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How to turn off 3G and just run 2G ?

Was wondering for battery saving ideas, if I am going to be using the phone for business during the weekday, is it possible to turn off 3G ? Where is that setting ?
I am running Myn's RLS 5, with "netarchy-toastmod" Kernel, as well as the usual background crap turned off. Just trying to get some longer battery life.
Today was a good day, had it unplugged for 8 hours, and was at 35% battery left, after a heavy business day of 40+ phone calls, 25 texts, a dozen e-mails, and surfing the net every hour. I never got that much when I was stock before this ROM and Kernel. But would still like more if I can turn off 3G somehow ?

if im at the college or a low service area, ill just touch the mobile data widget to disable 3G. still allows for text messages and calls, so not a huge deal. and it saves on battery life.

Myns warm two point two rom has it in the notification bar.
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jacoballen22 said:
Myns warm two point two rom has it in the notification bar.
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Thanks, but sounding like a newb, which icon is it ?
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The up and down arrows. Very useful.
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jacoballen22 said:
The up and down arrows. Very useful.
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hmm, on my picture of my notification bar, I do not see any up/down arrows on Myn's RLS 5 ?

CDMA is not like GSM. Switching from 3G (EV-DO) to 2G (1x) will not save you battery.

Ahhh you have to edit the widget.txt file in system. Change the 4gtoggle to MobileData with the caps. Use root explorer to edit the file then reboot. System/customize/widget.txt
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Product F(RED) said:
CDMA is not like GSM. Switching from 3G (EV-DO) to 2G (1x) will not save you battery.
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But shutting off your 3G mobile data will, which is what I think OP is looking to do.

_MetalHead_ said:
But shutting off your 3G mobile data will, which is what I think OP is looking to do.
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Is there another way to toggle on/off the mobile data ? What does that icon look like ?

There are a number of ways:
1) Hold the power button -> Hit Mobile Data.
2) Change the 4G (or any other notification toggle) to MobileData in widget.txt as stated a few posts above.
3) Install JuiceDefender to have it done automatically when you're not using the phone.

Product F(RED) said:
There are a number of ways:
1) Hold the power button -> Hit Mobile Data.
2) Change the 4G (or any other notification toggle) to MobileData in widget.txt as stated a few posts above.
3) Install JuiceDefender to have it done automatically when you're not using the phone.
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Thanks, already have Ultimate Juice Defender installed.

Just edit the widget.txt and reboot it will be simple. Even I could do it lol.
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You can also just go into Menu > Settings > Wireless & Networks and uncheck Mobile Networks or Mobile data/connections or whatever it was called. (Sorry on CM7 atm)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=877003
That explains how to add it to your power notifications bar.
But if you have Ultimate Juice, set it so it does it for you.

sekigah84 said:
You can also just go into Menu > Settings > Wireless & Networks and uncheck Mobile Networks or Mobile data/connections or whatever it was called. (Sorry on CM7 atm)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=877003
That explains how to add it to your power notifications bar.
But if you have Ultimate Juice, set it so it does it for you.
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You mean "Always On Mobile Data". And yes, Ultimate Juice will do it for you.

I have an app in the market called Network Switch. It allows Sense ROMs to switch to 2g only or 3g only. However, I can't find any data that it will save battery.
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sekigah84 said:
You can also just go into Menu > Settings > Wireless & Networks and uncheck Mobile Networks or Mobile data/connections or whatever it was called. (Sorry on CM7 atm)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=877003
That explains how to add it to your power notifications bar.
But if you have Ultimate Juice, set it so it does it for you.
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Thanks for providing the link that I wanted to give, no really cause I'm always on the application rather than the website.
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Zorachus said:
Thanks, but sounding like a newb, which icon is it ?
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Dude I can see in the picture you are already running juice defender! Just go into the jd settings and set it to automatically enable/disable 3g. It will turn off data when your screen is off and trigger it when you light it up. You can also configure 2g/3g with it depending on your rom support.
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Want long battery life? Tips on how to have it!

Hey guys I am lefty and I like to use my a lot and I mean a lot I am texting; using youtube facebook tumblr all the time and with the regular settings my battery dies before I get home.. but since that I always happens to me I tend to do a lot of setting changes to save battery so it keeps me around 50% by the time I get home from school.
- Wi-fi Off
-Background Data Off
-Auto Off Screen 1 min
-Animations None at all or Some
-Brightness Auto Brightness
Everything Else can be left alone.
Now I recommend having a custom Kernel as this helps a lot!
Now with Set CPU I use profiles and these profiles really helped improve battery life.
Please don't mind that there isn't a 3G icon in my house its crappy ass service so I tend to turn it off and use wi-fi!
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The 12 am 5 am profile is for me only so the battery last me longer for school the next day so don't set a profile like that
BTW I hope this helps you get long battery life!
Thanks to drellisdee for his awesome kernel that gives me long ass battery life!

I'm curious about the in call profile you have set
Would you really need a 1ghz clock in a call?

what's this awesome kernel that you're using? i want in

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1244164

truelefty said:
Hey guys I am lefty and I like to use my a lot and I mean a lot I am texting; using youtube facebook tumblr all the time and with the regular settings my battery dies before I get home.. but since that I always happens to me I tend to do a lot of setting changes to save battery so it keeps me around 50% by the time I get home from school.
- Wi-fi Off
-Background Data Off
-Auto Off Screen 1 min
-Animations None at all or Some
-Brightness Auto Brightness
Everything Else can be left alone.
Now I recommend having a custom Kernel as this helps a lot!
Now with Set CPU I use profiles and these profiles really helped improve battery life.
Please don't mind that there isn't a 3G icon in my house its crappy ass service so I tend to turn it off and use wi-fi!
The 12 am 5 am profile is for me only so the battery last me longer for school the next day so don't set a profile like that
BTW I hope this helps you get long battery life!
Thanks to drellisdee for his awesome kernel that gives me long ass battery life!
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The temp setting is a little low lefty, I would imagine that profile is bumping the other profiles a little.
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kingsway8605 said:
The temp setting is a little low lefty, I would imagine that profile is bumping the other profiles a little.
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Honestly I have noticed no real difference it's the fact that the phone is in my pocket or in my bag and it always get hot since I can't keep out of the sun at school that is why it is very low.. you can set it higher if you would like.. but I notice no difference at all.

Zax_Was_Here said:
I'm curious about the in call profile you have set
Would you really need a 1ghz clock in a call?
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Honestly it's your choice you can set that profile or either change the max frequency, really just up to you.

For me, when I'm in a WiFi network (actually connected and not just turned on scanning for stuff) my battery lasts a lot longer that way than on 3g.
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Zax_Was_Here said:
I'm curious about the in call profile you have set
Would you really need a 1ghz clock in a call?
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Honestly my CPU speed doesn't affect my battery. Poor signal does
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knipp21 said:
Honestly my CPU speed doesn't affect my battery. Poor signal does
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Well then turn off mobile data and you should be fine.

Originally Posted by knipp21
Honestly my CPU speed doesn't affect my battery. Poor signal does
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Well then turn off mobile data and you should be fine.
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Haha I know bro. I was statIng my findings
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franklin270h said:
For me, when I'm in a WiFi network (actually connected and not just turned on scanning for stuff) my battery lasts a lot longer that way than on 3g.
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+1
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THIS WIDGET USED 9.5GB!!! in 1 week

thanks to this data usage feature on ics it warned that i was close to 10gb. i had no idea. its the pure news widget. thankfully i have unlimited data. but anyone have any idea how this is happening? i only have 3 news sources.
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sorry mate can't see ya pic

switch to manual updates.

qman66 said:
thanks to this data usage feature on ics it warned that i was close to 10gb. i had no idea. its the pure news widget. thankfully i have unlimited data. but anyone have any idea how this is happening? i only have 3 news sources.
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Google should log the average amount of data an app can use and write it on the market...

That is ridiculous, how often was it updating
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cordell507 said:
That is ridiculous, how often was it updating
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for a few days every few hours even though i had it set to 30 minutes it didnt work right. now its been updating every half hour and still the same crazy data. i mean its only a few lines of text for each article. i only have 10 newest showing. it doesnt make any sense. something has to be going on in the background that i dont know of.

hory chit
the battery life was probably terrible if it used this much :/

That's crazy! Have you mailed the developers? It must be images or something, text couldn't add up to that. Maybe leave it connected to your wifi and run wireshark or something (if you've got an adapter that will run promiscuous mode properly) - maybe you can see what it's doing...

jmbillings said:
That's crazy! Have you mailed the developers? It must be images or something, text couldn't add up to that. Maybe leave it connected to your wifi and run wireshark or something (if you've got an adapter that will run promiscuous mode properly) - maybe you can see what it's doing...
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i havent yet. i have a a little thumbnail image next to the text. this is just strange.

qman66 said:
i havent yet. i have a a little thumbnail image next to the text. this is just strange.
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holy crrrrap....9GB
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This must be a bug, the app developers wouldn't want everyone with their app using this much data from their servers every week!
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Google should log the average amount of data an app can use and write it on the market...
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Good idea.

jmbillings said:
That's crazy! Have you mailed the developers? It must be images or something, text couldn't add up to that. Maybe leave it connected to your wifi and run wireshark or something (if you've got an adapter that will run promiscuous mode properly) - maybe you can see what it's doing...
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Images? Forget about images, this has to be downloading high quality videos to get to 9GB.

I have some serious security concerns about what this app is doing. You should try to sniff the data and see how much its sending versus receiving. I'd be curious to know what IP addresses it is communicating with. Did you install it directly from the market?
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Just read the comments on the market for this app. One other person reported it using 833 megs in 10 hours. That was back in July.
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It over 9000! (MB)
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I used to use pure messenger and calendar widgets without any surprises. That is insane though really...
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Maybe it is a bug in ICS's data use report? Try to contact your carrier to check if you have really used 9GB in the last month.
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You should contact the developer, he is very responsive and provide good support.
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Hi,
I am the dev of this app.
1. when you have such trouble, please contact me by email (hopefully somebody did).
2. check if it load images and images sizes. It doesn't load 'thumbnails' from the websites, but full images if thumbnails are not available ... so, if the website use big images of 2Mb ... it can goes quickly.
3. disable widget cache if it was enable
4. here is my widget with 3h refresh period and 8 feeds :
http://pureapps.planethoster.org/images/presentation/pne_data.png
5. if you use the internal viewer, all browsing you does in the viewer is counted ... video streaming, downloads...
@deekjx : For comments about 'security concerns', dump the UDP/TCP trafic if you want, there is nothing hidden. But, please, be careful before publishing such comments. Now, if the app doesn't come from the market, you can be right... few users reported Pure calendar hacked bersions containing viruses because they got it from a 'forum'.
Please, email me logcats just after a manual refresh to check what is wrong.

Same for me too
Switched to manual update worked fine. contacted dev through market

Why is my phone tearing through my data when I'm not looking?

Early this morning the count was at 79mb and now all of the sudden it's at 135mb. I'm at work so I have my llama profile set to Wi-Fi ON and mobile data OFF. I've caught my phone turning on data by itself once already and now I'm starting to think that it wasn't a bug but an actual flaw in cyanogenmod (or new feature, who knows). When I go into Traffic Monitor Plus to check which app is eating away my data, it shows that 122mb have been used by "System Traffic"
Has this happened to anyone? How would I go about fixing this problem?
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Get a better data plan?
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nubreed000 said:
Early this morning the count was at 79mb and now all of the sudden it's at 135mb. I'm at work so I have my llama profile set to Wi-Fi ON and mobile data OFF. I've caught my phone turning on data by itself once already and now I'm starting to think that it wasn't a bug but an actual flaw in cyanogenmod (or new feature, who knows). When I go into Traffic Monitor Plus to check which app is eating away my data, it shows that 122mb have been used by "System Traffic"
Has this happened to anyone? How would I go about fixing this problem?
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Ive never used Traffic Monitor. Im not sure of your set up but maybe clean install of the ROM. Dont reinstall any of your apps for a day or two and see what happens?
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Get a better data plan?
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And how will that solve his problem

jasvncnt1 said:
Ive never used Traffic Monitor. Im not sure of your set up but maybe clean install of the ROM. Dont reinstall any of your apps for a day or two and see what happens?
And how will that solve his problem
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I was being sarcastic.
That's would bug me too.
You sure you don't have a rogue app pulling data like a weather widget? How many launchers you have? One thing that I have have found is if you have more then one launcher installed and you have widgets open in the non used launcher they can still use data and resources. Ex. If you have a stock ROM with touchwiz by default it has a couple widgets in the home screens. Well say you install nova right away and switch to it.., those of widgets on touchwiz are till running.,. Using data etc... check that..
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c_86 said:
I was being sarcastic.
That's would bug me too.
You sure you don't have a rogue app pulling data like a weather widget? How many launchers you have? One thing that I have have found is if you have more then one launcher installed and you have widgets open in the non used launcher they can still use data and resources. Ex. If you have a stock ROM with touchwiz by default it has a couple widgets in the home screens. Well say you install nova right away and switch to it.., those of widgets on touchwiz are till running.,. Using data etc... check that..
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I have been chewing through the data since I got my S3. O my Inspire, with the same usage, I would only use ~1.2Gb/mo. I came close to my 2gb cap last month.
Sure enough, I had some widgets in TW. Weather, news, etc. I didn't even think about it. We'll see if removing them has any effect.

c_86 said:
I was being sarcastic.
That's would bug me too.
You sure you don't have a rogue app pulling data like a weather widget? How many launchers you have? One thing that I have have found is if you have more then one launcher installed and you have widgets open in the non used launcher they can still use data and resources. Ex. If you have a stock ROM with touchwiz by default it has a couple widgets in the home screens. Well say you install nova right away and switch to it.., those of widgets on touchwiz are till running.,. Using data etc... check that..
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Well I do have weather and news widgets but the main thing here is that I was at work, where I'm always on Wi-Fi. My location profiles are set up so that when I'm at work my data is turned off. In fact I have no profiles set up that turn my data on.
I was listening to a podcast and I'm guessing that mobile data somehow turned on and started streaming over that instead of Wi-Fi. I'm trying to figure out why this would happen.
And what the heck would classify as "system traffic"? Kind of a vague term for something that's eating away that much data in no time.
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my phone wasted 950 mb of data in 4 hours. I went to pick it up to the Rogers store at 2 pm, and i went back to the office. when i got home at 7, i saw that i had used 980 mb of data. Who's to blame? Picasa web albums, which came with sync on by default.

nubreed000 said:
Early this morning the count was at 79mb and now all of the sudden it's at 135mb. I'm at work so I have my llama profile set to Wi-Fi ON and mobile data OFF. I've caught my phone turning on data by itself once already and now I'm starting to think that it wasn't a bug but an actual flaw in cyanogenmod (or new feature, who knows). When I go into Traffic Monitor Plus to check which app is eating away my data, it shows that 122mb have been used by "System Traffic"
Has this happened to anyone? How would I go about fixing this problem?
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I am not on Cyanogenmod, just the stock Rom so I don't know if this setting is the same.
But you can try and check this setting: Settings -> Wi-Fi -> Advanced -> Keep Wi-Fi on during sleep.
For me it used to be set to "Only when plugged in" so when the phone was woken up from sleep mode it would always start using my LTE data until i manually turned Wi-Fi back on.
Setting it to "Always" means it always uses my Wi-Fi connection when coming out of sleep, whether I do it or some app does it in the background.

[APP] 'Data Lock' : unplug 3G while the screen is off

Hi
I'm not a developper but I created an app with the Tasker App Factory that unplug 3G one minute after you lock your screen. The one minute delay is here to prevent the phone plugging and unplugging at any time the screen goes off. During this delay, if you wake your device, the process will stop and begin again when you turn the screen off. When the screen is off, after the 1 minute delay, 3G is stopped while the phone is in your pocket to prevent battery drain
Once it is stopped, if you wake the device a new 5 second delay is started, for those who just want to check the clock , and then the 3G is plugged with a ''Data restarted'' toast
Note : Tasker IS NOT required to use this apk :victory:
Feel free to request any modification like the delay or the toast text, I'm here to share such things. And if it helped, don't forget the :good: button
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Good job, i will definitely try the app

azertguigui said:
Hi
I'm not a developper but I created an app with the Tasker App Factory that unplug 3G one minute after you lock your screen. The one minute delay is here to prevent the phone plugging and unplugging at any time the screen goes off. During this delay, if you wake your device, the process will stop and begin again when you turn the screen off. When the screen is off, after the 1 minute delay, 3G is stopped while the phone is in your pocket to prevent battery drain
Once it is stopped, if you wake the device a new 5 second delay is started, for those who just want to check the clock , and then the 3G is plugged with a ''Data restarted'' toast
Feel free to request any modification like the delay or the toast text, I'm here to share such things. And if it helped, don't forget the :good: button
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it will be cool if there is an option to switch to 2g from 3g when the screen is off!! if it do that it will be perfect

masterchif92 said:
it will be cool if there is an option to switch to 2g from 3g when the screen is off!! if it do that it will be perfect
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Sorry but 2G/3G toggle doesn't work on stock 4.2.2 (my actual rom) which mean I can't use it with Tasker

We need tasked installed right?
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Ace42 said:
We need tasked installed right?
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Ow sorry I forgot to mention it.... You DO NOT need Tasker to use it :laugh:
thanks for remember me it, I add it :good:

cpu usage
Your app gave me a watchdog alert as it's using more than 50% CPU. This would counteract any benefits as eating CPU results in battery drain.
It also uses 15.3 mb of ram when its role is simple and in no way justifies the ram/CPU usage.

Going to try this as I am tired of manually switching to 2g all the time.
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autoreiv said:
Your app gave me a watchdog alert as it's using more than 50% CPU. This would counteract any benefits as eating CPU results in battery drain.
It also uses 15.3 mb of ram when its role is simple and in no way justifies the ram/CPU usage.
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Can't see your screenshot...
alwaysbboy said:
Going to try this as I am tired of manually switching to 2g all the time.
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It seems to be using more juice than saving it.
Shows up as 2nd highest draining source after screen.

You seem to be right... That's too bad because I use tasker 24 hours a day with many profiles and tasks and it saves my battery!
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very good.
i make a few sugestions
1. hide icon (dont need show icon, dont have config to make)
2. create widget or icon in notification to enable or disable
3. put in google play for updates
4. thats be good work in wifi too. or switch this option...

ruterjunior said:
very good.
i make a few sugestions
1. hide icon (dont need show icon, dont have config to make)
2. create widget or icon in notification to enable or disable
3. put in google play for updates
4. thats be good work in wifi too. or switch this option...
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Thank you, but, you know, I'm not a dev, I just like the app tasker and they propose to transfer their context into apps. I'm absolutely not able to do what you're expecting (yet)
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