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Unbearably slow android emulator -- is there a fix?

Asked 2010-07-09T06:04:10.323
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I know that the topic was discussed here last year, but I am hoping that someone has since found a fix. The emulator is simply not working for me anymore. It took 15 minutes or so to load hello world a few days ago, and now I can't get it to load a simple MapsDemo from the api samples no matter how long I wait.

I'm using eclipse with the android plugin (sdk and avd manager). My pc is 2.31 GHz quadcore with 8GB ram and windows 7 x64. Nothing is being logged in LogCat apparently.

Are there any alternatives or certain fixes I can try before buying a phone? I'd just upgrade my phone to an HTC Incredible and debug from the phone, but Verizon won't have any for at least a month and I'd really like to have my app out by then.

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The best advice I've received is to use to target an older platform and a lower resolution. The emulator for Android 1.5 at HVGA is significantly faster to load than 3.1 at tablet resolution.

If you are running an emulator for a newer Android version, and want to see what it is doing while loading, you can watch on 'adb logcat'. It at least gives some better feedback than the word "Android" with a light shining across it!

answered 2011-07-05T08:55:02.630

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