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Ad failed to load : 3 when trying Admob sample app

I've downloaded and installed the kotlin adbmob banner sample found here: https://github.com/googleads/googleads-mobile-android-examples/tree/master/kotlin/admob/BannerExample

After that, the only thing I did was replacing the testDeviceId with my own test device id (as shown in LogCat)

  MobileAds.setRequestConfiguration(
      RequestConfiguration.Builder()
        .setTestDeviceIds(listOf("B5A00D93D9B06ED1EF1871EA3C2ABD1C"))
        .build()
    )

The banner never gets shown and logcat is showing : "Ad failed to load : 3"

So why am I not receiving test ads?

I tried googeling this but it doesn't provide me with clear answers.

Solution

  • I resetted my advertising id in settings -> google and somehow it works now.

    Really disappointing how bad the Admob documentation is regarding testing