ksoap2 xmlPullParserException unterminated entity ref

Question

I have a user email me yesterday that he is having a problem with my application so i started debugging with him and had him sent me the log of the phone and he is getting a

Answer 1

I was having the same problem on an Android 2.2 device and found that ksoap2 2.6.5 isn't compatible with Android 2.2. Well I think that's the problem, all I know is it throws these errors. I downgraded my ksoap2 to 2.4 and it started working again.

Answer 2

Unterminated entity this error occurs when

1... Error in response string may be some entity are not closed.

<root>
    <a> first </a>
    <b>second             <----- </b> missing here
</roor>

2... You are getting some xml character in xml file

 like      & { } � ...

you need to replace all & with & amp; see this answer

...
String str = writer.toString();
str = str.replaceAll("&","&");
str = str.replaceAll("?","?");
return str;

Answer 3

I had the same problem. the solution was when I send the response from the XML I have to replace the "&" with & in the username, for that some users had the problem but others no.

So step 2 in "MAC" answer