Is there a way to analyze Chromecast crashes?

Question

Obviously, after the crash Developer tools at port 9222 is of no use, because "Remote debugging has been terminated with reason: websocket_closed". How can I retrieve, for example, recorded timeline; or get call stack; or find anything about the reason the Chromecast decided to reboot itself? What are the best (or, for that matter, any) approach to debug Chromecast crashes?

Answer 1

We need to look at your log file to see what is causing the crash. It is relatively easy to do that but we need some help from your side.

• First, open the Chromecast setup app on, say, your Android device and go to the settings for your device. You should see a check box that states something like: "Send Chromecast usage data and crash reports to Google". If it is not checked, make sure you check it and then wait 15 minutes or so and reboot your chromecast.

• Try to recreate issue and as soon as it crashes and reboots itself, open the setup app again and select "Submit feedback report" from the overflow menu. You will see a new window on your phone and make sure you enter the following text in the text box there "crash-vmt". We will be using this text to search among the reports that we receive to identify your log.

After doing that, please let us know (add a comment here) so we can grab the log for further investigation.