Parking garages have worked very well to block GPS and other signals in my 
experience.

Nathan: How do you do a mock location provider?

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Lew

On Tuesday, August 23, 2011 6:12:05 PM UTC-7, davemac wrote:
>
> You might try holding it inside your kitchen oven (oven not turned on 
> of course). 
>
> - dave 
>
> On Aug 23, 9:07 pm, burton miller <burton...@gmail.com> wrote: 
> > I'm not sure about the type of failure, because it does not happen in 
> > my code - it happens in the advertiser's code, and some of my users 
> > are getting a dialog telling them that 'GPS is failing.'  My code 
> > fails gracefully on location problems :) 
> > 
> > If I can repro it, then I can determine which advertiser it is, and 
> > contact them.  That is a serious bug. 
> > 
> > I'll try the metal building trick.  Maybe a parking garage. 
> > 
> > On Aug 23, 4:26 pm, Nathan <critt...@crittermap.com> wrote: 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > > On Aug 23, 3:08 pm, burton miller <burton...@gmail.com> wrote: 
> > 
> > > > I have an app that uses ads for revenue.  And one of my ad vendors is 
>
> > > > putting up a show-stopper dialog when GPS is on, but fails.  I can't 
> > > > tell which one it is. 
> > 
> > > > How do you simulate GPS failure (while enabled)?  Any ideas? 
> > 
> > > What type of failure? Failure to receive a position update? 
> > > Real GPS or network location? 
> > 
> > > If real GPS, try it inside a building with a metal roof, like a mall. 
> > 
> > > You could also do a mock location provider. 
>
>

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