diff --git a/src/api-impl/android/app/SharedPreferencesImpl.java b/src/api-impl/android/app/SharedPreferencesImpl.java
index f54231c5..2560155d 100644
--- a/src/api-impl/android/app/SharedPreferencesImpl.java
+++ b/src/api-impl/android/app/SharedPreferencesImpl.java
@@ -365,7 +365,8 @@ public final class SharedPreferencesImpl implements SharedPreferences {
                 };
 
 //            QueuedWork.add(awaitCommit);
-			awaitCommit.run();
+// since we've made this synchronous, we can't exactly start "waiting" for the commit before we made the commit
+//			awaitCommit.run();
 
             Runnable postWriteRunnable = new Runnable() {
                     public void run() {
diff --git a/src/api-impl/android/os/Handler.java b/src/api-impl/android/os/Handler.java
index a2395bd6..3dfe731d 100644
--- a/src/api-impl/android/os/Handler.java
+++ b/src/api-impl/android/os/Handler.java
@@ -595,7 +595,21 @@ public class Handler {
             return false;
         }
         return enqueueMessage(queue, msg, uptimeMillis);*/
-		return true;
+		if(mCallback != null) {
+//			System.out.println("Handler.sendMessageAtTime: directly calling mCallback.handleMessage)");
+			if(msg.callback != null) {
+				msg.callback.run();
+			}
+			return mCallback.handleMessage(msg);
+		} else {
+//			System.out.println("Handler.sendMessageAtTime: not directly calling mCallback.handleMessage - mCallback is null)");
+/* do this in this case as well?
+			if(msg.callback != null) {
+				msg.callback.run();
+			}
+*/
+			return true; // false?
+		}
     }
 
     /**
diff --git a/src/api-impl/android/os/Looper.java b/src/api-impl/android/os/Looper.java
index 99b0c4aa..88bd9be5 100644
--- a/src/api-impl/android/os/Looper.java
+++ b/src/api-impl/android/os/Looper.java
@@ -114,8 +114,9 @@ public final class Looper {
      * Run the message queue in this thread. Be sure to call
      * {@link #quit()} to end the loop.
      */
-    public static void loop() {/*
-        final Looper me = myLooper();
+    public static void loop() {
+		System.out.println("oops, Looper.loop called... and we don't implement that");
+        /*final Looper me = myLooper();
         if (me == null) {
             throw new RuntimeException("No Looper; Looper.prepare() wasn't called on this thread.");
         }