Hi Mohammad, Could you put this on the wiki somewhere or perhaps on qa.gem5.org so it will be more easily searchable in the future?
Thanks, Ali On May 9, 2013, at 10:38 AM, Mohammad Sadegh Sadri <mamsad...@googoolia.com> wrote: > Dear All, > > I found the solution to my problem. > > In fact the problem was, > when you boot up Android under GEM5, after a while it goes to a > kind of sleep mode. > > In this mode, you see the Android screen (in your VNC client) > you can move the big circle, and you can click > (and you see the big circle is resembling the click operation) > > However, nothing happens! you don't receive any response from the Android > side. > > Solution, is to wake up the android. > I do this, by sending a key stroke to the android. > (Like the one that you do with every other mobile phone when they go to sleep) > > I do this using the adb command: > > first get into m5term shell: > m5term 127.0.0.1 3456 > > then inside m5term, issue the adb command : > adb shell input keyevent 66 > > here I have decided to send the "Enter" key press to the device. > But I think other key presses will work as well. > (for a complete list of key events, > stackoverflow.com/questions/7789826/) > > Hope this saves some one's time in future (Actually took me near 5 days :P ) > >> ------------------------------ >> >> Message: 4 >> Date: Thu, 09 May 2013 08:51:48 -0600 >> From: Mohammad Sadegh Sadri <mamsad...@googoolia.com> >> To: gem5-users@gem5.org >> Subject: [gem5-users] How to do a simple mouse click in Android >> running under GEM5? >> Message-ID: <20130509085148.15205gvxvsqch...@mail.googoolia.com> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; DelSp="Yes"; >> format="flowed" >> >> >> Dear all, >> >> Actually this is a very simple question. >> >> I have searched through the mailing list but I have not found any >> suitable solution. >> >> The point is, running benchmarks in Android is automated through the >> init.rc file and then >> the rcS scripts which get copied to the device at boot time. >> >> I understand the entire procedure completely and I have done it myself >> successfully. >> >> However, this doesn't in any way mean that you don't need to have >> interaction with the benchmark program when you want to run it. In >> most of the cases you have to be able to at least >> push a button. >> >> Considering the fact that, even, gem5.fast, with simplest options, is >> very slow on a very good server machine, I was after more reliable >> solutions to do "Mouse Click" task. >> >> Here what I found: >> >> 1- on android emulators they use shortcuts for these kinds of tasks >> F2 is click , shift+F2 is right click >> On gem5 I tried to see if it works, no success. >> >> 2- you can use the "adb sendevent" to send touch events >> to the android device. >> moreover, you can use "adb input" to send key strocks and text to >> the android system. >> I tried both, no success! >> In fact, what I see, in terms of mouse/keyboard events going to >> android (using adb getevent) are strange. >> Do we have two pointers or one? What is the big circle shown in >> the vnc screen? then what is the small dot? I have noticed that >> the events which go to the android are actually related to the small >> dot, not the big circle. >> >> I am looking for ideas, to do the task : "push a button in Android". >> >> May be I am missing some thing, a shortcut, or a m5term application which >> I can run to solve this problem. >> currently, I am ran completely out of ideas! >> >> I will really appreciate your ideas and help. >> >> Regards >> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> gem5-users mailing list >> gem5-users@gem5.org >> http://m5sim.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gem5-users >> >> End of gem5-users Digest, Vol 82, Issue 17 >> ****************************************** >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > gem5-users mailing list > gem5-users@gem5.org > http://m5sim.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gem5-users > _______________________________________________ gem5-users mailing list gem5-users@gem5.org http://m5sim.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gem5-users
