Failed to allocate memory 8

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From today  when I tried to run an app in NetBeans on a 2 3 3 Android platform  it shows me that      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    and the Emulator doesn t want to start   This is for the first time when I see it  and google has no asnwers for this  I tried even with 2 versions of NetBeans 6 9 1 and 7 0 1  still the same error

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I figured it out  The problem was in the amount of ram I had specified for the virtual machine  and it was 1024MB  now I have 512MB and it is ok  now I need to find how to improve this amount of ram  512 is not so much  and the machine is a little bit laggy

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I change my monitor DPI settings from the launch options of AVD and synchronized it with the original and current setting of my monitor  and it worked

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In my case    Using built in WXGA720 to simulate 720p device  always got this error Manually set AVD resolution to 720 x 1280  works for me   hope it helps

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What worked for me on Windows was   1  Closing Eclipse 2  Running Avd UI 3  Closing all running processes  especially ones that are heavy in memory  like Chrome  explorer exe  etc 4  Start the emulator 5  Win

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Works with 512 Mb instead  None of the above methods works for me

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I noticed it was related to just one avd all the rest of the ones I have worked fine  I deleted it and created  a new one and now it works

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Everything else you read here and elsewhere is pure conjecture  The only sure-way to fix this problem is vote for this bug report   The problem isn t related to emulator resolution or OpenGL  nor how much memory your computer has  I ve got 24GB memory in my computer and most of the time I run with hw ramSize 1024 I get error 8  Other times it works just fine without any configuration changes  I hope you caught that  I did not alter the emulator configuration at all and yet sometimes it runs and sometimes it fails   There is a high probability it has something to do with memory fragmentation  I recommend reducing the value of hw ramSize as a temporary workaround

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Looks like there are a thousand different fixes for this   none of the above worked for me  but what worked was to launch the AVD from the command line emulator-arm exe  AVD-NAME  Somehow if launched with only emulator exe  I would get the same error message than when trying to launch via Eclipse

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Referring to Android  failed to allocate memory and its first comment under accepted answer  changing  1024  to  1024MB  helped me  Pathetic  but works

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I had the same issue but before I got the issue it asked me to capture a video source   I disabled the camera support and I was able to use 1024MB of RAM   Using Windows 64bit  Xoom  Android 3 0

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I went through all the other solutions mentioned on this thread and didn t find anything that was working so I dinked around a little   The Google version of the API was failing on me for some reason   I changed it back to the vanilla and no more crashes    I must have some other issue but maybe this will help somebody

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I have overcome this problem by changing the device screen size   I have found that if you are specifying 1024 mb ram then you have to specify the device screen size in hdpi only and if it is 512 mb ram then it should be mdpi or others   So  We can clearly say that ram size should be specify according to the screen size   If you are specifying the 1024 ram size while keeping the device screen size in mdpi then it results in the above mentioned error i e  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     or   make your options in AVD manager as follows    2013-01-11 14 44 01 - SDK Manager  hw sensors orientation yes   2013-01-11 14 44 01 - SDK Manager  hw camera front none   2013-01-11 14 44 01 - SDK Manager  hw gps yes   2013-01-11 14 44 01 - SDK Manager  skin dynamic no   2013-01-11 14 44 01 - SDK Manager  hw keyboard no   2013-01-11 14 44 01 - SDK Manager  vm heapSize 32   2013-01-11 14 44 01 - SDK Manager  hw ramSize 343

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I solved by put as storage size 2 times the RAM size  and by putting the SD storage size the same as RAM size

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You only need to edit your virtual device s ram  making it lower  Try 20 MB  and it will work

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Be sure that IntelHAXM is installed correctly  It s not enough to download and  quot install quot  it through the SDK Manager  You need to manually install it from  android-sdk extras intel Hardware Accelerated Execution Manager Also  be sure that Intel Virtual Technology is enabled in your BIOS  Follow the guide on developer android com or Intel s installation instructions

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Have a look at the official issue 33930  There is pointed out  that it may have to do with the start up of OpenGL during the start of the emulator  Others wrote it only crashes when they use WXGA800-skin and suggest to manually set the resolution to 800x1280   Further there are ZIP-files provided to manually downgrade your android SDK to version 19 and plattform-tools to version 11  This may help as well to temporally fix the issue

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In my case  changin screen resolution from WVGA720 to WSVGA works for me

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I realized the solution to this problem stems from Eclipse memory allocation when you run the application in normal mode  I just checked the  Run as Administrator  box under the shortcut properties for Eclipse and now it allows me to allocate more memory for the AVD   Hope that helps

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The problem is in memory fragmentation  OS have to allocate all the ram you specified for vm   say 1Gb  as one continuous block  Sometimes there is no such block  To fix it close running programs  then run avd and start your virtual machine

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I have 16 GB and a 3 4 Ghz quad core proc in my machine   The virtual machine won t let me run it at 1024 either   I did bump it up to 878MB because it failed at 880 with the same message   This seems to be the most ram I can allocate to the emulator   It is still slow but I m assuming it is better than 512MB

[android] Failed to allocate memory: 8

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