diff --git a/Additional-Debugging-Info.md b/Additional-Debugging-Info.md index 5bf89a0..2ca0baa 100644 --- a/Additional-Debugging-Info.md +++ b/Additional-Debugging-Info.md @@ -1,23 +1,22 @@ # Generate Additional Debugging Info -The developers sometimes need additional info about your problem because they cannot reproduce it. This happens, for example, when a problem is restricted to certain countries or caused by network / proxy settings. Hence the developers may get different responses from a service than you. +The developers sometimes need additional info about your problem, because they cannot reproduce it. This happens for example when a problem is restricted to certain countries or network / proxy settings causing the devs to get different responses from e.g. YouTube's servers than you. -You'll be asked by a developer to generate additional information and send it to a developer's email address. **Please do not post the additional info on GitHub**, because it might contain sensitive information about your NewPipe usage. +You'll be asked by a developer to generate additional info and send it to a dev's email address. Please do not post the additional info on GitHub, because it might contain sensitive information about your NewPipe usage. ## Generate a HAR -A [HAR](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HAR_(file_format)) contains the network traffic you caused while using NewPipe. This information is not logged when using the normal NewPipe version. To get this information, you will need to install a debug version of NewPipe. +A [HAR](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HAR_(file_format)) contains the network traffic you caused while using NewPipe. This information is not logged when using the normal NewPipe version. To get this info, you'll need to install a debugging version of NewPipe. When asking you to generate a HAR, the dev should provide you a debugging version. If this is not the case, don't hesitate to ask for one! 1. [Enable USB debugging](https://developer.android.com/studio/debug/dev-options#enable). -2. Connect your phone to your PC through USB. -3. Open Chrome, type `chrome://inspect` into the address bar. -4. You will see a dialog box asking to enable USB debugging for your computer (identified by its fingerprint). Agree to it. +2. Connect your phone to your PC through USB +3. Open Chrome, type `chrome://inspect` into the address bar 4. Open that debug version of NewPipe on your phone. 5. Select the NewPipe debug version in Chrome: ![click on inspect](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/17365767/96285447-44b88880-0fdf-11eb-98ad-2f2c522f37ab.png) -6. In the Chrome DevTools, go to the "Network" tab. -7. Reproduce the problem. +6. In the Chrome DevTools, go to the "Network" tab +7. Reproduce the problem 8. In the Chrome DevTools, save the network traffic as HAR: ![export HAR](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/17365767/96284552-02db1280-0fde-11eb-8fd6-e8aa11719701.png)