Went out and mapped the streets of a town a couple of days ago and came away with a better idea on how to make things easier for myself, in any case turned my preliminary ideas into an app for the Android.
There is a lot of room for improvement, and I still need to figure out how to plot the currect track on a gmaps page to show what has and hasn't been mapped to make it more useful for doing the whole thing paperless.
http://www.cyrket.com/package/com.bigtincan.android.droidcollector
From a comment on the Android Market:
Keeps GPS tuned on when exiting app with home button. Poor battery.
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You can't "exit" an application by hitting the home button, it can/will still run in the background unless you hit the back button which does exit most applications.
Also new version, this one displays a gmap as the main screen and you can hit the menu key to add meta information about your current location, on the gmap your GPS trace will be shown so you know where you've been.
Hey guys. Longtime lurker, first-time poster.
I've got a Galaxy S6 Active that works well for the most part (I'm half convinced it's the perfect phone for playing Ingress), but I'm running into a strange problem with the Active Key. When I set a long-press of the Active Key to launch Ingress, Ingress crashes almost every single time on launch ("unfortunately, Ingress has stopped"). Yet when I open Ingress the traditional way –from a folder or the app tray–*it runs just fine.
I've tried duplicating this problem with other apps but only Ingress seems affected. Neither rebooting nor updating Ingress has fixed the problem ... I even tried a factory reset of the phone, to no avail.
It's easy to say "well, this is just a bug in Ingress so I'll just deal with it" ... but instead this problem has me curious about the workings of the Active Key. What's different about the way an app launches via the Active Key versus how it launches from the app tray? There must be something.
Hi, I got the S6 Active last week and also play Ingress. Tried what you mentioned and replicated the same problem: Ingress will crash if set as long-press of the Active Key. However, it seems to work as the short-press shortcut key, so I made it that way and changed the default Activity Zone as the long-press app.
imdaShiy said:
Hi, I got the S6 Active last week and also play Ingress. Tried what you mentioned and replicated the same problem: Ingress will crash if set as long-press of the Active Key. However, it seems to work as the short-press shortcut key, so I made it that way and changed the default Activity Zone as the long-press app.
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Good to know I'm not alone. Can't believe I didn't think of trying to set it to launch on single-press. Thanks!
that is weird huh,
but another option would be to use the app called, Tasker factory, which can turn a shortcut of app (i.e ingress) to a standalone app, then you would set your long-press active key to launch the custom tasker app, which then just launches ingress, with a short delay or not, or any extra stuff like ensure wifi is on and such...
maybe ask someone here in xda, to make the apk for you, as tasker isn't required if someone makes the apk for you to install. *be careful and virus scan any unknown apk sources of course, etc etc.
Hi,
I tried to find root cause, but unfortunately without success. Is there anybody, who using Tasker or another application for automatization of your phone without any issues?
My issue is, Tasker is still "delayed" - but same rules I used before on LG G3 (Android 6.0) - but now on P9 (DualSIM) didn't work.
I have task for Calendar Entry, where if I have appointment in my work calendar, during this time Sound mode is deactivated (only Vibrate).
Some suggestion? I tried white lists, etc. or another app with same bad behavior.
Thank you!
Well, I tried to deactivate power management app from Huawei over ADB and looks good now finally! Its workaround, but tasker now working very well as expected.
adb shell pm hide com.huawei.powergenie
Did you have "Run in Foreground" selected in Tasker's preferences?
My Tasker works fine with that selected, although I also have trusted the app in permissions manager, allowed it to auto launch & activated it as a device administrator in advanced settings/security.
Yeah, I tried every tip over Tasker or phone (EMUI settings) and only deactivate power management helps me.
I had the same problem with IFTTT. It worked perfectly with my LG G3, but was hopeless on the P9. No amount of white-listing or settings would work.
I even had the app in memory, with Google maps running, on GPS, screen on, and it still wouldn't trigger a location based profile.
I've had to revert to manually arming and dis-arming my home security system. Annoying.
I translate from spanish so I'm sorry if your phone shows menus with other name.
You must go to adjust > advanced adjusts > memory and store and at bottom of page "space clean". On new screen push on upper-right wheel, and now on last option "white list of memory clean". Finally look for your app and activate it.
If you don't include app here, clean system will close it on background and timers won't work. It solved my problems.
aidrabmol said:
I translate from spanish so I'm sorry if your phone shows menus with other name.
You must go to adjust > advanced adjusts > memory and store and at bottom of page "space clean". On new screen push on upper-right wheel, and now on last option "white list of memory clean". Finally look for your app and activate it.
If you don't include app here, clean system will close it on background and timers won't work. It solved my problems.
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"Settings>Advanced settings>Memory & storage>Storage cleaner" and "Memory cleanup whitelist".
Using Agama, I can get an app to start following a reboot. However, I would like to start the App at every Startup. Does Automate or any other app let you do that?
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Using Agama, I can get an app to start following a reboot. However, I would like to start the App at every Startup. Does Automate or any other app let you do that?
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Why would you need Tasker for that simple.
Settings, type in the Search Autostart and add your app to the list of apps to be started on every reboot.
You may also need to disable Battery Optimization for your app (to make sure it would still work in background when the phone sleeps with dark screen)
That should generally work for all Androids. I don't have Huawei P9 now for years, I remember that EMUI might have had specific Settings organization but there was also Autostart (or Auto start)...
zgfg said:
Why would you need Tasker for that simple.
Settings, type in the Search Autostart and add your app to the list of apps to be started on every reboot.
You may also need to disable Battery Optimization for your app (to make sure it would still work in background when the phone sleeps with dark screen)
That should generally work for all Androids. I don't have Huawei P9 now for years, I remember that EMUI might have had specific Settings organization but there was also Autostart (or Auto start)...
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When I search 'Autostart' it produces 'No results'
carroamer said:
When I search 'Autostart' it produces 'No results'
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I had P9 for three years (if you don't believe, you can find tons of my posts here back from 2017-2018)
Now, you have that phone, not me (I got rid of my last Huawei almost three years ago) - I cannot show you and I cannot look into the EMUI settings because I don't have the EMUI phone anymore
But I KNOW that there was a way in EMUI how to control which apps will be automatically started on boot - I know because I played with all that back in those years, II did need for many apps like AdAway, Find My Device and similar that required to be auto-started to operate correctly
Take your time and google and you'll find. Sorry, I tried to help you but I will no more waste my time on that. Huaweis are past time for me
And take your time, use your imagination, If not Autostart, google for EMUI startup manager or something similar to find the answer for your question on the Net
Greetings to all and thanks fir your time.
My note 5 recent apps button randomly goez off sometimes so much i can not use keyboard or open apps.i used a hardware disabling app wich has worked perfecly but now every time it disables the phone from jumping to all the recent apps it also has a pop on kower side of screen saying for sequrity reasons this action has been disabled and if im typing it makes it impossible to continue.
I wanrt to know if any one has an idea that may get me out of this dilema and before its said i will just say that i do not want to have the phone in shop and spend 100's sorting this so any help would be awesome!
I don't know if someone can help with this or had a similar thing happen, but here goes:
- phone in pocket for about 20 minutes in -35 degree C weather (not a good idea, I know)
- flashlight was flickering on and off after returning
-Bixby key was remapped, so I deleted the remapping app
-phone started repeatedly making requests to Bixby voice assistant, which was worse
-followed the instructions someone else on this forum posted here: https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/how-to-remove-oem-bloatware-from-s8-s8.3654687/ which got rid of Bixby
-phone started making repeated requests to Google voice assistant
-factory reset, seems to work. deleted Bixby again because why not
-starts making repeated requests to Google voice assistant again 2 days later
-disable google app, this seems to make the phone usable again
-still can hear that whatever input keeps causing the requests is happening when using headphones. messes with bluetooth, etc., sounds like the "volume down" tone.
Has anyone else had this happen/know what the "ghost" input is so I can try to quarantine it?
TLDR: Phone got cold, now produces ghost input continually that I want to disable/isolate.