I have the following error that pops up when I try to run the emulator:
Emulator: emulator: ERROR: Unknown AVD name [Nexus_5X_API_27], use
-list-avds to see valid list.
Emulator: Process finished with exit code 1
Given that I just created the avd, can you help me understand why it cannot find it and how to solve this problem?
Thanks in advance
I experienced the same issue, regardless of the AVD. I'm too new to understand why, but it seems that Android Studio created /.android/avd directories in two locations:
/root/.android/avd
/home/USERNAME/.android/avd
The .avd and .ini created when creating a new AVD were stored in the 1st location, and the 2nd location was empty. To resolve it, I copied and pasted both the .avd and .ini files for each AVD from 1 to 2 (they needed to be in both in order for AS to see and run the AVD). The emulator then ran successfully.
Why this happened?
When you try to start the avd, android studio will find the Nexus_5X_API_27.ini in $ANDROID_SDK_HOME/avd/. But when you create the avd by android studio, the Nexus_5X_API_27.ini is been put into $HOME/.android/avd/. So android studio can not find the ini file to start the avd.
Resolution
Copy the Nexus_5X_API_27.ini from $HOME/.android/avd/ to $ANDROID_SDK_HOME/avd/ will solve the problem.
When you create the AVD with Android Studio it's created in root location but our Android SDk location is set on somewhere in HOME. So you just need to move your avd folder from root location to home location path.
Root location path:
/root/.android/avd
Home location path:
/home/USERNAME/.android/avd
You don't need to keep avd folder on both the location because whenever you run your app on avd from Android Studio it's always looking it on HOME location.
I was having the same issue. but I did the below
I copied the folder C:\Users\USER_NAME\.android\avd and pasted inside the folder where the Sdk file located i.e C:\Users\USER_NAME\AppData\Local\Android\Sdk and finaly it worked fine for me
I had the same issue working with Android Studio in Win64. I have tried all the above suggested solutions, but none of them worked i.e., even after config changes the emulator was in error state throwing the same error.
However, after reverting back all the config changes and restarting the Android Studio fixed the error. The emulators are up and running. To be honest, there is no custom environment variables defined.
Only exception in my case is, the .ini files are getting created/stored in the $USER_HOME/.android/avd/ directory.
Adding my answer as it may help someone who is facing the similar issue.
For windows users, see the ANDROID_SDK_HOME path,then check the ANDROID_SDK_HOME/avd/,is there that Emulator(you just created) existed?If there's not existed,then copy the emulator.avd and emulator.ini files in ANDROID_SDK_HOME/.android/avd/ to ANDROID_SDK_HOME/avd/, finally it did worked!
There are actually several environment variables that you can set:
ANDROID_SDK_HOME
ANDROID_EMULATOR_HOME (default is $ANDROID_SDK_HOME/.android/)
ANDROID_AVD_HOME (default is $ANDROID_EMULATOR_HOME/avd/)
See https://developer.android.com/studio/command-line/variables
The default location of the Android SDK is your home directory, which depends on your operating system. For instance, on Windows it's C:\Users\*Owner*\AppData\Local\Android\Sdk.
If you have moved your home directory to a different disc, you can use the environment variables mentioned above to adjust the paths on a as-needed basis.
Deleting C:\Android\android-sdk and reinstalling android studio fixed this for me.
If your Android Studio create AVDs in the ~/.android/avd directory, here are the step by step instructions:
Open control panel
Then go to System
Then go to Change Environment Variables of the User
Then click create a new environment variables
Create a new variable named ANDROID_SDK_HOME
Set its value to your Android directory, like C:/users//.android
Related
I am getting this error when i start an avd in android studio.
Any help would be appreciated. And also unable to start android studio except from terminal.
PANIC: HOME is defined but could not find Nexus_4_API_21.ini file in $HOME/.android/avd
(Note: avd is searched in the order of $ANDROID_AVD_HOME,$ANDROID_SDK_HOME/.android/avd and $HOME/.android/avd)
In my case, I had especially installed Android Studio on my D: drive (for space reasons). On my installation, the avd directory was located in D:\MyInstall\.android\.avd
The solution for me was to define a Windows environment variable (user variable) with Variable name: ANDROID_SDK_HOME and Variable value: D:\MyInstall
I restarted Android Studio and the emulator worked.
This appears to be a bug in the Android Studio installer, since I explicitly stated the D: location in the install wizard. The installer should probably have set this variable.
Set the variable ANDROID_SDK_HOME to < home directory > / .android / .avd
For creating this variable under Win7, please go to control panel -> system -> advanced parameters -> environment variables. In the "user variables" block, Click on "new". Please fill the variable name and its value. Close all dialog by clickin on button "OK" and launch android studio.
Go through this link for more solutions if the above one doesn't work out for you.
In my case, I set the ANDROID_AVD_HOME environment variable to "C:\Users\DELL.android\avd".
If the error still persists try running android studio as administrator in windows, it worked for me.
I also came across to the same problem while launching Android emulator launch.
PANIC: HOME is defined but could not find testAvd.ini file in $HOME\.android\avd
(Note: avd is searched in the order of $ANDROID_AVD_HOME,$ANDROID_SDK_HOME\.android\avd and $HOME\.android\avd)
There are two solutions I found for the above problem.
Goto run and type regedit for windows and check the path set in the registry variables in under
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE->Android Studio
And check the .android\avd referring to the location of your testAvd.ini location. If not, either correct it or put your ini file at the UserSettingsPath present in your disc location.
This solved the problem for me. Just follow the link. It explains why it happens and how to get around it. :)
http://kalpa-gunarathna.blogspot.com/2015/04/android-emulator-not-starting-on-ubuntu.html
The error message is:
PANIC: Could not open AVD config file: C:\Users\Darth\.android\avd\Nexus_5_API_21_x86.avd\config.ini
I've looked in that directory and there is no config.ini file. Only a userdata.img file.
When looking in the AVD manager the actions column says "Failed to load". If I right click it and click details it shows an error of:
Error: Failed to parse properties from C:\Users\Username\.android\avd\Nexus_5_API_21_x87.avd\config.ini
Fixes attempted that didn't work:
1 - Try choosing a different device definition. (config.ini file still missing when choosing multiple other devices)
2 - sharing the .android directory with my whole homegroup (selecting a device still doesn't generate a config.ini file, same error persists)
FIX: Thanks for all the replies. The fix that worked was changing the Memory of the AVD to 512!
I also had this same error, but the cause wasn't mis-matched x64 vs x86. Turns out my emulator failed to load because the skin wasn't defined. The way that I fixed it was:
Remove any previous wear emulators that failed
Pick the Model (Round/Square) and Android version(Lollipop, for instance)
On the final screen, click "Show Advanced Settings"
Scroll all the way to the bottom and set the "Custom skin definition" to "AndroidWearSquare" or "AndroidWearRound", which should be at the bottom of the skins list
Then after you're finished it should all just work!
Just put the Android SDK in the same Drive where you have installed the Android Studio 1.0. There is a problem if these drive letters are different. This will definitely work for you.I have solved this last week.
Try to use an AVD Manager from C:\User\<%USERNAME%>\AppData\Local\Android\Sdk\
https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=78577#c25
For windows:
1) in the environment variables add a new "system variables"
ANDROID_SDK_HOME=D:\Program Files\android-sdk-windows (select your home directory of android sdk )
2) modify system variables Path, add "%Android_SDK_HOME%\tools;"
I have created many emulators and never touch .android\avd\Nexus_5_API_21_x87.avd\config.ini
you just create an Emulator, try to avoid "warp user Data", chose the appropriate Device and target API, set the SD memory to amount you want, and do the same with external RAM,and there is no reason to not work.
guesses: may the \Nexus_5_API_21_x87.avd\config.ini is read only! or you don't have permission to access .android/ (share this folder to all users,and give them full acsess.
I hope this will help
As I mentioned above I was facing the same issue.
For me it looks like the bug of the build and definitely not the issue rights, while another file was perfectly created (userdata.img) as well as the whole folder for the avd.
Solution #1: without changing anything in installation, I just found config.ini file in the internet. For example here is the config.ini for Nexus_S_API_21
So then I created Nexus_S AVD and put the config file in the folder. Then it starts working.
The issue with this method:
limited devices
config updates manually through config file
I still had some issues, e.g. instead of displaying the project I was displayed with the home page of Android, and there was no my app
Solution #2: Then I totally removed the Android Studio and cleaned all the stuff and downloaded 0.8.14 from scratch, during installation I updated it once to v.0.9.9. and then didn't update further.
In this version - everything worked just fine without any manipulation. AVD created from the first time and when launched - the project screen is displayed opened with Hello World.
I had the same issue and I was able to fix it with the below solution.
Root Cause: My system is 32-bit and the config.ini file was present in
C:\Users\Saajan Pruthi\.android\avd\Nexus_5_API_21_x86.avd
instead of
C:\Users\Saajan Pruthi\.android\avd\Nexus_5_API_21.avd
Note the x86... I simply copied the config file into the later folder and it worked.
I had the same issue inside Linux. The problem was that made install with root and executed the Android Studio from mi normal user, so in the momment that I install Android Studio every files android for emule stay here:
/root/.android/avd/Nexus_5_API_21_x86.avd
/root/.android/avd/Nexus_5_API_21_x86.ini
So you need do copy the files at your user, then:
sudo cp -Rf /root/.android /home/YOUR_USER
I hope that be help. Regards.
I did the following and it worked:
moved the sdk folder from C:\Users\User\AppData\Local\Android\sdk to the Android Studio program folder under C:\Program Files\Android\Android Studio\sdk
Restarted Android studio and reconfigured it to point to the new sdk folder
Recreated the emulator and started it
I had this problem as well. I just removed the AVD and added it back again - emulator is running fine now.
I had the same problem, and it turned out that my hard drive was full. For anyone still looking for a solution, definitely make sure you still have space.
I'm brand new to Android development and Eclipse so I have just set it all up and I am attempting the Hello World tutorial. Sadly when I try and run the program I get the following error:
PANIC: Could not open: C:\Users\Nathan Smith.android/avd/Droid_4.0.3.ini
I have heard that you should avoid spaces in these paths. Is the space in the name where the problem is? If so how do I go about changing it?
If anyone could help me out with this that would be grand.
By the way I also noticed that my SDK path is C:\Users\Asus Laptop\android-sdks\ should I change this to the same user? This was not intentional, is there an easy way of me changing this to the right user?
This has been asked a few times already, try this:
Create a environment variable called: ANDROID_SDK_HOME and set it to
C:\Users\Administrator
Open Eclipse > Window > Preferences and click
in Run/Debug and String Substitution
Add a new variable called:
user.home and set it to C:\Users\Administrator
Create an AVD and run
it.
Android Emulator can't start, 'cause of wrong folder
android emulator error:[2011-08-02 11:14:01 - Emulator] PANIC: Could not open: C:\Users\hallo\.android/avd/myemu.ini
I have problem in a emulator
A simple solution,
Create your avd with normal steps. e.g. avd name is Nexus_One. You will see Nexus_One folder and Nexus_One.ini file at D:\Users\Nathan Smith\.android\avd
Copy Nexus_One.ini to C:\Users\Nathan Smith\.android\avd
Try running avd through AVD Manager. It will start the emulator.
Reason being it works, if you read ini file, you will find path variable as below,
path=D:\Users\Nathan Smith\.android\avd\Nexus_One.avd
path.rel=avd\Nexus_One.avd
So, when you start emulator, it check the ini and tries to start emulator from path mentioned in path variable.
Hope this solves your problem.
Find the .android folder on your cpu. You can find it by going to Window -> Preferences -> Android -> Build, and see the "Default debug keystore:" path location.
After you find it, move the .android folder to your user root directory
- which may be "C:\Users\Nathan Smith\" in your case.
I had the same problem, but now its fixed.
Go to Windows in Eclipse, Windows->preference->run/debug->stringSubstitution-> add variable name as "user.home" Then the value will be your profile path
Example: mine is C:\users\sriramk\.android
Now open the default .android path, copy the content, and paste that content into
C:\users\sriramk\.android. Restart Eclipse and now the emulator will open.
The simple solution is to create a symbolic link between your home directory and destination .android directory. The problem is that emulator looks for files on in your home directory.
mklink /D Link Target
Probably you can copy .android dir or change a setting.
The AVD manager normally uses the user's profile directory to store AVD files.
However it failed to find the default profile directory.
To fix this, please set the environment variable ANDROID_SDK_HOME to a valid path such as "".
Step 1. (Windows 7 Only... 64-bit version Tested) Go to your start menu, then open the Control Panel.Click System and Security, click System, then open up the Advanced System Settings (on the left). Go to the Advanced Tab, then click Environment Variables.Check your user variables.
If you don't, find A variable named ANDROID_SDK_HOME with the Value, click new. In the Variable Name box, type in "ANDROID_SDK_HOME" (Without quotes).
In the Variable Value, type in something like c:/Users/jorge/AppData/Local/Android/Android-sdk. Click OK.Then click OK. Click OK again. Close the Control Panel and restart your computer.
Try Running SDK or AVD Manager(s) again. Create an AVD and run it.
Home Folder Redirection To UNC / AVD Shows UNC Path
If you're unfortunate to have network UNC path mapped as your home directory using Windows Folder Redirection then AVD will fail to start.
You should also have a normal user directory under C:\Users, which contains non-mapped stuff. The trick is for Android SDK to use this instead. Similar to other answers, you need to set ANDROID_SDK_HOME user environment variable to your C:\ based home directory.
For example:
ANDROID_SDK_HOME = C:\Users\MyUserName
Restart Eclipse.
In my hunt for a resolution, I found this answer which gives a great performance increase: https://stackoverflow.com/a/19338671/1554386
I had the same problem, the issue seemed to be low disk space on the drive containing the emulator files (C).
I want to write an Android app and I've started this morning by loading JDK, eclipse, SDK etc, all from the adt-bundle-windows-x86_64-20130219 from http://developer.android.com.
The issue for me right now:
[2013-02-27 13:36:26 - Test2] Android Launch!
[2013-02-27 13:36:26 - Test2] adb is running normally.
[2013-02-27 13:36:26 - Test2] Performing com.example.test2.MainActivity activity launch
[2013-02-27 13:37:27 - Test2] Launching a new emulator with Virtual Device 'droidX2'
[2013-02-27 13:37:27 - Emulator] PANIC: Could not open: droidX2
I've been sifting though posts on the web all morning about AVD and I haven't seen one that didn't involve the path being messed up and the .ini not found. I don't think I've got a path issue. AVD is looking for files on D:\USERS\XXX\.android\avd and that's where the files are. So don't understand why the emulator can't open.
I've done the most basic things like remove and re-install everything, read the notes at orace etc. Basically I'm stuck. Any suggestions here?
adt-bundle-windows-x86_64-20130219 was what I loaded on Windows 7 (32bit).
I'd settle for testing on the mobile that's connected to the PC but I can't get that to work either!
Any direction appreciated.
This has been asked a few times already, try these:
Create a environment variable called: ANDROID_SDK_HOME and set it to
C:\Users\Administrator Open Eclipse > Window > Preferences and click
in Run/Debug and String Substitution Add a new variable called:
user.home and set it to C:\Users\Administrator Create an AVD and run
it.
Original answer by Colin
an android project member says here:
As a work-around, you can define the environment variable
ANDROID_SDK_HOME to point to the directory containing your .android
directory. The emulator and SDK Manager will pick it up properly.
verify that The location in which the avd was searched from is different from where it is actually created. Take a look at the screenshot below for more information.
ANOTHER OPTION: Symlinking...
In a command prompt (with admin privileges), change directory ("cd") to "C:\Users\YourUserName.android" and then use the following command to create a symlink to the avd directory (notice the direction of the slashes):
mklink /D avd D:\_MyLibrariesDir\.android\avd
Where "_MyLibrariesDir" is the directory that your libraries (photos, documents, etc) folders are located.
And you're done!
Explanation: This has the same effect as the ANDROID_SDK_HOME option except that you can now browse to [C:\Users\YourUserName\.android\avd\*] and [D:_MyLibrariesDir\.android\avd\*] and both will take you to the same spot.
This differs from a shortcut in that shortcuts do not act as directories, so if you just had a shortcut to the "avd" folder, you could not go to "C:\Users\YourUserName\.android\avd*" as it would produce a file not found error and if you tried to click on an avd shortcut file it would take you to [D:_MyLibrariesDir\.android\avd\*] instead of keeping you on the C drive. Symlinks act a bridge between locations in a way that is transparent to user and software. Quite handy :)
I fixed the AVD Panic issue by running Eclipse as an administrator.
On Ubuntu check the current user if you run eclipse as root (sudo) eclipse could NOT find the /root/.android set the user home
user.home /home/<user>/
and copy the AVD files into the new directory than changes the privileges
cd /home/<user>/
chgrp <user> -R .android
chgrp <user> -R .android
Simply if nothing works for you, just copy the folder avd which you could find in your .android folder to C:\Users\<user name>\.android.
Pls check once in Ur ".android" folder, another/duplicate ".android" folder might have been created. If "YES" is Ur answer then do this thing because in my case that thing was happened.
Simply I just kept only the latest ".android" folder in this directory "C:\Users\USER NAME\" (removed the duplicated one) and then emulator started working for me.
Cheers
try to add new windows admin user with English language only
it worked for me
the user name should be in English letters
Found a simple way to make it work - worth trying:
1. If you do not have it yet - create a new AVD with the problematic name (in this case droidX2) if you see an overwrite warning - overwrite it.
2. Delete the new AVD you just created in step 1.
3. If you have another AVD it's OK, if not - create one.
4. Retry running the Eclipse project as an Android application - now it should run
Setting the ANDROID_SDK_HOME environment variable alone works fine for Win7 and earlier but did not help me on Win8.
For poor tortured souls using the piece of crap which is Windows 8, go to wherever you've installed the Android SDK (e.g. C:\SDK\Android or C:\Users\JoeCitizen\AppData\Local\Android\android-sdk) and make sure both AVD Manager.exe and SDK Manager.exe are set to run as Administrator for all users. Once I did that it worked fine.
Yet another deceptive problem-which-shouldn't-be-a-problem caused by the complete fail which is permission management circa Windows 8.
Using Windows 7, Eclipse, Android SDK tools 23.0.4
First time I followed the exact instruction on http://developer.android.com/training/index.html
I got the error "PANIC: could not open.." whenever 'Start' emulator.
Solution: System property popup/Enviroment Variables/ System variables, Added new entry
name="ANDROID_SDK_HOME", value = "D:\DATA\Users\ThisUser\"
Then it starts work!
"D:\DATA\Users\ThisUser\" is parent folder where ".android/avd" folder exists.
avd folder path here is "D:\DATA\Users\ThisUser.android\avd"
Note that you must put "D:\DATA\Users\ThisUser\", not "D:\DATA\Users\ThisUser**.android**"
When trying to create an AVD with the android SDK AVD manager I get 'Error: null'. This keeps happening because the SDK manager is looking for 'List of existing Android Virtual Devices located at \...(wrong location).
How can I change the file location?
I had similar issue. I have solved this by setting up the environment variable ANDROID_SDK_HOME in my startup script. The path shall be your desired location of .android folder, excluding the last slash. Example:
SET ANDROID_SDK_HOME=C:\Users\toybuilder\Downloads
I had the same problem this weekend. In my case, I was able to create the AVD's, but not able to start them.
The problem was caused by the AVD Manager creating the AVD's in a different directory from where the emulator was trying to launch the AVD's.
In my case, AVD Manager was initially reporting the list of existing Android Virtual Device located at C:\Users\toybuilder\Downloads\.android\avd
It turns out that my Java runtime (in this case, JDK 1.6u24) was reporting C:\Users\toybuilder\Downloads as my home directory (user.home property). I first confirmed this via Eclipse:
In Eclipse, go to:
Eclipse Menu: Help -> About Eclipse
Click on the [Installation Details]
Click on the [Configuration] tab:
The text box fills with an extended dump of the Eclipse environment .
Look for the user.home value. In my case, the line read:
user.home=C:\Users\toybuilder\Downloads
It turns out that there's a long-standing Java bug (nearly 9 years old) on how the Java runtime determine's the user.home property - as discussed elsewhere on StackOverflow
In my particular case, the buggy behavior was triggered by a bad windows folders redirection. I had apparently moved my Desktop folder into my Downloads directory at some point by accident. Although I had fixed the problem, it nevertheless left an entry in my registry with a Desktop folder redirection to the Downloads directory. There was a HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders\Desktop registry key that pointed, incorrectly, to C:\Users\toybuilder\Downloads\Desktop
The Java runtime was apparently setting user.home as "Desktop"/.. (i.e., the Downloads directory), while some other mechanisms were resolving the home directory at the correct location (probably the Windows %userprofile% environmental value) -- and hence when the emulator was starting up, it could not find the .android/avd directory, because it was looking from a different starting directory.
After I deleted the incorrect redirection registry key, the problem went away.
Windows with "folder redirection" have this issue. If you are logged in a domain and the admin has set a redirection for your home folders eclipse/android SDK cannot read correctly some files. You can try the following steps:
Close Eclipse
Just set a user environmental variable like:
Variable Name:ANDROID_SDK_HOME
Variable Value:C:\Users\{your login}
Copy the .android folder from the "redirection" folder to C:\Users\{your login}
Start Eclipse.
Now the AVDs should work fine.
I have a Solution for this error:
Right click Folder "C:\User\yournamecomputer.android" and uncheck Read-Only
it work for me :D
SET ANDROID_SDK_HOME variable not working for me.
Open eclipse
Click on window menu and then select preference.
Select android from left hand side.
Now SET SDK location e.g. E:\android\sdk instead of ../sdk means set Absolute path instead of Relative path.
Its worked for me.
I hope this help someone and save time.