Admob Adview flickering issue on HTC phones

[Michael Wu]

I have a simple AdView control in my application and it works good on many phones and tablets and with different android versions from 2.2 to 4.0.3. However, on two HTC phone, one is HTC Amaze 4G and another is HTC one X, both running android 4.0.3. The ad is flickering a lot once shown. Usually when an adview switch ads, it will have an animation with text moving smoothly, but with those phone, it just flickering with no animation is shown. 

On the same phone we checked other applications with admob and they are fine. 

Following is the code we use, and it is a very simple one:

                    adView = new AdView(this, AdSize.BANNER, MY_AD_UNIT_ID);  //320x50

   if( adView != null )

   {

    //Add the adView to it

    adlayout.addView(adView);

    //Initiate a generic request to load it with an ad

       AdRequest adRequest = new AdRequest();

       adRequest.addTestDevice(AdRequest.TEST_EMULATOR); 

    adView.loadAd(adRequest);

                   }

The adlayout is a relative layout and I am sure it is big enough to hold the adview. I have searched on the internet and only find the following discussion about it:

https://groups.google.com/group/google-admob-ads-sdk/browse_thread/thread/b3441dc39897a5ad 

Based on the discussion, I have tried three different type. Unfortunately, none of it works. Only make it even worse. When I try the LAYER_TYPE_HARDWARE, it became blank most of the time, only after a while a ad will show with flickering. The other two flickering as well.

   adView.setLayerType(View.LAYER_TYPE_SOFTWARE, null);  

   adView.setLayerType(View.LAYER_TYPE_HARDWARE, null);  

   adView.setLayerType(View.LAYER_TYPE_NONE, null);  

Could someone helps me?

Thanks,

[Markus Wiederkehr]

I also have a user who complained about this in a comment about my app. The review was sent from a HTC Sensation 4G.

I call adView.setLayerType(View.LAYER_TYPE_SOFTWARE, null) which resolves the flickering issue on my Galaxy Nexus. But apparently we have another flickering problem that affects (only?) HTC phones. It would be great if Google could look into this issue.