“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

For anyone who is having the issue now and non of the solutions worked. Try this:

I was having the same issue and it was actually caused by android Q preview. I created a device with Pie and everything just works.