Hi Folks!

From time to time I find a new comment at google play with a bad review because the game wont start after an update.

With this post I want to give you some insight in why (I think) that is happen and how you can try to get it started.

First of all - these are no bugs of Robo Miner itself and I am not sure if there is any way at all how I can do anything about it.

All these errors does happen very rarely as far as I can tell, so don't expect them as "usual"

One error which is sent to me from time to time is an Out Of Memory Error. That could happen when the mine you want to load (or create) is just too big to fit in your devices memory.
It can also happen in the rare case, that a savefile is corrupted in a way that the game does not recognize it as corrupt.

Another error is something android internal - some libraries are not found for whatever reasons. I know that some people had issues when updating the game and they solved it by completely reinstalling the game - it seems that the updater missed anything. So if the game will not start at all (black screen + force close) uninstall it and reinstall - that should solve the problem.
To not lose your progress just remove your SD Card before uninstalling and reinsert after the game has installed. You can also just copy your savegames away, they are located at

/Android/data/com.rnet.robominer/files

just copy that away and copy it back after reinstalling. This way you can also do occasional back ups - you can even switch your SD Card completely so you can extend your saving slots if you like to do so.

If your game starts it tries to load the last savegame - if this failed for whatever unexpected reason (for example out of memory) it will force close - you can try to delete this savegame because the game will repeat to try it to load. A Reinstall of the game will remove all savegames so it will work as well as removing the SD Card (in case it loads the SD Slot)

The Level6-12 "Blue Screen" bug - yes that one is still alive because I cannot fix it. It happens on some devices because their hardware is not capable of rendering the world - I am sorry for that but I cannot do anything about it. I only know of 2 devices which have this problem.

Unfortunately, sometimes I only find a bad rating in the market with no further information - please accept, that I cannot fix any bugs which are not reported to me in any way. If you send me a mail, I will care for your issue und try to solve it. Feel free to write about it here as a comment or in the forums or the Facebook Fan Group ( www.facebook.com/groups/176351392493087 )

Hopefully this post can help to fix one of the rare issues and let you play again :-)