SurfaceView extremely low framerate.

For some reason when using surface view I'm getting around 5 fps... Here's an idea of what I coded to measure the fps:

//game loop part of code(in another thread)
long start = System.currentTimeMillis();
while(game running){
     end = System.currentTimeMillis();
          if ((end - start) >= 1000) {
              Log.d("PERSONAL", "FPS: " + fps + "    milliseconds " +     Long.toString(end - start));
              start = System.currentTimeMillis();
              fps = 0;
          }
drawMethod();

}

//DrawMethod
public void drawMethod(){
    fps++;
} 

My question is how do I fix this problem of having such a low frame rate? Is this normal when using a surfaceview? And if so, how can I fix it?

I would really appreciate some help..