All Board Android Getevent

The getevent function shows kernel events like press button events, touchscreen events, sensor events (like accelerometers or magnetometers).

bash-3.2# getevent -h

Usage: getevent [-t] [-n] [-s switchmask] [-S] [-v [mask]] [-p] [-q] [-c count] [-r] [device]

      -t: show time stamps

      -n: don't print newlines

      -s: print switch states for given bits

      -S: print all switch states

      -v: verbosity mask (errs=1, dev=2, name=4, info=8, vers=16, pos. events=32)

      -p: show possible events (errs, dev, name, pos. events)

      -q: quiet (clear verbosity mask)

      -c: print given number of events then exit

      -r: print rate events are received

Bellow an example of all events on some board

bash-3.2# getevent -p

add device 1: /dev/input/event2

name:    "mxc_ts"

events:

      SYN (0000): 0000 0001 0003

      KEY (0001): 014a

      ABS (0003): 0000 value 0, min 0, max 0, fuzz 0 flat 0

                        0001 value 0, min 0, max 0, fuzz 0 flat 0

                        0018 value 0, min 0, max 0, fuzz 0 flat 0

could not get driver version for /dev/input/mouse0, Not a typewriter

add device 2: /dev/input/event1

name:    "mxc_power_key"

events:

    SYN (0000): 0000 0001

    KEY (0001): 003e

add device 3: /dev/input/event0

name:    "mxckpd"

events:

    SYN (0000): 0000 0001

    KEY (0001): 0002 0003 0004 0005 003b 003c 003d 003e

                      0066 0067 0069 006a 006c 008b 009e 0161

could not get driver version for /dev/input/mice, Not a typewriter

For example, some touchscreen event. Any touchscreen press-up or press-down will return a vector of values related with the event (please, see include/linux/input.h for detail)

bash-3.2# getevent /dev/input/event2

0003 0000 0000020e

0003 0001 0000014a

0003 0018 00000037

0001 014a 00000001

0000 0000 00000000

0003 0000 00000209

0003 0001 00000147