Reboot by typing Reboot

[SirFenwick]

If you have 29 and under you can reboot your system by typing reboot from your home screen and press enter.

It'll try to find someone in your contacts but if you just type it in and then press enter it'll reboot your system.

 

[indubitably]

thats a cool trick, doesn't work with RC30?

 

[OrganizedFellow]

Tried under RC30 - does NOT work.

Too bad I didn't read this last night when I was RC29!

 

[drustvold]

Huh, neat. Makes me wonder what other system commands that were usable from the home screen.

Though that would be a very bad thing to let other programs have acsess to, no wonder they turned it off.

 

[C-Rex]

hmm, kinda liked the reboot trick, but this is huge security flaw yah?

Malicious programs could basically pass ANY commands they wanted? Can anyone elaborate on the potential problems?

 

[ikkleste]

http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/08/epic-android-bug-inteprets-your-typing-as-system-commands/

 

[brunner]

I'm still on RC29, but this does NOT work for me. Nor am I able to start telnetd.

Does anyone have any idea why?

I am a systems administrator, and so I would love to have root access on my device.

 

[brunner]

Never mind. Once I rebooted, it worked fine.