How do I restart an android emulator?

Question

I\'m basically trying to do this: Changing the Android emulator locale automatically

Everything works up until \'start\'. the emulator starts to boot but keeps loading

Answer 1

I'm pretty sure this will work:

• Clear/Wipe the AVD to defaults or create a new one.

• Start the AVD/Emulator from the CLI with the following command

  emulator -avd my_avd -prop persist.sys.language=en -prop persist.sys.country=GB
  

change as needed. That way you are not messing with the system image which can cause hangs/crashes. And you can easily set it on boot for a variety of Locales.

Answer 2

To restart a running emulator I used

adb -e reboot

(Assuming there is only one running)

Answer 3

Some versions of the emulator (android-7) are buggy and just hang at the shimmmera.

Try restarting it with "wipe user data" option (yes, you will have to re-run your app or at least reinstall it).

Answer 4

You asked how to restart the emulator from ADB. But the title is framed in a way that pops the question up when searching about restarting it from the UI as well.

One option could be (but it depends on which tooling you are using and may not be available for all emulators/environments) is to tap and hold the Power button and then a menu will pop up with a Restart option in it.

Answer 5

If you are using Android Studio, you can goto the AVD Manager, Under Actions select "Cold Boot Now" to restart the emulator. This would get rid of errors/discrepancies which might occur if the simulator's process has been abruptly closed/terminated.

Answer 6

For me, kiran-chenna's answer failed me, and the solution was to instead run:

emulator -avd Pixel_2_API_28 -no-cache