An unknown Reddit user submitted a link to his newest Android game to /r/gamedev to collect feedback. After installing the app (if you can even get it installed) your GAPPS will begin to crash. User Postfu decided to post about the issues they were having since install.

 

“My experience with your applications so far:

• I installed your Mine Colony game about 15 minutes ago.
• “Has no special permissions required.” Great!
• Crashed on Install (“Google Apps has stopped working.”)
• No worries, the icon was still there so I played the game.
• Now, I was going to start preparing some notes to help you out.
• So first, I went to uninstall Mine Colony. Crash. Cannot uninstall app, not responding.
• Tried again, same problem.
• Now suddenly, icons start disappearing from my screen. “Settings has stopped responding”
• Other background apps now crashing, I reboot.
• Android loads to a completely unresponsive black screen.
• After a few minutes, the screen is still black but I’m able to only bring up the Reboot/Shutdown menu.
• Reboot again, same problem.
• Doing a full shutdown now.

I am a very frustrated and angry customer right now. My phone is completely Effed Up at the moment.

Update:

• Full shutdown doesn’t help either.
• Going into recovery menu.
• I don’t swear very often, but I must say: your software just totally fucked my operating system.
• Did you make a bricking virus or something?
• Oh shit. Safe Mode isn’t even working. Fuck.
• Need to download some tools, going to try clearing Application Cache if I can access it.
• Using a PRIV, this isn’t going to be fun.
• Apparently, I’m going to have to install the Android SDK. Got the USB drivers installed.
• SDK might not work out after all, need to enable USB debugging. Developer mode already on, but I still need access to the OS menus.
• Looking at other options.
• Wife called me asking why I’m still at work. “I tried to help someone out, and got fucked.”
• Yep, “System UI isn’t responding” even in Safe Mode. ADB won’t work unless I can Authorize it from the UI. Can’t access contents in any way while the UI is broken.
• Will hunt around for bootloader options, maybe there’s a way to replace the O/S without wiping all data.
• Welp. If I had a different Android, I would have more options available. But, having a PRIV puts a lot of restrictions in place. The only option is a complete wipe, wonderful.
• When Blackberry says “securely wipe the device”, I hope they’re not writing zeroes to it. Would be nice to recovery some data after the fact.
• That’s not good. Failed FR, now phone won’t boot.
• Trying the flash again.
• Worked this time thankfully. Back to the new user Welcome screen.
• I’m not hopeful on any data recovery but I’ll give it a shot. Time to rebuild my phone, during the Easter long weekend of course.”

Although the source of the problem itself hasn’t been confirmed by Google the most likely issue is the app icon. The developer made the icon 3556×3556, causing the OS to run out of memory. Expect this to be patched by Google in the near future.