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Anyone tried this app yet? It seems to be able to do... um... everything?! Ha! I am interested to see what custom profiles and tasks people have set up in theirs!
http://lifehacker.com/5599116/how-to-turn-your-android-phone-into-a-fully+automated-superphone
http://lifehacker.com/5601133/push-...d-to-awesome-heights-with-these-tasker-setups
You can download a 14-day trial from the developers website:
http://tasker.dinglisch.net/download.html
(it is £3.99 in the market for the full version)
Wow, I would have normally glazed right over this. For some reason I read the articles and this is pretty cool. I started thinking of a bunch of uses for it. I bought it outright. Thanks for the post, moonrock!
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I noticed in the wiki or forum (somewhere!) that they were able to set up a profile that remapped the camera button -- I am wondering if this can be used to remap the power button while the camera app is open, maybe?
So I haven't had much time to play with Tasker, but the two scripts I have currently running:
* Silence from 11pm > 8am, simple, but it replaced the other 'profiles' type apps
* Disable screen rotation when in the Kindle app, for whatever reason this isn't an option in the Kindle app itself.
I have it set to turn on my Bluetooth when plugged in and off when unplugged works great!
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Fantastic! I need to set up a (again, simple!) task that will turn on bluetooth in the times that I am always in my car (commute to work and home, same time every day) which won't be difficult.
I have Locale already, but this may replace it (gotta love paying for apps to find out another one does 10000x more things! oops!) I've had Locale since first getting my G1 though, so it's gotten plenty of use.
So glad you posted about this app... its amazing..
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I have a couple tasks set up. First, I have gps automatically turn on and off when entering and exiting google maps. I also have one that lets me pick input style when I go into or leave remotedroid (swype's backspace doesn't work in it). And I have a couple apps that like to hang around after I close them, so I set them to be killed upon closing.
All in all it's a great app, well worth the $6.
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Also worth noting is that it is £3.49 from the developer directly (paypal, via his website) and a larger % goes direct to him that way.
I have it setup for text to speech on SMS messages when my phone connects to my cars bluetooth.
I am trying to find a way to let my replay to said SMS with the voice to text feature or just ignore it. Anyone have any idea how to accomplish that?
Also think it would be cool to have it change my wallpaper based on the weather conditions in my area, but Im not sure how to go about doing that either.
ritalin said:
Also think it would be cool to have it change my wallpaper based on the weather conditions in my area, but Im not sure how to go about doing that either.
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Beautiful Widgets (paid app, couple bucks) and the (free) Beautiful Live Wallpaper. Uses the weather widget to make the wallpaper match the weather
Tasks that I've set up so far:
Silent / dim screen / timeout / alarm volume 7 while I am asleep (timed task)
Vibrate / auto brightness / timeout (slightly longer) while at work (timed task)
Bluetooth on while in my car (timed task -- specificlly during the hours of my work commute)
Load Vlingo when Bluetooth connects, Kill Vlingo when BT disconnects
GPS on when Maps, Navigation and Foursquare are opened
Display timeout (1hr) and brightness (max) when USB plugged in (for when i am in my car, typically listening to music and/or have vlingo up on the screen, annoying (and worthless) for the display to timeout if vlingo is supposed to be a one-touch process!)
Anyway of exporting a profile then importing it so some of the more advanced useres can create some and we can tweak them ?
Edit: Having hard time getting them to do what i want .
Probably, but I am not entirely sure how... lol
My initial use:
As previously mentioned on this board the bluetooth streaming volume is not the loudest, so I always end up turning up the volume for bluetooth. Then when I plugin my headphones I destroy my eardrums.
So I setup a task that when I connect to my bluetooth car stereo, it automatically sets the volume to max and turns off wifi for good measure.
I have another task that when I plugin headphones, it sets the volume to 60% and opens the doubletwist music player.
Finally I setup the standard battery task so that when my battery gets to 20% it turns of all the GPS, wifi, and bluetooth radios, as well as dimming my screen.
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My initial use:
As previously mentioned on this board the bluetooth streaming volume is not the loudest, so I always end up turning up the volume for bluetooth. Then when I plugin my headphones I destroy my eardrums.
So I setup a task that when I connect to my bluetooth car stereo, it automatically sets the volume to max and turns off wifi for good measure.
I have another task that when I plugin headphones, it sets the volume to 60% and opens the doubletwist music player.
Finally I setup the standard battery task so that when my battery gets to 20% it turns of all the GPS, wifi, and bluetooth radios, as well as dimming my screen.
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Ah, I keep meaning to setup the low battery task as well!
I have two keyboards i really like in 2 different orientations.
Droid X keyboard:
its sweet autocorrections and large real estate makes it ideal for two thumb typing in landscape
swype:
slower than droid X keyboard in landscape, but in portrait, this is possibly the fastest/most accurate keyboard around.
I tried to set it up so that i could change my keyboards depending on the orientation, but i could not figure it out
im also for an app that turns your screen off with a timer (in the background). and have that work when you turn your screen downward./
any with either of these would be greatly appreciated.
Anyone know how to make it so that the Incall volume goes up to max on the connect of the phone call? I cant seem to find it in the settings meeting seems to only answer on 3/4 volume. Thought Tasker might be able to .
This app is awesome. I only got a few tasks setup but one nice one is turning the screen timeout to 23hr when I open the web browser and back to 30 secs when I exit.
talltexan said:
Anyway of exporting a profile then importing it so some of the more advanced useres can create some and we can tweak them ?
Edit: Having hard time getting them to do what i want .
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To export a profile tap the context (left) icon <profile<export. To import just open the file with Tasker as the chosen program I think. lots of premade tasks on the Tasker wiki. (it won't let me post a link)
Do anyone have a problem with lines going through widgets
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I had it too one time but reboot fixed everything, haven't had the lines since.
Ive had the lines, rebooted and everything was fine. They came back again 2 days later, rebooted again, havent seen em since.
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Once, rebooted, never since.
It will occasionally come back. Seems to be related to using 3d then switching.
i'd expect we'll see a fix from HTC soon enough.
Happened to me once, and rebooting did nothing. I had to remove every widget from my home screens and put them back on to fix it.
Had the same problem started last night with just one widget. By today it was two. I had tried rebooting, but didn't seem to fix the problem. Removed the two widgets and immediately put the back. 3+ hours and so far so good.
We'll see. Hopefully this isn't going to be an ongoing thing.
Out of curiosity, do you have widgets from the HTC hub installed? I noticed my "word of the day" widget isn't properly sized when I fling the carousel, but it resizes itself when I go to it. I'm thinking it might be a resolution glitch because they haven't optimized certain widgets for the 960x540 screen? Just a thought.
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Out of curiosity, do you have widgets from the HTC hub installed? I noticed my "word of the day" widget isn't properly sized when I fling the carousel, but it resizes itself when I go to it. I'm thinking it might be a resolution glitch because they haven't optimized certain widgets for the 960x540 screen? Just a thought.
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The two widgets I was seeing the problem on was the "Post" widget for TweekDeck and my Astrid Task widget. I've installed a couple of widgets from the HTC hub, playing around, but I don't have any of them active on the screen.
Let me tell you people...I had them bad, almost returned this thing because of it but in the back of my head I knew it was a software issue that would be fixed (either by HTC or an XDA developer.) I would get them, I would remove and replace the widget and they would eventually come back in a day or two.
Until, I temp rooted, hulu and overclocked, then I did a Zone skin, boom, problem solved! Don't ask me how, but ran for a week and no widget lines...actually lost ROOT today due to a dead battery, fired the phone up and there they were again!! ReRooted and they were gone, so my suspicions are that the HTC skins are the culprit because mine first started when I setup that blue-green HTC skin. Hope that helps.
Actually surprised this hasnt been discussed more, I noticed just a few people talked about it but no real solution.
I have the same problem on my widgets I made with desktop Visualizer. I usually just switch the theme and then switch it back. Always helps. Unfortunately I don't know how to prevent it from happening again.
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I get this problem every so often. I go into setting menu then go back home and it goes away, but it always comes back, very annoying.
Okay the question may sound trivial, but this is driving me nuts
When i set the forest live wallpaper (having my location set to a certain city using the zip code). The wallpaper is always the same it doesnt change with day or night, sunny or rainy or what so ever. Is there any special settings i should do to make this live wallpaper "live" ?
PS: I have stock 4.1.83
Im having the same problem with .91 it wont even do the tap screen for temp and it didn't work even before the update someone please help us out?
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I turned it on. I got night (which it is here). I tapped and got temp. I'm running Ken's Alien ROM. Wish I could be more helpful
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ramy_Maia said:
Okay the question may sound trivial, but this is driving me nuts
When i set the forest live wallpaper (having my location set to a certain city using the zip code). The wallpaper is always the same it doesnt change with day or night, sunny or rainy or what so ever. Is there any special settings i should do to make this live wallpaper "live" ?
PS: I have stock 4.1.83
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Check if you have a data connection properly on, and locations services in android settings also turned on. Cheers.
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No, No. I'm pretty sure they just ruined the wallpaper and made it a permanent blue. Because I can tap it and it shows the proper temperature.
I'm seeing this occur as well.
I thought it was just a new feature of GB. It's blue, GB is blue... But yea, I guess mine thinks it's night time as well. But it's 2pm with no clouds at 96*.
I really liked the black/off-white of the forest so I'd like that fixed.
I've tried all of the data options in settings, tried setting it to airplane mode for a few minutes before turning data back on. Tried rebooting etc. I will do a factory reset when I get home, not looking forward to that.
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I tried it again during the day, and I'm still getting the blue. There seems to be a few faint beams of light streaming through the trees, but it's barely noticeable.
I think the effect on the wallpaper is too low as well. And I loathe the white foreground under the app dock.
Same problem as OP. I've yet to see this wallpaper live. Help would be appreciated.
Whenever I set a wallpaper on my tab, after rotating and going back to landscape the background goes blank on half the screen. If I then rotate to portrait and back it resets but it's getting very irritating when this happens. Anyone else getting this or have any idea how to cure it? I even tried turning auto rotate off but still no luck. I also tried other wallpaper apps like wizardrii. Any help is greatly appreciated.
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Whenever I set a wallpaper on my tab, after rotating and going back to landscape the background goes blank on half the screen. If I then rotate to portrait and back it resets but it's getting very irritating when this happens. Anyone else getting this or have any idea how to cure it? I even tried turning auto rotate off but still no luck. I also tried other wallpaper apps like wizardrii. Any help is greatly appreciated.
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I had the same issue on a certain rom and kernel combo.. Not sure which it was cause I have re-flashed both since then..
thanks for quick reply, sorry should of stated my tab is totally standard touchwiz with no mods.
I'm in the same boat here... I thought I found a fix the other day. I just disabled the screen rotation so my screen stayed in landscape. Worked for about a day or so.
I don't know much on how Honeycomb handles setting wallpapers but i get the feeling it has something to do with that wierd crop function Honeycomb uses.
I use ADWex as my launcher and it still dose it.
I did notice that on my eVo4g (running Gingerbread 2.3.5, using ADWex) that when I turn my eVo from portrait to landscape the wallpaper doesn't resize or reposition its self near as nice as on Honeycomb(when it works like it's supposed to). So much so that I started just using an all black wallpaper.
Most likely its something that can be fixed with some kind of a matinace update. I haven't gottin around to rooting Tab yet to see if it happens on other rooms, and maybe I can get around to it next week.
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My wallpaper stopped rotating even though I set it to auto. I flashed the ROM I was using without doing a factory reset first and it got it working again
I had this problem to. Try using Wallpapyrus or Live Multi Wallpaper(wich i use now).
Never had that problem nomore.
I have a strange situation that keeps happening. Every so often the wallpaper on my Pixel 6 will change to a solid color (that resembles the theme of the wallpaper I had active - for example sometimes it is gray, other times brown). From that point I can't seem to get rid of the solid color unless I reboot the phone. After a reboot the correct (previously active) wallpaper is shown. When the solid color is there it is almost like it is on top of the wallpaper because in the wallpaper settings the pixel thinks that the wallpaper is set properly and if I change the wallpaper there the solid color just persists and I never get an updated wallpaper.
Does anyone know how to fix this? It seems to happen most after I have used Android Auto, but happens at other seemingly random times too. I appreciate any help as I have tried many things with no success.
Not sure about you but I have a IFTTT applet that changes my desktop to black if my battery gets low. Well I know that now. I forgot about it though after setting it up. Drove me ****ing bonkers. I spent the better part of my free time in the evenings for a several days coming back to the mystery after work. I was digging into some deep reading in developer forums and official studio documentation after a full stock fresh start and it was still occuring.
Are you using any theming, root, power saving, optimization type apps? Or remote access, docking? Could be a setting or feature of what you're connected to. Can you reproduce it at will? or is it genuinely random. Did you change any settings related to freeform windows, overlays, hardware acceleration, Or systemUI mods, tweaks, or any hidden settings. If you have root, do you have any modules you haven't really tested for compatibility? Does it happen at certain times? only with certain events or places? Do you have assistant set up? automation, tasking? Set up any routines to run in the background that might be failing to do something with the wallpaper and just defaults to best possible match. Have you changed anything to do with locations of your media, where apps are installed, or what folders they have access to? Are you casting to wireless screens? enabled any "second screen" features or settings? Have you modified the DPI beyond stock ranges. Maybe your accidently putting the screen on something with similar conductivity with skin and have smart lock enabled and your getting random input while not using it.
Could be a lot of things.
Identify specifics, change something, track results; rinse repeat.
Thanks for the suggestions. I have tried some and will look into others. Based on lack of activity this does not seem like a widespread issue, so it is likely just some software causing this issue. I will continue to investigate and hopefully find the culprit. Thank you again!