Develop Bugs

Driving Safety Script- Automation?

Hello,
I use my Evo everyday for work. I rely heavily on Google Maps, what always bothers me is that I operate in two different modes during the day. When I am driving I like to turn off all distractions.
One mode where I have:
-Orientation set to Lock portrait
-Auto Sync set to On
-Text Messages auto receive on
-GPS Off
Then when I drive I usually spend a couple minutes changing it to:
-Orientation set to Lock landscape
-Auto Sync set to off (disables K-9 mail sync)
-Text Messages auto receive off
-GPS on
Is there a way to create a application or script that I can easily run to switch back and forth between these manual modes? Thank you,

Have you tried Tasker? There's a free 7 day trial on the Tasker website, you can try it out and see if you can get it set up to do what you're wanting. After the 7 days you'll have to purchase it, I think it's $6-$7. There are free alternatives to it that may do what you need as well, like Settings Profile Lite and Llama. I've never used the free ones, and I only tried Tasker for the trial period because I didn't really have a use for it. There's a bit of a learning curve, so you may want to read some tutorials on it.
Sent from my PC36100 using Tapatalk

Great I will take a look at Tasker. I wonder if anyone else has had a similar need. Thank you for your reply.

Yep. Tasker is what you want.
For instance, my in-car setup is:
When connected to power AND AUX audio cable are plugged in:
Media volume 15
Silent Mode OFF
Bluetooth ON
Set secondary profile to auto-reply to sms messages
Turn off button LEDs
Display brightness 30 if after 7:35pm OR 255 if before 7:35pm
Load app Car Home
When power or headphones are unplugged, it reverts back to the way it was set before it ran the profile. It's really cool.
I have a few other profiles setup too. Mostly to put the phone in silent mode when I'm at work, or flash the battery % on the screen at unlock when its below a certain point.
Fun stuff to play around with, having root lets you use a lot more of the features.

Yes tasker is the app for me. Heres to Safe Driving! Thank you,

Weird WiFi/Data issue

So I notice this occuring on Gingerbread, as well as ICS 4.0.4...
I usually have WiFi calling enabled because I use it in my house, and at my office. The problem is when I leave my house or my office while WiFi calling is enabled, it will not switch to data automatically unless I press the power button to show the lock screen. Then the data works fine.
Does this happen to anyone else? Is there a work around?
I have my WiFi set to always be enabled even during sleep.

Try toggling airplane mode instead of rebooting
Sent from my SGH-T989 using xda app-developers app

I never said I had to reboot. I just have to press the power button to wake up the device in order to get service again. It's like it stays stuck in WiFi whether it's connected or not.

Check your advanced wifi options - hit the menu button when in regular wifi options - and see if keep wifi on during sleep is checked. Also maybe the idle timeout length?
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-T989 using xda app-developers app

I said it was in sleep mode, should I turn that off? I mean if it's on sleep, then I won't be able to get calls or messages since I'll barely have service in my basement or office...

Not sure, that's why I suggested the time out length. I don't need wifi much, but I've had similar issues coming off the subway with data not coming back immediately. Usually switching airplane mode on and off makes it work.
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-T989 using xda app-developers app

Battery Tips

Hello all. I just decided to retire my Vibrant yesterday and got an S3. I haven't changed much on it. I'll run it stock for quite a while. I am using a custom launcher, etc.
My battery life is horrible though! It's not even noon and I'm already down to 35%. I've made sure S Voice is not set to wake up when I talk to it. My weather was set to update every 15 minutes by default, but I've changed it to every hour. I charged it in the van on the way to take kiddos to school, and it was at 80ish percent. So that's quite a drop in not a long time. Granted, it's new, so I'm playing with it.
What tips can you give me to get the best battery life I can out of it? Besides custom ROMs. I'm not even rooted. Yet.

Well how long has your screen been on? That will be the determining factor in your battery life. Like you said, it is new and you are playing with it so I am willing to bet that probably has something to do with it.
Otherwise, turn data off when you aren't using it and keep the screen brightness as low as possible.

Here's what I do with a freshly flashed rom. I pretty much drill down through every setting turning off what I dont need.
WiFi - turn off network notification.
More Settings - Everything off
Sound - turn off everything below "System"
Display - Auto brightness off. Timeout 1min. Smart Stay off. Touch key always on or off. Auto Adj Screen Tone off. Battery% on.
Power Saving - Off.
Accounts and Sync - Off
Location Svcs - Off
Language and Input - Voice Cmd off. Voice Recognizer (all off for google and Samsung). Voice Search all off. TTS driving mode off.
Backup and Reset - can't remember what its listed under but below carrier data press to open and uncheck collect data (this is carrier iq, so I removed it asap once rooted)
Accessory - all off
Developer Options - set animation scales to 0.5x.
Hope that helps. I keep a lot off and only turn stuff on when I need it. There's some pretty cool features but for me it doesn't hurt my experiance with the phone to not use a lot of them.
Sent from my SGH-T999 using xda app-developers app

joshnichols189 said:
Well how long has your screen been on? That will be the determining factor in your battery life. Like you said, it is new and you are playing with it so I am willing to bet that probably has something to do with it.
Otherwise, turn data off when you aren't using it and keep the screen brightness as low as possible.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Ah. My screen was set to stay on for 10 minutes. That, I would imagine, was a large part of my problem. At least according to my battery stats. Why do they set that as default??
My screen brightness is now set to low. What is this with the data? Doesn't that mean I would not receive email, google talk messages, etc?
DocHoliday77 said:
Here's what I do with a freshly flashed rom. I pretty much drill down through every setting turning off what I dont need.
WiFi - turn off network notification.
More Settings - Everything off
Sound - turn off everything below "System"
Display - Auto brightness off. Timeout 1min. Smart Stay off. Touch key always on or off. Auto Adj Screen Tone off. Battery% on.
Power Saving - Off.
Accounts and Sync - Off
Location Svcs - Off
Language and Input - Voice Cmd off. Voice Recognizer (all off for google and Samsung). Voice Search all off. TTS driving mode off.
Backup and Reset - can't remember what its listed under but below carrier data press to open and uncheck collect data (this is carrier iq, so I removed it asap once rooted)
Accessory - all off
Developer Options - set animation scales to 0.5x.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I just did almost all of these. With the WiFi detection off, will I need to manually find my home network each time I get back home?
Also, if I turn Voice Command off, I won't be able to push the button and say "Listen to blah blah blah" or "Navigate to ....." correct?

The_MamaBee said:
Ah. My screen was set to stay on for 10 minutes. That, I would imagine, was a large part of my problem. At least according to my battery stats. Why do they set that as default??
My screen brightness is now set to low. What is this with the data? Doesn't that mean I would not receive email, google talk messages, etc?
I just did almost all of these. With the WiFi detection off, will I need to manually find my home network each time I get back home?
Also, if I turn Voice Command off, I won't be able to push the button and say "Listen to blah blah blah" or "Navigate to ....." correct?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I am on CM10 so I am not sure where it is for stock Touchwiz, but I would assume you could go to settings > display > screen timeout and change it there.
Yes, turning off data would mean no push email or Google Talk messages. You could download an app that turns off your data when you turn the screen off, then on when you turn the screen on and your emails and messages would come through then.

joshnichols189 said:
I am on CM10 so I am not sure where it is for stock Touchwiz, but I would assume you could go to settings > display > screen timeout and change it there.
Yes, turning off data would mean no push email or Google Talk messages. You could download an app that turns off your data when you turn the screen off, then on when you turn the screen on and your emails and messages would come through then.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Aah. Okay. Thank you! Yes, I fixed the screen timeout.

The_MamaBee said:
I just did almost all of these. With the WiFi detection off, will I need to manually find my home network each time I get back home?
Also, if I turn Voice Command off, I won't be able to push the button and say "Listen to blah blah blah" or "Navigate to ....." correct?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I should have also mentioned I turn off wifi and data when I don't need it to, which is rare but it happens at times!
By turning off the wifi notification, the only change is it won't give you a notification in status bar that there's an open network nearby that you could connect to. Itll still auto connect to any network you've already got configured.
For voice cmd, it won't let svoice open apps for you. But for example in navigation you can still hit the mic button on keyboard and speak your destination.
Sent from my SGH-T999 using xda app-developers app

Can you upload a Screenshot of your battery screen... It will make it a lot easier to look at
Sent from my SGH-T999 using xda premium

On the Wifi issue. What I do with regards to wifi, is if I know that I am not going to be near an open connection, I turn it off. When I am at work, there is no wifi nearby that I can connect to. So I use Mobile Data instead. Why you ask? It is because when you have your wifi on, in the back ground it is always scanning for a signal. Turn that off and no scan, then no drain for something that you are not using at moment.
I know that this is a bit deeper than you wanted to go, but in the Build.Prop you can put a setting [wifi.supplicant_scan_interval=] and you can set that out. The time in there is the time duration on scanning intervals based on seconds. So the setting wifi.supplicant_scan_interval=180 means that it scans for wifi and doesn't find one, then counts off 180seconds and scans again.<--This is what I have mine set too, btw.

Disable the wifi when your not using it.

[Q] bluetooth and wifi power saving

Hello all,
I am wondering if anybody has any ideas on how i can set my bluetooth and wireless to automatically turn off if they haven't connected to anything in 15 or 30 minutes.
The reason i want to do this is after i leave my home i don't need my wifi until i get back home and after i leave my car i don't need my bluetooth until i get back in it at the end of the day, sometimes i forget these things are still on and they slowly eat at the battery...
I've got the Samsung S3 (AT&T) (i747m Canadian version) although its been rooted and installed CM 10.1 nightly build March 06 there must be some way to do this.
thanks for any ideas!
Alex

Not sure about Bluetooth but you can adjust WiFi settings in the WiFi menu within the advance settings
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I747M

For the wifi, try out this app... it will just blip the wifi every time you unlock the screen, and if a network is available it will leave it on, if not it will turn it off. When the screen is off, it will turn off wifi, depending on your traffic settings. Blipping the wifi on uses very little power, so it is very efficient to do it this way. LOVE this app.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...yLDEsImNvbS5hc2tzdmVuLmJldHRlcndpZmlvbm9mZiJd
As for the bluetooth, only way I know of is using Tasker... there is a profile available in the tasker wiki that will turn off unused bluetooth after a few minutes.
Also, wrong section...

sulpher said:
For the wifi, try out this app... it will just blip the wifi every time you unlock the screen, and if a network is available it will leave it on, if not it will turn it off. When the screen is off, it will turn off wifi, depending on your traffic settings. Blipping the wifi on uses very little power, so it is very efficient to do it this way. LOVE this app.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...yLDEsImNvbS5hc2tzdmVuLmJldHRlcndpZmlvbm9mZiJd
As for the bluetooth, only way I know of is using Tasker... there is a profile available in the tasker wiki that will turn off unused bluetooth after a few minutes.
Also, wrong section...
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
tectiles you can do this too (either enable/disable or run that app)

Using NFC on the GS3 I came across this YouTube video on using NFC tags with the GS3. With with an app like NFC Task Launcher you can configure your phone to turn on/off wifi, bluetooth, or just about any task or series of tasks you'd like.

[Q] Anyone having trouble with 'Tasker' in car installations?

Hi everyone,
So I have mounted my tablet in the centre console of my car flush, the last bit is getting tasker to react in the correct way.
The problem I'm getting is that split second when you turn the key from 'on' to turning it over it looses power. This plays around with the profiles I have set up...
Has anyone made a task that will stop it from turning on and off and back on again when the car starts up or make it load smoother?
Thanks Chad

RossiFozzi said:
Hi everyone,
So I have mounted my tablet in the centre console of my car flush, the last bit is getting tasker to react in the correct way.
The problem I'm getting is that split second when you turn the key from 'on' to turning it over it looses power. This plays around with the profiles I have set up...
Has anyone made a task that will stop it from turning on and off and back on again when the car starts up or make it load smoother?
Thanks Chad
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I don't know your exact situation or what your tasker proffile setup is, but couldn't you simply add in a wait for x seconds step in one of your profiles?

My set up is like this:
Profile - State - Power (Any)
Task:
Blue tooth on
Wifi on
Car home ultra open
Pop message
Profile 2: State - Power (invert)
Task:
Pop message
Blue tooth off
Wifi off
Kill Car home ultra
Screen lock
That's what I'm using at the moment but that split second just messes with it.. Makes it all muddled up as in a short time it's turning on, off and on again.
Would that time task you suggested bypass it recognising that it's losing power?

RossiFozzi said:
My set up is like this:
Profile - State - Power (Any)
Task:
Blue tooth on
Wifi on
Car home ultra open
Pop message
Profile 2: State - Power (invert)
Task:
Pop message
Blue tooth off
Wifi off
Kill Car home ultra
Screen lock
That's what I'm using at the moment but that split second just messes with it.. Makes it all muddled up as in a short time it's turning on, off and on again.
Would that time task you suggested bypass it recognising that it's losing power?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
By no means am I a pro with Tasker, but you could probably put in a wait command at the beginning of the 1st profile and it may stay alive when the car loses it's power for that short time.

I'll give that a go and see if it works.
Will let you know of the outcome
Thank you!

It didn't work unfortunately..
Any other ideas, links, answers to help me out on this?
I would really appreciate it!
Chad.
Sent from my HTC_PN071 using xda app-developers app

Press and hold the Profile and select the properties and set the cool down timer to a value so that the profile can't attempt to run again so soon, but that might have unfavorable results too. So, since the power on sensor is causing this, you might consider splitting the task into multiple Profiles where the Power on only turns on the Bluetooth, with some other Profiles configured using net Bluetooth connected and Bluetooth invert doing the rest maybe?
Sent from my Nexus 7 using Tapatalk