[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] kimocal:
The secret with Tasker is using variables to control tasks/states/triggers. It's emphasized somewhere in the User Guide that variables are the "glue" that makes things work well in it. Took me some time using it to really understand that.

Goto the tasker wiki and google groups to see what other people are doing to get ideas. One profile may not be exactly what you need BUT you can take parts from them and apply it to what you DO want. Search Tasker here on XDA for some amazing examples to learn from.

Here are some other examples of what I'm using it for:

For the Car one I posted above here is the EXIT task flow:

1) Stop Recording Video for DailyRoads Voyager (DRV)

2) Wait 5 seconds

3) Kill App - DRV

4) Perform Task - PIN ON

5) Secure Settings - Disable GPS

6) Display Timeout - 2 min

7) WiFi - Turn ON

8) Bluetooth - Off

9) Display Brightness - Set to 150 out of 255

Other fun stuff

Home VAR %STATUS_HOME

Set VAR for when I am near my home micro-cell as the signal radius is small and specific to my house. I use this since the phone part is always on and I don't need to use GPS to determine location which uses more juice. That VAR is then used to turn on wifi when I arrive at home, disable PIN again, Flash "Welcome home", set WiFi sleep to Never. The Exit task for when I leave home turns PIN ON and sets the WiFi sleep policy to "Never While Plugged'.

Power VAR %STATUS_POWER

I have 2 seperate profiles for when I am connected to AC or USB power. The AC one sets the power VAR to 2 while the USB one sets it to 1. Both are used for other tasks and profiles, like the car one above requires AC connection so my GPS doesn't drain my battery even while connected. I have it flash "AC connected" or "USB connected" to let me know if the phone is receiving the correct amount of juice. When both of them exit they set the Power VAR to 0 and flash "Power Disconnected"

Sleepy Time

Profile conditions

1) Time - From 00:01 to 06:30

2) State - Home VAR = 1 (so this doesn't happen when I am out and about somewhere at night)

Enter Task - In case I'm tinkering with the phone in bed and don't want to keep the wifey up with a blazing screen and vibrations when clicking buttons. Also prevents annoying sounds at night by disabling data sync and muting all but the Alarm audio.

1) AutoSync -OFF

2) Flash "Good night"

3) Display brightness at 0

4) Screen Filter set to 25%

5) Perform Task -

Alarm Audio only

Alarm Audio only

task above

1) Alarm Volume - 4

2) Flash "Alarm Audio Only"

3) Haptic Feedback - Off

4) Notification Volume - 0

5) Ringer volume - 0

6) System volume - 0

7) Media volume - 0

Exit Task

1) AutoSync - On

2) Display Brightness - 255

3) Screen Filter - 100%

Quick Stats

- This has two parts. One is the Notification that tells me a bunch of info I like to know like Battery level, Screen timeout, screen brightness and CPU governor. The second part is launching a menu when I click on the notification that has commonly used Screen brightness & timeouts I use. I need to add some audio options in there too. I re-discovered that menu was there the entire time and didn't see the + button to add more items to the menu. I was over complicating it by trying to use Scenes as a pop-up menu. Still need to learn more about Scenes though.

Part 1 - Quick Stats Notification

State - Orientation Face Up (I use this state so if I want to refresh the stats all I do is put the phone face up. There is already a time stamp for Notifications so I can know when the stats were last updated).

Task - Notify Quick Stats

1) Notify - use built-in variable Battery level, Screen timeout, screen brightness and CPU governor as the text.

Part 2 - Notification Bar Tool

Event - Notification Click

Task - Quick Stats Menu

1) Menu with options for display brightness at 0, 100 or 255. Display timeout options for 30 secs, 2 min, 10 min and 30 min

Remote PIN Disable

- This is for in case I forget my pin or other reasons. This will disable the PIN like used in the Car and Home profiles. It is triggered by receiving a text from certain people with a specific phrase.

Event - Text with specific phrase under Content

Task - PIN OFF

Where Are You

- Here's a 3 part setup. If I can't find my phone I again send a text with a specific phrase that then cranks up all volume settings to MAX and repeat "The Most Annoying Sound in the world" by Jim Carrey from Dumb & Dumber. The text sets a VAR called %SHUTUP to 1. When %SHUTUP = 1 it triggers Once I find the phone to set the VAR back to 0 I shake the phone.

Part 1 - Where Are You Status

Event - Received Text with specific phrase

Task - Variable Set - %SHUTUP = 1

Part 2 - Where Are You Status

State - Variable Value = 1

Task - Where Are You Audio

1) Perform Task - Crank It Up (sets all volumes to MAX)

2) Flash - "I'm over here!"

3) Music Play - Annoy.wav

4) Wait - 15 sec

5) Goto - Top of Loop IF %SHUTUP = 1

Part 3 -Shutup Shake

Event - Shake

Task

1) Variable Set - %SHUTUP = 0

2) Flash "SHUT UP!!!"

Now that NFC is enable on my AT&T Note thanks to DAGr8's Sauron ROM I can now add NFC as trigger events to set tasks/profiles etc. So now instead of using time and a VAR I can put a NFC sticker on my night stand and have it do the same thing as Sleepy Time. I could also do the same for my car instead of using Bluetooth as the trigger.

Once you get the hang of it it's only limited by your imagination and Tasker itself, which already is amazingly capable. But you can then expand it's capabilities with Plugins (Secure Settings, DropSync, Rotation Locker, NoLED, Screen Filter, etc) and also 3rd Party Actions (SMS Backup +, DailyRoad Voyager, BeyondPod, WidgetLocker, Astrid, etc).

So can you tell that Tasker is the #1 app in my book AND well worth the money.

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