Getting Mali Graphics Debugger to work on Xiaomi Hongmi 1s - "No trace data to display"

Hi Rich,

I'm sorry that I made a mistake here, shame on my poor English because i am a "foreigner". Thanks for your reply. I'm a unity developer, and i need to test our unity game on the minimum requirements such as Xiaomi Hongmi 1s(小米红米1S). The day before yesterday i got a new XiaoMi Hongmi 1s from the company, and i have downloaded Mali Graphic Debugger for debugging the unity game. I want use this tool to improve the performance of the program. The configuration of the Xiaomi Hongmi has been showed above.

I have already got the root permission and installed the mgddaemon and LibGLES.so following the manual, and I have successfully start the mgddaemon with port 5002.  Then i start the MGD later and then connect to 127.0.0.1:5002 successfully.  I run my application, the ADB shell told me that the game has been traced, but the MGD show nothing but "No trace data to display".

Did i make an mistake before? This is strange because the application only use OpenGL ES 2.0, and the linux shell showed that the application has been traced. I paused the application and started the frame capture, but got nothing. Could you help me ?

I have already following the manual, and I have rename the LibGLES_mgd.so to LibGLES.so, and remove the egl.cfg. Did i make a mistake before?

Thank You,

Elan

Hi Rich,

I'm sorry that I made a mistake here, shame on my poor English because i am a "foreigner". Thanks for your reply. I'm a unity developer, and i need to test our unity game on the minimum requirements such as Xiaomi Hongmi 1s(小米红米1S). The day before yesterday i got a new XiaoMi Hongmi 1s from the company, and i have downloaded Mali Graphic Debugger for debugging the unity game. I want use this tool to improve the performance of the program. The configuration of the Xiaomi Hongmi has been showed above.

I have already got the root permission and installed the mgddaemon and LibGLES.so following the manual, and I have successfully start the mgddaemon with port 5002.  Then i start the MGD later and then connect to 127.0.0.1:5002 successfully.  I run my application, the ADB shell told me that the game has been traced, but the MGD show nothing but "No trace data to display".

Did i make an mistake before? This is strange because the application only use OpenGL ES 2.0, and the linux shell showed that the application has been traced. I paused the application and started the frame capture, but got nothing. Could you help me ?

I have already following the manual, and I have rename the LibGLES_mgd.so to LibGLES.so, and remove the egl.cfg. Did i make a mistake before?

Thank You,

Elan

Hi Elan,

Did you ensure the application was force-closed before you started tracing? After installing libGLES_mgd.so onto the device, the process must be completely killed in order for the runtime linker to link in the MGD interceptor. Android does not necessarily kill the application process when you "close" the application by pressing the home button. If in doubt, restarting the device will definitely kill everything, or you can use the task switcher/force close/etc.

The flow is:

Install MGD interceptor + mgddaemon

Run mgddaemon

Connect from host

Force close application if it isn't already

Run application

Trace should then start flowing into the GUI

Hth,

Chris

Thanks Chris!

I have traced the application correctly and get a lot of information from the MGD just now, thank you again!

This time in east Asia is midnight now, hope you buddy have a nice day.

Thanks,

Elan