Thanks for the help!!! It works now(got rid of the timeout setting and creating the socket elsewhere in the class. I also get the right exceptions now, but I have no Idea why I wouldnt get them before(it was an ip address, never a hostname and I never saw unusual traffic in wireshark...), but well I dunno :D
On 16 Aug., 02:32, Nikolay Elenkov <nikolay.elen...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 12:16 AM, Ben <ben.v...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > ->If I try to set the timeout of the Socket -> null Pointer Exception > > Your socket is null at this point, hence the NPE. Move this code > somewhere after new Socket(...); > > > ->If I try to connect to an existing address, I get the message > > "tv.append("after socket");" but just a second after that I get "08-13 > > 20:44:05.657: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(304): Caused by: > > android.view.ViewRoot$CalledFromWrongThreadException: Only the original > > thread that created a view hierarchy can touch its views." > > You are trying to append text to a TextVie from within doInBackground() > which executes in a separate thread. Don't do this, modify the UI only > in pre/postExecute(). > > > ->If I try to connect to an address that is not existing(which is exactly > > the situation I want to simulate) I wont get any exception like "unknown > > host" or anything it just hangs and hangs and hangs withour any error or > > something till it kills my router with its trying(DDos anyone?) :D > > What address are you trying with? If it's a hostname it might be waiting > for a DNS response. You probably need to change your router if it is > that easy to kill :) > > > The whole thing worked just fine in native java and I would greatly > > appreciate any help!!!!! > > Read up on the basics of Android a bit, apps are written in Java, but a > lot of things are quite different compared to desktop/server side Java. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en