Hmmm - I will try that. My machine isn't exactly the most powerful piece of equipment ever created... But all I am running is Eclipse and the emulator (And, of course, the JDK that underlies Eclipse). And it was working quite nicely before this...
I suspect it might be a corrupted data file, but it seems odd to me that it would cause the emulator to hang up like it does - it seems it ought to be one of those "It works or it doesn't" rather than "It works but not completely" things... On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 10:12 AM, JoaJP <[email protected]> wrote: > > > In my experience (all the way from m3), the emulator isn't quite as > stable as one would expect... although it's improved considerably. > Before you go out and buy new equipment, try to delete the emulator's > data image. If the emulator doesn't find it, it creates a fresh one, > so all you really lose is database and preferences data. Since 1.5 > it's two files, userdata-qemu.img and cache.img > They are tucked away somewhere in your home directory, see if you can > find .android/avd/<avd name>.avd (that's the XP directory > layout) > > > On Sep 16, 6:43 am, Timothy Collins <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'll take that under consideration... That might be a very good point. > > > > On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 9:40 AM, Mark Murphy <[email protected] > >wrote: > > > > > > > > > furby wrote: > > > > I actually am starting it using Eclipse... Really, just running the > > > > project. (I have to admit, I am rather new at Android development). > > > > > > I created an AVD earlier (While I was attempting to use Netbeans to > > > > develop Android apps - it didn't work out very well)... I am just > > > > wondering - how can it work one day and then the next day suddenly > > > > stop? > > > > > Depending on the speed of your PC and other things that are going on at > > > the time, the Android emulator may get "hung up" at the graphical > > > Android logo. I am not aware of a workaround other than to improve > > > system performance, either through hardware (e.g., more RAM) or > software > > > (e.g., less stuff running). > > > > > -- > > > Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) > > >http://commonsware.com|http://twitter.com/commonsguy > > > > > Android Training in Germany, 18-22 January 2010: > http://bignerdranch.com > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---

