Android Eclipse failing to debug

Question

Debugging of my app is now suddenly broken. It has been fine up to now and I even reloaded a known good version of my entire code and it still fails to debug or even run.

Answer 1

I know this is kind of late.... use it if @Sam's or @Killesk's answers do not work.

1. ensure the manifest sets android:debuggable.

2. In onCreate, add a call to Debug.waitForDebugger.

Adding the call to waitForDebugger also works when reversing. For example you can add the following by hand in onCreate and have smali/baksmali recompile it:

invoke-static {}, Landroid/os/Debug;->waitForDebugger()V

I don't have to use the tricks often, but when I do, waitForDebugger always works. I don't recall a time I could not snap the debugger with it.