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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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Hide "NFC Tag type not supported" error on Samsung Galaxy devices

I am working on an app that scans just the UID of MIFARE Classic cards to facilitate attendance registration. I have got it working. However, every time I scan a card on my Galaxy S4, I get a toast stating "NFC tag type not supported". I want to…
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Creating Galaxy S5 emulator

According to website gsmarena.com, the specifications of Galaxy S4 and Galaxy S5 are almost the same. Of course, those that concern us who want to create an S5 emulator. Is it advisable to use existing S4 emulator? If not, what should be changed to…
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Path of getExternalStoragePublicDirectory on Samsung Galaxy Note

In my app, I am creating files which are stored in the devices Downloads directory. All of my users are happy with this mechanism... except the ones using a Samsung Galaxy Note. It's kind of hard to debug without owning such a device. Within my…
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Open ServiceMode menu programmatically in Android

How to open the Android ServiceMode menu programmatically on Samsung Phones ? Manually, I can do it by dialing the ussd code *#0011#.
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adb shell "operation not permitted" for every command

I recently did a factory reset of my android phone. Prior to the reset, I was able to install applications through adb install. The phone was not rooted. After the factory reset, I mostly get "Operation not permitted" for nearly every command in adb…
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Android logcat message (E/SMD: DCD on)

I'm now trying to record images at approximately 10Hz on a Samsung Galaxy SIII phone using the android SDK, but my program always suffers from large delays regularly. When I looked at the logcat, I found the following message associated with every…
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Android - Comma as decimal separator on Numeric Keyboard

We need to have a numeric keyboard for an EditText. The Keyboard should have decimal separator based on the device's selected locale. We implemented this by setting the custom DigitsKeyListener to the EditText public class NumericDigitsKeyListener…
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Samsung Galaxy S2 2.3.5+ not calling overScrollBy()

Seems like Samsung disabled their overscroll (probably due to an Apple suit). I have an implementation of a view that extends ScrollView and overrides protected boolean overScrollBy(int deltaX, int deltaY, int scrollX, int scrollY, int…
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Understanding Samsung Galaxy Tab screen density

One would say that if the Galaxy Tab screen resolution (in portrait mode) is 600px and the screen width is 3.55inch, the screen density would be 600/3.55 = 169 dpi. Knowing that and keeping in mind the way the device independent pixels (dp) is…
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android multiple videoView problem, Galaxy Tab specific

I am having problems with multiple videoViews specifically on Galaxy Tab. In my app, I have two different video files which I want to play simultaneously. So I designed my app to have two videoViews side by side. Tried to run it on two non Galaxy…
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access both front and back camera simultaneously on samsung galaxy devices

I know this question has been asked before but its been a long time. Asking this question again to gather any new hacks/thoughts/approaches. I need to access both front and back camera simultaneously. So far I have tried implementations using…
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WifiManager.is5GHzBandSupported() lying?

I am using new method is5GHzBandSupported() available in WifiManager since API level 21. http://developer.android.com/reference/android/net/wifi/WifiManager.html#is5GHzBandSupported%28%29 On my Nexus 5 it is working fine (returning yes as expected),…
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Image data from Android camera2 API flipped & squished on Galaxy S5

I am implementing an app that uses real-time image processing on live images from the camera. It was working, with limitations, using the now deprecated android.hardware.Camera; for improved flexibility & performance I'd like to use the new…
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SPH-L710 (Sprint Galaxy S III) running 4.4.2 misreports xdpi and ydpi

We've noticed a data anomaly recently in that a number of devices are misreporting their xdpi and ydpi via DisplayMetrics. As a specific example, all SPH-L710 Sprint Galaxy S III devices running 4.4.2 are reporting an xdpi and ydpi of ~160. With a…
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How to access Galaxy S5 temperature sensor?

In the manual on the page 19 there is an info on temperature sensor in S5. Temperature and Humidity sensor allows your device to read both temperature and humidity conditions. This is useful to calculate calories burned within S Health But I…
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