I have a profile with context car dock, and navigation app cause mobile data to turn on, wait a minute and turn off. I tested it in the tasker app, and mobile data turns on fine and it works.
But when I try to open the nav in the car dock app it just wont turn on mobile data. Any ideas?
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Hi everyone,
Coming from Windows Mobile & iPhone system, I realized Android system doesn't automatically enable/disable 3G, thus it drains the battery if I leave it on, or have to go through the inconvenience to manually enabling it before starting browser, chat, or Facebook.
Since this is only my 4th day on the Streak, I'd like to ask if anyone knows there's a widget or app like this?
With many thanks,
Tom.
Tasker is a pretty useful app for that kind of stuff, I have it configured to turn on airplane mode on launching certain apps, but you can just as easily set it to turn on data and have it default to data off.
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tom_tui said:
Hi everyone,
Coming from Windows Mobile & iPhone system, I realized Android system doesn't automatically enable/disable 3G, thus it drains the battery if I leave it on, or have to go through the inconvenience to manually enabling it before starting browser, chat, or Facebook.
Since this is only my 4th day on the Streak, I'd like to ask if anyone knows there's a widget or app like this?
With many thanks,
Tom.
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If i am not wrong the windows/iPhone never enable 3G or 2G automatically. you have to toggle 3G on and off manually
Two ways to do this. first, if it's a widget you want, there's one built in. Long press the home "room" and select widgets. Then select the Power control Widget. It gives you single button push for bluetooth, wifi, gps, active sync, and brightness control.
The other way is press on the little tray that has the battery and other icons in it, and you will see the button to turn wifi on or off, as well as bluetooth.
Juice Defender does what you want. It disables 3g when asleep, turning on periodically to check for email and stuff and enables 3g when your phone is awake. Very customisable too!
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You can automate this with 3GBattery.
3GBattery|Google Play
Does anyone use this app? Seems it would automate almost anything on the phone. Any ideas or set ups on what automation works would be appreciated.
thanks
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I use AutomateIt, it does a lot of stuff. Gonna go check this one out.
AutomateIt does all the same stuff, from what I could see, and for free.
I use tasker... I love it. I have tasks that puts the phone into silent mode when I get into my office, and one that turns the volume down low during night hours... the possibilities are almost endless.
Tasker is awesome! I use it to automagically turn on Bluetooth, GPS, but mainly got it to mute in meetings.
I prefer Llama. Its free and working great. Easy to set up, too
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I think tasker has a lot of possibilities.. I have this app, but can not figure out how to program it for the life of me!
I would like to make it so when I pull the device out of my pocket, the screen will light up (light sensor trick)
However, I can not figure it out.. has anyone done this on the Atrix, and if so, would you mind sharing?
Main thing I use it for is Google Maps. I have it set to automatically turn on GPS as soon as I open Maps. I'll admit though..that trying to program Tasker is a task in itself..and I can never get other peoples Profiles to install onto my phone from their website.
http://tasker.wikidot.com/
Does anyone know why I would be getting an error "Unfortunately, the process com.android.phone has stopped" whenever a tasker function is started?
I used the wiki page to set up the GPS to enable for Navigation and Maps using the Secure Settings add on. Whenever I start the Navi I get the error message, then have to exit and re-enter the app. After the first time, the error message does not pop up again, no matter how many times I open and close Navigation. The GPS works fine, and disables when I exit the app, but it's kind of annoying.
Thanks
I thought there was a feature on these phone that you can set it to turn it off when you leave your house and then turn back on when you get back home. I just can't find how to do it.
fredox19 said:
I thought there was a feature on these phone that you can set it to turn it off when you leave your house and then turn back on when you get back home. I just can't find how to do it.
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I think your thinking of the NFC ability.
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Try Tasker from the market/play store.
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Llama can do this as well and its free.
You could go the cool guy route and use NFC tags. That's what I'll be doing.
CNET Explains NFC Tags
Tags For Droid
There is an app in the Market called Auto Wifi Toggle. I use that, works great. There is also an app called Power Saver Settings (ICS) by Derek Reynolds (aka myn on xda) that shows some hidden settings in ICS. There is an option that is turned off by default that will turn off wifi when it isn't connected, so it works the same way but I'm not sure how well that works. I've been using AWT for years now. Only one issue that I find is that when restoring from TB, it doesn't work until you reconfigure it. No big deal
use power setting from derek (myn) in google play, option to turn wifi off when no connected
ticklemepinks said:
use power setting from derek (myn) in google play, option to turn wifi off when no connected
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Didn't seem to work. It didn't do anything.
nabbed said:
Didn't seem to work. It didn't do anything.
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It might only catch the disconnect event, meaning, you may need to enable that option, connect to a wifi network, exit the range of that wifi network and it should trigger wifi off. There may also be a small waiting period before it does it, not sure. But that would only make sense to wait 30sec - 1 min before shutting off wifi.
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It might only catch the disconnect event, meaning, you may need to enable that option, connect to a wifi network, exit the range of that wifi network and it should trigger wifi off. There may also be a small waiting period before it does it, not sure. But that would only make sense to wait 30sec - 1 min before shutting off wifi.
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I waited for about 4-5 minutes. Perhaps these ics hidden power saving features simply weren't implemented.
I personally use Y5 Battery Saver from the store. Simple, free, and turns WiFi off when you are out of range.
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I have a simple wee Tasker profile set up so that when 20 or so applications are started it'll check to see if Wifi is disconnected (%WIFII !~ *CONNECTED*) and then automatically start Mobile Data if that is true.
I have a same thing with GPS, but fewer apps that trigger it to activate.
Works fine, but .... the problem I have is that the mobile data (or GPS) doesn't connect quickly enough and I'll get something like "No Connection", so I have to manually refresh the app for it to pick up the fact there is a data link or GPS active.
Sounds like no big deal I know, but if (for example) I'm on my motorbike with the phone in my pocket, it is
I can be listening to music via BT, but if I ask it to navigate somewhere, it has a hissy fit, so I have to stop, gloves off, cancel the warnings, manually navigate, gloves on ... yadda yadda ...
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Rather than setting up a task for eeeevery single app, is there a variable I can use so that I can re-load the last called app?
... Something like:
Code:
Enable mobile Data
Sleep 2s
Launch Application %LASTAPP
Or is there a way to define a variable with the last app name as step 1 so I can re-launch the app again as the last step?
Code:
Set Variable %WHATCHADOIN ~ (%APP)
Enable mobile Data
Sleep 2s
Launch Application %WHATCHADOIN
I set "Keep Wifi on during sleep" to "Always". I do this with all of my devices, as I like to have them connected to Wifi if it's available as soon as I wake it up.
However, the connection manager (or some other app/service) on the Desire seems to take control nearly every time I hit the power button. The phone comes on and I'll be connected to Wifi. But then it switches off and connects to the 3G/4G data signal for a few seconds. Then switches back to Wifi. This is especially annoying when I've already launched an app and it disconnects me.
I tried using Titanium Backup to "freeze" an app that is called something like Connection Manager, but this odd connection flip still occurs.
Does anyone know what is causing this and how I can fix it? I'm still on 4.2 if that makes a difference.
Thank you!
rubejb said:
I set "Keep Wifi on during sleep" to "Always". I do this with all of my devices, as I like to have them connected to Wifi if it's available as soon as I wake it up.
However, the connection manager (or some other app/service) on the Desire seems to take control nearly every time I hit the power button. The phone comes on and I'll be connected to Wifi. But then it switches off and connects to the 3G/4G data signal for a few seconds. Then switches back to Wifi. This is especially annoying when I've already launched an app and it disconnects me.
I tried using Titanium Backup to "freeze" an app that is called something like Connection Manager, but this odd connection flip still occurs.
Does anyone know what is causing this and how I can fix it? I'm still on 4.2 if that makes a difference.
Thank you!
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I'm not sure how you do it after-the-fact but I know when I first setup the device on VM it popped up and you had to consent to use it and agree to the terms. If you say no to both of the those the app never bothers you again. I'm not sure how you get back into the app though to disable it after it being allowed to run.
You could try going to Settings -> Apps -> ALL and then force stop the program and clear all the cache/data/defaults maybe it will clear out your consent to use the program and your agreement to usage terms allowing you to say no the next time it runs.