I'm a tasker newb, my problem is that I do not have the option to load apps in the app action section of tasks in Tasker. I mean it is literally not there. I have the options for
Calendar Insert
Go Home
Kill App
Launch App
Test App
No Load App, and Load Last app is unavailable. Been playing around with Tasker for about two weeks and have installed it/uninstalled it. Still the same. I have made/used a few profiles but wanted to make the simple headphone plugin music player menu profile but I cant do it if I have no way of loading aps to a menu. Is there something I'm missing, doing wrong? Or does it simply not work with my phone, a rooted galaxy s4? Has anyone else had this experience? Is there a solution
Siafu357 said:
I'm a tasker newb, my problem is that I do not have the option to load apps in the app action section of tasks in Tasker. I mean it is literally not there. I have the options for
Calendar Insert
Go Home
Kill App
Launch App
Test App
No Load App, and Load Last app is unavailable. Been playing around with Tasker for about two weeks and have installed it/uninstalled it. Still the same. I have made/used a few profiles but wanted to make the simple headphone plugin music player menu profile but I cant do it if I have no way of loading aps to a menu. Is there something I'm missing, doing wrong? Or does it simply not work with my phone, a rooted galaxy s4? Has anyone else had this experience? Is there a solution
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If you want a singular app to load when your headset is plugged in, say Spotify for example you can use the launch app action and select Spotify. If you're wanting a selection of apps to pick from when you plug you're headset in, you're going to have to create a scene to do this. I suggest going over the pocketables tutorials or looking up the Tasker google group.
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Hello,
I was playing around with Tasker and Zooper Widget and tried adding a button to turn on radio (not just the FM Radio application, but use the button within it) from a widget. But after searching around I haven't got much luck.
I've tried Tasker's Phone > Radio action, but that isn't available for some reason. The application that I have on my phone is a built in FM Radio, so my question would be if there's any way to open it and press a button with in, or is there an intent I can "call" or some other way?
Thanks for reading,
Mr.P.
Yeah in tasker there are dpad actions. Up, down, left, right, press etc so you may be able to
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today I booted my second rom which is a stock one and I remembered your search for a way to launch the in-app buttons of the fm app
so I don't know if you solved your problem but I decompiled the app and I found two interesting intents:
com.sec.android.app.fm.widget.on and com.sec.android.app.fm.widget.off
If you launch these intents in tasker you can switch on and off the radio app (just in Tasker task -> send Intent -> write the intent under "Action")
attached the whole androidmanifest if you want to search for other intents
if you already solved the problem just ignore this
Darkened_Sky said:
today I booted my second rom which is a stock one and I remembered your search for a way to launch the in-app buttons of the fm app
so I don't know if you solved your problem but I decompiled the app and I found two interesting intents:
com.sec.android.app.fm.widget.on and com.sec.android.app.fm.widget.off
If you launch these intents in tasker you can switch on and off the radio app (just in Tasker task -> send Intent -> write the intent under "Action")
attached the whole androidmanifest if you want to search for other intents
if you already solved the problem just ignore this
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cool.
Hello,
I've had my new phone for a few weeks. I love having an HTC again, but I seem to be missing some things. So, I have a few questions about my ATT HTC m8.
First is Car Mode. My last HTC had it, the internet seems to say I should have it, yet on my AT&T device I cannot seem to find it. It it there and I'm missing it? Is it on the AT&T model? If not is there an apk file I can get to add it?
Second is a task manager. I can close out recent tasks, but they remain open in the background. The older HTCs had a task manager. Am I missing it? I would rather not have to use a 3rd party app.
Last is a flashlight. Is there not one pre installed on this device?
Thanks for taking your time to respond!
There is a thread with the flashlight.apk over in the Themes and Apps section.
DriveMode is ATTs version. No built in task manager or flashlight that I'm aware of though.
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Thanks for the help. After further research I did see that the ATT version does not have Car Mode.... SOO.... This is where I am a little more confused....
I installed a 3rd party car mode app. CarHome Ultra to be exact. The crazy thing is if I open the app, press tap to set, then go to applications Car Mode is there! The HTC version! After going back to my application manager and going to ALL I do see the car app(I looked before but must have missed it). It's not accessible without going through that 3rd party app to get there though.... Any ideas? Anyway to make it accessible without rooting my device?
I know it might be silly going though so much work, but I'd rather have stock applications.
By the way! Thanks for the flashlight apk and the other info!
bnjmnhinkle said:
Thanks for the help. After further research I did see that the ATT version does not have Car Mode.... SOO.... This is where I am a little more confused....
I installed a 3rd party car mode app. CarHome Ultra to be exact. The crazy thing is if I open the app, press tap to set, then go to applications Car Mode is there! The HTC version! After going back to my application manager and going to ALL I do see the car app(I looked before but must have missed it). It's not accessible without going through that 3rd party app to get there though.... Any ideas? Anyway to make it accessible without rooting my device?
I know it might be silly going though so much work, but I'd rather have stock applications.
By the way! Thanks for the flashlight apk and the other info!
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HTC Car Mode is actually on the phone but AT&T has it hidden. (the Icon looks like a steering wheel) You can easily add a shortcut to it by using QuickShortcutMaker from the Play Store
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sika524.android.quickshortcut
The app scans your phone and then lists all the apps on it. You then select the app you want and it will add a shortcut to tha app you one of your home screens. It won't add it to the app drawer but it is fully functional as a shortcut on your home screen. Hope this helped
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HTC Car Mode is actually on the phone but AT&T has it hidden. (the Icon looks like a steering wheel) You can easily add a shortcut to it by using QuickShortcutMaker from the Play Store
The app scans your phone and then lists all the apps on it. You then select the app you want and it will add a shortcut to tha app you one of your home screens. It won't add it to the app drawer but it is fully functional as a shortcut on your home screen. Hope this helped
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Thanks. That worked like a charm! Cool app as well. I really appreciate it.
Hey guys!
I wanted to play around with the Tasker app and got the idea to automate Google Play Music with it.
In one of the latest updates for GPM there is an Option to only show my downloaded content.
So what I wanted to do was to automatically switch to "downloaded content only" when my phone
disconnects from any wifi network and switch back to "everything" when my phone connects to wifi.
I have not found an option to perform in-app-actions like that in Tasker but i have found the option to run scripts.
Since i'm not really into scripts and programming i'd like to ask if there is anybody here who can help me with that.
Thanks in advance!
When delay shutdown is enabled some apps continue working. For example the podcast app I'm using continues playing all the two hours until real shutdown if not paused manually before. On the other hand some apps seem to stop. I wonder if anybody has some info on what is happening during delay. Are there some system messages which could be processed by the app to sense power off?
I don't know the answer to this, but have more questions / observations.
I installed the app Car Service, so I can control Spotify via the wheel. This is closed when the delayed shutdown happens, so, when I turn on again within that time the wheel controls no longer work unless I start the app manually. Very annoying!
I really could do with working out what is deciding if an app should stay running or be closed.
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When delay shutdown is enabled some apps continue working. For example the podcast app I'm using continues playing all the two hours until real shutdown if not paused manually before. On the other hand some apps seem to stop. I wonder if anybody has some info on what is happening during delay. Are there some system messages which could be processed by the app to sense power off?
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You can use Tasker with MTC Manager to do this. MTCM sends a broadcast intent during poweroff that can be used to trigger a task
Tasker Profile: Event, System, Intent Recived, Action: "com.microntek.bootcheck" // leave everything else blank.
Profile Task: Media, Media Control, Cmd Pause, select your app. If: %class ~ poweroff
Thanks a lot for this profound reply. Will try it right away.
carter.w.jason said:
You can use Tasker with MTC Manager to do this. MTCM sends a broadcast intent during poweroff that can be used to trigger a task
Tasker Profile: Event, System, Intent Recived, Action: "com.microntek.bootcheck" // leave everything else blank.
Profile Task: Media, Media Control, Cmd Pause, select your app. If: %class ~ poweroff
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Forgive my ignorance, but what is the MTC manager? i tried to set up this profile in tasker, but had no luck. i have the malaysk 5.1 rom installed.
madmikethespoon said:
Forgive my ignorance, but what is the MTC manager? i tried to set up this profile in tasker, but had no luck. i have the malaysk 5.1 rom installed.
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MTC manager is a service that handles all the source switching and custom functions of these head units. Could you change the profile task to something else? Lets see if the profile is working, could be some changes on 5.1. Maybe have it write a file since the screen will be off.
I'm using the Mate 10 Pro.
I listen to Spotify in my car. Right now every time I enter my car, I have to start up Spotify on my phone, which is quite annoying. On my previous phone (Mate 7), I could add Spotify to the "Protected Apps" and it wouldn't shut down anymore.
Is there a way to solve it in Mate 10 Pro/Oreo 8.0.0/EMUI 8.0.0?
So far I have:
- Added Spotify to "Ignore Battery Optimization" (Status: "allowed")
- In Launch, I deactivated "Manage automatically" and set all three option active (Auto-launch / Secondary launch / Run in Background)
I don't know what else to do. Any help appreciated!
The stock music player app takes precedence over spotify and others. So if there is any sample music on your phone, it will try to launch that first. Maybe remove any locally stored music and try again.
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The stock music player app takes precedence over spotify and others. So if there is any sample music on your phone, it will try to launch that first. Maybe remove any locally stored music and try again.
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Thanks, but I already did that. I removed all rights from the "Music" player and deleted all files in the same folder. I created a new folder, named it "My Music", so since then (about 1 month ago) the default Music player has not played anything anmore That's good so far. My issue is really just that it shuts down Spotify.
I noticed that when I'm at work. Maybe another hour later, I still see the Spotify icon on top of the screen, so it wasn't shut down. But sometimes later during the day, it's suddenly gone. So when I'm back in the car, I need to start the app again.
I also tried to hit the "open apps" button (the one next to the home button), then clicked the lock icon. But didn't help either.
I dont use spotify throughout the entire day, but usually as long as I wasn't playing a random video or gif online just before entering my car, spotify will start back up.
I cant say that it runs in the background all the time when not in use. Its like my car triggers it to re-open when it reconnects to bt.
I have a mazda 3 though, all cars seem to act different for BT connectivity.
The thing is, if I leave my car to go shopping or something quick and I get back in my car, it works perfectly fine.
Therefore by my logic, I can rule out the BT of my car. When this happens as explained before, the Icon still remains on top in the notification bar.
So, I guess in the end, for some reason my phone just shuts down Spotify.
Anyway, thanks for your input.
I Have the same problem with VPN App it work fine in background but After a while the App Closed Why?
Having a similar problem with VPN app and also with Youmail visual voicemail. No notification of new voicemails until I open the app. Any ideas? I also set to ignore battery optimization and launch manually.
You need to deactivate the battery settings of the app.
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You need to deactivate the battery settings of the app.
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That doesn't help. Apps still shut down in background.
FWIW, I have noticed that battery optimization (Launch in settings) changes can be hit or miss. Some apps perform as set. For instance, I have some items set to manage automatically and they seem to stop when I want them to. However apps like Facebook when Set to manage manually and run in background is off, it does not stop. Other apps set this same way will be stopped. Not really sure how it works actually.