Fresh install of MCPE 0.10.4 on an Android tablet. Starts up ok. Click Play and then New. Enter details of World and click Create World!
Message displayed: "My World" can't be opened.
Tried every possible combination of settings but makes no difference.
Tried on similar tablet and it works ok. Examined tablet storage by connecting to a PC.
Looked in \games\com.mojang\minecraftWorlds
All the worlds that we tried to create had folders containing files.
However, none of these worlds are listed in the game when Play is clicked.
Did same on other tablet and noticed that there were more files in each created world.
Copied some of these worlds to the non-working tablet. Started MCPE and clicked Play. Now shows the copied worlds in the list. Selected a world but still got the "My World" can't be opened message.
Ran PocketMine server on my PC. Both tablets show the server world in the list and when selected, they both connect and work as expected.
Issue appears to be in creating/loading local worlds.
Files in a world folder on "non-working" version:
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db (folder)
lost (folder)
contains 17 x .log files numbered from 000003 to 000051, going up in steps of 3, plus MANIFEST-000001
CURRENT
LOCK
LOG
LOG.old
MANIFEST-000001
Files in a world folder on "working" version:
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level.dat
db (folder)
000005.ldb
000379.ldb
000380.ldb
000381.ldb
000382.ldb
000383.ldb
000385.ldb
000386.ldb
CURRENT
LOCK
LOG
LOG.old
MANIFEST-000384
Both tablets are running Android KitKat 4.4.2 and the same version of MCPE (v0.10.4 alpha)
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I am having the exact same issue with a tablet I just purchased. It is a no named brand from China. It fits the specs though to run the game. I installed the 0.11 alpha version after I found this issue and found that I could only connect to other hosted games on other tablets. What is the ETA on this fix?
nearly 1 year later, and still no resolution for me. <"My World" can't be opened > In fact, the app has now disappeared from my PlayStore account. I would purchase again, but not very confident! We tried for many months, 3 different devices ( 1 smartphone, 2 tablets). Zero support from Mojang. Apart from a generic message to say issue was 'resolved' - not for me!!!!
After years of not getting a resolution on this for my son's tablet, I now find that the latest version crashes on my phone, on which it has run without trouble for 2 years until now.
So, we have now written Mojang and Microsoft off as totally incompetent software developers who know only how to take peoples' money and run.
We have uninstalled the app from all of our devices, because it is just a big pile of crap.
Phil Rogers have you tried using a different device like what Device do you use for the game
I mean apparently you said it works with a different device plus they updated Minecraft a lot since then have you even tried lately
Joey Hollis.
After over 2 years of Mojang failing to fix this bug, we gave up with it. As a professional software engineer, I find it shocking that a company would not bother to get to the cause of the problem and fix it within that time.
Every time a so-called "fix" was released, it failed to work.
The Forum was full of people complaining about the problem, and even listed which models of tablet it didn't work on, but nobody at Mojang seemed to make the effort to obtain such a device to try it out.
Would it have been so difficult to buy a $42 tablet to investigate why it was failing? That's exactly what my company would do.
I even volunteered to run a special debug version that logged what was happening on my tablet, but nobody at Mojang took up that offer. Again, that's something else that professional companies would do.
And in answer to your question... Yes, I have tried it on other devices - one f which is identical in appearance to the one on which it fails (but has a quad-core CPU compared with a dual-core).
It also ran fine for about 2 years on my generic Android phone, until the last update, when after a couple of minutes it just randomly crashes back to Android with no messages, so I've uninstalled it from there now.
What really p*sses me off about it is that Mojang have been adding more and more functionality to the program without first making it stable enough to run on all hardware that it claims to support.
Get your act in gear. Forget trying to make it like the console version. Get it running properly first.
Thank you for your report!
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Installed 0.11.0 alpha build 5.
Experiencing the same issue.
Copied in a world from another Android tablet on which MCPE works ok.
World appears in list (unlike locally created worlds)
When selected, Building world, Generating terrain message is displayed. (Didn't get this in 0.10.4 or 0.10.5)
Then "My world" can't be opened.
Therefore, not fixed in 0.11.0 alpha build 5.