Flappy Bird high score cheat - set your own high score!

There's a very simple cheat to set whatever high score you want in Flappy Bird. Here's the steps. All you need is a fresh install of Flappy Bird with a high score above 1 in it and root access on your device. Oh, and ES File Manager is required too.

• Just install the fresh version of Flappy Bird (don't worry about losing your high score because you're about to set your own!).
• Play it once just to get a high score above 1 in the score sheet.
• Go to ES FIle Manager and make sure you have Root Explorer turned on in the navigation panel, accessed via the world/phone icon in the top left (or swiping left to right from that area).
  
  
  
  
• In the Local pane, you want to go to the Device root directory and then Data and then Data again.
• Now just look for the com.dotgears.flappybird folder (you can search for flappybird if necessary) and open it.
  
  
  
  
• You'll see a couple of folders, open the Shared_prefs folder.
• Open FlappyBird.xml and choose ES Note Editor when the popup window appears.
• Open the action overflow menu (top right, three dots) and hit Edit.
  
  
  
  
• Change the score to whatever you want it to be. I went for something at least mildly believable: 237. If you enter 999 I think your friends will know something is up.
• Save your changes and play again. You'll now see your new high score on the scoreboard.

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Note: Don't blame me for any feelings of guilt associated with falsely making your friends bow down at your Flappy Bird feet based on this cheat.

— modified on Feb 6, 2014, 4:15:57 PM

Hey @Yannick, I'm not very familiar with jailbroken iPhones, but if there's an Apple equivalent to getting root access and using root explorer apps (I'm gonna hesitate a guess and say no) then it'd be possible.