first question is that some applications dont show in task manager, instead it shows as ongoing in the notifcation menu. like msn messeger or lookout.
however I would like to close those apps at some point.
the other question is regarding on gps, if I install navigation software that needs gps, I had to turn it on manually from notification menu. which is stupid.
is there a way around that, to allow gps as soon as its request.
Kindest Regards
GPS, just keep it on all the time
Task Manager you can end task any app using it, there are more powerful versions for free that you can download from Android Market, and they are much more configurable to do what you want them to do
thank you Fido
so gps in notification is just enabling the service to be used rather than turning it on. this makes more sense now.
will have a hunt for task manager.
what is the best way to find apps, search forums\ market place?
here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=765081
or here http://www.appbrain.com/
If you get an app called Tasker it will allow you to automate the process of turning on and off GPS as you run the app.
So..... I love this phone so far! OMG so much better than my older S4.
That said, I use the phone in my car a lot and I use it in my car in landscape mode rather than portrait.
I'm tired of seeing the lockscreen time sideways!!!
It certainly seems like there is no way to rotate the lockscreen with the orientation of the device.
There are also other apps which seem to disregard orientation such as the phone application.
I tried using the "Screen Orientation App" from the play store that was recommended on other forums for other phones and while it was able to force landscape for the phone app, it was unable to do so for the lockscreen. Furthermore, it left this really annoying notification in the status bar. Upon further investigation, it seems that all of the orientation forcing apps do this!
I also saw another thread that mentioned editing the build.props, but of course that will require root and I'm just tired of rooting phones (Been doing it since the Droid 1) and the constant battle that is keeping root through OTA updates. I work for a large open source software company, so I think I've got enough 'nix systems on which I have root at my fingertips (Yes, posting this from a Fedora 20 laptop right now).
Anyway, I appreciate any advice you all can give. Should I try one of the myriad car dock apps on the play store?
Hey everybody and thanks for taking the time to read this.
I'll explain my problem as clearly as possible:
I created a task with the purpose of opening an app (vpn hosts) and clicking on a button (with autoinput) when I launch twitch or YouTube.
What I was trying to accomplish is that whenever I open said apps my vpn app opens up, activates and then I would like the phone to go back to the original app.
Here comes the problem: I get stuck in a loop cause whenever I go back from vpn hosts to twitch (using autoinput) tasker detects that a profile condition is met and runs again the task.
Is there a way I can force tasker to run those tasks one time and one only?
Hopefully I explained my problem clearly enough to be understood, thanks in advance
Set a cool down period in the profile settings. This will prevent the profile from running again for your specified period.
Less clean, you could also set a variable in the enter task and disable the profile if the variable is set.
Else, use a condition of "not" the vpn app as a trigger condition in the profile.
So I am coming from a Moto G4. One feature I despise is "Vibrate on call connect". I eventually found out how to disable this, you download "Activity Launcher" from the Play store, find the Engineer Mode activity, launch that, and that has an option to uncheck that feature (along with volume adjustments and all that)
So I bought a G6 today, download Activity Launcher, and there is no Engineer Mode. Here's the crazy thing though, I went back to my G4 just to check, and Engineer Mode has vanished from there too! I have never run any OS update on that, it's the stock ROM it showed up with on day 1.
WTF is going on? How did Engineer Mode vanish from my G4, and how do I get the Activity back on my G6?
Activity launcher may have lost some functions. Google has put some new restrictions on what certain apps can do. If they don't comply, they get pulled from the store. Don't know why that feature would get flagged specifically, Google has a bunch of reasons and guidelines laid out. Just a guess, but seems likely 8f you didn't update the OS.
You migjt be able to change that setting in the phone settings. I haven't looked. Is a little vibrate for a second that big of a deal?
I'll see if I can find an older apk. Google does seem determined to make apps worse over time. if
Hello,
I'm going crazy here.... I've installed Tasker on my new Lenovo Tab M7 TB-7305F (7 Inch with Android 9.0 GO - NOT rooted). Tasker works fine. Since I want to kill apps I installed the plugin "SecureTask". And: I succeeded to get it working. Everyting is working fine. Until I reboot. After a reboot: When I try Tasker to execute the plugin-command SecureTask - Tasker waits long and can't execute the plugin. It seems Tasker can't call the plugin SecureTask / can't connect to it. When I manually load SecureTask (Icon on the desktop - only a config-screen comes up - I leave the config-screen with the back-button): After that everything works again. It seems: After SecureTask was loaded once everything is OK. But Tasker can't start the plugin.
Humpf? After a lot of hours of investigating..... I'm out of ideas. Any help?
That sounds like there's a problem getting a background process running after boot for SecureTask. Assuming that all of the permissions for SecureTask have been granted through ADB, I would contact the developer and see what he says.
A work around might be to use Tasker to launch SecureTask after boot. You could then use it to close itself
Thanks... exactly the opinion I have at the moment. In the meantime I found a contact address in SecureTask itself - so I will contact the developer.
Enabling SecureTask after boot by Tasker.... good idea That will be a screen-flickering... but that's at 5 am - so nobody will care about that. I will test this... :good:
Just to report my efforts.... I contacted the support of SecureTask - and got an email-chat within minutes. Incredible support - thank's a lot, John Doe (support of SecureTask)!!!
He told me how to get a logcat. Reason, why it's not working:
BroadcastQueue: TabletMaster Service: not allowed to launch app com.balda.securetask/10110 for broadcast Intent { act=com.twofortyfouram.locale.intent.action.FIRE_SETTING flg=0x14 cmp=com.balda.securetask/.receivers.FireReceiver (has extras) }
=> The OS is blocking the broadcast. No clue why. So it seems my Lenovo Tab M7 TB-7305F has a strange behaviour... no chance to get it working.
Btw: Killing SecureTask with it's own didn't work. So I had to choose now a complete different approach without SecureTask.
airplane mode
Hi, bit off topic maybe, but I saw that this is a quite recent threat and it is involved with SecureTask plugin, so I decided to hook up instead of creating new one
This week I bought Samsung Galaxy Tab S5e. It's operating on Android Pie and UI One interface. I'm reluctant to root it yet (all the more the procedure is not obvious), but I want to recreate as much functionality as possible from my old rooted Samsung tablet So SecureTask plugin is the obvious choice.
I'm trying to find a way to automate turning the airplane mode on/off. On my old tablet I created a profile that triggered airplane mode according the time schedule as soon as Tasker detects that the device is plugged in to a power source. I've tried to recreate this profile with the help of SecureTask. Of course in advance I granted to the plugin all possible permissions using adb and even successfully set it as the device owner. Then I found a secure setting responsible for turning the airplane mode on/off and set appropriate values. And when I test the created tasks, the green circle appears and the quick toggle in the notification drawer turns on, but it seems that the system doesn't listen to the call - the airplane mode actually doesn't turn on. The system seems to listen only when I turn the quick toggle on manually. So I wonder if there is something I'm missing or maybe it is not achievable at all without root on this firmware?
Would be grateful for any insight, maybe from you @ktmom, boss Thanks in advance.
@Lord Sithek, AFAIK, the only way you can toggle mobile data or WiFi radios is after a reboot and that may not work on all devices. Google "long ago" removed the ability to directly control those radios, even with root. Bluetooth does tend to toggle though.
So if it's going to work at all, you would have to toggle off and then reboot.
My opinion is its best to use touch emulations to activate the quick setting tile.
ktmom said:
@Lord Sithek, AFAIK, the only way you can toggle mobile data or WiFi radios is after a reboot and that may not work on all devices. Google "long ago" removed the ability to directly control those radios, even with root. Bluetooth does tend to toggle though.
So if it's going to work at all, you would have to toggle off and then reboot.
My opinion is its best to use touch emulations to activate the quick setting tile.
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Ok, thanks for the response. I have Auto Input plug installed as well, so I'll give it a shot
ktmom said:
My opinion is its best to use touch emulations to activate the quick setting tile.
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The problem is that it needs to turn the screen on. I keep my device in book cover so... pain in the arse :cyclops: I think I'll probably switch to "do not disturb" mode, at least it works right away
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Marienkaefer said:
Hello,
I'm going crazy here.... I've installed Tasker on my new Lenovo Tab M7 TB-7305F (7 Inch with Android 9.0 GO - NOT rooted).
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I too just purchased a lenovo Tab M7 TB-7305F (7 Inch with Android 9.0 GO - also NOT rooted).
Sorry for intruding.
Have you found a forum for this tablet?
One specific question I have is with screen rotation. In android pie you get rotation control by turning off auto-rotation in settings. That way when you rotate the tablet a small icon appears briefly in a corner. When that icon is tapped the display rotates. If not tapped on the display does not rotate.
That is what happens in my other android pie devices. But for some reason this icon does not appear on this tab. So I'm looking for a forum for help. Have you found one?
Lord Sithek said:
Hi, bit off topic maybe, but I saw that this is a quite recent threat and it is involved with SecureTask plugin, so I decided to hook up instead of creating new one
This week I bought Samsung Galaxy Tab S5e. It's operating on Android Pie and UI One interface. I'm reluctant to root it yet (all the more the procedure is not obvious), but I want to recreate as much functionality as possible from my old rooted Samsung tablet So SecureTask plugin is the obvious choice.
I'm trying to find a way to automate turning the airplane mode on/off. On my old tablet I created a profile that triggered airplane mode according the time schedule as soon as Tasker detects that the device is plugged in to a power source. I've tried to recreate this profile with the help of SecureTask. Of course in advance I granted to the plugin all possible permissions using adb and even successfully set it as the device owner. Then I found a secure setting responsible for turning the airplane mode on/off and set appropriate values. And when I test the created tasks, the green circle appears and the quick toggle in the notification drawer turns on, but it seems that the system doesn't listen to the call - the airplane mode actually doesn't turn on. The system seems to listen only when I turn the quick toggle on manually. So I wonder if there is something I'm missing or maybe it is not achievable at all without root on this firmware?
Would be grateful for any insight, maybe from you @ktmom, boss Thanks in advance.
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I don't know if it needs root (I am always rooted), but there is an Airplane Mode On and Off in Tasker, under Net category.
I have a task that checks if %AIR is on or off, and turn on and off accordingly.
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ktmom said:
@Lord Sithek, AFAIK, the only way you can toggle mobile data or WiFi radios is after a reboot and that may not work on all devices. Google "long ago" removed the ability to directly control those radios, even with root. Bluetooth does tend to toggle though.
So if it's going to work at all, you would have to toggle off and then reboot.
My opinion is its best to use touch emulations to activate the quick setting tile.
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It still is fine to toggle mobile data on and off (in my case, either Mobile Data 1 or 2 due to having dual sims), as well as wifi, without rebooting. Even works in Macrodroid (the mini Tasker-like app)
Android app Tasker