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Hi everybody,
I was wondering whether it is possible to trigger a system reset using a message with the 0x4a MessageId in an Android application using the Android ANT lib.

Theoretically it should be feasible to send an AntMessageFromHost message to the ANT system with the given message ID and a single byte ({0x00}) MessageParcel.

However, to my understanding, the API does not expose such function at a higher level, whereas in older versions of the library this was possible (see this reference).

Am I missing something? Thank you in advance for any help, which would be really appreciated.      

Thank you very much for your explanation.

Indeed resetting the hardware (or even trying to force close the ARS) would not be a viable option because it would interfere both with other apps and with the current application (e.g. if the reset is performed at the wrong time and subsequent calls to the service are made shortly after).

I was asking because sometimes all of a sudden (after >1h connection) the slave does not seem to receive any data for any apparent reason and trying to release and acquire does not seem to work. In devices with an integrated ANT chip, a reboot sometimes fixes the issue. It seems to be something out of the programmer's control though.

Thanks again for your time!