Question

I have been working with admob for the last few days and can not figure out how to turn off admob testing mode. I tried the settings in the website but i still get test ads and they flat out wont run on my phone. Log cat keeps telling me to add my phone as a testing device. Well I’m through testing, I just want to get things up and running live.

Answer 1

There are a couple of ways you can turn off the testing mode.

1. If you are creating Ad’s using XML, you will have something in your XML’s that looks like this: ads:testDevices="TEST_EMULATOR, THE_DEVICE_ID"

2. If you are creating Ad’s using JAVA, you might have something that looks like this:

   AdRequest.setTestDevices( new String[] {
   AdRequest.TEST_EMULATOR,
   “THE_DEVICE_ID”, // My Test Device ID
   } );

3. If none of the above work (for whatever reason), you can always log in to your AdMob account, go into “Sites And Apps”, hover your mouse pointer over the App in question and click on “Manage Setting”. Then, click on the “App Setting” tab and you will see a “Test Mode” option. In that, select the “Disable test mode for all requests” option and hit “Save Settings” at the bottom.

NOTE: I do not personally create my Ads using Java, so you will have to probe that a bit

A SIDE NOTE: I personally always rely on the 3rd option. Saves me the effort of going through literally about 65 odd XML’s and removing my test device ID’s.