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v1.0.92 — Emergency Fix: 1.0.91 Would Not Start

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@Kwickflix Kwickflix released this 08 Aug 15:39
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If 1.0.91 is stuck on the loading screen, this is the fix. Install it over the top — everything comes back exactly as you left it.

Also on Google Play — same app, auto-updating.

Fixed: 1.0.91 would not start if you already had the app. It sat on the loading screen forever. Updating brings the app's own database up to date first, and that step tried to add three columns to a table it had just built with those columns already in it. The database refused, and because this happens while the app is opening it, the app never got past loading.

A fresh install was unaffected — which is why clearing the app's data appeared to fix it, and why this got through testing: a new install builds the database in one go and never runs the update path at all.

Nothing was lost. The update simply never completed, so your profiles, favourites, history and settings stayed exactly as they were and come back intact.

Fixed: opening a movie or episode could close the player. If your history held two entries for the same title — KwickSync merging one in from another device is the likeliest way — looking up your resume point failed and took the whole player down with it, on opening and again on each auto-play-next. It now takes the most recent entry and carries on. (From a crash log on an Amazon Fire TV.)

Sign-in now tells you what actually went wrong. "Check your internet connection" was the catch-all for every failure, and it was usually the wrong advice. The commonest cause is a network blocking KwickTV — ad-blocking or filtered DNS on the Wi-Fi (Pi-hole, AdGuard, NextDNS, some internet providers' own), or a router blocking the port. The rest of the internet keeps working perfectly, so it reads as "my account is broken".

It now names the likely cause and gives you the ten-second test that settles it: try mobile data or a phone hotspot, and if it works there the network is the problem and there is nothing wrong with your account. The exact reason also goes into Export Logs, so a sign-in problem can finally be diagnosed instead of guessed at.

Installing keeps all your profiles, favourites, and history.