Android: Posting Message To Handlerthread Makes Ui Thread Unresponsive Or Gives Illegalstateexception

I am trying to make use of HandlerThread in android and am ending up with either a situation in which the UI thread is not responding anymore, or a strange IllegalStateException. I

Solution 1:

Got it. Obsiously the situation about recycling messages is this:

If you send it to a handler, the handler/looper will recycle it for you.

So one must not recycle the message within handleMessage.