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AVD not working AMD A8 5545

I have a new laptop: AMD A8 5545 with Radeon HD Graphic 1.70 GH - 8 GB Ram - 64 Bit

When I tried to Run AVD in Android Studio: Nexus S API 24 , Android 7.0 - X86

I found the following Error:

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How can I fix this?

Solution

  • As the error suggests, you won't be able to run the emulator without HAXM enabled. (which is not supported by your system).

    As stated on the Android Site;

    Many modern CPUs provide extensions for running virtual machines (VMs) more efficiently. Taking advantage of these extensions with the Android emulator requires some additional configuration of your development system, but can significantly improve the execution speed. Before attempting to use this type of acceleration, you should first determine if your development system’s CPU supports one of the following virtualization extensions technologies:

    Intel Virtualization Technology (VT, VT-x, vmx) extensions

    AMD Virtualization (AMD-V, SVM) extensions (only supported for Linux)

    My suggestion would be to use Genymotion as an alternative which works exceedingly well as compared to the default emulator shipped with Android Studio or switch to a Linux based distro.