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Cannot run android emulator - Unexpected error while creating: C (error: 3)

I have a problem running my avd on my windows device.

I created avds through the device manager of android studio. All my avds

When I try to run one of the avds, I can see the process in the task manager, but not on desktop. enter image description here

It is also not visible on "Running Devices" in Android Studio itself. ADB does also not recognize the newly started virtual device. The only indicator that a emulator is running is the instance in the task manager. If I try to run the avd through cmd, I get following error:

INFO    | Android emulator version 32.1.14.0 (build_id 10330179) (CL:N/A)
INFO    | Found systemPath C:\Users\eliaskadiri\AppData\Local\Android\Sdk\system-images\android-34\google_apis\x86_64\
INFO    | Storing crashdata in: C:\Users\ELIASK~1\AppData\Local\Temp\\AndroidEmulator\emu-crash.db, detection is enabled
INFO    | Duplicate loglines will be removed, if you wish to see each indiviudal line launch with the -log-nofilter flag.
ERROR   | Unexpected error while creating: C (error: 3)

I have to stop the method by ctrl + c, or it would result in a infinte loop throwing the last error.

I have no clue what could cause this issue. Virtualization is enabled, I have an AMD Ryzen processor (Windows 11) and this is my following Windows feature list:

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I tried reinstalling

  • Android Studio
  • Android Emulator hypervisor driver
  • Updating SDK-Buildtools and Platform-Tools

I tried to enable and disable hyper-v as well, but nothing really solved the issue.

I am thankful for every bit of help.

Thanks in advance.

Solution

  • Had the same problem and it helped to create an empty .android folder in the user directory of current user (i.e. C:\Users\<Username>\.android).
    Not sure why and not sure if this has any side-effects, but the emulator was able to start again.