Android emulator error: “System UI has stopped”

Question

I have recently set up my Android development environment. Every thing is alright but when I run my emulator it takes to much time with an error dialog on the emulator scree

Answer 1

Close avd and eclipse then Delete .android file created in your user folder then try to create a new emulator this help me most of the time.It may helps you

Answer 2

This is also happening if your device definition name has " character in the name, like Kindle Fire HD 7".

Once I removed the apostrophe symbol, error was gone.

Answer 3

My case. Android SDK was placed here D:\android-sdk\ for a nearly year ago. After one of recently SDK updates I'v got "Unfortunately, System UI has stopped". I'v created number of divices with different RAM amount, VM heap size, screen size, API level(problem seems to be only on API14+), etc. At finish i noticed that new devices was created at the location C:\users\XuserX\.android\avd After reading this post solution was simple: create ANDROID_SDK and ANDROID_SDK_HOME system variables with value d:\android-sdk\

Hope this post helps somebody.

Answer 4

This issues has happened to me a few times, and has always been resolved by cold booting the emulator.

On OS X:

• Open Android Studio. Navigate to Configure > AVD Manager.
• Under Actions > dropdown triangle on the right > Cold Boot Now:

Here is a photo of what the menu looks like

I'm not sure what this looks like on Windows, maybe someone can confirm that it is similar?

Answer 5

just switch off and on hte button in emulator ... it can remove that problem

Answer 6

What seems to have worked for me and others is to change the hw.mainKeys setting in your config.ini to true:

hw.mainKeys=true