Session fail when cold booting android device

Hello, I changed the emulator settings so it will make cold boot on each run and when im running it fail before emulator finish to boot
I was putting all kind of capabilities to wait for launching:
dc.setCapability(AndroidMobileCapabilityType.DEVICE_READY_TIMEOUT,30);
dc.setCapability(AndroidMobileCapabilityType.AVD_READY_TIMEOUT,120000);
dc.setCapability(AndroidMobileCapabilityType.AVD_LAUNCH_TIMEOUT,120000);
dc.setCapability(AndroidMobileCapabilityType.DEVICE_READY_TIMEOUT,120000);

this is the exception:

[HTTP] <-- POST /wd/hub/session 500 15945 ms - 1363
[HTTP]

org.openqa.selenium.SessionNotCreatedException: Unable to create a new remote session. Please check the server log for more details. Original error: An unknown server-side error occurred while processing the command. Original error: Error executing adbExec. Original error: ‘Command ‘/Users/gili.imberman/Library/Android/sdk/platform-tools/adb -P 5037 -s emulator-5554 shell ‘settings delete global hidden_api_policy_pre_p_apps;settings delete global hidden_api_policy_p_apps;settings delete global hidden_api_policy’’ exited with code 20’; Stderr: ‘cmd: Can’t find service: settings
cmd: Can’t find service: settings
cmd: Can’t find service: settings’; Code: ‘20’
Build info: version: ‘3.141.59’, revision: ‘e82be7d358’, time: ‘2018-11-14T08:17:03’
System info: host: ‘ip-10-0-0-8.ec2.internal’, ip: ‘2a0d:6fc0:6ea:5500:8569:60ea:a903:3b18%en0’, os.name: ‘Mac OS X’, os.arch: ‘x86_64’, os.version: ‘12.3.1’, java.version: ‘1.8.0_302’
Driver info: driver.version: AppiumDriver
remote stacktrace: UnknownError: An unknown server-side error occurred while processing the command. Original error: Error executing adbExec. Original error: ‘Command ‘/Users/gili.imberman/Library/Android/sdk/platform-tools/adb -P 5037 -s emulator-5554 shell ‘settings delete global hidden_api_policy_pre_p_apps;settings delete global hidden_api_policy_p_apps;settings delete global hidden_api_policy’’ exited with code 20’; Stderr: ‘cmd: Can’t find service: settings
cmd: Can’t find service: settings
cmd: Can’t find service: settings’; Code: ‘20’
at getResponseForW3CError (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/appium/node_modules/appium-base-driver/lib/protocol/errors.js:804:9)
at asyncHandler (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/appium/node_modules/appium-base-driver/lib/protocol/protocol.js:380:37)
Build info: version: ‘3.141.59’, revision: ‘e82be7d358’, time: ‘2018-11-14T08:17:03’
System info: host: ‘ip-10-0-0-8.ec2.internal’, ip: ‘2a0d:6fc0:6ea:5500:8569:60ea:a903:3b18%en0’, os.name: ‘Mac OS X’, os.arch: ‘x86_64’, os.version: ‘12.3.1’, java.version: ‘1.8.0_302’
Driver info: driver.version: AppiumDriver

at io.appium.java_client.remote.AppiumCommandExecutor$1.createSession(AppiumCommandExecutor.java:216)
at io.appium.java_client.remote.AppiumCommandExecutor.createSession(AppiumCommandExecutor.java:225)
at io.appium.java_client.remote.AppiumCommandExecutor.execute(AppiumCommandExecutor.java:247)
at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.execute(RemoteWebDriver.java:552)
at io.appium.java_client.DefaultGenericMobileDriver.execute(DefaultGenericMobileDriver.java:41)
at io.appium.java_client.AppiumDriver.execute(AppiumDriver.java:1)
at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.startSession(RemoteWebDriver.java:213)
at io.appium.java_client.AppiumDriver.startSession(AppiumDriver.java:338)
at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.<init>(RemoteWebDriver.java:131)
at io.appium.java_client.DefaultGenericMobileDriver.<init>(DefaultGenericMobileDriver.java:37)
at io.appium.java_client.AppiumDriver.<init>(AppiumDriver.java:89)
at io.appium.java_client.AppiumDriver.<init>(AppiumDriver.java:99)
at tests.BaseTest.init(BaseTest.java:113)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)
at org.testng.internal.invokers.MethodInvocationHelper.invokeMethod(MethodInvocationHelper.java:135)
at org.testng.internal.invokers.MethodInvocationHelper.invokeMethodConsideringTimeout(MethodInvocationHelper.java:65)
at org.testng.internal.invokers.ConfigInvoker.invokeConfigurationMethod(ConfigInvoker.java:381)
at org.testng.internal.invokers.ConfigInvoker.invokeConfigurations(ConfigInvoker.java:316)
at org.testng.internal.invokers.TestInvoker.runConfigMethods(TestInvoker.java:803)
at org.testng.internal.invokers.TestInvoker.invokeMethod(TestInvoker.java:589)
at org.testng.internal.invokers.TestInvoker.invokeTestMethod(TestInvoker.java:220)
at org.testng.internal.invokers.MethodRunner.runInSequence(MethodRunner.java:50)
at org.testng.internal.invokers.TestInvoker$MethodInvocationAgent.invoke(TestInvoker.java:945)
at org.testng.internal.invokers.TestInvoker.invokeTestMethods(TestInvoker.java:193)
at org.testng.internal.invokers.TestMethodWorker.invokeTestMethods(TestMethodWorker.java:146)
at org.testng.internal.invokers.TestMethodWorker.run(TestMethodWorker.java:128)
at java.util.ArrayList.forEach(ArrayList.java:1259)
at org.testng.TestRunner.privateRun(TestRunner.java:808)
at org.testng.TestRunner.run(TestRunner.java:603)
at org.testng.SuiteRunner.runTest(SuiteRunner.java:429)
at org.testng.SuiteRunner.access$000(SuiteRunner.java:32)
at org.testng.SuiteRunner$SuiteWorker.run(SuiteRunner.java:467)
at org.testng.internal.thread.ThreadUtil.lambda$execute$0(ThreadUtil.java:58)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:266)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1149)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:624)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748)

Caused by: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)
at io.appium.java_client.remote.AppiumCommandExecutor$1.createSession(AppiumCommandExecutor.java:193)
… 39 more
Caused by: org.openqa.selenium.WebDriverException: An unknown server-side error occurred while processing the command. Original error: Error executing adbExec. Original error: ‘Command ‘/Users/gili.imberman/Library/Android/sdk/platform-tools/adb -P 5037 -s emulator-5554 shell ‘settings delete global hidden_api_policy_pre_p_apps;settings delete global hidden_api_policy_p_apps;settings delete global hidden_api_policy’’ exited with code 20’; Stderr: ‘cmd: Can’t find service: settings
cmd: Can’t find service: settings
cmd: Can’t find service: settings’; Code: ‘20’
Build info: version: ‘3.141.59’, revision: ‘e82be7d358’, time: ‘2018-11-14T08:17:03’
System info: host: ‘ip-10-0-0-8.ec2.internal’, ip: ‘2a0d:6fc0:6ea:5500:8569:60ea:a903:3b18%en0’, os.name: ‘Mac OS X’, os.arch: ‘x86_64’, os.version: ‘12.3.1’, java.version: ‘1.8.0_302’
Driver info: driver.version: AppiumDriver
remote stacktrace: UnknownError: An unknown server-side error occurred while processing the command. Original error: Error executing adbExec. Original error: ‘Command ‘/Users/gili.imberman/Library/Android/sdk/platform-tools/adb -P 5037 -s emulator-5554 shell ‘settings delete global hidden_api_policy_pre_p_apps;settings delete global hidden_api_policy_p_apps;settings delete global hidden_api_policy’’ exited with code 20’; Stderr: ‘cmd: Can’t find service: settings
cmd: Can’t find service: settings
cmd: Can’t find service: settings’; Code: ‘20’
at getResponseForW3CError (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/appium/node_modules/appium-base-driver/lib/protocol/errors.js:804:9)
at asyncHandler (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/appium/node_modules/appium-base-driver/lib/protocol/protocol.js:380:37)
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:62)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:45)
at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:423)
at org.openqa.selenium.remote.W3CHandshakeResponse.lambda$errorHandler$0(W3CHandshakeResponse.java:62)
at org.openqa.selenium.remote.HandshakeResponse.lambda$getResponseFunction$0(HandshakeResponse.java:30)
at org.openqa.selenium.remote.ProtocolHandshake.lambda$createSession$0(ProtocolHandshake.java:126)
at java.util.stream.ReferencePipeline$3$1.accept(ReferencePipeline.java:193)
at java.util.Spliterators$ArraySpliterator.tryAdvance(Spliterators.java:958)
at java.util.stream.ReferencePipeline.forEachWithCancel(ReferencePipeline.java:126)
at java.util.stream.AbstractPipeline.copyIntoWithCancel(AbstractPipeline.java:499)
at java.util.stream.AbstractPipeline.copyInto(AbstractPipeline.java:486)
at java.util.stream.AbstractPipeline.wrapAndCopyInto(AbstractPipeline.java:472)
at java.util.stream.FindOps$FindOp.evaluateSequential(FindOps.java:152)
at java.util.stream.AbstractPipeline.evaluate(AbstractPipeline.java:234)
at java.util.stream.ReferencePipeline.findFirst(ReferencePipeline.java:531)
at org.openqa.selenium.remote.ProtocolHandshake.createSession(ProtocolHandshake.java:128)
… 44 more

Hi @Gili_Imberman, Did you find any solution for this?
I am also facing the same issue :slightly_frowning_face: .