Android – Refresh fragment view when button is clicked

I have a fragment activity that uses a ViewPager to display a set of fragments. On the fragment activity I have a button that when clicked, it sends a message to the current fragment to refresh its contents. Everything works ok (activity / current fragment communication) except the fact that I cannot refresh the fragment's view. Accessing the current view by getView() does not work as this function returns null; it seems that after the fragment is created (on ViewCreated is called) getView gets destroyed. Am I missing something here? How to I cause a fragment to redraw its contents programmatically? It seems that the only way this works is when the fragment is created from the parent activity. Do I have to remove and re-add the fragment again to do this?

Here is the code:

The main activity:

public class MainActivity extends FragmentActivity {

    private MyAdapter mAdapter;
    private static ViewPager mPager;

        @Override
        public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
                super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
                setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
                setupViewPager();
        }

        @Override
        public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
                getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.activity_main, menu);
                return true;
        }

        @Override
        public boolean onPrepareOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
                return super.onPrepareOptionsMenu(menu);
        }

        @Override
        public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item) {
                switch (item.getItemId()) {

                case R.id.menu_test:
                        updateFragment();
                        return true;

                default: return true;
                }
        }

        private void updateFragment() {
                for (int i=0; i< mAdapter.getCount(); i++) {
                        SampleFragment fragment = (SampleFragment) mAdapter.getItem(i);
                        fragment.update();
                }
        }

        private void setupViewPager() {
                try {
                        mAdapter = new MyAdapter(getSupportFragmentManager());

                        mPager = (ViewPager) findViewById(R.id.pager);
                        mPager.setAdapter(this.mAdapter);

                } catch (Exception e) {
                        e.printStackTrace();
                }
        }

        public class MyAdapter extends FragmentPagerAdapter {

                public MyAdapter(FragmentManager fm) {
                        super(fm);
                }

                @Override
                public Fragment getItem(int position) {
                        SampleFragment fragment = new SampleFragment(position); 
                        return fragment;
                }

                @Override
                public int getCount() {
                        return 5;
                }
        }
}

and the fragment class:

public class SampleFragment extends Fragment{

        private int myPosition = -1;

        public SampleFragment(int position) {
                this.myPosition = position;
        }

        @Override
        public void onAttach(Activity activity) {
                super.onAttach(activity);
        }

        @Override
        public View onCreateView(LayoutInflater inflater, ViewGroup container, Bundle savedInstanceState) {
                View view = inflater.inflate(R.layout.fragment, container, false);
                update(view, "Updated from onCreateView");
                return view;
        }

        @Override
        public void onActivityCreated(Bundle bundle) {
                super.onActivityCreated(bundle);
        }

        @Override
        public void onViewCreated(View view, Bundle savedInstanceState) {
                super.onViewCreated(view, savedInstanceState);

                view.findViewById(R.id.textTitle).setOnClickListener(myClickListener);
        }

        private OnClickListener myClickListener = new OnClickListener() {
                @Override
                public void onClick(View v) {
                        switch (v.getId()) {

                        case R.id.textTitle:
                                break;

                        }
                }
        };

        public void update() {
                update(getView(), "Updated from main");
        }

        private void update(View view, String subtitleText) {
                TextView title = (TextView) view.findViewById(R.id.textTitle);
                TextView subtitle = (TextView) view.findViewById(R.id.textSubtitle);

                title.setText("Fragment " + myPosition);
                subtitle.setText(subtitleText);
        }
}

The error happens on view.FindViewById (view is null) when called from the menu item in the main activity.