Sudden crashes started on Aug 18

[Dmitry]

Hello

I see a sudden increase in a number of crashes since yesterday (my time is GMT-6 at the moment, so it may be today for the others). All stacktraces are similar and happen in all the games. Android versions affected up to now: 4.1, 4.4, 5.0, 5.1.

I do not know if it is related to rollout of a new GPS or not. Amount of crash reports is still below 100s for each game, so I can be sure that not all our players are affected. There is a theory that it is caused by Game of War ads (it was mentioned a couple time in crash comments), even though I cannot confirm it yet.

PS. I HATE Google Play Sevices. They should change Rocks to Sucks in the motto :-(

Stacktrace:

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: null reference
at com.google.android.gms.common.internal.d.b(SourceFile:45)
at com.google.android.gms.ads.internal.g.ao.a(SourceFile:60)
at com.google.android.gms.ads.internal.t.b.a(SourceFile:766)
at com.google.android.gms.ads.internal.t.b.shouldOverrideUrlLoading(SourceFile:635)
at android.webkit.CallbackProxy.uiOverrideUrlLoading(CallbackProxy.java:274)
at android.webkit.CallbackProxy.handleMessage(CallbackProxy.java:376)
at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)
at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:137)
at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:5059)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:511)
at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:792)
at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:555)
at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)

[Touch Dude]

I have very similar error also with security warning. Attaching bellow.

More feedback on my post: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/32077494/admob-ads-app-crashes-occasionally-on-illegalargumentexception

Log dump:

W/Ads     (21547): JS: The page at https://googleads.g.doubleclick.net/mads/gma displayed insecure content from http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/mTcg18XIu-LbM4ovcCpet1zMpdkt1QKIZpM7RhdBpH7fjlLFvSRn56yxbh3i92FiHmjLx54rCg.
W/Ads     (21547):  (https://googleads.g.doubleclick.net/mads/gma:0)
I/chromium(21547): [INFO:CONSOLE(0)] "The page at https://googleads.g.doubleclick.net/mads/gma displayed insecure content from http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/mTcg18XIu-LbM4ovcCpet1zMpdkt1QKIZpM7RhdBpH7fjlLFvSRn56yxbh3i92FiHmjLx54rCg.
I/chromium(21547): ", source: https://googleads.g.doubleclick.net/mads/gma (0)
D/AndroidRuntime(21547): Shutting down VM
W/dalvikvm(21547): threadid=1: thread exiting with uncaught exception (group=0x437c1160)
E/AndroidRuntime(21547): FATAL EXCEPTION: main
E/AndroidRuntime(21547): Process: cz.volten.brili.android.free, PID: 21547
E/AndroidRuntime(21547): java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: null reference
E/AndroidRuntime(21547): at com.google.android.gms.common.internal.d.b(SourceFile:45)
E/AndroidRuntime(21547): at com.google.android.gms.ads.internal.g.ao.a(SourceFile:60)
E/AndroidRuntime(21547): at com.google.android.gms.ads.internal.t.b.a(SourceFile:766)
E/AndroidRuntime(21547): at com.google.android.gms.ads.internal.t.m.run(SourceFile:43)
E/AndroidRuntime(21547): at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:733)
E/AndroidRuntime(21547): at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:95)
E/AndroidRuntime(21547): at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:149)
E/AndroidRuntime(21547): at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:5257)
E/AndroidRuntime(21547): at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
E/AndroidRuntime(21547): at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:515)
E/AndroidRuntime(21547): at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:788)
E/AndroidRuntime(21547): at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:604)
E/AndroidRuntime(21547): at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)
W/ActivityManager(  522):   Force finishing activity cz.volten.brili.android.free/org.cocos2dx.javascript.AppActivity
W/ufoGralloc(  175): registerBuffer() handle 0xb7a070c0/23 didn't require registration

[Giang.nh]

Me too ! The number of crashes increases dramatically since 18th August. 

[Richard Raue]

I see the same error on 2 of my apps. First reported on August 18th.

Crash report from Google Play Developer Console :

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: null reference
at com.google.android.gms.common.internal.d.b(SourceFile:45)
at com.google.android.gms.ads.internal.g.ao.a(SourceFile:60)
at com.google.android.gms.ads.internal.t.b.a(SourceFile:766)

at com.google.android.gms.ads.internal.t.m.run(SourceFile:43)
at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:733)
at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:95)
at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:136)
at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:5086)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:515)
at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:785)
at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:601)
at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)

 

[Deepankar Baghel]

Hey Same Issue happening with me... Same crash log .. Whats going on with google GMS add.

[Pedro]

Same stack trace! Ive had thousands of crashes yesterday, several complain emails and bad reviews. Wtf GMS?

Got here from the stack overflow thread someone started yesterday:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/32077494/admob-ads-app-crashes-occasionally-on-illegalargumentexception

[Pedro]

That security warning points into disabling https ads as a possible fix. Im trying that right now.

[Arnaud Andrillon]

Same problem for me... Many crashes with the same stack as yours

[Zacharias Hadjilambrou]

Similar problem here with 2 of my apps.

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: null reference
at com.google.android.gms.common.internal.d.b(SourceFile:45)
at com.google.android.gms.ads.internal.g.ao.a(SourceFile:60)
at com.google.android.gms.ads.internal.t.b.a(SourceFile:766)

at com.google.android.gms.ads.internal.t.m.run(SourceFile:43)
at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:733)
at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:95)

at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:149)
at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:5045)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:515)
at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:794)
at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:610)

at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method) 

[Alexander Perlyuk]

Seeing this exception as well as of this week. Need to know how to repro and a workaround. 

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: null reference

       at com.google.android.gms.common.internal.d.b(SourceFile:45)

       at com.google.android.gms.ads.internal.g.ao.a(SourceFile:60)

       at com.google.android.gms.ads.internal.t.b.a(SourceFile:766)

       at com.google.android.gms.ads.internal.t.m.run(SourceFile:43)

       at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:739)

       at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:95)

       at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:135)

       at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:5273)

       at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java)

       at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:372)

       at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:903)

       at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:698)

[Elton Kent]

Hi All,

Thanks for reporting. We are aware of this issue and we're actively working on a fix.

Cheers,

Elton Kent

Mobile Ads SDK

[FunLab]

Sam issue there, it seems also affecting also Ads mediation serving, we already lost few thousand dollars due this bug and seems it still not working properly so income going down as waterfall. 

Please check DFP and Admob mediation also and please respond if this is fixed or not.

[Arnaud Andrillon]

The problem seems to be fixed on my app : 0 errors reported since last Thursday (1200 for Wednesday and Tuesday)

[Deepankar Baghel]

Yeah Issue is fixed now.

Thanks & Regards:

Dipankar Baghel

Sr.Mobile Application Developer

mob- +91-7503259926

email- deepa...@gmail.com

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[Caue Rego]

Not the first time I get this, happened a lot in some past way before August earlier this year...

And now again. I always press to submit the error whenever I can.

Could you recommend some way to track the source of this issue?

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[Elton Kent]

Hi All,

It looks like this crash should be fixed in the latest version of the SDK (over play services). Could you please confirm if it still happens after update 7.8?

Cheers,

Elton Kent

Mobile Ads SDK Team

[Dmitry]

Hi Elton

It looks like you fixed a problem within 2 days on a server-side. The most of us do not have those crashes anymore (it is mentioned in the corresponding SO thread). When Caue posted, I checked my console and I do not have those. Neither did I have such stack traces before. May be he means another bug? I did have some other crashes coming from AdMob classes and since I implemented workarounds for at least one of them, I do not know if they still happen for versions without workaround code. But if that is the case, he probably needs another thread.