IllegalStateException: Can not perform this action after onSaveInstanceState - How to prevent?

Please check my answer here. Basically I just had to : @Override protected void onSaveInstanceState(Bundle outState) { //No call for super(). Bug on API Level > 11. } don't make the call to super() on the saveInstanceState method. This was messing things up... EDIT: after some more research, this is a know bug in the support package. If you nead to save the instance, and add something to your outState Bundle you can use the following : @Override protected void onSaveInstanceState(Bundle outState) { outState.putString("WORKAROUND_FOR_BUG_19917_KEY", "WORKAROUND_FOR_BUG_19917_VALUE"); super.onSaveInstanceState(outState); } http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7575921/illegalstateexception-can-not-perform-this-action-after-onsaveinstancestate-h