[android-developers] Re: Debug.startMethodTracing() - can't dump file

bwilliammee@gmail.com wrote:
> I'm running into a terrible, terrible problem - an activity that uses
> a surfaceview takes somewhere between 3 and 75 seconds before the
> surfaceCreated method is called.
>
> I'd like to use Traceview to figure out what's taking so long, but I
> get an exception when Debug.startMethodTracing() is called:
>
> First there's an error message:
>
> E/dalvikvm( 6286): Unable to open trace file '/sdcard/dmtrace.trace':
> Permission denied
>
> Then there's an exception (file open failed).
>
> Does this have to do with not having root access on ADP1's any more?
> How do I get that trace to work?

If you are implementing an application requiring Android 1.6, you may
need the WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE permission, so long as you are using
Traceview.

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