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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Accessing message contents of an android phone using Python

Here's what I want to do. I have a Samsung galaxy phone whose message box is full. I want to download all the SMS messages from the mobile phone to my computer the Pythonic way. Before I decided to pose this question, I did a quick research on the…
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Android app can't submit on Samsung Galaxy Apps (how to include Samsung SDK?)

The Samsung Galaxy Apps store is not accepting my app for submission. There is a category section where there are two fields for selecting a category, I have set the both to Main Category but when I submit it states that I still need to select a…
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Samsung Galaxy XCover/Active button

the Galaxy S4/S5/S6 Active and the Galaxy XCover models have this extra hardware button. In the settings the user can choose which app the button should open when it is pressed. I'm developing an app that is specifically targeted at the Galaxy…
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Nexus 10, Front facing camera Preview is black (no preview)

So I'm working on a Camera related project, and I've been testing it on many devices and all of them passed the tests except for the Nexus 10. I can't really figure out what is going on, and there is no one talking about the issue online. I was able…
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Custom sync not working with Google Account (com.google) on some Samsung devices

I implemented a sync task the same way as the BasicSyncAdapter example except with a Google account like in this answer: https://stackoverflow.com/a/2972918/2072569 It works on allmost all devices except for the Samsung SM-P600 (Galaxy Note 2014)…
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How to get OEM USB driver for Samsung Galaxy SIII with model number GT-I9300

I want to get OEM USB driver for Galaxy SIII. I following this official OEM USB Drivers page. So I select OEM - Samsung and visit this official Samsung website. This website ask me to enter my model number so I write - "GT-I9300". But then I can't…
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samsung soft keyboard loses keystrokes after focus change

My app uses a PIN-based login. I have four EditText views in a row and set a separate instance of the following TextWatcher on each of them: private class PinDigitWatcher implements TextWatcher { private final EditText digit; public…
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How to enable javascript console on Android 4.2.2

I'm trying to enable the JavaScript Console to debug a webpage in the stock Android browser on a Samsung Galaxy S4 running 4.2.2. On the S3 I just type in about:debug in the address bar and it comes up but it doesn't work on the S4, it seems to do…
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Make Samsung Android device advertise as an iBeacon

Has anybody used Samsung's Bluetooth LE APIs to make a Samsung Android device advertise as an iBeacon? This should be possible, but I do not have access to a device to try it. If anybody has used it to make a Samsung Android device advertise as…
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Problems with TTS on Samsung Galaxy S3

I'm developing an app for android that uses TTS. I've created a splash screen where I check if the TTS engine is installed and in case that is not installed, it goes to Google Play to download it. @Override protected void onCreate(Bundle…
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Any solution for Samsung Galaxy ICS 4.0.3 LPQ firmware sending two text messages?

There is an issue with firmware (LPQ) specifically for Samsung Galaxy S2 running ICS 4.0.3 where SMS is sent twice on all 3rd party apps (including Handcent, GO SMS, etc) except stock messaging app. I think the latest version of firmware LP7 fixes…
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"Window Manager Crash" on dispatching 'Down' key on Samsung Galaxy S

I am running my Unit tests on various android devices using Instrumentation . Testcases works fine on emulator & all devices except Samsung Galaxy S. On Samsung Galaxy S it displays a Window Manager crash after injecting some 30 key events using…
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Android Studio - Device file explorer stop working

From few days Device File Explorer of Android Studio shows me this message: Error executing shell command pm list packages And can't see files and apps from data folder, for example gets database from my Flutter app. Any ideas to solve this…
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Android Arabic Language Support Problem in Some Devices

I'm trying to support the Arabic language. When I changed the language in the application with the following code (refer below), in most of the devices it works fine but in some devices such as Galaxy S7, Galaxy S8, LG G5 UI transforms to RTL…
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Android RuntimeException during performLaunchActivity on Samsung devices

We've been experiencing a number of crashes during the ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity method that only seem to affect modern Samsung Galaxy devices (see device models/Android versions below). Thus far we've been unable to reproduce any of…
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