I can help with that last part. All you need to do is create one or two more characters and "Rob" should go back to his own character slot and you can than use him again. I had the same problem. That fixed it for me.
You got the names confused. James is the one I want working again. Rob is usable, and only has a displaced character icon. However, Rob was made specifically to check to see if my world(s) were fine after James got hit with the 'newer version, cannot open' bug.
I actually pressed the 3rd slot when I made Rob, since I was afraid of possibly writing over my stuck character (James). While my first character (James) is still being held hostage by the glitch, I don't feel comfortable playing the game anymore. 1) Could somehow ruin the recovery of my first guy if I pushed things, and 2) there is still no guarantee that the same character/world locking glitch won't happen again. If I could recover from that, it would be a different story; but I can't recover things right now, nor backup my files with my current device's settings.
Cool. One last thing, did you check off show hidden files? I know I forgot to mention that earlier. Also, I had jellybean at the time. So that's a possibility. All I know is that Ive moved game data before since I used gl2sd, and when uninstalling, it deleted everything. That's all. But yeah, good to know that there's another main data file, a bak? File I believe. Once I get the marshmallow update, I'm going to try and root my phone, so I'll see if I can find the files.
Yeah, I soon went to settings and had it show hidden files when I saw I wasn't getting anywhere. It still didn't show what I was wanting.
Be careful with rooting your device. It could cause total loss of your files on your device, and possibly permanent loss of all function from the device itself (aka destroy it). If you are going to root your phone, make sure you know what you are doing, or you know someone that does.
I can't find the source of where I saw the mention of .bak files. Not sure of it was in a Gamapedia site or a random page while doing a Google search. Regardless, the .bak file was in reference to the PC version, which is why I have doubts it carried over from the port to Android... but it could have. I'm not asking for anyone to wreck their device just to find out for my sake, but if there is someone that happens to have a rooted device, and can quickly check, that'd be great.
OK. I'm done. Your game is so freakin BROKEN.
I just got a new 16gig micro SD card for my phone and after mounting it, the data that was on my phone was automatically transferred to the SD card after making it its default storage. No big deal, perfectly normal. WRONG! Out of ALL my apps, which, by the way, are working perfectly fine and unchanged since the transfer, TERRARIA, F-ING Terraria glitches out and desides to refuse to load, giving an 'can't install/download' error before freakin crashing and UNINSTALLING ITSELF OFF OF MY PHONE, EFFECTIVELY DELETEING ALL MY GAME AND SAVE FILES.
I mean, I know it has bugs. BUT WTF IS THIS BULL?!?!
All my data. EVERYTHING IS GONE NOW BECAUSE YOU IDIOTS DONT KNOW HOW TO MAKE A GAME THAT ACTUALLY WORKS!!!
It's seeing news like this that also makes me not want to touch my own copy of the (currently) ticking time bomb called Terraria on my smartphone.
I can't really disagree here. Even with trying to reserve as much judgement as possible, it looks like someone really dropped the ball here in regards to converting over to a different platform.
I don't know what happened, I really don't want to know the 'why's and 'how's right now, I just wish they (505 Games) would make a patch to fix these glaring errors. To hell with adding new content, just fix the thing! People are
buying this game only to later realize they have bought quite a lemon of a game app.
505 Games is going to have to do a fantastic job of not only correcting basic functionality, but somehow make it up to people that suffered through this so they can keep their reputation in tact. The glitches in this game seem so amateurish and wide spread that I could not believe they could have so many other game titles under their belt (as listed at their web page) and still not have the foresight to prevent this issue.
It has to be the result of either a small inexperienced development team tasked to make this port over, or a horrifically careless mistakes by a few people in a key part of development, to cause such a mess. I can't see a company with that much collective experience mess up this badly with a paid product, unless it was from some tragic fluke in one of many obscure parts of programing. A company just does not get that many game titles (made or ported over) by consistently being incompetent.
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Or maybe someone hacked their computers and utterly trolled them by screwing up their work, and no one caught it until it was too late. Considering how popular the game is, and how 505 Games is likely growing and expanding as well (based on Wikipedia site info), I can see this being equally as likely now that I think about it.
Despite being very disappointed by the current situation, I do really hope they can pull this out of the fire. And I encourage people to hang in there... but might want to pause your gaming, even if (especially if) nothing has happened to your game (yet).