google android emulator console

Each running emulator instance includes a console facility that lets you dynamically query and control the simulated device environment. Connect to the console by the following command:
# telnet localhost 5554
If you have multiple emulator started, subsequent console port is 5556, 5558, etc.

In the current release, the console provides the following commands:

• help|h|? ;print a list of commands
• redir ;manage port redirections
• network ;manage network settings
• gsm ;GSM related commands
• sms ;SMS related commands
• kill ;kill the emulator instance
• quit|exit ;quit control session

For more details of the console commands usage, refer to the Google Android Emulator documentation.