title: getting Failed to load map. Error contacting Google servers
body: <p>I read all the post concering this issue and yet I wasnt able to solve it on my mechine.
  I allways get:</p>
  
  <pre><code>06-23 20:04:30.011: E/Google Maps Android API(6623): Failed to load map. Error contacting Google servers. This is probably an authentication issue (but could be due to network errors).
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>when getting to the map activity.</p>
  
  <p>my code:</p>
  
  <pre><code>    &lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?&gt;
  &lt;manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
      package="com.mobwal"
      android:versionCode="1"
      android:versionName="1.0" &gt;
  
      &lt;uses-sdk android:minSdkVersion="14" /&gt;
  
      &lt;uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET" /&gt;
      &lt;uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE"/&gt;
      &lt;uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION"/&gt;
      &lt;uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION"/&gt;
      &lt;uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE" /&gt;
      &lt;permission android:name="com.mobwal.permission.MAPS_RECEIVE" android:protectionLevel="signature"/&gt;
      &lt;uses-permission android:name="com.mobwal.permission.MAPS_RECEIVE"/&gt;
      &lt;uses-permission android:name="com.google.android.providers.gsf.permissions.READ_GSERVICES"/&gt;
  
      &lt;uses-feature
          android:glEsVersion="0x00020000"
          android:required="true" /&gt;
  
      &lt;application
          android:allowBackup="true"
          android:icon="@drawable/logo1small"
          android:label="@string/app_name"
          android:theme="@android:style/Theme.NoTitleBar" &gt;
  
          &lt;meta-data
              android:name="com.google.android.maps.v2.API_KEY"
              android:value="KEYFROM GOOGLES CONSOLE" /&gt;
  
          &lt;activity
              android:name=".FacebookStart"
              android:label="@string/app_name"
              android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustResize" &gt;
              &lt;intent-filter&gt;
                  &lt;action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" /&gt;
  
                  &lt;category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" /&gt;
              &lt;/intent-filter&gt;
          &lt;/activity&gt;
  
          &lt;activity
              android:name="com.facebook.LoginActivity"
              android:label="@string/app_name"
              android:theme="@android:style/Theme.Translucent.NoTitleBar" /&gt;
  
          &lt;meta-data
              android:name="com.facebook.sdk.ApplicationId"
              android:value="@string/facebook_app_id" /&gt;    
  
      &lt;/application&gt;
  
  &lt;/manifest&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I got my SHA1 fingerprint from eclipse preferences and it is the same as I had using key tool. the thing is that I had two .android folders(one on C:\Users\user_name.android and on my android sdk folder) I delete the one on the user's after trying to activate my app using it (without success and now it is not recreated) so I got left only with the one under my android sdk folder which is not helping much.
  I need help I tried almost anything.</p>