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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What are reasons that causes TTS initialization to fail?

TTS initialization error was observed in the following scenarios, that too randomly. TTS engine is installed, voice set is present and sample tts can be played from the Accessibility options. The TTS initialization fails randomly on the same…
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"NFC tag type not supported" message

I have an app which reads and writes NFC tags. I tested my app on a Galaxy Note 3 and it works fine. But when I test it on a Note 5 and a Galaxy S6, a message pops up that says, "NFC tag type not supported". Is that the fault of my app or are my…
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Android proximity sensor issue only in Samsung devices

Specific scenario to avoid problems: Behaviour for Activity in Samsung devices was different in the manner that every time there was a change detected, for proximity, it resulted in a call to onPause()/onResume() ONLY on SAMSUNG devices. I was…
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Samsung Smart Manager reporting slow app but shows information about errors

I have an app that Samsung Smart Manager is complaining about. It reports that the app is causing the device to run slowly but then references the number of errors in a week. It's not entirely clear that "errors" in this case actually mean crashes…
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Android MediaPlayer not playing on Galaxy S6 with Android 5.1.1

I'm seeing an issue that is specific to the Galaxy S6 running Android 5.1.1. I'm using MediaPlayer to play audio streams and on this specific configuration of device and Android version, it fails to ever reach the onPrepared method, and therefore…
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What is the Samsung s3 user-agent?

I'm trying to find out what is the user agent of Samsung Galaxy S3. I don't have the device so I can't test myself. The user agent is going to be recognized by my web server.
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How to switch cameras in PWA app built with reactjs?

I have a code which records or uploads the videos. The app is built using create-react-app and is a PWA. I have used facingMode constraint but it still doesnt switch cameras on mobile phone (Samung fold 2) even in motorola phone it doesnt have the…
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Android Webview crashes on Samsung & Android 11

This is the stacktrace we are seeing on Firebase: Fatal Exception: java.lang.RuntimeException Using WebView from more than one process at once with the same data directory is not supported. https://crbug.com/558377 : Current process [Our package]…
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Context.startForegroundService() did not then call Service.startForeground() on Samsung devices

I have an issue with background working of service on Samsung devices. Fatal Exception: android.app.RemoteServiceException: Context.startForegroundService() did not then call Service.startForeground() at…
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Error "Device doesn't support picture-in-picture mode" entering PIP (picture in picture) mode on Samsung mobile

I'm using PIP mode on Android O phone (various Samsung versions) and it works fine. However, if I turn on accessibility mode I get java.lang.IllegalStateException·enterPictureInPictureMode: Device doesn't support picture-in-picture mode when…
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How come I cannot perform multiple keystore cipher decryptions on Samsung S6 and S7?

I have found an issue that appears to be affecting some Samsung(so far) devices only. Here is the sudo: initialize cipher1 and cipher2 decrypt using cipher1 decrypt using cipher2 IllegalBlockSizeException Basically if I am holding on to one…
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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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AlarmManager not working on Samsung devices in Lollipop

I develop an app that uses AlarmManager to set a bunch alarms (usually around 50) that need to be fired at a certain time during the year. This is the code I'm using since 4.4 kitkat changed the AlarmManager. AlarmManager am = (AlarmManager)…
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Native crash at /system/lib/libart.so on lollipop android 5.0.1 samsung

I've an app built using cordova on google Play Store. The app works on all devices and models, except on a few Samsung devices running on android 5.0.1 (Note3 and Note4). The app crashes on launch. The crash stack trace is the following: ***…
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Samsung device with Android 5.0 changes progressbar color

Samsung devices with Android 5.0 ignore my color for the progressbar (set in styles.xml). The default blue color of samsung is used instead. The progressbar is…