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I installed new fonts on my Android emulator. The instructions say I have to reboot my device. I tried using the "Power Off" button but it just displays "Shutting Down" and does nothing. Even when I go to the adb shell and run "reboot" it hangs.

Any ideas how to restart the emulator so that the new settings appear?

Thanks.

A: 

Have you tried just closing the emulator window?

zpon
yeah, can't you just kill it and start it again?
littlegreen
yeah i can do that, but i don't think it actually shuts down the phone. I don't see the new fonts when I start up the emulator again.
mamado
Could it be a problem with the installation? Can you somehow verify it has been installed correctly?
zpon
it's installed correctly...tried with android version 1.6, 2.0, 2.1, still no luck...has anyone been able to "power off" the emulator or is this a bug?
mamado
A: 

I have the same problem. Restarting the Emulator revokes the original system files, so the new fonts you installed are lost. Nothing to do about, because the hard restart. We can use only scripting and copying files from the SDCARD. The stuff on the SDCARD remains intact after hard reboot.

Lazar
A: 

I have the same problem. Did anyone find out how to fix this behaviour?

Grigory
+1  A: 

Basically you are not supposed to shut it down... Just close the window.

This is what's written in the documentation

To stop an emulator instance, just close the emulator's window.

Reference:

http://developer.android.com/guide/developing/tools/emulator.html#starting

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