BitmapFactory.decodeStream Not Working

I'm having a bit of a problem with decodeStream returning null. It seems to be a fairly common problem around, but it's usually pinned down to one of two problems: An OutOfMemory

Solution 1:

Ultimately, the answer was found here, using an InputStream returned by a BufferedHTTPEntity. While it seems needlessly complex, I can only assume that simply getting a stream from the URL object directly doesn't return a stream of the appropriate type, and so it wasn't reading out all the data properly.

Cross-posting the code in case the question is erased:

private static InputStream fetch(String address) throws MalformedURLException,IOException {
    HttpGet httpRequest = new HttpGet(URI.create(address) );
    HttpClient httpclient = new DefaultHttpClient();
    HttpResponse response = (HttpResponse) httpclient.execute(httpRequest);
    HttpEntity entity = response.getEntity();
    BufferedHttpEntity bufHttpEntity = new BufferedHttpEntity(entity);
    InputStream instream = bufHttpEntity.getContent();
    return instream;
}