I'm looking for an app that can enable & disable wifi at certain times of the day/days of the week etc.
Basically so that while I'm working, my wifi is switched off to preserve battery power, but when I'm out at lunch or home in the evening the wifi is on automatically.
I looked around the site at things like wifiprofiles app, and monsterwifi app etc but unless I missed something I don't think they allow shedules for when wifi automatically switches on & off do they?
Sorry if I'm being thick or missed another option!
you should check out phoneAlarm Pro -- I've been using this for years, it is a powerhouse of control for all sorts of things -- profiles (automatically switchable) include WiFi on/off as well as Data, Ringtones, Volume, Backlight, customizable alerts, etc. I could go on and on... this is my one and only "must have" app!
oh, and of course it's skinnable! you can find plenty of skins and support in the pocketmax.net forums...
Thanks for that. Installed the demo version.
In theory it's spot on, but in practise I can't get the automatic (scheduled) profile switching to work.
I set a time for it to swap from 'Out of hours' to 'Work' and noticed my phone still shows as having the ringer on even though I set the Work profile to be silent etc.
What I don't understand is the relationship between the profiles in this software and the profiles that the phone uses normally.
Ie when installed, I can't see anything that illustrates what profile this software thinks it is currently using, just the usual volume/ringer icon at the top of the screen.
If I change the system volume with the hardware volume button for instance, does this directly influence what profile gets used on Phonealarm? Or should Phonealarm disable the system related profiles/volume control etc?
Me = a bit confused!
yeah, it can get a bit daunting at times cuz it does so much...
can I assume you're on WM 6.5 and Manila/Sense? back in the day, phoneAlarm ran as a Today screen app (still can) -- but now with 6.5/manila it can run as a 'background host' -- so you don't really see it unless you call it up. you can have an Icon 'stick' to the taskbar, but I keep mine hidden and have a key shortcut to bring up "paHost". now, depending on the skin used, you can see what profile is active as well as alarms, status, time, weather, etc...
basically, the profiles 'overtake' the WM settings -- they're still there, just set by phoneAlarm. for example, you can still change the volume as usual, but on the next profile change it will be reset per the profile's settings.
the profile schedules and the custom email/sms alarm are probably the most difficult to understand (or to get working as you'd expect) -- I would recommend downloading the 'user guide' -- it explains things far better than I could here.
lastly -- get familiar with the forum! the FAQ and Support threads cover just about everything, and "Penguin" (the developer/moderator) is really very responsive to everyone's questions and/or needs.
maybe an example would be helpful...
here's how I do it -- when I arrive at work, I plug my HD into a cradle at my desk and it (usually) stays there all day. the ActiveSync connection triggers the "work" profile, which sets volumes/tones, turns on bluetooth headset, etc. etc.
now once I unplug it -- it switches to "car" profile, as I'm (usually) now on my way home. note the "on end" setting in screenshot #2.
when I get home, I manually switch to "home" profile. this would be where you could get into location-based rules -- from gps, cell tower, etc. -- to automatically know you're home, but I don't have them set up at the moment.
then, it will switch to "night" mode at 10:00pm, turning off bluetooth, data, lowering volume & screen brightness, etc. etc.
when I get to work the next day we start all over again. (also note weekdays, as in you could do something different on the weekends)
I hope this helps you -- I think once you get the hang of it this is a truly awesome app. I'll be happy to answer any specific questions you have if I can. Good Luck!
Thanks for the assistance mate.
I think I've got the hang of it now after your posts and looking at the manual (I should have learned by now!). There's a few bits I'm not 100% certain about but it's mainly doing what I want and looks promising.
The phone is guzzling battery power since I installed it but I think I have found why. I have found that the wifi logo is visible all the time but red instead of blue, and previously this was not the case. I notice in the settings it describes toggling 'wireless lan' on or off but not perhaps in the same way as going into comm manager and selecting Wifi on or off. Not sure how I can get round but I need to make it turn off properly as it's burning my battery like the clappers!!
I like it though apart from teething problems!
I was wondering whether it's possible to change the Windows Mobile (registry/file) configuration, dependent on the power available to the device?
Ideally, I'm looking for something that for example will allow:
-When power level >90%, check Email every 5 minutes
-when power level between 60% and 90%, check Email every hour
-when power level between 40% and 60%, check Email every 6 hours
The idea is, that when hooking up the mobile to the PC (or charger), it'll first charge to 100%, after which it will automatically check Email every 5 minutes.
The power values are just an example, it'd be cool if the application were customizable and would not just pertain to the Email send/receive schedule. For instance, Messenger applications could be closed automatically whenever the power is low.
Windows Mobile already features turning the screen on/off after a while, dependant on whether the phone is on an external power source. It'd be cool if these 'profiles' could be expanded to more beyond the display/backlight setting.
That would be possible, will look in to it later.
Having configuration may make it more difficult to do...
Would there happen to be some developments on this, by anyone?
On my BlackBerry, I could tell the thing to turn off/on the attenna at certain times. This allowed me to disable notifications at night and resume them when I got up.
If there isn't one, is there one for sound? Sometimes I forget to turn it off and woken up multiple times due to incoming messages at night.
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On my BlackBerry, I could tell the thing to turn off/on the attenna at certain times. This allowed me to disable notifications at night and resume them when I got up.
If there isn't one, is there one for sound? Sometimes I forget to turn it off and woken up multiple times due to incoming messages at night.
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If you have some tech/application savvy, then get Tasker in the Marketplace for a couple bucks. It's like a custom feature development program; basically it lets you establish 'profiles' i.e., conditions under which certain 'tasks' are triggered, then the tasks themselves.
So for example, you would create a profile called 'Sleepy Time'; you could set that profile to activate when you hit a toggle switch, or you can even set it to turn on at a pre-specified hour. Hell, you can even set it to turn on at a pre-specified hour unless you have an active data session running.
The possibilities are somewhat limitless, but that's why I recommend it for more savvy users, because you have to 'build' the profiles and tasks manually (it's not very difficult, but it's not like your one-and-done single-purpose apps). Also, some folks post their purpose-specific pre-built profiles on the developers wiki for others to use.
Same goes for sound. You can have it disable all sounds except your alarm clock starting at a certain hour, you can even program it to disable all sounds unless you receive a call from, e.g., your wife/girlfriend/mistress.
Other than that, Juice Defender (also marketplace app), also has customized profiles for night, etc. and is much easier to configure (though you are more limited on WHAT you can configure). You need the Ultimate (paid) version for access to the most granular optimizations (e.g., disable all data synchronization between 1:30AM and 6:30 AM unless the screen is on, auto-disable my wi-fi when I'm not home, etc.).
As a recovering Blackberry user, I can empathize with some of your withdrawal symptoms. If you do end up with Tasker, PM me and and I will send you a copy of the profiles/tasks I built to replicate the Blackberry 'Sound Profiles' feature using a one-touch widget.
Juice defender, a couple bucks on the market saves your sleep. A few profiles and your set plus good training to get you started for the future. The extra battery life is just sauce for the goose
I just started using Tasker, and thought I would create a thread for us Verizon HTC One users to share profiles and such and help each other out.
So far, I have only setup a basic profile with Tasker to silence my phone(and set to vibrate) and turn data off. I leave the radio on in-case my wife needs to get a hold of me. This is based on the day of the week, and time of day, and location conditions. After the time period is over, or location changes, it automatically reverses these changes, taking the phone out of silent mode and turning data back on.
What do you use Tasker for? Share your profiles and tasks here.
I'll upload mine at a later time because I'm super busy atm(but not too busy to post apparently). But here is what mine does that you can look into for making your life a little easier.
Profiles --------------
Record Data State: Set a variable on/off when mobile data is enabled or disabled but only when the screen is on. Additionally only after the screen has been on for 2 seconds. This fixes some issues with phones that sleep mobile data thus making Tasker think you manually disabled mobile data. This profile is used in relation to the auto data on/off which I will get to later.
Apps - Enable GPS: A simple profile that turns on the gps for gps related things like maps, location based games. I increased the application check to 9999 for battery sake and also only run this profile while screen is on. When profile becomes disabled perform a delayed task of turning off the gps(I do 1 minute).
Screen Off Data Management: When you turn the screen off wait 2 minutes to turn off mobile data and 7 till wifi. This also enables a routine that enables mobile data briefly every hour.
Screen On: Re-enable data connections, see received text profile as well
Time from ~nighttime to early morning: Disable all volumes while leaving ringer low. Obvious reasons....
State> bluetooth connected (exit task only): Wait 1 minute, disable bluetooth if no device is connected. This is tied in to the next two profiles, it will auto disable your bluetooth 1 minute after you disconnect a bluetooth device.
Phone ringing enable bluetooth: turn on bluetooth if your phone is ringing...
phone call placed - enable bluetooth: see above....
phone idle - disable bluetooth: turn off bluetooth ONLY if a bluetooth device is not connected. the "state> bluetooth connected" exit task will automatically disable bluetooth briefly after it's no longer in use. This prevents bluetooth from automatically disabling on dropped calls.
on some devices you can use "Call Any*" to handle the previous 3 profiles.
Received Text: this seems broke in most scenarios but it was intended to set a variable of when the text was received and not enable mobile data when screen is turned on for x seconds. this would prevent pointless toggling of mobile data.
Those are all of my power saving profiles. As said before I'll upload the scripts later because man, they're a doozy to write to get them all to work together.
Thanks for sharing some power saving ideas. I just added some more, still haven't had a whole lot of time to get into complex stuff...
Have a profile for location, time, and date to set my phone to vibrate if I am at work.
Added a simple one for a text to my wife if my battery is below 10 percent.
Loving this app already, looking forward to see what other folks have done.
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Ok, so I added another profile for taking a photo and emailing to me if the lock screen is entered incorrectly after a certain number of times. However, I can not get this to work. I do not get any errors, but I don't actually receive the email message. Here is what I did, found in another thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=40341626&postcount=734
Anyone have any thoughts?
EDIT 2:
I figured out part of the problem - it will not work with Python 3, you must use 2.x.x (I'm using 2.6.2 from https://code.google.com/p/python-fo...etail?name=PythonForAndroid-r7b1.apk&can=2&q=)
So now I am receiving the email message with GPS location, but no picture attachment, probably a typo on my part...
EDIT 3:
so, for the attachment path on the photo, I have tried the following with no success:
/sdcard/DCIM/Tasker/%PHOTONUMBER.jpg
/sdcard0/DCIM/Tasker/%PHOTONUMBER.jpg
/storage/sdcard0/DCIM/Tasker/%PHOTONUMBER.jpg
peteschlabar said:
Thanks for sharing some power saving ideas. I just added some more, still haven't had a whole lot of time to get into complex stuff...
Have a profile for location, time, and date to set my phone to vibrate if I am at work.
Added a simple one for a text to my wife if my battery is below 10 percent.
Loving this app already, looking forward to see what other folks have done.
EDIT:
Ok, so I added another profile for taking a photo and emailing to me if the lock screen is entered incorrectly after a certain number of times. However, I can not get this to work. I do not get any errors, but I don't actually receive the email message. Here is what I did, found in another thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=40341626&postcount=734
Anyone have any thoughts?
EDIT 2:
I figured out part of the problem - it will not work with Python 3, you must use 2.x.x (I'm using 2.6.2 from https://code.google.com/p/python-fo...etail?name=PythonForAndroid-r7b1.apk&can=2&q=)
So now I am receiving the email message with GPS location, but no picture attachment, probably a typo on my part...
EDIT 3:
so, for the attachment path on the photo, I have tried the following with no success:
/sdcard/DCIM/Tasker/%PHOTONUMBER.jpg
/sdcard0/DCIM/Tasker/%PHOTONUMBER.jpg
/storage/sdcard0/DCIM/Tasker/%PHOTONUMBER.jpg
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Tasker is broke in quite a lot of areas. It seems to work better with custom ROMs but the stock HTC One ROM is just terrible. I think the developer of Tasker got lazy and stopped fixing things. Not meant as an insult to them, but I never see updates.
I haven't had much time to mess with this the past few days, anyone have any insight on why I am not receiving the picture attachment in the email?
I am just picking this app up so I really have little idea what I'm doing but so far i have:
- When display off - wait 10 minutes then turn off WiFi, Data, and Auto Sync (Poff)
- When display on - wait 2 seconds and turn WiFi, Data, and Auto Sync on (Pon)
- Periodic Data Check - From 7am to 11pm every 30 minutes while the display state is off, run task 'Pon', wait 3 minutes, then run task 'Poff' (Pperiodic) [Set to keep awake during this task]
- Run music - When headphones are plugged in, start my music app of choice (Headset)
These are VERY simple and VERY simply configured. I've seen some really crazy Tasks where it checks the network usage and if it's below 15 kbs.... Yeah that's too cray for me and honestly I don't care if Weather is updating when my screen is off.
I was inspired to do this because I switched from Sense to AOSP and now I don't have the PowerSaver functionality that Sense has. I feel this is a good (configurable) alternative.
Let me know if you want the specifics about these profiles and I'll gladly share them
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One thing I would like to do is change it so instead of "Screen off" it's something like "Sleeping" because if i'm listening to music and have the phone active i'd like data to be on. Is this something I'd have to set up with a custom variable? Have something like $SLEEP defined and have some logic that says IF *phone is awake* THEN SET $SLEEP to 0. Then just add the conditional in front of the 'Poff'? Sounds about right but what would the "*phone is awake*" be?
vpxf said:
Screen Off Data Management: When you turn the screen off wait 2 minutes to turn off mobile data and 7 till wifi. This also enables a routine that enables mobile data briefly every hour.
Screen On: Re-enable data connections, see received text profile as well
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I'm interested in how you set these two up. I have something similar but I'm getting inconsistent results..
I used to have a lot of profiles but I dont use it really anymore since I get good battery life. If I ever start back I will add some as I think them up.
At 10:30pm, tasker disables the green and orange notification lights because they're so stinking bright. It also turns off the capacity buttons backlight and starts Screen Filter at 25%.
It reverses everything the next morning at 8.
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hoa1 said:
Impressive post about this tasker
Could anyone tell me is this an appliCation and how to use it in HTC one?
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It is an app. You can get it here https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.dinglisch.android.taskerm
When you open it, it will give you a tutorial page to help you learn it. If you want any of the functions that you've read above, just quote the author and we'll give you the tasker profile.
I've got mine set up to save a little battery:
-screen off: wait 10 minutes and then disable WiFi, mobile data, and auto sync
-every 30 min when screen off: reenable WiFi, data, and sync for 2 minutes
-screen on: reenable connectivity
-MMS received: turn screen on for 5sec (so that connectivity will be reenabled, and it can download the MMS message)
thecitywelivein said:
At 10:30pm, tasker disables the green and orange notification lights because they're so stinking bright. It also turns off the capacity buttons backlight and starts Screen Filter at 25%.
It reverses everything the next morning at 8.
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I once used the screen filter technique as well, it's handy for not blinding yourself at night.
I attached my script in this post. Most of the actions within it are commented but here is a brief list of what it does.
Enables Bluetooth automatically any time your dialer is in use, such as: making call, getting call, in call. Bluetooth will automatically disable 1 minute after your Bluetooth device is disconnected. This is to prevent immediate disconnects with accidental drops from Bluetooth devices.
Records when you manually enable or disable both WiFi and Cellular data. If you are to disable Cellular data the script won't do interval checks and won't automatically turn on cellular data. The same applies to WiFi.
Enables GPS and increases screen on duration when certain apps are open. Used for Navigation, or GPS related games. This also has protection against immediate disconnects when the apps are temporarily closed.
Automatically disables WiFi and Cellular data x minutes after the screen is turned off, and will periodically briefly enable cellular data. Data will automatically enable when you turn your screen on. Data won't disable if the phone is charging and is not night time.
Night Time will automatically lower sound volumes and disable periodic cellular data cycles,
That's pretty much it! Very simple but helps a ton, especially on devices with weak batteries. Other things to consider is enabling a screen filter if Night Time and brightness sensor is minimum, and perhaps delaying how fast cellular data turns on if your screen is coming on shortly after a text.
Be sure to run the 'Run Once' task as it initiates a few variables.
IMPORTANT: There was one minor thing I fixed after uploading this script. You must make another profile 'On Device Boot' and have the task Set Variable 'LastWifiCheck' to 0. I'll upload another with this fix when I get a chance.
Thanks everyone for the contributions here, keep them coming
thanks
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Anyone have any experience getting Tasker to stop HTC Car & disable car mode? My goal is to have Tasker start up Car and Pandora when my Bluetooth device is detected (which it does properly) and then as an exit task, kill Car & Pandora. Right now I have this in one context but I could split it up I think. Tasker seems to have a hard time stopping Car though. Any ideas?
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Anyone have any experience getting Tasker to stop HTC Car & disable car mode? My goal is to have Tasker start up Car and Pandora when my Bluetooth device is detected (which it does properly) and then as an exit task, kill Car & Pandora. Right now I have this in one context but I could split it up I think. Tasker seems to have a hard time stopping Car though. Any ideas?
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I don't have any experience with this specifically, but you may want to try a plugin that works with Tasker, such as Secure Settings. I don't know if that will work, but there may be another plugin that will. Hope that was at least somewhat helpful.
stigmato said:
Anyone have any experience getting Tasker to stop HTC Car & disable car mode? My goal is to have Tasker start up Car and Pandora when my Bluetooth device is detected (which it does properly) and then as an exit task, kill Car & Pandora. Right now I have this in one context but I could split it up I think. Tasker seems to have a hard time stopping Car though. Any ideas?
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I had the same problem. You may want to try a free app, in the app store, called Trigger. It's similar to Tasker, but offers an option under the Travel section to enable/disable Car Mode.
Can anyone get this to work with Google's "Contacts' birthdays and events" calendar?
All I want for Christmas is for my phone to remind me that a birthday is today using Tasker. No guide works for me, nor any amount of time spent trying to get it to work myself.