Logcat in eclipse keeps auto clearing

Question

until recently my logcat has been fine but all of the sudden whenever i try to view it in eclipse it just keeps clearing itself whenever anything is displayed making it impo

Answer 1

There's a workaround for this bug. Click active mode button (usually verbose), choose another device from device list and choose previous device again. It will restore all logcat messages.

Answer 2

It will show one line before erasing it to show the next one? Just click the verbose button again.

Answer 3

LogCat is really annoying for this. In Ubuntu, I found the following works really well:

Open a terminal and type adb logcat | grep MYINFO

This will only show adb messages filtered by the MYINFO string.

So, you can code something like:

Log.v("MYINFO", "x" + x_value + ", etc...");

This is such a relief to use. A life saver! See this for more info.

You may find sometimes the logcat buffer repeats previous logs on starting again. To overcome this, type

adb logcat -c

Answer 4

The Logcat messages were simple getting cleared because the buffer had run out of space (receiving too many new messages), which is a simple setting change in Eclipse.

To fix, go to Window > Preferences > Android > LogCat

and increase the limit for "Maximum number of LogCat messages to buffer". Set it to 0 for unlimited size, or a really big number. But keep in mind, anything below 10000 fills up real fast.

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