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Updated Games Issue?

50HellsofPain

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It seems that profile scan/manual scan takes a while to update the newer games that I played on Google Play. In the past, it will take a few minutes for it to acknowledge and update accordingly, now probably it might take 20 mins or an hour or even more, especially for newer games that I haven't unlocked an achievement yet. Is it a new issue?
 
When running a manual scan, it only takes about a minute to scan your profile so I suspect maybe the achievements haven't synced to Google Play yet. If the total # of achievements matches then we don't proceed with scanning through the entire profile also. So there may be a delay on how often this value is updated?

As far as Google Play is concerned, automatic scans run about every 30-40 minutes for premium members. Although 2-3 hours is the target for all services, so they actually are running more frequently than expected right now.

I guess for manual scans, we could try bypassing the total achievements check and see if that helps with updating the profile sooner. I don't know if it's just the total count that has a delayed update, or the achievements simply haven't synced to the GP servers yet.
 
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When running a manual scan, it only takes about a minute to scan your profile so I suspect maybe the achievements haven't synced to Google Play yet. If the total # of achievements matches then we don't proceed with scanning through the entire profile also. So there may be a delay on how often this value is updated?

As far as Google Play is concerned, automatic scans run about every 30-40 minutes for premium members. Although 2-3 hours is the target for all services, so they actually are running more frequently than expected right now.

I guess for manual scans, we could try bypassing the total achievements check and see if that helps with updating the profile sooner. I don't know if it's just the total count that has a delayed update, or the achievements simply haven't synced to the GP servers yet.
Does the number of games already on hand on my end affect how long the manual scan takes? Like for a new game with achievements that is just downloaded, even after manual scans, it will take maybe 40 mins to 1 hour for it to acknowledge that the new game is already downloaded and reflected in Exophase with the corresponding achievements tracker and completion status or missing in the profile where it should be the latest in "last played". Previously, it takes at most a few minutes (the number of games on hand didn't change by much). Yea, probably like you suggested, to bypass the requirement of checking all the achievements. Also, achievements & games installed have synced to GP servers because I usually check the Play Games app and it is already displayed on the profile but that app is so buggy to use with its frequent lags/freezes (that I always have to restart it) that I am not sure if it's part of the problem.

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The Fixies: Adventure game and 4x4 Dirt Offroad Parking doesn't seem to be tracking as game owned on Exophase despite being on my Play Games profile ages ago (correct version of games as number of achievements is the same) and I did frequent manual scans but nothing changed. Quick Crosswords got tracked (completion % and achieved numbers recorded which is zero for both) despite being downloaded the last while the other 2 was downloaded before it. Is there a way to force scan these games to make it able to be tracked?
 
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Does the number of games already on hand on my end affect how long the manual scan takes? Like for a new game with achievements that is just downloaded, even after manual scans, it will take maybe 40 mins to 1 hour for it to acknowledge that the new game is already downloaded and reflected in Exophase with the corresponding achievements tracker and completion status or missing in the profile where it should be the latest in "last played". Previously, it takes at most a few minutes (the number of games on hand didn't change by much). Yea, probably like you suggested, to bypass the requirement of checking all the achievements. Also, achievements & games installed have synced to GP servers because I usually check the Play Games app and it is already displayed on the profile but that app is so buggy to use with its frequent lags/freezes (that I always have to restart it) that I am not sure if it's part of the problem.

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The Fixies: Adventure game and 4x4 Dirt Offroad Parking doesn't seem to be tracking as game owned on Exophase despite being on my Play Games profile ages ago (correct version of games as number of achievements is the same) and I did frequent manual scans but nothing changed. Quick Crosswords got tracked (completion % and achieved numbers recorded which is zero for both) despite being downloaded the last while the other 2 was downloaded before it. Is there a way to force scan these games to make it able to be tracked?
If the site doesn't know about a game yet (meaning there is no entry for it in the database) it can take longer for it to show up your profile page. It normally will take 2 scans to pick up games in that case. First will add it to the database and then on the second it will add to your profile.

I've made the tweak to bypass the total achievement check when requesting manual scans. See if that helps as far as picking up new games quicker. Also, I've made some changes to ensure that all games that have been played get added to the profile. Looks like it has added The Fixies: Adventure and 4x4 Dirt Offroad Parking now.
 
I don't know if this is the right place to post this but, the hours played on Metaphor Refantazio are not tracked on my profile and it seems I'm not the only one.
 
I don't know if this is the right place to post this but, the hours played on Metaphor Refantazio are not tracked on my profile and it seems I'm not the only one.
Should be showing playtime now? Please create a separate thread though in the future, it's not really related to the OP's issue.
 
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