Making sense of crash reports

Target Platforms Mobile
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I’ve been getting a lot of complaints about one of my apps being unstable and crashing a lot. Myself and my 6 friends with iphones / ipod touches have been using it for months and have not seen these crashes that everyone else apparently is having. Try as I might, I can’t seem to repro crash.

I’ve opened up the crash reports for the app but with the information it provides I can’t identify the cause of the crash.

I have attached the crash report. Would anyone with a little more experience with these reports mind helping me determine the problem?

199492–7338–$crashreport_126.txt (12.7 KB)

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Exception Type: 00000020
Exception Codes: 0x8badf00d

http://developer.apple.com/iphone/library/qa/qa2009/qa1592.html

Your game takes too much time to load. You can solve it by first loading an empty scene.

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I’ve fixed that problem by loading an empty scene first, but I am still getting complaints about the app being unstable. Attached are the new crash reports. Different exception types this time.

Crash:
Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGABRT)
Exception Codes: KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE at 0x00000000

Time Out On Quit:
Exception Type: 00000020
Exception Codes: 0x8badf00d

214146–7855–$diceroller1_2crashlogs_181.zip (8.09 KB)

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It’s actually not just taking too long to load that causes it but spending more than 20 seconds in ANY event handler at anytime.

So if any of your scenes takes longer than 20 seconds to load then it will be killed. Keep in mind that if your around 15-18 seconds load time then people with hacked phones will probably experience this problem if they have background applications running.