Problem in threading operation...

Hi All,
I have developed an application based on threads. An application contains two threads which starts separately (separate class for each thread). On first thread I am showing continuous animation & on second thread I am doing socket connection.
But problem is that when I start second thread the first thread gets stops (goes into suspended mode) until socket connection gets over (successful or failure). When I receive true or false from connection the first thread again gets resume.
As per the theoretical way these two are separate threads, doing their own job separately. So why they are depends on each other?
Even after setting the high priority for first thread it doesn�t work continuously.
I am trying this on default emulator.
So please help me out to solve this problem.
Regards,
kkarmalkar.

Sorry for that. Here I am adding two other classes...
1. Class TCanvas shows Animation
public class TCanvas extends Canvas implements Runnable
     int xCord = 0, yCord = 0;
     int ballSize = 15;
     int screenHt = getHeight() - ballSize;
     int screenW = getWidth() - ballSize;
     boolean isHitR = true, isHitL = true;
     boolean isHitU = true, isHitD = true;
     public TCanvas() {          
          System.out.println("Thread-1 Started...");
     public void paint(Graphics g)
          g.setColor(0);
          g.fillRect(0, 0, getWidth(), getHeight());
          g.setColor(0,255,0);
          g.fillArc(xCord, yCord, ballSize, ballSize, 0, 360);
     public void run() {
          while(true)     {     
               //...Animation logic
               try {
                    Thread.sleep(25);
               } catch (InterruptedException e) {
                    e.printStackTrace();
               repaint();
}2. Class TConnect for Socket connetion
public class TConnect implements Runnable
     HttpConnection httpConnection;
     SocketConnection sockConnection;
     InputStream is = null;
     public void run()
          System.out.println("Thread-2 Started...");
          try {
               sockConnection = (SocketConnection) Connector.open("socket://www.yahoo.com:1234");
          } catch (IOException e) {
               e.printStackTrace();
}I think this will help u.
Regards,
kkarmalkar.

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