Serial.println(String) prints empty line

Hello again,

my actual project is a windowsphone app. With this app i want to control some led lights over bluetooth -> means that a command string comes over softwareserial

I have already solved a lot myself, but now I need support.

First Problem is that these 2 Lines only prints an empty row on the serial console, but not the word TEST.

In a simple sketch this is working good! But not in my program, an i don't know why.

 look at the simple example at the bottom 

String pointer5 = "TEST";
Serial.println(pointer5); 

Second, this has not worked:

if (pointer[5] == "True" {

}

.

.

Is there a solution?

#include <WS2811Driver.h>

#include <SoftwareSerial.h>

const int TX_BT = 13;
const int RX_BT = 12;

const int PIN_RED = 2;
const int PIN_GREEN = 14;
const int PIN_YELLOW = 7;

const int PIN_PROXIMITY_SENSOR = 5;

SoftwareSerial btSerial(TX_BT, RX_BT);
byte leds0[30];
WS2811Driver ledStrip;
const char* color = "";


#define SOP '<'
#define EOP '>'


bool started = false;
bool ended = false;

int commandSize = 0;
int commandPos = 0;
char command[40];
char *pointer[6];

void processCommand(char* command) {
    btSerial.end();
    
  char *p = command;
  char *str;
  int i =0;
  
  
while ((str = strtok_r(p, ",", &p)) != NULL) // delimiter is comma
 {   
 
 pointer[i] = str;
 i++;
 }



 Serial.println("NEW COMMAND");
 Serial.println(pointer[0]);
 Serial.println(pointer[1]);
 Serial.println(pointer[2]);
 Serial.println(pointer[3]);
 Serial.println(pointer[4]);
 Serial.println(pointer[5]);
 String pointer5 = "TEST";   
 Serial.println(pointer5);   //This Line is printing an empty row, not TEST

    btSerial.begin(9600);  
}




//Setup MSP430 function
void setup() {
  Serial.begin(9600);
  //Serial.println("USB Connected");
  btSerial.begin(9600);
  
  pinMode(PIN_RED, OUTPUT);
  pinMode(PIN_GREEN, OUTPUT);
  pinMode(PIN_YELLOW, OUTPUT);  
  
  pinMode(PIN_PROXIMITY_SENSOR, INPUT_PULLUP);
  
  ledStrip.setLEDCount(10); // setup for 4 leds on a strip
  ledStrip.begin();   
}
 //Loop MSP430 function
void loop() {
  if(btSerial.available()) {
      commandSize = (int)btSerial.read();
      
      commandPos = 0;
      
      while(commandPos < commandSize) {
        if(btSerial.available()) {
        char buffer = btSerial.read();   
        if(buffer == SOP)    {
        commandPos = 0;
        command[commandPos] = '\0';
        started = true;
        ended = false;
        }
        else if(buffer == EOP){
        ended = true;
        break;
        }
        else
        {
        command[commandPos] = buffer;
        commandPos++;
        command[commandPos] = '\0';
        }
        }
        } //end while
        }
  if(started && ended)
  {
    // The end of packet marker arrived. Process the packet
    processCommand(command);
    // Reset for the next packet
    started = false;
    ended = false;
    commandPos = 0;
    command[commandPos] = '\0';
   }
             
} //this is the end

This is the console output:

Update: if I do not turn on software serial, the output of the strings works again

here's some simpler code which shows the strange behavior:

#include <SoftwareSerial.h>


String text = "blablabla";


SoftwareSerial btSerial(P1_4, P1_3);


char command[40];



void setup()
{
  // put your setup code here, to run once:
  Serial.begin(9600);
  //btSerial.begin(9600);            // if you uncomment this line, the String text is not printed:
}

void processCommand(char* command) {
  btSerial.end();
  Serial.println("HELLO");
  Serial.println(text);             //works only with btSerial.begin(9600) commentet above
  
}

  void loop() {
   
  
       processCommand(command);
  delay(500);      
}