How to stop logcat from scrolling in Android Studio

Asked 18/10, 2013 at 20:43 Answered 31/5, 2021 at 15:29

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I used Eclipse before and I could easily stop logcat from scrolling, but I can't find same funcionality in Android studio. Anyone knows how to do it?

Samford answered 18/10, 2013 at 20:43 Comment(5)

Could you elaborate a bit more please? – Samford 18/10, 2013 at 21:13

If you click on the logcat output before scrolling it should stop automatically scrolling. – Bobwhite 18/10, 2013 at 21:39

Such an annoying and obvious little bug. – Jaehne 15/3, 2014 at 19:54

As stated in @taotao's answer: Triple click the line & voilla! – Darill 27/2, 2015 at 0:31

None of the answers work in Windows running Android Studio 1.1.0 against a real device (S5). Has nobody at Google even tried to use this tool to write an Android app? This is the same stuff other tech giants have always done: release junk but not use it themselves. "Eat their own dog food". Google became Microsoft. – Matronage 11/5, 2015 at 16:22

There's no dedicated button for this, but you can just click on / highlight some text around where you want to stop scrolling.

Intervenient answered 18/10, 2013 at 20:55 Comment(8)

I tried it and sometimes it stops scrolling and sometimes it doesn't, it is weird. But afterall, it would be nice to have a button that just stops it because I don't want to be forced to quickly move my mouse to logcat and start highlighting text in order to stop it from scrolling. – Samford 18/10, 2013 at 21:12

You can click at the bottom of the logcat output to re-enable the scrolling. – Depreciatory 26/10, 2014 at 11:0

@Samford In my case, it only stops scrolling on click while in debug mode. If you simply run it won't work. – Veneering 9/1, 2015 at 15:35

That's really, really poor implementation, and frustrating. Sometimes you can have a lot going on, and only spot an error when it's flying by during auto-scrolling, and to focus on it, to be able to click the line you want, you have to scroll up. Many times when scrolling up, to find the line you want to click on, it scrolls to the end again. Why not just have a dedicated button? – Thrill 13/1, 2015 at 10:37

pretty poor effort from Google/JetBrains.. A pause button should be obvious right ? What else do the kids over at Google expect ? I have to yank the device out of the USB to ensure no more scrolling... The free pizza and coke has addled their brains.. – Depriest 5/8, 2015 at 6:5

This is no longer true, Sept 29, 2019. Scrolling will not stop as it used to. AS 3.5. See my other comment below. – Lett 29/9, 2019 at 21:36

This DOES work IF you have already set Show only selected application in the dropdown menu at far right of Logcat, which likely says "No Filters" or some custom filter.. – Lett 30/9, 2019 at 12:58

I'm sorry to say DSLomer64, but you are wrong. It does NOT work. I agree seaders, it is poor implementation. but to be fair you can't expect Google to ever get it right. They don't have the resources to manage a bugfix like this. – Platonism 9/11, 2020 at 2:16

android studio have this feature enter image description here

you just click on the line three times and you can selectd the line , it will stops scrolling.

Unmade answered 20/1, 2015 at 3:10 Comment(3)

Works! still though the line will wobble up a down sometimes. Nice 'catch' – Darill 27/2, 2015 at 0:30

Doesn't work here (1.2.2). I click, cursor hangs out in the buffer... then the whole thing reloads, and throws me back to the bottom. And I break a random item on my desk. (Not much left, at this point.) – Odaodab 30/7, 2015 at 20:58

This worked for me, however I had to select "No Filters" rather than "Show only selected application" because I was try to get logs from a constantly crashing application. – Oxytocin 9/7, 2016 at 19:33

I had the same issue. Simple solution:

In Android monitor, on the right, change No Filters -> Show only selected application.

Cribriform answered 14/4, 2017 at 13:15 Comment(3)

THIS should be THE Answer. AS 3.5; 9/29/19 – Lett 29/9, 2019 at 21:37

THIS should be THE Answer! – Gollin 9/1, 2020 at 18:56

This has been stupid like this since 2013? And is still stupid in 2022. – Diffluent 23/11, 2022 at 0:24

Android Studio Stop scrolling log

Disable Scroll to the end
If not - you are able to scroll to necessary line manually and LogCat will not be automatically scroll to down

Intransigeance answered 31/5, 2021 at 15:29 Comment(0)

I actually just had a problem (in 1.2.2) where I couldn't keep it from scrolling. I tried all the tricks and proper methods mentioned here, but it kept scrolling out from under me.

Turns out there was a problem trying to connect to an emulator that had long since been disconnected, and it kept retrying. And every time it did, it reloaded everything causing logcat to refresh. So it wasn't REALLY scrolling, it just felt like it was because of how big the buffer is.

I unplugged my physical device (that was running along side the emulator), restarted Android Studio, plugged the physical device back in, and boom, it no longer kept "scrolling".

Hopefully this might help someone else. Because I was getting incredibly frustrated for a while, there.

Odaodab answered 30/7, 2015 at 21:8 Comment(0)

Goodness, the trick is to search. Search for something within LogCat and then scrolling will stop. Tested: running Android Studio 1.1.0 against a real device (S5). Also, was ticking one line up and one back down until I then right clicked. Then it totally stopped. After that, I can remove the search and the scrolling is no longer automatic.

Matronage answered 11/5, 2015 at 16:27 Comment(1)

"Oct 18 '13" Are you kidding me? Does Android Studio not have a Product Manager or does Google just not give a flip about the dev community. "Be Evil"! – Matronage 11/5, 2015 at 16:29

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