ActionBarSherlock menu item showing up on tablet not on phone

Question

I am using ActionBarSherlock to create a menu (with the three dots) at the top and then have a few items as a submenu. The menu is showing up on tablets, but not on a four inch phone. The app can run on sdkVersion 9-17.

My menu.xml is:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" >
    <item
        android:id="@+id/menu_weather"
        android:title="@string/weather"
        android:icon="@drawable/weather_tab"/>

    <item 
        android:id="@+id/menu_emergency"
        android:title="@string/emergency_nums" />

    <item
        android:id="@+id/menu_suggest"
        android:title="@string/friend"  />

    <item
        android:id="@+id/menu_support"
        android:title="@string/faq" />

    <item
        android:id="@+id/menu_about"
        android:title="@string/about" />

</menu>

And I have a menu inflate of:

public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) 
    {
        getSupportMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.menu, menu);
        return true;
    }

Thanks in advance for any help.

Answer 1

I kept searching and this is what finally worked for me: https://stackoverflow.com/a/11438245/2291915

I hope this can help someone else. I hadn't realized because I was using this on an emulator it was really about whether there was hard or soft buttons.