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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?

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    Could you elaborate a bit more please? Commented Oct 18, 2013 at 21:13
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    If you click on the logcat output before scrolling it should stop automatically scrolling. Commented Oct 18, 2013 at 21:39
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    Such an annoying and obvious little bug. Commented Mar 15, 2014 at 19:54
  • As stated in @taotao's answer: Triple click the line & voilla! Commented Feb 27, 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. Commented May 11, 2015 at 16:22

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

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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.
You can click at the bottom of the logcat output to re-enable the scrolling.
@Drag0 In my case, it only stops scrolling on click while in debug mode. If you simply run it won't work.
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?
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..
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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.

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Works! still though the line will wobble up a down sometimes. Nice 'catch'
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.)
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.
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I had the same issue. Simple solution:

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

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THIS should be THE Answer. AS 3.5; 9/29/19
THIS should be THE Answer!
This has been stupid like this since 2013? And is still stupid in 2022.
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Android Studio Stop scrolling log

  1. Disable Scroll to the end

  2. If not - you are able to scroll to necessary line manually and LogCat will not be automatically scroll to down

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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.

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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.

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"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"!

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