Bitmapfactory.decodestream Not Working

I'm having a bit of a problem with decodeStream returning null. It seems to be a fairly common problem around, but it's usually pinned down to one of two problems: An OutOfMemory

Solution 1:

Ultimately, the answer was found here, using an InputStream returned by a BufferedHTTPEntity. While it seems needlessly complex, I can only assume that simply getting a stream from the URL object directly doesn't return a stream of the appropriate type, and so it wasn't reading out all the data properly.

Cross-posting the code in case the question is erased:

privatestatic InputStream fetch(String address)throws MalformedURLException,IOException {
    HttpGethttpRequest=newHttpGet(URI.create(address) );
    HttpClienthttpclient=newDefaultHttpClient();
    HttpResponseresponse= (HttpResponse) httpclient.execute(httpRequest);
    HttpEntityentity= response.getEntity();
    BufferedHttpEntitybufHttpEntity=newBufferedHttpEntity(entity);
    InputStreaminstream= bufHttpEntity.getContent();
    return instream;
}