“Unable to open log device '/dev/log/main': No such file or directory”

Question

I am new to Android development and bought a cheap Huawei Sonic (U8650 apparently) so I could test my first attempts at making an app on an actual device.

However, w

Answer 1

I have actually found an answer for this finally!

I was having another aimless look to see if anything had been updated about this anywhere and came across a post on xda-developers about a slightly different Huawei device with the same problem.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=17774398&postcount=93

It actually worked. I have complete logcat logging on my Huawei Sonic (U8650) now.

Three cheers for not giving up.

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Solution, copied from the xda (in case it is removed etc):

There is a hidden service-menu where you can set loggin up. The
service-menu is started by "dialing" this phone number:

*#*#2846579#*#*