AVD Emulator stuck on loading screen in Android Studio

Question

I decided to try Android Studio 2.0 having used Eclipse in the past but I\'m having considerable difficulty getting the AVD to load correctly. I\'ve done quite a bit of goog

Answer 1

At one point my laptop hit a kernel panic and restarted while running an active AVD emulator session. When attempting to restart the emulator, the emulated device (Pixel 3) stayed stuck on the startup splash logo screen.

Fix steps:

1. Stop hung emulator session.

2. rm ~/.android/avd/name_of_emulated_device.avd/*.lock

3. rm ~/.android/avd/name_of_emulated_device.avd/*.qcow2

4. Restarting the emulated AVD should now be successful.

Windows equivalent for ~/.android should be C:\Users\.android, but I can't confirm this myself.

Note: You will likely lose any additionally installed apps and current work that was on the AVD.