Android emulator failed to allocate memory 8

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When I try to run my WXGA800 emulator from Eclipse it s giving an error like this  Failed to allocate memory  8 This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an unusual way  Please contact the application s support team for more information    I checked the following links also  Failed to allocate memory  8  Android  failed to allocate memory  I have tried reducing RAM size in emulator and increasing Java heapsize and ramsize but still I am facing the same error

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In my case  the solution was to change not only config ini but also hardware ini for the specific skin from hw ramSize 1024 to hw ramSize 1024MB   To find the hardware ini file    Open the config ini and locate skin path  Then navigate to the folder where the android sdk is located  Open the path  like this  android-sdk platforms android-15 skins WXGA720  Inside this folder you will locate the hardware ini  Change hw ramSize 1024 to hw ramSize 1024MB

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I had the same problem and what ended up being the issue was the RAM size  apparently 1024  or whatever size  is different from 1024MB  Make sure you specify the units and it should work for you

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This error fires if you set the AVD RAM to anything that is larger then the single largest block of continuous memory the emulator is able to allocate  Close anything RAM heavy  start your emulator  start everything else you need  In a previous answer I have limited this to x86 images with IntelHAXM  but this actually is the case for all types of emulator instances

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Changing the ramSize in config ini file didnt work for me   I changed the SD Card size to 1000 MiB in Edit Android Virtual Device window    It worked

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In the AVD setup  Change the CPU ABI option to MIPS  It worked for me

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For Skin remove No Skin and add some skin into it

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Update  Starting with Android SDK Manager version 21  the solution is to edit C  Users  lt user gt   android avd  lt avd-profile-name gt  avd config ini and change the value   hw ramSize 1024    to   hw ramSize 1024MB     The emulator is really slow  hope they will release the intel images soon use the new API17 Intel x86 images if you want to change it     HAXM  Configuration     Earlier Android SDK Manager releases   Had the same problem with the built-in WXGA800 skin  I got it working by editing the virtual device setup to    Target 4 0 3 API 15   4 1 0 API 16 SD-card 300MiB  Resolution 1280 x 800  set manually -not the built-in ones  Device ram size 1024MB  with MB added to the number  Abstracted LCD 160   Here my tablet config for 4 1 0 API 16 C  Users  lt user gt   android avd  lt avd-profile-name gt  avd config ini  hw lcd density 160 sdcard size 300M skin path 1280x800 skin name 1280x800 hw cpu arch arm abi type armeabi-v7a hw cpu model cortex-a8 vm heapSize 48 hw ramSize 1024MB image sysdir 1 system-images android-16 armeabi-v7a    This config shows the software keys too

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Reducing the RAM size in the AVD settings worked for me  The AVD being slow can eat up a lot of RAM  so keeping it at a minimum is feasible

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Go to edit Android Virtual Devices and change the 1024 Under Memory Options to 768  If it still doesn t work  keep going lower and lower

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Update  Starting with Android SDK Manager version 21  the solution is to edit C  Users  android avd  avd config ini and change the value  hw ramSize 1024  to  hw ramSize 1024MB  OR   hw ramSize 512MB

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Try this if other answers did not work for you   For me This happened for API 27 Emulator   API 26 Emulator worked just fine  So I started API 26 Emulator first and then closed it   Then I started API 27 Emulator and It worked with No errors at all

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This following solution worked for me  In the following configuration file   C  Users  lt user gt   android avd  lt avd-profile-name gt  avd config ini   Replace  hw ramSize 1024   by  hw ramSize 1024MB

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