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I'm running Ubuntu 11.04 64bit, Eclipse 3.5.2, and Android Development Toolkit 12.0.0.v201106281929-138431

The "SDK and AVD Manager" dialog from the "Windows" menu seems to have a problem starting any emulators I have created; it does nothing when the "Start..." button is clicked.

I can start an emulator fine from the terminal, but I'd like to stay in eclipse and have it scaled down before I begin testing my application.

I've tried re-installing Eclipse, to no avail.

Any help, advice, or info is greatly appreciated.

Brandon
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This is a workaround, but you can perfectly start your emulator outside Eclipse and use it from Eclipse: ADT communicates with it using a network connection to localhost:5554 by default.

There is a command-line option called -scale that allows scaling the virtual device. It accepts a factor between 0.1 and 3, a dpi value or the keyword auto to let the emulator to chose a size for you (which is not necessarily the actual size of a physical device).

About the Eclipse integration problem, it's difficult to have an idea. You don't see any error message?

Shlublu
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  • No error message or anything. Just kind of stalls when "Start..." button is clicked. – Brandon Jul 27 '11 at 15:11
  • Wow. No idea in that case. Being in front of the machine would help :) – Shlublu Jul 27 '11 at 15:14
  • And for some reason that scale option from command-line completely screws up the emulator; colors become saturated/inverted, its impossible to see the screen. – Brandon Jul 27 '11 at 15:17
  • It seems there is an installation issue or a compatibility issue somewhere. Sorry that I cannot help you on this. – Shlublu Jul 27 '11 at 15:39
  • Hi Brandon, did you ever resolve this issue. I have the same in Ubuntu – Tony Aug 16 '11 at 08:50