitch that was unfixed as of 1.5.0. (And then logging in with wifi worked? The only difference I could tell was the image with balloons and such didn't load in either the no wifi or the one with wifi right after, so I suspect there is something wrong with that image)

Edit: Just saved out of the game after playing for a while and have the magenta and black squares of a nonexistant texture as the background... o.O

Ishmaeel 2018-07-21T08:04:25Z

Can confirm the observations here.

After the update, the main menu had severe framerate issues to the point of being almost unusable. It seems that the FPS problem is caused by the very detailed beach landscape displayed behind the menu.

Loading or creating a world always resulted in looking at an unmoving progress bar (for too long) with a good chance of crashing right to desktop.

Uninstall the game along with all worlds, do a fresh reinstall, face the same situation. Menu laggy. High chance to crash upon loading.

Uninstall the game again, do another fresh reinstall, but disable the wifi before launching game.

The landscape behind the menu is different this time (some undersea environment). Framerate is ok, menu is responsive. Creating or loading a world takes mere seconds, progress bar works, there are no crashes, and the actual gameplay is smooth as butter.

Close game, enable wifi, launch again. Get presented with the 1.5.1 hotfix announcement. Menu background shows the beach again. Heavy FPS drops, unable to load worlds, CTD.

Close game, disable wifi, launch again. Still broken.

Apparently, whatever is being downloaded at the first launch messes up the game beyond repair. Only solution is to wipe, reinstall and always play with wifi off.

iPad Mini 3 - Model no: MGNV2TU/A

iOS 11.3.1

May Gladki 2018-07-21T09:59:35Z

Same issue with Android edition. I tried to 'close game, disable wifi, launch again' but it didn't work for me.

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Steve Hatch 2018-07-21T10:06:08Z

Same for Android 7.0 on my Huawei Honor 8. Crashes occur just after opening any world.

Bill Bigge 2018-07-21T10:59:27Z

We have had the same issue. The game won't work on any Amazon Fire tabs or on our ipad 2. It did work on a Tesco HUDL but then crashed after 20 min and I had to disconnect the battery to recover the tab (That one may have been a thermal issue though)

Ishmaeel 2018-07-21T19:56:59Z

Update: I have managed to run the game with wi-fi on. Steps to follow:

Wipe completely.
Make a fresh install. Do not run the game yet.
Turn off wi-fi or use airplane mode.
Run the game now. See the underwater background.
Visit Settings > Profile > Auto Update Unlocked Packs
Set this value to Off
Close the game. Turn wi-fi back on. Re-run the game.
Profit.

This setting seems to prevent downloading some default resource packs, which seem to break the game. As long as "auto update" setting is turned off, the game keeps working with wi-fi on. I didn't test how this would affect other online functions though.

If you are affected by this issue, you know your game is broken if you see the beach landscape instead of the underwater landscape in the main menu.

Sarah G 2018-07-21T20:10:36Z

IF I can convince it to use the old underwater background everything works ok, although it still exits on the strange "no texture" image. Otherwise, the rotation of the background lags significantly and I can't get a world to launch. As far as I'm concerned, it's that beachfront background that's the issue.

I haven't uninstalled and reinstalled the game because I have no good way to save my worlds and put them back on my device after.

I'm also rather disappointed that nothing has been done to resolve, or even acknowledge this yet. It seems like a very simple root cause on my end. Maybe the devs shouldn't put out updates at the end of the week if they aren't going to be available to push out an emergency update to solve a crashing glitch that is preventing people from being able to play the game at all. I don't mind people having weekends as time off. What I mind is not planning ahead around that.

Ben S. 2018-07-21T21:55:47Z

Agree with Sarah G. We basically canceled Minecraft at home this weekend because my wife's iPad Mini can't run the game, and my wife doesn't want to reinstall the game and risk losing data. We run 100% vanilla, with me on Windows 10, my wife on an iPad Mini, and the kids on Kindle Fire HD's.

JonH 2018-07-21T23:48:13Z

Same crashing issue on two iPad 4's running ios 10.3.3 since the 1.5.1 update. No issues before that.

Sarah G 2018-07-22T04:47:36Z

And there are now seven duplicate reports. (at least that use the keywords "1.5.1" and "crash") I think this could at least be deemed a "community consensus"...

Ben S. 2018-07-22T04:50:59Z

I lost count at 11 bugs:

Ilari Kajaste 2018-07-22T08:15:04Z

I can confirm the crash happening on iPad mini 2 (A1490) with iOS 11.4 Minecraft version 1.5.1. The background image (beach) is at some points really laggy, at some points smooth, and game crashses at the menu. Sometimes you're able to get to the menu to open up a world, but trying to open a world also leads to a crash.

The issue appared in 1.5.1 when the background changed from underwater to the beach.

I play on a realm subscription to share a world with my family, so messing around with internet connection isn't really an option.

The issue actually seems to be partly fixed - for me - by iOS update to 11.4.1. After doing that, opening Minecraft reported a "crash detected, global resources reset", and now the background image (beach) seems smooth after some initial jerkiness (similar inital lagginess was with underwater and overworld images too, but it does still seem worse with beath). The game doesn't crash at the menu, and the realm can be opened and seems to work as well as before.

However, the game still seems to crash with opening offline worlds. It also crashes when closing the game with "Save & Quit", the last message on screen is "Loading Resources".

Sarah G 2018-07-22T19:36:54Z

..-

I get that global resources reset message all the time when I just close out the game after saving it normally. But now that it might actually help me? Nah, the actual crash isn't apparently a crash.

Jonathan5733 2018-07-22T19:57:08Z

I currently cannot reproduce on Windows 10 using version 1.5.14 (the latest provided in the US store)

Sarah G 2018-07-22T20:04:50Z

Thanks, Jonathan. It seems like this is a mobile only issue. I would say apple only, but some of the other reports are for other mobile devices.

Ben S. 2018-07-22T20:34:55Z

Yes, Windows 10 and Android (Kindle Fire) seem to be working in my house, but iOS is broken.

Chey G 2018-07-22T20:54:46Z

@Ben S. I use a kindle fire for minecraft and it crashes... weird

Mark Alan Burrow 2018-07-23T15:04:01Z

I have this bug on my iPad Air. Could devices with cellular option be a factor? (I use WiFi only, but I have cellular option).

[Mojang] Mega_Spud (Jay) 2018-07-23T15:42:09Z

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Mark Alan Burrow 2018-07-23T18:39:39Z

My issue has cleared on iPad Air after 1) delete Minecraft app And all saved worlds. 2) reinstall Minecraft from App Store.

Daniela Castellanos 2018-07-23T20:07:59Z

This seems to work. I uninstalled the app and erase everything and now we can play. In iPad mini 2 iOS 11.4.1

Sarah G 2018-07-23T23:32:40Z

I don't really consider uninstalling the app and erasing everything a solution... Especially since this app isn't really set up well for backing up my worlds elsewhere and importing them back in.