ERROR Android emulator gets killed

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After updating to Android Studio 2 when I try to run my application and choose an emulator  I wait for the emulator to start and it suddenly gets killed  I can see emulator process for some minutes but never the gui  In Android studio I get the error      android studio Error while waiting for device  The emulator process   for AVD was killed   This happens even if I run the emulator outside Android Studio  I have tried with both aa Android 6 and Android 4 4 based emulator  Running on a Windows 7 x64 PC  Similar post to another stackoverflow post which was closed  I have tried various ram  vm heap and resolution settings

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Install the Intel x86 Emulator Accelerator worked for me

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In my case  the problem was resolved after I tried a lower version of Pixel and Android

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Check the free space of the emulator installation drive is more than 5 GB

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For me it was a problem of available space left in my computer and deleting unnecessary files solved the problem  Causes are vary from situations and you should see event tab which detailed event log are showed

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I have been struggling with the The emulator process for AVD Pixel 2 API 30 was killed for a while now  I was trying to launch a Pixel 2 API 30 running android 11 0  I tried all the possible solutions but nothing seemed to work  I decided t use a different setup e g  Pixel 2 API 28 running android 9 0  and it worked perfectly  I am not sure what causes the bug in the higher-level API or android version though    So my suggestion is to change the API and android version IF all of the other solutions didn t work

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If you re on the Apple Silicon  M1  chip  make sure you re using an ARM64-based emulator   If you re not  create a new Virtual Device and use the arm64-v8a image from Other images

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This worked for me  Tools - gt  SDK Manager - gt  SDK Tools  tab  - gt  Deselect  Android Emulator  - gt  OK Now  when you try to run your app  or launch device from AVD Manager  it will give the  Install Emulator  error - gt  Click Ok  This will automatically download the correct version

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I changed Graphics to Software  Intel x86 Emulator was already installed and also restarted the PC  Nothing worked  It was the Hyper-V issue  I had turned it off for VMWare  I turned it on and restarted the PC and emulator worked  So please try Hyper-V

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I also had problem like this   and how i fixed that    1  I choosed one of the older version for Android VDM System image  - first I used a version 28 Oreo i this it was  after that I switched to older one   to 25 Nougat    2  I just change  Graphics  to  Software

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None of these answers worked for me  I just created a new Virtual Device with the same exact settings and deleted the old one  New one worked fine

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Tried all solutions didnt help  My solution just create new device and it will work

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Reinstalling android studio worked for me

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I think this is problem of Android studio 2 Update or Problem to solve please Update also Android sdk version also then work properly

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In android studio version 4 0  WINDOWS   I could find the solution by just checking android studio welcome screen and clicking on the  Events  dropdown AFTER trying to launch the emulator  hence after getting the error     the events section clearly shows that ANDROID SDK ROOT was not set in my system   In a nutshell  whenever you see such error when starting the emulator  just check the  events  section in the welcome to android studio screen to find the real problem   Beware that if ANDROID HOME is not set properly  it will still tell you that ANDROID SDK ROOT is broken

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For Android Studio v4 1 and above  Menu - gt  Android Studio - gt  Preferences - gt  Tools - gt  Emulator Uncheck Launch in a tool window option

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It s happened to me before  It should solved now by upgrading to Android Studio 4 1 1 Please ensure you all these ticked on SDK tools  Google Play Intel x86 Atom System Image Android Emulator Android SDK Platform-Tools  amp  Build-Tools  Restart the Android Studio  it seems work

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I had same issue  I changed ANDROID HOME path on environment variables  And then I copied  avd  folder  which emulator installed in into  sdk  folder ANDROID HOME path       You can find  avd  folder by clicking  Show on Disk  in AVD manger  I restarted the emulator and then it is running well now

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If your username is not in English then this may help  as I tried all of the solutions here and couldn t fix this problem  Note  I found this solution on this video  suggested by a user called  quot tatachka quot   this is her comment  she kindly let me share it here    For example  I had this path c  Users      android avd Nexus One API 24 avd My name in Windows is       written in Cyrillic in windows encoding  cp1251   I changed the path to e  Distribu AVD android avd Nexus One API 24 avd I moved files from disk C there and edited Nexus One API 24 ini changing the path in it and everything worked  How to change the folder path  My computer - gt  properties - gt  advanced system parameters - gt  environment variables -  gt  lower  New     button  variable name    ANDROID SDK HOME variable value    e  Distribu AVD  in my case  After the reboot  a new folder  android  appears in the folder e  Distribu AVD  containing the  avd  folder  EDIT  For clarification  the idea here is that you don t want the path to have non-ascii characters  I moved it to C  programs that cant read hebrew  and preformed the other steps  and it worked just fine

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I hit this issue trying to run Android API 30  In the end  I had to upgrade Android Emulator to 30 1 5  it was 30 1 2 before this

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For me I was running Arm instead of x86  Solved by installing the correct Image  x86 64 for example

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Go to  Tools   Android   AVD Manager and Press the  edit   pencil  icon next to your AVD   Change  Graphics  to  Software    work on my Windows 10 machine and ubuntu 18 04

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Hello Everyone in Android programming    I have same issue Android emulator gets killed but get rid of this issue successfully and android emulator run properly by doing following things     Firstly  I updated my SDKs from android studio SDK manager but issue does not resolved  Secondly  I have faced problems regarding my computer C Drive space where path of SDK folder is located  My C Drive space is running very low and does not allow me to update SDK from android studio showing me error and my Android emulator gets killed then I moved my SDK folder from C Drive to another drive D which have huge space available  then Changed my sdk folder path form android studio and restart it and matter resolved successfully  Cheers    Best Regards

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I tried to edit AVD with a new System image and voila  it worked  I had Nexus 5X API 24

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Update your Android SDK via Android SDK Managager  It will probably work fine

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In my case  after installing the  Microsoft Visual C   Redistributable for Visual Studio 2015  2017 and 2019  both x86 and x64 version   the issue is solved  But wait  Why did I know this  I will tell you my experience  When your program meets a bug  the first thing you need to do is finding the log to debug  But where is the log file that records all the events of the Android emulator  Click Help Show log in Explorer  And then a new window is oepned  where a file called idea log is located  and that log file is what we are looking for  But this file may has recorded too much verbose info  so let s do following processes to get a more simple one    Exit Android Studio   Delete the idea log   Open Android Studio   Click Tools  AVD Manerger   Start one of emulators you have created  and needless to say  the error will occur again  But the idea log will be created and the error is recorded into the log file now    Exit Android Studio    Open the idea log and begin to analyze it    Search  quot emulator quot   and in my case there are 2 messages catching my eyes  INFO - manager EmulatorProcessHandler - Emulator  E  cache SDK emulator emulator exe -netdelay none -netspeed full -avd Nexus 5 API 22   INFO - manager EmulatorProcessHandler - Emulator  Process finished with exit code -1073741515  0xC0000135   Obviously  the  quot exit code 1073741515 quot  is something important  and actually many people have asked what it means in StackOverFlow  but unfortunately  I can t find any useful info about it  So let s pass it and focus on the first message  Open the command line  Press  quot Win quot   quot R quot    Enter  quot CMD quot    Click  quot OK quot    copy the above message E  cache SDK emulator emulator exe -netdelay none -netspeed full -avd Nexus 5 API 22 and paste it to the command line  Press Enter  I totally didn t know what this command meaned  but it s reasonable to deduce that Android Studio ran this command and resulted in the error  so I will try to reproduce the issue  After that  an error window pop up  saying  quot    VCRUNTIME140 1 dll is missing    quot   I know I have been close to the answer  So I serch  quot VCRUNTIME140 1 dll Missing quot  on google  and people said that  quot downloading and installing both the x86 and x64 versions of the Microsoft Visual C   2015 - 2019 Redistributable will resolve this problem quot   So I download both the x86 and x64 version and install them  After doing this  I run the emulator again  and everything goes well

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Go to SDK Manager and see if there are any updates on the emulator  amp  build tools that need to be updated

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If your HAMX is installed and turning to Software didn t help try to check if virtualization is enabled in BIOS  You need to go to BIOS and enable it

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Best 5 options to resolve this Error the emulator process for avd was killed given option are checkpoints  check it out one by one  Error Solution Option 1 Possiblity  HAXM may not installed in System HAXM - Hardware Accelerated Execution Manager Solution  SDK Manager  gt  Check for HAXM installer install it  if HAXM not installed                                          Error Solution Option 2 Possiblity    Low disk size to load Emulator Latest AVD with API level 30  required approx 7 GB disk space Solution  Free space from disk where AVD is located                                          Error Solution Option 3 Possiblity   Configured AVD API may not available in SDK Manager As an Example  if Emulator with API level 30  same package of API 30 should be installed in SDK  Solution  Install same version of SDK Platfrom from SDK manager  as same as Emulator     AVD API                                          Error Solution Option 4 Possiblity   Configuration error in Old AVD   Solution  Recreate AVD with latest available update Help  gt  check for update  if component Android Emulator Update is available  install it delete older AVD and create Fresh AVD                                          Error Solution Option 5 Possiblity   Embedded AVD not properly load with available image  Solution  Launch AVD as independent component  After success close it and lauch within Android Studio Emulator inside Android Studio                                          before apply all of above once restart you System  try it   for more help with video support  watch How to fix AVD was killed i think it may help you

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If you use McAfee Antivirus and Windows 10 this might help you  Uninstalling and reinstalling Android Emulator as snehatilak suggested initially helped in my case  though the next day the emulator was dead yet again  I found that McAfee antivirus had quarantined the file AVD conf that had been in C  Users username  android avd avdImage   After restoring AVD conf and excluding it from scans it seems to be ok again  This all started 02 02 2021 after what I guess was an McAfee update  Here are the steps  First go to  Quarantined items  under Settings and restore the AVD conf file  Then go to  Real-Time Scanning  under Settings and exclude AVD conf in each emulator you have created   Located under C  Users username  android avd avdImage

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To summarize the above   Install and reinstall HAXM 7 5 6  only available version  under  Android SDK  settings  Try downloading it manually  even other versions  they don t work with Android SDK   installing it from the Android Sdk folder  etc   sc query intelhaxm in cmd should show if it is running correctly  Virtualization is enabled in your BIOS and has been tested Made sure the PATH variables are correct  ANDROID HOME   ANDROID SDK ROOT  but NOT  ANDROID SDK HOME  to the folder in your settings per Here  Otherwise  you will see EVENTS on the Android Studio splash screen  Try unchecking   rechecking Launch in a tool window in Emulator settings  and even Enable Device Frame in AVD settings  Try rebuilding in several different combinations of android  different phones  etc  but with same levels and packages     30 for example  Try Rebooting in several different configurations Make sure all SDK Tools are up-to-date  and even try a fresh install of Android Studio  However  tried removing all of them  and adding them back  Check your space  try to have 25GB maybe or more free Check for Virtual Box  Antivirus Software  etc  Open Android Studio with Administrator privileges  RUNNING ON DUAL MONITORS   DOCKING STATION   A  Run the emulator with everything unplugged  then plug back in your monitor   Odd I know     OR Better yet    B  Create a New Hardware Profile  which will enable you to change Graphics  Automatic to Software

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For me  just deleting ANDROID SDK HOME from the environment variable list solved the problem

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I had same issue  the problem was there is no enough space in my disk drive   you can see details about you specific situation in layer  Event Log  this layer regularly is in the bottom on Android studio  it was my output Log    02 45 PM   Emulator  emulator  ERROR  Not enough space to create userdata partition  Available  3310 363281 MB at  home user  android avd my Nexus 5X API 27 avd  need 7372 800000 MB    I had just 7 GB free  so just delete some GB s in my D D  and it s working fine

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For me it seems it was a problem that OpenGL didn t work on my Windows 10 machine   I fixed it as follows    Go to  Tools   Android   AVD Manager Press the  edit   pencil  icon next to your AVD Change  Graphics  to  Software

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I reinstalled the Intel x86 Emulator Accelerator  HAXM installer  Prior to that I tried many things  but only one worked  Configure- gt  Settings - gt  Appearance  amp  Behavior System Settings Android SDK - gt  SDK Tools  tab  - gt  Deselect  Intel x86 Emulator Accelerator  HAXM installer   - gt  OK Now  when you try to run your app  or launch device from AVD Manager  it will give the  Install Emulator  error - gt  Click Ok  This will automatically download new  Intel x86 Emulator Accelerator  HAXM installer   and I selected  512 RAM and it worked  After that I did all these process again and selected 2 GB of RAM and it still worked

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You need to update the following tools

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My case was  GOOGLE PLAY   My virtual device was Pixel 4     As shown on pic  Pixel4 has Google Play support  so that it give this error    The emulator process for AVD Pixel4 was killed   It gives error on Android Studio 4 1 1    So that  I created a new virtual device Pixel 4XL  and selected  SOFTWARE  for emulated performance     Because this device doesnt have Google Play support  it worked for me

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this issue can also happen when ANDROID SDK HOME environment variable is pointing to wrong location Say path to  android folder is E  Android  android Then ANDROID SDK HOME environment variable value should be E  Android

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Please check your free space on your disk also  I had a same problem and finally I got I need to free up space to fix this

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For my case i need to close Virtualbox

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This issue happens when you have two Android SDK installations on your machine and the environment variable  quot ANDROID HOME quot  points to the wrong location  To fix it go to Android Studio settings  find the proper Android SDK location  update the environment variable and restart Android Studio   your PC

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Faced a similar issue  tried the above solutions as well and it didn t work  Would like to suggest a simple solution which could help if the above suggestions didn t address the issue  Solution -  Try cleaning up space in the system  My problem was I had only 1GB left while trying to launch the emulator after cleaning up space got 8GB and was able to launch the emulator

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goto tools android sdkmanager and update emulator and install related API level It worked for me

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