Failed to install due to Timeout in Emulator

Question

When attempting to install an .apk from Eclipse, whether to an android emulator or to a physical device (via USB), I get a \"Failed to install *.apk on device \'*\': timeout

Answer 1

This is what I do on my Win7 64 bit system when this happens:

1. Close Eclipse
2. Kill adb.exe and all copies of emulator-arm.exe from task manager
3. Open Eclipse
4. Change to DDMS view and make sure you can see Devices
5. Open Window / ADV Manager
6. Select required emulator and press Start
7. Watch the Devices panel in DDMS, to see if the emulator shows. If it doesn't display before the Start window progress bar has finished then the emulator isn't going to load this time so close the emulator.
8. Then repeat from 6.

For me the emulator never starts first time but 9 times out of 10 will start successfully on the second attempt.

Wish they'd fix this! Mark