Hello everybody,
I'm using android 2.3 Gingerbread prebuilt images from ChipSee (I use expansion board with LCD touch screen, WiFi and accelerometer) for beagleboard xm and my host PC is running Ubuntu 12.04. I'm wondering how to shut down my beagleboard xm running android.
As you know you can lose data on normal computer (PC, laptop, etc.) if you suddenly cut off power, but is the same true for android running on beagleboard xm? Can I just unplug it from power when I'm done using it or do I have to shut it down in the same manner as other operating systems (linux, windows, mac, ...)?
If so, I would like you to give me an advice how to shut down android. I have busybox installed and I know there are some commands like reboot, halt, poweroff but I can't use them. When I try to use them in terminal emulator that runs on beagleboard xm, I get permission denied message even tough all three commands have -rwxrwxrwx permissions. When I try the same command through adb shell, it seems that command executes - new empty prompt shows up - but nothing happens. The same applies to minicom over RS232 to USB cable. On both adb shell and minicom I have root privileges (# prompt) while on beagleboard I have normal privileges ($ prompt).
So, if I have to shut down android with certain command I would ask you for advice on how to do it since it seems that I have some problems with pre-mentioned commands.
If I can just unplug the beagleboard from power, please let me know.
I thank in advance for your help.
Jakob
