emulator constantly running in the background

Question

whenever i start eclipse or android studio an emulator is constantly running in the background. when i try to turn it off it restarts again immediately. no matter if i work with a real device or an emulator i have created, this other emulator is not stoppable. in the android debug monitor this emulator is listed as emulator-5554 - Online - ? [2,3,4, debug] (Version API10). i never created or used this emulator, and there is no place to find and delete it.

actually i am able to work with eclipse or android studio with that annoying emulator, but it seems to slow down the performance and i would like to get ride of it.

Answer 1

Were you using BlueStacks back then by any chance? It uses the port 5554, and that might have been your problem too! It happened to me as well and found the solution in another question:

Eclipse Android Emulator-5554 is always displayed

Answer 2

Strange, but should be able to kill a "hidden" emulator instance from the command-line by connecting to its console, i.e.:

telnet localhost 5554
kill

Replace 5554 with your emulator instance's number.

Answer 3

I use AndroVM. For me its perfect.

Todo is:

• install VirtualBox first
• download AnroVM
• file will open in VirtualBox
• start the machine and set USB debug on (settings >> dev. options)
• in commandprompt goto your "sdk\platform-tools" type adb connect 192.168.15.101

When it's ok you will see your device in Eclipse.

edit: When your Eclipse is not working well, just download a new bundle again