Hey guys, I'm having trouble getting my code working on ICS. It worked perfectly on my old DroidX, but I just got the new Galaxy Nexus and my code just returns null every time, as if the app isn't connecting to my servers or it's using a GET request when it should be using POST. Below is my code, any help is appreciated:

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   //---------------- AUTHENTICATE LOGIN ---------------------------
    public static String authenticateLogin (String usr, String password, String updateDataNames, String updateDataUsernames, String updateDataPhone, String updateDataRadius, String updateDataChecked, String updateGPS)
    {      
       String result = "";
       ArrayList<NameValuePair> pairs = new ArrayList<NameValuePair>();
      pairs.add(new BasicNameValuePair("LoginUSR", usr));
      pairs.add(new BasicNameValuePair("LoginPASS", password));
      pairs.add(new BasicNameValuePair("Names", updateDataNames));
      pairs.add(new BasicNameValuePair("Usernames", updateDataUsernames));
      pairs.add(new BasicNameValuePair("Phone", updateDataPhone));
      pairs.add(new BasicNameValuePair("Radius", updateDataRadius));
      pairs.add(new BasicNameValuePair("Checked", updateDataChecked));
      pairs.add(new BasicNameValuePair("GPS", updateGPS));
   
      try
      {
         HttpClient client = new DefaultHttpClient();
         HttpPost post = new HttpPost("http://www.[URL REMOVED].com/file.php");
         post.setEntity(new UrlEncodedFormEntity(pairs));
         HttpResponse response = client.execute(post);
         HttpEntity entity = response.getEntity();
         
         final InputStream is = entity.getContent();
         
         BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(is,"iso-8859-1"),8);
         StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
           String line = null;
           while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null) {
                   sb.append(line);
           }
           is.close();

           result=sb.toString();
          
      }
      catch(Exception e)
      {
         
         Log.e("log_tag", "Error in http connection "+e.toString());
      }
      //-------------------------------------
      
       return result;
    }
}


EDIT: This thread better describes the problem I'm having and the reason why: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1037 ... -ics-fails

Apparently I can not do networking on main thread, I have to move it to a background thread, or use AsyncTask. I'm really not sure what either of those things mean / how to do them (newbie programmer here). Any help is appreciated.