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Asked: 2026-05-20T23:08:38+00:00

I’m having a hard time figuring out what my problem is here. I’m receiving

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I’m having a hard time figuring out what my problem is here. I’m receiving this error in my program, but it does not cause a crash or anything like that. I have an update I’d like to release, but I don’t want to release it with this error being thrown at certain times. I’ve read all related posts on this error, but none apply to my situation.

I’ve made sure that I am closing my DatabaseHelper and SQLiteDatabase objects. I’ve also made sure that I’m closing all of my cursors. This error is pointing toward my method getActiveScheduleInfo, which returns a Cursor object. I’ve made sure that whenever I call this method, the returned cursor is closed in a Finally block.

Is this incorrect to do it this way? In my methods that call getActiveScheduleInfo, I have multiple return statements in them, based on certain conditions. So, instead of closing the cursor before each return line, I surround the condition testing with a Try, and close everything down in my Finally.

Everything looks like it should be working, so I’d really appreciate any help!

Thanks a lot!
Paul

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  1. Editorial Team

    I was able to figure this out! I hope that this helps someone else out there having the same problem.

    I wasn’t doing anything inherently incorrect here, but was rather taking too long to close some of my cursors. To give you a very brief background, I could not use a Managed Query or use startManagingCursor, since this code was in a custom class, not an activity. I am building against Android 2.0 (API level 5) so I am not using the new CursorLoader object.

    I was taking the following steps:

    1. Opening the database.
    2. Creating a new Cursor and performing my query.
    3. Iterating through the cursor and performing the needed tasks
    4. Performing some other logic
    5. Closing the Cursor and Database in a Finally block.

    I found out that my step 4, performing some other logic, coming before closing my Cursor, was causing it to, for lack of a better term, timeout and cause this error. From now on, I read the necessary data from the Cursor, and not ONE LINE OF CODE FURTHER, I close the Cursor. 🙂 This has completely eliminated these random errors, and I have clean-running code again.

    I hope that helps others having the same problem! Take care,

    Paul

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