android: eclipse does not load emulator device

Question

When I try to Run (or Debug) my project in eclipse, the AVD emulator emulator boots normally but eclipse doesn't recognise it. On DDMS, the Devices tab does not find the AVD emulator and thus I see no traffic in the LogCat. On the other hand, when I plug my phone and choose Run (or Debug) project, eclipse connects to the phone and works just fine (I see it on DDMS on LogCat shows traffic). Any thoughts on this one?

I'm using Eclipse_Galileo_5.2 and Google APIs (API level 12, Platform 3.1). I was working with the same setup before the problem appeared without any problems.

I highly appreciate all the help...

Answer 1

Simply run from command line adb kill-server and then adb start-server . ADB will reattach to the running emulator and will be able to work with it. Do not exit the emulator as bashu suggests as the problem is likely to appear again if you have a slower computer.

Answer 2

Lots of time it happens to me also. What i do is, I first Exit the Emulator. Then kill adb using adb kill-server after that i clean the project. and then adb start-server and finally run the application and it works fine for me.

Thanks.