Error Message: emulator-arm.exe has stopped working

Question

I have been having issues running my first android app. Yesterday, i came close to running it but my happiness was dashed when i encountered this error:

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Answer 1

After many attempts to fix, I found the following most helpful: Android: failed to allocate memory Running the emulator with 512mb of ram or less seems to be the only solution so far for me. Thanks

Answer 2

Here's how to fix it and keep your desired amount of RAM:

1. Go into the AVD folder (example: C:\Users\username\.android\avd\phone.avd)
2. Open the "config.ini" file in Wordpad.
3. Modify the 'partition' and 'ram' lines to end in "MB" (See below for the proper syntax changes)

ORIGINAL: disk.dataPartition.size=512M

MODIFIED: disk.dataPartition.size=512MB

ORIGINAL: hw.ramSize=1024

MODIFIED: hw.ramSize=1024MB

Save the file, and then run the emulator again (e.g. "emulator.exe -avd phone"). You must repeat this process for each of your AVDs.

Answer 3

Also worth checking that HAXM is installed/enabled (this fixed issue for me, without it got same error as you were reporting and it slowed my Mac to a crawl).

Answer 4

My case was that the skin setting somehow had been changed from WVGA800 to WVGA854 in AVD. After I switch it back, the emulator works.

Answer 5

In my case, I had to set memory RAM from 1907 (default) to 512 to get it working