title: Thread exiting due uncaught exception
body: <p>Hy!</p>
  
  <p>My code:</p>
  
  <pre><code>Thread thread = new Thread (){
              @Override
              public void run() {
                  while (true)
                  {
                      Handler handler = new Handler(){
                            @Override
                            public void handleMessage(Message msg) {
  
                               if (msg.obj.toString()!= null)
                               {
                               JSONParse json = null;
                               try {
                                  Log.e("Channel_State",msg.obj.toString());
                                   json = new JSONParse(msg.obj.toString());
                                  String state = json.getChannelState();
                                  id = state;
                                   TextView tv2 = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.mainscreen_state);
                                   tv2.setText("Channel State: "+ state);
                                  Log.e("State",state);
                              } catch (final Exception e) {
                                  // TODO Auto-generated catch block
                                  e.printStackTrace();
                                  runOnUiThread(new  Runnable() {
                                      public void run() {
                                          Toast toast ;
                                          toast =     Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), "Error" + e.getMessage(), 500);
                                          Log.e("Error",e.getMessage());
                                          toast.show();
                                      }
                                  });
                              }
  
                               }
                               else
                               {
  
                                 runOnUiThread(new  Runnable() {
                                  public void run() {
                                      Toast toast ;
                                      toast =     Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), "error", 500);
  
                                      toast.show();
                                  }
                              });
                               }
                            }
                            };
  
                      List&lt;NameValuePair&gt; params = new ArrayList&lt;NameValuePair&gt;();
                      params.add(new BasicNameValuePair("session_id", settings.getString("session_id","error")));
                      params.add(new BasicNameValuePair("channel_id",String.valueOf(settings.getInt("channel_id", -1))));
                      HttpConnection con = new HttpConnection(params, "http://surfkid.redio.de/getChannelImage", handler);
                      con.start();
                      try {
                          Log.e("Sleep","Begin");
                          this.sleep(5000);
                          Log.e("Sleep","End");
  
                      } catch (InterruptedException e) {
                          // TODO Auto-generated catch block
                          Log.e("Sleep","Fail");
                      }
  
                  }
              }
          };
          thread.start();
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Log:</p>
  
  <pre><code>02-10 00:01:29.044: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(1248): Uncaught handler: thread Thread-13 exiting due to uncaught exception
  02-10 00:01:29.054: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(1248): java.lang.RuntimeException: Can't create handler inside thread that has not called Looper.prepare()
  02-10 00:01:29.054: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(1248):     at android.os.Handler.&lt;init&gt;(Handler.java:121)
  02-10 00:01:29.054: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(1248):     at android.skiptvad.MainScreen$6$1.&lt;init&gt;(MainScreen.java:258)
  02-10 00:01:29.054: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(1248):     at android.skiptvad.MainScreen$6.run(MainScreen.java:258)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Please help!</p>