title: Android Debugging with Eclipse on my HTC Evo: Augh!
body: <p>I've turned on USB debugging.  I have the latest HTC Sync and android SDK components.  I'm using Eclipse 3.5 on windows XP.  I'm running Android 2.2, and am asking for 2.1 as the minimum in the debugger.  I work in Eclipse/Java just about every day, and have for several years.  I'm even writing an Eclipse plugin at work as I type this.... neither Eclipse nor Java are new to me by quite a stretch.</p>
  
  <p>When I start a debug session for the "Skeleton App" sample project, I can see my Evo, and the activity launches (with any freshly saved changes), should I select it.</p>
  
  <p><em>BUT</em>: my breakpoints are ignored<strike>, and <em>logCat</em> doesn't see my app's output</strike>(see comments below).</p>
  
  <p>*<em>W</em>*hat a *<em>T</em>*errible *<em>F</em>*ailure (As the api so artfully puts it)!</p>
  
  <p>(oh look... a formatting bug.  Looks like bold text wants <strong>white space</strong> to function properly 10/15/2010)</p>
  
  <p>I have tried different android connection types (charge only, disk drive, HTC Sync, and USB tethering) to no avail.  I've tried Eclipse 3.6 for a bit before yielding to the inevitable and reinstalling 3.5.  I monkeyed with the emulator for a while but ran into a different set of issues (I had to reboot the emulator every time I wanted to make a change... Eclipse's auto-build/hot-swap has me spoiled).</p>
  
  <p>Is there something I can add to (or remove from) the <code>AndroidManifest.XML</code> to deal with this?  A magical incantation perhaps?  Must I pray towards San Jose three times a day on a rug woven from kernel gurus' vast and scruffy beards?  Is my Evo not Kosher?  Must I be "sky clad" while debugging?  Shall I teach my laptop to genuflect?</p>