Questions tagged [samsung-mobile]

This tag is for questions related to application development issues affecting just Samsung Mobile devices.

This tag is for questions related to application development issues affecting just Samsung Mobile devices.

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android fingerprint sensor API

for a project at work, I'm trying to get the status (working or defective) of a fingerprint sensor on android devices to see if it works properly. I'm using the "isHardwareDetected" function in this android 6.0 API (APK 23). Does anyone knows how…
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App Cache Directory is not deleted after uninstall (Samsung Galaxy Tab A)

As i already mentioned in the Title, i recognized some strange problems when i uninstall my App from the GooglePlayStore and reeinstall it. As you can see the App Cache Directory is not deleted, the App is called net.example…
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How to find the intent name to start App Power Saving Mode settings activity?

I have an Android alarm clock app. It is allowed to ring in Doze mode and is not effected by Android App Optimization because it uses AlarmManager.setAlarmClock(). It is rock solid reliable EXCEPT for Samsung phones - they have App Power Saving…
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How to turn off the capacitive buttons light on Samsung devices programmatically?

I need to turn off the capacitive buttons light in my app. I found this popular implementation Settings.System.putInt(getContentResolver(), "button_key_light", 0); Sadly, I get this exception on more recent Samsung devices …
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(HTTPLog)-Static: isSBSettingEnabled false error and app is closing

I looked this up quite a bit and so far what I gathered is that this is a Samsung issue that involves the HttpUrlConnection not being able to work on a Samsung for some reason. So how do I go about fixing this. I could not understand what the other…
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InputType.TYPE_TEXT_FLAG_NO_SUGGESTIONS in Samsung

In my app, I have an EditText, with a button to change the keyboard input type. The code: ToggleCambiarTeclado.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() { @Override public void onClick(View view) { if…
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Is there a way to make the WebView widget use Chrome instead of the builtin WebKit browser on Samsung/LG Android Phones?

When using the WebView in an Android application - Android will utilize different browsers under the hood in order to render the web page. For example - pre Android 4.4 on Samsung devices will use the WebKit based browser that comes on Samsung stock…
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Samsung Gear VR activate rear camera

I'm trying to create a simple native app similiar to Passthrough app, I'm using the Passthrough.java class, but when I call the startCameraPreview method nothing happens. My objective is to activate the rear camera of Galaxy Note 4 and show the…
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Android: Fatal signal 11 (SIGSEGV) at 0x00000000 (code=1) on movie.draw

I am trying to display an animated gif in an ImageView using android Movie class in the onDraw method as follow: @Override protected void onDraw(Canvas canvas) { canvas.drawColor(Color.TRANSPARENT); super.onDraw(canvas); …
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Send SMS using SmsManager in android fail in some device

I try to send message using SmsManager in android i use this code in my application it work fine only some of the device it is not working. i just make one class for send message public class Sms { public static final String TAG = "Sms"; …
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Android webview Samsung Galaxy S3 / note not receiving text input

I've been struggling for a few hours/days now trying to figure out why only on samsung devices would the webview not receive any input in a text field, it appears to be fine on other manufactures e.g Sony and nexus just not Samsung Note running…
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How to fix section mismatch errors during cross compile of android

I am using the google ndk toolchain to cross compile an image for my Samsung Note 3 SM-N900P model. I downloaded the Kitkat version of Samsung Source code, and believe I have followed the instructions in the Kernel Readme file. It stated to use 4.7…
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Samsung devices have a strange version of Google Play Services and it doesn't work correctly

I am using Activity Recognition API available in Google Play Services. I've tried using Google Play Services 5+ and Google Play Services 6+ (using the new API with GoogleApiClient) on Android 4+ and Android 5+. Everything works great on different…
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What is the best strategy to recover from an error - neglecting the record where error occurs

I am getting a No implementation found for native Ldalvik/system/VMRuntime;.pauseGc Error, below is the logCat. 05-13 22:39:22.538: W/dalvikvm(8350): No implementation found for native Ldalvik/system/VMRuntime;.pauseGc:(Ljava/lang/String;)I 05-13…
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Samsung disable packages

I'm trying to create a kiosk mode application for my company and I need to disable some default packages to avoid the users to reach it. I've using Samsung Knox which looks to be working well when this code is not executed. The list is huge: //…