Failed to install HelloAndroid.apk on device 'emulator-5554!

Question

Ive seen the questions posted about this issue. I understand it takes several minutes for the emulator to configure itself and launch. But if Im getting the specific error

Answer 1

I was facing the same problem but i tried changing the ADB connection timeout. I think it defaults that to 5000ms and I changed mine to 10000ms to get rid of that problem. If you are in Eclipse, you can do this by going through Window -> Preferences and then it is in DDMS under Android.