ADB not responding. You can wait more, or kill “adb.exe” … windows 8

Question

When I try to test my Android application with an android emulator as always I now suddenly get an error message. I\'m working with Windows 8. So far I tried the following thing

Answer 1

Looks like this could be caused by a bunch of different issues. This just happened to me because I had my android phone device plugged in for USB debugging, then after a few hours (and multiple android studio/phpstorm restarts) I had to do unplug the device manually. Things started working again after unplugging.