Did you try the coffeecatch library?
It is a JNI signal catcher that allows to turn SIGSEGV(+) signals into the java exceptions with mixed jni/java backtrace. It works up to API-19, but I had no chance to test it on API>19 yet. It provides program addresses which could be passed to addr2line in order to get the final references to a sources.
Code template:
#include "coffeejni.h"
#include "coffeecatch.h"
void MyClass::foo(JNIEnv *env, int arg1, int arg2) {
....
int rc;
COFFEE_TRY_JNI(env, rc = crashInside(arg1, arg2));
....
}
Example of the trace:
F/myapp (24535): "DESIGN ERROR": thread=t1
F/myapp (24535): java.lang.Error: signal 11 (Address not mapped to object) at address 0xdeadbaad [at libc.so:0x18282]
F/myapp (24535): at com.example.NativeSupport.nsc(Native Method)
F/myapp (24535): at com.example.NativeSupport.nsc_quiet(NativeSupport.java:328)
F/myapp (24535): at com.example.NativeSupport.loop(NativeSupport.java:287)
F/myapp (24535): at com.example.NativeSupport.access$2(NativeSupport.java:274)
F/myapp (24535): at com.example.NativeSupport$2.run(NativeSupport.java:124)
F/myapp (24535): at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:856)
F/myapp (24535): Caused by: java.lang.Error: signal 11 (Address not mapped to object) at address 0xdeadbaad [at libc.so:0x18282]
F/myapp (24535): at system.lib.libc_so.0x18282(Native Method)
F/myapp (24535): at system.lib.libc_so.0xdc04(abort:0x4:0)
F/myapp (24535): at data.data.example.lib.libexample_so.0xf147(Native Method)
F/myapp (24535): at data.data.example.lib.libexample_so.0x12d1b(Native Method)
F/myapp (24535): at data.data.example.lib.libexample_so.0x1347b(Native Method)
F/myapp (24535): at data.data.example.lib.libexample_so.0x13969(Native Method)
F/myapp (24535): at data.data.example.lib.libexample_so.0x13ab3(Native Method)
F/myapp (24535): at data.data.example.lib.libexample_so.0x17a9b(Native Method)
F/myapp (24535): at system.lib.libdvm_so.0x1f4b0(dvmPlatformInvoke:0x70:0)
F/myapp (24535): at system.lib.libdvm_so.0x4dfa5(dvmCallJNIMethod(unsigned int const*, JValue*, Method const*, Thread*):0x164:0)
F/myapp (24535): at system.lib.libdvm_so.0x28920(Native Method)
F/myapp (24535): at system.lib.libdvm_so.0x2d0b0(dvmInterpret(Thread*, Method const*, JValue*):0xb4:0)
F/myapp (24535): at system.lib.libdvm_so.0x5f599(dvmCallMethodV(Thread*, Method const*, Object*, bool, JValue*, std::__va_list):0x110:0)
F/myapp (24535): at system.lib.libdvm_so.0x5f5c3(dvmCallMethod(Thread*, Method const*, Object*, JValue*, ...):0x14:0)
F/myapp (24535): at system.lib.libdvm_so.0x549eb(Native Method)
F/myapp (24535): at system.lib.libc_so.0x12dd0(__thread_entry:0x30:0)
F/myapp (24535): at system.lib.libc_so.0x12534(pthread_create:0xac:0)
Native (jni) part of the stack trace was:
F/myapp (24535): at data.data.example.lib.libexample_so.0xf147(Native Method)
F/myapp (24535): at data.data.example.lib.libexample_so.0x12d1b(Native Method)
F/myapp (24535): at data.data.example.lib.libexample_so.0x1347b(Native Method)
F/myapp (24535): at data.data.example.lib.libexample_so.0x13969(Native Method)
F/myapp (24535): at data.data.example.lib.libexample_so.0x13ab3(Native Method)
F/myapp (24535): at data.data.example.lib.libexample_so.0x17a9b(Native Method)
And finally get a humanoid-readable backtrace:
cd android-ndk/toolchains/arm-linux-androideabi-4.8/prebuilt/linux-x86_64/bin
./arm-linux-androideabi-addr2line -e /home/joe/myproj/obj/local/armeabi-v7a/libexample.so 0xf147 0x12d1b 0x1347b 0x13969 0x13ab3 0x17a9b