Debugging on physical Android device gives error code

koahnig · 20 Jan 2019, 18:30

I have managed to connect to physical Android device for debugging.

Failed to get process path. Reason: The command "c:\Users\blabla\AppData\Local\Android\Sdk\platform-tools\adb.exe" terminated with exit code 1..

"org.qtproject.example.SatelliteInfo_NTrial" died.

I have checked a couple of times with "adb devices" that the actual device is listed. It is also shown for selection when the debug process is kicked off.

However, very often I am receiving the error message above. Has anyone an idea what the cause is respetively how to work around?

raven-worx · 20 Jan 2019, 19:02

@koahnig
maybe QTCREATORBUG-20841?
Check if the run-as command is supported on the device.

What device? Samsung?
What QtCreator version? If possible a downgrade to 4.5 might help.

koahnig · 21 Jan 2019, 07:45

@raven-worx said in Debugging on physical Android device gives error code:

@koahnig
maybe QTCREATORBUG-20841?
Check if the run-as command is supported on the device.

I am trying USB-debugging

What device? Samsung?

Huawei P10

What QtCreator version? If possible a downgrade to 4.5 might help.

Qt creator 4.8.1
Windows 10 64 bit
Qt 5.11.3
newest Android SDK
Android NDK r10e

Tried also the newest NDK, but this does not support g++ as reported by creator. Checked and it is really missing there.

Funny thing is once in a while debug run (F5) does start the application on phone, but most of the time it does not (90%). It is acting completely unpredictable.

mvuori · 21 Jan 2019, 19:49

There might be something in the Huaweis... I have a P20 that doesn't debug (I haven't spent much time solving the issue; I do any debugging an a Sony)

raven-worx · 21 Jan 2019, 09:37

@koahnig
so did you check if the device supports the "adb run-as" command?
Did you try to downgrade QtCreator?

koahnig · wrote on 21 Jan 2019, 09:37

@raven-worx said in Debugging on physical Android device gives error code:

@koahnig
so did you check if the device supports the "adb run-as" command?

Newest SDK does not support. Have switched back to an older version which supports "run-as", but no luck either.
This is still creator 4.8.1.

Did you try to downgrade QtCreator?

Still in process and fighting with tool chains at the moment.

koahnig · wrote on 21 Jan 2019, 09:56

@raven-worx

Failed to contact debugging port.

This is with Qt creator 4.5.2, NDK r10e and an older SDK 26.0.2.

koahnig · M mvuori 20 Jan 2019, 19:38

@mvuori

You could be right that Huawei P10 is not cooperative. Activated my old Nexus Tablet and the debugging worked immediately and three times in a row. Switching back Huawei P10 running immediately into the return code again. Once in a while the debug maystart also with Huawei, but the debugging was not really either. The breakpoints were not accepted.

Either this is a hardware issue or the Android version might be also the reason. My Nexus 7 tablet runs Android 5.1, while the Huawei P10 runs Android 8.0.

koahnig · wrote on 21 Jan 2019, 20:07

Switched back to newer SDK folder holder a different adb version 1.0.40. That version did not support the run-as command as indicated above. Exited creator, started it again and did a rebuild and started debug on Nexus 7 without problems.

BTW all has been tested with creator 4.8.1 after I have seen no difference to old creator version 4.5.2.