Hi,I tried to write a little android application to be able to monitor the
charge from usb for my Freerunner (to use a car charger...)

I do not think that in current version there is a way via android API (?)

-> I tried to directly issue :
echo 500 >
/sys/class/i2c-adapter/i2c-0/0-0073/pcf50633-mbc/force_usb_limit_dangerous

This works via adb shell, when connected to my PC (and charging icon in
android goes away when switching to 100mA, comes back when 500mA)

In my application, I used Runtime.getRuntime().exec() to try to do the same.

This way, reading current values works, so I can successfully exec :
cat /sys/class/i2c-adapter/i2c-0/0-0073/pcf50633-mbc/usb_curlim
cat /sys/class/power_supply/battery/current_now

But trying to change usb charge via  exec(sh -c "echo 500 >
/sys/class/i2c-adapter/i2c-0/0-0073/pcf50633-mbc/force_usb_limit_dangerous")
fails
:
"permission denied" (this is the error I get in the shell process)

Is there a way to get this to work ? Can my application request permissions
that will allow it do do this ?

Or maybe via another method, like JNI ? (but this should not grant more
rights ?)
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