Galaxy S3 Error/Crash Log Location

Question

Is there an error log or crash log file anywhere on the Galaxy S3?

My phone is constantly crashing (rebooting or totally freezing requiring a battery pull) at least 4-5 time a day. I've attached the phone to my PC and browsed the file-system using Eclipse but I can't find an error log anywhere obvious.

My phone is NOT rooted so I realise I don't have total access to all locations on the phone's file-system but if anyone knows if such a log exists and where about it is, I'd be very grateful.

Answer 1

logcat might give you some information but that is cleared when the device reboots.

abd logcat will connect you to the "rolling log".

logcat is not stored in a file, only in a memory stream but you can easily dump it to file.

adb logcat -d -v time > logfile.txt

using the options I listed above will give you a time stamp of when events occur. The -d indicates you are dumping to a file, do not "block". -v time formats the log with event times.

Instead of > logfile.txt you could do -f /path/to/logfile.txt.

Answer 2

aLogrec does basicly the same as Logcat, but writes constantly to a log file on your storage card.