Logcat logs continuously on device - android

Yesterday, logCat suddenly started to log numerous device-events, once the device is connected. Before, it just logged whatever I logged for debugging purposes in my app. Does anybody know, what I did to enable this behavior? And how to disable it again?

You can set-up logcat "fliters" to filter out messages only from your application.
You can set filters based on tags, pid, etc..
Use this link for more info as to how to setup logcat filters:
filtering logcat output

You must have changed the filter of your LogCat to verbose.
You can change the filter of the messages to be displayed on the LogCat by selecting the drop down list on the top right hand corner of your LogCat window.

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What is happening when logcat prints the logs between the time a device was last connected to Android Studio and the present?

Sometimes when a phone connects to Android Studio, it will print logs between the time it was last connected to Android Studio and the present. This is cool, but I can not replicate it. Some times it happens, sometimes it does not.
I have a guess that this is a feature of USB and wireless debugging, and that logs are put in a temporary file so they can be sent to logcat when reconnected. If so, how do I keep the USB debugging from turning off when testing my device in the field during the day, so I can get the logs that were printed during the day? If not, what is happening?
The logs are nothing to do with Android Studio (or logcat in general) - it's just system logging happening on the device, and that happens whether it's connected to a log-reader or not.
At a guess, what's happening is your app's process is being closed, so the next time it runs it gets a different PID (process ID). When you connect it to the computer, your dropdown shows the currently running app process, and filters by its PID, so you don't see the old stuff.
You've probably seen this while debugging - if you re-run your app, the log "clears" and gives you a fresh one for the new run of the app. The old log messages are still there (as well as a hell of a lot of other logs for all the stuff going on on the device - it is noisy), it's just that you can't see them.
The simple thing to try is going to the filter dropdown on the right of the logcat window, and choose No filtering. Then in the filter query thing next to it (with the 🔎) type the name of your app, maybe its package. It's not perfect but it should show you all of the logs it has from your app, along with a bunch of system stuff that's also referring to it. You could get clever with PIDs or setting up a custom filter in the dropdown to get better results.
You might also be interested in the guide (with some filtering tips) and the commandline version if that's more useful to you

Android Studio 3.0 Logcat continuously showing messages and does not stop

When I start debugging my App in Android Studio 3.0 and open the Logcat, it displays so many messages and warnings, but the problem is, it never stops, even when the debugging is completed and the App is terminated, it still prints so many messages continuously.
Can anybody help???
Since you are not debugging or running any application on the device you have connected. Hence, the logcat is displaying the logs generated by all the apps in the device as well as the system logs. Which makes the log cat window go nuts.
What you can do is.
On the top right corner of the log cat window, there is a filter config combo box. Select or create a filter of your own to filter out relevant logs.
The filter could be created using any details, it could be a process ID (PID), the tag name e.g I/ActivityManager: where I stands for Info, V for Verbose, D for Debug and so on.
You can add filter in your Logcat, and mention all the classes whose logs you want to discard.
In the field LogTag (shown in the pic) define a regex like this ^(?!Class A | Class B|#). Here Class A and Class B are the classes whose logs you don't want to see.That's it.
If you see no debuggable application then change it to your app name. If that wont help change the log level to error. Last thing you can try is to filter the results. Good luck!

How to print a string to logcat for testing?

I know this question has been asked before, but I can't find a clear answer. I'm new to Android Studio and the logcat console confuses me. I have a string date and I want to keep 'track' of it in the console so I know what value it has.
I tried commands like Log.i and console.log, but they don't seem to work for me.
Where should I write my print line code?
Where can I see it when it gets printed?
Do I have to run the whole app (on the emulator, or on a device) to print the line to the console?
Where do I write my print line code ?
That is up to you.
Where can I see it when it gets printed ?
In LogCat:
You will get this from the Android view (usually docked on the bottom edge on the left side). Note that I have sometimes encountered a bug where the automatically-applied filter for your app (right-hand drop-down list, above the output) seems to result in nothing showing up in the output. You may need to remove the filters, then adjust the output based on log level.
You can also view LogCat at the command line via adb logcat and in the Android Device Monitor (Tools > Android > Android Device Monitor from the Android Studio main menu).
Do I have to run the hole app (emulator or via a device) to print the line to the console?
Yes.
Your use of Log.i is the correct way to write to Logcat. Here is the documentation for Log.
I typically use a tag that describes the stage I am in (setup, teardown, UI update, etc), and I will usually log any action that can trigger an exception.
To view the Logcat, there should be a window for that in Android Studio. When the windows is not visible, you can access it from a tab in the lower left corner of the screen:
if you want to show logs in error
you can write
Log.e("Your Tag for identy", "Your String ");
if you want to show logs in info
you can write
Log.i("Your Tag for identy", "Your String ");

Eclipse Logcat goes crazy

I was using my Eclipse Logcat crazy normally until yesterday where it started displaying messages without stop.
My message that I am printing using log.d are no longer printed to the log.
Or maybe they are but because of the huge number of messages printed they are gone.
The messages do not stop printing to the log whether I am using the app or not.
The only way to stop it is to unplug my device from the PC otherwise the messages will keep flushing to the logcat
Any suggestions ?
Thanks in advance :)
It sounds like you have no filtering of the log output and therefor sees output for every app on the phone.
Create a logcat filter with your application package name.
In the logcat window, go to "Saved filters", create a new one (if Eclipse hasn´t autocreated one for you) by clicking plus-sign to add. Type a name of your filter and write your application package name under "by Application Name". Click "ok".
When you select it you only see logcat outputs for your specified app.

Eclipse - Limit logcat output to debug relevent logs

I reinstalled my Eclipse and now my Logcat logs everything my phone sends like battery status or mail sending status.
Is there a way to tell Eclipse/Logcat to just log what is really coming from my app which I'm debugging?
Filter the Logcat with "app:com.yourdomain.appname". I've also added a filter that gets rid of more items using a not operator:
tag:^((?!CoreMetrics|InputEventConsistency|memalloc|Adreno200-EGLSUB|Resources|global|TaggingRequest|Facade[B|U]|dalvik|skia|KeyCharacterMap|BackStackEntry|FragmentManager|ServiceRunnable|ServiceLocator|BaseHttpRequest|szipinf|APACHE).)*$
You'll need to edit the list specifically for the items you're seeing, but it's a great way to reduce the static.
You can log using a Tag and then filter in logcat using the same tag. You can add a filter by clicking on the + in the left hand side list. You can recognize it because the first tag will be "All Messages". Clicking through the list enables the filters.
Log.i("MyTag", "some log message");
Also in newer versions of the ADT eclipse plugin, I blieve that it auto-adds your app to the filter list.
In Your LogCat click button(Second Last) to left of the "downarrow button" the click "plus" sign write filter name and in application write the package name of the app you wanna get filtered logs for examole com.yourapp press ok and viola !!!
You can enter search filters in the search box at the top, or you can make those filters permanent via the filters panel visible on left side of eclipse logcat window. If it is not visible then note the button on the top right of logcat that displays/hides it.
"Is there a way to tell Eclipse/Logcat to just log what is really coming from my app which I'm debugging?"
Not exactly. You should be able to do that with the filter "app:com.yourapp". This filters based on the 'application' column/data of the logcat output, which would be perfect but Android devices are rather eratic at adding that information to debug output. Actually, the Nexus 4 is the first phone I've used that reliably specifies that data field in its logcat output.
But even if 'application' column doesn't work for you, you should be able to find other filters that reduce the visible log statements to a manageable level.

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