HtppConnection in background thread and ui frontend thread causes device lo

Hi ,
Iam running a midlet on Tre0 600 using IBM J9. (CLDC1.0/MIDP2)
The design of the midlet is as follows.
I have a main form with some items on it. (items are xml forms)
When i select a item (form) fill it and submit, i put the data to be requested in a url and send to the server. (This whole process happens in a servant thread in the background)
Once the data is qued in the servant thread, the control is given back to the main menu.
When i do this operation and the control comesback to the main menu, any action on this main screen is done only after the servant thread has got a response from the server.
If you do multiple clicks , it locks up the device and you have to do a soft reset, to recover.
I found from the logs , the device was last trying to get the response from the url.
Have anyone seen this issue ?
Is there a way in the IBM PIM pref to make this work properly ?
Appreciate your help.
Thanks and warm regards
Vignesh

A UDP Error # 56 simply means that the UDP read received nothing in the timout period you specified. you could increase the timeout, or more simply discard the error. See this post: http://forums.ni.com/ni/board/message?board.id=170&message.id=232028
As far as the error "not clearing", it sounds like you are using a shift register inside a loop to pass the error out of the previous UDP read. If you don't initialize the shift register, it will contain the last data stored ontil you close an reload the VI.
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