Android smooth game loop

I have problems with smooth scrolling in OpenGL (testing on SGS2 and ACE)
I created simple applications - only fixed speed horizontal scrolling of images, or only one image (player) moving by accelerator, but it's movement is not smooth :-(
I tried many various of code but no satisfaction...

first I tried work with GLSurfaceView.RENDERMODE_CONTINUOUSLY and I put all code to onDrawFrame:

    public void onDrawFrame(GL10 gl) 
    {
      updateGame(gl, 0.017f);
      drawGame(gl); 
    }

this is the simplest and absolute smooth!! - but it's dependent on hardware speed (= useless)

    public void onDrawFrame(GL10 gl) 
    { 
      frameTime = SystemClock.elapsedRealtime();        
      elapsedTime = (frameTime - lastTime) / 1000; 
      updateGame(gl, elapsedTime);
      drawGame(gl); 
      lastTime = frameTime; 
    }

this is the best of all but it's not as smooth as the previous, sometimes flick


second I tried GLSurfaceView.RENDERMODE_WHEN_DIRTY, in onDrawFrame i have only drawing objects and this code in separate Thread:

   while (true) 
   {
     updateGame(renderer, 0.017f);
     mGLSurfaceView.requestRender();
     next_game_tick += SKIP_TICKS;
     sleep_time = next_game_tick - System.currentTimeMillis();
     if (sleep_time >= 0) 
     {
       try 
       {
          Thread.sleep(sleep_time);
       } 
       catch (Exception e) {}
       }
       else 
       {
         Log.d("running behind: ", String.valueOf(sleep_time));
       }
     } 

this is not smooth and it's not problem with "running behind"


My objective is smooth image movement like in first code example above.

Possible error is somewhere else then I looking. Please, Can somebody help me with this?
Is better use RENDERMODE_WHEN_DIRTY or RENDERMODE_CONTINUOUSLY?

Than