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frethop
frethop

Reputation: 41

Phantom Android Emulator

I am working an on Android app. Today a "phantom" emulator has appeared on my system. It shows up when I have NOTHING connected and I run "adb devices". I steals "logcat" output when I am developing in Eclipse and I can't see the REAL emulator I start to tun my app.

When I start a single emulator, I actually have two.

The only change I made recently is to install the WIMM emulator (see www.wimm.com). I don't start that one however.

Any clues would be appreciated. Thanks.

Upvotes: 4

Views: 581

Answers (3)

Jerome VDL
Jerome VDL

Reputation: 3536

I had something like this.

ADB watch some port to check if emulators are launched. I had an application using the port 5555.

So type the following command (unix / mac / linux) : 

lsof -i -P | grep 5555

It will give you the application and pid that use the port : 

uHD-Netwo   320  jva    7u  IPv4 0x07b77338      0t0  TCP localhost:5555 (LISTEN)
uHD-Netwo   320  jva   16u  IPv4 0x0861b788      0t0  TCP localhost:5555->localhost:55265 (ESTABLISHED)

Then simply kill the app : 

kill -9 320

The emulator shouldn't be there anymore.

Upvotes: 0

iewnait
iewnait

Reputation: 238

Try to running

"/path/to/android-sdk/tools/android update adb"

follow by:

"adb kill-server"

"adb start-server"

This should fix your problem. It's probably due to the recents adb tools changes when you install the WIMM Add-ons.

Upvotes: 1

Arie
Arie

Reputation: 5373

It happens to me too sometimes. I do

"adb kill-server"

"adb start-server"

and usually it connects again. Although I don't know why that happens. I'm very new to android...

Upvotes: 4

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