How do I restart an android emulator?

Question

I'm basically trying to do this: Changing the Android emulator locale automatically

Everything works up until 'start'. the emulator starts to boot but keeps loading at the shimmering 'ANDROID' screen forever. I must be missing something... How can I restart the emulator from ADB?

Okay, I should be more specific.

I am trying to do this from the command line using adb. I can use adb to setprop and I can stop the emulator. When I try doing 'start' in the adb shell, the emulator does begin to boot, but it never returns to the lock screen.

Answer 1

you can restart the emulator from adb shell, start the emulator and also adb shell in the terminal.

start Starts (restarts) an emulator/device instance.
stop Stops execution of an emulator/device instance.

Answer 2

If you are using Android Studio, you can goto the AVD Manager, Under Actions select "Cold Boot Now" to restart the emulator. This would get rid of errors/discrepancies which might occur if the simulator's process has been abruptly closed/terminated.

Answer 3

in eclipse in the top most right u will find DDMS go i there, left side you will find Devices and in that in the last you will find a triangle downwards press that in that you will find Reset adb.