Are there any app's available which allows the Bluetooth on my Hero to be set as always discoverable. My handsfree car kit used to auto connect to my old Windows mobile device but now I have to make my Hero discoverable every time I enter my car and its very annoying.
DITTO
i would love this too, as it is a pain in the arse having to activate it all the time. Another stupid "improvement" from HTC.....what the hell were they thinking ???
You can add a Bluetooth On/Off Widget on one of the home screens.
Once the Hero is paired the devices should discover themselves with no issue. Set to discoverable or not.
My car kit very very rarely does not see and auto connect to the Hero. On the odd occasion that it doesn't connect, turning Bluetooth on and off via the HTC widget usually gets it hooked back up.
Its not perfect, but TBH no less perfect than other handsets I've owned.
Bluetooth file transfer is what we are really missing.
Having a nightmare with my car kit - PARROT CK3100 LCD and T-mobile G2
I have to turn on bluetooth make it discoverable the enter the pairing code ( everytime as it does not seem to keep the code) then the Parrot LCD flashes " MEM FULL " twic and then it connects but does not see the address book
Any suggestions much appreciated
Devchef1
Flash it
I was having very similar problems connecting my Hero to my car Bluetooth, it just would not pair, or work , i have flashed the official HTC update rom onto my Hero and now it connects everytime, no discover mode needed, and it works like a dream, you might want to give it a go, i fixed my issues .
Devchef1
I don't know why you have to keep pairing - mine auto detects no prob - both on stock G2 rom and Modaco 2.2e.
I can help you with the address book though - put a contact on your sim card. Anything will do, just make one up. Thereafter, I think you'll find your address book syncs.
Haven't seen the mem full thing, but I do recall you can only have five devices paired to the ck3100, so maybe you need to delete a pairing?
Cheers.
Rich
Android Bluetooth Discoverable Mode
Hi!
I'm having a similar problem with trying to keep the bluetooth on discoverable mode for some longer time as well. The phone I'm working with is the Nexus One and I was hoping anyone could help finding a way to get the app to turn on the discoverable mode automatically without having to request the user every 120 seconds or 300 seconds? The API for Bluetooth really limits me from making the duration of the discoverable mode longer and allowing me to change the bluetooth setting without user permission. Any help is appreciated.
Thank you!
AndroidTeam5
That is well and great that it reconnects for many people. But, for many people it does not! I have Myn's Donut running from my sd on my HTC Touch. It never auto-connects to my Pioneer Avic-f90bt. I have to make it discoverable or turn the bluetooth off/on every time I get in the truck. When I run the phone with WM6 it always, always auto connected...always. So if the easy fix is an app to leave bluetooth on, how hard can it be for a programmer to do this. Simply saying "oh, it works fine on my phone" doesn't help us!
About a year ago I mounted my Nexus 7 2012 Wifi in my car, and came up with some Tasker scripts to have my phone automatically start wifi tethering as soon as I turn the key. I’d like to share with you all how I did it, and answer any questions anybody might have.
I made a video to provide a overview of my setup that can be found here. I can't post links yet so you'll have to copy and paste!
Code:
youtu.be (slash) jkDr9mLY568
Hardware
Nexus 7 Wifi 2012 rooted running stock KitKat with Xposed Framework installed.
Nexus 5 rooted running stock KitKat with Xposed. I’ve also tested this with a GNex and G2 and it worked great with both of those.
Previously I ran CM on both my phone and tablet and it worked fine.
Software
Connectivity:
Tasker
Secure Settings (I use Pro, but I don’t think it’s necessary, correct me if I’m wrong)
Tablet Talk
Tasker/Locale Plugin for Tablet Talk
SSID Selector (Tasker plugin)
All these except for SSID Selector need to be installed on both the phone and tablet.
Apps:
AutoVoice - allows you to create your own voice commands and have Tasker parse them.
GMD Gesture Control Create custom multitouch gestures.
Waze
Spotify
Waze and Spotify are the only apps I have in focus 99% of the time. I have Torque installed and it works great, but I rarely use it.
Tasker
Tablet
Profile: Wifi Tether Control
State: Power any
Entry task: Powered On
Wifi Off: This disconnects me from my home network in case I’m using my home wifi
Brightness up if Daytime profile active, turn down otherwise
Tablet Talk Action: Start BT Mode - start Tablet Talk connection to phone, this tells the phone to turn on the hotspot.
Display timeout: 20 min
Wait 4 secs - this gives the phone time to start the hotspot. I’ve found everything works better if there is a pause here.
SSID Selector - only connect to my phones wifi network
Wifi on
Secure Settings: GPS on
Auto-Sync on
Exit task: Unpowered
Stop task if the powered on task is running. This is to prevent a problem I was having where if I turned the car key too slow, it would start this task while the entry task was still running, leaving the car running but the tablet and hotspot off.
Get location and use Pushbullet to send location to phone
Tablet Talk: Disable - this triggers the exit task on the phone that turns the hotspot off
Wifi, GPS, autosync off.
Send intent to close Waze - Waze doesn’t seem to respond well to being killed, so I use an intent to turn it off. If I don’t do this it is a MAJOR battery drain.
Media Utilities Action: Pause - the built in media actions don’t seem to pause Spotify reliably, so I use this plugin
Lock screen and set lockscreen PIN with Secure Settings
Phone
Profile: Car Tethering
Entry task: Start Wifi Tethering
Ringer on
Wifi Tether on
Notify Sound
Exit Task: Stop Wifi Tethering
Wifi Tether Off
Notify Cancel: Tethering on notification
Notify Sound: Tethering off
Wait 5 secs
Turn wifi back on
Notify Cancel
I've attached all the tasks and profiles I use on my tablet. I'll add some explanations for the rest of them later on if anyone is interested. They include things like:
Gathering sunset/sunrise times to automatically adjusting brightness
Switching to Waze if there is no touches detected for x number of seconds
AutoVoice tasks and profiles for searching Spotify, Waze, and Google Maps
I really want to know how to so this
Gathering sunset/sunrise times to automatically adjusting brightness
braddaniels said:
About a year ago I mounted my Nexus 7 2012 Wifi in my car, and came up with some Tasker scripts to have my phone automatically start wifi tethering as soon as I turn the key. I’d like to share with you all how I did it, and answer any questions anybody might have.
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So I assume your car turns off the charge port (ie: lighter port) when the ignition is off? That certainly makes this sort of thing a little easier, and sounds like your N7 is dedicated to car duties.
I like the idea of switching back to Waze when otherwise idle, I might do that myself. I do all of the rest, including the backlight management using a tiny web service I wrote for myself to get sunrise/sunset times.
My do it on my phone, however, I don't mount the N7 itself. So I use an NFC tag as my "Start car mode" context.
khaytsus said:
So I assume your car turns off the charge port (ie: lighter port) when the ignition is off? That certainly makes this sort of thing a little easier, and sounds like your N7 is dedicated to car duties.
I like the idea of switching back to Waze when otherwise idle, I might do that myself. I do all of the rest, including the backlight management using a tiny web service I wrote for myself to get sunrise/sunset times.
My do it on my phone, however, I don't mount the N7 itself. So I use an NFC tag as my "Start car mode" context.
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Yes it stays in my car mounted on the dash unless I'm in a bad neighborhood or something. I live in Central Florida, and so far the heat has not been an issue. The battery still works fine even after sitting my dash for a year now. I know that it is a risk though, a friend of mine had a bargain bin Android tablet that blew up in her car a few weeks ago just sitting on the backseat.
Like I mentioned in the video, I just want it to work without thinking about it, I got sick of fumbling with my phone whenever I got into my car, and I didn't use my Nexus 7 that much anyway, so I decided to do this. Yes my lighter ports only work when the ignition is on. I don't think this is necessarily the most ideal way to detect when to turn the car is on though. I'd like for Tasker to implement Bluetooth proximity as a state, that might be useful. I recall seeing it on their todo list, but I'm not holding my breath.
I have an ODBII BT dongle, and I tried using that to detect when the car was on, but I found it to be clumsy and unreliable. I even experimented with the accelerometer to detect the vibration of the car running, but that wouldn't have worked too well.
In case you were wondering about battery drain while it's off, it's negligible. I'm sure if I left it off for a week or so it would probably die, but my 3.1 A charger charges it even with the screen on full brightness. The only time I've had to charge it while the car's not running is when some service doesn't shut down right due to a bug in my Tasker setup. I have had some bad luck with crappy USB cables, so make sure you get the highest quality and shortest length possible to maximize charging.
Thanks
I know this is an old post now, but this is exactly what I've been trying to achieve with my car setup with Note 3 / Galaxy Tab 8.4. Thank you for posting. This should save me a lot of time.
I have bluetooth in my Jeep and will be sending all tablet audio to the Jeep to play. I've had mixed results with it working and with it playing on the tablet so I may need to tweek Bluetooth Auto Connect. If that still wont work well I'll have to AUX cable it.
I just downloaded all your profiles and tasks and will give this a try with my setup. I really like how you have it auto start wifi tethering on the phone and then open Waze. I have an added step of activating Foxfi and then clicking a few boxes before that activates, so I need to figure that one out.
I also installed all your other profiles/tasks, though I don't know what all of them do yet. I'll need to go through them and see which ones apply to how I use my phone. Do you have any of those on your tablet as well, or are the extras just for your phone?
TheBlueDuck said:
I know this is an old post now, but this is exactly what I've been trying to achieve with my car setup with Note 3 / Galaxy Tab 8.4. Thank you for posting. This should save me a lot of time.
I have bluetooth in my Jeep and will be sending all tablet audio to the Jeep to play. I've had mixed results with it working and with it playing on the tablet so I may need to tweek Bluetooth Auto Connect. If that still wont work well I'll have to AUX cable it.
I just downloaded all your profiles and tasks and will give this a try with my setup. I really like how you have it auto start wifi tethering on the phone and then open Waze. I have an added step of activating Foxfi and then clicking a few boxes before that activates, so I need to figure that one out.
I also installed all your other profiles/tasks, though I don't know what all of them do yet. I'll need to go through them and see which ones apply to how I use my phone. Do you have any of those on your tablet as well, or are the extras just for your phone?
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I didn't post the profiles and tasks from my phone because it should be relatively simple to implement yourself. I would highly recommend you try to build most of these profiles yourself and just use mine as a template. It'll make troubleshooting much easier if something doesn't work right.
Find My Phone
Hi Brad,
Just like to say thank you for sharing... you are streaks ahead in using tasker! I bought tasker about 1 year ago and fooled around with it and got the basic stuff I needed to work just fine. However, now I will be installing a nexus 7 as a fixed in dash carpc... replacing my old actual carpc running windows with centrafuse/riderunner, I will need to automatize pretty much everything as I will not have access to the side buttons.
I have imported your profiles and task and I am tweaking them for my needs. Only thing it complaining about is "Find My Phone", could you give me some pointers, if you can remember.
Thanks again...
Jared.
braddaniels said:
About a year ago I mounted my Nexus 7 2012 Wifi in my car, and came up with some Tasker scripts to have my phone automatically start wifi tethering as soon as I turn the key. I’d like to share with you all how I did it, and answer any questions anybody might have.
I made a video to provide a overview of my setup that can be found here. I can't post links yet so you'll have to copy and paste!
Code:
youtu.be (slash) jkDr9mLY568
Hardware
Nexus 7 Wifi 2012 rooted running stock KitKat with Xposed Framework installed.
Nexus 5 rooted running stock KitKat with Xposed. I’ve also tested this with a GNex and G2 and it worked great with both of those.
Previously I ran CM on both my phone and tablet and it worked fine.
Software
Connectivity:
Tasker
Secure Settings (I use Pro, but I don’t think it’s necessary, correct me if I’m wrong)
Tablet Talk
Tasker/Locale Plugin for Tablet Talk
SSID Selector (Tasker plugin)
All these except for SSID Selector need to be installed on both the phone and tablet.
Apps:
AutoVoice - allows you to create your own voice commands and have Tasker parse them.
GMD Gesture Control Create custom multitouch gestures.
Waze
Spotify
Waze and Spotify are the only apps I have in focus 99% of the time. I have Torque installed and it works great, but I rarely use it.
Tasker
Tablet
Profile: Wifi Tether Control
State: Power any
Entry task: Powered On
Wifi Off: This disconnects me from my home network in case I’m using my home wifi
Brightness up if Daytime profile active, turn down otherwise
Tablet Talk Action: Start BT Mode - start Tablet Talk connection to phone, this tells the phone to turn on the hotspot.
Display timeout: 20 min
Wait 4 secs - this gives the phone time to start the hotspot. I’ve found everything works better if there is a pause here.
SSID Selector - only connect to my phones wifi network
Wifi on
Secure Settings: GPS on
Auto-Sync on
Exit task: Unpowered
Stop task if the powered on task is running. This is to prevent a problem I was having where if I turned the car key too slow, it would start this task while the entry task was still running, leaving the car running but the tablet and hotspot off.
Get location and use Pushbullet to send location to phone
Tablet Talk: Disable - this triggers the exit task on the phone that turns the hotspot off
Wifi, GPS, autosync off.
Send intent to close Waze - Waze doesn’t seem to respond well to being killed, so I use an intent to turn it off. If I don’t do this it is a MAJOR battery drain.
Media Utilities Action: Pause - the built in media actions don’t seem to pause Spotify reliably, so I use this plugin
Lock screen and set lockscreen PIN with Secure Settings
Phone
Profile: Car Tethering
Entry task: Start Wifi Tethering
Ringer on
Wifi Tether on
Notify Sound
Exit Task: Stop Wifi Tethering
Wifi Tether Off
Notify Cancel: Tethering on notification
Notify Sound: Tethering off
Wait 5 secs
Turn wifi back on
Notify Cancel
I've attached all the tasks and profiles I use on my tablet. I'll add some explanations for the rest of them later on if anyone is interested. They include things like:
Gathering sunset/sunrise times to automatically adjusting brightness
Switching to Waze if there is no touches detected for x number of seconds
AutoVoice tasks and profiles for searching Spotify, Waze, and Google Maps
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Thanks for all the info and stuff. I'll have to check out the GMD and Autovoice apps. I just got a Nexus 7 set up in my car and am loving it so far. I have Tasker helping me out greatly because I too don't want to take my S6 out of my pocket when I'm driving.
My Nexus 7 has "screen always on while charging" enabled in Dev options. I haven't set the fastboot oem off-mode-charge to a zero yet since I don't think I need it to turn off completely, though I will probably do this since I can't reach the power button with a decent amount of effort.
Turn car key, Nexus 7 comes on and turns on wifi (state -> power any = wifi on). This is mostly because it stopped connecting to my S6 tether unless I toggled wifi off and on. I plan on using airplane-mode but haven't set that up yet since it was not available in Tasker (maybe it is in Secure Settings, I hope).
My S6 turns on wifi hotspot when bluetooth connects to "Alpine CD Receiver". I added an Exit task of "wait 5 seconds, then wifi on" to get wifi to enable again since it wasn't automatically.
The Nexus 7 bases some tasks off of the state = wifi connected to S6 tether. Tasks include turning on bluetooth (I need it to connect to Alpine head-unit AFTER the S6 or else the Alpine goes wonky), setting car mode to ON and going home (Car Home Ultra), launching the speed volume app so my volume fluctuates with speed (I don't want to have to touch the Alpine volume knob), and performs the media key operation of "play" to resume whatever music I had playing.
One difference for me is that I want to still use my phone for talking and don't want to do any texting from the car, so I don't use Tablet Talk. Although...texting via voice commands on the tablet would be handy. I will definitely set that up, so thanks for that idea.
It all works pretty well, but I'm only a day or two into doing all of this so I need to tweak stuff still.
Can anyone explain how automatic exit tasks work, like on my S6 - if it loses BT connection for just a second, wifi hotspot turns off, which then triggers the Nexus to perform a bunch of automatic tasks like exiting car mode, turn off bluetooth thus stopping music, etc. It seems to me like Tasker should show you the tasks it will perform when the State is exited. Sure, you can add exit tasks...does adding an exit task cause it to no longer perform its own invisible/assumed exit tasks? I am still a Tasker newb. In fact, this post clued me into the fact that Tasker has exit tasks, haha. I'd like it if it had some threshold so it wouldn't start doing these exit tasks so quickly. Like, maybe a "wait 5 seconds" exit task to see if the State turns on again. I'll do some reading and testing.
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I was able to get the auto_connect to my hotspot with the waits. :victory: So thank you for the tip. However, I am running into issues of the task running an exit. It just doesn't seem to run when I disconnect from my Bluetooth device. Any ideas?
By the way, I am able to run each individual task and it works
Hey. I'm having a really hard time (5h) now figuring how to trigger the tether or in my phone. My car doesnt habe a bluetooth so i've been trying to trigger the tether with my tablets bluetooth. The problem is that the bluetooth needs to be activates from the settings each time. I tried with bluetooth suto connect addon but couldnt get that work either. I have Samsung s8+ and lenovo tab 4. Someone please help me
since i am such a cheap bastard, i opted not to pay for tasker and ended up doing it with llama and e-robot, except it was for my g2 dedictated to nav duty rather than a nexus 7.
with bt auto connect on the g2and autotether on my main phone (bacon), it is a pretty much a hands free affair as long as i leave bt on on the bacon. presence of charging source and screen on/off are being used as the triggers to toggle airplane mode, bt, gps and the nav app
the only problem is, i get a massive battery drain with this setup. i usually find my phone either fully discharged or almost there when i come back on the next day. did the exact same on my mom's galaxy note 3 and thay one fares much better albeit not great (about -10% overnight). the battery on the g2 was replaced not too long ago. dunno, maybe it is the version of lineageos i am using (14.1 for d802/f320)
Hello All,
Just getting to use tasker for the first time. Though it is not the most user friendly app to use, I want to get the hang of it a bit more.
I want to create 3 tasks.
Task 1:
When disconnected from Bluetooth device CAR
and
When location is within 30m of Home address
do
Turn On Wifi, Turn Off Bluetooth, Turn Off Location
Task 2:
When disconnected from Bluetooth device CAR
and
When location is within 30m of Work address
do
Turn Off Wifi, Turn Off Bluetooth, Turn Off Location
Task 3:
When connected to Bluetooth device CAR
do
Turn On Location
I've got Task 1 and Task 2 configured, but cannot figure out how to configure Task 3.
My dilemma is, if when leaving from home or from work, the all services are turned off (Bluetooth, Wifi, Location), so what can I use as a trigger to Turn On Bluetooth in order to continue the trigger to Turn On Location?
Instead of turning off location you could use battery saving mode?
or if you get off work to your house near certain times add a time profile that turns bluetooth on for like 30 minutes or however long it takes to get to your car?
I have a separate Samsung S10 phone for Android Auto use only in my car (Mercedes EQC). The Android Auto phone is used for Google Maps, media control (controlling a Pi with a 2 TB SSD and a music library of around 200 000 tracks hidden in the center console - I don't use streaming at all, both for privacy reasons and because a lot of my underground extreme metal is not on any streaming services). The problem is that the car puts that phone as the first phone in the list, and sometimes it doesn't even connect by BT to my phone and my wife's phone. Can I block Android Auto from using the phone part of it, or make it think that the S10 is a tablet, so I avoid this problem? I have tried to turn off the phone radio (flight mode, and then only activate wifi, which I use to connect to the Pi), but that doesn't help.
Did you check in Android Auto Settings if "keep Bluetooth on" is on?
Yeah, that one was off, but t seems that AA doesn't obey it. But it got me thinking, and I remembered that I had this working the last time I was messing around with AA. I finally found it in AA Tweaker, a tweak named "connect automatically to bluetooth" or something like that. Finally I got it working! Thanks for jogging my memory!
I wondered if any of the tasker expers could advise a way around an issue I have.
I have 2 cars, both with bluetooth conected to my Pixel 6.
I also have a Garmin watch connected via bluetooth used for alerts etc.
Since I've started working from home, I have an issue which is drivng me crazy. If my wife goes out or return in either of the cars, but phone will connect to the car outside whilst I'm in the middle of a call.
I could just turn off bluetooth, but then I'd lose connectivity to my watch.
What I really want is the ability to enable/disable individual bluetooth devices based on my location. So if at home, the cars are disabled, if away from home (i.e. driving) they are enabled. However bluetooth seems to be all or nothing.
I could forget the connections, and re-pair whilst out in the car, but thats a pain.
So I wonder if even if tasker cannot disable individual connections, maybe it can change the settings of those connections. If I go into the car setting, I have 3 toggles which can be set off/on. Phone Calls, Media Audio, Contact Sharing.
Is it possible for tasker to change these settings on an individual bluetooth device based on location? So basically, if I'm home, disable phone calls and media audio on my cars.
And if this is possible, what is the best event trigger? Presumably GPS is one way. I also have wifi at home, but dont use it on my phone (4g is quicker and more reliable)
Can tasker scan for wifi networks and use as a trigger without actually connecting to wifi? Are there any other ways of detecting I have left home?
And if Tasker cannot do this, any ideas how to get around this issue outside of tasker?
Thanks in Advance.