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I newbie in Android and before ask question here i was googling, but on this question i can’t find answer. (also this stackoverflow.com/questions/4195089 don’t have answer).

In my test app on emulator i have error ERROR/Cursor(1512): Invalid statement in fillWindow() on LogCat when i press back button on second activity.
_{11-23 19:06:05.050: DEBUG/TestDB/Debug/MainActivity(1512): onCreate

11-23 19:06:06.820: DEBUG/TestDB/Debug/MainActivity(1512): openDataBase

11-23 19:06:07.240: DEBUG/TestDB/Debug/MainActivity(1512): String[] from

11-23 19:06:07.270: DEBUG/TestDB/Debug/MainActivity(1512): SimpleCursorAdapter

11-23 19:06:07.500: DEBUG/TestDB/Debug/MainActivity(1512): myDbHelper.close

11-23 19:06:07.520: DEBUG/TestDB/Debug/MainActivity(1512): onStart

11-23 19:06:07.551: DEBUG/TestDB/Debug/MainActivity(1512): onResume

11-23 19:06:09.040: INFO/ActivityManager(587): Displayed activity ru.olegi/.MainActivity: 7962 ms

11-23 19:06:11.850: INFO/ActivityManager(587): Starting activity: Intent { comp={ru.olegi/ru.olegi.AnotherActivity} }

11-23 19:06:12.100: DEBUG/TestDB/Debug/AnotherActivity(1512): onCreate

11-23 19:06:12.970: INFO/ActivityManager(587): Displayed activity ru.olegi/.AnotherActivity: 1100 ms

11-23 19:06:14.550: ERROR/Cursor(1512): Invalid statement in fillWindow()

11-23 19:06:14.590: DEBUG/TestDB/Debug/MainActivity(1512): onStart

11-23 19:06:14.600: DEBUG/TestDB/Debug/MainActivity(1512): onResume}

All code stored in onCreate. So when i press back, ListView is empty. For fix this i move code to onStart. Here is log for this and again have Invalid statement in fillWindow()
_{11-23 19:26:06.280: DEBUG/TestDB/Debug/MainActivity(6597): onCreate

11-23 19:26:06.462: DEBUG/TestDB/Debug/MainActivity(6597): onStart

11-23 19:26:06.700: DEBUG/TestDB/Debug/MainActivity(6597): openDataBase

11-23 19:26:06.740: DEBUG/TestDB/Debug/MainActivity(6597): String[] from

11-23 19:26:06.750: DEBUG/TestDB/Debug/MainActivity(6597): SimpleCursorAdapter

11-23 19:26:06.981: DEBUG/TestDB/Debug/MainActivity(6597): myDbHelper.close

11-23 19:26:07.010: DEBUG/TestDB/Debug/MainActivity(6597): onResume

11-23 19:26:08.030: INFO/ActivityManager(587): Displayed activity ru.olegi/.MainActivity: 3876 ms

11-23 19:26:15.419: INFO/ActivityManager(587): Starting activity: Intent { comp={ru.olegi/ru.olegi.AnotherActivity} }

11-23 19:26:15.770: DEBUG/TestDB/Debug/AnotherActivity(6597): onCreate

11-23 19:26:16.440: INFO/ActivityManager(587): Displayed activity ru.olegi/.AnotherActivity: 1001 ms

11-23 19:26:17.860: ERROR/Cursor(6597): Invalid statement in fillWindow()

11-23 19:26:17.870: DEBUG/TestDB/Debug/MainActivity(6597): onStart

11-23 19:26:18.260: DEBUG/TestDB/Debug/MainActivity(6597): openDataBase

11-23 19:26:18.290: DEBUG/TestDB/Debug/MainActivity(6597): String[] from

11-23 19:26:18.310: DEBUG/TestDB/Debug/MainActivity(6597): SimpleCursorAdapter

11-23 19:26:18.670: DEBUG/TestDB/Debug/MainActivity(6597): myDbHelper.close

11-23 19:26:18.700: DEBUG/TestDB/Debug/MainActivity(6597): onResume}

This code

package ru.olegi;

import java.io.IOException;

import android.app.Activity;
import android.content.Intent;
import android.database.Cursor;
import android.database.SQLException;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.util.Log;
import android.view.View;
import android.widget.AdapterView;
import android.widget.AdapterView.OnItemClickListener;
import android.widget.ListView;
import android.widget.SimpleCursorAdapter;

public class MainActivity extends Activity {
    /** Called when the activity is first created. */

    private DatabaseHelper myDbHelper;  
    private ListView lv1;   

    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        Log.d("TestDB/Debug/MainActivity", "onCreate");          

        setContentView(R.layout.main);        

    }

    @Override
    public void onStart() {
        super.onStart();
        Log.d("TestDB/Debug/MainActivity", "onStart");

        // DATABASE OPEN - START
        DatabaseHelper myDbHelper = new DatabaseHelper(this);
        myDbHelper = new DatabaseHelper(this);

        try {
            myDbHelper.createDataBase();
        } catch (IOException e) {
            // TODO Auto-generated catch block
            e.printStackTrace();
        }          

        try {
            myDbHelper.openDataBase();
        }catch(SQLException sqle){
            throw sqle;
        }        

        Log.d("TestDB/Debug/MainActivity", "openDataBase");        

        // DATABASE OPEN - END

        Cursor c = myDbHelper.fetchAllFoodname();
        startManagingCursor(c);                       

        lv1 = (ListView) findViewById(R.id.ListView01);

        String[] from = new String[] { DatabaseHelper.KEY_NAME };
        int[] to = new int[] { android.R.id.text1};

        Log.d("TestDB/Debug/MainActivity", "String[] from");

        SimpleCursorAdapter notes =
            new SimpleCursorAdapter(this, android.R.layout.simple_list_item_1, c, from, to);

        Log.d("TestDB/Debug/MainActivity", "SimpleCursorAdapter");

        lv1.setAdapter(notes);

        lv1.setOnItemClickListener(new OnItemClickListener() {      
            //@Override     
            public void onItemClick(AdapterView<?> a, View v, int position, long id) {

                Intent intent = new Intent();

                //getApplicationContext()
                intent.setClass(MainActivity.this, AnotherActivity.class);

                //intent.putExtra(AnotherActivity.EXT_ID, id);              

                startActivity(intent);
                //finish(); 
            }   
         });   

        // DATABASE CLOSE - START       

        myDbHelper.close();
        Log.d("TestDB/Debug/MainActivity", "myDbHelper.close");

        // DATABASE CLOSE - END         
    }    

    @Override
    public void onResume(){
        super.onResume();
        Log.d("TestDB/Debug/MainActivity", "onResume"); 
    }

    @Override
    public void onDestroy(){
        super.onDestroy();
        Log.d("TestDB/Debug/MainActivity", "onDestroy");        
    }        
}

Here groups.google.com/group/android-developers/browse_thread/thread/8bec793c626fb405 i read, for fix fillwindow() error need

Short answer; Your database object
(db) is in the wrong scope. Longer
answer; By declaring db in the method
you’re saying to the JVM that when
the method finishes your database
connection (db) is no longer useful.
What you should do is declare db at
the class level instead of the method
level, create it in onCreate, and
close it in onDestroy.

Ok, i move sections // DATABASE OPEN – START and // DATABASE CLOSE – START to onCreate and to onDestory. And now i have exception on start
_{11-23 19:35:39.310: DEBUG/TestDB/Debug/MainActivity(8975): onCreate

11-23 19:35:40.050: DEBUG/TestDB/Debug/MainActivity(8975): openDataBase

11-23 19:35:40.050: DEBUG/TestDB/Debug/MainActivity(8975): onStart

11-23 19:35:40.090: DEBUG/AndroidRuntime(8975): Shutting down VM

11-23 19:35:40.100: WARN/dalvikvm(8975): threadid=3: thread exiting with uncaught exception (group=0x4000fe70)

11-23 19:35:40.120: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(8975): Uncaught handler: thread main exiting due to uncaught exception

11-23 19:35:40.300: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(8975): java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to start activity ComponentInfo{ru.olegi/ru.olegi.MainActivity}: java.lang.NullPointerException

11-23 19:35:40.300: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(8975): at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2268)

11-23 19:35:40.300: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(8975): at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2284)

11-23 19:35:40.300: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(8975): at android.app.ActivityThread.access$1800(ActivityThread.java:112)

11-23 19:35:40.300: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(8975): at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1692)

11-23 19:35:40.300: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(8975): at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)

11-23 19:35:40.300: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(8975): at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:123)

11-23 19:35:40.300: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(8975): at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:3948)

11-23 19:35:40.300: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(8975): at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)

11-23 19:35:40.300: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(8975): at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:521)

11-23 19:35:40.300: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(8975): at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:782)

11-23 19:35:40.300: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(8975): at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:540)

11-23 19:35:40.300: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(8975): at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)

11-23 19:35:40.300: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(8975): Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException

11-23 19:35:40.300: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(8975): at ru.olegi.MainActivity.onStart(MainActivity.java:59)

11-23 19:35:40.300: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(8975): at android.app.Instrumentation.callActivityOnStart(Instrumentation.java:1205)

11-23 19:35:40.300: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(8975): at android.app.Activity.performStart(Activity.java:3490)

11-23 19:35:40.300: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(8975): at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2240)

11-23 19:35:40.300: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(8975): … 11 more}

Here is code with moved db-sections:

package ru.olegi;

import java.io.IOException;

import android.app.Activity;
import android.content.Intent;
import android.database.Cursor;
import android.database.SQLException;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.util.Log;
import android.view.View;
import android.widget.AdapterView;
import android.widget.AdapterView.OnItemClickListener;
import android.widget.ListView;
import android.widget.SimpleCursorAdapter;

public class MainActivity extends Activity {
    /** Called when the activity is first created. */

    private DatabaseHelper myDbHelper;  
    private ListView lv1;   

    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        Log.d("TestDB/Debug/MainActivity", "onCreate");          

        setContentView(R.layout.main);

        // DATABASE OPEN - START
        DatabaseHelper myDbHelper = new DatabaseHelper(this);
        myDbHelper = new DatabaseHelper(this);

        try {
            myDbHelper.createDataBase();
        } catch (IOException e) {
            // TODO Auto-generated catch block
            e.printStackTrace();
        }          

        try {
            myDbHelper.openDataBase();
        }catch(SQLException sqle){
            throw sqle;
        }        

        Log.d("TestDB/Debug/MainActivity", "openDataBase");        

        // DATABASE OPEN - END


    }

    @Override
    public void onStart() {
        super.onStart();
        Log.d("TestDB/Debug/MainActivity", "onStart");

        Cursor c = myDbHelper.fetchAllFoodname();
        startManagingCursor(c);                       

        lv1 = (ListView) findViewById(R.id.ListView01);

        String[] from = new String[] { DatabaseHelper.KEY_NAME };
        int[] to = new int[] { android.R.id.text1};

        Log.d("TestDB/Debug/MainActivity", "String[] from");

        SimpleCursorAdapter notes =
            new SimpleCursorAdapter(this, android.R.layout.simple_list_item_1, c, from, to);

        Log.d("TestDB/Debug/MainActivity", "SimpleCursorAdapter");

        lv1.setAdapter(notes);

        lv1.setOnItemClickListener(new OnItemClickListener() {      
            //@Override     
            public void onItemClick(AdapterView<?> a, View v, int position, long id) {

                Intent intent = new Intent();

                //getApplicationContext()
                intent.setClass(MainActivity.this, AnotherActivity.class);

                //intent.putExtra(AnotherActivity.EXT_ID, id);              

                startActivity(intent);
                //finish(); 
            }   
         });   

    }    

    @Override
    public void onResume(){
        super.onResume();
        Log.d("TestDB/Debug/MainActivity", "onResume"); 
    }

    @Override
    public void onDestroy(){
        super.onDestroy();
        Log.d("TestDB/Debug/MainActivity", "onDestroy");

        // DATABASE CLOSE - START       

        myDbHelper.close();
        Log.d("TestDB/Debug/MainActivity", "myDbHelper.close");

        // DATABASE CLOSE - END     
    }        
}

Please, help fix Invalid statement in fillWindow()

AnotherActivity – is simple with TextView, MainActivity have only listview + onclick listener

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Editorial Team · Answer 1 · 2026-05-18T12:01:41+00:00

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2026-05-18T12:01:41+00:00Added an answer on May 18, 2026 at 12:01 pm

private DatabaseHelper myDbHelper; 
...
public void onStart() {
     DatabaseHelper myDbHelper = new DatabaseHelper(this);

I removed the declaration DatabaseHelper in onStart. That fixed the ERROR/Cursor(1512)

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