android: smoothScrollToPosition() not working correctly

You probably want to tell the ListView to post the scroll when the UI thread can handle it (which is why yours it not scrolling properly). SmoothScroll needs to do a lot of work, as opposed to just go to a position ignoring velocity/time/etc. (required for an “animation”).

Therefore you should do something like:

    getListView().post(new Runnable() {
        @Override
        public void run() {
            getListView().smoothScrollToPosition(pos);
        }
    });