Restarting a device programmatically

Question

In my android application, I want to restart my android device on button click. But its not working.
I have done this so far.

ImageButton restartmob = (ImageButton) this.findViewById(R.id.restartmob);
    restartmob.setOnClickListener(new ImageButton.OnClickListener() {
        @Override
        public void onClick(View v) {
            Process proc = null;            
            try {
               //proc = Runtime.getRuntime().exec(new String[] { "su", "-c", "reboot" });
                 proc = Runtime.getRuntime().exec(new String[]{"/system/bin/su","-c","reboot now"});
                proc.waitFor();
            } catch (Exception ex) {
                Log.i(TAG, "Could not reboot", ex);
            }
        }
    });

Also I put the following permission in the manifest file.

<permission android:name="android.permission.REBOOT"/>

When I clicked the image button to restart, I got the following exception.

java.io.IOException: Error running exec(). Command: [/system/bin/su, -c, reboot now] 
Working Directory: null Environment: null   
at java.lang.ProcessManager.exec(ProcessManager.java:211)   
at java.lang.Runtime.exec(Runtime.java:173)
at java.lang.Runtime.exec(Runtime.java:128)
at com.android.onlinepayment.activity.SystemSubMenuActivity$1.onClick(SystemSubMenuActivity.java:49)
at android.view.View.performClick(View.java:5184)   
at android.view.View$PerformClick.run(View.java:20910)  
at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:739)
at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:95)
at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:145)
at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:5942)    
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)   
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:372) 
at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:1388  
at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:1183)
Caused by: java.io.IOException: No such file or directory   
at java.lang.ProcessManager.exec(Native Method)
at java.lang.ProcessManager.exec(ProcessManager.java:209)
... 13 more

What's wrong with my code? Please help me on this.
For the info, I am testing on android Lollipop (if it matters).
Thanks in Advance.

Answer 1

The permission you required is not related to your reboot method, as your method requires a rooted phone (with su). To reboot the phone, require the permission as you did, but call PowerManager#reboot.

PowerManager pm = (PowerManager) getSystemService(Context.POWER_SERVICE);
pm.reboot(null);

Answer 2

On API 24 if your app is the device owner app you can call: devicePolicyManager.reboot(yourAdminComponent)

See docs here

Answer 3

Try this...

try {
      Process proc = Runtime.getRuntime().exec(new String[] { "su", "-c", "reboot" });
      proc.waitFor();
         } catch (Exception ex) {
                Log.i(TAG, "Could not reboot", ex);
      }

Add permission reboot

Answer 4

You cannot do a reboot from an ordinary SDK application. Only applications signed with the system firmware signing key can do this. Copied from this answer,

Programmatically switching off Android phone

You need the system key to sign your app. See this post for details;

How to compile Android Application with system permissions

Answer 5

After long struggle i found working solution.

If your system is used serial port then execute below command,

Runtime.getRuntime().exec(new String[]{"/system/bin/su","-c","reboot now"});

if use normal port then excure below command

Runtime.getRuntime().exec(new String[]{"/system/xbin/su","-c","reboot now"});

difference is only /bin and /xbin

so can code like if first command throw exception then execute second.

Answer 6

You can use the legendary LibSuperUser library.

Write this simple code:

Shell.SU.run("reboot");

Answer 7

You are doing <permission ... />. You need to do <USES-permission ... />

The caps are not needed, it was just to emphasise it.

Answer 8

try {//   It worked for me on Android 7.0
            Runtime.getRuntime().exec(arrayOf("/system/bin/su", "-c", "reboot now"))
        }catch (e:Exception){
            Log.e(TAG,e.message)
            e.printStackTrace()
        }

Answer 9

try this code -

First importing package

import com.google.android.things.device.DeviceManager;

Creating function and adding some Exceptions

public void StartReboot() throws IllegalStateException, RuntimeException, SecurityException {

Creating Object

      try {
         DeviceManager deviceManager = DeviceManager.getInstance();

Start Reboot

         deviceManager.reboot();

Catching Exceptions

      } catch(IllegalStateException ex) {
        OnError("Underlying system service is not ready.");
      } catch(RuntimeException ex) {
        OnError("Underlying system service encountered an error.");
      } catch(SecurityException ex) {
        OnError("Calling context does not have com.google.android.things.permission.REBOOT permission");
      }
    }