“waiting for target device to come online” in Android Studio 2.3

Question

Recently upgraded to Android Studio from 2.2.3 to 2., running on Win10

Emulator stopped working since then. Tried installing other images(25 rev 4)/upgrading for AVD

Answer 1

I realized my emulator was actually frozen, despite restarting it and restarting my computer. I just had to wipe data (AVD Manager > right-click on emulator > Wipe Data) and it started working again. You'll lose any state you had, but at least you won't have to reinstall it.