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[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] m.klinge:
So I figure I'd would tell you what I've done with this app up until now (Btw bought it straight away, great price for a very useful tool) ;)

As of now I only have two tags (The Sony ones that came with the Xperia s). One tag is at my car cradle and calls the following task:

- Go Home (Just to make it clean every time)

- Show Scene (New feature in tasker, more on that later)

- Turn on Bluetooth (And connects to hands free)

- Turn sync off (I won't be needing to read new mails anyway so I might as well save the battery)

- Turn wifi off (Why would I need wifi in my car anyway)

Now the scene that fires up takes up the whole screen with (As of now) 3 stylish buttons:

- Make call

- Listen to music

- Start navigation

(- Turn off car mode)

Each button does just what you would expect, eg Start navigation opens location settings (as I havnt yet rooted my phone to make the switch automatically), waits 10 secs for my input, go home and then launch the navigation app.

This makes as a very effective "Car mode" - I might add a auto respond SMS about the fact that I'm driving and can't text back. This ensures that I can do just what I want (and should be doing) while in the car ;)

The other tag is as my cradle at work, now I work in an office and have bothy private mail and my work mail on constant sync (Aside from driving that is ;)). I also use a bt headset while at my desk. I figured I'd turn on bt to connect to the headset, turn off sync (as my computer handles the mails and the preserve power). Here's what I've done (Task called work):

-If work is not equal to 1 (Variable)

- Go home (Just to make it clean every time)

- Turn sync off

- Turn bt on

- Turn silent mode off (Sometimes I forget to turn it off when I exit a meeting)

- Set variable work to 1 (To make sure the widget works right)

- Change Widget icon (more on the widget later)

- Change widget label (more on the widget later)

- Make a notification called work

Else

End if

For the widget I've made the following (Task called work widget):

If work is equal 1 (Variable)

- Turn bluetoothoff

- Turn auto sync on

- Set widget icon (Counterpart of the one above)

- Set widget label (actually to nothing so I might be left out)

- Cancel notification

- Set variable work to 0

Else

- Peform Task Work

End if

Finally I've made a profile to handle the click on the notification:

When notification called work is clicked call task work widget

This ensures my phone act as I want while as my desk, and whenever I move away from it both the widget and a notification tells me, that I've forgotten to turn of the settings. One click on either the notification or the widget will turn off the "near desk"-settings (if on (otherwise the notification isn't shown)). If the "near desk" settings are off I can manually turn it on by clicking the widget.

Well this ended up being quite a long write up - but I hope others would be inspired by it. NFC retag + tasker is a very powerful tool to ensure you get the best out of your phone (and more batterylife) ;)

//M
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ascsa:
Good point, to be honest I´m not sure how to handle the different forum/ devices the most efficient way ...

I started with threads in the nexus s, galaxy nexus and the HTC amaze forum because the main apps area is so overcrowded .... and the galaxy nexus thread is currently the most populare one ....but you are right more and more phones with NFC are available ....Due to the app statistics i should also start threads within the Galaxy S2, the Sony Xperia and the Galaxy note forum .. at least. I don´t think that´s the most efficient way .....Currently my point of view is that I have to choose one "main" forum/ device (--> Galaxy nexus) to bundle the information .....so please feel free to post it on the Galaxy Note forum, but please link this Galaxy nexus thread for general questions/ issues etc. ...

I have no problem to discuss device specific topics in the device specific thread, but features requests or general topics i would like to discuss in only one thread ;-)

As mentioned I´m not sure if this is the most efficient way, so I´m open for suggestions, comments or ideas :)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ascsa:
........

I will no quote the whole post, because it´s huge ;-) but i´m deeply impressed! --> especially with the scenes in car mode!

For those without Tasker or those who don´t want to figure it out with Tasker the good news is, that for most of the simple tasks (toogle bluetooth/wifi/play music ..) you could use NFC Retag activities, too ... but if you want "total control", there is always the Tasker option ;-)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] suhas_sm:
Awesome app. Great thinking behind it. I am falling in love with NFC technology. I want to get into NFC Development too. Just started with Android development. Buying this app. Looking forward for more innovative ideas ;-)

Btw can we just aggregate all the ideas and use cases in one place? Like wiki for examples? Would also serve as guide for new users.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ascsa:
Yes, a wiki or something similiar to bundle all the ideas and FAQs would makes sense .... it´s only a matter of time ... I think, if I can find some sparetime, I will set up a webpage .... but currently time is the limiting factor :mad:
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] m.klinge:
Glad you liked it :-)

Set up a wiki page or even just a google group I would be able to fill in quite a few ideas for uses (mainly based on tasker though) and would live to be further inspired by others :-)

//M
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ascsa:
happy eastern! :) ... and No, currently the app contains no easter eggs :D
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Jamolah:
I want to start off by saying Great app. I purchased 5 rewrittable NFC tags.

I want to setup up the following tags:

home (nightstand). Silent mode, no vibration, turn off wifi.

car. Max ring volume, turn off wifi, turn on bluetooth, launch music player.

work. All volumes on silent, turn off wifi, turn off bluetooth

NOTE: I swiped my Mastercard PayPass enabled credit card and ReTag read the ID. Pretty cool.

A few questions:

1. What does the Pro version give me that the free version does not?

2. I have a Samsung S2 Skyrocket and it comes with the preinstalled TAGs app. Now that I've installed your (ReTag) app and I scan a tag I get the option to choose TAGs or ReTAG, but I want it to automatically pick your app. Yet it doesn't give me the option to launch your app as default action. Is there a work around to this, or how do I uninstall the TAGs app that came with my phone.

3. I don't see an option to toggle GPS on/off, why is that?

Thank you for this handy app.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ascsa:
a good karma ;-) ... I´m kidding ... The free version is Ad supported and has a 4 tag limit ...beside that it´s fully functional and has no time limit ...so with the pro version you can use more than 4 tags and there are no ads!

Known issue ....android does not provide a default option for their standard background nfc intents... have a look at the post around 29th March ....--> short summary:

- On ICS: just write a special NFC RETAG tag (--> more)

- On GB: You could try to write just some plain text on the tag ... sometimes NFC Retag catches the plain text intents better than other apps (perhaps I could implement a (beta) write option similiar to the ICS function, but that will not be as bulletproof as the ICS solution ... i will have a look ...)

- With Tasker you could add a profile : shake phone --> start nfc retag and bypass the standard background intents ...

- On a rooted phone you could try to freeze the Samsung TAGs app (I think this is a system app... therefore uninstalling on a non rooted phone would probably not work ;-(

For "security reasons" android does not allow (I think since 2.3+) to toggle GPS settings from a non system app ...so again, on a non-rooted phone this would not work ... on a rooted phone you could try Tasker with the secure settings plugin ...

you´re welcome ;-)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Jamolah:
LOL...

I'll be testing out the free version in the next couple of days, to insure it suits my needs and if so I will purchase the full version. Eventhough, the free version with only 4 tags limit is more than enough. I'm a strong believer in paying for apps/music/movies that I use/listen to/ or watch.

Friendly advice, You should change your business model a little. You should make the free version with a lot less functions or have it on a trial period.

I'm on stock GB 2.3.5.

So I used the Samsung TAGs app to write "TEST" to one of my tags but it did not force your ReTag app to pick it up by default, I still had to choose between ReTAG and TAGs.

EDIT: OKAY so after I wrote text "TEST" to my TAG it now seems to be automatically using the ReTAG app

So the only other option I see is to root my phone and then remove the TAGs app, correct?

Ahhh that sucks, but somewhat understanable.

Keep up the good work.

Do you have any UI improvements on your ToDo list or any new features you can share?!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ascsa:
Congrats ;-) ... but still some strange android behavior from my point of view ... After reading your post, I tried additional workarounds and played with some tags and the "use by default" option suddenly appears ....I´m sure I have seen this before but a couple of weeks ago, I tried the same and had no luck ...

OK, I updated my main dev device to 4.0.4 last week, so perhaps this is a 4.0.4 bugfix, but to be honest, i´m confused :confused:

UI: I know i should add some high-res design, but this will take some more time ...and yeeah, i have a long to do list with some cool features on it ...

As you can see on the screenshot, the 1.4 version is currently under development ....originally the 1.4 version should implement an api for simple integration of third party apps.... due to different reasons :mad: I will probably reschedule the api stuff ... and release the 1.4 version with some additional activities:

- toggle auto sync (done)

- toggle auto rotate (done)

- a cool new feature, (surprise, surprise ) i had a lot of fun with ....(done)

- some minor improvements (Yeeah, launcher list is now sorted) (done)

- and some minor bugfixes (done)

These features above are all implemeted, tested and ready for release in 1.4, but I have some additional features, like a new workaround for your "default app problem" in GB or a mute notifications options for the nexus devices (an ICS issue;-)) on a beta status ... perhaps I should add a "Labs" section ....

Bottom line: 1.4 will be released in a couple of days .... my toDo list for the next updates is still very long ... and i still have a lot of additional ideas for future updates ;-)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Jamolah:
Okay scracth what I said in the previous post about it picking ReTag automatically. It's now back to giving me a selection. very confusing.

Awesome stuff, looking forward to the update.

Can I request an addition. Can you add screen brightness to the ACTIVITY menu. Because when I'm at work work I want to dim the brightness to lowest and when I'm in the car I want to increase brightness to full.

Thank you.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ascsa:
Added Brightness to my ToDo list ... in fact, I already implemented it, but found some strange behavior within one of the test devices ;-( ....So, i skipped it for this update ...

The good news is, that the update 1.4 will start today and I added the (BETA!!!) workaround for all without ICS to write a special NFC RETAG TAG .... should bypass the Samsung and Sony standard tag apps .... Feedback welcome ! Hard to test without the specific devices/apps ....
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ascsa:
UPDATE 1.4

Update 1.4 just uploaded ;-)

* TexttoSpeech

--> (my favorite new feature, I have a lot of fun with it .. added e.g. "CAR MODE ON" ... "this is my badge" ... "operator"....) :D

* On/Off/Toggle auto sync

* On/Off/Toggle auto rotate

* Write a special NFC ReTAG for pre-ICS devices (BETA!!!)

* Some minor improvements (e.g launcher list is now sorted)

* Some minor bugfixes

Would be nice if someone with the samsung or sony standard tag apps, could give a short feedback, whether the pre-ics workaround for writing a special NFC Retag tag "bypasses" the standard background intents and launch the retag app....
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] neolee:
YES, this app maks nfc more usable.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] m.klinge:
Edit: Tested with a positive result! Thank you so much!! :-) Now the Sony tags triggers nfc retag rather than tags! :-)

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I'll test it on my Sony Xperia s as soon as I receive the update :-)

Fingers crossed :-)

//M
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ascsa:
Thx for the feedback! I wasn´t sure if this will work ;-) .... Hopefully the same result for the samsung guys ... i keep my fingers crossed ;-)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] akoepke:
Thanks for the updated version ascsa and putting in the auto sync option. Very useful and much appreciated.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] subvertz:
One of your early very satisfied early pro users with a request:

Set pattern lock / unlock.

I want to have no screen lock at home, swipe a tag on the way out of the door that shifts me to a safe patterned locked condition. Then upon returning home, swipe another (or toggle same) to suspend the pattern lock. Is this possible? I have tried with "Unlock at home" and "Unlock with Wifi" apps and they don't seem to work all the time.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Jamolah:
Thus far, the addition of writing a special code which is always triggers RETag is working. I'm gonna test it out a few more days and give you feed back.

I'd like to make a request for an Activity. Dim or increase screen brightness (should be fairly easy, no?)

Thank you
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ascsa:
Feature requests are always welcome ! ... and I always want my users satisfied ;-) ... but with the screen lock, I doubt I could satisfy you.

Without having done a deeper investigation of this issue, I would say it´s should not be possible, because even if you change it manually, you have to provide your pattern .... and I think for security reasons, android will not allow to change this programmatically .... I would not say it´s absolutly impossible, but that would probably need some serious hacks, a rooted device, system app status etc.etc. .... so I´m not surprised that such apps don´t work .... anyway, i will put it on my feature request list, and will have a deeper look at that if I find some spare time ....
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ascsa:
I think, I already got your request and put it on my list ;-) ... as mentioned, I already implemented it but found some strange behavior during testing , so i skipped it for the 1.4 update... and yes it´s easy to change the setting .... but a little bit tricky to update the screen ....
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Jamolah:
I just purchased the PRO version. Thank you and keep up the good work.

Edit: The PRO version is giving me forceclose. I've got a Samsung Galaxy S2 SkyRocket (with stock ROM).
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ascsa:
Forcecloses ? How? When? Why? .....could you please provide a logcat or describe the problem ? ... didn´t receive any error reports yet ....

strange .... the pro version is basically the same code with some adaptations like the market licensing ....

Anyone else facing problems with the pro version?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Jamolah:
Well it's happening sometimes and other times no. I'll conintue looking at it.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ascsa:
Hmm this is the worst kind of errors ....if this happens again, you could use the standard android "send report" feature ... I think it´s delayed some hours ... so it´s not the fastest way, but probably the easiest way (faster: app aLogcat --> send report via pm or email!) ....I will then have a look at the report!

If your are not satisfied or the problem persists, you could also pm/ e-mail me your email address and order number and I will refund the money ...
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Jamolah:
I have a car tag setup with Bluetooth ON and I'm launching the music app. But the Bluetooth is not coming on. So I removed the music launcher activity and tried again so then the Bluetooth comes on but it asks me for permission to turn on Bluetooth.

It was working in the previous version better and was working

No I don't want a refund, I want the app. I just want the foreclose to stop and Bluetooth to come on.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ascsa:
Bluetooth: Use the "ON Silent" or "Toggle silent" option ... I think you choose the wrong parameter .... correct? ;-) ...

Music: For the music player ... if you want to start the music just try the media button -->parameter "toggle play" or "play" ... It will act like the headset controls (-> depending on your music app, there is sometimes a setting within the music app where you can "set as default for headset controls" if you want to start a specific app.... or you could try to launch the app and then use the media buttons ....perhaps with a wait period between to allow the music app to start )--> launching the music app will start the app, but not start the music ;-)

Forceclose: I still didn´t receive any FC report for the 1.4 version ... for both the free and the pro version ....with several thousands active users (most free ;)) .... perhaps google is delayed sending the reports, but without any report or any description when this FC´s happens, not much I can do ...
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ascsa:
OK, received one freeze report yesterday and one fc report today (both free version) ...I will have a look ... but with 2 reports since the release of 1.4, I don´t think there is a bigger issue :D
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ascsa:
Time for a short info update::)

Did receive 2 additional error reports ....overall 4 for release 1.4 ... so I think it´s pretty stable and I can focuse in some new features :D

Currently the next update (1.5) contains (already implemented but some tests pending):

- Airplane mode on/off/toggle

- Mobile data on/off

- some UI improvements

I think I will have time to add some additional features ... (SMS, plugin, Alarm, brightness etc. ) ... any special preferences ?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ascsa:
Update 1.4.5

Hmm, feels like talking to myself ... but anyway:

Update 1.4.5 released:

* Airplane mode on/off/toggle

* Mobile data on/off

* Write smarttag (Blue, Red, White, Black) for sony devices

* some UI improvements & bugfixes

Had some spare time and had the possibility to play a little with the sony xperia s nfc capabilities... nice app (I think they were "inspired" by some existing NFC threads/apps here on xda :D, but thats ok ... more multi-billion $ companies should pay attention to user demands ...) BUT: one thing is not quite user friendly .... limiting the number of tags to 4 ... and the need of "special" sony smarttags !!!

...I had only 2 original sony tags to play with ... so i created 2 more sony tags by writing the specific URI to some cheap and rewritable tags .. works great! So I decided to implement this feature into NFC ReTag, because of the good old "Don´t buy expensive NFC Tags!" credo ... (obviously the sony guys "forgot" this feature within their app) ...

Have a look at the app: "more --> write smarttag for sony devices". Just choose the color (Blue, Red, White, Black) and tap your tag ;-) .. ... works also viceversa --> you can use the sony tags for NFC ReTag -> just write a special NFC ReTag tag ;-)

I decided to include this feature, together with the Airplane mode, mobile data and some UI Improvements & bugfixes, into a new 1.4.5 update (1.5 still needs some time )... and just uploaded it to the market / play store ;-)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] BlackHoleSlam:
Thank you sir I am very grateful if you don't mind me asking where do you get your tags from and what do you use them for personally I was thinking of getting some since I just got my nexus and want some ideas for what I would use them for
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ascsa:
Hi BlackHoleSlam,

I bought some tags over a year ago together with 2 USB RFID readers and software as a dev kit ... including shippmement and export tax for ~ 200$ ... received the tags 6(!) weeks later ....I think the tags are much cheaper today but because of this experience, I decided to write an app, that doesn´t need rewritable nfc tags ..... I started collecting write protected nfc tags (ski passes, hotel key cards, public traffic tickets and company badges) and never bought a additional tag ... so unfortunately I´m the wrong person to answer your question where to buy tags ;-)

I mainly use the tags to trigger situation specific events (Home, car, office, nightstand etc. ).... I change my tags due to testing activities quite frequently, but a simple car tag could do something like :

- Turn bluetooth on

- Turn Wlan off

- Start music

- Volume 100 %

- Start navigation

The possibilities are endless ...
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] BlackHoleSlam:
Hmm hotel keys I might have some thank you
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] m.klinge:
Thank you for the update - there's some nice features including ;)

Sadly my 1 month old xperia just died the other day so i have tobget it repaired before i use nfc again - for now I'm stuck with my Optimus 2x :(

//M
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] khaytsus:
if you really want some tags to write to (remember, using this app does NOT need to write to a tag, only read it), you can get them from http://www.tagstand.com/

I think I got 10 MiFaire 1k's for around $12 shipped? No need for a kit, a writer, etc, your phone can likely do all of that. I have been using TagWriter in the market, you can write any kind of data to a tag with it.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] BlackHoleSlam:
Thanks as soon as i get some money i will buy them

for me, by me and I love you
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] OpusX11:
I was considering writing and app to do exactly this, and then happened to find yours in the Play store. I LOVE the app. I bought some cheap sticker type tags from eBay so I could place them in my car and at work. Its only day one but so far so good. It has all the features I would have wanted to write and then some.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ascsa:
Glad you found the app ;-) ...
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] BlackHoleSlam:
I found a hotel card but I am kind of lost on how the phone will read it

for me, by me and I love you
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ascsa:
OK,

at first check if NFC is enabled (system settings/ more/ nfc) then just tap the hotel key card to the back of your phone (display on, lockscreen off) ...If you hear a sound, it´s a nfc tag ;-) ... no sound --> probably no NFC!

A NFC tag will start the NFC handler --> choose NFC ReTag --> new Tag detected --> give the Tag a name and just add activities ....

I doubt that the phone can read the content of a hotel tag, but if it´s a nfc tag you can use NFC ReTag to associate activities. ... and the next time you tap the tag the activities will be launched ...
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] BlackHoleSlam:
Yeah I believe its not nfc I wish I had the money for some tags or key cards since people I have asked don't have them

for me, by me and I love you
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] mystichobo:
Holy crap this app is awesome!

Have an old transport card now set up in my car to automatically start playing music :)

My only request is possibly to have an "IF" Example Modifier. For example:

-IF PLUGGED IN

-ACTIVITY ONE

-ACTIVITY TWO