[Q&A] [SOLVED] EA Games 5002 Error - Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hallo.
Today i had the "Server Error 5002" after i installed the game EA NBA JAM.
If you google or browse this forum you see that there are a lot of people with that problem. That's why i start an new topic.
EA offered a workaround (copying data from another device) but there were also some users who just changed the displayresolution.
Yesterday i installed a new NXT ROM (Android 4.0.4) with that navigation bar at the bottom of the screen.
I detected that this bar needs 10 pixels, so the resolution used by apps was only 480x844.
SOLUTION: When i disabled the bar, i had 480x854 and then i the Server Error 5002 did not accure anymore!

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Thanks for that!
Monopoly + nexus 4... i was in fullscreen mode with paranoid droid rom and i switched off the expanded desktop i manage to download the files

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Thanks alot for this fix mate!

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This method really helps. Thanks.

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could not download nxt Rom and run the game
Yesterday I download nba jam but I am having the error 5002 also I am not able to download nxt rom please please help me......

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Solution to "Server Error" 5002 5003 problems on some EA Games!
prithvirocks09 said:
Yesterday I download nba jam but I am having the error 5002 also I am not able to download nxt rom please please help me......
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Seems that it's a good time to revive such an old thread. Maybe it can help some people out there still facing these kind of problems, like me.
Today i wanted to try EA Dead Space on my Redmi 4X phone. I had bought it from playstore a long time ago and played a bit on my older devices. But this time it gave a server error 5003 when i launched it on my Redmi 4x (SD435, 1280*720p) running on MIUI8.5 Marshmallow. So it couldn't download additional required game data and i had to quit game.
While searching about this error, i found a solution which helped me right away. Thus i want to share it here for other users which may encounter similar issues on several EA Games like The Sims, FIFA 12, NBA Jam, NFS Most Wanted, Dead Space, Mass Effect, Real Racing etc.
1) Turn OFF your wi-fi and open the game. (IMPORTANT: Do NOT launch the game when your WiFi is already active!)
2) In game it will ask you to connect to wifi or 3g (or something like that) or cancel it. YOU MUST CONNECT TO WI-FI.
3) When you press the wi-fi button it will redirect you to your wi-fi tab in settings. So open your wi-fi and press several times BACK until you go back to the game! ( DON'T PRESS THE HOME BUTTON!!!!!!)
4) When you'll be back in game it should automatically pop a window which says if you really want to download the game and the space it requires. PRESS DOWNLOAD.
5) Let your game download the data.
6) Have fun playing the game.
The original post can be seen in the link below, I just edited a little, thanks to @eXezeSt :
http://answers.ea.com/t5/Need-for-S...eed-most-wanted-error-5003/m-p/3853025#M11378
This method solved my server error 5003 problem for Dead Space on my Redmi 4X. But similar problems might also be solved by:
1) Previously downloading and locating game data in the right folder, before launching the game (Alternative to EA servers).
2) Tampering with screen resolutions.
Good luck to all.
PS: Unfortunately, Dead Space has a very serious buzzing sound (noisy static audio) problem in newer android versions since Lollipop, but that's another issue:
"The Android version has been discontinued for newer devices and renamed zzSunset Dead Space™, however, newer devices running Android Lollipop can run into major problems with audio."
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