How to debug BOOT_COMPLETE broadcast receiver's “Force Close” crashes?

Question

Since the phone restarts and thus gets disconnected from the Eclipse debugger/LogCat while it\'s booting up, how do I see where my boot complete broadcast receiver is crashing?<

Answer 1

As i wrote on another thread:

You can emulate all broadcast actions by connecting via adb to the device and open a device shell.

Here we go:

• open console/terminal and navigating to /platform-tools
• type "adb shell" or on linux/mac "./adb shell"
• in the shell type "am broadcast -a android.intent.action.BOOT_COMPLETED" or whatever action you want to fire.

In this way you should be able to debug.

There are a bunch of nice commands coming with adb or the adb shell. Just try it

Regards Flo

EDIT: Using the above method will also reboot the device. To prevent the device from rebooting use am broadcast -a android.intent.action.BOOT_COMPLETED com.example.app. Note the suffix with the application package name to which the broadcast goes. This enables you to send the BOOT_COMPLETED intent to ONLY YOUR app for debugging purposes. – Roel van Uden