Windows phone 8.1 emulator not loading OS - windows-phone-8

I am trying to launch the emulator (Emulator 8.1 WVGA 4 inch 512 MB, or any other as a matter of fact) but it fails to launch.
It goes to the "Loading OS" screen then throws an error box with the text "DEP6100". On VS, it says at the bottom
Error1 Error : DEP6100 : The following unexpected error occurred during bootstrapping stage 'Connecting to the device': ObjectDisposedException - 0x80131622
and
Error2 Error : DEP6100 : The following unexpected error occurred during bootstrapping stage 'Connecting to the device': ObjectDisposedException - 0x80131622
Looked in the internet but haven't found an answer yet. Can you please help?
Please let me know what additional information you need.

I had the same problem on a fresh install of Windows 8.1 and Visual Studio 2013 Update 3.
Firstly, I went through all of the Microsoft requirements and suggested steps for problems found on MSDN here:
Windows Phone Emulator for Windows Phone 8
After confirming that I met the requirements and none of the possible fix suggestions fixed my problem, I tried the following, which fixed the errors I was getting with the emulator.
I fixed the problem by:
Closing Visual Studio
Going to the "Control Panel"
Selecting "Programs and Features"
Find "Windows Phone 8.1 Emulators - ENU" in the list
Click the "Change" button at the top or right-click and select "Change"
On the "Visual Studio" window that appears; select "Repair"
Wait for the process to complete, and re-open Visual Studio
Run the emulator again and it works this time!
You may have to restart your PC if you left Visual Studio open in order for the changes to take effect. Good luck!

I had same problem . first i fixed it with:
Updating windows
Uninstall / install Windows Phone SDK 8
Remove and add Hyper-v again ( maybe it is not necessary )
But problem came back and instead of previous solution i fixed the issue with :
going to windows firewall and then click on "restore defaults"

Installing McAfee seemed to block out my emulator... I uninstalled it and restored default firewall settings and it's working for now...

Make sure your processor supports the necessary requirements for running the emulators. After a few hours of trying I finally checked on...and the processor I have doesn't support at least one of the requirements.
Run coreinfo -v - available here - you're looking for an * next to EPT (on Intel) or NPT (on AMD). If it shows a - then you need a different processor. Good luck!

For Windows 10 Emulators 10.0.1.0 (1081p 2gb)
You should Delete all (VHD and AVHD) files in:
C:\Users\MyUserName\AppData\Local\Microsoft\XDE\10.0.1.0\
All will be recreated when the emulator wil restart. Replace MyUserName by you user name.
Should work for other emulator.
See you :)

I had your same problem and after many attempts resolved it this way:
Deactivate Hyper-V (and restart computer);
Go in the Device Manager and open the Network Adapters, here uninstall everything with the name "Hyper-V...", this will allow us to reactivate Hyper-V without any conflict;
Enable Hyper-V (and restart computer);
Finally launch the emulator (if it is the first time you launch it you will have to wait 5-10 minutes, so be patient and wait for it to load all apps it need).

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Windows (phone) emulator 8.1/10 stuck at loading the OS

I've been trying to get the emulator to work for days. Previously I tried the Windows Phone 8.1 Emulator as well as the Windows 8.1 Simulator and both were stuck at loading the OS.
Earlier today I installed the new Windows 10 Tools and thought I should give it another try with the new Windows 10 Emulator... And no, still the same result.
What's strange is that, the Hyper-V Manager seems to be doing OK. I can see the app displays correctly on the little Preview window (see the box on the left side of the picture below).
Also, breakpoints are hit, the project seems to be running OK.
As many answers have already suggested, I tried letting it running for an hour, but still nothing came up.
Things that I've also tried include uninstalling all the Virtual Machines as well as repairing the WP 8.1 Emulator, nothing has worked so far.
Please help, this has driven me completely insane. :(
Update
Not sure if this would help, but if I change the Windows Phone Emulator Internal Switch to use Private network instead of Internal, I will get a couple of warnings saying Unable to determine the Host IP address and then the Emulator will show up with the Emergency Call screen. Not much I can do from there as the three buttons on the bottom are not functioning at all.
I understand that changing the connection type is not the right way to do it, but this at least tells me that the Emulator can work, it's just a matter of how.
I believe you have two Windows Phone Internal Switch connections and one seems to be unplugged while the other is running. Disable the one that is unplugged and leave the latter. This worked for me after 2days of tinkering. God speed.
Try the following.
Open the Hyper-V Manager
In the Actions pane, click Hyper-V Settings
In the Server pane, select Physical GPUs
Uncheck, Use this GPU with RemoteFX
Click OK to save/close.
Attempt to start the Windows Phone emulator VM from within Hyper-V Manager or Visual Studio.
I solved this problem by simply adding XDE.EXE as an exception to my Windows Firewall.
Just today
Many times it is not stuck. It just does take too long to start. I have an 8 core processor and it took like 5 minutes to launch, I tought it was stuck but it did launch.
Not sure if this would help, but if I change the Windows Phone
Emulator Internal Switch to use Private network instead of Internal, I
will get a couple of warnings saying Unable to determine the Host IP
address and then the Emulator will show up with the Emergency Call
screen. Not much I can do from there as the three buttons on the
bottom are not functioning at all.
when you set it to private network, Windows can't interact with your WP Emulator. Open Network Adapter, and try disable and try start emulator again, then enable again this adapter if it is not work *
I contacted the Visual Studio Team a couple of weeks ago and looks like they have fixed this issue in the latest update. And here is how I finally got it all working.
Update your Windows 10 TP to the latest version (currently 10074).
Install the latest Visual Studio 2015 (currently RC).
Install Windows 10 developer tools preview from here (I got
some weird errors with Error code: -2147023294. Ignore them, go
straight to the next step).
Install the standalone Windows SDK for Windows 10 Insider
Preview from here.
Install the Pre-release Microsoft Emulator for Windows 10 Mobile
from here.
That's all! After all these are done, both my Simulator and Emulator are loading up fine.
In my case, deleting the internal switch from Hyper-V virtual switch manager helps, whenever you run your app using emulator as the target, it'll add a new internal switch by itself and the emulator will run normally (no longer stuck on loading screen)
The problem is, I have to do it every single time I restart my PC
The workaround steps to install the Windows SDK and Emulator are no longer needed.
We have released a fix as of 7PM PDT 30 April 2015 for the setup error
Windows 10 SDK 10.0.10069 : The installer failed.
User cancelled installation. Error code: -2147023294"
New setups should no longer encounter this issue.
For existing installations, and for more information, see this forum post:
https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/17bc9d5e-2ea7-4149-bb75-23997db8bd25/
This worked for me:
Go to Windows Defender.
Add exclusion following path: "C:\Users\UserName\AppData\Local\Microsoft\XDE\YourEmulatorVersion"
YourEmulatorVersion - for example 10.0.14393.9
2 days, tried all that is posted here but nothing worked! Finally, since it is a lot easier nowadays to (re)install windows without loosing your files (3 hours including updates), I just resorted to that. Same thing happened, but then I saw the alert that I had not yet activated my VS to run in developer mode :) Did that, and voila, the emulator now works.
If this might be helpful: my problem started when I installed Android Studio and disabled Hyper-V from Android. Enabling it back for VS just couldn't get me to run it again. But I hear there is a way to run both Android & VS emulators using VS emulator for Android. I will try to see how that works later...
I know the question is old, but none of the above answers worked for me so I write down my two cents:
Go to Hyper-V console and remove all emulators
Go to Devices Management, under network adapters tree node, delete all virtual switches
Run an emulator from Visual Studio and see the magic happen

Can't deploy window phone apps to Emulator. Error DEP6100 & 6200

I create new default project Window Phone, then run it with Emulator Window Phone but it's not work however emulator started.
I use Window 8.1 64bit with Visual Studio Professional 2013 - Update 4
Error say:
Error 1 DEP6100 : The following unexpected error occurred during boostrapping stage 'Connecting to the device': SmartDeviceException - A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or established connection failed because connected host has failed to respond
Error 2 DEP6200 : Boostrapping 'Emulator 8.1 WVGA 4 inch 512MB' failed. Device cannot be found. A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or established connection failed because connected host has failed to respond.
Help me Thanks !
Did you try all these steps?
Closing Visual Studio
Going to the "Control Panel"
Selecting "Programs and Features"
Find "Windows Phone 8.1 Emulators - ENU" in the list
Click the "Change" button at the top or right-click and select "Change"
On the "Visual Studio" window that appears; select "Repair"
Wait for the process to complete, and re-open Visual Studio
Run the emulator again
Or else check out for more here:
Windows phone 8.1 emulator not loading OS
Windows phone 8.1 Emulator launching issue
I had this same error... I'll start by saying that reloading Visual Studio 2013 and Windows Phone SDK 8.0 did not fix my issue. What did correct my issue was creating a blank project within the Visual Studio Express 2012 for Windows Phone and deploying the project. Then I went into Visual Studio 2013 and tried deploying my project again and voila, it worked. Why, I have no idea. My guess is there is a file or configuration that is set up by VS Express for WP.
For error DEP6100 on Windows 10 Emulators 10.0.1.0 (1081p 2gb)
You should Delete all (VHD and AVHD) files in:
C:\Users\MyUserName\AppData\Local\Microsoft\XDE\10.0.1.0\
All will be recreated when the emulator will restart. Replace MyUserName by you user name.
Should work with other emulators (you could check your local Hyper-V to find the right path)
See you :)
I had your same problem and after many attempts resolved it this way:
Deactivate Hyper-V (and restart computer).
Go in the Device Manager and open the Network Adapters, here uninstall everything with the name "Hyper-V...", this will allow us to reactivate Hyper-V without any conflict.
Activate Hyper-V (and restart computer).

Launching TaskHost.exe failed, trying to run Windows Phone 8 app?

My VS 2013 setup has been humming along fine for months now. Today I tried to update to Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 RC. Just like last time when I updated to Update 1, setup failed badly with a huge list of packages marked with the "Incorrect Hash Value" error. Unfortunately MS does not have an ISO yet for Update 2 so I can't take that route to complete the update like I did last time. Now I can't run apps on the Windows Phone emulator or on the phone (device) anymore.
I believe that the failed update caused my current deployment problems since the problem surfaced right afterwards. It could be due to some other NuGet package or Extension, but the update is the most likely cause due to the timing of events.
I did extensive reading on SO and tried all the noted solutions. None of them worked:
cleaned and rebuilt the test Windows Phone 8 project (multiple times)
restarted VS2013
rebooted
Exited VS 2013 and restarted it with the Emulator left open (for the Emulator test)
repaired the Windows Phone Emulator install
repaired the VS2013 install
Nothing works. After the IDE installs the app on to the emulator, I still an error dialog box saying:
"The application could not be launched for debugging. Ensure that the target device screen is unlocked and that the application is installed."
And in the VS2013 IDE status line I see the message: "Launching TaskHost.exe failed".
Does anyone know how to fix this? Note, I tried several WP8 projects that I know worked successfully before and none of them can deploy successfully anymore to either the Emulator or the Device.
I see this was asked a month ago, but I had this issue as well. If I left the Emulator running and tried launching it again, I would have TaskHost fail with a different error.
The following was what made it work for me.
Under the following:
Solution(Right-click) > Properties > Configuration Properties > Configuration
Ensure that your main project is set to 'Deploy.'
Have many reason to error.! So, If you doing with database such as SQLLite file or SQL compact file for your project WP, you should check it is used anywhere. Or choose Embed source copy in visual. That's my fail.And i fixed ok!
Did you try from the menus?
BUILD > Rebuild Solution
That worked for me just now.

Windows Phone 8 emulator fails to start

I'm getting the following error when attempting to run a Windows Phone 8 app in the Windows Phone 8 emulator (via Visual Studio 2012):
The Windows Phone Emulator wasn't able to ensure the virtual machine was running:
Something happened while starting a virtual machine: 'Emulator 720P.joel' could not initialize. (Virtual machine ID 7320013C-0597-4408A-9CCF-049166CE9926)
There's no other indication on what might be causing this problem. I have ensured the following:
I'm running Windows 8.1 Pro x64
I'm on a machine that supports SLAT (It's a Core i5)
There's no other virtualization software installed or running, other than Hyper-V
I've tried cleaning the existing switches from Hyper-V using XdeCleanup.exe, with no luck
I've tried uninstalling and re-installing both the Windows Phone 8 SDK and Hyper-V. Neither helped.
The Windows Event Log reports no errors with regards to Hyper-V or starting the emulator
I've tried reducing the processor count on the VM to 1 processor (from the default of 2). No effect.
At one point in the past (a few months ago), the emulator was working. It was around that time that I got a Windows Phone 8 device, so I started developing it. I've been wanting to test a few things out on the emulator rather than having to use my actual phone. The only thing that I can think of that changed since then, was that I upgraded from Windows 8 to Windows 8.1.
Does anyone here have any idea what might be happening, or know of anywhere else I can look for any hints on what might be the problem?
Well I can't say this will work for everyone but for me it was a matter of simply turning off windows firewall.
I had checked all other settings (BIOS, SLAT, etc) and even uninstalled/installed the Hyper-v feature but Hyper-V had been working fine. In fact I could open and run the emulator - just could connect from VS. Once I turned the firewall off everything worked.
You would think you could establish a range of ports to use but who knows what they would be?
I had the same issue and even now it, when I disable my wireless actually totally remove wireless lan and disable my bridged networks. Everything works fine. Please also make sure that internet sharing is not enabled on LAN.
that mean that you don't have insufficient RAM to be able to start your Emulator.
try to stop some running programs or services. and try again
I had the same problem and I solved it as follows:
First disable the LAN connection.
This can be done by going to
Control panel > Internet Properties > Connections > LAN Setting > Remove the tick mark(deselect auto-detect setting)
Press OK.
If any anti-virus is installed, then disable the firewall.
Then go to Hyper-V manager and delete all emulators present. Restart your emulator and it will work.
Had a similar problem, This thread solved it for me
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsapps/en-US/5e6337ce-0a59-44a7-a0af-50aadc022041/windows-phone-emulator-wasnt-able-to-connect-to-the-windows-phone-operating-system-the-phone-didnt?forum=wptools

getting "App deployment failed. Please try again. " while running Windows phone 8 emulator

I am developing Windows phone 8 app. When I try to run the emulator of WXGA or 720p I am constantly getting this error. Searching regarding this error leads to the conculsion that I should not run more and more app parallely. So I ran only VS2012 then also getting the error. I am having enough 4GB of RAM then also having problem. My friend's PC has 2 GB of RAM then also it works flawlessly in it. Anyone know what's the issue & best practice to run the emulator smoothly?
PS : I don't have REAL Windows Phone device :(
Just try rebooting your Windows 8 Phone. I just had the same issue, and rebooting worked for me while deploying on device.
Please ensure you have following to get rid of the error,
Minimum Hardware/software requirements (https://dev.windowsphone.com/en-us/oem?contentName=docs%2FGetting_Started%2FPreparing_for_Windows_Phone_development)
Valid developer license/account to develop windows phone applications
Enough free RAM (>2GB RAM should be free)
Not more than one instance of VS is trying to use same emulator.
If everything is holds good then try following,
Restart emulator & check if it fixed the issue, if not go to next step.
Go to Hyper-V manager and delete all the virtual switches related to WP. If it doesn't fix issue go to next step.
Go to Hyper-V manager and delete all the windows phone virtual machines. repair WP SDK from control panel.
More info about troubleshooting errors like this can be found at https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsapps/en-US/b06cc9f2-aa5e-4cb3-9df1-0c273e1dfd68/wp8-emulator-xde-troubleshooting-tips?forum=wptools :)
In worst case, you will have to uninstall & install WP SDK.
Hope it helps.
The emulator may not work when its dedicated requirements are not perfectly matched. Emulator Requirements
You can always try deploying an app by selecting 'Device' in the emulator which will actually deploy the app on your phone and you can test it out.
note: Make sure you're using the right version of app which is to be deployed in its righteous OS version.
Also try to restart your emulator/device
Well. This might be happens because of some inner problems of Emulator. Because even me too faced this same problem some days ago. So, let me tel you what I have did and how I got rid of that problem. So, try as per my instruction and if this works. Just Mark it as an answer. else, comment what you have got after.
Check all Emulator VGA and VXGA and 720p
After you got that error, just tap Ok or Cancel in the dialog box and go to
Open Emulator -> Strat Screen will be shown -> goto All Apps -> Check your app name (It will exist and open your app and take screenshots)
I am sure this will be works for you.
Only restart the device or the emulator and the deployment will success