Android AsyncTask threads limits?

I am developing an application where I need to update some info every time user logs in to the system, I also use database in the phone. For all those operations (updates, retrieving data from db and etc.) I use async tasks. As up till now I didn't see why I shouldn't use them, but recently I experienced that if I do some operations some of my async tasks simply stop on pre-execute and don't jump to doInBackground. That was just too strange to leave it like that, so I developed another simple application just to check whats wrong. And strange enough, I get the same behavior when count of total async tasks reach 5, the 6th one stops on pre-execute.

Does android have a limit of asyncTasks on Activity/App? Or is it just some bug and it should be reported? Did anyone experience the same problem and maybe found a workaround to it?

Here is the code:

Simply create 5 of those threads to work in a background:

private class LongAsync extends AsyncTask<String, Void, String>
{
    @Override
    protected void onPreExecute()
    {
        Log.d("TestBug","onPreExecute");
        isRunning = true;
    }

    @Override
    protected String doInBackground(String... params)
    {
        Log.d("TestBug","doInBackground");
        while (isRunning)
        {

        }
        return null;
    }

    @Override
    protected void onPostExecute(String result)
    {
        Log.d("TestBug","onPostExecute");
    }
}

And then create this thread. It will enter preExecute and hang (it will not go to doInBackground).

private class TestBug extends AsyncTask<String, Void, String>
{
    @Override
    protected void onPreExecute()
    {
        Log.d("TestBug","onPreExecute");

        waiting = new ProgressDialog(TestActivity.this);
        waiting.setMessage("Loading data");
        waiting.setIndeterminate(true);
        waiting.setCancelable(true);
        waiting.show();
    }

    @Override
    protect