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Creating A Logcat
In this guide you will learn how to create a logcat to help app developers fix bugs
About Logcat
Logcat is a command line tool that dumps Android system logs, including stuff like errors or warnings.
These logs are very important to figure out what's going wrong!
Prerequisites
You will need
- EITHER a PC with adb set up - A guide to do this can be found here
- OR a rooted phone
Creating a logcat
There are two ways to create a logcat. Either via a pc and adb or via a terminal on your Phone, but this requires root.
You can technically create a logcat with only your phone and no root, but this will only include limited info so it is not very useful!
Creating a logcat using adb on your PC
- Run the following adb command. Unless you added adb to PATH, add a
.\before the command. Having issues? Check our adb Guide
adb shell logcat -c
adb shell logcat *:W > logcat.txt
- If this prints nothing and just freezes your terminal, perfect! That means it's working
- Now just do whatever is needed to cause the issue on your phone
- Once that is done, simply press CTRL+C or close the terminal to stop the logcat
- Your logcat can be found in the adb folder as logcat.txt
Creating a logcat using a rooted Android
- First you need a Terminal. I recommend Termux
- Open it up and run the following command
su -c "logcat -c && logcat *:W > /sdcard/logcat.txt"
- Grant root if prompted
- Now just do whatever is needed to cause the issue on your phone
- Once that is done, simply press CTRL+C or close the terminal to stop the logcat
- Your logcat can be found at /sdcard/logcat.txt which is the root of your file system where there's also stuff like your Download folder