title: ECLIPSE-The connection to adb is down, and a severe error has occured
body: <p>I've spent day trying to launch any Android program. it gives me the same error:</p>
  
  <p>"The connection to adb is down, and a severe error has occured".</p>
  
  <p>I'm running Eclipse Galileo,on a Windows7 machine.</p>
  
  <p>I've used all the tricks I can find on the web: the command line "adb kill-server", the DDMS "reset ADB", I started the emulator both before and after Eclipse, and searched for ports being used by other programs.</p>
  
  <p>when starting server getting same </p>
  
  <pre><code>    * daemon not running. starting it now on port 5037 *
  ADB server didn't ACK
  * failed to start daemon *
  </code></pre>