CountDownTimer Error: Can't create handler inside thread that has not called Looper.prepare()

Today I was getting this error "Can't create handler inside thread that has not called Looper.prepare()" in a CountDownTimer. All this time this code used to work perfectly but suddenly it stopped.

Problem is, in CountDownTimer.java (Android source code) it creates a mHandler inside the code which makes the caller should call the CountDownTimer class on UI thread which is not possible in my case. So I created a separate Timer class,

Timer cTimer = new Timer();

private final static int START_FROM = 60;

cTimer.scheduleAtFixedRate(new TimerTask() {

int i = START_FROM ;

public void run() {

Log.d(TAG, "Comparison will start in:" + i--);

if (i< 0) {

cTimer.cancel();

// Do something

}

}

}, 0, 1000);