Android not getting past serverSocket.accept(); - android

I am currently trying to open a socket in android, but my code keeps sticking at one sentence.
private ServerSocket serverSocket;
private Socket clientSocket;
private PrintWriter out;
private BufferedReader in;
public void run(){
Log.i("DebugMessage", "ServerThread received pulse. Trying to open socket now!");
try{
serverSocket = new ServerSocket(25555);
Log.i("DebugMessage", "serverSocket is open, waiting for the clientSocket.");
clientSocket = serverSocket.accept();
Log.i("DebugMessage", "serverSocket and clientSocket are both open! Waiting for in-/output!");
in = new BufferedReader(
new InputStreamReader(clientSocket.getInputStream()));
out = new PrintWriter(clientSocket.getOutputStream(), true);
String input = in.readLine();
out.println("received: " + input);
in.close();
out.close();
} catch(Exception e) {
Log.i("DebugMessage", "Failed to open socket!");
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
At clientSocket = serverSocket.accept(); it keeps sticking.
Now I have seen this question a few other times, but the answers given were totally different.
Here is being said that it is about his code, and here is being said that the problem is with the emulator. Now my question is, is my problem with the emulator or my code, and if it is with my code, how is it possible to fix it?
By the way, I have added these lines to AndroidManifest.xml:
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET" >
</uses-permission>

The answer of FD_ is correct but i want to clarify it a bit. accept() calls wait(). So the thread will wait for a connection.
You may want to call such code from a other thread.

ServerSocket.accept() waits until a device connects to the socket's port (25555 in your case) on your device's ip address. It will only proceed and return a Socket when there is a new connection.
You'll find more information in the docs.

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What am I doing wrong? Why is it not registering the command?
UPDATE:
I have used several telnet clients for testing, and the server is reading the 'r' command as expected on some. It works using a windows telnet client, and it works using the vSSH app by Velestar. Interestingly enough, when testing this with the android telnet client by ClockworkMod, the server is not registering the command either.
Could it be something to do with encoding?
Do I need any additional permissions to work with sockets? I have android.permission.INTERNET declared in the manifest.
UPDATE 2:
The developer of of the hardware just told me that the hardware is expecting the command to be ASCII encoded and CR terminated. So I will try changing PrintWrite initialization to:
PrintWriter writer = new PrintWriter(new BufferedWriter( new OutputStreamWriter(socket.getOutputStream(), "ASCII")), true);
and the print command to:
writer.print(command+"\r");
Changing the the encoding type to "US-ASCII" and adding a carriage return instead of a new line did the trick. I'm able to read and write data as expected.
From my understanding of your problem description, you have a telnet server, and when a telnet client connects to that server, the server start sending the client log data. The client may send an "r" to the server to stop the log stream.
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Please make sure you've added the internet permission.
If you did, run this on a real device.
If it still doesn't work, paste the logcat.

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