Android - dismissDialog does not dismiss the dialog

Question

I am using the showDialog() and dismissDialog() to show progress dialogs in my app. Moved from creating the dialog and calling show()

Answer 1

After searching through all kinds of forums, i just did the following:

I call the showDialog(MyDialogID) AND dismissDialog(MyDialogId) out of the handleMessage(myMessage) Method from my Handler.

Before that i called showDialog in my onCreate()-Method and tried to dismiss the dialog in handle-Message. Why this solved the problem, i cant tell.