Words With Friends ad bug?

[Fire4Effect]

Is anyone else getting this with WWF? For the last few days whenever I enter the game this pops up. Seems to be a problem with the ads, as when they rotate to a new one it seems to go away for a minute or two, but it always comes back. Makes it almost unplayable as I can't click on any of my active games.

 

[bigbadwulff]

That happened to me after I hit the NEWS button. If you look, you are under the NEWS tab also.
I can get to my games but only with some work as that pops up instead of the normal game screen.....unless I access the game thru a notification.

This game has so many bugs it's unreal! It's obvious these guys have little experience in Android. Hope that changes soon.

Any chance you are rooted and use an ad blocker? Seen many comments about this in the Market. I loaded ad blocker and then started having that problem(although I deleted it before opening WWF).

 

[Fire4Effect]

That happened to me after I hit the NEWS button. If you look, you are under the NEWS tab also.
I can get to my games but only with some work as that pops up instead of the normal game screen.....unless I access the game thru a notification.

This game has so many bugs it's unreal! It's obvious these guys have little experience in Android. Hope that changes soon.

Thanks for the tip, I did click on the News tab a couple days ago so that makes sense. Wow, is that annoying. Is there way to click off it? Occasionally when I re-load (after force stop) it goes back to the normal game screen. I'll play a word, then hit the back button, but it seems to go right back to news. Even uninstalled the game and re-installed it. Same thing. Game really shouldn't have been released yet.

 

[bigbadwulff]

I now just wait for a notification. it works fine going into the game that way.

 

[RdBrd83]

I think it's something with the latest list on AdFree... That's when I started having the problem. It was hit or miss if I get that pop up or not. After I reverted AdFree back though I haven't had any problems.

 

[Fire4Effect]

I think it's something with the latest list on AdFree... That's when I started having the problem. It was hit or miss if I get that pop up or not. After I reverted AdFree back though I haven't had any problems.

I did have Adfree installed, thought that may be what caused it. I un-installed it though, then un-installed WWF. Re-installed WWF and it still happened.

 

[lexluthor]

I did have Adfree installed, thought that may be what caused it. I un-installed it though, then un-installed WWF. Re-installed WWF and it still happened.

You might have to reboot (or usually for me wait an hour or so) to clear the DNS cache.

 

[Fire4Effect]

You might have to reboot (or usually for me wait an hour or so) to clear the DNS cache.

I used Cache Cleaner and also rebooted. This was a couple days ago so I assume everything should have re-propagated. Who knows though. Going into the game via notification seems to be working for now. Still bugs me though hehe.

 

[crcpeach]

"Uninstalling adfree won't reset your hosts file, which is what is actually doing the ad blocking (or redirecting, more correctly).

Reinstall adfree and do a "revert" to clear your hosts file, then reboot to clear your DNS cache, and try WWF again."

http://www.droidforums.net/forum/tech-issues-bug-reports-suggestions/127763-adfree-words-friends.html

Found this on another forum. Worked for me.

 

[bigbadwulff]

Download Ad Free. Open it, let it run. Then click REVERT. Uninstall Words with Friends. Reinstall Words with Friends.

Problem solved.

 

[Fire4Effect]

Thanks guys, that did it!

 

[big3etr]

I just opened adfree, reverted, closed adfree and reopened WWF and works perfectly.

 

[lexluthor]

Download Ad Free. Open it, let it run. Then click REVERT. Uninstall Words with Friends. Reinstall Words with Friends.

Problem solved.

Yes, but now you aren't using adfree.

 

[bigbadwulff]

uh, well, yeah.