My device is already rooted, this is why I'm asking.
Do you need root to monitor the logcat stream on the phone? If I ran the logcat command from within a Terminal on the phone, would that work?
Topic terminal root-access logging android
Category Android
The application Android System Info has the ability to output log info to the screen which as far as I can tell is the same log info as logcat spits out.
No, you don't need root to get logcat information.
To do it, you probably want to download the Android SDK and run "adb logcat", using the adb tool that comes with the SDK. Alternatively, you could install the ADT Eclipse plugin and use its handy streaming Logcat viewer.
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