My Verizon GS4 was delivered on release day and I've never fallen in love with a phone as fast as I did this one. However, there is only one app that makes me sad that I had to give up when I left my Razr Maxx behind and that was Smart Actions.
I've tried Tasker and Phone Weaver and yes I'm a smart guy and can eventually figure out how to set up profiles, tasks, scenes, etc. But I just simply don't have the time. What I really miss about Smart Actions is it had several predefined sets of rules already built in but gave you the flexibility to tweak to make them suit your use. It was very simple to use and extremely quick to set up.
I tried porting over the Smart Actions apk from my Razr to my GS4 but as I'm sure you already know that didn't work.
Has anyone had any success with other similar apps, or maybe even knowledge of pre-built templates that could be downloaded and imported into either Tasker or Phone Weaver?
I would be eternally grateful.
You could try Settings Profile from Google play.
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Try Llama in the Play Store. It takes some setup but it's very easy and works great.
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Try Llama in the Play Store. It takes some setup but it's very easy and works great.
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I've been using Llama for about two years. Great app - does everything I need it to, and not as complicated as Tasker.
Thanks for the suggestions. I'll try both and report back on my experience with each in case other readers have the same questions.
I appreciate it!
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I spent several hours playing with Tasker and while it is very powerful, there is also a learning curve with it. My grandson told me about Automateit Pro ... within a few minutes I had duplicated what I had been using in SmartActions on my new Galaxy S5. For me anyway, it is much more intuitive than Tasker and I like it better than Llama as well. I believe there is a free version as well as the 'pro' version ... more options available in the pro version.
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One of the most common tasks i do many times a day, is turn the wifi in my ATT Tilt on and off. For this I have to go to the Comm Mgr and toggle it on and off. I've always wanted a one tap way of doing it, and had used BatteryStatus in the past, but its icon was too small. With Manilla2D, we dont even have that option anymore, but we do have the nice big manilla launcher.
So i put together some C++ code from myself and from samples around the web, and made a simple exe that just toggles the wifi on and off. I've cabbed it up, so that it will install into \Program Files and put a shortcut in \Windows\StartMenu\Programs called AKToggleWifi.
You can now add it to the Manilla launcher and it will show up as in the attached screenshot.
You can uninstall it from the Settings\System\Remove Programs.
I havent tested it on any device except my Tilt/Kaiser running a 6.1 ROM from Sakajati (Hyperdragon/Blackstone).
let me be the first one to say: THANK YOU.
many, many people have been waiting for this kind of solution before.
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bro
nice solution =D
if you got your keyboard open (for the tilt) you can always hit fn + right and it has the same effect. i just discovered the button a few days ago and it made my life easier but so shall this app.
thanks
Just flat out awesome. Works perfectly, using the default AT&T WM6.1 ROM minus bloatware.
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LOL, talk about timing.
P1Tater said:
LOL, talk about timing.
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Dave
i use Hbutton for that much more easyier
Wow.....useful. Thanks
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i use Hbutton for that much more easyier
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to be honest... it's recommended for anyone.. Hbutton is very very fast and works smoothly.. and also very stable.
you can set multiple apps for every button and there are many options to customize the way it loads them... also there are options to assign
Quit, Ok, Toggle WiFi, Toggle BT.. and many more options.
mmh, i use such a wifi toggle since one year, so i´m wonderíng why you made a new one, or did i miss anything ?
the one i´m using at the moment is also here at xda devs:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=2788804&postcount=2
here is another one that is 2 Years old but i think i rember it works only on wm5
http://www.ultimatelaunch.de/index_en.html (look at SmartUtilities)
so thank you for your work, but maybe next time some searching ?
big thanks for this function!!!
i'm looking for this for a long time!
i have a P3300 with alot physical buttons
then i searching to activate the wifi without switching to my home screen or comm manage to activate it.
if you can create samething for phone function
i'll be very very happy !!!!
thanks again for your work !!
i wanted something extremely simple to use, needed no configuration and didnt need other apps to be installed on the device. Hence i wrote this in C++. Yes, other tools can do more and thats great, but they all might require some setup. Since i flash often, i wanted something for myself that i can just use without using any brain energy. Hence the simple app. I'm glad some people find it useful... i certainly find it extremely useful for my own usage style. I released it to everyone rather than keep it to myself, because i have benefitted from the work by other developers on this site, and even if 1 other person finds it useful, i'm satisfied.
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mmh, i use such a wifi toggle since one year, so i´m wonderíng why you made a new one, or did i miss anything ?
the one i´m using at the moment is also here at xda devs:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=2788804&postcount=2
here is another one that is 2 Years old but i think i rember it works only on wm5
http://www.ultimatelaunch.de/index_en.html (look at SmartUtilities)
so thank you for your work, but maybe next time some searching ?
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do you mean you want something to turn just the phone radio off, similar to how this one turns wifi off? i'll look into it..havent looked at those api's yet, but it should be possible. However, just out my curiosity, why you want to turn the phone off so often?
Thol said:
big thanks for this function!!!
i'm looking for this for a long time!
i have a P3300 with alot physical buttons
then i searching to activate the wifi without switching to my home screen or comm manage to activate it.
if you can create samething for phone function
i'll be very very happy !!!!
thanks again for your work !!
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i wanted something extremely simple to use, needed no configuration and didnt need other apps to be installed on the device. Hence i wrote this in C++. Yes, other tools can do more and thats great, but they all might require some setup. Since i flash often, i wanted something for myself that i can just use without using any brain energy. Hence the simple app. I'm glad some people find it useful... i certainly find it extremely useful for my own usage style. I released it to everyone rather than keep it to myself, because i have benefitted from the work by other developers on this site, and even if 1 other person finds it useful, i'm satisfied.
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hehe dude. don't take this the wrong way. no one's judging. developing new apps is ALWAYS good.
cheers for the initiative.
I agree! Good on you for contributing! I want to say thanks for this app and I will be using it.
i am sorry AK and thanks again for your work.i just want to inform that there are allready existing such wifi toggles. they are simple small exe files and dont need any other application or must be modified, like yours.
HI!
Thanks for this great tool!, I will save some of my times
Could it be possible to get the same but for bluetooth ?
@akarnik: thanks mate, for a useful application. Cheers!
Hey guys,
It's been a few years but I used to do some programming with I was in highschool. I have a 3 year old son who has autism, and I am after an app that doesn't seem to have been developed yet. I was going to learn some java and give it a go myself but I don't really have the time...
There are a couple of apps that I am already using with him, but they are all to easy to exit from, and to move from one to another you have to exit and then open the next. My son can't do that, but he has no problems finding the settings!
So what I need is a launcher app that has just the one home screen maybe, and the screen only has a couple large app choices that I can place there, but he can't delete. He also should not be able to get to settings unless I put a code in somewhere out something like that.
There is an app similar, but it is still to easy to get to the settings. So I really need an app to be developed.
Can anyone suggest how I could get this to happen? If it makes any difference, I need it for a tablet.
Thanks dean
Swiped on my Gnex
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I am just starting to learn how to develop apps for android. I want to start by making some nice easy apps and work my way up to harder stuff. Im having trouble thinking of apps that would be easy to make. I don't really care if they are usefull or reallistic.
Could developers post some app ideas that are good for learning perposes. I figure this will be usefull for others who are in the same situation as well.
It would be helpful if you put a general difficulty level and any hints/suggested research topics.
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I am just starting to learn how to develop apps for android. I want to start by making some nice easy apps and work my way up to harder stuff. Im having trouble thinking of apps that would be easy to make. I don't really care if they are usefull or reallistic.
Could developers post some app ideas that are good for learning perposes. I figure this will be usefull for others who are in the same situation as well.
It would be helpful if you put a general difficulty level and any hints/suggested research topics.
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Look for some tutorials for a to-do list, or a currency converter.
Probably the best thing is to think about a "real" application and then try to implement it.
There are a lots of problem that you could find (connections, storing, parsing..), but they depends on the application.
Thanks thats the kind of stuff im looking for!
Keep them coming people. I would like to see this thread become a resource for people of different levels as well.
I'd really like someone to develop a calendar app where I can swipe down the hours on day view to set my shifts. I get 20 different shifts a per month, loading them individually into stock calendar on my phone is laborious. If I could press on 6am and swipe to 4pm, this would be great. I have searched high and low on the market for this function.
If this is something that you're interested in, let me know and I can expand somewhat.
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I'd really like someone to develop a calendar app where I can swipe down the hours on day view to set my shifts. I get 20 different shifts a per month, loading them individually into stock calendar on my phone is laborious. If I could press on 6am and swipe to 4pm, this would be great. I have searched high and low on the market for this function.
If this is something that you're interested in, let me know and I can expand somewhat.
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Business Calendar has the swiping action in its Add Event screen.
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There's a 'hello world' app tutorial, in coding one simple code.example I'be seen is making tthe screen print "hello world", I assume this is a similar concept. Theyvare in the Development and Hacking section.
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So here is my question for you all. I am new to Jelly Bean but not new to custom roms. Having the s4 for a week, I love the device but there are many things that I can't stand. I have a couple of questions wondering if root will fix, or if I need to wait for some cool roms to come out. Here are my 2 wishlist items:
1. Change the default voice app program. I hate how laggy S Voice is, just like Siri. Is there a way that I can make double tapping the button to launch google now waiting for an audio command vs s voice? I discovered that holding menu will launch google now and I can say the word "google" for it to hear my commands. 1 Handed operation while driving makes it very hard to launch. I hate to say it but one thing I loved about my iPhone was even with the phone sleeping, I could hold that button to fire up siri.
2. With root, is there a way to enable the phone to force CDMA/EVDO only? There are situations that LTE is giving me 1 bar in my office where CDMA is giving me 4 bars.
Thank you for any advice you may have to give!
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I too would like to know if there is a way to go to 3g only. 4g sucks at my work.
I'm a volunteer firefighter from Europe. We get notified about various events, where we're needed, over SMS messages, which get overlooked by some members, especially in the evenings. We are looking for an app, that would basically use the received sms message as a trigger, for the phone to start flashing, vibrating, ringing on full volume, until turned off. In the past we've used FireAlert2, which worked perfectly, but unfortunately wasn't updated for quite some time now, so it's not properly working on all phones.
I created a simillar post on Reddit already, but didn't get many replies. There were two nice recommendations so far:
- Tasker (paid)
-Macrodroid (started looking into it yesterday and already played around with some macros)
Was wondering if there's anyting else out there, since this forum is more specific about this theme.
Thank you!
@Timmmmaaahh! Sir, are you using something like this in your Belgian fire brigade?
Thanks for the mention, @Oswald Boelcke
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I'm a volunteer firefighter from Europe. We get notified about various events, where we're needed, over SMS messages, which get overlooked by some members, especially in the evenings. We are looking for an app, that would basically use the received sms message as a trigger, for the phone to start flashing, vibrating, ringing on full volume, until turned off. In the past we've used FireAlert2, which worked perfectly, but unfortunately wasn't updated for quite some time now, so it's not properly working on all phones.
I created a simillar post on Reddit already, but didn't get many replies. There were two nice recommendations so far:
- Tasker (paid)
-Macrodroid (started looking into it yesterday and already played around with some macros)
Was wondering if there's anyting else out there, since this forum is more specific about this theme.
Thank you!
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Hey RunoTheDog
I'm a volunteer firefighter in Belgium. Our alerting is done via SMS but also with the Verdi system, which is a commercial solution for first responders. Of course, this is government funded. We all have a loud alert set to that application and allow it to break DND. Before we had this (and also relied on just SMS on our phones) I just had loud alerts set for just the emergency numbers from our department. I've always used Textra but I'm sure other SMS apps have the same feature. We've also always had separate Swissphone pagers so we rarely miss an alert.
Cheers
Timmy
Thank you @Timmmmaaahh!