title: View not painted in a particular case
body: <p>Dear Stack Overflow Users,</p>
  
  <p>I am exploiting the Vintage Thermometer Template of this example (source code downloadable)
  <a href="http://mindtherobot.com/blog/272/android-custom-ui-making-a-vintage-thermometer/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://mindtherobot.com/blog/272/android-custom-ui-making-a-vintage-thermometer/</a></p>
  
  <p>The only part of code I modified is the parametrization of the background image and the scale. My trial app works fine, both in the emulators (A phone 4.0' Android 4.3) and a Tablet (7.0' Android 4.4.2), and my phones, a Galaxy S Plus, and a Galaxy S III.</p>
  
  <p>Since the code seemed to work I moved the view to another project where I'm using the Thermometer as Speedometer. Here again, everything is fine, both in the emulators and my Galaxy S Plus..., but not in the Galaxy S III!</p>
  
  <p>What does work and what doesn't: everything works but the method <em>drawHand()</em> apparently. The hand is not painted for some reason. And just in this new project just with the Galaxy S III.</p>
  
  <p>Now, everything in the layout and the code seems OK. I can't find cross compatibility issues anywhere. What I am asking you is maybe a more general question: something like this can actually happen and why? I searched for days for some similar issue without finding anything.</p>
  
  <p>The view is inflated in the same way:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;com.example.speedometer.Tachimetro
      android:id="@+id/tachimetro2"
      android:layout_width="wrap_content"
      android:layout_height="wrap_content"
      android:layout_weight="1.5" /&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>inside a linear layout.</p>
  
  <p>The manifest has nothing except the call for the main activity.
  Galaxy S III is the only phone where something is not painted.</p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/kQwy3.jpg" alt="This is what I see, except in a Galaxy SIII where needle is not painted"></p>
  
  <p>That's weird. Any idea what could be my next step?</p>