openOptionsMenu function not working in ICS?

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I was having the same problem trying to go around this openOptionsMenu thing on an app
that I was doing that should run on Android 1.6 and up. Following the answer from Werner Van Belle I reached the conclusion that we could achieve a workaround to solve the problem.
So I came up with the following code, it’s always beatiful when people don’t mark a method as final, so we can always override it. It’s perfect if you don’t want to give up on targeting your app to the latest api (android:targetSdkVersion=”17″). I hope you guys like it. 🙂

@Override
public void openOptionsMenu() {

    Configuration config = getResources().getConfiguration();

    if((config.screenLayout & Configuration.SCREENLAYOUT_SIZE_MASK) 
            > Configuration.SCREENLAYOUT_SIZE_LARGE) {

        int originalScreenLayout = config.screenLayout;
        config.screenLayout = Configuration.SCREENLAYOUT_SIZE_LARGE;
        super.openOptionsMenu();
        config.screenLayout = originalScreenLayout;

    } else {
        super.openOptionsMenu();
    }
}

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