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[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] dalepl:
I am trying to get a power on event to do the following, but I am having some problems:

1. Turn screen on

2. Unlock the lock screen

3. Keep screen on

This is the main things I would like to do, but the issue is unlocking the lock screen. I am using WidgetLocker and no matter what I try, I can not get WidgetLocker to unlock. I know it must be possible, I have the Car App on WidgetLocker and when it is launched, it does what I want only the app is loaded.

You can see my configuration in my sig. If anyone can help, thanks.
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] OSully:
I'd love some profile set up tutorials on some of these.

Quiet night: Silent, wifi off, sets a variable that i am in sleepmode

Home: turn off gps, turn on wifi

Work: wifi off (security at work), drops volume on everything

5] If I can't find it, different SMS turns off WiFi, turns on GPS and 3G, waits for GPS, and responds to me with location via SMS. Also engages high volume setting.

6] If I don't like where it is, yet another SMS will initiate a lock sequence. This silences all alerts, sets the security flag on, and times out the screen. Then, wakes the device up with a message with my email and a nice request to return, sends me the GPS location again via SMS, and begins to popup a lock screen via Tasker every six seconds. The lock screen can be bypassed, but on reboot the device will require a PIN to access as the security flag will be set.
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] neotericpiguy:
I did a quick search on Tasker and foursquare and I couldn't find anyway to auto checkin to a venue. The closest i found was to auto-open Foursquare with the venue name, but the user has to still press the "check-in" button in order to check in to the venue. I found it somewhere on google groups of tasker.

Is there a way to completely automate this process? I've looked at the logcats, but I'm not much of a Dev in order to construct the proper "action Intent" to pull this off.
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] fratermus:
Setup

Set up a "wifi near" state with your desired wap by ssid, mac, whatever. Select the toggle setting, which will turn on the wifi briefly to scan.

Make a task for this state that turns on wifi and reconnects. For my specific uses I turn on autosync here; I also make this a named task so I can reuse it for any chosen wifi-enabled location)

real life usage

tasker turns on wifi briefly every X mins to scan

tasker finds your WAP

tasker turns on wifi, connects*. Life is good.

when tasker doesn't see the WAP for two continuous checks (~4mins if display on, ~20mins if sleeping if using default check schedule) the profile exits

profile exit returns phone to prior state (wifi off)

Note that since Tasker profiles reset values when exiting** you'd have to start initially with wifi turned off in Android or explicitly turn off wifi in an exit task. I prefer the former so it doesn't clobber wifi turned on from any other simultaneous profiles. Assuming you are near the WAP, it would be easiest to turn Tasker off, turn off wifi in Android, then turn Tasker back on for Happily Every After feelings.

BN: when "cell near" makes it out of beta it would make a nice adjunct to wifi near, preventing 'expensive' periodic wifi checks by making 'inexpensive' cell-tower-only reality checks first due to their lower (effectively free, piggybacking on the existing mobile radio connection) power consumption.

* If there are >1 "remembered" WAPs at that location I haven't found a way to tell it which one to connect to. If there were a way to enforce the choice it would break my "named task" reuse strategy above, anyhow.

** called tasks and exit tasks excepted
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] es0tericcha0s:
i wrote a shell script that does it. foursquare has a web api that makes it really easy. heres what mine looks like.

#!/bin/sh
##########

while true
do

##########

#echo 'Checking in at the White House'
#curl -u <login>:<pass> -d 'vid=<venue ID>' http://api.foursquare.com/v1/checkin
#sleep 1800
#clear

echo 'Checking in at school'
curl -u <login>:<pass> -d 'vid=<venue ID>' http://api.foursquare.com/v1/checkin
sleep 1800
clear

echo 'Checing in at the diner'
curl -u <login>:<pass> -d 'vid=<venue ID>' http://api.foursquare.com/v1/checkin
sleep 1800
clear

echo 'Checking in at the crib'
curl -u <login>:<pass> -d 'vid=<venue ID>' http://api.foursquare.com/v1/checkin
sleep 1800
clear

echo 'Checking in at MokaBees'
curl -u <login>:<pass> -d 'vid=<venue ID>' http://api.foursquare.com/v1/checkin
sleep 1800
clear

echo 'Checking in at Cheaptrx'
curl -u <login>:<pass> -d 'vid=<venue ID>' http://api.foursquare.com/v1/checkin
sleep 1800
clear;

done

it loops forever, and the sleep 1800 akes it wait 30 minutes before checking in at the next venue. you may want to increase it to
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] kungfuturkey:
I have had tasker for a while and am just now really starting to use it. Here are some of my profiles.

When I get to my desk at work my phone volumes turn down when I leave my desk they turn back up.

Good morning message: At 7:05 my phone says Good morning Jordan have a great day! (This is really just fun)

missed call messages: When family members call and I miss the call it sends them a message specific to each contact.

When headphones are plugged in a menu of different media player options pop up ie. pandora, fm radio, doubletwist
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] Motoron:
I have made a widget that turns gps on first and then starts my navigation.

Made a profile that turns on my wifi every 15 min to sync mail etc when i'm home.

Also made a profile to turn my device in airplane mode when charger is connected between 23:00 - 06:15 hrs.

Is there a central point where profile's and task's are shared?
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] heliotropeUCSD:
For me, I use SwitchPro to control the various connections. Now, if you have a valid WiFi connection, 3G will shut off. So instead of controlling the 3G, I control the wifi.

I'll try to write some tutorials for my other profiles later this week.
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] heliotropeUCSD:
Hahaha, yeah.

You'll have to DL Locale Password Plugin. It's cross compatible with tasker.

So it really isn't that bad. Here is what I do. I ONLY use tasks- I don't like profiles (personal choice) and it doesn't seem to limit me.

0] Enable the UI lock in tasker. This way it asks for a code to change things.

1] Make a task called "lock" or something equivalent.

--All that is in this task is the "lock" action, with a code of your choice. Check full screen, and I use a custom background.

--Set "If" to read something like "IF %SECLEVEL~0"

--%SECLEVEL is your security flag "state"

2]Make a new profile (no name needed) for the state "device boot"

3]In the device boot profile, add a new task called "mode:unlock" or something.

--In mode:unlock

---Wait 5 seconds

---Passwords lock (IF %LOCKVAR ~ 0)

---Variable Set %SECLEVEL~0 (IF %LOCKVAR~0)

The rest is based off the Tasker Wiki "Locate your Phone" setup

4] Profile: Received SMS from anyone, content "yourlockphrasehere"

5] In ^ profile, add new task "remote:lock"

---Notification Volume: 0

---Vibrate on notify: Off

---Display Timeout: 7s

---Password Lock: On

---Wait 7s

---GPS ON

---WiFi Off

---Ringer Vol 7

---System Volume 7

---Notification Volume 7

---Vibrate on Notify ON

---Variable Set %LOCKVAR ~ 1 (this means that if your phone is powercycled, it will require the android "real" pin security to unlock.

---Wait 30s

---Variable Set %LOCATION to %LOC

---HTTP GET Server: port is.gd/api.php?longurl=http://maps.google.com/maps?q=%LOCATION

---Send SMS to %SMSRF "I'm at %HTTPD"

---Notify Sound "Message about please return me to owner" here

---Popup "Message about please return me"

---Variable Clear %LOCATION

---Display Timeout 30s

---LOCK

6] MAKE AN UNLOCK PROFILE!

-Event: SMS received with "yourunlockphrase"

---Password Lock: OFF

--- Set variable "LOCKVAR" to 0

Phew! That was a lot of typing. Let me know if it works. I'll post the locate but not lock and the sound version later.
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] Ty07allstar:
Can somebody tell me, in great detail, how to setup a wifi near profile that will turn on wifi when I am near my router and turn it off when I am out of range? I have tried it so many times and it never seems to work properly.
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] heliotropeUCSD:
Are you against using GPS to ballpark your location? I can make a writeup for you- I have GPS turn ON when I lose wifi, and turn GPS OFF and WifI ON when I am at locations that I know have secure wifi that i use.
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] TheWizKid95:
so where can i find this app?
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] duckredbeard:
Tis on the market. It isn't free, but don't let that dissuade you. It is like $6 but I'd pay $25.
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] dino325:
Ha you guys are impressive man. I setup auto gps on for maps and navigation and my brain hurt. How about uploading some of these profiles as mentioned before. It would be greatly appreciate :-) :-)

I am so lost, I'm trying to setup a WiFi near task as well for when I get home. Heres my parameters.

Search for my WiFi network Mon-Thurs-Fri-Sat-Sun from 2220 to 1300 the following day. (I work from 1300-2200 therefore it would be a waste of battery to be searching during those times). And Tues-Weds to search for my WiFi all day until 1300 on Thurs. Also my WiFi network is password protected so how would I go about entering that into tasker? Or because it remembered on the phone it should connect w/o problem.

Would it be more efficient to use the GPS location and turn on the WiFi that way? I need help with that way as well as I tried following some of the instructions on this post but they weren't detailed enough for me lol..

I honestly need it broken down because i'm quite new to tasker. I truly appreciate anyone who can help. Thanks so much. Also I noticed there is a export/import option. Does that mean we can share profiles. That would be fantastic. Thanks again.
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] TheWizKid95:
Ok, so I just bought the app, and I want to set a profile for silent/radio off when im at school (8-3) and I set one, but Idk how to disable it on only the weekends.
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] MMBosstones86:
You can add multiple context to the profile. Once for time and one for day. Make the time 8-3 and the day mon-fri
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] TheWizKid95:
Thank you so much!
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] TheWizKid95:
All I need to know now is how to work with variables
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] Div033:
Just got tasked, loving it.

Im trying to set up a navigation profile to enable gps when launched (this works well with a widget) and then turn off gps when I close navigation. Only problem is that when I go to sideload another app my gps turns off because I'm no longer focusing on the navigation app. This causes the annoying "check gps settings" box to come up when I return and its hard to get rid of.

Is there any way to fix this? Perhaps tell it to kill gps when I EXIT navigation completely? I dont know!

Sent from my Droid Incredible using the XDA app.
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] kungfuturkey:
The easiest way and most power efficient way I found to do it is Do State>cell near... (Scan to find you're cell towers) the task options turn wifi on, exit task turn wifi off..

You just use you're cell signal so no extra power consumption, but also I have it set up to turn on 1 meter from my house so It doesn't turn on and off while im still there which you can do by the tasks.
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] chip.hughes:
I have one turns on my bluetooth at lunch and for an hour after work (syncs with my truck) to make some calls while driving

Silent mode morning and after lunch Mon. through Fri.

GPS on map open

GPS on nav open

Plugged keyguard off

Facedown speakerphone

Opens an email after any text explaining how to send text to email that I can send to sender. (I don't have the text plan)

Headset radio

Random wallpaper and talking clock

What I have been trying to do is schedule a shutdown for bump charging, can't figure it out, have almost decided it is impossible with my skill set. I have the reboot control widget which will power down the device, would love to know how they do this so I could adapt something.
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] madgadjt:
Pocketdials

I have had an annoying issues with pocketdialing... I set up tasker so that when my screen turns off, it goes to the home screen.. to get back to where i was i just hit the back button. I also set the proximity sensor so that when i am in a call it wont go home. Im sure it needs some tweaking but so far its worked for me.
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] REYES702:
Question;

When creating my "Cell Near" state for Wifi ON/OFF and Data ON/OFF purposes, how many different towers do you guys usually have? With my phone scanning, I received 4 tower hits.

Is that the norm? It seems like it has been pretty stable. Hasn't undone itself like it was doing at my place of residence with just 2 tower hits.
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] REYES702:
I jsut have a profile that will turn on GPS whenever X application is opened and then for my EXIT task and I just have it turn off GPS. Is that what you are looking for?
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] Div033:
That's what I tried, but switching apps to change a song or whatever will turn the GPS back off and cause my navigation to go bonkers.

Sent from my Droid Incredible using the XDA app.
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] MMBosstones86:
I just have gps turn on and off from time based profiles. Don't notice any hit on battery. Also use gps to tell when I'm home to use wifi instead of 3g
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] dubluv17:
Question: I currently have my Tasker open my Music app when I plug in my headphones but I would rather have it open my "music" folder so that I can then choose what music app I wanna use. Does anyone know how to have tasker just open a folder on the homescreen rather than an app? Did a quick search and couldn't find anything. Thanks.
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] SR3TLAW:
Having this same problem. Any fix
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] chip.hughes:
If you are asking for what I think you are, you need to install "file magic". Here is my profile. (first time I've added an attachment, hope I did it right) I use mine for the radio, but you can change it to anything.
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] chip.hughes:
One more time.
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] REYES702:
Make a profile with the state headset plugged. Then make a task that will pop up an alert, it can say chose our whatever you want it to say. Then choose the X that is made from a wrench and change it from execute to menu. Next have it open up whayever apps you want. It then should have a menu popup asking which app. IE:
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] neotericpiguy:
I've been trying to get a profile setup so that it will turn off mobile data for 9 minutes and turn it on for 4 minutes. Essentially I want tweetdeck, email, facebook to only poll every 15 minutes to try and save battery when the screen is off. Right now I have one profile:

Poller

1. Mobile Data off

2. Wait 9 minutes

3. Mobile Data on

4. Wait 4 minutes

5. Goto 1

Whenever the display is off I enable the Poller profile and when ever the display is on I disable the poller and immediately set Mobile Data on. I feel like I get better battery life, but I'm not sure. I hope there is a more elegant way of getting better battery life with tasker.
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] Hextall:
On the exit task, I put a "wait 5 minutes" task before turning off the gps.

I still get "check gps settings" sometimes when opening navigation apps (apps open faster than the turn on gps function). But you can create widgets to get around this too (turn on gps, wait 5-ish seconds, start app).
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] SR3TLAW:
The five minutes idea is genius. What are GTE parameters to make this happen.

Thanks
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] ccrape:
I'm pretty sure this is nothing new but I just wanted to share some of the things that I've configured tasker to do. I was a locale user for some time, but found tasker to be a bit more user friendly and so far so good.

1. Car

Context - State - Car Dock

Task(s):

Road

Bluetooth On

GPS On

Display Stay On

Display Brightness Max

Ringer Volume Level 7

GTalk Updater - status - busy "not available on the road"

SwiftReply - Auto Respond to sms while on the road (can be done without swiftreply, but this is how I did it)

OffRoad (exit task)

GPS Off

Bluetooth Off

Auto Brightness On

SwiftReply Off

GTalk Updater - status - available

2. Car Audio

Context - State - Bluetooth Connected

Sony Xplod Bluetooth Car Stereo (deck and handset previously paired)

Task(s)

App Menu

Load Navigation

Load Music

Load People

Load Torque (in the event i have my bt odbii dongle connected)

Home Mode (exit task - originally created by another user i just tweaked it for my personal use)

Kill App Navigation

Kill App Music

Kill App People

Kill App Torque

Go Home - go to currently configured home screen

3. OnCall

Context - Event - Phone Offhook

Context - State - Not Docked

Task(s)

OnCall

SwiftReply - reply to sms with courtesy message

OffCall

SwiftReply Off
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] MMBosstones86:
honestly i would say you're probably using more data this way. Just have each app sync at specified length of time. Have facebook sync every hour or whatever...or just refresh when you open the app.

no real reason to have everything sync like that. my gmail is pushed right to the phone more or less the same time as my windows client.

Hope it helps
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] shahulvm:
Settings pls

Hi All,

Hope the experts can help...[[In view of saving battery]]

In tasker, I have created two profiles

i. 'Display On' turn-on 'Mobile Data'

ii. 'Display-off' turn-off 'Mobile Data'

iii. 'HeadSet-plugged' in turn-on 'Mobile Data' - to help in stream music.

Is there anyway I can put in a check to see if skype application is active and display is off then the mobile data to be on, as I dont want the skype call to be disconnected.

Finally, whats the difference is disabling the data using 'Mobile Data off' vs 'Mobile Data APN' using APNDROID. I am in GSM and mobile data off works fine.

Thanks.
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] ccrape:
You may be able to use the condition or variables plugin(s) to accomplish what you're trying to do.
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] jackattack:
I would add a VariableSet in any profile that you want to override the screen off/data off profile. Something like "%DATAHOLD". Set up a profile that sets %DATAHOLD to 1 when Skype opens with an exit task to clear that variable. In the Display-off profile, where you set data off, check "if" and require %DATAHOLD to "not match" 1.

That way when you open Skype, it sets the variable to 1, which will cause your display-off profile not to turn off data.
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] endipott:
i find this implementation to be really inventive and useful. nice work.

been using tasker for two weeks now, and aside from the popular usage scenarios, the best i can contribute right now is:

on headset plugged-in, i do the usual (music-app menu, volume adjust), but i also invoke event contexts (received.txt and phone.ringing) with "say" tasks to read sms contents and announce incoming callers. i find this really useful, especially for when i'm on the bike.

i'm trying now to work out an elegant, battery-sensitive method to activate a repeating missed-call notification ONLY when i'm actually not there (i.e.: NOT when i've ignored the call). the only way i can think of thus far is to continuously monitor orientation changes and assume that if it's daytime and orientation has not shifted for, say, 20+ minutes and the device is not face-down, i probably accidentally left it in the other room and could therefore use a repeating notification of any missed calls.

i'm not sure if this will work as i'm envisioning it. but seriously, how great is this app? i'm fully all-aboard the tasker-train. choo, choo.

oh also: anyone know which devices support which of the starred (disabled) actions? there are circumstances under which i'd be interested in altering my lock-screen code, but my HEROC CM6.1 apparently does not support this. are these tasks accessible on any of your devices?
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] schollianmj:
here is the simple profile that I use to get it to auto launce the car home app oonce im in my car, it is synced with my cars BT and i plug in my charging cord...

Just unzip the rar and do what ever it is you have to do to play with it....
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] ejkeebler:
Thanks for some great idea, hopefully I can get some of them working!
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] pickthecrowdup:
Sorry if this has been discussed, I didn't find it with search...

Can anyone figure out how to set tasker to stop charging when @ 99% and start again at, like, 95% or something.. Kind of like a bump charge solution. I've read that HTC phones stop charging after reaching 100% and that is why you drop drastically after the first half an hour in the morning. Or stop at 99% and start again 30 minutes before i leave for work?
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] sheepforwheat:
I don't think there is a way. best solution would be to buy a power plug that works on a timer. like you might use for christmas lights
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] rmoney:
Thats not exactly how HTC phones charge, and its better for your phone to just let it do its thing when charging.

Has anyone got a random wallpaper profile to work? Mine only works when I test it and not at the time context that I set for it. I have it set so that between 5:30am and 6am, it'll set a random variable and pick a wallpaper based on that random number. The random and selection part works, just it never does it on its between those times. Each time I have to go into Tasker and hit the test button for it to run.
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] MMBosstones86:
either deal with the charging issues or charge with the phone off. Only way i know to do it is a programmable charger
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] Hextall:
There's a plugin called Quick Boot (you'll need the Plus license, $1.99) that you can use with Tasker. I assume it would allow you to set a profile that when you are charging at night, to shut down the phone at a certain time after battery is at 100%. This would then start bump charging.

I doubt there's a way to have it turn on the phone though (I'm under the impression that bump charging means get to 100%, then turn phone off and continue charging, right?).
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] mtown_cyclone:
I'm trying to turn off Skype with Tasker when I'm at work (use Skype on my computer). It doesn't seem to work to just set a profile to "kill app" when plugged into USB. Any other ideas?
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] WhammyDroid:
Does anyone know how to change the default sound profiles (normal, vibrate, silent) from wtihin Tasker?
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] intangibleDroid:
If anyone is interested, I made a 2.2+ Tasker/Locale plug-in that can toggle the pattern lock and ADB. You need root to install it because the app needs to be in /system/app/ to function.

Secure Settings Plug-in

This works because apps in the system folder are granted access to write secure settings.

Cheers
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] jackattack:
This doesn't appear to be working for me. It doesn't disable the pattern unlock. I'm on MIUI 1.21.
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] intangibleDroid:
Make sure that the apk is in /system/app/ and CHMOD to 644 using a terminal or root explorer.
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] jackattack:
I had the correct permissions set but I didn't reboot after setting them and installing. Just rebooted and it works great. Thanks!