Tab size issue with Android 7.0

We are still using the ActionBarSherlock (and currently cannot change to anything else due to customer restrictions) but with the recent release of Android 7.0, we are seeing issues on 'certain' Samsung devices like the Note 5 and the Galaxy 7 Edge. The tab strip is being reduced in size and I have not found any way to increase the size back to normal. Other devices like Nexus 5x (also on Android 7.0) does not see this issue. And we haven't had this issue with previous versions of Android.

I haven't been able to find search results that might help me do a work around for this (either by resetting the tab strip to the correct height, or being able to determine when this condition might exist so maybe I could reduce the size of the images if needed). I'm looking for any help I can get on this since our client is making this an urgent issue. The first image I'm attaching is the way it's being displayed on these certain devices, and the second image is how it should be looking.