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Originally Posted by Fatespinner

Hi all,

I have a problem with my reader. It randomly freezes. I want to find the root cause of the failure. Are there any log files where errors and exceptions and problems are recorded?
If yes, how can I access them?

There're no log files on android. There is a (fairly large) ring buffer where all apps and services dump their messages. It can be pretty messy as most android devices out there are very verbose in nature.

You can access with

adb logcat

but usually, without any kind of filters, is impossible to read in real time.


You can do some filtering by telling logcat you're interested in warnings or above for all tags.

adb logcat *:W

, find meaningless tags that are superverbose, filter them with

adb logcat *:W AnnoyingTag:S

and repeat it n times until you get something readable.

But if the device in question is the one of the signature I would recommend (in order, accumulative)

1. try to reproduce freezes with a different launcher
2. try to reproduce freezes with all your documents in a folder with a ".nomedia" file
3. try to reproduce freezes with google play services disabled.

Hopefully it is the launcher