Jerky Sprite (2d) Movement With OpenGL ES 2.0 On Android

Edit 2. Added screenshot of logcat. If I reduce the number of sprites to 1, I still get this intermittent 'stop/starting' - so I don't think it's my code, as with 1 sprite my fram

Solution 1:

Sounds like the garbage collector running. To verify this, just look at logcat... do the jerky moments correlate to lines tagged "dalvikvm" and lead with "GC_"?