Enabling External storage and restarting the game causes it to crash
This bug is been bothering me since 1.19.63 and till this day. This bug is not affected on the version 1.19.62, I don't why though but I tried multiple times restarting my phone, game and clearing up my storage but still doesn't work. When I open game repeatedly the game just went black and exit the game so I would delete again my minecraft and then install it again so that it restart again the game to signing up process. And The only way I could play the game not turning the storage (application) to external but I really wanted my old worlds so I could play normally. But with this bug I lost motivation to play with my old worlds. I only play my new worlds for now.
And here is the link for the demonstration of the bug:
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Turning On the External storage in minecraft and restarting it in the game just game crash it.
This bug is been bothering me since 1.19.63 and till this day. This bug is not affected on the version 1.19.62, I don't why though but I tried multiple times restarting my phone, game and clearing up my storage but still doesn't work. When I open game repeatedly the game just went black and exit the game so I would delete again my minecraft and then install it again so that it restart again the game to signing up process. And The only way I could play the game not turning the storage (application) to external but I really wanted my old worlds so I could play normally. But with this bug I lost motivation to play with my old worlds. I only play my new worlds for now.
And here is the link for the demonstration of the bug:
[^SVID_20230318_102636_1.mp4]
- Unresolved
- Open
- Unconfirmed
- Android
- Android 8.0.0
- 1.19.70 1.19.71
This bug is been bothering me since 1.19.63 and till this day. This bug is not affected on the version 1.19.62, I don't why though but I tried multiple times restarting my phone, game and clearing up my storage but still doesn't work. When I open game repeatedly the game just went black and exit the game so I would delete again my minecraft and then install it again so that it restart again the game to signing up process. And The only way I could play the game not turning the storage (application) to external but I really wanted my old worlds so I could play normally. But with this bug I lost motivation to play with my old worlds. I only play my new worlds for now.
And here is the link for the demonstration of the bug:
[^SVID_20230318_102636_1.mp4]
This bug is been bothering me since 1.19.63 and till this day. This bug is not affected on the version 1.19.62, I don't why though but I tried multiple times restarting my phone, game and clearing up my storage but still doesn't work. When I open game repeatedly the game just went black and exit the game so I would delete again my minecraft and then install it again so that it restart again the game to signing up process. And The only way I could play the game not turning the storage (application) to external but I really wanted my old worlds so I could play normally. But with this bug I lost motivation to play with my old worlds. I only play my new worlds for now.
And here is the link for the demonstration of the bug:
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This bug is been bothering me since 1.19.63 and till this day. This bug is not affected on the version 1.19.62, I don't why though but I tried multiple times restarting my phone, game and clearing up my storage but still doesn't work. When I open game repeatedly the game just went black and exit the game so I would delete again my minecraft and then install it again so that it restart again the game to signing up process. And The only way I could play the game not turning the storage (application) to external but I really wanted my old worlds so I could play normally. But with this bug I lost motivation to play with my old worlds. I only play my new worlds for now.
And here is the link for the demonstration of the bug:
(waiting for the link)
This bug is been bothering me since 1.19.63 and till this day. This bug is not affected on the version 1.19.62, I don't why though but I tried multiple times restarting my phone, game and clearing up my storage but still doesn't work. When I open game repeatedly the game just went black and exit the game so I would delete again my minecraft and then install it again so that it restart again the game to signing up process. And The only way I could play the game not turning the storage (application) to external but I really wanted my old worlds so I could play normally. But with this bug I lost motivation to play with my old worlds. I only play my new worlds for now.
And here is the link for the demonstration of the bug:
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Turning On theExternal storagein minecraft andrestartingit inthe gamejust gamecrashit.Enabling External storage restarting the game causes it to crash
Enabling External storage and restarting the game causes it to crash
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I experience the same problem on the Huawei MediaPad T5 with Android 8.0 which my daughter uses. I actually downgraded manualy to 1.19.51.01 which works.
The problem started to appear with some version 1.19.6x, though I did not localize precise version.
Switching to external storage means crash when starting Minecraft (I think there must be something in the external storage, it probably does not crash when being empty).
When the internal storage is used, there are no problems.
The problem appears unchanged in 1.19.7x, I tried at least two version without success.
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For me the issue was fixed, I tested it yesterday on the Huawei MediaPad T5 with Android 8.0, using the Minecraft version 1.20.31.01 and the external storage setting now works correctly.
i experienced this problem these weeks in MinecraftBE 1.20.72,1.20.73
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MCPE-180318Is this still an issue in the latest version/Preview?
it's still an issue in the latest version on my device
What device are you using exactly, what OS version?
I'm noticing some Huaweis here.