Yo tengo unAsynTask y tratando de recuperar unjson Y lo analizo, pero me sale este error:

03-21 11:38:07.033: E/AndroidRuntime(8439): FATAL EXCEPTION: main
03-21 11:38:07.033: E/AndroidRuntime(8439): java.lang.NullPointerException
03-21 11:38:07.033: E/AndroidRuntime(8439):     at org.json.JSONTokener.nextCleanInternal(JSONTokener.java:116)
03-21 11:38:07.033: E/AndroidRuntime(8439):     at org.json.JSONTokener.nextValue(JSONTokener.java:94)
03-21 11:38:07.033: E/AndroidRuntime(8439):     at org.json.JSONObject.<init>(JSONObject.java:154)
03-21 11:38:07.033: E/AndroidRuntime(8439):     at org.json.JSONObject.<init>(JSONObject.java:171)
03-21 11:38:07.033: E/AndroidRuntime(8439):     at Dic.proj.pkg.notifService.parse_if_update(notifService.java:191)
03-21 11:38:07.033: E/AndroidRuntime(8439):     at Dic.proj.pkg.notifService y tratando de recuperar un1$1.onPostExecute(notifService.java:153)
03-21 11:38:07.033: E/AndroidRuntime(8439):     at Dic.proj.pkg.notifService y tratando de recuperar un1$1.onPostExecute(notifService.java:1)
03-21 11:38:07.033: E/AndroidRuntime(8439):     at android.os.AsyncTask.finish(AsyncTask.java:631)
03-21 11:38:07.033: E/AndroidRuntime(8439):     at android.os.AsyncTask.access$600(AsyncTask.java:177)
03-21 11:38:07.033: E/AndroidRuntime(8439):     at android.os.AsyncTask$InternalHandler.handleMessage(AsyncTask.java:644)
03-21 11:38:07.033: E/AndroidRuntime(8439):     at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)
03-21 11:38:07.033: E/AndroidRuntime(8439):     at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:137)
03-21 11:38:07.033: E/AndroidRuntime(8439):     at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:4921)
03-21 11:38:07.033: E/AndroidRuntime(8439):     at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
03-21 11:38:07.033: E/AndroidRuntime(8439):     at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:511)
03-21 11:38:07.033: E/AndroidRuntime(8439):     at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:1027)
03-21 11:38:07.033: E/AndroidRuntime(8439):     at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:794)
03-21 11:38:07.033: E/AndroidRuntime(8439):     at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)

y esta es miparse_if_update función:

public static String parse_if_update(String jsonResponse) {
    String update="no";

    try {
        JSONObject json = new JSONObject(jsonResponse);
        update = json.getString("update");
    } catch (JSONException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }

    if(update == null){
        update="no";
    }
    return update;
}

Que pasa Pasé dos días para resolver este problema. A veces encuentro valores nulos pero no sé cómo tratarlos.