Android emulator is crashing frequently

Question

After getting the latest update for Honeycomb , it seems the Android emulator is crashing and not responding quite frequently.

Also observed starting emulator with AVD which has snapshot stored earlier is also causing emulator freezing .

Any workaround ?

Answer 1

To reboot your emulator when it freezes, try running a cold boot. You can do this by navigating to the emulator files on your OS. If you are using Windows OS, this terminal command would look something like this:

cd C:\Users\your-account\AppData\Local\Android\Sdk\emulator>

Once you have navigated to the emulator directory, you can force a cold boot by running the following command:

.\emulator.exe -avd Your_Device_Name -no-snapshot-load

This will reboot your emulator.