Android emulator crashing on Windows 7 64 Bit

Question

I am a newbie android developer and so far have only got Hello World running on my android phone.

When I try to run my app in emulator mode I see the emulator window with the keyboard and answer / hangup buttons but I get a windows dialogue before my app runs sayingemulator.exe has stopped responding:

Can anyone else get the emulator to run on 64 bit Windows 7 Professional? I have a 32 bit JDK and run 32 bit Eclipse 3.5.

Thanks for any help

Answer 1

Emulator runs just fine for me on 64 bit Windows 7. But I have seen emulator crashing when trying to debug. I could start it on it's own, but when I tried to run it from eclipse it crashed. Try this:

1. Close eclipse and kill adb process
2. Delete your virtual device and create a new one

Answer 2

I had the same problem as you and realised that it was the firewal that was blocking it. So I went to the program exe, right click -> properties and in compatibility click on run as administrator. Then try running the program and you will get a firewall promt asking if you want to the give the program access, choose yes and sorted. You should have the AVD working now.

Answer 3

I was running 64-bit ADT with 64-bit Windows 7 and 64-bit Java. First time I ran the ADT, adb crashed. I then re-ran ADT using Run As Administrator, and adb did not crash.