Your settings and projects will be preserved.

Download and install the IDE again, either from the official site or using the Toolbox App.

Look for the directory name starting with the build number and ending with the. Note: if the installation is managed by the Toolbox App, plug-ins directory will be located next to the application install location which can be found from the Toolbox properties of the installed app.

Please be aware that default locations have changed in 2020.1 release). You can bisect the plug-ins to find the offending one and remove only that plug-in, keeping the working plug-ins. Delete the third-party plug-ins directory ( in the user's home directory, depends on the OS and IDE version.If you get ' : Address already in use: bind' exception, please refer to IDEA-238995 for the workaround.Please try the following steps one by one until the issue is resolved: It may be hard to guess the root case from the exception stacktrace. There are multiple possible causes for this issue: broken or incompatible plug-in, corrupted IDE installation files, failed patch update, broken caches or damaged configuration. IDE shows the Start Failed dialog with the exception stacktrace and the following text:

Android studio ide internal error