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Starting AVD Emulator always gives "Android Emulator Closed unexpectedly"

My sincere thanks for your reading this.

I have just installed Android Studio and am attempting to run the default Hello World! script that is present when you create a new project.

Every time I try to run the the program in an Android Emulator my Emulator crashes and I get the error "Android Emulator Closed Unexpectedly" Every. Single. Time.

I have the Intel x86 Emulator Accelerator (HAXM installer) installed as suggested:

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I try to run a Nexus 4 emulator with 512 mb of Ram and it never works:

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When I run this I get:

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During this, my system physical memory peaks at 80% but never goes to 100 (which I would expect if it were crashing).

I have searched similar questions including

Android emulator crashing on Windows 7 64 Bit Android 4.0 emulator always has a crashing Launcher? Android studio emulator fails to start with memory limit related error message and they say to lower the memory size (which is what I am trying to do). Unfortunately this isn't working

Any idea how I can solve this issue?

My computer specs are as follows: 64 Bit Windows 6gb Ram Intel Core i3

I downloaded and installed all correct versions as instructed here: https://developer.android.com/studio/install.html

Solution

  • In my case, this issue took the whole weekend to solve.

    All options I tried, until:

    Android Development Studio prompted me to update the Android Emulator Version to 25.3.1 (no idea what it was on before as I didn't check this before). This was a download of ~170mb.

    Once I downloaded and installed the update, the emulator now seems to run OK on low memory settings - settings in keeping with the answer to this question here: Android emulator generates a very annoying error

    I am now running with settings:

    RAM memory to 5012

    Virtual heap 32

    Internal storage 200 mb

    External storage 64 mb

    So basically, it was a complete fluke that this worked.