Android - Socket time out

Question

I have some strange socket behavior going on. I've set an timeout of 5 seconds using setSoTimeout. This should be plenty of time in my situation. According to online java documentation a SocketTimeoutException should be thrown if it times out. It also says that the socket is still valid. So I want to catch it and then continue. However instead of the inner catch, the outer catch IOException is catching the expception and when I output to the log the details it says it was a SocketTimeoutException. Another perplexing thing is is I change the timeout from 5 seconds to say, 15 seconds and log the amount of time it take for every read, the times are always in the milli-second range, never even close to a second. Any ideas are GREATLY appreciated.

ReadThread code snippet

@Override
public void run()
{
    try
    {
        while (true)
        {
            byte[] sizeBuffer = new byte[BYTES_FOR_MESSAGE_SIZE];

            int bytesRead = this.inputStream.read(sizeBuffer);

            int length = 0;

            for (int i = 0; i < BYTES_FOR_MESSAGE_SIZE; i++)
            {
                int bitsToShift = 8 * i;
                int current = ((sizeBuffer[i] & 0xff) << bitsToShift);
                length = length | current;
            }

            byte[] messageBuffer = new byte[length];


            this.socket.setSoTimeout(5000); //5 second timeout

            try
            {
               this.inputStream.read(messageBuffer);
            }
            catch(java.net.SocketTimeoutException ste)
            {
               Log.e(this.toString(), "---- SocketTimeoutException caught ----");
               Log.e(this.toString(), ste.toString());
            }

        }
    }
    catch (IOException ioe)
    {
       Log.e(this.toString(), "IOException caught in ReadThread");
       Log.e(this.toString(), ioe.toString());
       ioe.printStackTrace();
    }
    catch (Exception e)
    {
       Log.e(this.toString(), "Exception caught in ReadThread");
       Log.e(this.toString(), e.toString());
       e.printStackTrace();
    }

    this.interfaceSocket.socketClosed();

}// end run