android - Service creating multiple notifications (loop) -

my service creating multiple notifications. can't find why, i'm using log messages see if there's loop somewhere. log cat full of notifications output ended truncated.

this looks like: http://i.imgur.com/hurhguf.png

public int onstartcommand(intent intent, int flags, int startid) {     if (intent != null) {         if (intent.hascategory("connection")) {             connect();         }     }      return start_sticky; }  public void connect() {     thread thread = new thread() {         @override         public void run() {             try {                 socket socket = new socket(server_ip, 5000);                 socket.setsotimeout(5000);                  connected = true;                  outputstream out = socket.getoutputstream();                 printwriter output = new printwriter(out);                 bufferedreader input = new bufferedreader(new inputstreamreader(socket.getinputstream()));                 string event = input.readline();                  while (event != null) {                     if (event.substring(0, 3).equals("msg")) {                         log.i("service", "notification");                         notificationcompat.builder mbuilder =                                 new notificationcompat.builder(localservice.this)                                         .setsmallicon(r.drawable.ic_launcher)                                         .setcontenttitle(event.substring(4, event.indexof("::")))                                         .setcontenttext(event.substring(event.indexof("::") + 2));                          intent resultintent = new intent(localservice.this, resultactivity.class);                          taskstackbuilder stackbuilder = taskstackbuilder.create(localservice.this);                         stackbuilder.addparentstack(resultactivity.class);                         stackbuilder.addnextintent(resultintent);                         pendingintent resultpendingintent =                                 stackbuilder.getpendingintent(                                         0,                                         pendingintent.flag_update_current                                 );                         mbuilder.setcontentintent(resultpendingintent);                         notificationmanager mnotificationmanager =                                 (notificationmanager) getsystemservice(context.notification_service);                         // mid allows update notification later on.                         mnotificationmanager.notify(mid, mbuilder.build());                         mid = mid + 1;                     }                 }             } catch (unknownhostexception e) {                 e.printstacktrace();             } catch(java.net.connectexception e) {                 e.printstacktrace();             } catch (sockettimeoutexception e) {                 e.printstacktrace();             } catch(ioexception e){                 e.printstacktrace();             }         }     };      thread.start(); } 

}

a single message sent server, checked.

in code, should make string event = input.readline(); in while loop. code should this:

while (event != null) {     if (event.substring(0, 3).equals("msg")) {          //your normal code.     }     event = input.readline(); }