How to reboot or switch off Genymotion device?

Question

I'm following a guide of installing Google Play in a Genymotion VM. The guide says to run adb reboot. How do I do that?

A comment to the guide asked the same question and someone replied to that: adb connect 192.168.56.101 followed by adb -e reboot . But entering the first command gives me error:

adb server is out of date.  killing...
cannot bind 'tcp:5037'
ADB server didn't ACK
* failed to start daemon *
error: 

Long pressing power button on the emulator, brings up option inside Android to turn off the device but when I try to turn off the device this way (through Android), the emulator hangs on "Shutting down..." and doesn't turn off the device.

Linux Mint 17 ; Genymotion 2.3.1 ; Android 4.4.4

Solution 1

If you have adb installed as part of your Linux distribution, then your PATH probably points there. Chances are this adb is version 1.0.31 (or earlier).

Genymotion comes with its own adb in the tools/ directory, which is version 1.0.32 if you are running the latest Genymotion, currently 2.3.1. Unless you changed it in the settings, Genymotion will start the bridge with that copy.

Since adb operates in a client-server arrangement, the client version should match the daemon version. In your case, they don't and that's why you're getting the adb server is out of date. killing... message. If the daemon is killed or dies, the Genymotion launcher automatically and immediately restarts adb (using its own copy), and that's why your client can't start a new daemon bound to port 5037.

The solution is to make sure that the version of adb you are invoking on the command line matches the one that Genymotion is bringing up as a daemon when it starts the VMs. The easiest way to ensure this is just to use the adb binary in Genymotion's tools/ directory.

Note that if you have changed Genymotion's default of using its own tools to use custom SDK tools, then you'll need to use an adb client that matches the version contained in the SDK you're pointing to. As far as I can tell, KitKat (4.4.4) and earlier SDKs contain adb version 1.0.31, while the Lollipop (5.0) SDKs have 1.0.32.

Solution 2

Just go to your Genymotion Installation directory:

For my PC: C:\Program Files\Genymobile\Genymotion\tools

Open command prompt and navigate to this directory:

(cd C:\Program Files\Genymobile\Genymotion\tools)

C:\Program Files\Genymobile\Genymotion\tools>

and type command:

adb reboot

Solution 3

I had trouble using adb, but found if you long-press on the power button it will bring up the power menu and do a full shutdown, rather than a snapshot and suspend.