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Line of mobile devices by Samsung running on Google's Android platform

Galaxy refers to a line of devices manufactured by Samsung beginning with the i7500 in 2009. The current lineup is the Galaxy S including the Vibrant, Fascinate, and Captivate. Samsung plans to introduce their successors soon under the name Galaxy S II.

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Cannot create directory in external storage although permissions are apparently set correctly

I have in my manifest file, however I fail when trying to create a directory Log.d(LOG_STRING, android.os.Environment.getExternalStorageState() ); java.io.File…
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Can I trigger Android soft keyboard to open via javascript ( without phonegap )?

I have some custom web components in my mobile web app, whereas I need to manually fire 'focus' events on a field, to simulate the 'NEXT' functionality in the Android soft keyboard feature. ( using Galaxy S3 native browser ). However, when I…
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How to use camera flash/led as torch on a Samsung Galaxy Tab?

I'm facing to a problem with a Samsung Galaxy Tab. I want to use the camera flash as torch. Does anyone know how to enable it ? Hereby a code that works to enable/disable the camera flash on a HTC Desire but fails on Samsung Galaxy…
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Android Toast moves around on screen

My android app displays several Toast messages. I recently installed it on a Galaxy S6, running Android 5.1.1 and noticed that the messages are displayed initially around the center of the screen, then they move to proper position (near bottom, if…
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How to get rid of "This app is causing your device to run slowly" notification (app development time)?

When an Android app is being developed, debugged, and tested, there is a lot of code exceptions being occurred. Almost each exception causes an Android device (Galaxy Note 3, Android 5.0 - if it matters) pops up the annoying "This app is causing…
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Galaxy S4 stock browser CSS3 border-radius support?

This is a very specific question, that I can't find any documented evidence to support, but have rather a lot of empirical evidence, although only based on a single phone. The single Galaxy S4 that we have available in the office doesn't appear to…
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Galaxy S3 - taking picture in portrait mode destroys activity

So, this question has been asked in many forms on this forum but none of the answers are helping me. I have a bug which I've only been able to reproduce on the Samsung Galaxy S3. I want to simply take and store a photo using the phone's camera, but…
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Device specific error - s3dReadConfigFile "Can't open file for reading."

I'm developing an application that communicates over the local network, and am trying to test on multiple devices. I have a Droid Incredible and a Samsung Galaxy S3 for testing right now. When I run the application on the Incredible, all works as…
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Android browser / Samsung Galaxy SII scrolling bug on web forms. Select list hitboxes don't scroll

EDIT: I've uploaded a video to youtube demonstrating the bug here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkDYlgtX5Hk I've got a really weird bug that I found testing my new web application on a Samsung Galaxy S2 running Android 4.03 ICS. What happens is…
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Samsung Galaxy Note emulator

I am trying to create emulator for Samsung Galaxy Note. But it is not working. I tried the following config sdk r17 platform 2.3.3 resolution 1280x800 density 320 Emulator skin is comeup. But it doesn't have any navigation keys (menu, back and…
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Galaxy S7 Nougat Full Icons

I wanted to ask how to change the app icon of my app on a Galaxy S7 running on Android Nougat (see attached screenshot) to fill the whole icon space. Is there a way to do this? EDIT: I think it's because these apps have square icons and mine is…
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Native crash in /system/lib/libart.so

I have an app on the Play Store, it has an IntentService that does some work when the app starts, and it's causing native crashes on Android 5.0. This service just scans the assets folder for app updating purposes. Specifically, this crash seems to…
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Proximity sensor on Galaxy S4 (Air Gestures)

The new Samsung Galaxy S4 have and interesting new type of gestures called "Air Gesture" that use an infrared sensor to process users hand movement in front of the screen, adding a "pre-touch"/"proximity" event, in which the fingers are detected…
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How can I automatically test the functionality of iOS and Android applications?

I have to regularly test the availability and functioning of a movie rental website. I wrote a Windows program which is able to automate a web browser according to a script, so this task is basically solved. Now I have to automate the mobile version…
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Bluetooth 4.0 / Smart / Low energy on Samsung Galaxy S3

I'm trying to develop a bluetooth 4.0 app for S3. The problem is, the phone behaves like it doesn't even have bluetooth 4.0. It doesn't discover 4.0 devices, and isn't discoverable with 4.0 devices. I tried both in the settings of the phone and in…
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