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Sometimes when I'm working with my android projects, and hook up my phone, the logcat in Eclipse starts to report EVERYTHING that's happening on my phone, not just the stuff relative to the project I'm working on. It only does this sometimes though.

How do I stop it from showing everything and just show the things relative to my project?

EDIT: I forgot to say i already know about filters, sorry. I was just wondering why sometimes eclipses logcat shows everything my phone is doing, while other times it only shows what's relative to the project i'm currently working with when running it on the phone.

iedoc
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I forgot to say i already know about filters, sorry.

Then it is because you have a filter selected and/or eclipse has encountered an error and is just not showing everything it should be.

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Next to your logcat window should be a Filter window. Create a filter there. Then select the filter by clicking the filter you have made or was put there automatically by eclipse.

You can filter on several things.

Most people will create a static string in their Main Activity/Service containing the application name. Use this static string as your TAG for all of your Logs. Then you can filter on this string you put for the static string.

Also, right clicking in the logcat window will bring up a filter dialog.

prolink007
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  • Adding a filter fixes the problem, specifically a filter for my application name (com.example.example for example), but just wondering why only sometimes it shows everything my phone is doing while other times it only shows my project's stuff. – iedoc Jul 25 '12 at 14:59
  • You must have a filter selected. Or sometimes (i know it rarely happens) eclipse will bug out and just decide to do whatever it wants to do. Restarting eclipse usually fixes the problem. – prolink007 Jul 25 '12 at 15:04
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You can click on the session filter (left)

Session Filter

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Use

  1. Log.d("key","value");
  2. Log.d("key1","value");
  3. Log.d("key2","value");
  4. Log.d("key2","value");

If you want to see only key1 messages ,then go to Logcat
click on add new logcat filter at top left corner(green color + symbol) see pic then a dialog box will be shown

see pic

then a dialog box will be shown, in that write Filter Name ie anyname
and in , by Log Tag write key1 and click on ok button.Now you will see a new filter on left side of your logcat click on that,you will get only key1 messages

see pic

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I could fix this by selecting my app in the DDMS-view.

It is important to select the app and not only the device. Latter will only create this useless "(Session-Filter)"

And this happens "sometimes" quite like the author asked for, i think if you change your mobile phone or just disconnect it.

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http://developer.android.com/tools/debugging/ddms.html#logcat

You can also setup your own custom filter to specify more details such as filtering messages with the log tags or with the process id that generated the log message. The add filter, edit filter, and delete filter buttons let you manage your custom filters.

Use filters to define what you want to look at.

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If you are using Eclipse, when viewing the LogCat view, there is a little green "+" button in the upper right corner. This will allow you to create a filter. Simply give your filter a name and input the TAG it should filter by.

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If you are developing with Eclipse creating a log filter is what you are looking for.

If you are using logcat through adb from the command line: Filter LogCat to get only the messages from My Application in Android?

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