Trying to finish Android and have received no help. Having trouble with Android studio operating properly. Please help

Working with Android Studio Beta 0.8.2 on Windows Vista. I've only gotten to the point where I've downloaded it from the treehouse website changed settings following the videos instructions. When I go to run it emulator-arm.exe has stopped working pops up

Hello,

Could you try changing the memory for the emulator to a lower value? There are other suggestions in this stackoverflow post. If those don't work, we can try other settings. I'd also recommend using the newest version of Android Studio(its out of beta now), but that shouldn't be causing the problem right now.

I changed the memory. The window pops up but remains black. Android never appears across the screen or anything else.

I'm going to guess you don't have an Intel CPU that is capable of HAX virtualtization and suggest you try Genymotion, there's a video available on it here.

I will attempt to try using Genymotion again. It didn't work the first time

I reinstalled Genymotion started it and window comes up that says Unable to load virtualbox engine

I did exactly what the video said to do and still not working.

The window that popped up this time said....

Unable to start virtual device Virtualbox cannot start virtual device To find out the cause of the problem start virtual device from Virtualbox

I did that and this pops up......

Failed to open a session for the virtual machine Custom Phone - 4.1.1 - API 16 - 768x1280.

Failed to load VMMR0.r0 (VERR_LDR_MISMATCH_NATIVE).

Result Code: E_FAIL (0x80004005) Component: Console Interface: IConsole {8ab7c520-2442-4b66-8d74-4ff1e195d2b6}

Could you try removing the folder C:\USERS<username>\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program Files\Oracle where <username> is your currently logged on user and try again?

Unable to locate folder

About the only other option I have found so far while searching online is possibly to uninstall both Genymotion and Virtualbox, then redownload and install the latest version of Virtualbox from here, then get the extension pack available here. Open up Virtualbox, then load the extension pack. Once this is done, download and install the version of Genymotion that does not include Virtualbox. Also, make sure for each time you install something, you do so as an Administrator.

Followed step by step and ended up with the same issues/errors

I'm out of ideas at the moment, you might need to try contacting Genymotion's support here.

Thank you for trying. I've emailed them twice and haven't gotten a response

I thought of one thing that might help with the Android emulator(not Genymotion). Could you try toggling the Use Host GPU option? Also, could you try making sure your SDK, tools, and Android Studio are all the latest version if toggling the option doesn't work?

I have the latest versions. Don't know what you mean by toggling the Host GPU option

I have Intel. I unchecked Use Host GPU. The emulator pops up and so does the ANDROID, its just keeps loading. This appears... Failed to create Context 0x3005 emulator: WARNING: Could not initialize OpenglES emulation, using software renderer.

I close the emulator...this appears under the warning Could not initialize emulated framebuffer

Hello,

You can try to install HAXM following the instructions here. I cannot guarentee that it will work since it does not work with all Intel CPUs, you will also need to download system images for x86 emulators from the SDK manager. Then create a new android emulator and make sure to tell it to use x86 instead of ARM.

Unable to access the SDK manager now

I did. Ran it and this happens.

Failed to create Context 0x3005 emulator: WARNING: Could not initialize OpenglES emulation, using software renderer.

I'm to the point I'm just not going to bother with this project anymore. Its becoming a waist of time. I've been working on trying to get it to work for a week now. I've done my own google searches to try and fix the issue as well and nothing

This is actually a fairly common error to get with the default emulator(which I thought HAXM would eliminate since you had an Intel CPU, but it looks like your CPU isn't compatible from the previous attempt). My suggestion would be to:

1) Try emulating a device with a smaller screen size. 2) Try lowering the RAM used for the emulator. 3) Try increasing the RAM used by the emulator(I have heard of both ways fixing this one). 4) Again, try toggling the Use Host GPU option.

The default emulator can take a significant amount of time to start the first time on a system(I've seen reports of over 15 minutes). And as a warning, the default emulator is likely going to be horribly slow in this setup.