How to Segment Accelerometer Signal at idle points
There are many algorithms you can use. I would advise you to look carefully at the data and the "idle state" and see what is always different. Try everything you can think of and see what works best, or if one does everything you need just stop there.

It might be that you can just calculate if the accelerometer values go over a certain threshold, but that requires that either the orientation be know or the threshold being over 1g. 

You could also calculate the rate at which the accerometer value is changing by subtracting the last value (the derivative if you are up on your calculus) and threshold that value, which might produce better results.

You could also calculate a running average and then compare the current value with that. If the numbers match (or are very close) then you can say the accelerometer has been idle. This has the effect of making a changing threshold relative to the most recent activity tuned by the average's response. 

I doubt any of these will be perfect, so you might require the algorithm to say "idle" multiple times in a row before changing state from "active" to "idle", or something to that effect.