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Woodstock
Woodstock

Reputation: 22926

Processing Symbol Files in Xcode

I was wondering if anyone could tell me what Xcode is actually doing when it says: "Processing Symbol Files" after plugging in your device?

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Upvotes: 286

Views: 165627

Answers (8)

GeekMeng
GeekMeng

Reputation: 1

Add SDK version correspond to your iPhone iOS, eg: iOS 10.3

path:

/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/iPhoneOS.platform/DeviceSupport

It's downloading. When it's finished, it's OK. As shown in the figure:

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Upvotes: 0

Savas Adar
Savas Adar

Reputation: 4262

In my case symbolicating was take forever. I force restart my phone with both of on/off and home button. Now quickly finished symbolicating and I am starting run my app via xcode.

Upvotes: 4

Francisco Romero
Francisco Romero

Reputation: 13189

I know that this is not a technical solution but I had my iphone connected with the computer by cable and disconnecting the device from the computer and connecting it again (by cable again) worked for me as I could not solved it with the solutions that are provided before.

Upvotes: 1

Kerni
Kerni

Reputation: 15329

It downloads the (debug) symbols from the device, so it becomes possible to debug on devices with that specific iOS version and also to symbolicate crash reports that happened on that iOS version.

Since symbols are CPU specific, the above only works if you have imported the symbols not only for a specific iOS device but also for a specific CPU type. The currently CPU types needed are armv7 (e.g. iPhone 4, iPhone 4s), armv7s (e.g. iPhone 5) and arm64 (e.g. iPhone 5s).

So if you want to symbolicate a crash report that happened on an iPhone 5 with armv7s and only have the symbols for armv7 for that specific iOS version, Xcode won't be able to (fully) symbolicate the crash report.

Upvotes: 263

WINSergey
WINSergey

Reputation: 2005

xCode just copy all crashes logs. If you want to speed-up: delete number of crash reports after you analyze it, directly in this window.

Devices -> View Device Logs -> All Logs

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Upvotes: 19

GoldenJoe
GoldenJoe

Reputation: 8002

Annoying error. I solved it by plugging the cable directly into the iPad. For some reason the process would never finish if I had the iPad in Apple's pass-through stand.

Upvotes: 0

fujianjin6471
fujianjin6471

Reputation: 5248

In Xcode Version 6.1.1 (6A2008a), after "Processing Symbol Files", a folder containing symbols associated with the device (including iOS version and CPU type) was created in ~/Library/Developer/Xcode/iOS DeviceSupport/ like this:

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Upvotes: 36

Jerome Diaz
Jerome Diaz

Reputation: 1866

It compares crash logs retrieved from the device to archived (symbolized to be correct) version of your applications to try to retrieved where on your code the crash occurred.

Look at xcode symbol file location for details

Upvotes: 0

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