Summary: I use the onscreen touch sensitive controller (herein "navigator") to move around in MCPE. Sometimes when pressing 2 Navigator buttons simultaneously, the game freezes with the message, "Minecraft has stopped responding." Waiting for 10 minutes doesn't change the freeze status. Only remedy is to close the app and restart it.
History: I've used MCPE since 2012. I haven't seen a navigator issue this bad since using a Kindle Fire back in 2015. I use a Galaxy Note 3 now. In fact, I've had no navigator issues since 2015. Now, this issue has been occurring since (12.12.2018) after the last update. I'm on 1.8.0 now.
Expected Result: When pressing 2 navigator buttons simultaneously, one button's output should simply be accepted while the other ignored.
Actual Result: Pressing 2 navigator buttons simultaneously causes game to freeze.
Occurrence Probability: I estimate this issue occurs 25% of the time. It's hard to determine since I don't have a way of knowing when my touch actually translates into a signal. I can only define the issue as "simultaneous button pressing" since it ONLY occurs when quickly going from one navigator button to another... it's a smartphone... and it's fat-thumb syndrome.
Steps to Reproduce Issue:
Seems to occur more in jungle biomes.
Running straight forward with forward button (herein "UP").
Issue occurs when I must slide thumb to another button when something motivates me to turn: a tree, a cliff, a little b****** zombie. Issue more frequantly occurs when having to thumble around on the navigator because of a startling unintended motion. (For example, I sometimes inadvertently climb a vine when trying run through it. Upon scrambling on the navigator to dislodge, I seem to press both the UP and LEFT arrow at the same time, resulting in a freeze.)(Another example is when a little b****** zombie attacks me. When thumbling around to get away, game freezes)
Also, just prior to the freeze (within 10 minutes), the navigator will behave erratically. For example, pressing dead center in the UP button invoke a wild spin with me ending up looking straight up. When I don't have coordinates, compass or daytime, I lose all sense of direction.
Issue occurs regardless of navigator size. I usually play with it at the max 100% size.
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Cleaning up old tickets: This ticket has not been updated recently (~7 months+) so is being closed as Cannot Reproduce. If you feel this is still a valid issue and is affecting the most recent versions, then please comment, or create a new ticket following the Issue Guidelines.
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I have been around and around with Mojang on this ticket. They've confirmed an issue with large maps losing chunks when updating. It has something to do with new mob structures being forced on a map. A temporary solution has been to downgrad to Minecraft - 1.12.1. This temporary fix has worked on all maps which experience the lost chunks. So now the only way to use your large map with the latest version is allegedly to meticulously cut out all the chunks you've edited on your map and paste them into the new version of the map... using a map editor.
I haven't tried the editor yet as it looks quite time intensive, but I will report back when I make progress. It's unfortunately been near impossible to get timely help or non-conflicting information from Mojang.
Forgot to mention... this issue has only been occurring since (12.12.2018) after the last update.