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• Just to follow up. I am definitely seeing this happen. With the following code the test iAd will load.. and load another and another (every 20 secs or so) and then after a while it disappears (normal testing behaviour I believe)… But on the next attempted load this error on screen:

  2011-03-07 21:55:44.013 APP NAME[26588:207] ADBannerView: WARNING A 
  banner view (0x69418f0) has an ad but may be obscured. This message is only 
  printed once per banner view.
  

  here is my code:

  var adwin = Titanium.UI.createWindow({
          width:320,
          height:50,
          top:44,
          left:0,
          backgroundImage:"images/upgrade.png"
      });
  
      var iads = Ti.UI.iOS.createAdView({
          width: 'auto',
          height: 'auto',
          top:-50,
          height:50
      }); 
  
      t1 = Titanium.UI.createAnimation({top:0, duration:750}); 
  
      iads.addEventListener('load', function(){
          Ti.API.info("LOADED");
      });
  
      iads.addEventListener('error', function(){
          Ti.API.info("ERROR LOADING iAd");
      }); 
  
      adwin.add(iads);
      adwin.open();
  

  And my full output window:

  [INFO] LOADED
  [INFO] LOADED
  [INFO] LOADED
  [INFO] LOADED
  [INFO] LOADED
  [INFO] LOADED
  [INFO] LOADED
  [INFO] ERROR LOADING iAd
  [INFO] LOADED
  2011-03-07 21:55:44.013 App Name [26588:207] ADBannerView: WARNING 
  A banner view (0x69418f0) has an ad but may be obscured. This 
  message is only printed once per banner view.
  

  And it never loads anything again after this.

  Anyone have any ideas why this is happening? I'd hate for the app to fail to reload the next successful banner fill. With the apps going to paused state when the user hits the home button, they will never restart the app and never see the ads again.

• That's part of requirement from Apple. When No Ad, hide it. 100% Normal.

• I don't know if it's any use for you guys any more but I dug through the iPhone code TiUIiOSAdView.m and they seem to do a visible=NO for the banner when they receive a didFailToReceiveAdWithError() call but I'm not seeing it ever bringing it back from invisible on successful loads. So I did this (as per your example above)

      iads.addEventListener('load', function(){
          Ti.API.info("LOADED");
          iads.visible = true;        // Force the AdView to be visible again when we get a load message
      });
  

  Well something to that effect atleast (I haven't tried the code above explicitly but I think it should work).
  Hope it helps.

• Thanks Daniel - I was kind of hoping you'd respond after seeing your other post on iad.

  It does seem strange though that the ads disappear and never again shows up. Then if I close (not suspend) the app and reload it, all the ads populate.

  If I just leave the app as is and use it, after they go away, they will never repopulate.

  It's that part that seems strange to me. It's not acting like an ad inventory issue.

  I don't know. You certainly could be correct, and maybe that is most likely. It's just strange to think that's the expected behavior - to have days go by and the ads never reload.

  My best solution so far (still testing) is to disable the app suspend and have it reopen each time. Not ideal, but for this particular app, not the end of the world.

• I realize this is an old thread, but I see the same thing occurring. I am testing iAds in my app. Similar set up. 4 tab app. An iAd window at the top and a table view below.

  On first load. a test ad may or may not show up. If it doesnt' it NEVER shows up later on while the app is open. If I go to home screen and return to the app, still no ad no matter what.

  if the test iAd does show up. It may fade out and come back or it sometimes never comes back.

  If I go to a different tab, that tabs test iAd may or may not load. If it doesn't, it NEVER will appear. If I go back to that other tab. I'd hope a focus of some sort would maybe load the ad that was not there. but it doesn't.

  the only way to maybe get them back is to force quit the app and reload it again. And even then they don't always show up

  Anyone else experiencing this?

  fish

• This is the normal iAd behavior…

  But one thing I really would love to know: Is there a way to set a fallback image? We want to promote our paid App if no Ad is loaded.