How to boot android phone programmatically?

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I want to reboot targeted phone by SMS. Is it possible? How can we implement this?

Well, IF the phone had an app waiting for a specific SMS and after its arrival it would reboot itself it might be possible. But thats just a guess. — PeterK, Jul 28 '10 at 12:24
Does the number of '?' quantify the difficulty level of the questions? — bakkal, Jul 28 '10 at 12:38

score 7 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 28 '10 at 12:40

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According to this Android Developers thread on Google Groups, third party applications don't have permission to reboot the device.

answered Jul 28 '10 at 12:40

Bill the Lizard

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score 1 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:01

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Your problem has two core parts. Can you reboot the phone programatically? Can you write a program to intercept incoming SMS? If you answered YES to both of your question, it is possible to do this.

I am not a Android developer but i think this should be quite possible.

take a look @ Android SMS intercept without notification icon or WAP-PUSH messages and http://mobiforge.com/developing/story/sms-messaging-android

I think BroadcastReceiver is the one you are looking for.

I have no idea whether you can programatically reset the android phone using java... Someone else might answer you about that

EDIT: I guess according to the link Bill has posted, 3rd party applications are not permitted to do a reset

edited May 23 '17 at 12:01

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answered Jul 28 '10 at 12:35

Ranhiru Jude Cooray

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K.. We can't reboot but can we switch off android phone programmatically ?? – Mobile_Application_Developer Jul 31 '10 at 02:34
@Kanika: I honestly do not know whether it is possible as I am not an Android developer :( – Ranhiru Jude Cooray Jul 31 '10 at 02:45

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Jul 28 '10 at 12:55

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If you mean by having an app waiting for a specific text, then only on a rooted phone.

Ranhiru's link tells you how to get the text without it giving a text notification. If your phone isn't rooted, then programs don't have access to functions like that. If it's rooted, I can't say exactly how to do it, I haven't tried yet, but have a look for the source of apps like quickboot, a lot of them have it all publically available on code.google.com

answered Jul 28 '10 at 12:55

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k.. whatever i came to from google search is we can't reboot our phone programmatically until it is rooted. – Mobile_Application_Developer Jul 30 '10 at 09:30
But can anyone please explain is it possible to switch off our phone programmatically instead of reboot ? Please reply fast. – Mobile_Application_Developer Jul 30 '10 at 09:31

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Aug 17 '10 at 00:41

For the record, it IS possible to intercept SMS messages on a stock Android phone - I've written a little app which pops up a Toast when I get a text rather than having to go in to the messages app.

It's NOT possible to perform a normal shutdown/reboot/??? without rooting the phone or being Google (at least, convinving the phone you're Google) but that would be a violation of the developer agreement.

In fact, you will find huge barriers in your way if you try to do anything to the OS or any other app - Which is usually a good thing

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