logcat truncate long string

$ adb logcat -g
ring buffer is 64Kb (63Kb consumed), max entry is 4096b, max payload is 4076b



 
 

     
     

      
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As already mentioned, you can see the size of the circular buffer with logcat -g. On my Galaxy Nexus, it's 256 KB:
      
      
shell@android:/ $ logcat -g
/dev/log/main: ring buffer is 256Kb (255Kb consumed), max entry is 4096b, max payload is 4076b
/dev/log/system: ring buffer is 256Kb (0Kb consumed), max entry is 4096b, max payload is 4076b
      
      
If you need to save a continuous log longer than that, you can just open a new adb shell and type
      
      
logcat -f myfile.log
      
      
This command redirects log entries to the file myfile.log on an ongoing basis, and won't return until you hit ctrl-c to stop it. Now go back to your original adb shell and type the command you wanted to log, and all its output (more than 256 KB in my case) will get saved to myfile.log.
     
     












 
 

     
     

      
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Because your logcat has reached its max size, see What is the size limit for Logcat? 
Try using this code to write your result into a text file in sdcard, then use DDMS to get it.
      
      
 public static void appendLog(String text)
{
    File logFile = new File("sdcard/log.txt");
    if (!logFile.exists())
    {
        try
        {
            logFile.createNewFile();
        } catch (IOException e)
        {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
    try
    {
        // BufferedWriter for performance, true to set append to file flag
        BufferedWriter buf = new BufferedWriter(new FileWriter(logFile, true));
        buf.append(text);
        buf.newLine();
        buf.close();
    } catch (IOException e)
    {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
}
     
     





















 
 

  
  
for( String line : logMesg.split("\n") ) {
    Log.d( TAG, line );
}