Couldn't get connection factory client

Question

This is so wierd, i got this error: ERROR/MapActivity(258): Couldn't get connection factory client

everything worked fine, it's all of a sudden, how come that happens? i know my api key is fine, coz one month ive been using it perfectly. how come all of a sudden it doesnt show me up the map activity, and posting that error in the logcat?

Thanks,

Idan.

Answer 1

I'm getting the same problem when using getFromLocationName, with a 'java.io.IOException:Service not Available' error.

I've done a bit of googling around and it seems this is a bug in the software.

http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=8816