Appcompat v21 toolbar and action not working

I have a root snippet with the following toolbar:

<android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
        xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
        xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
        android:id="@+id/toolbar"
        app:theme="@style/AppTheme.Toolbar"
        style="@style/Toolbar" />

      

        
        
        
      

    

i then went on to configure the toolbar as the support action bar:

ActionBarActivity activity = (ActionBarActivity)getActivity();
activity.setSupportActionBar();

      

        
        
        
      

    

activity.startSupportActionMode(callback)

No callbacks are called when called , and the actionMode is never triggered.

While playing around with this, I found that using mToolbar.startActionMode(callback)

does work, but I can't use that due to compatibility, and material styles don't seem to work when using a native actionmode