You could change it to:
android:targetSdkVersion="9"
API 10 corresponds to honeycomb, while 9 is gingerbread. This behavior is only seen in APIs 10 and above.
However, I would advise against this. Instead, you should move any long running operations, or operations with the possibility of running for long into a background thread, like an AsyncTask.
You could also try to set Strict Mode off using:
StrictMode.ThreadPolicy policy = new StrictMode.ThreadPolicy.Builder().permitAll().build();
StrictMode.setThreadPolicy(policy);