Hello!
I've been looking around the android marketplace and Googling looking for an application that will auto power-down the G-Tablet after a pre-determined length of inactivity (similar to the screen timeout setting).
I've looked around and I can find android apps that turn devices on and off at certain times and even sets different profiles but I don't want it to turn of at a certain time (e.g. 7pm) I want it to turn off, if my case, one hour after inactivity.
Any ideas or apps I've overlooked?
Thanks
johnsonjf said:
Hello!
I've been looking around the android marketplace and Googling looking for an application that will auto power-down the G-Tablet after a pre-determined length of inactivity (similar to the screen timeout setting).
I've looked around and I can find android apps that turn devices on and off at certain times and even sets different profiles but I don't want it to turn of at a certain time (e.g. 7pm) I want it to turn off, if my case, one hour after inactivity.
Any ideas or apps I've overlooked?
Thanks
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Not sure if it can do exactly this, but Tasker is a very robust scripting/action system. Let's you define scripts/actions based on conditions. I've not tried to do what you are after, but it's likely worth a look:
https://market.android.com/details?id=net.dinglisch.android.taskerm&feature=search_result
Note that this is a paid app. Might be some similar apps for free. This is the only one I know of.
I'll take a look at it or see if I can dig up some free alternatives. You'd think android would have a feature like this built-in, but I guess since the android tablet market is relatively new, it's not a feature that would be wanted in phones.
I'm willing to bet that Honeycomb has this feature added to it.
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Hi,
I've tried searching for this, but have only found this thread in the Nexus One General Section.
My question is the same, but on the Galaxy Note:
Is there any way, (without installing anything extra if at all possible), to keep the screen from timing out when using Google Maps?
I've seen that apps such as Moon+ Reader have a "Keep Awake" function, but neither the device itself or Google Maps has any option to prevent timeout while in use.
The thread I linked mentions that using navigation mode prevents timeout, but not on my Note.
This is a completely stock unrooted (yet) device.
It is a real distraction to have to keep unlocking the screen repeatedly every few minutes when driving in heavy traffic.
Any suggestions?
TIA
NPP
pillainp said:
Hi,
I've tried searching for this, but have only found this thread in the Nexus One General Section.
My question is the same, but on the Galaxy Note:
Is there any way, (without installing anything extra if at all possible), to keep the screen from timing out when using Google Maps?
I've seen that apps such as Moon+ Reader have a "Keep Awake" function, but neither the device itself or Google Maps has any option to prevent timeout while in use.
The thread I linked mentions that using navigation mode prevents timeout, but not on my Note.
This is a completely stock unrooted (yet) device.
It is a real distraction to have to keep unlocking the screen repeatedly every few minutes when driving in heavy traffic.
Any suggestions?
TIA
NPP
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=765081
it can be configured per App, and for whatever time you like.
as an alternative, although I'm sure you have your reasons for not having done so, I found google navigation far more efficient as a driving aid, screen stays on and has all features of maps?
Edit.... Sorry, reread, see navigation not keeping screen on on yours, apologies.
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I use Keepscreen from the marketplace. Very configurable.
I am guessing you are not on go launcher, but if you are it's got a widget that controls screen time out which can be set to infinity.
Btw if you haven't tried go launcher, try it.it's really good.
I just got this watch today and spent the day going through the options, and finding out how things worked. I have moved from the Gear Fit which I liked, due the functionality of what it did, suited me for what I needed. One of these functions was the Timer.
The Live's Timer app is very stupid in comparison. You can't specify an exact minute / second combination except by voice, and I can't figure out how to view the timer, once it's started, to view the time that's left. Once the Timer starts, it basically goes into hiding and you can't bring it up again?
Is there a good countdown timer app that anybody knows of? This is basically the only function that I need, to move from the Gear Fit full time.
I have downloaded a number of apps specified in the 150+ Apps thread, of which have made the watch so much better than the Fit, but there doesn't seem to be any Timer / Countdown in the search.
TIA
So..... I love this phone so far! OMG so much better than my older S4.
That said, I use the phone in my car a lot and I use it in my car in landscape mode rather than portrait.
I'm tired of seeing the lockscreen time sideways!!!
It certainly seems like there is no way to rotate the lockscreen with the orientation of the device.
There are also other apps which seem to disregard orientation such as the phone application.
I tried using the "Screen Orientation App" from the play store that was recommended on other forums for other phones and while it was able to force landscape for the phone app, it was unable to do so for the lockscreen. Furthermore, it left this really annoying notification in the status bar. Upon further investigation, it seems that all of the orientation forcing apps do this!
I also saw another thread that mentioned editing the build.props, but of course that will require root and I'm just tired of rooting phones (Been doing it since the Droid 1) and the constant battle that is keeping root through OTA updates. I work for a large open source software company, so I think I've got enough 'nix systems on which I have root at my fingertips (Yes, posting this from a Fedora 20 laptop right now).
Anyway, I appreciate any advice you all can give. Should I try one of the myriad car dock apps on the play store?
I recently decided to root my droid turbo since it seems like we are never going to get the lollipop update ?. Im already seeing improvements in battery life and performance by using various apps like clean master and battery doctor.
I was wondering if anyone knew of any apps that would know when I'm using a certain app and toggle certain setting when I am and off when I'm not. For example, if I pull up the maps app, I obviously need location on so as soon as I open it, it turns location on, and then when I'm done with the all, turns it back off.
Ive seen the "tasker" app on the Google play store that's like 2.99 and I didn't know if it would do that or not.
Thanks in advance!!
IIRC, Tasker does this. I think Llama (similar to Tasker) can also do it.
drexhex said:
IIRC, Tasker does this. I think Llama (similar to Tasker) can also do it.
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Yes, Tasker does this with the addition of Secure Settings. You can set it so that whenever you open apps X, Y, Z, it will automatically toggle GPS.
I have this set up for Maps, Yelp, etc. When I exit the app, GPS is turned off after a 2 minute delay (it kept disabling GPS if I quickly switched to another app during navigation, so I set a longer delay than most tutorials suggested)
http://www.csullender.com/blog/2014/01/26/automatic-high-accuracy-android-location/
ds728 said:
Yes, Tasker does this with the addition of Secure Settings. You can set it so that whenever you open apps X, Y, Z, it will automatically toggle GPS.
I have this set up for Maps, Yelp, etc. When I exit the app, GPS is turned off after a 2 minute delay (it kept disabling GPS if I quickly switched to another app during navigation, so I set a longer delay than most tutorials suggested)
http://www.csullender.com/blog/2014/01/26/automatic-high-accuracy-android-location/
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Thanks, I decided to buy tasker right after I posted that. Was gonna wait till I knew for sure that it would work but decided I wanted to try it anyway. Took me a little bit to figure it out but finally did.
I'm trying to figure out now how to use the scenes to make a pop up menu that will be there during navigation to allow me to start playing music and different navigation tasks so I can stay on the navigation app. I'm having a lot of trouble with it.
Hello,
Grateful if someone advises on:
I'm trying to automate airplane mode 00:00 - 07:00 in a non-rooted S8 using tasker / sec setting / autoinput. The problem is to unlock phone to come out of the airplane mode in mornings. For this I want to get played a pre-recorded OK Google audio. Which function, in turn, as I recently learned, is only operative during 4 hours since the last usage of the phone.
Question: by which non-sound tasker operation can I simulate "usage" of the phone at, say 3:30 am?
Alert popup and Wake CPU did not help.
Also asking this from Google support is useless I think because the above 4-hour rule is security driven.
Thank you.
Why not just launch an app? Maybe then have AutoInput back out of that app. I would think anything that makes the device behoove it's had screen interaction will achieve your goal.
ktmom said:
Why not just launch an app? Maybe then have AutoInput back out of that app. I would think anything that makes the device behoove it's had screen interaction will achieve your goal.
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Checked that - not that easy unfortunately. How launching an app can produce screen interaction while the phone is locked at night? Or maybe I miss something and there really is such an app / activity / whatever?