I found a solution to the 'emulator stops at animated logo' problem. I have a Ubuntu 9.04 machine, I had installed the JDK using the Debian package from the Ubuntu repositories:
i sun-java6-jdk - Sun Java(TM) Development Kit (JDK) 6 I just tried downloading the JDK from www.java.com and set my path to the directory where I installed it. Started the emulator and in a few minutes I had the emulator home page showing. It runs painfully slowly, but it runs. On Nov 20, 8:04 pm, teichholtz <teichho...@gmail.com> wrote: > There now seem to be many of us who are experiencing this behaviour. I > have an emulator running now which has been running for over 24 hours > and still has not displayed the home page. > > I have a gut feeling that it is a video card issue, although I have > only two data points so far: > > 1. Dell laptop circa 2002 running Ubuntu 9.04. Emulator gets as far > as animated logo. > 2. Generic desktop, P4 machine running Ubuntu 9.04. Emulator boots up > in under 2 minutes. > > -David > > On Nov 20, 12:46 pm, Justin Anderson <janderson....@gmail.com> wrote: > > > The emulator takes extremely long to load. If you have a phone, you would > > notice that the second android image that you reference is the initial boot > > up screen for the phone. Just wait longer. Depending on your machine > > speed, os, etc... I have heard the emulator startup time can take any where > > from a few minutes to hours. On my machine it takes about 2 minutes. > > > Also, this question has been asked several times. Please search the group > > before posting redundant questions... Especially if they have already been > > answered. > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > There are only 10 types of people in the world... > > Those who know binary and those who don't. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 5:05 AM, Mr. Baseball 34 > > <mrbasebal...@gmail.com>wrote: > > > > I have Eclipse Galileo JDK6.17 with Android 1.5R3. I can't even get the > > > Hello World app running correctly. > > > A Lot of messages say to wait for the emulator, well when it first comes > > > up, it shows attachment > > > android1.png (also posted here:. > > >http://www.delphicommunity.com/android1.png) > > > > I will wait for a while and the screen will clear then it shows the > > > attachment android2.png > > > (also posted here:http://www.delphicommunity.com/android2.png). > > > > Any ideas as to why it won't even work for this simple little app? > > > > -- > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > > Groups "Android Beginners" group. > > > To post to this group, send email to android-beginners@googlegroups.com > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > > android-beginners+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<android-beginners%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > > > For more options, visit this group at > > >http://groups.google.com/group/android-beginners?hl=en -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Beginners" group. To post to this group, send email to android-beginners@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-beginners+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-beginners?hl=en