I installed Tasker a while ago, and have it doing a few things, but I see in different threads some people doing some really cool stuff, so I was wondering, what do you use Tasker for?
Just last night I figured out how to get it to tell me who is calling me if I have my headphones with a mic plugged in. The only other thing I've done is make auto-rotation turn on when I open Gallery and turn off when I exit.
Trying to think of other stuff to get it to do.
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Just last night I figured out how to get it to tell me who is calling me if I have my headphones with a mic plugged in. The only other thing I've done is make auto-rotation turn on when I open Gallery and turn off when I exit.
Trying to think of other stuff to get it to do.
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I like the gallery idea. Did you get the steps/profile from a site, or figure it out. I would be interested in it.
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I like the gallery idea. Did you get the steps/profile from a site, or figure it out. I would be interested in it.
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There's a Tasker Wiki that has some good profile ideas here:
http://tasker.wikidot.com/
Here's all the stuff I have setup through Tasker right now, haha:
- Phone brightness goes to lowest level from midnight-6am.
- Silent mode turns on when headphones are plugged in.
- Silent mode turns on when phone is positioned face down.
- Silent mode turns on, Wifi/GPS/BT turn off between 8am-5pm (when I'm at work).
- TweetDeck/Voodoo App start up on boot.
- Data usage check via SMS automatically at 6:30am every day.
- GPS/BT turn off when I'm connected to Wifi, turn on when Wifi is out of range.
- Silent mode turns on when FxCamera is opened.
- GPS is turned on when RunKeeper is opened.
- Auto-rotate is turned on when certain apps are opened.
Tasker is easily the best app I've bought in the Market. PowerAMP is a close 2nd. Haha.
KaLiBLeeK said:
There's a Tasker Wiki that has some good profile ideas here:
http://tasker.wikidot.com/
Here's all the stuff I have setup through Tasker right now, haha:
- Phone brightness goes to lowest level from midnight-6am.
- Silent mode turns on when headphones are plugged in.
- Silent mode turns on when phone is positioned face down.
- Silent mode turns on, Wifi/GPS/BT turn off between 8am-5pm (when I'm at work).
- TweetDeck/Voodoo App start up on boot.
- Data usage check via SMS automatically at 6:30am every day.
- GPS/BT turn off when I'm connected to Wifi, turn on when Wifi is out of range.
- Silent mode turns on when FxCamera is opened.
- GPS is turned on when RunKeeper is opened.
- Auto-rotate is turned on when certain apps are opened.
Tasker is easily the best app I've bought in the Market. PowerAMP is a close 2nd. Haha.
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yea, I go to that website too. I use it to turn GPS on and off for certain applications. I also downloaded the profile from the wiki to locate my phone if i lose it.
I think I just got the idea from being frustrated that the gallery hides the pull-down bar. It's simple though:
New task>context>Gallery
Display>rotation>on
It automatically turns itself off without having to add an exit task. As a matter of fact, if you add an exit task to turn rotation back off, it gets stuck sometimes.
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How large of a learning curve does this app take? Like first getting used to android OS took a little time, but didn't take to long. cause that is an app I'm really looking at getting
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How large of a learning curve does this app take? Like first getting used to android OS took a little time, but didn't take to long. cause that is an app I'm really looking at getting
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A lot of the basic things have very detailed instructions on the wiki.
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I also have mine set up to turn on screen filter at night so I don't get blinded when I look at my phone.
Lets see... I never messed around with it too much but I got it to do a few things.
-When I plug in USB, it automatically opens the notification bar so that I can mount it. Not much, but it makes it that much easier.
-When a headphone is plugged in, I have set my media volume down low to protect my ears and it also opens up my music player app automatically.
-From 7:25AM until 2:28PM, my phone automatically enters silent mode for school.
I have only owned Tasker for a few days but already find it indispensable and reason enough to never ever touch a fruity phone again. In the past week I have set up the following on my phone, most of them home-brewed:
1) Screen timeout to 7s when phone placed screen down
2) GPS auto start in apps that need GPS - maps, navigate, places, tracks, etc
3) Set screen timeout to 1hr in certain apps where I am likley to spend more than 30s without touching the screen - internet, reader, NY times, dirty jokes
4) Launch music player when headset plugged it, kill it when headset removed
5) Two sets of night modes - Mon-Fri and Sat-Sunday. They do the same stuff but with different trigger times - all sounds and vibrations except ringer off, no mobile date, no screen rotation. There are few things that are more frustrating than fumbling for my phone while in bed in the morning only to have the screen rotate on me. Ditto for late at night when I might be using the phone in bed lying on my side.
6) Turn Airplane mode on two minutes after loss of service, turn it off two minutes after service is restored. Prevents the phone from pissing away battery when there is no service. Would have preferred to do that based on signal strength but my phone does not report that correctly.
7) Vibrate for all email and messaging apps I use. The developers of many apps do bonehead things such as ignoring the system setting for "Vibrate on notify". Therefore even though my profile #5 above tells the phone not to vibrate at night GMail, Handcent and others will happily ignore you and wake you up. I have set them not to vibrate, then intercept their notifications with Tasker and trigger a vibration from within Tasker. I only wish there was an OR setting for that, so I don't have to maintain separate profiles for each app
8) Wifi auto stop/start when I am near a home cell tower. I also turn off mobile data.
9) Call home mode when I text "Where are you?" to my phone. The phone auto-replies with its GPS coordinates and address.
10) Voice SMS toggle widget - the phone will read my texts to me, e.g., if I am in the car and expect to be there for a while.
Things I wish Tasker would do:
1) Correctly recognize busy/free slots on my calendar. I could then set the phone to mute every time I have a meeting scheduled on my calendar. This would reduce the chance of my phone singing to me in the middle of a meeting... I like big butts and I cannot lie... you catch the drift. The current version claims it can do it but the functionality is broken on my phone. Not sure if it is a custom ROM issue or a Tasker issue.
2) Toggle 2G and 3G. This is not Taskfer's fault, but I really would like to be able to switch to 2G every time Wifi is on, or while I am near a cell tower at work. The signal strength inside the buildings at work is pathetic and leaving 3G on drains the battery big time as the phone continuously tries to boos the signal
3) Some type of readout from the orientation sensors. Imagine all the stupid pet tricks we could do if we had access to orientation-based scripting. Disabling screen rotation wen the phone is nearly horizontal comes to mind. I think Screebl can do that but why pay $2 extra just for that when Tasker ought to be able to do it just as well.
I've had Tasker for a while, and generally like it. It is crazy-powerful, but also crazy-difficult to learn how to use it to its full potential.
right now, only a couple things I use it for but I plan to use it more:
-when I turn my car on and it connects to the BT, it will automatically turn on GPS, Pandora and turn up the media volume (in case it was turned down before).
-when I turn the car off, GPS turns off and Pandora closes
-When I'm at work, a different ringtone is enabled and all volumes is turned down.
-when I leave work, my normal ringtone is re-enabled and all volumes are back high.
I really love Tasker. My 2 main uses are
1. Between the hours of 10pm and 6am, Tasker mutes my phone. If a call comes, it sends a text message to caller saying that I'm down for the night. If it's an emergency, the caller will have other numbers they can call. If I get a text message, it sends a auto reply of some sort but if it deals with golf, it will turn up the volume and play a song from Caddie Shack. I don't want to miss out on an early tee time!
2. I use Macs and have a music service set up that plays music throughout the house using various Airport Expresses and speakers via Airfoil. Speakers that I'm always playing to are the outdoor speakers (I live out in the country so let it rip!). I use Tasker to control volume, change stations or music services (Slacker, Pandora, iTunes, etc) and other music/video related items. The main conduit being iChat on the Mac and Google Talk on my Android thus being within range of the wireless access point is not necessary. Using SL4A and Python on the Android with Tasker allows for some very powerful scripting to happen. This in turn gets sent to the Mac via Google Talk and converted to applescripts for controlling all the apps and devices. The best part is that it's very powerful but easy to program, inexpensive and most important. very very reliable! Try that with a Sonos or Logitech Squeezebox.
Ummm… maybe I should write up details about this setup...
how to change pandora station?
Sorry for the noob reply to such an old post, but have been looking all over these forums and elsewhere and just can't find the answer. How did you use tasker to change pandora stations? If not Pandora, any other Internet radio service would do. Eventual goal is to set up some presets in Car Home to select channels while driving in a single touch, and I can use whichever web service executes this function best.
Thanks!
TuneinRadioPro has a Car Mode Screen thst may meet your need, without tasker.
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I love my desire HD but one thing i'm having problems with is this so i'm wondering if anyone knows of a app that would solve the problem.
If I put my Desire HD into the brodit active car charger for streaming audio to my bluetooth car stero. after a while the screen will shut down so I can access menu's etc without pressing the top button again.
Now I know I can set the power settings to not turn off screen if on charge but it will still dim it.
What I need to know is that does anyone know of any app that you can specify that if
X app is running and is on charge then keep screen on at full brightness
A bit like if you were running something like copilot then it doesn't turn off the screen
you could try using something like "settings profile", which has abilities to create different profiles and activate them based on a set of rules.
This gives you some serious configuration options including screen timeout, set to never, seeing if that works for me.
If you want some really deep system config then you could always give "tasker" a go.
Also forget to mention, settings profile can do some really cool stuff with rules, for example I have one rule which says,
If phone is on charge and can see wireless SSID X then change profile to Bed, where screen rotation is locked. As the SSID is my home router and the charger is next to my bed.
I then have another rule which turns off all notifications except my alarm after 11 oclock on a weekday.
And i only scratch the surface of it.
KeepScreen app. It allows u to decide which app u want to keep the screen on
I used a app call screen on.
I use widgetsoid. With this kind of tools you can toggle your GPS, WIFI, plane mode, brightness... and set your screen to be always on.
For me ScreenModeWidget
KeepScreen here
Screebl is pretty good uses the G-sensor and you can set ranges of activation
Another good choice could be Total Screen Control, give it a try.
Cheers
Tasker would make sense here. Incredibly powerful tool to automate basically any task you can think of.
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Widgetsoid, silly name but seriously the best set of toggle/power/control widgets I've ever used. So customisable, even the free version. Highly reccomended. For Widgetsoid you'd choose either the widget for keep screen always on or the other widget for keep screen on when charger connected. Widgetsoid is highly reccomended. For example create a widget for Wi-Fi, APN(data), Bluetooth and GPS. Toggle these off when you aren't using your phone such as overnight and save heaps of power.
I don't get it...why not use the setting in usb debugging?
I'm trying to set it up on my NC so that the WiFi turns off when the screen turns off. I'm following directions I've found on the net, but I can't seem to find the right condition.
I set up a WiFi off profile, and set it to turn wifi off, and under conditions, I have the following options,
Add Condition
Time Period
Calendar Keywords
Location
Incoming Call
Missed Call
Unread Text/SMS
Battery
Wired Headset Attached
Connected BT device
Connected to WiFi
Docking State
Profile status
I'm trying to get it to quit rebooting after the screen shuts off. It's becoming quite an annoyance, but not being able to find this setting is driving me more crazy.
Any one have this running and working?
there should be a screen status condition. you have to click inverse logic after selecting it. unsure why you're not seeing it :-\ but it also looks like you're missing some other conditions too. i have many more than that on the free version. screen status is at the bottom for me.
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Yeah, Screen Status is the last condition on the list for me too, on the Lite version.
Silly me, I have been working in landscape and had to scroll down. Thanks guys
- Sometimes the watch does not show any notifications anymore. Restarting the Watch "fixes" this behaviour
- Theather Mode is great. However it does not even vibrate anymore. At least there should be an option to keep the watch vibrating.
- After directly archiving a Gmail Notifcation it vibrates again. Why? Didnt do it on kitkat and i see no reason for it despite using more battery juicy.
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Fabio
dilorenzo said:
- Sometimes the watch does not show any notifications anymore. Restarting the Watch "fixes" this behaviour
- Theather Mode is great. However it does not even vibrate anymore. At least there should be an option to keep the watch vibrating.
- After directly archiving a Gmail Notifcation it vibrates again. Why? Didnt do it on kitkat and i see no reason for it despite using more battery juicy.
Regards,
Fabio
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1 confirmed, noticed the same. Only reboot of watch helps. Occurred 2 times.
2 agree.
3 don't get many Gmail notifications, so cannot say anything about it.
My watch vibrates without reason when it is on the charger. Tried resetting my clock, put in silent mode, theater mode and even flight mode and it still vibrates. It doesn't vibrate Al the time, once every 5-10 minutes and some times more. It works fine out of the charger, no issues at all.
Didn't have this problem before update to 5.0.1
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My watch vibrates without reason when it is on the charger. Tried resetting my clock, put in silent mode, theater mode and even flight mode and it still vibrates. It doesn't vibrate Al the time, once every 5-10 minutes and some times more. It works fine out of the charger, no issues at all.
Didn't have this problem before update to 5.0.1
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See here for vibrations on cradle
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2942451
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fredriks said:
My watch vibrates without reason when it is on the charger. Tried resetting my clock, put in silent mode, theater mode and even flight mode and it still vibrates. It doesn't vibrate Al the time, once every 5-10 minutes and some times more. It works fine out of the charger, no issues at all.
Didn't have this problem before update to 5.0.1
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This is by design and indicates when the watch connects/disconnects to/from the phone. When it connects to the phone, it vibrates once; when it disconnects, it vibrates twice.
If you reboot your phone, the watch will vibrate twice when the phone's Bluetooth turns off and once when it turns back on. Or when you leave the watch on the cradle and walk away from it with your phone far enough to lose the Bluetooth connection, it will vibrate twice to let you know it disconnected from the phone. When you get back within range, it will vibrate once to let you know it reconnected to the phone.
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This is by design and indicates when the watch connects/disconnects to/from the phone. When it connects to the phone, it vibrates once; when it disconnects, it vibrates twice.
If you reboot your phone, the watch will vibrate twice when the phone's Bluetooth turns off and once when it turns back on. Or when you leave the watch on the cradle and walk away from it with your phone far enough to lose the Bluetooth connection, it will vibrate twice to let you know it disconnected from the phone. When you get back within range, it will vibrate once to let you know it reconnected to the phone.
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Not always. See the link I posted above. My watch would vibrate at random while charging and the phone was on the cradle charging (and turned on) it would appear that the watch was possibly not getting a high enough current at times due to the phone charging.
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I have also this issue (on R and G watch). It is when contact is not well between watch and dock. Seem OK but I must press watch to ensure right contact without vibrate signal for charge ON/OFF. Look at your charge icon on watch when vibrate to see if it is good
Thanks all for your info. I have my phone off during night maybe this is a new feature that reminds you about lost connection to the phone ? Tried all other suggestions with no luck
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I have also this issue (on R and G watch). It is when contact is not well between watch and dock. Seem OK but I must press watch to ensure right contact without vibrate signal for charge ON/OFF. Look at your charge icon on watch when vibrate to see if it is good
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Had the same last night, noticed that my watch was waking up (just like me ) several times. Secured it better in the dock and all well again.
Removed wear mini launcher to see if that solves the "not receiving notifications anymore" problem (which was easily cured by a reboot of the watch). After removing wear mini launcher I also had to restart the watch because notifications did not work anymore, so it could be related.
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- Sometimes the watch does not show any notifications anymore. Restarting the Watch "fixes" this behaviour
- Theather Mode is great. However it does not even vibrate anymore. At least there should be an option to keep the watch vibrating.
- After directly archiving a Gmail Notifcation it vibrates again. Why? Didnt do it on kitkat and i see no reason for it despite using more battery juicy.
Regards,
Fabio
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Item 1 - I faced the same problem intermittently. The notifications come back again after I manually displayed the previous message (the one without notification) on the watch.
RayHK said:
Item 1 - I faced the same problem intermittently. The notifications come back again after I manually displayed the previous message (the one without notification) on the watch.
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?? how do you mean that, displaying the previous message without notifcation?!
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?? how do you mean that, displaying the previous message without notifcation?!
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Let me try to explain my case:
- when this issue first happened, my watch did not display the notification when the notification is received on my phone
- I then swiped the screen of my watch to check if the notification was transferred to my watch or not although it was not displayed
- After swiping, the missing notification displayed on my watch immediately which indicated that the message was transferred to my watch although it was not displayed
- After the above actions (swiping and read the notification), my watch was back to normal for a while (the notifications could be displayed on the watch automatically).
I repeat the above actions every time when I noticed the notifications could not be displayed automatically.
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Let me try to explain my case:
- when this issue first happened, my watch did not display the notification when the notification is received on my phone
- I then swiped the screen of my watch to check if the notification was transferred to my watch or not although it was not displayed
- After swiping, the missing notification displayed on my watch immediately which indicated that the message was transferred to my watch although it was not displayed
- After the above actions (swiping and read the notification), my watch was back to normal for a while (the notifications could be displayed on the watch automatically).
I repeat the above actions every time when I noticed the notifications could not be displayed automatically.
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I have same issue few times since the last update
It is strange to ear the notification sound and see nthing on watch, I look at phone and I see the notifcation icon on notification bar and all like you.
This Wear update sucks horribly. I've had this watch, GWR,for two weeks. I like it. Wear is complete garbage. Notifications randomly stop pushing to watch, reboot to temporarily fix. Randomly get 'offline' message despite showing 'connected' in Wear app, reboot fixes temporarily. Upon giving voice command, watch occasionally displays 'offline' message despite a strong data connection, usually no more notifications with this as well, reboot to fix. Battery life is 14 hours at best. So at the end of the day, I have a 300$ AMOLED watch. I bought this device so I could keep my phone in my pocket...this happens about one fifth of the time. The rest is me rebooting, uninstalling, reinstalling toggling Bluetooth and now randomly checking my phone to see what I'm missing because the toy on my wrist is totally unreliable. Nice work Google.
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This Wear update sucks horribly. I've had this watch, GWR,for two weeks. I like it. Wear is complete garbage. Notifications randomly stop pushing to watch, reboot to temporarily fix. Randomly get 'offline' message despite showing 'connected' in Wear app, reboot fixes temporarily. Upon giving voice command, watch occasionally displays 'offline' message despite a strong data connection, usually no more notifications with this as well, reboot to fix. Battery life is 14 hours at best. So at the end of the day, I have a 300$ AMOLED watch. I bought this device so I could keep my phone in my pocket...this happens about one fifth of the time. The rest is me rebooting, uninstalling, reinstalling toggling Bluetooth and now randomly checking my phone to see what I'm missing because the toy on my wrist is totally unreliable. Nice work Google.
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What kind of phone is your watched paired with? I get about 2.5 to 3 days on a charge. Everything is rock solid for the most part. The only thing I'm pissed about is I keep getting my step count card even though I tried fit notifications off.
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What kind of phone is your watched paired with? I get about 2.5 to 3 days on a charge. Everything is rock solid for the most part. The only thing I'm pissed about is I keep getting my step count card even though I tried fit notifications off.
Sent from my HTC One m8
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I'm paired to an LG G2 rooted on xdabbebs 2.2.0. I can stretch my battery further but I chose to leave screen always on, skymaster face with ambient on level 3-4. 2-3 days is believable if your screen is off, backlight low, using theater mode here and there.... everyone's mileage will vary for sure but mine was definitely low.
I think I may have figured out what is causing the random disconnects and could be to blame for higher battery consumption. I'm gonna wait until tonight and see if my connection remains solid before I get too excited.
So far so good though after 12 hours.
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I think I may have figured out what is causing the random disconnects and could be to blame for higher battery consumption. I'm gonna wait until tonight and see if my connection remains solid before I get too excited.
So far so good though after 12 hours.
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Any more info on what you think may be causing this ?
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Any more info on what you think may be causing this ?
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I think it has a lot to do with a setting in Bluetooth on my LG G2 that is labeled 'connectivity authorization' or something like that. I have to go in and re-tick 'automatically' every time I cycle Bluetooth on/off or reboot phone, as it defaults to 'always ask' and that is when I get the fast battery drain and connectivity issues. The other issue is that I fly for a living, generally two legs a day, so I am constantly switching into airplane mode on phone and watch and it seems that a huge drain occurs upon landing and coming out of airplane mode. After a bit the drain tapers off.
I'm looking more for a fix for the constant disconnections
My battery is fine I've had 2 days out of it and it's normally more than 50% by the end of the day
If you haven't tried already, reset the watch and make sure you pair it with the Wear app, not thru Bluetooth settings. Do you have the option in your phone Bluetooth menu under the connected watch to change the connectivity from 'always ask' to 'automatic ' ? I'm 90% sure this is causing my problems.
I know Tasker has been around for a while and a lot of people swear by it. I downloaded the 7-day trial and am trying it out, seems pretty powerful but also pretty complex. Wondering if people are using it and what for?
These are the simple things I use Tasker for:
- Lower sound volume at night and bring it back at morning.
- Enable vibration when I set an high ringer volume and disable when I lower it.
- Hourly chime (voice announcement).
- Pop-up GPS settings when I launch Maps.
- Play a reminder sound every three minutes when there are missed calls, SMS or mails.
these are the things I use it for:
-turn on nfc when I use the google wallet app/ and turn it off when i exit the app
- turn on gps when I open the maps app/ and turn it off when i exit the app
-turn on mobile hotspot when i enter the car and it connects to my car's bluetooth/ turns it off when disconnected from the car's bluetooth
limitless possibilities.
@Giocarro How do you make a "GPS pop-up"? I have Tasker set to just automatically turn on GPS when I open maps... but I think a popup is better bc sometimes I'm just searching for a location so I don't need it to automatically turn on location every time I enter maps.
@lilvanmuzz How did you set up the last one with turning on bluetooth automatically and turning it off automatically when entering/exiting your car's bluetooth?!
Thanks guys
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@Giocarro How do you make a "GPS pop-up"? I have Tasker set to just automatically turn on GPS when I open maps... but I think a popup is better bc sometimes I'm just searching for a location so I don't need it to automatically turn on location every time I enter maps.
@lilvanmuzz How did you set up the last one with turning on bluetooth automatically and turning it off automatically when entering/exiting your car's bluetooth?!
Thanks guys
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Application -> Maps -> Taskname -> Settings -> Locations settings.
In bluetooth, click the invert as a exit task. That means, that when bluetooths gets disconnected. Then you just chose what it should do and you of course choose turn BT off.
You can even choose a name, so it only turn off when you DC from car BT and not all BT devices.
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@Giocarro How do you make a "GPS pop-up"? I have Tasker set to just automatically turn on GPS when I open maps... but I think a popup is better bc sometimes I'm just searching for a location so I don't need it to automatically turn on location every time I enter maps.
@lilvanmuzz How did you set up the last one with turning on bluetooth automatically and turning it off automatically when entering/exiting your car's bluetooth?!
Thanks guys
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Secure settings
- enable GPS when starting Google Maps or Navigon, deactivate on close
- disable WiFi after 5 min. without connection
- enable WiFi in Home Cell
- maximum brightness in Gallery, switch back to auto brightness on close
- set Lockscreen Timeout to maximum on trusted Wifi, switch to immediately on untrusted
- miscellaneous DND schedules (Workdays/Weekend)
- DND on Calendar Event, deactivate DND at Event end
- set 7 seconds screen timeout when placing device at wireless charging station, set to 1 minute after 10 seconds
- increase screen timeout in specific apps (Gmail, Facebook, Feed Reader..), decrease on close
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- enable GPS when starting Google Maps or Navigon, deactivate on close
- disable WiFi after 5 min. without connection
- enable WiFi in Home Cell
- maximum brightness in Gallery, switch back to auto brightness on close
- set Lockscreen Timeout to maximum on trusted Wifi, switch to immediately on untrusted
- miscellaneous DND schedules (Workdays/Weekend)
- DND on Calendar Event, deactivate DND at Event end
- set 7 seconds screen timeout when placing device at wireless charging station, set to 1 minute after 10 seconds
- increase screen timeout in specific apps (Gmail, Facebook, Feed Reader..), decrease on close
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Some great ideas right there buddy :good:
-silent mode at work --> loud on exit
-auto rotate enabled when using galery, photos, youtube, remote desktop --> locked on exit
-30 minute screen timeout in certain apps --> 1 min on exit
-GPS on when in Google & Maps --> disabled on exit
-NFC on when in wallet -- off on exit
-a whole project just for nighttime silent mode since the times change from day to day for me.
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- enable GPS when starting Google Maps or Navigon, deactivate on close
- disable WiFi after 5 min. without connection
- enable WiFi in Home Cell
- maximum brightness in Gallery, switch back to auto brightness on close
- set Lockscreen Timeout to maximum on trusted Wifi, switch to immediately on untrusted
- miscellaneous DND schedules (Workdays/Weekend)
- DND on Calendar Event, deactivate DND at Event end
- set 7 seconds screen timeout when placing device at wireless charging station, set to 1 minute after 10 seconds
- increase screen timeout in specific apps (Gmail, Facebook, Feed Reader..), decrease on close
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Thanks for these! Definitely some great ideas. Just wondering, what is DND? Also, I'm trying to set up a profile for when I use my wireless charger in my car (as opposed to my other wireless charger)... This may be better suited to ask in a Tasker forum, but I'll give it a shot here. So my phone is oriented vertically in my car charger vs. flat on the other charger. Is there a way to only trigger the profile when it's charging wirelessly in a vertical position?
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Secure settings
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Any way to do this with non-root on Lollipop? Worked great with Kit-Kat. Lollipop took it away.
tkwan8888 said:
Any way to do this with non-root on Lollipop? Worked great with Kit-Kat. Lollipop took it away.
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I don't think it can be done without root.
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I don't think it can be done without root.
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Yes it can, by emulating manual input using the tasker plugin AutoInput. Did it myself on the S6 before root was available.
Just wanted to write an update on my experience with Tasker over the last few weeks... Wow! What an amazing application. You are only limited by your imagination, or, more so, just the ability to figure out exactly how to make it do what you want. I have profiles to turn off my wifi when the screen is off, also night profiles to dim the screen/silence notifications, etc. Those are all common easy things to set up. Then I really got into it - set up a profile that triggers when I tap my nfc keychain to enter car mode. I have a wireless charging dock in my car, and when I get texts they are read aloud to me, and then I'm asked if I want to respond. If I say yes, I then speak my message. My message is read back to me and I'm asked if I want to send or edit. This is a great, truly hands free way of using your phone (especially with new or already existing laws regarding use of phones in cars). I also just set it up (using the autovoice, autolaunch and autoinput plugins) to control the Sonos system in my house. I can say "Play Sonos in the kitchen," or the patio, or the family room, and it will automatically do it. I could also place nfc tags in those rooms to trigger the same tasks as well. Are all these things "necessary"? Maybe not, but for me the coolness factor is off the chart. [emoji2]
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Cmotion said:
Just wanted to write an update on my experience with Tasker over the last few weeks... Wow! What an amazing application. You are only limited by your imagination, or, more so, just the ability to figure out exactly how to make it do what you want. I have profiles to turn off my wifi when the screen is off, also night profiles to dim the screen/silence notifications, etc. Those are all common easy things to set up. Then I really got into it - set up a profile that triggers when I tap my nfc keychain to enter car mode. I have a wireless charging dock in my car, and when I get texts they are read aloud to me, and then I'm asked if I want to respond. If I say yes, I then speak my message. My message is read back to me and I'm asked if I want to send or edit. This is a great, truly hands free way of using your phone (especially with new or already existing laws regarding use of phones in cars). I also just set it up (using the autovoice, autolaunch and autoinput plugins) to control the Sonos system in my house. I can say "Play Sonos in the kitchen," or the patio, or the family room, and it will automatically do it. I could also place nfc tags in those rooms to trigger the same tasks as well. Are all these things "necessary"? Maybe not, but for me the coolness factor is off the chart. [emoji2]
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The coolness factor of Tasker and what you can do is wayyyy beyond off the charts!!
A bit late to the party but here goes:
- toggle autorotate if I shake the phone left-right
- if connected to car bluetooth, set variable %CarMode to 1, which I then use in other profiles. On exit (bluetooth disconnect) set %CarMode to 0
- if text message received and %CarMode is 1, read the text aloud (read texts aloud while driving)
- monitor Llama notification to see what location I'm in (based on Cell towers). I think Llama is more accurate and easier to use then Tasker for cell towers and volume profiles
- If leaving Llama location "Work", during the week, after 4pm, send my wife a text to say I'm leaving work. Randomize the content of that text from a list, so it doesn't ever seem automated to her
- log my work hours onto a Google Drive spreadsheet automatically by using the Llama location
- Perform a weekly reboot, on Sundays at 5am. I just think it's good to do every now and again
- Last gasp alert - If my battery level reaches 2%, get a GPS fix and send the location to my tablet. That way if I've misplaced the phone and it runs out of battery, I'll know where it is
- At night, enable Lux plugin, which removes blue light from the screen to help you fall asleep quicker if you're like me and insist on playing on phone at night. Disable in the morning. I do this because I think it uses battery during the day otherwise
- if headset plugged in, show a custom scene I created to choose my music/listening app
- watch Chrome notification for one that says I'm in incognito mode. Put the phone on silent mode if that happens....for browsing stuff......
- If my battery has dropped more than 15% in the last hour, alert me. This helps me spot crappy apps that are sucking my power
- turn my phone onto silent if I turn the phone off, to disable the annoying boot animation sound
- if I use the camera app, turn the phone onto silent, to prevent shutter sound
- a custom clipboard manager that stores the last 5 things I copied, let's me choose any of them when I want to paste something
- If I copy something on my laptop, send it to my phone
- watch the latest USd-GBP exchange rate, watch the latest stock price for some stock I own. Work out my GBP stock value and tell me daily how much they're worth and if I've made/lost money
suparuss said:
A bit late to the party but here goes:
- toggle autorotate if I shake the phone left-right
- if connected to car bluetooth, set variable %CarMode to 1, which I then use in other profiles. On exit (bluetooth disconnect) set %CarMode to 0
- if text message received and %CarMode is 1, read the text aloud (read texts aloud while driving)
- monitor Llama notification to see what location I'm in (based on Cell towers). I think Llama is more accurate and easier to use then Tasker for cell towers and volume profiles
- If leaving Llama location "Work", during the week, after 4pm, send my wife a text to say I'm leaving work. Randomize the content of that text from a list, so it doesn't ever seem automated to her
- log my work hours onto a Google Drive spreadsheet automatically by using the Llama location
- Perform a weekly reboot, on Sundays at 5am. I just think it's good to do every now and again
- Last gasp alert - If my battery level reaches 2%, get a GPS fix and send the location to my tablet. That way if I've misplaced the phone and it runs out of battery, I'll know where it is
- At night, enable Lux plugin, which removes blue light from the screen to help you fall asleep quicker if you're like me and insist on playing on phone at night. Disable in the morning. I do this because I think it uses battery during the day otherwise
- if headset plugged in, show a custom scene I created to choose my music/listening app
- watch Chrome notification for one that says I'm in incognito mode. Put the phone on silent mode if that happens....for browsing stuff......
- If my battery has dropped more than 15% in the last hour, alert me. This helps me spot crappy apps that are sucking my power
- turn my phone onto silent if I turn the phone off, to disable the annoying boot animation sound
- if I use the camera app, turn the phone onto silent, to prevent shutter sound
- a custom clipboard manager that stores the last 5 things I copied, let's me choose any of them when I want to paste something
- If I copy something on my laptop, send it to my phone
- watch the latest USd-GBP exchange rate, watch the latest stock price for some stock I own. Work out my GBP stock value and tell me daily how much they're worth and if I've made/lost money
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Can you share the music scene?!
JoeFCaputo113 said:
Can you share the music scene?!
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Can u share most of it especially the one where ur phones turns off when you switch if off
suparuss said:
A bit late to the party but here goes:
- toggle autorotate if I shake the phone left-right
- if connected to car bluetooth, set variable %CarMode to 1, which I then use in other profiles. On exit (bluetooth disconnect) set %CarMode to 0
- if text message received and %CarMode is 1, read the text aloud (read texts aloud while driving)
- monitor Llama notification to see what location I'm in (based on Cell towers). I think Llama is more accurate and easier to use then Tasker for cell towers and volume profiles
- If leaving Llama location "Work", during the week, after 4pm, send my wife a text to say I'm leaving work. Randomize the content of that text from a list, so it doesn't ever seem automated to her
- log my work hours onto a Google Drive spreadsheet automatically by using the Llama location
- Perform a weekly reboot, on Sundays at 5am. I just think it's good to do every now and again
- Last gasp alert - If my battery level reaches 2%, get a GPS fix and send the location to my tablet. That way if I've misplaced the phone and it runs out of battery, I'll know where it is
- At night, enable Lux plugin, which removes blue light from the screen to help you fall asleep quicker if you're like me and insist on playing on phone at night. Disable in the morning. I do this because I think it uses battery during the day otherwise
- if headset plugged in, show a custom scene I created to choose my music/listening app
- watch Chrome notification for one that says I'm in incognito mode. Put the phone on silent mode if that happens....for browsing stuff......
- If my battery has dropped more than 15% in the last hour, alert me. This helps me spot crappy apps that are sucking my power
- turn my phone onto silent if I turn the phone off, to disable the annoying boot animation sound
- if I use the camera app, turn the phone onto silent, to prevent shutter sound
- a custom clipboard manager that stores the last 5 things I copied, let's me choose any of them when I want to paste something
- If I copy something on my laptop, send it to my phone
- watch the latest USd-GBP exchange rate, watch the latest stock price for some stock I own. Work out my GBP stock value and tell me daily how much they're worth and if I've made/lost money
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Nice list btw. Wondering why you don't just delete the boot sounds as opposed to making an extra task to silence your phone on shut down. I'm assuming if you have this many tasks, you must be rooted, but maybe not?
Hi,
I often use the RunKeeper application when I make long walks. In all my previous phones, the GPS kept working when I turned off the display and put the phone in my pocket. In the mi 5, however, it seems like the GPS stopped functioning as soon as I turn off the display put the phone in my pocket. When I take it back out, it shows the same position that I was at when I put the phone in my pocket, and within a few seconds it is updated to my actual position.
Has anyone else experienced this? Is this a matter of settings (maybe even permissions)? Same happens with navigation apps like Waze - if I put another application to run in the foreground, such as Youtube, then Waze (while still working in the background) loses my location, and when I switch back to it after some time, it takes a few seconds to show me my new location.
Thanks,
Shlomy
Hi,
This has happened to me also while using the Starva app and the reason is MIUI doesn't allow to use the Location in Background.
To allow that, go to
Settings -> Battery & Performance -> Power -> App Battery Saver
and select the app you want. Then you'll see that Background location is Restrict. Make it Allow and you're good to go.
Regards,
Samitha
Thanks so much! Almost got me to try custom roms because of that.