Admob freezes app when launching from home screen

[Luke R.]

I have Admob ads running in a Phonegap app (https://github.com/phonegap/phonegap/wiki/In-App-Advertisements. Option 2). Sometimes when I launch my app from the home screen, it will freeze and not open at all for 5 seconds. It just keeps showing the home screen. Then all of a sudden it switches (no transition at all) to the fully loaded app. This usually only happens a while after I first opened the app. For example, if I force stop and re-open for the first time, it never happens. I don't know for sure that this is caused by Admob; however, the fact is I have a 5 second delay for loading ads in onCreate()... and 5 seconds is how long the freeze is. Plus I never had this happen before I implemented ads. Any ideas? I don't like having a frozen app for 5 seconds, I need this fixed! Thanks

[Todd Huss]

I've seen the same issue on a regular (non-Phonegap) iOS app with the 6.4.2 SDK (and earlier as well). When I get lucky enough to have it happen when I'm debugging, if I hit pause in Xcode, the main thread is hanging on a semaphore_wait_trap (often the main thread is doing core animation or something related to a webview when it hangs on the semaphore wait trap).

I've never had it happens when I have AdMob commented out (which I often turn off when I'm developing) so while I'm not 100% sure it's AdMob in my case it seems quite likely.

I'll continue to post updates here as I gather more information on this, however, I haven't found a reliable way to reproduce it yet.

-Todd

[Thomas Iguchi]

I have a similar problem with AdMob. In some cases on my oldish test phone (and it's also been reported by 1 other user of my app) it simply hangs indefinitely until the "application not responding" message pops up. It never happens though when I clear the application cache prior starting the app. And it also never happens in the paid version of my app since AdMob is not integrated there.

[Eric Leichtenschlag]

Hi Luke,

Can you double check and make sure that your 5 second delay is not running on the UI thread? Perhaps add a logging statement after the mHandler.postDelayed to make sure that you aren't getting stuck on onCreate() for 5 seconds? The AdMob SDK requests an ad on a background thread; the app shouldn't be holding up the main thread for an ad response.

Thanks,
Eric

On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 12:43 PM, Luke R. <lukasr...@gmail.com> wrote:

I have Admob ads running in a Phonegap app (https://github.com/phonegap/phonegap/wiki/In-App-Advertisements. Option 2). Sometimes when I launch my app from the home screen, it will freeze and not open at all for 5 seconds. It just keeps showing the home screen. Then all of a sudden it switches (no transition at all) to the fully loaded app. This usually only happens a while after I first opened the app. For example, if I force stop and re-open for the first time, it never happens. I don't know for sure that this is caused by Admob; however, the fact is I have a 5 second delay for loading ads in onCreate()... and 5 seconds is how long the freeze is. Plus I never had this happen before I implemented ads. Any ideas? I don't like having a frozen app for 5 seconds, I need this fixed! Thanks

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