turn your android phone into an automated superphone

[techead]

ok this might be old news to most of you, but Im kinda new to Android and this is freakin awesome coming from iOS

link

app

busy fiddling around with it now

so who is using this? what profiles you got?

 

[KSINGH]

R50 :erm:

 

[Sherbang]

Awesome app, I've often widhed I could automate things based on location...
will have to try it out (when I get an android phone, that is)

 

[Park@82]

also see Llama for location profiles...

 

[Toitjie]

try this

https://www.onx.ms/#!landingPage

 

[Park@82]

others here: http://android.appstorm.net/roundup...tasker-alternatives-to-automate-your-android/

 

[techead]

ok, one thing that is utterly retarded is that you cant turn-on GPS per application.

apparently some limit of the OS and you have to have a rooted OS.

all I wanted to do was enable GPS when I fire up maps/places/navigation

sigh

 

[OGroteKoning]

ok, one thing that is utterly retarded is that you cant turn-on GPS per application.

apparently some limit of the OS and you have to have a rooted OS.

all I wanted to do was enable GPS when I fire up maps/places/navigation

sigh

Rooting is not that bad... consider it if it will make GPS work for you

 

[Park@82]

why not keep gps on? taxing on battery? /I keep mine on but don't use location profiles so wouldn't know...

 

[CranialBlaze]

Old news, but nothing wrong with that, its a fantastic app. Probably the best money I have ever spent

 

[kimbo]

How do i tell Tasker i am not at home. I set up location via GPS with radius 30m for home and i told Tasker to disable data and switch wifi on but now how do tell it that if i am not at this location do some other tasks?

 

[CranialBlaze]

How do i tell Tasker i am not at home. I set up location via GPS with radius 30m for home and i told Tasker to disable data and switch wifi on but now how do tell it that if i am not at this location do some other tasks?

Too lazy to pick up my phone now, but off hand I would say use an exit task. Entry task being when here do this, exit being the opposite.

Seeing as wifi is one of the friendliest processes on the phone I personally just leave it on and use it as the trigger instead of GPS which uses infinitely more battery power.
Rather have my GPS only ever turn on under certain circumstances.

 

[kimbo]

Too lazy to pick up my phone now, but off hand I would say use an exit task. Entry task being when here do this, exit being the opposite.

Seeing as wifi is one of the friendliest processes on the phone I personally just leave it on and use it as the trigger instead of GPS which uses infinitely more battery power.
Rather have my GPS only ever turn on under certain circumstances.

Tx I will try to set it up .. tx for the tip

 

[kimbo]

Entry task being when here do this, exit being the opposite...

Could you help me with this please .. i am a newbi

 

[Dylan_G]

ok, one thing that is utterly retarded is that you cant turn-on GPS per application.

apparently some limit of the OS and you have to have a rooted OS.

all I wanted to do was enable GPS when I fire up maps/places/navigation

sigh

App isn't retarded. You have to be root to do that. And no, its not the developers problem. Root your phone if you want the feature.

How do i tell Tasker i am not at home. I set up location via GPS with radius 30m for home and i told Tasker to disable data and switch wifi on but now how do tell it that if i am not at this location do some other tasks?

Could you help me with this please .. i am a newbi

I prefer Llama to do this kind of thing. Finding your location using GPS would require GPS to stay on(Or switch on and off) which kills your battery. LLama just takes note of which cell towers you are connected to and can therefore find your location. It is mostly accurate and is simpler to use over all(although it does lack some of the more "power options") of Tasker.

 

[CranialBlaze]

Could you help me with this please .. i am a newbi

Long press on ur entry task, green arrow, u will gt the option to add the exit task.

 

[CranialBlaze]

ok, one thing that is utterly retarded is that you cant turn-on GPS per application.

apparently some limit of the OS and you have to have a rooted OS.

all I wanted to do was enable GPS when I fire up maps/places/navigation

sigh

Dont blame the app, google made the choice to block app acces to gps toggle, and depending on what phone you have rooting may not b enough, if u on aosp then you need to flash a custom rom, touchwiz and htc sense open the lock partially as they put in gps toggles so with secure settings u can enable tasker gps with just rooting.

 

[CranialBlaze]

App isn't retarded. You have to be root to do that. And no, its not the developers problem. Root your phone if you want the feature.





I prefer Llama to do this kind of thing. Finding your location using GPS would require GPS to stay on(Or switch on and off) which kills your battery. LLama just takes note of which cell towers you are connected to and can therefore find your location. It is mostly accurate and is simpler to use over all(although it does lack some of the more "power options") of Tasker.

Problem with using location on cell tower is u need to work really far from home. The strongest cell tower to my house is 5km away and is the same tower i pick up at work which is another 3km.

As wifi uses minimal power you can use the ssid as ur trigger, and in case u neva knew tasker can also use cell towers for locations. Newer cell tower, like cellcs have 5x normal range and a single tower can cover up to a 70km radius making cell towers absolutely useless for some.

 

[Dylan_G]

Problem with using location on cell tower is u need to work really far from home. The strongest cell tower to my house is 5km away and is the same tower i pick up at work which is another 3km.

As wifi uses minimal power you can use the ssid as ur trigger, and in case u neva knew tasker can also use cell towers for locations. Newer cell tower, like cellcs have 5x normal range and a single tower can cover up to a 70km radius making cell towers absolutely useless for some.

Yeah, I understand that. You have the option of using multiple towers to create a more defined location. Are there no more towers to connect to ? At home, I have 10 different cells connected(of course, I would think its only 3 that really give the location) and in the case of area 2 its 2 towers. They have a slight amount of overlap, so I use the condition of being connected to my home Wifi as a final check.

I have a place that I frequent thats about 200m away from my house and it knows when I'm in either of these areas. Of course, there are blind spots such as when I'm in the bathroom and it thinks I'm in the other location.

The thing about wifi is when I'm in location 1 (home) then its wifi on, mobile data off, auto sync on, brightness lowered. When I'm in location 2 then its the opposites as I keep the Wifi off to conserve data because it won't be connecting to anything, but I'm guessing you use Wifi in both places ?

 

[kimbo]

Long press on ur entry task, green arrow, u will gt the option to add the exit task.

Thank you