hi, I'd like to have automatic change of the night mode with tasker or similar.
The phone apparently offers only time-based automation, but i want to have it to change based on light-sensor, for when i'm indoor.
I have an S20 at the moment and Samsung decided to prevent this. Tasker itself warns me that some vendors do it.
I'd like to know if this is possible on zenfone8.
Thanks
I installed the trial version of Tasker and could create a light-based automation. It only works when the screen is on.
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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.
Can anyone please tell me why location based profiles don't seem to work since I upgraded to pie 9?
Same Problem here....
Location works fine in Tasker on my Google Pixel 3 with Pie.
Only after the import of the tasks from Oreo to my new phone I had to reset the location of at least one location profil to get the location working again.
Have you checked the permission for Tasker to use the location?
Just for information: In Pie there's no "Energy Saving" location mode anymore. You can only switch between off, GPS only and GPS+wifi+bluetooth.
With Tasker, a user can create a task to set location mode to High Accuracy or Battery Saving Mode without root. I can confirm it is working on Pie.
You guys aren't understanding my problem. What DOESN'T work is having a profile get triggered by entering/exiting a geofence.
For example before I moved to Pie, I had a profile that turned my wifi on and off as I arrived home/left home by setting up a geofence 1km around my home. Now since I've upgraded to Pie, that profile never works anymore.
I'm on 9.1.0.124 and find the Do Not Disturb functionality is reduced from my P20Pro. There (and I think this available on stock Android?), I could automatically activate DND via calendar events, which is really useful for automatically silencing phone in meetings etc. This isn't there on my P30Pro, only a time schedule (ie. overnight).
Don't understand why they'd remove such a useful functionality (unless I'm being really thick, and there's something I need to activate elsewhere to enable this?). Is there any any good apps out there which can replace this functionality?
Paul.
Hi Paul
I am having same issue. Glad it's not just me. Cannot belive this is missing. I like setting DND when I go to bed and on my last phone had it set to switch off DND when my alarm went off. Can anyone suggest a work around or solution please!
Yeah , exceptions are missing on the p30 pro which usually comes in handy for me. Anyway , you can try
Do Not Disturb - Call Blocker , remember to remove automatic management from App Launch and also remove from battery optimization settings.
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I'm on 9.1.0.124 and find the Do Not Disturb functionality is reduced from my P20Pro. There (and I think this available on stock Android?), I could automatically activate DND via calendar events, which is really useful for automatically silencing phone in meetings etc. This isn't there on my P30Pro, only a time schedule (ie. overnight).
Don't understand why they'd remove such a useful functionality (unless I'm being really thick, and there's something I need to activate elsewhere to enable this?). Is there any any good apps out there which can replace this functionality?
Paul.
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this has just happened on the Huawei Mate20 with EMUI 9.1. I am a school teacher so have been using calendar events to silence my phone when i'm on class, but be on volume when i'm not on class. this is impossible to remember to do manually - i end up just putting my phone on silent and forgetting to unsilent later. Are there any other apps (than the one mentioned previous post) for DND calendar events?
Hello,
I'm going crazy here.... I've installed Tasker on my new Lenovo Tab M7 TB-7305F (7 Inch with Android 9.0 GO - NOT rooted). Tasker works fine. Since I want to kill apps I installed the plugin "SecureTask". And: I succeeded to get it working. Everyting is working fine. Until I reboot. After a reboot: When I try Tasker to execute the plugin-command SecureTask - Tasker waits long and can't execute the plugin. It seems Tasker can't call the plugin SecureTask / can't connect to it. When I manually load SecureTask (Icon on the desktop - only a config-screen comes up - I leave the config-screen with the back-button): After that everything works again. It seems: After SecureTask was loaded once everything is OK. But Tasker can't start the plugin.
Humpf? After a lot of hours of investigating..... I'm out of ideas. Any help?
That sounds like there's a problem getting a background process running after boot for SecureTask. Assuming that all of the permissions for SecureTask have been granted through ADB, I would contact the developer and see what he says.
A work around might be to use Tasker to launch SecureTask after boot. You could then use it to close itself
Thanks... exactly the opinion I have at the moment. In the meantime I found a contact address in SecureTask itself - so I will contact the developer.
Enabling SecureTask after boot by Tasker.... good idea That will be a screen-flickering... but that's at 5 am - so nobody will care about that. I will test this... :good:
Just to report my efforts.... I contacted the support of SecureTask - and got an email-chat within minutes. Incredible support - thank's a lot, John Doe (support of SecureTask)!!!
He told me how to get a logcat. Reason, why it's not working:
BroadcastQueue: TabletMaster Service: not allowed to launch app com.balda.securetask/10110 for broadcast Intent { act=com.twofortyfouram.locale.intent.action.FIRE_SETTING flg=0x14 cmp=com.balda.securetask/.receivers.FireReceiver (has extras) }
=> The OS is blocking the broadcast. No clue why. So it seems my Lenovo Tab M7 TB-7305F has a strange behaviour... no chance to get it working.
Btw: Killing SecureTask with it's own didn't work. So I had to choose now a complete different approach without SecureTask.
airplane mode
Hi, bit off topic maybe, but I saw that this is a quite recent threat and it is involved with SecureTask plugin, so I decided to hook up instead of creating new one
This week I bought Samsung Galaxy Tab S5e. It's operating on Android Pie and UI One interface. I'm reluctant to root it yet (all the more the procedure is not obvious), but I want to recreate as much functionality as possible from my old rooted Samsung tablet So SecureTask plugin is the obvious choice.
I'm trying to find a way to automate turning the airplane mode on/off. On my old tablet I created a profile that triggered airplane mode according the time schedule as soon as Tasker detects that the device is plugged in to a power source. I've tried to recreate this profile with the help of SecureTask. Of course in advance I granted to the plugin all possible permissions using adb and even successfully set it as the device owner. Then I found a secure setting responsible for turning the airplane mode on/off and set appropriate values. And when I test the created tasks, the green circle appears and the quick toggle in the notification drawer turns on, but it seems that the system doesn't listen to the call - the airplane mode actually doesn't turn on. The system seems to listen only when I turn the quick toggle on manually. So I wonder if there is something I'm missing or maybe it is not achievable at all without root on this firmware?
Would be grateful for any insight, maybe from you @ktmom, boss Thanks in advance.
@Lord Sithek, AFAIK, the only way you can toggle mobile data or WiFi radios is after a reboot and that may not work on all devices. Google "long ago" removed the ability to directly control those radios, even with root. Bluetooth does tend to toggle though.
So if it's going to work at all, you would have to toggle off and then reboot.
My opinion is its best to use touch emulations to activate the quick setting tile.
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@Lord Sithek, AFAIK, the only way you can toggle mobile data or WiFi radios is after a reboot and that may not work on all devices. Google "long ago" removed the ability to directly control those radios, even with root. Bluetooth does tend to toggle though.
So if it's going to work at all, you would have to toggle off and then reboot.
My opinion is its best to use touch emulations to activate the quick setting tile.
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Ok, thanks for the response. I have Auto Input plug installed as well, so I'll give it a shot
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My opinion is its best to use touch emulations to activate the quick setting tile.
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The problem is that it needs to turn the screen on. I keep my device in book cover so... pain in the arse :cyclops: I think I'll probably switch to "do not disturb" mode, at least it works right away
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Hello,
I'm going crazy here.... I've installed Tasker on my new Lenovo Tab M7 TB-7305F (7 Inch with Android 9.0 GO - NOT rooted).
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I too just purchased a lenovo Tab M7 TB-7305F (7 Inch with Android 9.0 GO - also NOT rooted).
Sorry for intruding.
Have you found a forum for this tablet?
One specific question I have is with screen rotation. In android pie you get rotation control by turning off auto-rotation in settings. That way when you rotate the tablet a small icon appears briefly in a corner. When that icon is tapped the display rotates. If not tapped on the display does not rotate.
That is what happens in my other android pie devices. But for some reason this icon does not appear on this tab. So I'm looking for a forum for help. Have you found one?
Lord Sithek said:
Hi, bit off topic maybe, but I saw that this is a quite recent threat and it is involved with SecureTask plugin, so I decided to hook up instead of creating new one
This week I bought Samsung Galaxy Tab S5e. It's operating on Android Pie and UI One interface. I'm reluctant to root it yet (all the more the procedure is not obvious), but I want to recreate as much functionality as possible from my old rooted Samsung tablet So SecureTask plugin is the obvious choice.
I'm trying to find a way to automate turning the airplane mode on/off. On my old tablet I created a profile that triggered airplane mode according the time schedule as soon as Tasker detects that the device is plugged in to a power source. I've tried to recreate this profile with the help of SecureTask. Of course in advance I granted to the plugin all possible permissions using adb and even successfully set it as the device owner. Then I found a secure setting responsible for turning the airplane mode on/off and set appropriate values. And when I test the created tasks, the green circle appears and the quick toggle in the notification drawer turns on, but it seems that the system doesn't listen to the call - the airplane mode actually doesn't turn on. The system seems to listen only when I turn the quick toggle on manually. So I wonder if there is something I'm missing or maybe it is not achievable at all without root on this firmware?
Would be grateful for any insight, maybe from you @ktmom, boss Thanks in advance.
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I don't know if it needs root (I am always rooted), but there is an Airplane Mode On and Off in Tasker, under Net category.
I have a task that checks if %AIR is on or off, and turn on and off accordingly.
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ktmom said:
@Lord Sithek, AFAIK, the only way you can toggle mobile data or WiFi radios is after a reboot and that may not work on all devices. Google "long ago" removed the ability to directly control those radios, even with root. Bluetooth does tend to toggle though.
So if it's going to work at all, you would have to toggle off and then reboot.
My opinion is its best to use touch emulations to activate the quick setting tile.
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It still is fine to toggle mobile data on and off (in my case, either Mobile Data 1 or 2 due to having dual sims), as well as wifi, without rebooting. Even works in Macrodroid (the mini Tasker-like app)
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Hi to all,
I've always used a great app to manage different sound profiles but with OnePlus 10 Pro (Android 13) I've encountered a big issue.
I need to set notifications to off during the night but rings and alarms have to be set to high.
This is because I need to be contactable for work but I do not want to hear notifications from other apps (mails, whatsapp, ...).
That app is Volume Butler.
In the past, it was simply possible to set the volume for notifications to 0 but now if I set this to 0, automatically the phone set the "do not disturb" mode that prevents calls and alarms, so I have to manually disable it and the automatic process is not working...
I was thinking to use an automated process to change the ringtone for notification using a null-sound but I have not found anything...
Any suggestions?
Thanks,
Alex
Tasker can do this. It may be overkill for what you need though, and it's not free.
It's like a way to create profiles that get triggered on a massive number of different things.
A couple I have for example, I turn off AOD on my phone when I'm sleeping, so it doesn't light up the room. I turn off wifi leaving the house, and turn it back on when I get to work, or back home. I mute my phone when I'm at work, and there's an appointment in my work calendar...that sort of stuff.
Tasker is my most used app, as it can do SO many things.
Tasker Tips & Tricks
Tasker is one of the most powerful apps available for Android. Discuss all of its amazing uses here!
forum.xda-developers.com
r/tasker
r/tasker:
www.reddit.com
But someone else may have a simpler option for you.
the_scotsman said:
Tasker can do this. It may be overkill for what you need though, and it's not free.
It's like a way to create profiles that get triggered on a massive number of different things.
A couple I have for example, I turn off AOD on my phone when I'm sleeping, so it doesn't light up the room. I turn off wifi leaving the house, and turn it back on when I get to work, or back home. I mute my phone when I'm at work, and there's an appointment in my work calendar...that sort of stuff.
Tasker is my most used app, as it can do SO many things.
Tasker Tips & Tricks
Tasker is one of the most powerful apps available for Android. Discuss all of its amazing uses here!
forum.xda-developers.com
r/tasker
r/tasker:
www.reddit.com
But someone else may have a simpler option for you.
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Thank you! I've found MacroDroid that can automatically change the notification sound and for me is enough!