Question

When I try to run my WXGA800 emulator from Eclipse it’s giving an error like this

Failed to allocate memory: 8
This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an unusual way.
Please contact the application's support team for more information.

I checked the following links also

Failed to allocate memory: 8

Android: failed to allocate memory

I have tried reducing RAM size in emulator and increasing Java heapsize and ramsize but still I am facing the same error.

Answer 1

Update: Starting with Android SDK Manager version 21, the solution is to edit C:\Users\<user>\.android\avd\<avd-profile-name>.avd\config.ini and change the value

hw.ramSize=1024 

to

hw.ramSize=1024MB

The emulator is really slow, hope they will release the intel images soon use the new API17 Intel x86 images if you want to change it .. (HAXM, Configuration)

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Earlier Android SDK Manager releases:

Had the same problem with the built-in WXGA800 skin. I got it working by editing the virtual device setup to:

• Target 4.0.3 API 15 / 4.1.0 API 16
• SD-card 300MiB
• Resolution 1280 x 800 (set manually -not the built-in ones)
• Device ram size 1024MB (with MB added to the number)
• Abstracted LCD 160

Here my tablet config for 4.1.0 API 16
C:\Users\<user>\.android\avd\<avd-profile-name>.avd\config.ini

hw.lcd.density=160
sdcard.size=300M
skin.path=1280x800
skin.name=1280x800
hw.cpu.arch=arm
abi.type=armeabi-v7a
hw.cpu.model=cortex-a8
vm.heapSize=48
hw.ramSize=1024MB
image.sysdir.1=system-images\android-16\armeabi-v7a\

This config shows the software keys too