manually installing update patches of android studio on win os

Question

I wanted to update my android studio from v 1.2.2 (build 141.1980579) to v 1.3.0 (build 141.2117773) through update mechanism of Android Studio but was facing problems due to network breakdown. So I manually download the jar file (through download manager) and followed the below procedures:

Downloaded jar file: AI-141.1980579-141.2117773-patch-win.jar OS platform: Windows 7 (build 7601) Location of Android Studio: D:\Android Studio Location of downloaded jar file: D:\Downloads

I opened up a command window in D:\Downloads and entered the following command line:

java -classpath AI-141.1980579-141.2117773-patch-win.jar com.intellij.updater.Runner install "D:\Android Studio"

Execution cum update started but after completion, update was not a success. How to manually update the same? Any suggestion/solution.

Answer 1

1. Download update. https://dl.google.com/android/studio/patches/AI-173.4697961-173.4720617-patch-win.jar
2. Press the SHIFT key and right-click inside the folder, then click on "Open Command Window Here" to open the Command Prompt(CMD) at the current address.
3. java -Xmx1024m -classpath AI-173.4697961-173.4720617-patch-win.jar com.intellij.updater.Runner install "C:\Program Files\Android\Android Studio"

Answer 2

I have bad internet connection so i had to download the AI-**-patch-win.jar externally. (to get the Download url, start the update process and let it fail, it will pop up a error with the url)

Steps :

1. AI-**-patch-win.jar

2. start CMD with Admin rights or else it wont work.

3. locate or change you dir to AI-**-patch-win.jar

4. enter :

   java -Xmx1024m -classpath AI-your-file-patch-win.jar com.intellij.updater.Runner install "C:\Program Files\Android\Android Studio"

5. Java update window will open and let it do its job.

6. DONE

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if any error : in my case, after step 4. it gave me error that some files were modified. to solve this i had to open my old Android Studio setup file (930mb) in 7zip, and look for those file which were in conflict -> extract those file -> paste them in the
C:\Program Files\Android\Android Studio...\your conflict file..\, then again follow all this steps. :)

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UPDATE

to get download link :

1. https://dl.google.com/android/studio/patches/AI-$FROM-$TO-patch-$OS.jar
2. change '$FROM' to your current build (eg. 182.5107.16.33.5264788)
3. change '$TO' to your update build (eg. 183.5429.30.34.5452501)
4. change '$OS' to your platform (eg. unix OR win OR mac)

link for update versions :

https://dl.google.com/android/studio/patches/updates.xml

Answer 3

Okay, i used to have the same problem as you but this helped me fix it. Just immediately after the '-classpath', you have to specify the location of the patch file. Forinstance, C:\Users\USERNAME\Downloads\AI-141.1980579-141.2117773-patch-win.jar and that should work.