v1.4.19 supports cloud sync via Facebook and/or Google Play

[Mighty Red]

I’ve got news from Rovio that the latest version of Angry Birds Transformers for Android now supports cloud sync via Facebook and/or Google Play, so you practically don’t need to worry about losing progress anymore, though this update has wiped many people’s progress, including mine [sad face].

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[alecksander]

Damn…wiped progress…I lost my progress cuz i wiped my phone w/o backup but i found an old backup, rank 160 :)

[GrimmJow]

@Mighty-red-1

Yes, Rovio had told it me at that time, that this update would include the synchronization.

You lost everything? Or you were able to restore your progress ?
I am rank 239 and that frightens me to lose everything…

[Mighty Red]

@grimmjow Yeah, I lost everything. Restoring my backup didn’t work. I managed to revert the game back to v1.3.21 to restore my 5-months progress. Waiting for some answers from Rovio, as I have sent them a support request about this.

[GrimmJow]

@Mighty-Red-1

Ok, I make a save before update when it release on iOs.
Sorry and good luck for you.

[epicbird]

I lost everything, for luck i restored my old backup from December, but i lost rare items as Christmas. Now i need to buy 5 characters form Decepthogs update again.

[LadyDi]

I upgraded, Android Tablet, didn’t lose anything but I sure need to know how to back this up on a NON rooted and never will be rooted device

[alecksander]

hi Lady,
Search Hellium, backup program without root. What’s your rank?

[LadyDi]

@alecksander – I had Helium but it did not work on my Android tablet. 170 something.

[Red7827]

Does that mean it’s safe to reinstall the game now? Due to the low size of my memory i couldn’t play the game anymore but i would be glad if the save could at least be stored for very far future to don’t start from scratch.

[Hex]

@mighty-red-1

Any info on how to set the sync up? Or is is automatic?

[LadyDi]

Ditto what @hxadecmel is asking

[Mighty Red]

@hxadecmel @ladydi102 I’m not sure how it works exactly.

[LadyDi]

I hope someone let’s us know soon as I need this in my AB life

[MatasL]

i lost ~10 days (enough lucky me, right? :-) ), restore helps only with previous ABT version. Now i won’t update ABT, because it wipe my game progress. How can i move progress to new version? titaniumbackup didn’t help too

[Hex]

@ladydi102 @mighty-red-1

This is what I have figured out…

Updated to Lilli-pop a few days prior, then Just after updating to the new version of ABT, my daughter played for about a day and then her tablet went dead. Lights out, gone. Time for a new one.

So once in enter her email the new tablet (which came with lollipop) ask me if i want to restore data from another device (I turned on the Google backup functionality long ago and tied it to her email). I chose ‘yes,’ and selected the device to restore from. In my case ther was only one device but it recognized the make and model.

So after all the updating and syncing, I open ABT and am at the beginning. Level 1. “Great” i thought, “How am i going to explain this to a 5 year old?” So i started going through the tutorial, and right after doing enough runs to get the pigs to unlock bumblebee, the leader board, friends, and camera options show up. I click it and it asks me to connect to Facebook. I enter her FB credentials and the game says “Restoring your progress this may take a while” (Or something similar).. Then BANG, right back to level 121, right where she left off.

Hope this helps. (daddy was very happy not not have to break a kids heart lol)

[Mighty Red]

@hxadecmel Yeah, I’ve also found out that progress is saved via Facebook.

[Matt Rohde]

I was rank 230 and lost progress to rank 226.

I play the game on my tablet (was rank 230) and back it up to my phone every so often(last backup was rank 226). I updated ABT on my phone first, and didn’t lose any progress(still rank 226 on phone). but when i went to my tablet and updated ABT and launched the game, I lost all progress on my tablet) and the tablet automatically synced with my phone after finishing the intro level. I think if I had updated my tablet first, the tablet (rank 1) would have synced with the server and my phone would get its progress overwritten, I’m scared to think if I had done that.

My phone is Samsung Galaxy S5 with Android 4.4.4
My tablet is NVidia Shield Tablet with Android 5.0.1

[Mighty Red]

@matt-rohde-10 I lost all my progress and the only backup the game was able to sync was from November, where I’m rank 70. Luckily, over the past week I managed to reach rank 168. If you’re wondering how I did that, it’s because I progressed on v1.1.31 of the game, where time travel is not penalized.

[teorouge]

Hello, I got a reply from Rovio customer service and I’m happy to say they managed to restore my 189 rank! :)
It turns out Facebook Sync was actually active before the update so I gave them my Facebook email and they could find a backup from the day before the update and restore it; I uninstalled the game completely and played the first few stages until the crown button on the left appears, I clicked it and linked my Facebook account and a “Please wait – Restoring progresses” message pops up. Pronto, everything is fine and I managed to update: sweet!
Please note I had full disclosure with Rovio: I told them I used Titanium Backup, they told me it isn’t supported but they helped me anyway. Hats off to Rovio, I never even paid anything.

[LadyDi]

Great to read @teorouge!!