You cannot wake a dead thread. You can only resume a thread if it's in wait/blocked state http://www.roseindia.net/java/thread/life-cycle-of-threads.shtml
On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 12:55 AM, MobileVisuals <[email protected]>wrote: > I have a thread in my app. Before it has been started, it has the > thread state NEW. I can then start it without problems. The user can > then start another app and then swith back to may app. onResume() and > onPostResume() then gets called in the activity and surfaceCreated() > gets called in the SurfaceView. > > The thread then has the thread state TERMINATED. I want to wake it up > now, but I can not start it, because I get IllegalThreadStateException > then. This is because the thread has been started before. > > I have tried other ways of waking it up, like interrupt (), but it > doesn't work. So how can I wake up the thread, so my application can > start functioning again? > > -- > 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]<android-developers%[email protected]> > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- Kumar Bibek http://techdroid.kbeanie.com http://www.kbeanie.com -- 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
