Samsung Overrides Action Bar Overflow Menu

Posted on July 13, 2012 by nseidm1.
Categories: Samsung.

New ICS Android 4.0+ updates to Samsung devices override the Action Bar overflow menu. The overflow menu is the three dots in the top right of your phone. It’s literally the menu. But… Samsung overrides this feature, hides the 3 dots, and forces use of the hardware menu button on the phone. Why in green pastures would they think this is a good idea?

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Samsung Galaxy S3 (SGS3) LED Colors and Blink Rate Broken

Posted on by nseidm1.
Categories: Samsung.

(Update) Turns out this is likely only on the Verizon GS3

As of 9AM on 7/13/2012 the LED notifications of Samsung Galaxy S3 devices in the US are broken. I don’t know if it’s all carriers, but….. It’s definite that the SGS3 does not respect either the deprecated or modern methods of settings the blink rate and color of the LED. The color tables are borked, where Color.BLUE, Color.RED do no generate the respective colors. The blink rate does not respect millisecond off and on values defined.

To be specific the follow deprecated notification methods do not work properly:

notification.ledARGB = Color.GREEN;

notification.ledOnMS = 300;
notification.ledOffMS = 1000;
notification.flags |= Notification.FLAG_SHOW_LIGHTS;

Also the following modern notification methods do not work properly:

notification.setLights(Color.GREEN, 500, 5000);

More Info over at LightFlow

 

 

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