hardware

I have a stupid idea. With android is simple to get battery state (volt, charge, temperature, ecc). BatteryManager.EXTRA_TEMPERATURE I think that the sensor is located inside lithium battery pack, in fact there are 3 pins over it connecting to the phone. Maybe that one of them is the battery sensor temperature. How it works? It's possible, but i know that damage may be relevant , isolate that pin and connect the phone pin to an external sensor? So we can catch outside temperature using battery manager....without using Google IOIO or Arduino just for reading a temperature. THAT'S ONLY FOR STUDY

I have a EditText that should not allow the user to input anything through the keyboard (soft or hard). This EditText should only allow the user to input something through keys(buttons) displayed in the screen by the app. I have disabled the soft keyboard, but I can't find a way to disable the hardware keyboard input. This input via hardware keyboard can be done using a emulator that is configured to allow input through the hardware keyboard. So, my question is, How can I block the input via physical keyboard in a EditText? Thank you! Finally got it! Code: editText.setOnKeyListener(new View

I'd like to set focus to an EditText and automatically bring up the virtual keyboard in certain situations. However, if a phone's hardware keyboard is slid out, I wouldn't want to. Is there any way to detect whether or not a phone's hardware keyboard (if one exists) is slid out? Or is there some functionality of the EditText that will handle all this for me? Adrian Spinei if (getResources().getConfiguration().hardKeyboardHidden==Configuration.HARDKEYBOARDHIDDEN_NO) { //do stuff } To dive deeper, triggering OnConfigurationChanged on keyboard slide is explained in Activity restart on rotation

I'm writing an application that allows people in danger to call 911. This is how it should work: He (or she) feels danger. He pushes the volume-down key three times. My app calls 911. But I'm facing the following problem: how can I receive a hardward key event in sleep mode ? I've searched Google and other search engines, but can't find anything related. public class YourBoardcastReceiver extends BroadcastReceiver { @Override public void onReceive(Context context, Intent intent) { if (Intent.ACTION_CAMERA_BUTTON.equals(intent.getAction())) { Intent main = new Intent();// } } } And in your

Specifically, I want to query a system's GPU for the following: The name of the GPU, the series (e.g. ATI Radion 5800, NVIDIA GeForce 4 MX, etc.), the BIOS version, the driver version, the GPU clock speed, the GPU memory speed, the memory type, the memory size, the bus width, the bandwidth, the type of bus being used, the vendor. Any ideas? The application I'm developing just has to display this information to the user. I suggest querying WMI, using the following WMI objects: Win32_DisplayConfiguration - name of GPU Win32_VideoController - DAC type, speed - video RAM size also try: CIM

I would like to know if it is possible to automatically invoke a Java method when a hardware interrupt is raised. There may be an alternative. I'm doing something similar: In an application I monitor 4 mice for clicks. Those clicks generate interrupts but I'm happy enough not to deal with them directly from Java. Under Linux, it turns out there are device files ( /dev/input/mouse# ) that spew a bunch of characters when something happens with the mouse. I have a Thread for each one with a FileReader blocking on a read. Once characters arrive, the appertaining thread unblocks and I can do