Mighty Eagle Now Available in Angry Birds Seasons

Updates:

08/31/2011 – Our Angry Birds Seasons Mighty Eagle Total Destruction walkthroughs are starting to come online, so if you’re stuck please check them out. We typically only do Mighty Eagle walkthroughs for the toughest levels, so if one is not listed feel free to drop your request in the forum.

08/23/2011 – Woot! I’m not sure if somebody spinkled magic pixie dust over the v1.5.3 update, but it looks like you can now successfully purchase the Mighty Eagle. Please note, before I was able to make the purchase I had to completely close and restart Angry Birds Seasons. You do this by:

  1. If it’s running, close Angry Birds Seasons
  2. Bring up the quick launch menu by quickly double-tapping the round home button at the bottom of your iOS device.
  3. Now tap and hold on any icon in the quick launch menu until they start shaking and red close button appears
  4. Close Seasons by clicking the close button
  5. Relaunch Seasons and now try purchasing the Mighty Eagle again

08/23/2011 – The Moon Festival achievements were added to Game Center. This update was supposed to land in September, so it’s hard to say whether or not this is an indication of another — larger — update coming soon.

08/22/2011 – The Mighty Eagle has finally come to Angry Birds Seasons, but a unknown bug is preventing anyone from actually purchasing it. When you initiate the purchase process the loading icon appears, but shortly after it says, “Unable to connect to iTunes Store”. Rovio is aware of the issue and even left a comment below stating that they are looking into the problem (thanks guys). Hopefully the issue will be resolved soon and we can start accumulating some feathers. We will update you guys as we know more.

Here is more other info about the Angry Birds Seasons v1.5.2 update, including bugs that have and have not been fixed:

  1. A separate In-App purchase is required to obtain the Mighty Eagle in Angry Birds Seasons. In other words, if you already purchased him in Angry Birds Classic you will have to purchase it again in seasons. In my humble opinion this is to be expected as these are separate apps.
  2. As AMslimfordy points out below the Golden Egg number discrepancy between iPhone and iPad is semi-fixed.
    • The Pause Screen and Level Completion Screen now show the same value.
    • Unfortunately, both of these values are one higher than the true value. No matter how you write the numbers, either there is no “Golden Egg 1” or no “Golden Egg 9/10”. In other words, if “The Big Present” is GE-1, then there is no GE-9 (or GE-10, however you want to count “The Big Egg”). If “The Big Present” is GE-3, then there is no GE-1.
  3. It looks like the bug preventing people from unlocking the Facebook levels in Go Green, Get Lucky has not been fixed. We still to confirm this though, so if you have NOT yet unlocked these levels please try and let us know if it works for you. If it does we will mark this as fixed.
  4. The Summer Pignic score counter has been fixed.
  5. It looks like the Summer Pignic Score Addict achievement is still bugged, as well as the Bunny Hunter achievement (for some users).

Below is the text from the original post about this update.

Some keen fans who play Angry Birds Seasons on iOS devices noticed something interesting in Game Center today. Out of the blue Mighty Eagle achievements have shown up in Game Center. Now this could just be a boo boo on someones part, but I highly doubt that.

It’s been speculated for along time that the Mighty Eagle would come to Angry Birds Seasons next, but I don’t think anyone expected him to arrive before the Moon Festival update is released in September. Now, I don’t think the Moon Festival update is coming early, so this will likely be an interim update. In addition to the Mighty Eagle I’m hopeful that this update will address some lingering bugs that are present in Angry Birds Seasons.

If you’d like to know more about the Mighty Eagle check out our in-depth article about him here.

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Comments (312)

By Sam

If we want to get the Mighty Eagle for the Seasons, do we have to pay for it again?

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By AMslimfordy (@amslimfordy)

This is a very old Tweet that I received from Rovio way back in the day.

Q: Will Mighty Eagle for Seasons be a separate in-app purchase? Or one-time across all versions?

A: we want it to one time across all, that’s why it’s taking a bit of time to get it out. Will also be in other devs games

Update:

Sorry no. Subscription per game. No connection between in-app based purchases.

By Breindel

moon festival! oh dear! i’m so exited for mighty eagle. angry birds and angry birds seasons.

By Chris

Recently, the updates always came out the following working day after the achievements appeared in Game Center. That’s why I expect Mighty Eagly to arrive in AB Seasons on Monday.

By Chris

Ha, I was right!

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By SymBird (@symbird)

How long does it take, that Mighty Eagle lands on Symbian. I would really like to know. Is it weeks, months, years, or how much?!?

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By Bird Leader (@birdleader)

I wish I knew. My guess is it will be awhile, if ever. I hope I’m wrong though.

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By SymBird (@symbird)

OK, but how is this possible then?!??

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4P3ueF4CxY

In the video that guy is using Nokia N8. So how is that possible!!!

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By AMslimfordy (@amslimfordy)

Could have been a Rovio employee with a cracked version of the game. Sure, anything is possible with the right coding. But as Symbian is being on updates in general, I agree that it will likely be quite some time before Ovi gets the Mighty Eagle (widely / officially).

By hello222

Will the Mighty Eagle be on PC when the update comes out.

By hello222

Also ABS on PC changed their picture to one from Summer Pignic.

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By AMslimfordy (@amslimfordy)

No word. I would think Android is the next platform to receive the update. Or Mac, since Mac has the ability for in-app purchases I believe.

By yhjgd

Actually, Rovio announced a long time ago about a Piggy Bank feature where you can buy addons that are charged with your phone bill

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By AMslimfordy (@amslimfordy)

Yes, but the Bad Piggy Bank is not yet operational. Mac’s in-app purchasing system is up and running already.

By timbo4815162342

Much like the Death Star.

By reddo

there are multiple images for the mighty eagle in the pc version of seasons however there is no way to access it right now

By reddo

on a related note there are also images for the mighty eagle in the original PC game, however there aren’t any in Rio.

Something else I found interesting is that I only have Rio v 1.2.2 but there’s the images for the air field update are included.

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By AMslimfordy (@amslimfordy)

Yes, this was true on the mobile version as well: v1.2.2 had a couple background images for Airfield Chase.

I believe most platforms have Mighty Eagle images in their original app (PC, Mac, and I believe Android as well). So certainly the plan is to bring the ME there, but the in-app purchasing ability needs to be fine-tuned.

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By crazyhacker (@crazyhacker)

PC version of Seasons??? That is still coming soon.

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By AMslimfordy (@amslimfordy)

Yes, some people managed to grab a small-windowed (accidental?) release of Seasons.

By angrybirdsfan

How did they get it (if you know).

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By AMslimfordy (@amslimfordy)

Accidental, short-lived release on the official site.

By angrybirdsfan

What’s reason to make us wait then.

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By AMslimfordy (@amslimfordy)

Lots of bugs, I hear.

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By Falcon72 (@falcon72)

Has anyone else noticed the first achievement is “Unlock the mighty eagle”. Did it say that for normal AB? Because it should say purchase if we have to by it. And why would anyone get an acheivment for buying something?

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By AMslimfordy (@amslimfordy)
By Hawaiian Bird

Is this only on ios?

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By AMslimfordy (@amslimfordy)

Yes, iOS is the only platform with the Mighty Eagle to date. If the Mighty Eagle is landing on other platforms as well, that will be quite a surprise.

By Corry

Finally! Now if the mighty eagle can become a plush toy………..

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By SOMEONE IN THE WORLD (@mike1105)

This already happened in East Asia, also the Big Brother.

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By Bird Leader (@birdleader)

I saw the Mighty Eagle plush for preorder awhile ago on ToyWiz.

By Corry

Seems pricy. When do you think it could be for sale/preorder on the angry birds website? Or if it’s even in the works yet?

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By Bird Leader (@birdleader)

Not sure when it will officially come out. My guess would be around Xmas time.

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By ncisgrabert (@ncisgrabert)

When will Mighty Eagle be available for Android phones? I wouldn’t think its any different than getting updates for new levels in any of the 3 AB games

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By AMslimfordy (@amslimfordy)

It requires in-app purchasing capabilities, because the Mighty Eagle is not free. Read more about the Bad Piggy Bank here.

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By Minion1021 (@minion1021)

See, now I think that is a little ridiculous. Why does it have to be in app? Why can’t they just create an update pack in the current Android Market that we purchase for $1 and it acts like a normal AB update to our current versions.

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By AMslimfordy (@amslimfordy)

It needs to be in-app for the following reason:

Rovio stated a while ago that they want the Mighty Eagle to be a one-time purchase that applies to all apps (AB and Seasons, at the least). We will hopefully see early next week that iOS users that have the Mighty Eagle already should obtain the Mighty Eagle in Seasons at no charge. Using a separate app (which is what you suggest by saying “an update pack”) would likely be impossible to create this free transfer between AB and Seasons.

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By Minion1021 (@minion1021)

Not to shoot you down, but my update pack would probably serve as a better cure for the “one purchase across AB and seasons”. By making it an in app purchase, you have to find a way to purchase something in regular AB that transfers across to seasons, if you made the might eagle an upgrade pack app (think the sims expansion packs), you could update that app at a later date which would install the mighty eagle into seasons.

We are all just going to purchase the Might Eagle in the first moment it comes out, so having the novelty of an in app purchase just isn’t necessary and is probably complicating the issue.

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By AMslimfordy (@amslimfordy)

Seems like you run into the same issue: The update pack would be particular to AB (for example). In any case, I know this is Rovio’s plan, and thus their development of the Bad Piggy Bank system. Not only will BPB bring the Mighty Eagle to Android, but it will also bring “ad-free” to Android Market. To get more information, you are better off contacting Rovio directly. That said, I’m sure there was a conversation about in-app versus “level-pack”.

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By crazyhacker (@crazyhacker)

Why don’t they just hurry up and release Angry Birds Sync for all three games and transfer purchases and scores?

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By AMslimfordy (@amslimfordy)

You say that like it’s a trivial plan. It’s incredibly complicated.

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By Shireen(AngryTech) (@shireen1993)

I hope this comes, I think we’ve all been waiting a bit too long.

By AngryBirdsFan

I saw these achievements like 2 months ago

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By AMslimfordy (@amslimfordy)

Some users saw these achievements in the past using Sandbox mode, but all that means is that it is a distant plan. Having the achievements appear universally means the Mighty Eagle is imminent.

By Oscar

Why are there no achievements for AB or ABR on PC? :(

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By AMslimfordy (@amslimfordy)

Achievements are part of the GameCenter application on iOS.
Rovio, I believe, is thinking of making achievements operate on an internal system, so then they will be on all platforms.

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By Mighty Eagle (@mighty-eagle)

I’ve bought Angry Birds Original (with Mighty Eagle) and Angry Birds Seasons with non-US iTunes account and Angry Birds Rio with US iTunes account as iTunes Gift Cards work only with US account.

Similarly, I’ve bought Angry Birds Original for Mac with non-US iTunes account and Angry Birds Rio with US iTunes account (will also buy Angry Birds Seasons with non-US iTunes account as and when it hits the Mac App Store).

In this scenario, will I be able to use Mighty Eagle (which I’ve already bought) in all the games? I know the picture is not clear at the moment from Rovio’s side but many will have this query soon, so just thought of asking. :)

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By AMslimfordy (@amslimfordy)

My understanding would be that the Mighty Eagle is “loyal” to an account and to a version. For example, I had the Mighty Eagle on iPhone but had to purchase separately for iPad since HD was a separate app. Similarly, iOS and Mac are separate apps.

For iOS I think you are all set for the transfer between AB and Seasons becausethey were purchased with the same account. If the Mighty Eagle ends up coming to Rio, you may have issues with that.

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By bernard (@bernard)

Mighty Eagle (1.5.2) out now!

By Tweetiebird

But I cant seem to connect with iTunes to buy it… Frustrating.

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By bernard (@bernard)

Hmm quite slow on start up, doesn’t seem to fix the Summer Pignic score achievement error, and looks like you have to pay for ME again despite what Rovio said before…. Not real impressed with this update!

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By antwan83 (@antwan83)

same here.. :/

By Robfcg

same here

By Chris

The same here. So I have Mighty Eagle now but I can’t use it. Really frustrating. :-(

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By AMslimfordy (@amslimfordy)

Did you managed to purchase it? I can’t connect.

By Chris

No. I mean I can start a level and click on the Eagle icon, but I cannot use the Eagle, because I could not purchase it. It sais “cannot connect to iTunes store”.

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By AMslimfordy (@amslimfordy)

Ok, same issue. Let me do a bit of digging. Hopefully I have an answer by the time BirdLeader writes up the new post.

By Justin Rupert

I can’t connect either, I can on the computer, but not the Ipod. and you can’t seem to buy it via your computer. hmmmmmmm Is he still only 99 cent?

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By AMslimfordy (@amslimfordy)

Yes, the price hasn’t changed.

By neilc

Same here – cannot connect to i-Tunes store……frustrating or what!?!

By Chris

One bug is fixed: In Summer Pignic it does not show your Trick or Treat score any more.
But still no Summer Pignic score addict achievement. :-(

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By Jakkie95 (@jake1995)

I’ve got the Mighty Eagle on Angry Birds Seasons!

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By Jakkie95 (@jake1995)

Oh.. Not for now.

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By AMslimfordy (@amslimfordy)

Hold on for a little bit everyone. BirdLeader and I will do some exploration into the matter.

I just updated and get the error “Cannot connect to iTunes Store” as well. Poking around.

By marabou

I have the same problem: “Cannot connect to iTunes Store”.

By 4R2

Hey guys. We are working on a fix. Sorry for the inconvenience.

By Codebreak

Are you also from Rovio?

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By AMslimfordy (@amslimfordy)

He is, and we are very glad to have him checking out this page.

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By Bird Leader (@birdleader)

Yes, he is.

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By Mustang (@mustang)

Do you have to purchase the Mighty Eagle again in Seasons?

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By AMslimfordy (@amslimfordy)

That is unclear. As per an old conversation with Rovio, it was their original plan. But we can’t say for sure what actually happened. I have sent an inquiry to Rovio on this specific matter. If I hear back before the bug is fixed, I will report it here.

UPDATE:
I have been informed:

Sorry no. Subscription per game. No connection between in-app based purchases.

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By rmac (@rmac)

The mightyeagle is here!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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By AMslimfordy (@amslimfordy)

May want to tone down your excitement, rmac. I think you’re in for a disappointment….

By LokiRav13

Oh darn . . . . Mighty Eagle isn’t working, the Summer Pignic Score Addict wasn’t fixed, and no fix for the Piggy Hunter acheivement. Can I assume that these will all be fixed with the September update?

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By AMslimfordy (@amslimfordy)

I think submitting a ticket to [email protected] could help towards that goal.

By AngryBirdsFan

I saw at the moon festival achievements for angry birds seasons and the name of the episode is really moon festival

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By AMslimfordy (@amslimfordy)

Sandbox Mode?

By angrybirdsfan

First of all, I am a different angrybirdsfan just to make it clear in the beginning. Also, I don’t have an Iphone so I’m just guessing when I say I think it might be Moon Feastival. They like to do play on words so I’m guessing that. I’m sorry if that sounded rude.

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By AMslimfordy (@amslimfordy)

The Golden Egg Numbering Discrepancy is semi-fixed. That is:

* The Pause Screen and Level Completion Screen now show the same value.
* Unfortunately, both of these values are one higher than the true value. No matter how you write the numbers, either there is no “Golden Egg 1” or no “Golden Egg 9/10”.

If “The Big Present” is GE-1, then no GE-9 (or GE-10, however you want to count “The Big Egg”).
If “The Big Present” is GE-3, then no GE-1.

By Tom

My mighty Eagle purchase couldn’t work either they might fix it when the moon festival update comes but no one knows if it will

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By AMslimfordy (@amslimfordy)

Rovio is already aware of the issue, and I think they’re trying to fix it ASAP. I don’t think “Moon Festival” has any bearing on it. I think whichever update is ready first, we will see it then.

By Liz

Summer Pignic achievement is still not showing as ‘earned’ and I’m way over the required score. :(

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By AMslimfordy (@amslimfordy)

Noted above

By Stars

I can not buy the Eagle seems to me can not connect to the itunes store ??

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By Bird Leader (@birdleader)

The first couple paragraphs in the article above explains this issue.

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By bigbrotherbird97 (@bigbrotherbird97)

I know why we can not buy the mighty eagle. If you go into the app store and click on the game, it does not show the mighty eagle as an add-on yet

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By crazyhacker (@crazyhacker)

Yeah, nice theory. Probably the update update came out but they didn’t make it available yet!

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By bigbrotherbird97 (@bigbrotherbird97)

It’s true, take a look for yourself

By epicman

mine crashes right as I open it and I have the latest and best ipodtouch model, any suggestions?

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By Bird Leader (@birdleader)

Try restarting and if that doesn’t work turn on “Airplane Mode” then launch ABS again.

By bluebell20

Still no joy- am unable to download mighty eagle on my iPhone 3GS. Keep getting an error message saying unable to connect to iTunes. Have tried connecting it to my laptop, but still unsuccessful.

Have emailed [email protected], as it sounds like a bug.

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By AMslimfordy (@amslimfordy)

Rovio is aware and has already commented on this page.

By Tim

This is a separate issue related to the Seasons update that I really need help with. This has happened multiple times now & is really starting to make me mad. Every time I update Angry Birds Seasons. Every single one of my golden eggs reset. That is to say they completely disappear. Not only that on my first play it shows me the pop-up screens of what all the birds do all over again like I have never played before. My facebook/twitter levels re-lock until I unlock them again and they are 3 starred. Lastly it will let me play the golden eggs levels for getting 3 stars on every level pack except St. Patricks Day & Easter. I obviously have 3 stars and have played these levels before, but can’t get the 3 stars to light up because it won’t let me play the levels despite having 3 stars on every level of Angry Birds ever released. What gives? This is seriously starting to drive me crazy. I keep hoping it will be a bug fix, but every update it resets & I have to go back and get all the golden eggs all over again. Not to mention this happen on Rio once before as well. I think on the 3rd update it reset all of my fruit. iPhone 4. iOS 4.3.1. Jailbroken, but legally purchased all versions of Angry Birds. PLEASE HELP!

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By Bird Leader (@birdleader)

Very strange. I’ve never heard about anything like this, but to me it sounds like it’s related to your “settings.lua” file as that’s where all these progress is stored. Have you tried backing this file up before an update? At least that way if you lose everything you should be able to restore the backed-up settings.lua file and get your progress back. Backing up is a good thing to do anyhow, so I would definitely recommend this. If your device is jailbroken then transferring those files to your PC/Mac should be pretty easy.

By Tim

I could definitely do that, but I think what is most upsetting is there are now 3 levels that I can not play at all. The Golden Egg for 3 starring Summer Pignic, St. Patricks Day, & Easter all will not allow me to play them. So, I could definitely back them up, but it is just weird that I can’t play any of these levels. In addition, like I said before, everything resets including Twitter/FB link. I have finally sent this off to Rovio to see what they think. While I have your attention I have always wondered about one other issue. Is there any file where you can see your hour progression & broken block progression in Original AB for the unlocks?

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By Bird Leader (@birdleader)

No file that I know allows you to see your progression.

I think you misunderstood what I was trying to say. I would backup the “settings.lua” file before updating (this assumes you’ve got the GE’s again, etc). Then if things go wonky again transfer it back onto you device. By transferring the good “settings.lua” file back to you iPhone you shouldn’t have to get them again. Does that make sense?

By Tim

yeah I understand. But, at this point I will be backing up without being able to play 3 levels. So I will basically be keeping a backup that is flawed to begin with, but it will backup the existing golden eggs that work so I will try that. Thanks for your help! Just such a bummer I have searched endlessly and can’t find anyone with this same issue. Hoping the sync will actually release some day and upon transfer of all 3 star levels it will unlock. Thanks again.

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By Bird Leader (@birdleader)

I was trying to infer that you should backup after you have got all the Golden Eggs again (so complete everything then backup). That way you don’t have a flawed settings.lua file and if something goes haywire again you can use it to restore back to the completed state. Yes, I realize you have to get the missing pieces again first, but at this point there isn’t much else you can do unless you can get a settings.lua file from someone else.

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