Android app flickering
<p>I have been writing an app that is targeted for Android 2.1 and works great on almost all devices.
Recently I tried to run it on Android 4.0.3 and it started to flicker (just like gmail app). The weird part is that I changed starting activity to empty one (no controls or layout elements) and it still flickered. Changing target to Google APIs 4.0.3 did not help either. </p>

<p>I am using Google APIs 2.1 currently. Have few external libraries protobuf and RabbitMQ and app permissions:</p>

<pre><code>&lt;uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION" /&gt;
&lt;uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE"/&gt;
&lt;uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WRITE_INTERNAL_STORAGE" /&gt;
&lt;uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE"/&gt;
&lt;uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE"/&gt;
&lt;uses-permission android:name="android.permission.READ_PHONE_STATE"/&gt;
&lt;uses-permission android:name="android.permission.CALL_PHONE"/&gt;
&lt;uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET"/&gt;
&lt;uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WAKE_LOCK" /&gt;
&lt;uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WRITE_CONTACTS"/&gt;
&lt;uses-permission android:name="android.permission.READ_CONTACTS"/&gt;
&lt;uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WRITE_SETTINGS"/&gt;
&lt;uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WRITE_SECURE_SETTINGS"/&gt;
</code></pre>

<p>no idea what else could have any impact to an empty Activity. 
Has anyone experienced something similar or have any clue what could be happening?</p>

<p>EDIT: I began a new project and went step after step to replicate the problem. It is my class which extends Application and it is flooding the log with:<br/>
    <code>memalloc(26689): ion: Mapped buffer base:0x52172000 size:1949696 offset:0 fd:55</code><br/>
    <code>memalloc(26689): ion: Unmapping buffer  base:0x52172000 size:1949696</code></p>

<p>it stops if I comment out line:<br/>
<code>newConfig.locale = locale;</code><br/>
which is in method:<br/>
<code>public void onConfigurationChanged(Configuration newConfig)</code></p>
