Hi everyone,
Okay this might be a dumb question but I'm going to ask. Is there a way to remotely enable/activate the GPS and WiFi on my Android phone through a text message? I currently have GPS Tracker, Lost My Droid, Real Time GPS Tracker, Seek Droid, SMS GPS Enabler, and Where's My Droid installed on my phone to try and remotely turn on my GPS and WiFi. The problem is that yes sending the text to my phone and have the sound go off for Where's My Droid and Lost My Droid works, but the problem is having my GPS and WiFi turned off on my phone and not hearing because its not there. Yes, their are plenty of good apps that let you track your phone if your GPS is on, but they do not allow you to turn on GPS and WiFi through (SMS) text. So all and all, is there an app or apps that can do this for me, so I can do what I want to do?
Any information would be helpful, instructions would be better lol.
Thanks, II
InfiniteImmortal said:
Hi everyone,
Okay this might be a dumb question but I'm going to ask. Is there a way to remotely enable/activate the GPS and WiFi on my Android phone through a text message? I currently have GPS Tracker, Lost My Droid, Real Time GPS Tracker, Seek Droid, SMS GPS Enabler, and Where's My Droid installed on my phone to try and remotely turn on my GPS and WiFi. The problem is that yes sending the text to my phone and have the sound go off for Where's My Droid and Lost My Droid works, but the problem is having my GPS and WiFi turned off on my phone and not hearing because its not there. Yes, their are plenty of good apps that let you track your phone if your GPS is on, but they do not allow you to turn on GPS and WiFi through (SMS) text. So all and all, is there an app or apps that can do this for me, so I can do what I want to do?
Any information would be helpful, instructions would be better lol.
Thanks, II
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I am the Dev of seek droid. Why leave the GPS disabled? It really does not conserve that much battery. Enabling the GPS does not leave the GPS turned on or even give the GPS any power unless the application you are using requests GPS.
Go pick up tasker from the market, and you can create a profile to have it enable gps whenever you get an sms.
You should probably have taker already anyways. It's a beast.
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quaa said:
I am the Dev of seek droid. Why leave the GPS disabled? It really does not conserve that much battery. Enabling the GPS does not leave the GPS turned on or even give the GPS any power unless the application you are using requests GPS.
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For some reason on my phone if I leave the GPS enabled it will drain out my battery in a few hours (8hrs). Where as if I turn GPS off, my battery has lasted up to almost 16hrs which is double and it is the only setting that I have changed.
pizz0wn3d said:
Go pick up tasker from the market, and you can create a profile to have it enable gps whenever you get an sms.
You should probably have taker already anyways. It's a beast.
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Thanks for the advice pizz0wn3d. I will look into Tasker and see if it works for me and what I need it to do.
f you don't see the satellite dish in the notification bar then it really shouldn't use any battery, even if GPS is enabled. If you have location stuff turned on so the GPS is being used (i.e. you see the satellite dish in the notification bar) it will use battery.
Bob
InfiniteImmortal said:
Thanks for the advice pizz0wn3d. I will look into Tasker and see if it works for me and what I need it to do.
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Let me know and I can send you the profile I use. It makes the phone talk (alerting them that gps is being remotely enabled to track the phone down) and sends a confirmation text to the number that activates the gps. Then you can use "wheres my droid" or whatever else to track that S.O.B. down.
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That would be Great!
pizz0wn3d said:
Let me know and I can send you the profile I use. It makes the phone talk (alerting them that gps is being remotely enabled to track the phone down) and sends a confirmation text to the number that activates the gps. Then you can use "wheres my droid" or whatever else to track that S.O.B. down.
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Thanks, pizz0wn3d that would be great! I looked up Tasker, it has a great many features that I can see paying for, but did not see the remote GPS activation/enabling in its description, on their website, or wiki. If you can, also send me the direction on how to set it up to do it. I might whined up missing something up with 190 options. But can always re-ROM if need be.
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rbtconsultants said:
f you don't see the satellite dish in the notification bar then it really shouldn't use any battery, even if GPS is enabled. If you have location stuff turned on so the GPS is being used (i.e. you see the satellite dish in the notification bar) it will use battery.
Bob
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Bob, I do know this. For some reason my Map app starts up on its own and launches Latitude causing my GPS to activate and stay on. I don't want to uninstall Maps or Latitude because I do use them. Its easier to just turn off GPS then hassle with trying to find the source of the problem, in truth.
InfiniteImmortal said:
Thanks, pizz0wn3d that would be great! I looked up Tasker, it has a great many features that I can see paying for, but did not see the remote GPS activation/enabling in its description, on their website, or wiki. If you can, also send me the direction on how to set it up to do it. I might whined up missing something up with 190 options. But can always re-ROM if need be.
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Well the way my profile is set up, whenever I receive a text with a certain phrase in it, it'll turn on the gps. Along with a few other things
It's not one of the advertised features because it's just one of the many things you can do with it.
I'll try to post a dropbox link in a few minutes.
Edit: This oughta work. Import this into tasker.
http://db.tt/D7u8eKw
It should be able to import after you paste the xml file into:
/sdcard/tasker/profiles
Then just hit menu -> profile data -> import one profile
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InfiniteImmortal said:
Bob, I do know this. For some reason my Map app starts up on its own and launches Latitude causing my GPS to activate and stay on. I don't want to uninstall Maps or Latitude because I do use them. Its easier to just turn off GPS then hassle with trying to find the source of the problem, in truth.
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If you use Latitude, it will be on all the time and cause battery drain because it needs update your location 24/7 even if Gmaps is not used. You don't have to uninstall it. Just make sure you log out of Latitude if you don't use it.
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pizz0wn3d said:
Let me know and I can send you the profile I use. It makes the phone talk (alerting them that gps is being remotely enabled to track the phone down) and sends a confirmation text to the number that activates the gps. Then you can use "wheres my droid" or whatever else to track that S.O.B. down.
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Alerting them sounds like a bad idea. I envision a battery pull or a phone being tossed out the window of a moving vehicle.
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Alerting them sounds like a bad idea. I envision a battery pull or a phone being tossed out the window of a moving vehicle.
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Haha maybe. I wasn't thinking of it that way. It creates a notification telling them to call the number that I texted them from to return the phone to the owner.
Plus I thought it would be funny to scare whoever has the phone. Now im starting to think of it as a bad idea thanks to your post..
>.>
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pizz0wn3d said:
Haha maybe. I wasn't thinking of it that way. It creates a notification telling them to call the number that I texted them from to return the phone to the owner.
Plus I thought it would be funny to scare whoever has the phone. Now im starting to think of it as a bad idea thanks to your post..
>.>
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Yeah, I thought the same thing when I looked at it, so I just removed it for the profile you gave me. But it works very nicely in part with Seek Droid.
Thanks Again.
InfiniteImmortal said:
Yeah, I thought the same thing when I looked at it, so I just removed it for the profile you gave me. But it works very nicely in part with Seek Droid.
Thanks Again.
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For sure, glad to help.
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For sure, glad to help.
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You don't reply to private messages do you pizz0wn3d? Questions are, Is there a site to download prebuilt profiles for Tasker? Second, What are the features to have your phone go to lock screen and ring remotely. Mine aren't working that I built.
Last questions for you, at least for now, lol
II
InfiniteImmortal said:
You don't reply to private messages do you pizz0wn3d? Questions are, Is there a site to download prebuilt profiles for Tasker? Second, What are the features to have your phone go to lock screen and ring remotely. Mine aren't working that I built.
Last questions for you, at least for now, lol
II
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Oh sorry, normally I do but I haven't been on xda outside of the app in a few days so I haven't been able to look at my messages.
There is a wiki on the app that has a bunch of different profiles you can try out, as well as a couple of tutorials to get the hang of making profiles.
Link:
http://tasker.wikidot.com/profile-index
I'm not sure I understand what you mean about going to the lock screen, as idk if it's possible to do that though tasker. I'll mess around and see what I can find.
What exactly are you trying to do that requires you to go to the lockscreen and play a ringtone?
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pizz0wn3d said:
I'm not sure I understand what you mean about going to the lock screen, as idk if it's possible to do that though tasker. I'll mess around and see what I can find.
What exactly are you trying to do that requires you to go to the lockscreen and play a ringtone?
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Well for the lock screen; I was trying a remote lock down after I enabled the GPS tracking, so they could not turn it off, other then removing the battery of course. The only thing I can do right now is, set screen time out to 7sec. which is the smallest amount Tasker allows. The lock in Tasker is a joke because if you click on the notification bar at the top and select something you can bypass the lock, even in full screen mode.
As for the Ringtone/Ringer; I was trying to setup the phone to ring when people text me, similar to that of Where's My Droid, but with a twist. When I get their text, the assigned ringtone under their contacts or from file would play, that way I would know who it was without having to look at my phone every time. For this one in particular; do you or someone else know how Where's My Droids setup works? Then I can try to base it off of that. From what I can tell, it tricks the SMS into using the the ringer system and not the notification system. So a bait and switch from SMS Receiver to Cell Receiver. That's all I know for now.
Thanks for the link! I'll go through it to learn some more about Tasker.
InfiniteImmortal said:
Well for the lock screen; I was trying a remote lock down after I enabled the GPS tracking, so they could not turn it off, other then removing the battery of course. The only thing I can do right now is, set screen time out to 7sec. which is the smallest amount Tasker allows. The lock in Tasker is a joke because if you click on the notification bar at the top and select something you can bypass the lock, even in full screen mode.
As for the Ringtone/Ringer; I was trying to setup the phone to ring when people text me, similar to that of Where's My Droid, but with a twist. When I get their text, the assigned ringtone under their contacts or from file would play, that way I would know who it was without having to look at my phone every time. For this one in particular; do you or someone else know how Where's My Droids setup works? Then I can try to base it off of that. From what I can tell, it tricks the SMS into using the the ringer system and not the notification system. So a bait and switch from SMS Receiver to Cell Receiver. That's all I know for now.
Thanks for the link! I'll go through it to learn some more about Tasker.
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I've never tried to set up a remote lock through tasker, I just had it set up to enable the GPS so I could lock+retrieve it via wheres my droid/lookout. But i have heard that the tasker lock down was pretty weak >.<
I actually never realized the phone didn't support custom tones for contacts outside of the calling ringtones. That actually sounds pretty difficult to implement via tasker. You would first have to disable notifications from your sms app so the tasker profile wouldn't just play a sound over that one. You'd also likely have to create a separate profile for each contact that you want to have a custom sms tone for.
Title says it all,
I'm looking for a great tracking app/widget that I would be able to customize; Let's say, I can set it so it doesn't count my talking minutes on weekend and nights and I can enter who are in my top10, which it wouldn't count either for minutes and texts.
Same kind of app/widget that would track my data but could be set to not track off certain site or app.
Duno if these exist but any suggestion will be greatly appreciated
*I'm currently using Quota and Usage Counter, both free version.
BWolf56 said:
Title says it all,
I'm looking for a great tracking app/widget that I would be able to customize; Let's say, I can set it so it doesn't count my talking minutes on weekend and nights and I can enter who are in my top10, which it wouldn't count either for minutes and texts.
Same kind of app/widget that would track my data but could be set to not track off certain site or app.
Duno if these exist but any suggestion will be greatly appreciated
*I'm currently using Quota and Usage Counter, both free version.
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This?
jde984 said:
This?
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lol real funny Jde but thanks for the bump!
I'd like something actually useful
Don't really wanna have to go on My Rogers everytime to check what my usage is at..
Consider it (and this) a free bump...
BWolf56 said:
Title says it all,
I'm looking for a great tracking app/widget that I would be able to customize; Let's say, I can set it so it doesn't count my talking minutes on weekend and nights and I can enter who are in my top10, which it wouldn't count either for minutes and texts.
Same kind of app/widget that would track my data but could be set to not track off certain site or app.
Duno if these exist but any suggestion will be greatly appreciated
*I'm currently using Quota and Usage Counter, both free version.
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Found nothing that does all the work maybe a combo of the following.
DroidStats + Phonalyzr + Call Meter NG (Can exclude numbers)
silvertag said:
Found nothing that does all the work maybe a combo of the following.
DroidStats + Phonalyzr + Call Meter NG (Can exclude numbers)
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Sexy! Thanks man
Droid Stats is just what I was looking for - Sooooooo amazing!
I want to know if it is possible to automatically start the digital frame app when a charger is plugged in.
Any one know how to do this?
You could probably listen for the plugged in or charging event and have a intent filter that launches the digital frame. I can try this evening if you'd like.
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Update yes create a broadcast receiver that listens to the android.intent.action.ACTION.POWER_CONNECTED
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Ok here is an app that will launch digital frame. install & runn app - tick the box to set it load digital frame on power connected.
Sorry about the icon - in 5 minutes i wasn't going to make you a pretty one.
jkhouw1 said:
Ok here is an app that will launch digital frame. install & runn app - tick the box to set it load digital frame on power connected.
Sorry about the icon - in 5 minutes i wasn't going to make you a pretty one.
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Sorry to ask but is there any way to change the App?
For viewing photo's I use the much better free App 'Photo Slides' (Photo Frame) by Softick Ltd. available on The Market.
Thanks left for what you have already given.
Fantastic app, works well and means I can just put it in the dock and use it as a clock / calendar
Beards said:
Sorry to ask but is there any way to change the App?
For viewing photo's I use the much better free App 'Photo Slides' (Photo Frame) by Softick Ltd. available on The Market.
Thanks left for what you have already given.
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Probably
If I get time I will take a look tonight
Edit- yes it looks like I can just target softtick.android.photoframe/Photoframe
Why do they need permission to phone identity? Or network access if they don't even have adds?
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jkhouw1 said:
Probably
If I get time I will take a look tonight
Edit- yes it looks like I can just target softtick.android.photoframe/Photoframe
Why do they need permission to phone identity? Or network access if they don't even have adds?
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No idea... I missed that.
It would be a shame though as Photo Slides [Photo Frame] has much more to offer than the stock Digital Frame.
I personally like the Clock that appears on screen which you can control colour & size whilst having your slide show.
Ok beards here is a new version and you can switch between Digital Frame and PhotoFrame. I added an "other" with a text field so now you can launch any application on power plugin so if you find someother one you like better you can launch it instead.
To use "other" You will need to know the activity that gets called when the target app loads as examples (although I hard coded these two for you)
digiframe is com.sec.android.app.digitalframe/.DigitalFrame
photoframe is softick.android.photoframe/.PhotoFrame
you can typically figure out the target by viewing logcat during or immediately after launching what you would like to target. easier to find target if you filter for tags "ActivityManager"
I also made a cheezy icon for y'all.
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Ok beards here is a new version and you can switch between Digital Frame and PhotoFrame. I added an "other" with a text field so now you can launch any application on power plugin so if you find someother one you like better you can launch it instead.
To use "other" You will need to know the activity that gets called when the target app loads as examples (although I hard coded these two for you)
digiframe is com.sec.android.app.digitalframe/.DigitalFrame
photoframe is softick.android.photoframe/.PhotoFrame
you can typically figure out the target by viewing logcat during or immediately after launching what you would like to target. easier to find target if you filter for tags "ActivityManager"
I also made a cheezy icon for y'all.
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Thanks jkhouw1, so much appreciated and thanks given.
I've noted your comments to remind me should as you say I change to something different at a later date.
Hello peeps,
I just bought the white version of the LG 4x HD but realized i forgot 1 issue and thats the lack of a notification led.
Now there is this app floating arround on XDA that lets you use the bottom bar but seeing that is a white led thats not really working for the white version.
This got me thinking and i was wondering if someone was able to make a App that plays your notification sound say every 5 , 10 or 15 min.
This would make it sound like you get a message every 5 , 10 , 15 min (whatever you set it up for) so you may not see your notification led but you will hear a sound letting you know you have a new message.
Im not sure if its possible to make a app like this but i would immagine im not the only one that finds a repeating audio warning usefull.
Sadly this coding thing is way over my head and im only good at thinking up ideas but am not capable of executing them and turning them into a product.
You can use the screen on button as a trigger to stop making the sound for example till the next message come in with screen off.
IF its even possible to trigger a repeating sound warning at a incoming message/warning.
and in a totaly ideal world it would even let you choose which apps should create these audio warnings.
So if anyone would be willing to make a working app like this (if possible) im surely willing to donate a few bucks for the effort and i hope more people are willing to do so.
Maybe this is an alternative.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1821249
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Maybe this is an alternative.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1821249
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no thats the ap i ment.
but a white led on a white phone just isnt cutting it.
There are plenty in the Play Store such as Missed Reminder, search and find one that works for you.
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andy1120 said:
There are plenty in the Play Store such as Missed Reminder, search and find one that works for you.
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i tried a boatload of apps but this is the only one that actualy works the wat i want to but its keeping the cpu active (most likely for the countdown) so it drains the battery like a maniak.
maby this is what will make a app like this ipossible as the countdown needs to use the cpu and that might prevent sleep.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tomatox.missedmessageflasher
What would you like for the gear (Keep in mind its a Smart Watch not a Smart Phone)
My first pic is
Stolen Watch, if someone nicks it you can get it back
Whatsapp! Just want to share pics to contacts
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I want to get offline GPS navigation. Sygic unfortunately does not work..
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I want to get offline GPS navigation. Sygic unfortunately does not work..
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using the phone for the gps sensor?
1)Shake to wake, like the pebble. The current wake up makes my watch turn on way too often.
2)Expanded notifications without first tapping on the notification like how it is currently. I don't understand why I need to tap on it first before I can read the whole message. Just make them expanded/full notifications always, or at least make it an option.
3)There is too much of a delay for the media controller app. There's about a 1 second delay between pressing a button in the media controller app and having my phone actually change the song. The pebble does the song switch almost instantly. If this is due to the lower bandwidth of Bluetooth Low Energy, make it an option to turn off BLE and use only BT Classic. I would gladly give up battery life for faster notifications/control over my phone. This brings me to #4
4) Faster notifications. Sometimes I have a 1 second wait before a notification shows up on my watch after having already shown up on my phone. Again, if this is due to the limited bandwidth of BLE, make it an option to only work on BT classic.
Edit: Oh I misread the topic. I thought this was about changes to the Gear. I'll just leave this here anyways.
Me too, i would like a GPS guidance for walking.
An extention of Sygic will be really great.
I can honestly say I couldn't ask for much more from my watch.
I would like a keyboard to reply to msgs (from anything that shows up in notification center - email, text, hangouts, etc) - without having to bake in a whole new rom etc
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using the phone for the gps sensor?
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yup.
Something like Rain Alarm pro does on the sony smart watch. Yes you can get the alert when the app sees rain but the ability to see weather radar on the watch would be awesome!