Samsung Galaxy S 2.2.1 broken /dbdata/databases workaround

SharedPreferencesPatch.java

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package sh.nothing.android.workaround.samsung;

import java.io.File;
import java.lang.reflect.Field;
import java.lang.reflect.Method;

import android.app.Application;
import android.content.Context;
import android.content.ContextWrapper;
import android.preference.PreferenceManager;
import android.util.Log;

public class SharedPreferencesPatch {
    private static final String TAG = "SharedPreferencesPatch";

    private static final String SAMSUNG_PREF_DIR_BASE = "/dbdata/databases";

    private static Boolean sIsNeedPreferenceWorkaround = null;

    /**
     * As a workaround for Galaxy S /dbdata/databases permission bug, this
     * function will make an injection to the implementation of Context to
     * change a directory used by SharedPreferences. Should be called from
     * {@link Application#onCreate()} when the application starts.
     *
     * You also need to replace every 
     * {@link PreferenceManager#getDefaultSharedPreferences(Context)} or
     * {@link Context#getSharedPreferences(String, int)} calls in your 
     * application to use application context.
     * 
     * @param context
     *            injection target context.
     */
    public static void injectPrefencesDirIfNeeded(Context context) {
        if (isNeedPreferenceWorkaround(context))
            injectPreferencesDir(context);
    }

    private static boolean isNeedPreferenceWorkaround(Context context) {
        if (sIsNeedPreferenceWorkaround == null) {
            File baseDir = new File(SAMSUNG_PREF_DIR_BASE,
                    context.getPackageName());
            boolean result = baseDir.exists() && !baseDir.canWrite();
            if (result)
                Log.v(TAG, "need /dbdata workaround");
            sIsNeedPreferenceWorkaround = result;
        }
        return sIsNeedPreferenceWorkaround.booleanValue();
    }

    private static void injectPreferencesDir(Context context) {
        if (ContextWrapper.class.isInstance(context)) {
            ContextWrapper wrapper = (ContextWrapper) context;
            context = wrapper.getBaseContext();
        }

        // inject to overwrite inner ContextImpl#mPreferencesDir
        try {
            Class<?> clazz = Class.forName("android.app.ContextImpl");

            Field field = clazz.getDeclaredField("mPreferencesDir");
            field.setAccessible(true);
            if (field.get(context) != null)
                return;

            // build shared_prefs path and try to overwrite
            Method getDataDirFile = clazz.getDeclaredMethod("getDataDirFile");
            getDataDirFile.setAccessible(true);
            File dataDir = (File) getDataDirFile.invoke(context);

            field.set(context, new File(dataDir, "shared_prefs"));
        } catch (Exception ignored) {
            Log.w(TAG,
                    "failed to apply Samsung Galaxy broken /dbdata workaround.",
                    ignored);
        }
    }
}