Why doesn't logcat show anything in my Android?

Question

Why doesn't logcat show anything in my Android (while developing apps with Eclipse)?

It just doesn't print anything. It's empty.

Answer 1

Maybe you have Mylyn installed?

http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=1808

Answer 2

I had this same issue but my fix was much more basic:

If the LogCat panel is empty in Eclipse the emulator doesn't have the focus. Go to the DDMS perspective and try clicking on the 'emulator' entry in the Devices panel (top-left screen).

Answer 3

Dial

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and you will see a hidden menu. Go to the Project Menu > Background Setting > Log setting and define the log availability (log switch) and level (log level setting).

Please note this may apply to Huawei phones only as is stated for an Ideos X3 (here) and is tested at a Honor U8860.

Answer 4

If clicking in Devices panel doesn't bring the spam, use reset adb in dropout menu from triangle on the right of the snapshot button.

Answer 5

I have the same problem on/off and the way I solved is by File>>Restart (restart the eclipse)

Answer 6

While the answer provided by MoMo will resolve the problem temporarily it will most likely reoccur the next time you launch Eclipse, or launch on a different Emulator/Device.

Instead of always having to select my device in the devices view I've found a better solution is to go into your Eclipse preferences and navigate to Android -> LogCat in the list on the left and then enable "Monitor logcat for messages from applications in workspace".

This way no matter what device you are using logcat will automatically start showing output from it as soon as the application launches.

It will also setup a filter that ensures that only output from your application is displayed, which you can reuse / disable as needed.

Answer 7

Maybe the log is not enabled in your device. Try to run the following command.

adb shell
echo 1 > /sys/kernel/logger/log_main/enable

Answer 8

OK. This is how I got it to work. I first followed MoMo's advice, that is...

If the LogCat panel is empty in Eclipse the emulator doesn't have the focus. Go to the DDMS perspective and try clicking on the 'emulator' entry in the Devices panel (top-left screen).

But to no avail.

I then attempted to reset adb (Android Debug Bridge) as suggested by furikuretsu. How? Window -> Devices -> upside down triangle menu button -> Reset adb.

It also didn't work, but I did get the following message:

Android hierarchyviewer: Unable to get the focused window from device

This meant that MoMo was right in that my Android device or emulator didn't have focus. However, the solution I did in my case is different.

What worked for me:

1) Replugged my Android device, which was connected to my computer via USB.

2) Restarted Eclipse, as mentioned by Abu Hamzah (although since I didn't know I can do File -> Restart, I manually closed down Eclipse, and then restarted the application again.)

I can now see logs in my logcat.

Hope this helps you too.

Answer 9

If you are using a device, the simplest check is to restart eclipse.

** you don't have to shutdown eclipse **

use File > Restart

in a quick second or two you should see your LogCat return

Answer 10

The simplest solution worked for me: Shutdown and restart my phone and Eclipse alike.

Answer 11

I think, you haven't selected device or emulator , on which running your application,

In eclipse go to DDMS Perspective and select device or emulator on which you are running your application.

(Note: No need to restart the Eclipse)

Answer 12

Go to Developer settings and check that for Debugging\Select App for Debugging is empty

Answer 13

If using the DDMS to refocus doesn't work, try closing and restarting LogCat. That helped me.

Answer 14

I've had this happen occasionally. Closing and re-opening Eclipse seems to fix it.

Answer 15

It gets interesting when you find out that NONE of ALL THE ANSWERS in this thread were helpful.

And then you find out that in your version of ADT 22.6.3.v201404151837-1123206 if you add two filters with the same package name(application name) then the log will not appear.

It was weird because the log was there two seconds ago, and launching the app in debug mode adds a default filter for the app which collides with the filter I've setup manually, and then ADT magically removes all the log, and NONE of the filter worked including the All messages(no filters)!

I hope I saved someone some time... I was at it for almost an hour.

==== UPDATE ====

And then I spent another short while figuring that this was masking another issue...

I'm working with dual screens, the second one is connected via VGA/RGB - (not really sure how its called) and what can I do, I'm a ton more comfortable with the logcat away from my code editors, so I've placed it in another window, and as it turns out that is the main reason for the disappearing logs for me.

Answer 16

In case if you are using cynogenmod in your mobile it will disable logging by default, try this method:

In your device, open "/system/etc/init.d/" folder If there are many files, try opening each file and find for this line:

rm /dev/log/main

Now, comment this line like this: # rm /dev/log/main

save the file and reboot.

Answer 17

I had faced the same issue but in my case logs are shown when other devices are connected and not shown when my device is connected.

It took me days and finally, the issue resolved when I restarted my phone.

Answer 18

Check if the Console is telling you something. Usually this happen when the project could not be install in the device, and just show the previous one. The most common case I has seen this is when there are different signatures in the project, and is not running at all. Please, read all red letter you see. If the LogCat does not show anything, take for sure that the Console will do.

Answer 19

I had the same issue. No need to restart Eclipse or clean your project. You may follow:

1. Click on LogCat icon on bottom right corner of eclipse.
2. In Saved Filter Pane (Left side), double click package of your project (in my case it's com.apps..*).
3. In Logcate Message Filter Settings popup, select desired option of "by Log Level". You can select verbose, info, error etc.
4. Click Ok.
5. Run/Debug your project.

Answer 20

What worked for me besides restarting eclipse is:

• Remove custom filters

After removing all filters, logcat was filled with text again Hope this will be helpful to someone else

Answer 21

Close logcat and then reopen it from Window>Show View>Others

Answer 22

If you're using Eclipse Mars (at least, Mars.1 or Mars.2), try the solution described here: Logcat show invisible messages in Eclipse Mars.

It helped in my case.

Answer 23

This is simple.

Just close the Logcat from eclipse.

Then reopen it by following steps in Eclipse.

Window - Show View - Other - Android - LogCat - ok

Hope this solves your problem.

Answer 24

Set the same date and time in your android phone and in your laptop.

I had a similar problem of logs not showing, and when I set the correct date in the phone I started seeing the logs (I restarted the phone and the hour was completely wrong!).

Answer 25

Many times when I switched to a new Android device, I do see no more logcat messages. Unfortunately, none of the above suggestions worked for me (Eclipse Photon 4.8.0).

I am now using this . It seems to work for different devices.

Answer 26

If you tried all of others, and still got losing on Empty logcat. I got an another simple way.

Download a old version of adb, and try again, It might be working, at least working for me with Android 7.0 phone (vendor stopped updating).

Here is the useful link for old versions.

Answer 27

For one plus devices and ubuntu os:-

• Install wine on ubuntu

• Install adb tools on ubuntu

  sudo apt-get install android-tools-adb

• Now, attach your device to PC with USB.

• Open mounted "One Plus Drivers". A disc like icon

• Right click on OnePlus_USB_Drivers_setup.exe and run with wine

• Then open terminal in the present drive where your these "OnePlus_USB_Drivers_setup.exe" and other driver files exists. And run

  ./adb_config_Linux_OSX.sh or sh adb_config_Linux_OSX.sh

• Close this terminal

• Open a new termianl and run

  adb server-start

Your one plus device should prompt you to recognise your pc as a dubugging agent. Now, run on terminal. It should show your device.

adb devices

Reference :- https://forums.oneplus.com/threads/solved-android-studio-does-not-recognise-my-one-plus-two-in-linux.365221/#post-13208160