So I am able to play now. And my steps taken, along with some technical thoughts for blizzard to look at.
I read about people downloading from Amazon and it worked.
So I tried that, but it didn’t work. BUT… I noticed that while going through the setup phase, the game started to download the update, on the login page.
First time around I just hurried and logged in. Second time around, I let the game download the update, while sitting on the login page.
After 100% download I logged in and… Now I can play!
So technically is this because of Amazon? I can’t say for 100% for sure BUT… Going through Google Play the same steps are taken and on sign in page, the game starts to update before actually logging in!
Therefore… Normally blizzard will do a update that you download now, but will take effect at a later date. With this update the things that are effected are now! So to me, you can’t play without having the update fully updated. Otherwise the game reads it as a conflict and causes it to freeze,/ crash.
For clarity… It’s a matching game… The game on blizzards side asks “do you have a 1?” the game on your device will either say yes, / no. If yes, then next match, if no, then ask again. Hence why the game freezes. Blizzards side will continue to ask same question till it gets the answer it wants.
My advice… Uninstall and reinstall and allow full update on sign in page.
Also to note I took off sleep mode on my device, as I had problems in the past with downloads and sleep mode. Sleep mode seemed to stop /interrupt the downloads.