diff --git a/android/app/src/main/java/com/classicube/MainActivity.java b/android/app/src/main/java/com/classicube/MainActivity.java
index 6dff6fe48..09316663f 100644
--- a/android/app/src/main/java/com/classicube/MainActivity.java
+++ b/android/app/src/main/java/com/classicube/MainActivity.java
@@ -63,8 +63,9 @@ public class MainActivity extends Activity {
 	//  Therefore pushing/pulling events must be thread-safe, which is achieved through ConcurrentLinkedQueue
 	//  Additionally, a cache is used (freeCmds) to avoid constantly allocating NativeCmdArgs instances
 	class NativeCmdArgs { public int cmd, arg1, arg2, arg3, arg4; public String str; public Surface sur; }
-	Queue<NativeCmdArgs> pending  = new ConcurrentLinkedQueue<NativeCmdArgs>();
-	Queue<NativeCmdArgs> freeCmds = new ConcurrentLinkedQueue<NativeCmdArgs>();
+	// static to persist across activity destroy/create
+	static Queue<NativeCmdArgs> pending  = new ConcurrentLinkedQueue<NativeCmdArgs>();
+	static Queue<NativeCmdArgs> freeCmds = new ConcurrentLinkedQueue<NativeCmdArgs>();
 	
 	NativeCmdArgs getCmdArgs() {
 		NativeCmdArgs args = freeCmds.poll();
@@ -136,8 +137,9 @@ public class MainActivity extends Activity {
 	// ======================================
 	// --------------- EVENTS ---------------
 	// ======================================
-	static boolean gameRunning;
 	InputMethodManager input;
+	// static to persist across activity destroy/create
+	static boolean gameRunning;
 
 	void startGameAsync() {
 		Log.i("CC_WIN", "handing off to native..");
diff --git a/src/Http_Worker.c b/src/Http_Worker.c
index 8fcf51a03..37228e78f 100644
--- a/src/Http_Worker.c
+++ b/src/Http_Worker.c
@@ -631,8 +631,8 @@ static cc_result HttpBackend_Do(struct HttpRequest* req, cc_string* url) {
 *-----------------------------------------------------Android backend-----------------------------------------------------*
 *#########################################################################################################################*/
 struct HttpRequest* java_req;
-static JMethodID JAVA_httpInit, JAVA_httpSetHeader, JAVA_httpPerform, JAVA_httpSetData;
-static JMethodID JAVA_httpDescribeError;
+static jmethodID JAVA_httpInit, JAVA_httpSetHeader, JAVA_httpPerform, JAVA_httpSetData;
+static jmethodID JAVA_httpDescribeError;
 
 cc_bool Http_DescribeError(cc_result res, cc_string* dst) {
 	char buffer[NATIVE_STR_LEN];
@@ -741,7 +741,7 @@ static cc_result HttpBackend_Do(struct HttpRequest* req, cc_string* url) {
 
 	req->_capacity   = 0;
 	http_curProgress = HTTP_PROGRESS_FETCHING_DATA;
-	res = JavaInstanceCall_Int(env, JAVA_httpPerform, args);
+	res = JavaInstanceCall_Int(env, JAVA_httpPerform, NULL);
 	http_curProgress = 100;
 	return res;
 }