How to connect android emulator to the internet

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How can I connect my Android emulator to the internet, e.g. to use the browser? I've found lots of advice on what do to when your connected through a proxy, but that's not the case here, my machine (Windows 7) is directly connected to the router.

Gaily answered 11/1, 2010 at 4:49 Comment(4)

I had my network adapter's dns settings manually set to my router at 192.168.1.1, but when I changed it to auto, it worked. – Bodgie 7/12, 2010 at 5:15

I had this problem when I started the emulator before I turned the WiFi on on my computer. Solution was to turn on the WiFi on my Co outer then stop/start the emulator. – Juanajuanita 6/9, 2016 at 13:40

This solution will definitely work – Coelenteron 13/11, 2018 at 11:16

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I think some of the answers may have addressed this, however obliquely, but here's what worked for me.

Assuming your problem is occurring when you're on a wireless network and you have a LAN card installed, the issue is that the emulator tries to obtain its DNS settings from that LAN card. Not a problem when you're connected via that LAN, but utterly useless if you're on a wireless connection. I noticed this when I was on my laptop.

So, how to fix? Simple: Disable your LAN card. Really. Just go to your Network connections, find your LAN card, right click it and choose disable. Now try your emulator. If you're like me, it suddenly ... works!

Novel answered 24/4, 2010 at 0:7 Comment(13)

Yes that was my scenario, I use wireless on Win7 so i closed the emulator, disabled my LAN card and started the emulator again and it worked. – Fitton 14/2, 2011 at 8:12

I am usually on wifi and wired on my macbook - I just disconnected from wired network and it worked! Thanks. – Nammu 2/3, 2011 at 18:50

Actually, the emulator takes the adapter with the highest priority, so switching the priority of your adapters (wireless as highest) should work too and it won't require you to disable the LAN-adapter completely. Thanks for your answer though, saved me a headache – Banian 6/4, 2011 at 14:47

@Anzeo: and how do you change the order on Windows? – Highkey 18/4, 2011 at 9:2

I can't tell you how helpful this was. Spent nearly a day debugging an application throwing a null exception (literally, throwing null!) because it couldn't connect to network. – Scheller 27/6, 2011 at 15:54

Check your firewall settings - as @moon_walker333 mentions in this thread. AVG was blocking my application. – Ynez 20/4, 2013 at 8:6

For me it was the firewall that did not allow the emulator. Great idea. – Monorail 14/10, 2013 at 21:21

Thanks a lot - spent hours trying to fix this and was finally able to get it working once I disabled my NIC. FYI, here's how you can change network adapter priority: eightforums.com/tutorials/… – Rockies 25/7, 2014 at 3:24

this worked for me. pulled the cable and plugged it back – Leicester 30/11, 2015 at 16:40

Perfect. Thanks. However this is a pretty ridiculous behavior of the emulator! OMFG.... – Madrigal 8/4, 2017 at 15:14

This comment helped me track it down - I am connected directly via LAN, but my issue was that I was running a VPN. Disabled the VPN and presto. – Ply 6/11, 2017 at 21:35

In my case there was no need of Emulator restart :D – Gabe 20/12, 2017 at 20:11

I changed the priority order of my desktop internet connections, so the wifi connection became first, and this solved the emulator internet connections. eightforums.com/threads/… – Dish 14/8, 2018 at 14:23

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If you are on Mac - try this -

GoTo Apple Icon -> System Preferences -> Network
Click on the gear icon on the and select 'Set Service Order'
Bring the active interface before other interface.
Restart the Android Emulator.

Achieve answered 18/12, 2010 at 10:4 Comment(3)

What does step 3 mean? I brought my virtual device below Wi-Fi and my computer shut itself down. – Wonted 8/12, 2015 at 17:56

@Iammesol, I believe step 3 means drag you active connection name (say wifi / ethernet) to top. At least it worked for me. – Haplosis 19/1, 2017 at 4:23

For clarification: For recent emulator versions "Restart the emulator" means stopping and then cold booting. Closing the emulator window and then starting the emulator again (e.g. from an Android Studio run configuration) won't do the trick. It needs to be a cold boot. – Mika 10/4, 2021 at 21:35

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[EDIT] For more recent version of Android Studio, the emulator you need to use is no longer in the ~/Library/Android/sdk/tools folder but in ~/LibraryAndroid/sdk/emulator. If while trying the below solution you get the following message "PANIC: Missing emulator engine program for 'x86' CPU.”, then please refer to https://stackoverflow.com/a/49511666 to update your bash environment.

Operating System : Mac OS X El Capitan

IDE : Android Studio 2.2

For some reasons, I wasn't able to access internet through my AVD at work (probably proxy or network configuration issues). What did the trick for me was to launch in command line my AVD and giving manually the Google public DNS 8.8.8.8.

In your Terminal go to the folder tools of your Android sdk to find the 'emulator' program:

cd ~/Library/Android/sdk/tools

Then retrieve the name of your AVDs :

emulator -list-avds

It will return you something like this:

Android_Wear_Round_API_23
Nexus_10_API_22
Nexus_5X_API_22
Nexus_5X_API_24
Nexus_9_API_24

Then launch the AVD you would like with the following instructions:

emulator -avd NameOfYourDevice -dns-server 8.8.8.8

Your AVD is launched and you should be able to use internet.

Prater answered 14/12, 2016 at 11:1 Comment(2)

This worked for me because my Mac lost it's DNS setting. Not the fault of the emulator. That DNS setting is pulled from Mac. But this post helped me figure it out. – Lelia 11/5, 2018 at 18:35

I've created a simple script to do just that, you can check it out at: gist.github.com/brotoo25/246d8767982ed74ce98ed165ea099a5d – Enchiridion 26/4, 2019 at 23:24

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My platform: Mac OS 10.6.4 Eclipse: 3.6

I had a similar problem where my map app background was grey (no tiles) and the browser was unable to connect to the internet.

Within Eclipse I went to Run Configurations -> Target and added "-dns-server X.X.X.X" and everything worked fine afterwards. (obviously X.X.X.X was the IP address for my DNS server).

Constellation answered 22/10, 2010 at 16:15 Comment(6)

I added "-dns-server X.X.X.X" to the 'Additional Emulator Command Line Options" field. – Constellation 22/10, 2010 at 16:16

+1 This worked for me. I was having problems while on a LAN. I just added the Public DNIS 8.8.8.8 and it solved it! Thanks a bunch! – Unexperienced 23/2, 2011 at 21:41

Awesome, in my case it didn't pick up on the dns server because we're using 10.0.0.0-255 as our subnet, had to do -dns-server 10.0.0.1 (windows 7, too) – Wise 27/5, 2011 at 17:21

brilliant thanks. For anyone who (like me!) couldn't find the 'Additional Emulator Command Line Options' field, try dragging the lower edge of the 'Target' window down. That field was hidden for me with no feedback to suggest that it was! – Paderewski 22/8, 2011 at 19:54

Used Google's DNS 8.8.8.8 and same approach also worked for me on Ubuntu 12.04, Eclipse Juno. – Donatello 2/11, 2012 at 9:3

My platform: win7, ADT Build: v21.1.0-569685, eclipse 3.8 Works well for me. – Wingding 9/7, 2013 at 10:19

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In order to use internet via proxy on emulator try these steps it Worked for me:

Go to settings->Wireless & networks->mobile networks->Access Point Names. Press menu button. an option menu will appear.

from the option menu select New APN.

Click on Name. provide name to apn say My APN.

Click on APN. Enter www.

Click on Proxy. enter your proxy server IP. you can get it from internet explorers internet options menu.

click on Port. enter port number in my case it was 8080. you can get it from internet explorers internet options menu.

Click on User-name. provide user-name in format domain\user-name. generally it is your systems login.

Click on password. provide your systems password.

press menu button again. an option menu will appear.

press save this and try to open your browser. I think it has helped u?

Handsel answered 23/8, 2012 at 6:34 Comment(3)

i tried but it gives There was a network error. even my system internet is fine working – Ping 6/11, 2013 at 12:58

Its even easier if you have a local proxy running that forwards traffic to the "official" one that needs authentication. In this case use 10.0.2.2 as your proxy's IP address (your host machine) and configure the outer proxy (e.g. SquidMan) to your liking. – Sinclare 6/10, 2015 at 9:16

does not worked for me..What to enter value for VPN.? – Tolman 7/11, 2015 at 12:42

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righ click on the Project in Eclipse
select Run As -> Run Configurations ...
select Android Application and then select "target" tab
Looking for "Additional Emulator Command Line Options" and put this command line to text box

-http-proxy http://< username >:< password >@< hostname >:< port >

Scarper answered 30/9, 2010 at 4:51 Comment(0)

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There are different solutions to this problem . One of these , i will show you on my experiment and outcomes seen on results using a recent android studio and AVD images downloaded 2017.

First thing you have to do is launch your AVD from android studio.(in my case i choose NEXUSAPI25 android 7.1 image)
Goto Settings->Wirless and Networking - > Cellular Network - > Access Points -> (+) press add - > enter the following if you dont have NTLM proxy or proxy at all (that means you are directly connected)

a. add apn name as myAPN b. add apn server => www c. save and try browsing the internet.

if this doesn work add 'ANDROID_SDK_ROOT' in you environment variable

Then , launch AVD using emulator command as follow

emulator -avd Nexus25 -dns-server 8.8.8.8

For those who use NTLM proxies , i will show you how it work for me next.
add your Android_sdk_root path into your environment variable. THis make command line code read succesfully like using AVD names and so on.
Launch your emaulator using the following command

>emulator -avd Nexus_5X_API_25 -http-proxy http://username:password@ipaddress:port

ENTER

Skin answered 3/7, 2017 at 8:44 Comment(1)

-dns-server solved it. Is there any way to set this in the UI? – Mickens 7/6, 2018 at 8:46

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Have you tried starting the emulator with administrative privileges? It worked for me, I'm running Windows 7 64bit)

Flabellate answered 30/5, 2010 at 11:4 Comment(2)

I am running Windows 7 64bit also. I tried starting Eclipse as admin and AVD Manager as admin and neither worked. Do I have to launch it from the command line somehow as admin? – Malicious 14/1, 2012 at 18:44

Ran into the same issue, running with admin privileges solved my issue on windows 10. – Waligore 26/1, 2017 at 7:58

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In my case I just had to launch the Android virtual device (AVD) from the "Android SDK and AVD Manager", and it was working

Yellowhammer answered 25/11, 2010 at 21:50 Comment(1)

Yes that worked for me.. I was just running the app and it was triggering me to start the AVD... – Immedicable 5/2, 2016 at 12:59

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If you are behind a proxy in the SDK Manager, under Tools -> Options, do NOT configure the proxy settings. When you run from the command line add -http-proxy:

emulator.exe -avd YOUR_AVD_NAME_HERE -http-proxy PROXY:PORT

Worked for me.

Dowager answered 10/10, 2012 at 14:46 Comment(2)

This is the only solution that worked for me. Keep in mind when you turn OFF proxy configuration in the SDK Manager settings, you will not be able to access SDK updates so you will need to re-enable proxy settings when you are building your application. – Lyse 8/6, 2016 at 19:59

is there a config file that save proxy configuration, so we can run it from AVD manager? not from command prompt? – Brainwashing 14/12, 2016 at 15:35

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I also experienced the same problem. The simplest solution I found out is:

Go to your Android\Sdk\emulator folder and open command prompt.
Type emulator -list-avds to see available emulator names.
Type emulator -avd name-of-your-device -netdelay none -netspeed full -dns-server 8.8.8.8 command and press enter.

Ohara answered 14/11, 2018 at 8:10 Comment(0)

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I encounter this issue when I first run the simulator, I solved it by setting the dns server with

Library/Android/sdk/platform-tools/adb shell getprop net.dns1

get the current dns server of simulator 10.0.2.3

Then set it to my lan dns server

Library/Android/sdk/platform-tools/adb shell setprop net.dns1 192.168.1.1

Fa answered 12/7, 2017 at 7:5 Comment(1)

Worked on Android 25. this one should be accepted answer! – Breakwater 20/8, 2017 at 3:41

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I had similar problem. I have installed an application that required INTERNET permission (and used it), and all of sudden, worked.

Guys, check also whether if you are not connected through a VPN somewhere, because it also can disturb the Internet connection.

blacharnia

Limoli answered 18/1, 2010 at 9:23 Comment(1)

in my case was the VPN. – Dielectric 30/8, 2022 at 20:31

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In eclipse go to DDMS

under DDMS select Emulator Control ,which contains Telephony Status in telephony status contain data -->select Home , this will enable your internet connection ,if you want disable internet connection for Emulator then --->select None

(Note: This will enable internet connections only if you PC/laptop on which you are running your eclipse have active internet connections.)

Rabiah answered 21/11, 2012 at 12:43 Comment(0)

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After reading this I decided to look at my "NICs". I put this in quotes because like many I am running virtual nics for devices like Hamachi and Virtual Box. After I disabled Hamachi I am able to use the internet. My guess is that the emulator picks the first available nic regardless of whether it is virtual. Now to find out if I can rearrange my nic order without tearing my box down.

Windows 7 32bit

Etz answered 14/4, 2010 at 15:16 Comment(0)

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My Service Order preferences were correct (Wi-Fi was first) but still could not connect.

Answer was to turn off the Thunderbolt Bridge:

System Preferences > Network > Thunderbolt Bridge

Then set Configure IPv4 to off and Apply your changes.

No need to screw around with Access Points in the emulator.

Floozy answered 4/7, 2016 at 18:17 Comment(1)

Same here. I had to set all services to "Configure IPv4: off" and only leave WiFi enabled. Only moving the service order didn't seem to be enough. Catalina 10.15.4. – Heinous 16/4, 2020 at 3:9

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I solved it my disabling all network connections except the wifi connection I was using, then setting the properties on that one remaining enabled connection to have statically assigned DNS addresses. (no DHCP) This was on Win7 64bit

Alright answered 19/11, 2010 at 4:28 Comment(0)

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Thanks for the pointers. They really helped. The "Firewall" word clicked an idea in my mind.

I have a Windows XP machine with WIFI connection and no proxy. I have Norton Internet Security running on my machine which has a Smart Firewall. This Smart Firewall manages programs' access to network, including emulator.exe. I went into Settings -> Program Control and then granted full access to emulator.exe. After this I started Android Emulator and bang... I could connect to internet.

Hope this helps new folks.

~Saggy

Ale answered 1/1, 2011 at 1:18 Comment(2)

Yep - firewall was my problem (AVG). Good spot! – Ynez 20/4, 2013 at 8:5

I had the same problem with Kaspersky ! – Warrington 11/5, 2014 at 15:11

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Within the Android emulator, turning Airplane Mode on, then off again worked for me.

Aerobe answered 17/3, 2017 at 9:58 Comment(0)

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I had this issue due to a network change after I opened the emulator. If you change your WiFi after you start the emulator, you only need to restart the emulator to get internet access

Canasta answered 17/3, 2020 at 6:6 Comment(0)

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If you're on MacOS with 2.2 and you keep seeing an error about data connectivity, try the above, it works.

I removed all the network interfaces via Sys Prefs except LAN
Even thought my DNS is provided by DHCP, I retyped DNS with just one server
I used -http-proxy on the command line to specify one

It starts working at the office. Phew.

Towhaired answered 7/7, 2010 at 11:16 Comment(0)

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I had the same problem on my virtual windows 7.

Go to Network Connections
Alt > Advanced > Advanced Settings...
In the second tab bring the internet networks interface on the top

hope it's helpful thanks to

Disgorge answered 19/12, 2010 at 18:9 Comment(0)

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I think sometimes it's just enogh to simply restart the virtual device. :-)

Conciliatory answered 11/5, 2012 at 19:40 Comment(0)

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yes--in win 7 start the emulator with administrator privs and all will be well--or at least you'll get the wireless going in android.

Sorbian answered 12/9, 2010 at 1:58 Comment(0)

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I had a similar problem on Win7 64 bit. Tried disabling my hamachi and virtualbox adapters and didn't work. Tried starting avd as admin and didn't work. In the end I disabled the teredo tunneling adapter using the info on this site and it worked: http://www.mydigitallife.info/2007/09/09/how-to-disable-tcpipv6-teredo-tunneling-in-vista/

Kilderkin answered 14/9, 2010 at 4:28 Comment(1)

After it started working it stopped again. ipconfig showed a new microsoft adapter had showed up called isatap. So I went into Device Manager > Network Adapters > Show Hidden devices, and disabled the 3 isatap adapters and then it started working again. – Kilderkin 14/9, 2010 at 4:37

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I found that starting the emulator with 'wipe user data' checked cleared this problem up for me after I rebuilt my dev machine from Vista x64 to Win7 x64.

Improvisatory answered 20/10, 2010 at 2:3 Comment(0)

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it appears there might be a few reasons why there might be no internet connection for an emulator, in my case i was working from home where i have a wireless connection then came into the office and plugged in direct, however although my wireless connection was disconnected it was not disabled resulting in no emulator connection. my understanding is that when it starts up it looks for a network adapter and if there is any conflict here it might result in no internet connection. to resolve go to Start > Settings > Network Connections right click on Wireless Network Connection (if you are not using wireless) and select disable

Rabbinical answered 13/1, 2011 at 2:27 Comment(0)

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I am not using a proxy...however I am using a script...Is there anyway around this. I am behind a company firewall

Primavera answered 26/4, 2012 at 5:42 Comment(0)

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I'm not sure if this is your issue, but here's how I fixed mine.

I always had this "No DNS servers found" error when starting the emulator and did a lot of research on google to no avail. Anyway, I found a post somewhere (can't find it anymore) that was saying that the number of NICs, number of DNS entries could affect the emulator. Also, knowing that the emulator uses a Windows API function (GetNetworkParams()) to resolve DNS entries, I couldn't rely on the %WINDOWS%\System32\Hosts file.

However, I did went in the NICs properties (on Windows 7) to find that I was specifying a static IP, but no DNS entries. So, I got the DNS entries from my router and plugged them in the NICs property. I restarted the emulator and it is now using the correct DNS entries!

I can use my internet connection with the emulator now, and it works wonders!

Hope it helps!

Britannia answered 28/2, 2010 at 17:33 Comment(0)

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I thought I experienced issues with connecting my emulator to the internet but it turned out to be problems with the code I was using. I know its obvious but in the first instance try the browser on the emulator to confirm you have no internet access. I would have saved an hour if I had done that first.

Highkey answered 21/12, 2011 at 9:32 Comment(0)

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I have Mac OS X 10.7.2, Eclipse Helios Service Release 2. I also work via Proxy and my IP settings are via DHCP. I solved this issue firstly using this article http://www.gitshah.com/2011/02/android-fixing-no-internet-connection.html, then I removed Emulator settings and just go to Run->Run Configurations->Target->Additional Emulator Command Line Options and type there -http-proxy xxx.xx.111.1:3128 . Also I would like to say that when I typed also a DNS like this: -dns-server xxx.xx.111.1 -http-proxy xxx.xx.111.1:3128 it did not work, but when I removed DNS it worked. Also I would like to note, that Additional Emulator Command Line Options are not visible without scrolling to the bottom of that window. I also want to note, that when you change emulator options, all apps will work. But If you write Additional Emulator Command Line Options, you need to write them every time for every app target in Run Configurations.

Creigh answered 7/2, 2012 at 9:5 Comment(0)

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Make sure Airplane mode is OFF. I kept trying to connect to the internet for a long time before realising what was wrong.

Ilk answered 26/3, 2012 at 16:54 Comment(0)

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After having tried all of the above solutions, I found that on mac os x :

you must check the order of your network devices in system preferences >> network >> gear icon
you must check the order of you dns servers in /etc/resolv.conf

Then restart your android emulator, it should work.

Acquiescence answered 24/1, 2013 at 5:53 Comment(0)

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I had no internet connection in Web Browser, using WLAN after installing Android SDK (Replicant open source version) and it had nothing to do with disabling LAN card or not using DHCP for DNS servers. My problem was: Settings -> Wireless & networks -> Mobile networks -> "Data enabled" was not checked. That's all.

Dirge answered 30/1, 2014 at 18:1 Comment(0)

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check if you are using more than one internet connection to your pc like one is LAN second one is Modem , so disable all lan or modem .

How to set Internet options for Android emulator?

Higginson answered 21/7, 2015 at 7:48 Comment(0)

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You need to share your Laptop Internet with Emulator using "Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Network Connections" and select active internet source of Laptop then right click then sharing tab. In here check share check box and if required select emulator Network if listed.

Conard answered 18/8, 2017 at 17:34 Comment(0)

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What worked for me on android 4.4 was to do the following: Settings -> Wireless & Networks -> Mobile networks -> Make sure both Data enabled and Data roaming is enabled.

Talia answered 5/10, 2017 at 15:16 Comment(0)

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Environment: Windows 7 64 bit

In my case, I had to run emulator in verbose mode (emulator -verbose -avd Nexus_6_API_25) to findout the fact that emulator detected two DNS servers, as shown below.

emulator: Found 2 DNS servers: 192.168.3.227 192.168.1.1

Out of the two DNS servers detected, only one has internet connection and it was the reason why emulator didn't get internet access.

To successfully connect android emulator to the internet, the DNS server which doesn't have the internet connection had to be disabled from the Control Panel\Network and Internet\Network Connections

Marmawke answered 29/11, 2017 at 6:35 Comment(0)

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I have a windows 7 machine(64bit) and my emulator wasn't working. After a lot of looking around, I ended up statical adding my router to the network DNS properties(192.168.1.1). And it started working.

Bethlehem answered 20/12, 2010 at 20:46 Comment(0)

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