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Android

Posted by Darren Fisher
Darren Fisher
1,071 Points

Error: Could not access the Package Manager. Is the system running?

I get this error:

"Error: Could not access the Package Manager. Is the system running?"

When I click the Run App button, the green play icon and the emulator does not come up. I can however run the emulator from the AVD manager but that means having to run the emulator from complete scratch again

Darren Fisher
Darren Fisher
1,071 Points

Forgot to mention that I am using Android Studio 1.2

1 Answer

Glen Hayes
Glen Hayes
5,798 Points

Hi Darren I had this problem for a while. Tried a few things and it worked for a bit but was still temperemental so do yourself a favour and go get genymotions emulator. Works awesome and 1000 times quicker. Otherwise I think it means you already have an app running on the emulator, try closing down the running app in the app console window. I sometimes had to restart android studio occasionally as well. Good luck.

Darren Fisher
Darren Fisher
1,071 Points

Thanks for the reply Glen. A few moments after posting that question I decided to go ahead and get Genymotion because a few other issues with the built in emulator started arising. Best decision I've made! Genymotion is so much better. I highly recommend using Genymotion to anybody reading this, it solved every single problem I had with the built in emulator and works really really fast.