pidcat No output on GS4

Because Samsung's guys love change things, there is no log with 'Start proc...' in the GS4's logcat (and probably other samsung's devices).

So the regexp PID_START does never match and so there is no ouput when launching pidcat.sh on a GS4.

I tried to find the corresponding translation but failed.

I understand if you don't want to fix that issue, it's so boring... I just wanted to point it.

Aug 21 '13 10:08 tbruyelle

I don't have a GS4. Someone else can send a pull request to support whatever format their devs needlessly changed the process creation log line to.

Aug 21 '13 15:08 JakeWharton

It seems the Start proc... is replaced by something like

D/ActivityManager(  778): Trying to launch <package>/.<Activity>

But there is no PID here so I presume this is too poor.

Aug 23 '13 07:08 tbruyelle

@tbruyelle can you paste a full example of that line?

One thing we could do is buffer the log messages when that line is detected and use ps to look up the process. Once it's found, we could replay the buffer to catch up to real time. This way we wouldn't lose any info.

Dec 02 '13 08:12 JakeWharton

@JakeWharton I try, but this damned GS4 logs more lines per minute than a professional writer during all his life. It's crazy to realize the amount of traces the Samsung's developers added to the sources...

Actually I was wrong in my previous message, after force kill my app and cold start, the only line which contains the package is the following :

V/SmartFaceService - 3rd party pause(  785): onReceive [android.intent.action.ACTIVITY_STATE/com.comalia.gesicamobile/create]

HTH, on my side I gave up on watching GS4 logs. Thanks for keeping hope.

Dec 02 '13 11:12 tbruyelle

I'm also having this problem on the S4... Perhaps pidcat could have a flag to just show all the logs without filtering? (I generally use pidcat just for its wonderful formatting, not as much for the filtering.)

Feb 20 '14 21:02 paleozogt

@paleozogt It already does that when you don't supply a package

Mar 12 '14 03:03 JakeWharton

but it doesn't for the S4. it just shows absolutely nothing.

Mar 12 '14 10:03 rtack

Same happens to the S3 when no package it´s supplied. I´m trying to find the cause searching on Samsungs tons of logs.

Mar 27 '14 10:03 reixa00

I have been seeing that as well on the Samsung Note 2 and 3 as well as the Motorola DROID MAXX. I can't seem to get pidcat to produce any output at all.

Let me know if i can provide any logs for any of the devices to help out.