Decode the file to Bitmap in Android throwing exception [duplicate]

_x000D_ _x000D_ Possible Duplicate: Android: Strange out of memory issue while loading an image to a Bitmap object I developed the application to decode a file to Bitmap. I done the following code but it always throwing out of memory exception private Bitmap decodeFile(File f) { Bitmap bmp = null; FileInputStream fis = null; try { // decode image size BitmapFactory.Options o = new BitmapFactory.Options(); o.inTempStorage = new byte[16*1024]; o.inJustDecodeBounds = true; o.inPurgeable=true; //if(!f.exists()) f.createNewFile(); if(!f.exists()) f.createNewFile(); fis = new FileInputStream(f); BitmapFactory.decodeStream(fis, null, o); try { fis.close(); } catch (IOException e1) { // TODO Auto-generated catch block e1.printStackTrace(); } fis = null; // Find the correct scale value. It should be the power of 2. final int REQUIRED_SIZE = 70; int width_tmp = o.outWidth, height_tmp = o.outHeight; int scale = 1; while (true) { if (width_tmp / 2 < REQUIRED_SIZE || height_tmp / 2 < REQUIRED_SIZE) break; width_tmp /= 2; height_tmp /= 2; scale *= 2; } // decode with inSampleSize BitmapFactory.Options o2 = new BitmapFactory.Options(); o2.inTempStorage = new byte[16*1024]; o2.inSampleSize = scale; o2.inPurgeable=true; o2.inTempStorage = new byte[16*1024]; fis = new FileInputStream(f); bmp = BitmapFactory.decodeStream(fis); if (fis != null) fis.close(); fis = null; return bmp; // return BitmapFactory.decodeFile(f.getAbsolutePath(), o2); } catch (FileNotFoundException e) { e.printStackTrace(); } catch (IOException e) { // TODO Auto-generated catch block e.printStackTrace(); } finally { System.gc(); try { if (fis != null) fis.close(); } catch (IOException e) { // TODO Auto-generated catch block e.printStackTrace(); } fis = null; } return null; } Added the log cat 12-03 12:03:05.070: E/AndroidRuntime(30696): FATAL EXCEPTION: main 12-03 12:03:05.070: E/AndroidRuntime(30696): java.lang.OutOfMemoryError 12-03 12:03:05.070: E/AndroidRuntime(30696): at android.graphics.BitmapFactory.nativeDecodeStream(Native Method) 12-03 12:03:05.070: E/AndroidRuntime(30696): at android.graphics.BitmapFactory.decodeStream(BitmapFactory.java:527) 12-03 12:03:05.070: E/AndroidRuntime(30696): at android.graphics.BitmapFactory.decodeFile(BitmapFactory.java:301) 12-03 12:03:05.070: E/AndroidRuntime(30696): at com.dexterity.iPinion.RootActivity.readFromSDCard(RootActivity.java:1984) 12-03 12:03:05.070: E/AndroidRuntime(30696): at com.dexterity.iPinion.RootActivity.setBrandingImage(RootActivity.java:285) 12-03 12:03:05.070: E/AndroidRuntime(30696): at com.dexterity.iPinion.RootActivity.access$0(RootActivity.java:252) 12-03 12:03:05.070: E/AndroidRuntime(30696): at com.dexterity.iPinion.RootActivity$1.handleMessage(RootActivity.java:515) 12-03 12:03:05.070: E/AndroidRuntime(30696): at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99) 12-03 12:03:05.070: E/AndroidRuntime(30696): at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:137) 12-03 12:03:05.070: E/AndroidRuntime(30696): at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:4745) 12-03 12:03:05.070: E/AndroidRuntime(30696): at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method) 12-03 12:03:05.070: E/AndroidRuntime(30696): at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:511) 12-03 12:03:05.070: E/AndroidRuntime(30696): at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:786) 12-03 12:03:05.070: E/AndroidRuntime(30696): at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:553) 12-03 12:03:05.070: E/AndroidRuntime(30696): at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)