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Windows Phone 8.1 emulator stuck at starting OS


I did fresh W10 and VS 2015 install and now when i try running newly created hello world type of app on emulator it doesn't load, all it says is: Emulator text after 5-10 minutes it exits and Visual studio returns DEP6100 (error on bootstrapping stage - connecting to device) and DEP6200 (Device not found) errors.

However VM itself starts, boots up and works in Hyper-V

VM works

Things i tried:


Solution

  • So, after around 2 days of non-stop googling i found a solution from other stackoverflow question where someone had similar problem but with Android emulator Visual studio (2015) emulator for android not working - XDE.exe - Exit Code 3

    What I did was:

    1. Delete All VMs in Hyper V
    2. Delete All switches in Hyper V
    3. Run xdecleanup.exe for every version of XDE (Found at C:/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft XDE/ [8.0/8.1/10.0.10240.0] /XdeCleanup.exe
    4. Run Change/Repair on 'Windows Phone 8.1 Emulators - ENU'
    5. Restart Visual Studio