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Launch AVD manager from command line
There is no way to launch AVD manager from cmdline (It is deprecated)
There is no way to launch AVD from cmd line. But you can use avdmanager cmdline tool to create, delete, move, list & edit your ...
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Android AVD throws errors, such as "Failed to sync vcpu reg"
Make sure that you're not running any other virtual machines, then try again.
I was running a guest Windows 8 VirtualBox on El Capitan and I got the same error when I tried to run a virtual Android ...
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Can I get more RAM in emulator while still having a Google Play image?
The UI does not allow to change the RAM size neither when creating a new virtual device nor later when editing the virtual device.
However on file level you can simply open the configuration file of ...
4
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"cannot add library libvulkan.so" when trying to start emulator
I don't really have a solution, but a workaround: I had the same problem on openSUSE Leap 15.4 and could solve it by choosing "Software - GLES 2.0" for "Emulated Performance" when ...
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Android AVD throws errors, such as "Failed to sync vcpu reg"
In my case, it's the docker program conflict with AVD, quit docker then restart the AVD is ok.
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Share virtual machine between Genymotion and Android AVD Manager?
Genymotion and the Android emulator for Android SDK can not interoperate because the used virtualization system is totally different:
Android Emulator from SDK uses an QEMU 2 based emulator for ...
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"cannot add library libvulkan.so" when trying to start emulator
If mesa-vulkan-drivers is already installed (sudo apt install mesa-vulkan-drivers)
try to update your NVIDIA driver: sudo ubuntu-drivers autoinstall
then reboot your system
If the ubuntu-driver ...
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AVD doesn't work after installing Android Studio
I faced a similar problem recently on my windows 10 laptop and found out that the Intel virtualization technology (vt-x) was disabled from BIOS.
In case you are using a new laptop which comes per-...
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How can I launch AVD Manager without opening or creating a project in Android Studio?
While it doesn't seem possible to get around having to start Android Studio, it is possible to start the AVD Manager without creating or opening a project.
On the launch screen that opens when no ...
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How to make Android always use external SD card instead of internal storage?
/sdcard isn't physically external SD card but a symlink to primary external shared storage. See details in my answers to Android's Storage Journey and What is /storage/emulated/0/?
From your comment:
...
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avdmanager hangs on "Loading local repository..." Linux
It happened because since version (6200805) Command Line Tools should be placed inside cmdline-tools directory. It should be created manually in ANDROID_HOME.
Please see this answer With the ...
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How to change location of AVD (Android Virtual Devices) files to external SSD?
1) There is a solution here: Move Android Studio Virtual Devices to Another Hard Drive on a Mac
. I will outline it later.
2.A) I am using Linux but my emulator is found under the Android SDK folder:/...
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Export picture from Android Virtual Machine
While I second Xaviers recommendation of adb (which comes in handy in many cases, helping you to solve issues – e.g. by accessing the logs, see logging), let me mention some easy alternatives:
you ...

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Export picture from Android Virtual Machine
adb comes pretty handy in this situation.
Simply navigate to the platform-tools dir in your SDK installation folder (or start terminal right away if its path is saved in system varibles) and start ...
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Android Emulator: Failed to sync vcpu reg Error
Do you have HP SureClick running? I had the same problem on the Zbook Studio x360 G5 until I disabled it.
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"Cold boot: snapshot doesn't exist" when running the Android SDK Emulator for the first time
Try to uninstall Intel HAXM in SDK tools and then reinstall it. you'll solved your problem.
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Can't start Android 8.0 Oreo on emulator: "Decryption unsuccessful"
I managed to get the Android 8.1 images to run on the emulator. I figured out the main issue was to do with emulator itself which was rather outdated.
From the looks of things it seems the emulator (...
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AVD Dose not start, No Errors Either
I had a similar issue, turned out to be a fault with my graphics driver . Assuming you're running windows check your event logs for more info
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How do I resize internal storage of an Android Studio AVD image that's stuck at 200MB?
If you want to change the memory size then just edit the emulator from Android Studio, then "Show Advanced Settings", then change the internal memory size.
then
then
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How do I resize internal storage of an Android Studio AVD image that's stuck at 200MB?
This is a known problem. I imagine that nobody has made the investment to fix because it affects an earlier API version/build. But, if you're on a Mac, here's your fix.
Go into AVD and set the ...
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AVD is not able to launch
You need to reduce the RAM size of your emulator. Even if you have enought memory it is recommended to have 1GB or less than 1GB memory. As it automatically allocates 864MB edit your emulator in the ...
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AVD doesn't work after installing Android Studio
If your new Mac M1 is having this problem, as of Android Studio Arctic Fox patch 4, I resolved the issue by adding a new virtual device (for the simulator) which was for ARM architecture.
Here are ...
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