There is already a post about this on the forum. Look at
http://groups.google.com/group/android-platform/browse_thread/thread/daf7c685e020d296
In general you don't want to allow third party apps to do a reboot on
your phone this easily. It is very dangerous that's why the REBOOT is
only allowed for system apps.
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On Aug 6, 8:54 am, markwhitney <markwhit...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am trying to reboot Android by broadcasting Intent.ACTION_REBOOT
> from my activity.
>
> I believe that I have given it all the proper permissions to send such
> a signal but when I launch the activity, nothing happens. I saw a
> similar post about this back in May, but no responses.
>
> Logcat:
>
> ActivityManager I Starting activity: Intent
> { action=android.intent.action.MAIN categories=
> {android.intent.category.LAUNCHER} flags=0x102000
> 00 comp=
> {com.android.settings.shutitdown/
> com.android.settings.shutitdown.ShutdownActivity} }
> ActivityManager I Start proc com.android.settings.shutitdown for
> activity com.android.settings.shutitdown/.ShutdownActivity: pid=1397
> uid=10
> 00 gids={}
> ShutdownActivity D creating activity: for reboot
> ShutdownActivity I rebooted
> InputConnectionWrapper W showStatusIcon on inactive InputConnection
> ActivityManager I Displayed activity
> com.android.settings.shutitdown/.ShutdownActivity: 564 ms
>
> Note that there is no denial to send the Intent, just silence. Here
> is the activity code:
>
> public class ShutdownActivity extends Activity {
> private static final String LOG_TAG = "ShutdownActivity";
>
> public void onCreate(Bundle b) {
> super.onCreate(b);
> setContentView(R.layout.shutdown_main);
> Log.d(LOG_TAG, "creating activity: for reboot");
> Intent i = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_REBOOT);
> i.setAction(Intent.ACTION_REBOOT);
> sendBroadcast(i);
> Log.i(LOG_TAG, "rebooted");
> }
> public void onPause() {
> }
>
> }
>
> ...and the manifest:
>
> <manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android";
> package="com.android.settings.shutitdown"
> android:sharedUserId="android.uid.system">
>
> <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.REBOOT" />
>
> <application android:label="shutitdown"
> android:icon="@drawable/ic_launcher_settings">
> <activity android:name=".ShutdownActivity"
> android:label="Shutdown">
> <intent-filter>
> <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
> <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" /
>
> </intent-filter>
> </activity>
> </application>
>
> </manifest>
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