Where are Android logcat files stored?

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chaimp picture chaimp · Dec 12, 2010 · Viewed 47.7k times · Source

I'm looking for the log file(s) that are made by logcat. Where are they typically stored?

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Ravi picture Ravi · Dec 13, 2010

They are stored as circular memory buffers on the device. If you run "adb logcat > myfile" on your host system, you can retrieve the content into a file.

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