Question

I’m having a problem with starting an AVD from Eclipse.
When I start the AVD that I just created, it gives me the following error:

I think that is because of the username in the path…

I tried to just copy the .android to C:\ (=C:\.android) but the manager is just searching in the old path…

I tried to setup a environement variable like this:

Name: ANDROID_SDK_HOME
Value: C:\Users\André Peixoto\.android\.android

But it didn’t solve the problem…

What should I try next?

UPDATE

I reinstalled the android sdk and now it doesn’t show the weird characters:

But the path for the AVD_2_3_3.ini file still wrong. I think it should be: C:\Users\André Peixoto\.android\avd\AVD_2_3_3.ini instead of C:\Users\André Peixoto\.android\.android\.android/avd/AVD_2_3_3.ini

How should I change that?

Answer 1

I solved that using the solution presented on the comment 26 from here:

No matter your configuration. If the message will be like this
“[2011-11-21 22:31:24 – Emulator] PANIC: Could not open AVD config file: C:\Users\Ярослав.android\avd\my_defult_android_2_3_3_avd.avd/config.ini”

(
“C:\Users\Ярослав.android\avd\my_defult_android_2_3_3_avd.avd”
– it’s your AVD device configuration. )

than :

1. copy direcoty “my_defult_android_2_3_3_avd.avd” to some place where the path will not contain “Ярослав” symbols (I in result had
   the path like this
   “d:\android\my_avd_devices\avd\my_defult_android_2_3_3_avd.avd”).

2. File “my_defult_android_2_3_3_avd.ini” will contained in directory “C:\Users\Ярослав.android\avd\”. Open this file.

3. Change “path=C:\Users\Ярослав.android\avd\my_defult_android_2_3_3_avd.avd” to
   “path=d:\android\my_avd_devices\avd\my_defult_android_2_3_3_avd.avd”

4. Save and close. Start your application again))).

But at the first time I tried this solution and it didn’t work. So I uninstalled the android SDK and eclipse and reinstalled all over again. I also removed the environments variables for android_sdk that I had previously set and set a new one called ANDROID_HOME with value C:\android-sdk.
Now I’m able to run AVD.

I think this is not a ideal solution because each time I create an AVD, I need to do this process. But for now it solves my problem.

Hope this solution helps someone else.

UPDATE – New Solution

I was having some problems with the previous solution so I used a diferent approach:

I created a new account (Administrator) in my Windows which the username havn’t accents.
I put my Eclipse folder inside C:\ to have access from the new account.
Now, when I want to work with Android, I change to this new account.