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

In Android Studio go to:

1. Tools > Android > AVD Manager
2. Select your emulator device
3. Click "Cold boot now" to restart, or "Wipe data" to factory reset

Answer 2

you can try

emulator @avd_name -no-snapshot-load 

it will clean load the device it worked for me.