IllegalStateException: Can not perform this action after onSaveInstanceState with ViewPager

Please check my answer here. Basically I just had to :

@Override
protected void onSaveInstanceState(Bundle outState) {
    //No call for super(). Bug on API Level > 11.
}

Don’t make the call to super() on the saveInstanceState method. This was messing things up…

This is a known bug in the support package.

If you need to save the instance and add something to your outState Bundle you can use the following:

@Override
protected void onSaveInstanceState(Bundle outState) {
    outState.putString("WORKAROUND_FOR_BUG_19917_KEY", "WORKAROUND_FOR_BUG_19917_VALUE");
    super.onSaveInstanceState(outState);
}

In the end the proper solution was (as seen in the comments) to use :

transaction.commitAllowingStateLoss();

when adding or performing the FragmentTransaction that was causing the Exception.