Android emulator shows nothing except black screen and adb devices shows device offline

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I am just trying to start development in Android   So  the problem is that when I try to launch an emulator by issuing the command emulator  A2   an emulator comes up on the screen  But even after waiting for as long as 2-3 hrs  all it shows is a black screen  Not even the android home screen or the android logo  Just a black screen  And while initially  adb devices  shows the emulator as offline after 2-3 minutes the list of attached devices becomes blank   I searched all over net and tried all the steps mentioned there like kill and restart adb  install java android in a directory without spaces  but to no avail   My Jdk and Android installations are in following folders   C  Java32BitInstallation C  AndroidSdkInstallation  Here s the list of stuff I have downloaded installed for it    Android SDK Tools  revision 13 Android SDK platforms tools  revision 10 SDK platform Android 4 0 3  API 15  revsion 1 Jdk jdk-7u3-windows-i586   In my path variable  I have added  C  AndroidSdkInstallation android-sdk platform-tools  C  AndroidSdkInstallation android-sdk tools  C  Java32BitInstallation  C  Java32BitInstallation bin   Also after reading somewhere from net I have added JAVA HOME variable with its value as C  Java32BitInstallation      But still no use    I have both IntelliJ and Eclipse installed on my system  But since for starting the emulator  I am not using any of these  I dont suspect any foulplay with these   So  can anyone please help me with this stuff that s driving me crazy  I am trying for past 10-12 days and have not been able to start the emulator  let alone write my first  Hello world  program   Additional notes  My system is a windows 7  64 bit  machine  Earlier I had installed 64 bit version of jdk  but the problem was present that time too  Now after searcching on internet  I uninstalled that  and installed 32 bit version of Java  But  again no use  One thing  though  this 32 bit version of java  jdk 7 update 3   first install jre as part of jdk installation and then installs jre 7   So now I have 2 folders  jre and jre7 in the C  Java32BitInstallation directory   Could this have to do anthing with my emulator not turning up  Do I need to specify aditional environmetal variables or modify the existing one  Kindly help   BTW  did I mention the logcat shows nothing

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For a workaround try Android 4 0 3  API 15  with the Intel Atom  x86  image  I could capture DDMS screenshots with both  use host gpu  and HAXM enabled  Only this combination worked for me

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Had this issue on my Nexus 7 Nexus 10  amp  Pixel as well that means in all the emulators   After days of struggling with this issue  I figured it out finally  Well  there are a lot of answers above which may work or may not for you because their configuration may vary slightly than yours   I ll tell you my solution   When creating those emulators  I checked Hardware - GLES 2 0 in Graphics for better performance  And for me it was the issue   If you ve done the same then   Go to AVD Manager - gt  Select your emulator - gt  Click on Edit configuration  in Actions column marked as pencil  - gt  in Emulated performance - Graphics - gt  Select Software - GLES 2 0    Then click on Show Advanced Settings - gt  Set none for both Front and Back camera and hit Finish   Now select your emulator in AVD Manager and click on Dropdown arrow in Actions column - gt  select Cold Boot Now   And yay you re ready to go

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I was having this issue on my Mac  When you create the device if you change  Graphics  from  Automatic  to  Software  it fixes the issue  or it least it did for me

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I use Microsoft s lightning fast Android Emulators utilizing Hyper-V  and I had the same black screen for every Android emulator that I created no matter how I set the GPU Mode  auto  host  mesa  angle  swiftshader  off    Though my situation is apparently different form that of the OP  I thought it might be useful for those using Microsoft Android emulators and coming here after searching  android emulator black screen    The solution in my case is updating all the Android tools      Visual Studio  gt  Tools  gt  Android  gt  Android SDK Manager  gt  Tools   As of today  2019-02-01   Android emulators would have this black screen problem if you have a fresh install of Visual Studio 2017   VS shows notifications automatically for updates of NuGet packages  extension tools  etc   but NOT for Android tool updates   You have to check and update them manually

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By the sound of it you have a misconfigured device   If you do it will never start and never show anything in Logcat   I d recommend creating a new device using one of the default  Device Definitions  available in the AVD Manager   It s as easy as highlighting the device type you want in the  Device Definitions  tab and clicking the  Create AVD     button  then filling out a few details   I d start by adjusting  Internal Storage  to around 8GB and  maybe  an  SD Card  of 2GB while leaving everything else the same   Try starting the device and if you see  Android  pop up onscreen you re running   The first boot usually takes awhile so just hang on and watch Logcat for any issues  the  DDMS  perspective helps here     If you still see a black screen with a default device definition you ve got problems elsewhere that are causing the device to fail   Digging through logs may be your only chance if that s the case   You can always try re-downloading the ADT and re-installing the SDKs if nothing else works   The goal here is to get you up and running with a  very  basic device  so don t shoot for uber impressive specs at this point  just shoot for trying to make it run   Once that happens try adjusting the settings one-by-one until you have it spec d out the way you like   Just keep in mind that the emulator has its limitations and its no substitute for a real device  Although it works most of the time

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I had the same problem on API 28  and the fix turned out to be as below   Enabling Skia rendering for Android UI  When using images for API 27 or later  the emulator can render the Android UI with Skia  which can render more smoothly and efficiently   To enable Skia rendering  use the following commands in adb shell   su setprop debug hwui renderer skiagl stop start   https   developer android com studio run emulator-acceleration accel-graphics

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How i solved the issue   Open AVD manager  CLick on the drop-down arrow  select  gt  gt  wipe data after that u can select  gt  gt  cold boot now   It worked for me

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Mac Users  Unfortunately  if you have an older Mac  late 2009 for example  and are using Yosemite  you cannot use HAXM for 64 bit architecture  According to the release notes on HAXM      HAXM driver does not support emulating a 64 bit system image on Intel systems based on Core microarchitecture  Core  Core2 Duo etc    All systems based on Nehalem and beyond are supported   Corei3  Core i5 and Core i7 machines     I spent a day trying to figure this problem out when I came upon this quote  The only thing that works is to use the non-x86 version of the latest OS  e g  Lollipop Android 5 0 1 armeabi-v7a  in your AVD

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Here is how i got it solved   I ran the emulator with following command    sudo  home code Android Sdk tools emulator -avd Nexus S API 21 -netspeed full -netdelay none -debug-init -logcat    v    and received the following in the output    NAND  could not write file  tmp android-code TMP7 tmp  No space left on device   similar error  could not reproduce it    So  i just freed up some disk space from my  home directory in ubuntu  for windows free the C  drive space  and it then booted smoothly

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I changed it to always  cold boot  to fix my problem  Prior to this  when I ran adb devices it always showed as offline

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I too got the same problem  When i changed the Eclipse from EE to Eclipse Classic it worked fine  in Win professional 64Bit  Have a try it may work for you too

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I had faced the same problem By selecting wipe data worked for me

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I had the same problem  Here s my solution  for Mac OS   I just downgrade the version of the Android Emulator  from 28 0 3 to 27 3 8   Here is a detailed instruction how to do it

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I also had the same problem  I figured out that the HAXM hardware accelerator was recently updated but not reinstalled since the update manager just updates the installer package which get saved to your hard drive  You will need to remove HAXM and then run that installer package to complete the update  Usualy this gets installed into ANDROID-SDK-ROOT android-sdk extras intel Hardware Accelerated Execution Manager  Where ANDROID-SDK-ROOT is the location where your android sdk is located

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I have recently the same issue in emulator  Nexus 5  Android O   I have go to Android Virtual Device Manager and Wipe User Data and it solved my Problem

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Also faced this issue  tried most answers  none help  Finally  the following actions helped me   Uninstall HAXM in SDK tools Reinstall HAXM Reboot PC Wipe VD data Cold boot VD  Not sure if it helps you  just for a reference

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Make sure that you ve installed the latest HAXM revision  I had the same blank screen problem with version 1 0 1 while 1 0 8 was already available  The installer can be downloaded via the SDK tools  to actually install the module you would have to execute      android-sdk-directory extras intel Hardware Accelerated Execution Manager intelhaxm exe

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Also had this issue out of the blue  Android studio was taking up 100  of CPU and in expo I had the following error   Couldn t start project on Android  Error running adb  This computer is not authorized to debug the device  Please follow the instructions here to enable USB debugging  https   developer android com studio run device html developer-device-options  If you are using Genymotion go to Settings - gt  ADB  select  Use custom Android SDK tools   and point it at your Android SDK directory    Cold boot fixed it for me  like boltup im coding s answer  You can also cold boot this way if it s already running  with the black screen

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Do factory reset in  Android Device Manager    In newer versions of Android Studio  this is called  Wipe Data   and it is in the right-click menu for the device in the virtual device manager

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For me  I had to turned off both front and back camera  Hope this helps

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I ve managed to launch and debug an Android testing application on the Android emulator through Delphi   I have Windows 7 64 bit  4GB RAM  a dual core processor at 3GHz and Delphi XE 5   Below is a link that I ve prepared in a hurry for my colleagues at work but I will make it better by the first chance   Debug Android Apps with Delphi  Forgive my English language but I am not a native English speaker  I hope you will find this small tutorial

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I had the same problem in win10 64bit  too  After a lot of searching  I found this solution  If you re using an intel system CPU  GPU  Motherboard  etc    Hope it work for you  too   step 1  Make sure virtualization is enabled on your device   Reboot your computer and then press F2 for BIOS setup  You should find Virtualization tag and make sure it is marked as enabled  If it s not enabled  no virtual devices can run on your device   step 2  Install Update Intel Hardware Accelerated Execution Manager Intel HAXM  on your device   This software should be installed or updated for any AVDs to run  You can download the latest version by googling  HAXM   After download  install  exe file and reboot your computer

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This is a known bug if you selected  Use host GPU  option while creating AVD  https   code google com p android issues detail id 28614 Uncheck the option and it should work

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The Problems associated with the Black window of the emulator   Happens when a new windows is installed  Problem associated with graphics of the windows is on the CD of windows  You have to Update windows and follow the following steps   If Emulated Performance Graphics is  Software GLES then select it to-- Automatic   Or If Emulated Performance Graphics is  Automatic then select it to-- Software GLES   this alternation can solve this problem

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Have you tried the power button        it really worked for me  Actually emulator saves the device state before closing so at the last run if you switched off the device  amp  closed the emulator then in the next run it will load previous state  amp  display switched off phone aka blank screen  Although there might be many other causes of this issue

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Checking  Wipe user data  in the Launch Options fixed it for me   Go to Android Virtual Device Manager- Select your device- Start- Check  Wipe user data - Launch

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The following fix worked for me    Locate the AVD folder in    android avd Open config ini Replace the following settings with these values   hw gpu enabled yes hw gpu mode on  Save and close the file Do not open the AVD settings screen within Android Studio or it will revert the above settings Start the emulator   Thanks to Sunsugh Park for providing the fix   I have reported this to Google at Black screen starting API 15  Please star the issue to get them to fix it   Edit  Actually  while the emulator booted ok  it crashed after opening an app  So the emulator team must have disabled hardware graphics for a reason  Unfortunately  it appears to be impossible to get the emulator to work

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Another source of error could be the length of the PATH system variable  on Windows systems   Running intel based images with a PATH variable longer than 2047 characters  seems to pass an empty value of this variable to the console   emulator  so it cannot start correctly   Here is an article describing this behaviour  https   software intel com en-us articles limitation-to-the-length-of-the-system-path-variable  I had the same problem  Reducing the total length of this system variable to 1354 chars by removing unused   non-existent paths fixed it for me

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Just try to set CPU ABI on  Intel Atom  x86   and deactivate the checkbox  Use Host GPU

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Update 25 07 2018  The latest Android Studio version does not have this option anymore  If the problem persists try to switch between the values of the  quot Emulated Performance quot   dropdown in the Verify Configuration dialogue  if available  or refer to the Configure Emulator graphics rendering and hardware acceleration  Update 26 02 2014  There are two hints in the Configuring Graphics Acceleration chapter from developer android com   Caution  As of SDK Tools Revision 17  the graphics acceleration feature for the emulator is experimental  be alert for incompatibilities and errors when using this feature   and  Start the AVD Manager and create a new AVD with the Target value of Android 4 0 3  API Level 15   revision 3 or higher   So Android 4 0 3  API Level 15  seems to be the minimum requirement for graphics acceleration  Original answer I have had the same issue with the latest Android SDK  I simply deactivated the checkbox  quot Use Host GPU quot  within the settings of the virtual device and it started working again  The  quot Use Host GPU quot  does only work for me with Android 4 2 as  quot Target quot

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I had issues with getting the larger devices to emulate  Nexus7 and 10   while the phone sized emulators worked great  Would just keep getting a black screen with nothing for hours with the tablets  What helped was actually the OPPOSITE of what most people here are recommending  after setting the tick box for  Use Host GPU  and setting the target to the highest android  4 4 2 at the time of this writing  the 7 and 10 work as expected

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I was having this problem after I got the blue screen of death while running my emulator  Here s my solution  for Windows at least   My solution is too completely re-install the AVD  The problem with the normal un-installation process for Android Studio is that it doesn t remove everything  so if your AVD files are corrupted  they will remain corrupted on re-install   In order to fix this  I deleted two directories      C  Users  My Username   Android   and     C  Users  My Username   AndroidStudio3 1   Then I re-ran in the installer   I think this is the most foolproof solution if your emulator was previously working because it forces a complete refresh of the AVD component of Android Studio

[android-emulator] Android emulator shows nothing except black screen and adb devices shows "device offline"

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