What/Where is my device log??

[FullWolfMoon]

My phone isn't rooted or anything and I have a slight problem/question. Where/what is my device's log and how do I send it? I have a bug in an app (actually a widget), and contacted the maker, and they're asking for my device's log. But I have no clue what this is or how to send it. Still fairly new to my smart phone/android so sorry if this has an obvious answer.

Happy with my LG Optimus V!

 

[JerryScript]

It's called logcat, I don't know if you can run it unrooted. To try, download and install Terminal Emulator from the market. Open it and type in:

logcat > /sdcard/logcat.txt

Then press your home key, then try to open the app in question and do whatever you are reporting as a bug.

Then go back into Terminal Emulator, and hold down the volume button and press the letter C on the keyboard to stop logcat.

Now use a file manager, and you will find your logcat.txt file on your sdcard if it all worked. Send that to the dev of the app in question.

 

[sadielynn]

Or you can get alogcat from the market. Open it, go to preferences, tick the box for share as HTML (or something like that) exit preferences. Bring up the menu again and select share. Select Gmail from the popup list. (you might have to select save from the menu before you can share, i can't remember.) you definitely don't have to be rooted for this method. I had to send a log to a dev once, this is how he told me to do it. Easy peasy

*edit to add-i guess I left out the part where you do the thing that was causing the problem. Do that before saving and sharing.

 

[JerryScript]

And here I am doing it the geeky way

 

[AndyOpie150]

Don't let the geeky way die out. Who else is going to save us "Nuub's" from ourselves.