Android emulator not running but no crash either

Issue

I'm trying to put my Android emulators on another hard drive disk, so I followed this youtube video which didn't work for me, and this article which didn't work either.

I've moved the avd file in my other folder (/Volumes/Samsung_T5/Android/avd)

and updated my .ini as follow:

avd.ini.encoding=UTF-8
path=/Volumes/Samsung_T5/Android/avd/API_19_-_A04.4.avd
target=android-19

Using Android Studio Run button

It gets stuck at waiting for all target devices to come online

Using CLI

emulator -avd API_19_-_A04.4 -verbose I only get this:

emulator: autoconfig: -initdata /Volumes/Samsung_T5/Android/avd/API_19_-_A04.4.avd/userdata.img
emulator: autoconfig: -cache /Volumes/Samsung_T5/Android/avd/API_19_-_A04.4.avd/cache.img
emulator: autoconfig: -sdcard /Volumes/Samsung_T5/Android/avd/API_19_-_A04.4.avd/sdcard.img
emulator: Physical RAM size: 1536MB

emulator: System image is read only
emulator: Found 1 DNS servers: 192.168.1.1

and that's it no emulator popping up or error showing

What I've tried:

• wipe data of the emulator
• cold boot
• delete and recreate an emulator
• uninstall and reinstall HAXM
• uninstall and reinstall Android Emulator

My main question other than fixing why the emulator isn't showing, is how can I move my emulators to my other HDD ?

Solution

The reason it wouldn't start is because there was some write/read issue with the external storage, I've updated and gave the right needed and it works now

Answered By - Biscuit