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[Q] Tasker Help

So I'm relatively new to Tasker and have been generally just searching for write ups on certain tasks/profiles I'm interested in but am running into a wall. Basically, I want to create a task that turns my screen brightness up to 70% when I'm driving, then back down to 25% when I've reached a destination (which will not always be predetermined). For now I just have it so when I'm at home my screen brightness is 25%.
Any advice?
Thanks.
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Do you connect to bluetooth or is there something you always do in your car?
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Hmm... Not that in can think of. I don't use blue tooth that often.
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Hmm... Not that in can think of. I don't use blue tooth that often.
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Darn, I'll think about it then. I have driving profiles, but I always connect to my blue tooth in my car so that's the trigger for me
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Thanks, I appreciate that.
Is there anyway to adjust the gps from updating once every 3 minutes to see if I'm at home? Killing my battery.
Edit: The best solutions I have found are A) Using Net instead of GPS . It's accurate enough for my needs and doesn't really effect the battery. B) setting my brightness to dim when at home and brighten when leaving home. This allows it to brighten any time I'm on the road but dim when returning home. Any other locations -such as work or other places I frequent- will have to be added in a similar manner to my solution for home.
Thanks for the input!
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I have a new issue. If someone wouldn't mind chiming in I'd appreciate it.
I have a profile set up in Tasker to turn on gps when I open maps and turn gps off when I close maps. I installed secure settings, the secure settings plug in and have tested it and have confirmed it is working well. The issue is, when I turn off the screen or switch to another app, despite the fact that maps is running in the background, gps still shuts off. I'm still very new to Tasker and only have a vague understanding of variables, but I can't help but think there's a solution involving a variable.
Thanks for any input!
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sirdowski said:
Is there anyway to adjust the gps from updating once every 3 minutes to see if I'm at home? Killing my battery.
Edit: The best solutions I have found are A) Using Net instead of GPS . It's accurate enough for my needs and doesn't really effect the battery.
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My tasker "AtHome" task uses a combo of the cell towers and my home wifi. It only starts looking for the wifi when in the cell tower area.
The tasker wiki has some examples and recipes that make it easier to get the hang of it.
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Use an nfc tag in the car which toggles between 70 and 25%.
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moabizzi said:
Use an nfc tag in the car which toggles between 70 and 25%.
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Very interesting. I'm going to have to look into this.
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fratermus said:
My tasker "AtHome" task uses a combo of the cell towers and my home wifi. It only starts looking for the wifi when in the cell tower area.
The tasker wiki has some examples and recipes that make it easier to get the hang of it.
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Yep, this was the route that I took.
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I don't understand what I'm missing. I'm trying to set up a task that sends a text if I'm still at work and it's a certain time.
I'm testing it with the context being the gps location of "home" and am not having any luck.
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Normally the green bar that the arrow is pointing to is red, but since the time specified in the variable matches the time in the status bar it turns green. So something is happening, it's just not sending the message.
I've also tried this way with no luck:
Any help is greatly appreciated!
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Red light... IR or Proximity Sensor?

I have an AT&T Galaxy S3, the I747, which is currently running the 5/10 build of PAC-Man, the 5/9 build of the KT747 kernel, and task650's 5/8 gapps. I dropped it about a month and a half ago, shattered the screen, and had to replace it. A quirk to this is that I had to replace it with a screen from a Sprint Galaxy S3, the L710. After I replaced the screen, on Friday, I flashed to the stuff I'm running right now. Yesterday (Sunday), I noticed that the sensor directly to the right of the front-facing speaker is lit up with a very faint red color at all times while my phone is on. I have done a little searching, and from what I can find, everyone is attributing this to Viber, which I don't use.
It's this one:
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My proximity sensor and light sensor are working fine still, but my main concerns are battery life and longevity. Is this light being on going to either hurt my sensor in the long run or create unnecessary drain on my battery, and if either is the case, what do I do about it?

I noticed mine was on one day while i was in bed, just rebooted and haven't had it since. I don't see why it would need to read data from the proximity sensor unless your on a call or so it shouldn't drain battery . if your in the SMS app then it might be using it for direct dial but I'm not sure if you have that feature in pacman
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Makoers said:
I noticed mine was on one day while i was in bed, just rebooted and haven't had it since. I don't see why it would need to read data from the proximity sensor unless your on a call or so it shouldn't drain battery . if your in the SMS app then it might be using it for direct dial but I'm not sure if you have that feature in pacman
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I don't have that feature, but it doesn't matter which app I'm in, or even if my screen is on or not. The red light is on all the time if my phone is on at all.
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drinfernoo said:
I don't have that feature, but it doesn't matter which app I'm in, or even if my screen is on or not. The red light is on all the time if my phone is on at all.
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Something is wrong. Probably one of your installed apps is keeping it on
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diablo009 said:
Something is wrong. Probably one of your installed apps is keeping it on
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Any ideas for a probable culprit?
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Try a program called greenify. It will tell you which programs are causing wake locks and what is using the most battery.

Hi, I used to have Viber installed, until I noticed that dot I didn't relate it. It made me panic so I went through my apps 1 by 1 and found viber to be the one keeping it always on even when its not running. If you don't have Viber, go to your installed apps page, go to downloaded tab and force close each one. If the red dot is persistent then its another app. Keep going until its gone and you'll find the culprit.
Have a good day.
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Hi, I used to have Viber installed, until I noticed that dot I didn't relate it. It made me panic so I went through my apps 1 by 1 and found viber to be the one keeping it always on even when its not running. If you don't have Viber, go to your installed apps page, go to downloaded tab and force close each one. If the red dot is persistent then its another app. Keep going until its gone and you'll find the culprit.
Have a good day.
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Found it!!! It was NiLS, which I use in my WidgetLocker set up
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drinfernoo said:
Found it!!! It was NiLS, which I use in my WidgetLocker set up
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Nice man, glad to hear you caught the bugger! Aha better now than never!
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Wakelocks

Hey guys! I recently installed the synergy room, and I'm getting some terrible wakelocks. How would I fix the wakelocks from Google plus and maps? Also Tapatalk? I tried greenify
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, and it helped a little, but not too much also, the audio_out2 is also killing my battery. Along with mdm_hsic_pm0.
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For Tapatalk I had to turn off notifications for PMs(as I never get them anyhow) to make this go down dramatically.
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Anyone else?
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bobloiy said:
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Turn off location services for google apps. Sign out of Google talk if you're not already. Try that and see if it helps.
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bobloiy said:
Anyone else?
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Bump
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Dude read posts.
Turn off any notifications like Tapatalk, Facebook, etc...
Google settings like location services.
Learn hpw to manage apps and close them out properly. Every once in a while I'll go through TouchWiz Manager and end all apps even though I know some of the apps I haven't even opened or they might just still been opened up.
Like I said your maps app is taking location which kills your battery faster.
Your email app is probably on auto sync which means it's constantly syncing itself constantly on a connection that is constantly getting information back and forth hence killing your battery.
Beautiful widgets if that is also on auto sync which means it's taking your connection again and constantly syncing for info and data.

XxLostSoulxX said:
Dude read posts.
Turn off any notifications like Tapatalk, Facebook, etc...
Google settings like location services.
Learn hpw to manage apps and close them out properly. Every once in a while I'll go through TouchWiz Manager and end all apps even though I know some of the apps I haven't even opened or they might just still been opened up.
Like I said your maps app is taking location which kills your battery faster.
Your email app is probably on auto sync which means it's constantly syncing itself constantly on a connection that is constantly getting information back and forth hence killing your battery.
Beautiful widgets if that is also on auto sync which means it's taking your connection again and constantly syncing for info and data.
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So if I disable auto sync and all that, will I get the notifications late or not at all?
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bobloiy said:
So if I disable auto sync and all that, will I get the notifications late or not at all?
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Not at all. Its not too much of a big deal I mean I just still go into my email app and just hit refresh just to see if there's anything new and is much better for battery life than having to be on auto sync because Its not constantly having to sync every second.
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I suggest going to the link in my signature and reading the ENTIRE OP. You will then better understand these specific wakelocks and how to better manage them.
Oh and btw please don't "bump" again. People will respond to this thread when and if they choose.
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Google Play Music

I use Google play music with the streaming option. Whenever I install a new ROM the music I have downloaded no longer appears on my device to play. Anyone else know a work around besides deleting the music off then re downloading it all?
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At the Risk of Asking the Obvious...
noc_t said:
I use Google play music with the streaming option. Whenever I install a new ROM the music I have downloaded no longer appears on my device to play. Anyone else know a work around besides deleting the music off then re downloading it all?
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Have you tried reinstalling the app? I don't use it, but I have spent the last few minutes Googling the question and it does not appear to be a common issue.
I will try it out when I get home, since I have been wanting to kill Rhapsody for a LONG time, but the song selection is massive...

It's because the device isn't authorized. Log in to Google music from your computer. Hit the little cog wheel in the upper right corner. Go to devices and delete ALL of the devices. Then wipe data on your Google music app. Then open it. Authorize it by selecting your email address when it first boots. Profit
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Very Nice...
abadasstanker69 said:
It's because the device isn't authorized. Log in to Google music from your computer. Hit the little cog wheel in the upper right corner. Go to devices and delete ALL of the devices. Then wipe data on your Google music app. Then open it. Authorize it by selecting your email address when it first boots. Profit
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Had the same problem for the few days I was on Google Voice, which drove me nuts. When I switched back to a ROM that had SVVM, I had to kill the device from my Google account.
FYI: Lovin' the new avatar; it is, needless to say, [email protected]

micmars said:
Had the same problem for the few days I was on Google Voice, which drove me nuts. When I switched back to a ROM that had SVVM, I had to kill the device from my Google account.
FYI: Lovin' the new avatar; it is, needless to say, [email protected]
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Thanks! Had to be myself!
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abadasstanker69 said:
Thanks! Had to be myself!
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Lol, I just noticed what it said:thumbup::thumbup: Me too brother
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bilgerryan said:
Lol, I just noticed what it said:thumbup::thumbup: Me too brother
Team Rejectz
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Happy to hear that bro! We're coming out of the shadows slowly but surely!!!
Stick together!
http://m.facebook.com/#!/abadasstanker69?__user=744580260
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I Just Like the Simple Humor of It...
abadasstanker69 said:
Happy to hear that bro! We're coming out of the shadows slowly but surely!!!
Stick together!
http://m.facebook.com/#!/abadasstanker69?__user=744580260
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I love the little feet on the ichthys sign. Quite funny indeed.
And hey, if it expresses something about you, then I'm full on that is awesome!
Thumb up!

abadasstanker69 said:
Happy to hear that bro! We're coming out of the shadows slowly but surely!!!
Stick together!
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Couldn't send you a request cuz of your privacy settings... Check your pm box
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bilgerryan said:
Couldn't send you a request cuz of your privacy settings... Check your pm box
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Problem solved! Sorry about that guys...just didn't want any weirdos on there. Good to go now!

This is not related to your problem but it is related to Google Music. If you wish to play Google Music on a 3rd party music player then try GMusicFS. once downloaded just log onto your account & sync. GMusicFS

[Q] pandora issue

Why does my pandora show up twice in my notification bar? Really annoying me I don't mind one but the other one telling me it's running is really annoying.
Also anyway to get pandora to show up on the lock screen?
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did you try uninstalling and reinstalling?

phantasybm said:
Why does my pandora show up twice in my notification bar? Really annoying me I don't mind one but the other one telling me it's running is really annoying.
Also anyway to get pandora to show up on the lock screen?
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Mine 2. It sucks
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Yes sir can't figure it out its very annoying
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My Pandora plays on my lock screen ..do you have any security on yours? like a password or something? If so try it without ,I'm just using swipe to unlock maybe that could be why?
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Try this, pull down notification bar. Select the one that says something about more info. It will take you to app settings, uncheck show notifications. Both P will go from top screen but if you quit the app and restart it, the next time only one P shows on top of phone. By the way, I am issuing an XDA Pandora apk version w unlimited skips.
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Mr Ian B said:
Try this, pull down notification bar. Select the one that says something about more info. It will take you to app settings, uncheck show notifications. Both P will go from top screen but if you quit the app and restart it, the next time only one P shows on top of phone. By the way, I am issuing an XDA Pandora apk version w unlimited skips.
Ian B
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When u do let me know where I can get it
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phantasybm said:
Yes sir can't figure it out its very annoying
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Mine 2. It sucks
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phantasybm said:
Why does my pandora show up twice in my notification bar? Really annoying me I don't mind one but the other one telling me it's running is really annoying.
Also anyway to get pandora to show up on the lock screen?
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When u do let me know where I can get it
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Not available but let me see if I can pm to you. It's an old version but works flawlessly. Let me know if u got it, just sent it to u.
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It's a new feature with 4.3 I had it on my blaze
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xxmelissaxx said:
My Pandora plays on my lock screen ..do you have any security on yours? like a password or something? If so try it without ,I'm just using swipe to unlock maybe that could be why?
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Nope just the default swipe screen. Samsung music player and Google play will show up but not pandora
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