FileInputstream android garbage

Question

I am using this code to read input stream but its not working It s giving garbage value in buffer. what's wrong with the code below: //mInputStream is an object of FileInputStream

buf = new byte[4];
int ret = 0;

l("run");
try {
    while ( (ret = mInputStream.read(buf) )!= -1) {
        l("No.of bytes received:"+ret);
        l("Data received length :"+buf.length);
        l("Data received: "+buf.toString());
    }
} catch (IOException e) {
    l("IO exception in receiving");
}

Answer 1

Could try this code:

BufferedReader r = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(mInputStream));
StringBuilder total = new StringBuilder();
String line;
while ((line = r.readLine()) != null) {
    total.append(line);
}
l("String: " + total);

and post the output?