Android emulator gives error “Resetting for cold boot: emulation engine failed” and exits

Question

After updating AS now emulator quits every time I start it. Below is the screenshot I managed to capture before it disappeared.

In the logs the following are printe

Answer 1

I recently experienced this problem.

I updated my windows 10 1904 to 2004, this solved my problem

Answer 2

I found a blog post which allowed me to fix the problem. Follow these steps:

1. In Tools > SDK Manager, make sure HAXM is installed and up-to-date. You can also manually install it from Github and restart Android Studio.

2. Open environment variables and add a new variable ANDROID_SDK_HOME, set the value to C:\Users\<yourUserNameHere>\AppData\Local\Android\Sdk

3. Go to C:\Users\<yourUserNameHere>\.android and copy the avd folder to C:\Users\<yourUserNameHere>\AppData\Local\Android\Sdk

4. Now open Android Studio and try again.

Answer 3

I was trying to create an emulator for Android 10 (the one for Android 9.0 worked fine) but I also got the error:

Resetting for cold boot: emulation engine failed

After some digging on the World Wide Web I found that I did not have the Android SDK 10.0 (Q) installed.

Steps (from Android Studio):

Step 1: Open SDK Manager (Tools -> SDK Manager)

Step 2: Choose your missing Android SDK and click Apply

Step 3: Wipe the data from existing virtual device (Tools -> AVD Manager -> Right-click on virtual device -> Wipe Data)

After the installation I right-clicked on my already existing virtual device and choose Wipe Data. I'm not sure it this is necessary though. Note that the same error - Resetting for cold boot: emulation engine failed - appeared but then it booted up correctly.

Answer 4

I experienced the same issue when updating Android Studio to version 3.4.

What worked for me was editing the AVD configuration and on Graphics I selected "Software -GLES 1.0". This made my emulator successfully boot up again.

Then I just went back to the Graphics configuration and selected "Hardware - GLES 2.0" again, which made my emulator go back to its usual performance.

Hope that helps!

Answer 5

I had the same problem and this worked for me.

Answer 6

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