[Android 4.1.1 Jelly Bean] Game causes phone freeze

The Nexus S does not have an SD card. As far as apps go, I've got Task Killer so the only apps that run while I am playing are the apps that come on the device. I don't understand how to recreate the bug. I only know that it does it after running Minecraft for few minutes.

Yeah, I thought as much about the SD card. I guess it still could be something with the internal memory but I don't know. I tried running the "nyan" seed for about 15 min and it worked as it should. One thing that you can check is if you have changed options to higher graphics settings. It's a bit problematic when I can't get a proper test case. Could you please confirm that this happens on the "nyan" seed (and in survival) for you?

Okay. I have tried running on normal graphics. I have also tried the nyan seed, no luck with either. It ran for about six or seven minutes before freezing. I have also attempted uninstalling and reinstalling MC. Anything else you can think of, I am willing to try.

Hum, six to seven minutes. If you just stand still, does it still happen or is it when you run around? Also, is it like always turning to night or something when it happens?

OK I didn't answer before cause I totally forgot about this, but let me try to tell.

I just turned on Minecraft PE, loaded one map and it worked weirdly fine. I turned MPE off, get it back on, loaded the map again, flied around and then it freezed. Seems this is kind of random, but happens in multiple Nexus S phones.

PS: Weird thing, this time after freeze, I put the phone and didn't touch it - phone rebooted. I've tried once again, this time no reboot, just eternal freeze. I checked logcat, phone keeps working in background, I'll attach logcat here maybe you'll find out something with it. If you ask me it's connected with chunk loading as this happens usually when moving around.

Day/night cycle works fine. It freezes both while moving and being still.

OK, I'll do some more testing on this. Perhaps I should just put the phone down and run it for a few hours and see what happens.

I have now been able to reproduce this issue on this device. Very strange behavior, I can still access the device but the touch screen and buttons doesn't respond. Will try more tomorrow.

Same issue here, the game freezes after 5 to 7 minutes while moving around worlds. No solution except a battery pull. Running Minecraft PE on a Galaxy S with Cyanogenmod 10 28 oct nightly (Android 4.1.2). Worked perfectly on previous CM9/Android 4.0.4 nightlies.

Have you been able to figure anything out on this one, Johan?

No, we still have a little bit of time left for the android version but right now I don't know. Starting to wonder if there is an actual bug in Android 4.1.2. Will look more into it next week, promise. 🙂

its not fixed

We are trying to get this is fixed before 0.5.0 but it may be delayed until a later version.

We will not have time to research this more, has something to do with drawing but we don't currently know what. A workaround for now is to use "Lower graphics quality" which seems to work.

Indeed fast graphics solves the problem, still I hope this might be repaired somehow in next version or subversion like 0.5.1. What is weird this issue seem to occur on the same devices that had a texture flicker issue on Android 2.3, which are Google Nexus S and Samsung Galaxy S (noticed by Pierre-Yves a few posts above; both having Hummingbird SoC and PowerVR SGX540) which run Android 4.1 Jelly Bean (doesn't matter stock (Nexus S) or custom ROM (both devices)).

Thank you all for your hard work and regular updates.

Minecraft seems to be working fine after updating to 0.5. Thanks for fixing it (I have also updated CM10 since the bug occured).

Sorry, I was too quick to comment back, the freeze bug is still there 😞

I can confirm this still happens. Galaxy S (I9000M) using low quality graphics. When it freezes in unpredictable. Using CM10 Nightly.

Looks like the Nexus S is still having issues in 0.5.0, reopening.

It freezes faster with "Fancy Graphics", than in "Default mode" (when nothing's ticked).

Just commenting to say that I've been experiencing the phone freeze on the Nexus S. I'm using the low quality graphics and it seems to freeze when I'm looking at long distances. I've built a map that has a vantage point that has a waterfall next to it, always seems to freeze when looking to the distance or when adding blocks.

There was a second occurrence of the freezing on another map I created. I built a tall skyscraper and seemed to freeze when walking up the staircase (may have been due to large amounts of blocks within the building).

I have tried overclocking to the maximum I can get (1.2ghz) with no luck, and loaded Minecraft PE with recent apps closed first. Once freezes it always requires a battery pull. Hope to see a solution for this 🙂

Samsung Nexus S, Android 4.1.2, AOKP ROM

Edit - Forgot to add this is Minecraft PE V 0.5.0

My crashing has stopped after installing 'supercharger V6' which makes me think the crashing is due to the device running out of memory.

The freezing appears to be less frequent if I clear all app cache, wipe cache partition, and in developer options don't allow background apps to run. Also using airplane mode while playing. Sprint 4G Samsung nexus s unrooted.

If this is because of low memory issues, I'm not sure if we as developers can do much about it. Could other people try to confirm this by like starting lots of apps?

Does anyone know how can I submit feature requests on Minecraft forums??

I've notice I don't experience any freezes on survival mode. Only on casual mode does it freeze.

I have android 4.2.1 and i have the same problem i think it is because is don't have enough ram memory i have a samsung galaxy s i9000 with cyanogenmod 10.1 newest update

all other apps run good i have gta 3 higgest grapics and it runs good only with the stock rom he never freeze

I have instaled cm IT runs voor bos in have 4.1.2 hand type Same problem

Maybe related, please look at MCPE-1072 - "Screen Flicker's All The Time" ;
I must check if the flicker also appears after 6 minutes like your freeze.
With Android 4.2.1 / Cyanogenmod 10.0

Is this still a concern in the current Minecraft version? If so, please update the affected versions in order to best aid Mojang ensuring bugs are still valid in the latest releases/pre-releases.

Sadly, but still I'm getting device freeze on my stock Jelly Bean (4.1.2) Nexus S, even though I turned off fancy graphics, I didn't try lower graphics quality setting though. Running latest version of MPE (Alpha 0.6.1).

I've had this problem for quite a while. However it seems to trigger when there is too many things/block/something in the world you open. However when you open a new map there are no problems. (Though the nyan seed did freeze after a while.