The hardest part is soldering in the power button leads. The NC (normally closed) switch side of the relay will connect the two leads of the power button. The negative side of the capacitor will connect to the coils on the relay (relay is a mechanical switch, to trip the power button in this case). Then, you will split a power V++ wire off the USB cable and attach the capacitor to it (the capacitor will send a 3-5 second pulse to the power button under DC power) You will have to disassemble the power button and use your needle-tip to solder on manual leads (touching these leads should trigger the button) A 5v relay, to electronically toggle the power button (get some tiny solid-state ones on ebay).A >5v rated very very large capacitor (at least 3000uf to simulate holding the power button down for at least 3-5 seconds, get multiple/larger capacities just in case! 5500uf should be safe).good solder, ordered from online (Amazon) and not RadioShack brand (their solder beads up all the time and doesn't stick).a needle-tip soldering iron, one of the smallest ones available.What you do, is, prop open the casing of the tablet so you can expose the motherboard and the power button. I would actually go the hardware-modification route, even with limited experience (about 1 year).īut I'm going to make this sound easy. Personally (and as a software enthusiast) I wouldn't waste the time of rebuilding an entire kernel. There are 2 ways of going about this: changing the software, or changing the hardware.

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