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Is there a way I can turn on/off mobile data and sync and maybe other stuff on the go with my voice?
I'm often connected to my works wifi network when in the office but when I leave, I want to be able to use my voice to turn off wifi & sync and turn on mobile data so I can get directions to get home using the power of Maps to keep me away from heavy traffic. At the moment, I have to manually unlock my phone using my PIN, use the toggle shortcuts to disable wifi and enable mobile data, then go into Settings to turn sync off. Trying to find a simpler way of doing it with just my voice to save me some time fiddling around the OS.
Is this possible?
Note: Please bear in mind that I'm not rooted and don't want to root my phone at all to achieve the above
It's not via voice, but you could look into using an app such as Locale (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.twofortyfouram.locale). I have a similar issue, so I used Locale to automatically disable WiFi at 4:45PM (I leave work between 4:45p and 5:15p every day). There's also a Locale plugin for toggling sync: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.andvari.android.syncsetting.
So you could setup a Locale "situation" that triggers at a specific time each day (only on the days you're at work), or you could use an NFC tag at your desk if you wanted to get fancy. Set it up so that when this situation is triggered, it disables WiFi and enables auto-sync. You could even have it automatically launch Google Maps if you wanted to make it even more smooth.
I've used Locale for years and found it's really handy for automating things that I do everyday. Here's some of my other "situations" http://rickycadden.com/2011/06/how-i-use-locale-to-automate-my-android/
I use the app Commandr. It's pretty good so far. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.RSen.Commandr
Commandr is what I'm looking for. The ability to schedule when wifi is activated and not activated is something I already have but it's hard to schedule when my work schedule is different all the time.
I've installed and set Commandr up but not tested it yet. Hopefully it works well with Moto Voice.
Commandr didn't work properly as telling it to turn on or off mobile data doesn't do anything! Looks like it's an incomplete app or there's not proper support for the Moto X.
I've managed to put something in place using an app called Tasker. This amazing app allowed me to turn wifi and sync off when I activate my mobile data. When mobile data is disabled, the wifi and sync are turned back on. Ideally I wanted it to be done via my voice but doesn't look like that's possible.
It's also allowed me to set up a timed schedule for the wifi & GPS to turn off during the night to save myself some battery power. Very cool app!
Wutang200 said:
Commandr didn't work properly as telling it to turn on or off mobile data doesn't do anything! Looks like it's an incomplete app or there's not proper support for the Moto X.
I've managed to put something in place using an app called Tasker. This amazing app allowed me to turn wifi and sync off when I activate my mobile data. When mobile data is disabled, the wifi and sync are turned back on. Ideally I wanted it to be done via my voice but doesn't look like that's possible.
It's also allowed me to set up a timed schedule for the wifi & GPS to turn off during the night to save myself some battery power. Very cool app!
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With a plugin called Tasker Now, you can activate any Tasker task with voice commands. I use it all of the time.
Wow that's perfect thanks!
I recently decided to root my droid turbo since it seems like we are never going to get the lollipop update ?. Im already seeing improvements in battery life and performance by using various apps like clean master and battery doctor.
I was wondering if anyone knew of any apps that would know when I'm using a certain app and toggle certain setting when I am and off when I'm not. For example, if I pull up the maps app, I obviously need location on so as soon as I open it, it turns location on, and then when I'm done with the all, turns it back off.
Ive seen the "tasker" app on the Google play store that's like 2.99 and I didn't know if it would do that or not.
Thanks in advance!!
IIRC, Tasker does this. I think Llama (similar to Tasker) can also do it.
drexhex said:
IIRC, Tasker does this. I think Llama (similar to Tasker) can also do it.
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Yes, Tasker does this with the addition of Secure Settings. You can set it so that whenever you open apps X, Y, Z, it will automatically toggle GPS.
I have this set up for Maps, Yelp, etc. When I exit the app, GPS is turned off after a 2 minute delay (it kept disabling GPS if I quickly switched to another app during navigation, so I set a longer delay than most tutorials suggested)
http://www.csullender.com/blog/2014/01/26/automatic-high-accuracy-android-location/
ds728 said:
Yes, Tasker does this with the addition of Secure Settings. You can set it so that whenever you open apps X, Y, Z, it will automatically toggle GPS.
I have this set up for Maps, Yelp, etc. When I exit the app, GPS is turned off after a 2 minute delay (it kept disabling GPS if I quickly switched to another app during navigation, so I set a longer delay than most tutorials suggested)
http://www.csullender.com/blog/2014/01/26/automatic-high-accuracy-android-location/
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Thanks, I decided to buy tasker right after I posted that. Was gonna wait till I knew for sure that it would work but decided I wanted to try it anyway. Took me a little bit to figure it out but finally did.
I'm trying to figure out now how to use the scenes to make a pop up menu that will be there during navigation to allow me to start playing music and different navigation tasks so I can stay on the navigation app. I'm having a lot of trouble with it.
Hi everone,
I am quite new to tasker and I am trying to manage the following:
1. If my phone connects to my car via bluetooth it should enable wifi tethering
2. Once I leave the car and it disconnects it should disable tethering and enable the ordinary wifi again
However, when I leave my car it automatically disables tethering but it does not additionally enable wifi.
I have one profile (bluetooth connection to car) and one task (enable tethering).
I tried adding a decond task enabling wifi, but that will then disable tehtering and stop the first task.
I tried adding a second profile that enables wifi when not connected to car. But that then aaaalways enables wifi even if i manually disabled it.
Tasker automatically disables tethering once the original profile condition no longer applies. But how do I also make it reinstate the wifi status?
Sorry if this sounds too nooby
Could you possibly export the profile and task as an XML file and share it?
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Of course
I think you've done a full backup of your Tasker. I can't import that without overwriting all my data
Instead, export the individual profiles. Tap and hold the profile to highlight, tap the menu button, export.
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Sorry about that
Here's the profile itself.
I tried adding a wifi on/off switch but that will not reinstate the wifi state it had before the profile jumped into action.
Of course I would like tasker to reinstate the wifi status my phone had before the car connected. So off if off and on if on.
Try this
I uploaded the XML file here
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8uRFO5wFVFKNW42cnpNOHl0UlU/view?usp=drivesdk
Tasker will set a variable %WIFI_STATUS recording the current wifi status, then enable the hotspot. I then added an exit task which should trigger once your phone disconnects from the car's bluetooth, disconnecting the hotspot and re-enabling wifi if %WIFI_STATUS was set to "on".
Thank you
Would you mind uploading it here instead of google drive? I cannot access it there.
Sure thing. Attached.
Thank you very much!
I have not figured out how you created the second step (red arrow) yet, but I will soon, hopefully
It seems to be working except that sometimes the second step of turning off the tethering and re-enabling the wifi won't work. Maybe this was just a thing of how fast I turned the radio back off. I will try a real life test over the next few days
Most welcome!
Here's how to create an exit task (red arrow)
https://youtu.be/xbB3INzOz1M
You can find more details here.
http://www.pocketables.com/2013/05/beginners-guide-to-tasker-part-1-5-tasker-basics-new-ui.html
Pocketables' 8 part guide is excellent if you have the time you go through it.
As for wifi not always re-enabling, I would suggest increasing the wait time on the exit task from 3 seconds to 5 or even 10. Android automatically disables wifi when you activate tethering, so I figured you would need give the task enough time to be sure the tethering is fully deactivated before enabling wifi again.
I have found that the problem is in fact tether not disabling.
I am trying to write a If task. At the end of which I added a For loop checking whether or not the variables are identical and if not a Goto will jump back to the beginning... or so I hope ^^
OK, now that I have this running, the final remaining problem is the fact that tasker has to run in foreground. otherwise it will not work reliably. is there a way around this?
this issue seems to mainly concern the exit task. the starting task almosz always works but the exit task does not.
is it possible to enable tasker foreground on the starting task and then disable it in the exit task?
edit: i thought of a temporary workaround
since for some reason the starting tasks always work, I end those with opening tasker^^
since I'm driving I do not really care if it is open or not. and the exit task then closes it so it is gone by the time I use my phone again
but if you or anybody knows of a cleaner solution, I would be happy to give it a try
Why don't you want Tasker to run in the foreground? I've never had any noticeable battery drain from leaving that setting on (Preferences > Run in foreground). I've been using Tasker for years and never had to open the app in order to guarantee tasks would run.
If you're on marshmallow you may need to disable Doze for Tasker though, because that can occasionally interfere with the app too.
Are you sure the exit task isn't running at all? I'm assuming you've tested this by having Tasker do something menial at the start of the exit task such as display a notification.
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The problem with running in foreground is that you always have the two lines
"Tasker
1 profile active"
in the dropdown menu. Like a permanent norification. Unless one can disable this dropdown notification and basically just keep the icon, I do not really like it running in foreground.
P.S.: Yes, I made sure the exit task was not running.
Can anyone please tell me why location based profiles don't seem to work since I upgraded to pie 9?
Same Problem here....
Location works fine in Tasker on my Google Pixel 3 with Pie.
Only after the import of the tasks from Oreo to my new phone I had to reset the location of at least one location profil to get the location working again.
Have you checked the permission for Tasker to use the location?
Just for information: In Pie there's no "Energy Saving" location mode anymore. You can only switch between off, GPS only and GPS+wifi+bluetooth.
With Tasker, a user can create a task to set location mode to High Accuracy or Battery Saving Mode without root. I can confirm it is working on Pie.
You guys aren't understanding my problem. What DOESN'T work is having a profile get triggered by entering/exiting a geofence.
For example before I moved to Pie, I had a profile that turned my wifi on and off as I arrived home/left home by setting up a geofence 1km around my home. Now since I've upgraded to Pie, that profile never works anymore.
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