Maybe it's trying to access an external website during the processing of onCreate. Try pulling this on a worker thread.
-- RichardC On Oct 20, 7:28 pm, Kiran Julapalli <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks Mark, > I am acquiring a wakelock as the error points to giving up a wake > lock. No other specific reason. I am not sure how to use Async task. > Can you give me any pointer? > > -Kiran > > On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 1:16 PM, Mark Murphy <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Kiran wrote: > >> Experts, Any help here? > > >>> static String linkUrl = "http://www.google.com/";; > > >>> protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { > >>> super.onCreate(savedInstanceState); > > >>> PowerManager pm = (PowerManager) getSystemService > >>> (Context.POWER_SERVICE); > >>> PowerManager.WakeLock wl = pm.newWakeLock > >>> (PowerManager.SCREEN_DIM_WAKE_LOCK, "My Tag"); > >>> wl.acquire(); > > > Why are you asking for a WakeLock in an Activity's onCreate()? > > >>> try { > >>> URL connectURL = new URL(linkUrl); > >>> HttpURLConnection conn = (HttpURLConnection) > >>> connectURL.openConnection(); > >>> DataInputStream dis = new DataInputStream > >>> (conn.getInputStream > >>> ()); > >>> byte[] data = new byte[1024]; > >>> int len = dis.read(data, 0, 1024); > >>> dataText = new String(data, 0, len); > >>> } > >>> catch(Exception e) > >>> { > >>> Log.e(TAG, "Exception"); > >>> return; > >>> } > > > Never do HTTP I/O on the UI thread. Use AsyncTask or something to do > > this work on a background thread. > > > -- > > Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) > >http://commonsware.com|http://twitter.com/commonsguy > > > Android App Developer Books:http://commonsware.com/books.html > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
