# Gemini Prototyper Not Responding or Stuck in Firebase Studio

**URL:** <https://community.firebasestudio.dev/t/gemini-prototyper-not-responding-or-stuck-in-firebase-studio/20449>\
**Category:** AI\
**Created:** [January 19, 2026, 11:18am UTC](https://community.firebasestudio.dev/t/gemini-prototyper-not-responding-or-stuck-in-firebase-studio/20449 "2026-01-19T11:18:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![CineyNet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.firebasestudio.dev/cineynet/32/12542_2.png) [@CineyNet](https://community.firebasestudio.dev/u/CineyNet)\
**Post date:** [January 19, 2026, 11:18am UTC](https://community.firebasestudio.dev/t/gemini-prototyper-not-responding-or-stuck-in-firebase-studio/20449/1 "2026-01-19T11:18:58Z")

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I am trying to start the Gemini Prototyper in Firebase Studio, but it is not working at all.  
The tool gets stuck immediately after starting.  
It does not respond to any input.  
I only sent simple messages like “Hi” and “Hello”.  
Even for these basic inputs, there is no proper response.  
The interface looks frozen or idle.  
I tried clearing the chat history multiple times.  
After clearing the chat, the issue still persists.  
Refreshing the page did not help.  
Restarting Firebase Studio also did not fix the problem.  
There are no visible error messages shown.  
The Prototyper seems to be stuck in a loading or inactive state.  
Because of this, I cannot continue my work.  
I am not sure if this is a configuration issue or a bug.  
Please suggest how to fix this issue or what steps to try next.

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**Author:** ![jamesor](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.firebasestudio.dev/jamesor/32/5600_2.png) [@jamesor](https://community.firebasestudio.dev/u/jamesor)\
**Post date:** [January 27, 2026, 3:19pm UTC](https://community.firebasestudio.dev/t/gemini-prototyper-not-responding-or-stuck-in-firebase-studio/20449/2 "2026-01-27T15:19:41Z")

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Hi @CineyNet I’ve just posted something that might help here. Please give it a try and let me know if it helps.

> [@Gemini failing to respond or make edits? Try this](https://community.firebasestudio.dev/t/gemini-failing-to-respond-or-make-edits-try-this/20552):
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> We’ve been looking into an issue where some users experience an issue with Gemini either not responding to a prompt, or Gemini claims it makes an edit but doesn’t actually change the code. This has been hard to reproduce but we think we might have narrowed it down to cases where the source code file in question is long (~500 lines). A workaround to try is increasing the max tokens in the IDE settings config. If you don’t already have a folder called .vscode with a settings.json file in it, crea…