Actually there is no real “hacking” involved over here. Whenever you lose all 5 of your lives and have to wait to play, you simply change your device’s date and time manually to trick Candy Crush to give you more lives earlier before the actual time. This also will help you bypass the 24-hour time restrictions for new Mystery Quest levels—without bugging your Facebook friends.
It’s a really very easy process, but you have to follow it exactly. The below instructions are for a Nexus 7 tablet with Android 4.4 KitKat, but adjusting time/date settings on other Android devices will be very similar.
- Lose all lives
- Exit the Candy Crush app
- Open your device’s Settings menu
- Tap on Date & time
- Unselect Automatic date & time
- Tap on Set date
- Change the date to at least 1 day earlier
- Tap on Done
- Exit the Settings app
- Go back to Candy Crush
- Verify you have new lives
- DO NOT PLAY
- Return to your Date & time settings first
- Select Automatic date & time
- Then go back to Candy Crush and play
If you start playing before you change the date/time back to automatic, the next time you lose all of your lives you will receive a ridiculously large countdown to your next set of lives. This amount of time will roughly equal the amount of time you set your date back.
To fix, just go back and set your date/time manually to be ahead of the countdown time, verify you have new lives in Candy Crush, set the time/date back to automatic—then play.
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