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jape · 03-04-2012, 05:52 PM

Any dev types know if I can enable wifi on demand somehow with the kobo touch? I've enabled telnet and what I'd like to do is browse around the device to look at the logs and use evtest to see if the touch driver is still generating events when touch input fails.

Every few days touch input stops respoding and I'd like to see if I can debug this further.

The problem is that the device shuts down wifi to conserve battery (presumably) and the only way I know to force wifi on is to launch the web browser but obviously I can't do that if touch input has failed.

I'm wondering if its in the realm of possibility that I could somehow listen for a double click on the home button and cause that to kick wifi (or maybe launch the web browser?).

Any thoughts?

03-04-2012, 05:52 PM	#1
jape Member Posts: 10 Karma: 10 Join Date: Feb 2012 Device: none	dev question: enabling wifi on demand? Any dev types know if I can enable wifi on demand somehow with the kobo touch? I've enabled telnet and what I'd like to do is browse around the device to look at the logs and use evtest to see if the touch driver is still generating events when touch input fails. Every few days touch input stops respoding and I'd like to see if I can debug this further. The problem is that the device shuts down wifi to conserve battery (presumably) and the only way I know to force wifi on is to launch the web browser but obviously I can't do that if touch input has failed. I'm wondering if its in the realm of possibility that I could somehow listen for a double click on the home button and cause that to kick wifi (or maybe launch the web browser?). Any thoughts?