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Screen Not Dimming With Auto Shut Off Disabled?

Please bear with me as this may be a dumb newbie question. I searched every post on the Imagio section here and at PPC and was unable to find an answer.
Got the Imagio for my wife and she's loving it (we had Storms previously- bad, bad mojo). She uses Groovefish to stream music and the stock dimmer setting will shut down the player after the time limit is reached. No problem, right? Changed the setting to stop this (never auto shut down on battery power).
Now, the screen will dim somewhat when left idle, but never shuts down all the way. It's dim but still active. She's been having to change the setting every time in order to not kill the battery.
Should the screen power down all the way while leaving the device active (like hitting the "shut off screen option" after holding the end button)? If not, is there a way to do this?
Thanks for any insight you may be able to provide. I've done nothing but Blackberries for years and this is my first real foray into WinMo.

Try to check the power settings. Go to the Settings Tab and push All settings at the bottom. From there go to System > Power > then click the Advanced tab. That should have settings to turn off the screen after 1 min or 30 seconds.

Thanks for the quick reply. I probably should have been a bit more clear.
It is in that menu that I have been manipulating the settings. There are two options for battery power. There is one to "turn off backlight" after x amount of time, the other is to "turn off device". With backlight set to 30 (or whatever) and device disabled, the screen never completely goes off.
It functions properly with "turn device off" enabled, but interrupts Groovefish when playing. This does not interfere with the native TF3D media player. While its not the end of the world if she ends up having to change that setting to use the program, it would be nice to be able to disable the screen with a partial shutdown (and extra battery drain when using that application).
Cheers!

Thats interesting, seems like its the program thats doing that. I have Opera, FM radio, email client, etc. running all day without it crashing. I have seen this before with Internet Explorer where i would leave it running connected to a website. then when i check back IE is gone and i have to start it again. By any chances is this a website or an installable app that you are using?

Groovefish is a streaming music client that is installed on the device
BTW, it is incredibly cool if you don't have it yet. Stream just about any song you want for free (legally).
http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=88505

I use g-trigger to shake my phone to turn off the display works great! Just disable the shake to turn it back on.

I'll give it a shot and see if the application stays running. Many thanks!

Actually I think backlight off is happening when it "dims". You need the screen to go off, not just the backlight. Try using xdaShutdown to go into Lightsout mode and see if that works for you. The program can be found here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=544016
Skins in the same thread as well.

[Q] Powersaving settings

Hi,
When fully charged my battery lasts about 30 hours, which is totally useless! Therefore I am trying to set all possible powersaving options to the most "efficient".
I have:
- stopped animated weather backgrund.
- stopped automatic updates on weather forecast.
- lowered the background light to 40%
I believe one of the most efficient ways of getting longer battery capacity is turning off the 3G, but I can't get ActiveSync to work without it beeing on. When I turn the 3G off, and then ActiveSync, the 3G stays on when sync is done.
I only need 3G when surfing web-pages, I don't really care if synchronizing e-mail and calendar takes 10 or 30 seconds. Can anybody help me out here?
Any other settings to keep powerusage to a minimum?

Shorten backlight duration.
Regularly kill background apps.

Press power button manually after each use.
Disable vibration in setting > personalize > Vibration.
Turn off tapping sound.
Enable pocket mode in ring-tones settings.
Use short ring-tones.
Enable 3G/Wi-Fi/Bluetooth when required.
Make Bluetooth discoverable for 60 seconds only (not sure whether it saves battery)

set dim backlight & off g-sencor. it helps a lot.

Tasker app from the market.

Sorry guys found a previous thread in another forum.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=743861
Mods please delete.
I just bought the tasker app and figured I would let people know how its working for me, and to solicit suggestions for things I can do with it.
background:
Its a very good app that allows you to script the behavior of the phone based on a very large set of events or states.
My initial use:
As previously mentioned on this board the bluetooth streaming volume is not the loudest, so I always end up turning up the volume for bluetooth. Then when I plugin my headphones I destroy my eardrums.
So I setup a task that when I connect to my bluetooth car stereo, it automatically sets the volume to max and turns off wifi for good measure.
I have another task that when I plugin headphones, it sets the volume to 60% and opens the doubletwist music player.
Finally I setup the standard battery task so that when my battery gets to 20% it turns of all the GPS, wifi, and bluetooth radios, as well as dimming my screen.
Anyone else have this app and have something cool they have setup using it? I have heard of silent mode when the handset is placed flat facedown, which i thought was unique.

I have had it for a few days and am playing around with it. I have 2 tasks so far. First is to go to silent mode when face down. This is especially nice since I charge it overnight by my bed and don't want notifications (emails etc) waking me up so I have been just turning silent mode on at night and off in the morning. Sometime forgetting to turn on in the morning.
The 2nd task is to read the email sender and subject aloud when I am in the car and it is connected to my car stereo via bluetooth. I like the wifi off setting you did. I may do the same.
I also noticed that when listening to streaming through bluetooth with the wifi on but not connected to an ap, I get "skips" every once in awhile. Turning off wifi fixes it so I may set it to turn off wifi when streaming bluetooth audio.
Couple issues I have had. If the phone is in "standby" (pushing the power button) tasker won't go to silent mode. Also, I tried to make the screen go off when face down as well but it doesn't work. Apparently tasker can not turn the screen off but you are supposed to be able to change the timeout to as little as 7 seconds. I set that up but instead of the screen going off it just dims. Not sure of the issue.
I am interested in what others are doing so post the info.

I have two keyboards i really like in 2 different orientations.
Droid X keyboard:
its sweet autocorrections and large real estate makes it ideal for two thumb typing in landscape
swype:
slower than droid X keyboard in landscape, but in portrait, this is possibly the fastest/most accurate keyboard around.
I tried to set it up so that i could change my keyboards depending on the orientation, but i could not figure it out
im also for an app that turns your screen off with a timer (in the background). and have that work when you turn your screen downward./
any with either of these would be greatly appreciated.

Do any of you use tasker? If so, what for?

So I bought tasker months ago and barely ever used it. It's soo ridiculously powerful but i'm way to lazy to take the time to get a hold of the very steep learning curve (at least for me).
I really want to utilize one of these days because it's really a remarkable app that shows off the power of our phones.
I was just curious if any of you use it and what some of your favorite profiles are.
Also, is there some sort of 'how to use tasker for dummies" out there that I could check out? lol

Tasker does have a learning curve. I think it would be easier if they had a desktop environment to create profiles on, but I digress.
Yes, I was like you and bought the app and shelved it since I didn't have time to mess with it. I ran into some free time and dusted the app off. This is what profiles I've setup so far.
1) GPS turns on when apps that I've designated (ex. maps, navi, weather, etc) are launched. GPS turns off when the apps close.
2) Battery <5% turns screen brightness all the way down (coupled with setCPU with an under-clock with the same criteria will have my phone last as along a possible for emergencies). There's more functionality I want to add to this profile.
3) When a headset is plugged in, it sets my media volume and pulls up a menu of music apps for me to select.
4) Home Wifi (overly complicated). I search for the cell tower that I get reception at home (as long as I'm not in airplane mode). When in range of it, the phone search for my network SSID. When found Wifi turns on and connects to my home wifi and turns off the cell tower search (so if my cell signal goes to crap, wifi stays on). When I leave out of my network SSID, wifi shuts off and cell tower search is turned on. This code required some debugging as it wasn't so stable at first attempt.
5) Find phone (my favorite). I can send a text to my phone from any other cell phone. When the text is received, the phone will turn on GPS to find the coordinates and will return a text message to the originating cell phone with a link to google maps location (its bad ass!). Once the message is sent, the speaker volume gets turned all the way up and an mp3 of my choosing gets played (you can bet its an long, annoying, loud, and noticeable song). The final straw is the screen gets locked with a code. I need to investigate the possibility to remote wipe my personal data if necessary.
Best thing to do is to go into the app menu and select browse profiles >> user wiki. Check out the profiles they have there. Download them to you phone. Then go to app menu >> profile data >> import one profile (or task). Select the ones you just downloaded. Check them out, alter them to fit your needs, and you start to learn the syntax, what commands are available, and what's possible.
Good luck! Its a time sink when you get started.

GPS automatically turns on when I open a GPS-centric app.
Wi-Fi automatically turns on when I open a Wi-Fi-centric app.
When I connect my bluetooth headphones it asks me which music app I want to open.
My screen goes as dim as possible when I open my alarm clock at night.
It makes Widgetlocker open whenever my phone goes idle... since it doesn't always want to work.

1) I have a night profile that turns down all the notifications and ringer except the alarm for night time, then returns the settings to normal in the morning.
2) When It connects to the specific bluetooth unit in my car, wifi turns off (no need in a moving car), 3g comes on and media audio goes up for my streaming music. After disconnect wifi comes back on.
3) I have a google maps gps text message in case I misplace my phone
4) I have home and work profiles that turn on and off 3g once they connect to wifi.
Been toying with variables and setting text widgets from minimalistic text. works nice.
All in all very handy application.
Their website has some sample profiles on their wiki at:
http://tasker.wikidot.com/profile-index

1) Shut off "Low battery LED" when battery is at or below 14%
2) Turn off capacitive buttons backlight (home, menu, back, search) and keep it off
3) Since I use the notification pulldown power mod, I have a profile that checks if my wimax is on or off when I reboot or shutdown my phone so it can shut it off when the phone boots if it was off before the shutdown/reboot.
4) Tasker switches my governors for me. No setcpu for anything. Governor is switched to conservative when the screen is off, interactive when the screen is on, smartass for all games, and ondemand for web browsing and anything the other governors don't cover.
5) GPS turns on and off when it's needed (maps, navigation, sky map, etc.)
6) Incoming call LED blinking is stopped (since I leave my phone on sound mode almost all the time)
7) All notification LEDs are stopped (especially since gmail still triggers the LED)
8) Display rotation is turned on and off when it's needed (when in the sense ui it is off and when in web browser, certain apps or games it is on)
9) When my phone boots, tasker checks a variable for my wimax and shuts it off if it needs to
10) When I'm done with a phone call tasker sends me back to my main homescreen
11) Widget that changes my hosts file for adblocking or no adblocking on the fly. The name of the widget also changes according to its status (Enabled or Disabled)
12) When charging, the left LED is shut off and the Wimax LED is used instead.
13) If my screen has been off for more than 2 hours (when I am sleeping) the sound is silenced and airplane mode is activated.
I have more that I don't use but these are my daily profiles.

If I receive a text message from 11pm - 6:30am, I do not get notified and my phone responds with a ZZZZZZZ I am sleeping and will check in the morning.
I would love to get a hold of the profiles you guys are running. Lots of these would be helpful, at least as a learning tool.

coiledwire said:
4) Home Wifi (overly complicated). I search for the cell tower that I get reception at home (as long as I'm not in airplane mode). When in range of it, the phone search for my network SSID. When found Wifi turns on and connects to my home wifi and turns off the cell tower search (so if my cell signal goes to crap, wifi stays on). When I leave out of my network SSID, wifi shuts off and cell tower search is turned on. This code required some debugging as it wasn't so stable at first attempt.
5) Find phone (my favorite). I can send a text to my phone from any other cell phone. When the text is received, the phone will turn on GPS to find the coordinates and will return a text message to the originating cell phone with a link to google maps location (its bad ass!). Once the message is sent, the speaker volume gets turned all the way up and an mp3 of my choosing gets played (you can bet its an long, annoying, loud, and noticeable song). The final straw is the screen gets locked with a code. I need to investigate the possibility to remote wipe my personal data if necessary.
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Mind sharing these?
Wanted to try #4 but didn't have any success the first few times (months ago)
I have #5 but it doesn't lock screen (never noticed that) nor does it give me a maps link (tried but failed)

I have setup a Dropbox folder we could drop profiles into. PM me your emails and I will send you an invite to the folder with a link. Profiles are small so shouldn't chew up much data.
Please name your profiles descriptive so we know what it does etc.

Can the profiles be grouped in the dropbox? I have tasks that use multiple profiles.
From my EVO when I should probably be doing something else instead.

Here is my GPS text message finder XML profile (zipped). simple but effective. Sends google maps link.
Just change the "findmyphone" text message to what ever you want to trigger the response message.
View attachment GPS1.prf.xml.zip

1) Silence all sounds and put on vibrate during work hours (9-9PM).
2) Turn on GPS for specific apps (Navigation, Maps, Antenna, etc.)
3) Turn off when closing those apps.
4) Pop up menu with PowerAMP, Pandora, FM Radio options when inserting headphone.
5) Close those apps when remove headphone.
6) Pop up PowerAMP, Pandora when connecting with BT headphone.
7) Close those apps when disconnecting.
8) TXT my BB the coordinates, batt. life if I TXT S.O.S. to my phone (in case it's lost/stolen).

1) when i get w/ 50 meters of the office (or home). home and office are slightly different but the same idea.
- turn off bluetooth
- turn on wifi
- turn off 4G
- change wallpaper
- reduce ringer volume
(when i get out of 50meters...radios toggle)
- Bluetooth and 4G are on
- wifi is off
2) Quiet Time
- between 2300 and 0700
- notification sound 0
- notification vibrate is off
3) Quiet Cam - currently the AOSP camera has an obnoxiously loud CLICK.
- when camera app is active
- system sounds = 0
4) OnCall
- monitors my work calendar for the "OnCall" appointment.
- notification volume = 6
- change wallpaper (i'm on call for days at time, so this is handy reminder)
* wish i could increase only the 'work email' notification alert (i use two email clients so i can at least have a 'work email alert' and a 'personal email alert'...sadly, tasker doesn't seem able to take advantage of that.)

Can you guys actually put in steps on how you got these profiles. I'm trying to figure tasker out but its a lil overwhelming.
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I do the following:
1. Turn off sound/ringers at certain locations, during certain times (Church, kid's school, etc).
2. Turn on WiFi at home or at work.
3. Overnight mode - automatically turn off WiFi & BT, lower screen brightness, filter calls from all but family, throttle CPU down to min 128000 max 256000. (uses max 1% battery and kept off charger for 8 hours).
4. Overclock CPU 10% for normal operation, underclock (min 128000 max 256000) when screen off (really good on batt).
5. Automatically ramp down CPU clocks as battery charge diminishes.
6. Turn down ringer volume when BT headset connected.
7. Silence phone when meeting in calendar with busy status.
A few others, but this is the main group of profiles.

1.) Turn on GPS when using Maps, turn it off otherwise
2.) Silence ringers during work hours
Not much, obviously I could do a lot more with it.

BigBadBuddy said:
I do the following:
1. Turn off sound/ringers at certain locations, during certain times (Church, kid's school, etc).
2. Turn on WiFi at home or at work.
3. Overnight mode - automatically turn off WiFi & BT, lower screen brightness, filter calls from all but family, throttle CPU down to min 128000 max 256000. (uses max 1% battery and kept off charger for 8 hours).
4. Overclock CPU 10% for normal operation, underclock (min 128000 max 256000) when screen off (really good on batt).
5. Automatically ramp down CPU clocks as battery charge diminishes.
6. Turn down ringer volume when BT headset connected.
7. Silence phone when meeting in calendar with busy status.
A few others, but this is the main group of profiles.
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I know this is a pain but anyway you can put the steps you had to do to achieve these? Thanks in advance!
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Anyone using it with Roam Control? I would like to use it to force roam while I am at work. I do it manually now since the 3g at work is horrible. Full -65dbm signal with 50 kilobit downloads. 3g roaming is awesome!

pastert33 said:
I know this is a pain but anyway you can put the steps you had to do to achieve these? Thanks in advance!
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A lot of these are usually pretty simple, but some can get pretty complicated.
Have you looked at the tutorials / walkthroughs / user listing around the web?
Think of the context as the 'in this instance' and the 'task' as the 'do this.'
http://tasker.dinglisch.net/
http://tasker.wikidot.com/profile-index
These can give you some suggestions and can also shed light on how to use the app in varying scenarios.
A lot of people are using ones that are easy enough to figure out, or have been listed as basic but popular tasks (and can be found at either those links or elsewhere - google 'tasker profiles').
For instance, silencing ringer at night; Context - Time / 2200 to 0600. Task - Ringer Volume Zero / Notification Volume Zero / AutoSync Off.
That's obviously an extremely simple one, but again - context (trigger) and task (desired action).

Custom Tasker Profiles

I personally don't use it, but I know it is a powerful app and since it can be set up to do many things,, I was wondering what custom thing's users are doing with it.
I'll maybe jump on board as well.
List your favorite things you use Tasker for.

I use it to silence my phone whenever my calendar says i'm working. That's about it really. Some of the things I bought it for are built into Android now but I paid for it so I make myself use it lol

AndroidRaven said:
I personally don't use it, but I know it is a powerful app and since it can be set up to do many things,, I was wondering what custom thing's users are doing with it.
I'll maybe jump on board as well.
List your favorite things you use Tasker for.
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I use it primarily to automate my phone's security.
When I'm home ---> phone connects to home wifi ---> tasker + secure settings turns off my pattern lock; turns bluetooth off and adjusts my volumes
When I leave home ---> phone disconnect from wifi ---> tasker turns my pattern lock back on; turns bluetooth on and adjusts my volumes
When I get in my car ---> phone connect to car's bluetooth ---> tasker + secure settings turns off my pattern lock; turns volumes all the way up
When I leave my car ---> phone disconnects from bluetooth ---> tasker turns my pattern lock back on; adjusts volume
When I get to work ---> phone connects to work wifi ---> tasker + secure settings turns off my pattern lock; turns bluetooth off and turns of vibration mode
When I leave work ---> phone disconnects from wifi ---> tasker turns my pattern lock back on; turns bluetooth back on
For me, this makes my phone secure when i need it to be and insecure when I know I'll be using it. At home, in my car and at work are all times that I have my phone on me and actively using it. I don't need a secure screen so I turn it off automatically with Tasker. When I'm away from any of these places I know I'll have a pattern lock in case I lose my phone. Piece of mind and very easy to set up.
I use tasker for a ton of other things (including quiet hours) but security is my most important use.

Here are some I have:
2 sound profiles to put the phone into silent mode at night and during work hours.
An auto off bluetooth profile that turns bluetooth off if it is disconnected for more than 15 minutes.'
3 music profiles all of which auto launch Google Music and auto play and set volumes depending on which bluetooth device or headset is connected. Line in headset also disables lockscreen, car bluetooth puts phone into landscape in the car dock, bluetooth headset disables lockscreen.
360 degree rotation when charging.
Overheating warning.

when it connects to my work wifi > adjust ringer volume to half
when i'm within 100m from the gym > turn BT on
when phone is docked/charging > turn BT on
that's all i've had a chance to dig into as of now. i know there are tons of other more advanced profiles to use/set up, but i haven't bothered with learning them.

1) turn pattern lock off when on home wifi
2) take a photo of anyone putting pattern lock in wrong (twice) and email me the photo
3) when closing the camera app,.look for all photos less than 15 minutes old and upload them using foldersync to my NAS via sftp
4) Schedule Nandroid backup every 4am on Saturday morning (ensure previous nandroid backup has been uploaded to NAS)
5) backup /sdcard every night to NAS
6) (Task only) - homescreen shortcut to flash all zips in alphabetical order in folder /sdcard/AFlash/zips
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I use a profile to turn off the lock when I'm home, and turn it back on when I'm away.
One to turn off the Wi-Fi when not home and back on when I get back home
And another to download the national geographic photo of the day and set it as the wallpaper every morning.
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Launch car mode when plugged in and connected to my car's Bluetooth
Pattern lock when not home or in car
Quiet hours with emergency contact exceptions
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AndrasLOHF said:
Here are some I have:
2 sound profiles to put the phone into silent mode at night and during work hours.
An auto off bluetooth profile that turns bluetooth off if it is disconnected for more than 15 minutes.'
3 music profiles all of which auto launch Google Music and auto play and set volumes depending on which bluetooth device or headset is connected. Line in headset also disables lockscreen, car bluetooth puts phone into landscape in the car dock, bluetooth headset disables lockscreen.
360 degree rotation when charging.
Overheating warning.
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Do you mind sharing those so I can use them?
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For those with Tasks relative to being in the car, how are you determining that location?
I've been using the invert of my Home location, but that's not quite refined enough.
Can Tasker detect the uConnect BT in my Jeep? Or maybe by detecting accelerometer motions?
Curious.

markp99 said:
For those with Tasks relative to being in the car, how are you determining that location?
I've been using the invert of my Home location, but that's not quite refined enough.
Can Tasker detect the uConnect BT in my Jeep? Or maybe by detecting accelerometer motions?
Curious.
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Tasker can use your connect to BT to trigger actions.
You can have your device turn on BT (for a set number of minutes) when you disconnect from your Wifi. Then when it connects to your car via BT, it can turn off Wifi and/or open up your music player and increase the volume. Or do any number of things.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=23301459&postcount=3
That list is a bit old list but I'm always adding or trying differnet things. Starting to use Scenes more now. Like the Sleepy Time one is now a Notification that pops up only during certain time then when I click it there is a small Scene with simple buttons, see attached images.
Also use Tasker to give me info in DashClock. Using OpenMic+ to launch Tasker stuff will make for some fun stuff too.

i use nfc tags associated with my car and home stuff. a tag has a tasker task linked to it. I also use a gym task/profile where when i get within 300m of the gym it turns bluetooth on adjusts volumes etc.

sbenson1226 said:
I use it primarily to automate my phone's security.
When I'm home ---> phone connects to home wifi ---> tasker + secure settings turns off my pattern lock; turns bluetooth off and adjusts my volumes
When I leave home ---> phone disconnect from wifi ---> tasker turns my pattern lock back on; turns bluetooth on and adjusts my volumes
When I get in my car ---> phone connect to car's bluetooth ---> tasker + secure settings turns off my pattern lock; turns volumes all the way up
When I leave my car ---> phone disconnects from bluetooth ---> tasker turns my pattern lock back on; adjusts volume
When I get to work ---> phone connects to work wifi ---> tasker + secure settings turns off my pattern lock; turns bluetooth off and turns of vibration mode
When I leave work ---> phone disconnects from wifi ---> tasker turns my pattern lock back on; turns bluetooth back on
For me, this makes my phone secure when i need it to be and insecure when I know I'll be using it. At home, in my car and at work are all times that I have my phone on me and actively using it. I don't need a secure screen so I turn it off automatically with Tasker. When I'm away from any of these places I know I'll have a pattern lock in case I lose my phone. Piece of mind and very easy to set up.
I use tasker for a ton of other things (including quiet hours) but security is my most important use.
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Hi,
how do you trigger the "quiet hours" setting with tasker? I want to have different startiing/ending times for quiet hours - including white list for calling. So I thought I try to find a way to trigger it from tasker.
Any ideas here?
cheers,
Tom