title: Reconnecting Emulator to Eclipse
body: <p>My main problem with developing in Android is that the emulator seems to continually get disconnected from eclipse. This always happens the 2-3 time I try to upload my .apk from eclipse without rebooting the emulator. Eclipse indicates this with an empty DDMS ->Device section and logcat stays blank - sometimes I'm not sure if the new code made it on the device.</p>
  
  <p>The only fix I have for this is to shut down eclipse, and restart it.  With the restarting of Eclipse, on top of the emulator boot time, I can't get any momentum going in my development.</p>
  
  <p>Is there a way to reconnect the emulator to eclipse without having to restart Eclipse or even the Emulator?</p>
  
  <p><strong>Update:</strong> There were a couple of answers that helped, particularly "reset adb" or Kill-server ->  connect adb. However, sometimes even that is troublesome.</p>
  
  <p>I am going to try Pentium10's suggestion of hooking up my G1 and using it as an emulator, but for now, I have found that if I don't see my logcat going, and the emulator is working (This is my biggest problem, because I am outputting all my debugging messages to log) then I can open up CMD and type <strong>adb logcat</strong>. This streams the log into the command window. Not nicely color coded, but nice enough for me to find my problems...</p>