Re: [android-developers] Power on phone when external power source becomes available

2012-08-24 Thread Fred Niggle
One quick-but-dirty way would be to have the androids make a notification sound, for example a 100Hz tone (use audacity to generate the sound file), and have an headset lead connected to the arduino input pin so the firmware can simply wait for the tone and connect the charger... Best regards, Fr

Re: [android-developers] Power on phone when external power source becomes available

2012-08-24 Thread Mark Murphy
Questions regarding modifying the Android OS and hardware to accomplish this is out of scope for this list. This list is for developing applications with the Android SDK. On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 8:32 AM, Sacha van Tienhoven wrote: > This problem is occurring on a research project: > > Hardware se

[android-developers] Power on phone when external power source becomes available

2012-08-24 Thread Sacha van Tienhoven
This problem is occurring on a research project: Hardware setup: I have a Samsung GT-S5380 phone connected to an Arduino board through which it is getting charged. The Arduino board is connected to a battery. The battery requires to be charged regularly. The trail participants forget to charge