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Masiar
Masiar

Reputation: 21352

Android emulator doesn't start anymore

I'm running on OSX Mountain Lion. I recently installed the latest version of Eclipse and the Android SDK from Eclipse. I updated the SDK through Eclipse as well, downloading everything in the Extras, Android 2.2 (API 8), Android 4.1.2 (API 16) and the Tools folder.

Finally I could run the emulator by creating a device but it was very slow (I have 250gb ssd hard drive + 16gb RAM), I couldn't even run the application I had. I tried to modify some options of the emulator and now apparently I can't run anything anymore. As soon as I try to run a program (Hello World) I get the following infamous Mac OSX error:

emulator-arm quit unexpectedly.

The console output for Eclipse is the following:

[2012-10-19 15:46:06 - test] Android Launch!
[2012-10-19 15:46:06 - test] adb is running normally.
[2012-10-19 15:46:06 - test] Performing com.example.test.MainActivity activity launch
[2012-10-19 15:46:06 - test] Automatic Target Mode: launching new emulator with compatible AVD 'test'
[2012-10-19 15:46:06 - test] Launching a new emulator with Virtual Device 'test'

I tried to reset things as they were before as well as creating a new emulator device. I tried to restart Eclipse and the machine itself but nothing. Apparently I can't run any Android application anymore.

Does somebody has some idea? I read on some similar thread to use adb to restart the thing, but apparently I can't get that running as well. By doing ./adb shell I get error: device not found. Do you have any idea about what can I do to solve the issue?

Thanks

Upvotes: 13

Views: 10626

Answers (4)

zoomix
zoomix

Reputation: 915

FWIW I noticed that running VirtualBox seems to get a lock on HAX which prevents android emulator window from ever opening. Closing VirtualBox seems to release the lock and everything works again.

Upvotes: 3

David van Dugteren
David van Dugteren

Reputation: 4109

I had the same problem but the suggested ideas didn't solve my problem, after swearing and waving my fist at the Gods, I worked backwards to when it WAS working, and decided to change my SDK Tools version back from the Android SDK Tools RC 22.6 to Android SDK Tools 22.3.

Start up emulator64-x86 4.4.2 intel atom instance and low and behold it works again.

2 valuable hours later... Gotta love working with Android. :O

Moral of the story don't use the Preview Channel Releases.

Upvotes: 1

Mr. B
Mr. B

Reputation: 261

The problem is essentially the AVD manager can’t re-open a virtual device that was on a second monitor on a Mac. The work around is to edit the following file

~/.android/avd/.avd/emulator-user.ini

(depending on your system, this may be at ~/.android/avd/Default.avd/emulator-user.ini too)

and change the window.x and window.y entries to

window.x=0
window.y=0

Source: http://timvoet.com/2013/01/04/avd-emulator-crashes-on-mac/

Upvotes: 24

Bhanu Kaushik
Bhanu Kaushik

Reputation: 864

Update your android sdk. In eclipse it should be an button next to the open avd manager button. or from command line try android update sdk --no-ui. the following link should help scroll down to see how to update. https://wiki.appcelerator.org/display/guides/Installing+and+Updating+Android+SDK

Upvotes: 2

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