SQLite exception: Database is locked issue

After doing some effort I did it (My app was working on perfect till android 2.3 but got db lock error when I used to run it on HoneyComb tablet).
I did using Semaphores (using lock in critical sections).

Example 1

public class DbExp extends SQLiteOpenHelper{
    public static String Lock = "dblock";
    private static final String DATABASE_NAME = "db.db";
    private static final String TABLE_NAME = "table_name";

    public void delete(Context mContext){
        synchronized(Lock) {
            SQLiteDatabase db  = getWritableDatabase();
            db.delete(TABLE_NAME, null, null);
            db.close();
        }
    }

    public void insert(){
        synchronized(Lock) {
            SQLiteDatabase db  = getWritableDatabase();
            db.insert(TABLE_NAME, ..., ...);
            db.close();
        }
    }

}

Example 2

public class DB {
    public static String Lock = "dblock";
    private static final String DATABASE_NAME = "db.db";
    private static final String TABLE_NAME = "table_name";

    public void delete(Context mContext){
        synchronized(Lock) {
            SQLiteDatabase db  = mContext.openOrCreateDatabase(DATABASE_NAME, Context.MODE_PRIVATE, null);
            db.delete(TABLE_NAME, null, null);
            db.close();
        }
    }

    public void insert(Context mContext){
        synchronized(Lock) {
            SQLiteDatabase db  = mContext.openOrCreateDatabase(DATABASE_NAME, Context.MODE_PRIVATE, null);
            db.insert(TABLE_NAME, ..., ...);
            db.close();
        }
    }


}

Hope this would help Anyone in future 🙂

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