Using WM6 Pocket Outlook with our Exchange Server. I want my phone to alert me when I get a new email, but not alert me at night.
Pocket Outlook + Exchange lets you specify how often to check for messages normally and during peak hours. I've set the peak hours to daytime and set it to only manually check off hours.
Aside from that or turning off my phone, any suggestions?
I believe you can configure different alerts using PhoneAlarm, but I'm not 100% sure.
Phone alarm works and so does SPB Mobile Suite. I use mobile suite for some of the other features, but it allows me to create profiles, accessible from the today screen, that control all sounds from the device.
I work nights and sleep during the day, so I have one profile called Bed that keeps the ring volume at 80%, implements a whitelist (meaning only peoples numbers on the list will cause the phone to ring), and turns off email,sms and MMS notifications. Then, when I get up, I just click my profile Icon on the Today screen and select another profile, which again can change all notifications etc. You can also have it turn on or off wifi, bluetooth, phone, etc, when a profile changes. An awesome app. Note: PhoneAlarm does all of this and more, so download the trials and see which one works best for you.
Check it out here.
SPB Phone suite:
http://www.spbsoftwarehouse.com/products/phonesuite/?en
Phone Alarm:
http://www.pocketmax.net/phoneAlarm.html
I bet you will end up with one of these, they are awesome.
Just remembered that I think, Phonealarm didn't allow the whitelist/blacklist feature that I wanted and that was my final reason for picking SPB phonesuite.
Hope this helps
I like SBSH PhoneWeaver:
http://www.sbsh.net/product.php?id=28#
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Does anyone know of an app for PPC that will make configuration changes at set times?
I'd love to be able to program the phone to switch to silent for either a specific interval, or on a daily schedule. For example, if I'm going to the cinema, I want to set it to switch to silent for the next 2 1/2 hrs, and then switch back to normal volume and notify me if I missed anything. I'd also like to be able to program the same on a daily schedule (e.g., switch to silent between 11pm and 7am).
Any ideas, anyone?
i think pocket zen phone will do what you need.
andycwb said:
Does anyone know of an app for PPC that will make configuration changes at set times?
I'd love to be able to program the phone to switch to silent for either a specific interval, or on a daily schedule. For example, if I'm going to the cinema, I want to set it to switch to silent for the next 2 1/2 hrs, and then switch back to normal volume and notify me if I missed anything. I'd also like to be able to program the same on a daily schedule (e.g., switch to silent between 11pm and 7am).
Any ideas, anyone?
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PhoneAlarm works very well as well.
Any ideas how to set up a profile (like I have for the Exchange sync) so that I don't get my phone waking me up in the middle of the night every time it automatically checks my POP3 e-mail.
Sure, I could set it to silent, but then my alarm doesn't go off kin the morning.
Sure, I could sync POP3 e-mail manually, but that's a pain in the arse during the day.
I can set my Exchange sync to only work between certain hours, why not POP3?
bump...just this once.
Not really an answer to the problem but i am usng SPB Time for my alarm functions and that overrides the silent setting and has nice big Off and Snooze buttons as well..
Like your thinking deedee...
I use Profiles for Windows, which can be found here...
http://www.winmobileapps.com/device/pocketpc/pwm/pwm.aspx
I have a number of profiles that switch time through the day and then at night it switches the phone off, then switches it back on at 5:30 in the morning.
Works seemlessly - most of the time.
I'm trying to get my phone so that the bluetooth and wifi are controlled by profiles so I'm trying out g-profile.
I've set up a bunch of profiles but they just don't seem to work properly for some reason.
The main reason is so I get bluetooth and wifi enabled automatically when external power is applied (as the head unit in my car supports bt), but I can't get these profiles to work.
I have manual ones set up, and when I use the profile switcher for instance to use a profile that switches on wifi/bluetooth, neither of them come on.
Likewise with the automatic profile I set up for external power, that doesn't turn them on either, and the the volume settings also don't seem to get changed either even though I set those to vary for each profile.
Have I missed some crucial step out, or does this app even work fully with the HD2?
I would try phonealarm but that's a bit heavy going for what I need, so if there are other HD2 friendly alternatives I'd be pleased to know.
Ta!
Cret said:
I'm trying to get my phone so that the bluetooth and wifi are controlled by profiles so I'm trying out g-profile.
I've set up a bunch of profiles but they just don't seem to work properly for some reason.
The main reason is so I get bluetooth and wifi enabled automatically when external power is applied (as the head unit in my car supports bt), but I can't get these profiles to work.
I have manual ones set up, and when I use the profile switcher for instance to use a profile that switches on wifi/bluetooth, neither of them come on.
Likewise with the automatic profile I set up for external power, that doesn't turn them on either, and the the volume settings also don't seem to get changed either even though I set those to vary for each profile.
Have I missed some crucial step out, or does this app even work fully with the HD2?
I would try phonealarm but that's a bit heavy going for what I need, so if there are other HD2 friendly alternatives I'd be pleased to know.
Ta!
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g-profile works nice with [email protected], except.. bluetooth functions: due to some incompatibility about the way HD2 reports bluetooth i/o status to registry.
G-Profile works fine for me, including Bluetooth. I set it to turn on Bluetooth whenever it's on AC power so it connects to my car kit when I put it the holder.
G-Profile works fine on my HD2!
But I'm not using Bluetooth.
Bluetooth is working perfect for me. I have 9 profiles, 4 automatic with up to three conditions. But the order of the profils is crucial. The upper profile supresses all lower profiles, if they are in the same time. Do the normal switches for wifi and bluetooth in Quickswitch work?
Maybe you wanna try SBSH Phone Weaver as an alternative solution? I bought my copy last week when I got it for 50% off and I really like it. It works perfectly in every point: WiFi, BT, Mail, Sounds etc. Assigned to my left hardkey to switch manually through some profiles while a conversation e.g. - the program can switch profiles manually (of course), by time, by agenda, by AS/Power and by location. Give it a try. I also used G-Profile before but I was never satisfied with it (it always seemed to force a high power consumption latently).
G-Profile was working reasonably well for me up until the latest Artemis (V14 onwards) and Dutty HG 2.9 were released. Then, it burns through your battery quicker than an arsonist at a petrol station.
G-Profile is a great app but it drains my HD2 battery a lot, about 30% in one night ...
You can try
-WirelessTime (freeware)
-Resco Contact Manager today plugin
-SPB Phone Suite
-Phone alarm
Hope it help...
im using g-profile and it works great, but have any of you figured out how to use custom ringtones with g-profile?
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im using g-profile and it works great, but have any of you figured out how to use custom ringtones with g-profile?
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By default, G-Profile only looks for ringtones in this two paths:
\Windows
\Windows\Rings
But you can activate File Browser by changing the following registry value to "True"
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ageye\G-Profile_v1\NotificationBrowser
The36thChamber said:
im using g-profile and it works great, but have any of you figured out how to use custom ringtones with g-profile?
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I use a custom ringtone in one of my profiles. I had to turn the ringtone from MP3 into WAV and then put it in the windows folder.
G-Profile doesn't work correctly on an HTC HD2...
G-Profile has a nice user interface but it doesn't work correctly on an HTC HD2. It has multiple issues. Some are the following:
* Profiles don't always switch.
* Although a profile switches correctly let's say that mutes system and ring tones, the speaker icon in the tray is still the one used for loud tones (speaker with 3 lines instead of speaker with x.)
* If a profile is set to use the cell ID, if the phone goes out of 3G (let's say into HSDPA or GPRS), the profile doesn't work. Cells that are not 3G cannot be added to that profile!
* As mentioned above, the application drains the battery very fast.
G-Profile is in a black Hole
Before my HD2, I used G-Profile, it was great.
For now, I use PhoneAlarm.
G-Profile support is nearly dead :-(
- not working properly
- battery draining
- not switching everytime
- no decent support
But... great interface.
I'm actually testing PhoneAlarm V 3.0 : it's rocks !!!
Still no update for HD2
Loved G-Profile but killed my battery
I used to use G-Profile for a looong time on my HD2 and loved it. It's user interface is great. It also worked without a hitch and I had a number of profiles, some quite complex.
Then I became fed up with the battery life of my phone. I typically had to charge it every day after about 8 hours moderate use. I traced the issue to G-Profile that prevents the phone from going into standby mode.
I've switched to PhoneWeaver. It's interface is a lot like G-Profile only lacking one feature that I really miss. When manually selecting a profile in G-Profile you can select how long you want that profile to be active before it should switch back automatically to the auto profile. PhoneWeaver can't do this with the result that sometime I forget to change back to the auto profile.
Same problem here,
I had to leave G-Profile due to battery consumption.
I went to Phone Alarm. Great app. A very important thing for me , was the name of the profile instead of the operator name. And GProfile and Phone Alarm are the two only one that can do that...
Hello,
I am searching for a way to automatically set vibration from 8am to 5pm (during work).
Like the sense option to automatically set to vibrate during appointment but without having to set an appointment for work everyday, it would look to confusing.
Do you have any ideas?
Pretenderr said:
Hello,
I am searching for a way to automatically set vibration from 8am to 5pm (during work).
Like the sense option to automatically set to vibrate during appointment but without having to set an appointment for work everyday, it would look to confusing.
Do you have any ideas?
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There's an app called Mute4 that will set your phone to vibrate for up to 3 h; maybe you could ask the developer to increase the mute time to 9 h, or have it adjustable. Otherwise, you can definitely do it with SK Schema.
I used to have a program on my old blueangel that used to allow me to change ring tones etc according to which cell tower i was in, I think it also had a time based scheduler)
Give me a couple of days and I will try to find it.
The downside was that it sucked the battery (back in the wm2003 days)
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BUT it doesn't seem to have been updated past wm2003, there might be similar programs though
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http://maniac.fschreiner.de/content/view/9/18/
again a program that has not been updated for a while
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This could be what you are looking for
http://www.pocketmax.net/phoneAlarm.html
You can change profile based on time and (in paid for version) location
It's hard to describe what Tasker can do, as there's not much it can't do. I try to describe it like a high-level interface to the Android API. You can adjust hoards of Android settings programmatically based on Events (application, time, date, location, event, gesture).
Personally, I do some of the following:
Passively upload my GPS location to my website every 10m
Have the phone get fairly loud when I'm a home
Quiet when I'm at work
Nearly Muted when I'm in a meeting (matches a Calendar event)
Muted with Autosyncing disabled at Night while I sleep
Disable Rotation on my etext reader to work around a bug in the ereader which loses my position in my book when it rotates!
Make the screen brightness and sounds high when I'm running Waze (gps program) on AC power (plugged into car charger)
... more little things!
All of this is done using an easy to use GUI to build matching contexts and a task to execute when matched. There are lots of samples to start with on the website, and very easy to write your own. Basically it's a graphical programming language that anyone could use.
It's on the market as of today, and the website is here: http://tasker.dinglisch.net/
I have zero connection to the author besides an extremely happy user, decided I would post this here because he's exited beta testing and on the market now.
Here's even a few more examples of things that can be done, pasted from the website.. Still only the tip of the iceberg on things it can do:
passcode-lock sensitive applications (e.g. for child safety)
change phone settings by
application: long screen timeout in a book reader
time: screen brightness lower in the evening
location: ringer volume high at the office, turn off ke yguard at home
wake up with a random song from your music collection
Text-to-speech; read out loud: incoming SMS/ phone number, WiFi/Bluetooth status, when it's time for an appointment, when the battery is low etc etc (Android OS 1.6+ only)
launch a music application when your music SD card is inserted, otherwise a file browser
start the day with a particular application showing
change all your home icons and wallpaper every day, or in particular locations
turn the phone upside down to return to the home screen, tilt 90 degrees to the left and back to toggle speakerphone during a call
create a Home widget to
toggle bluetooth/wifi on/off
launch wireless settings dialog
show a menu of tasks to choose
send an emergency SMS with your GPS location
remap camera etc buttons to other applications, or show a menu of applications and/or actions
decrypt/encrypt and/or zip/unzip application data on the fly when an application is launched/exits
pause music playback while in a particular application, restart on exit
change the Home icon for any application
take a time-lapse photo series (possibly 'secretly')
make a regular backup of a file on the SD card
track your phone location via SMS in case of theft
extend the use of the media button on your headset: take a picture from a distance or go to the previous media track with a long press
record call times and destinations to the SD card
show a popup when an SMS arrives from a particular phone number
setup a birthday SMS to be sent months before it happens so you don't forget
record battery levels over time to a file on SD card
make automatic recordings of what you say during phone calls to SD card
during the night, turn on airplane mode to conserve battery/reduce radiation, but turn it off every 15 minutes to check for SMS/voicemail.
setup a vacation SMS message, with different messages for different callers
launch a music application when headphones are connected
Hrmmm, there's not much reviews for the app. I'm interested in trying out but I wish there was a trial or something.
Vulpix said:
Hrmmm, there's not much reviews for the app. I'm interested in trying out but I wish there was a trial or something.
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I hadn't looked at his market version yet, but it shouldn't need validation for 14 days..
He sells it on the market and off of the market. If nothing else you could install it from his website. I'll ask on his forum, it shouldn't require purchasing to use immediately.
Everytime I try it I get a FC when setting up my profiles, and I lose all my changes. Gets annoying fast. I uninstalled and did refund.
Knether said:
Everytime I try it I get a FC when setting up my profiles, and I lose all my changes. Gets annoying fast. I uninstalled and did refund.
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Weird, I've seen that like once when I first tried it.. You might want to get on his forums and see what he can do to help fix it, as if you're interested I don't think there's anything else out there that does anywhere close to what Tasker does.
Come to think of it, yes, I did see that maybe 2-3 times, especially when first messing around, but I haven't seen it in weeks, even though I've set up multiple profiles since then. Interesting. You could always set up some stuff, Apply, re-enter the app. At that point it's saved. If it crashes, you won't lose anything. However it'd be good to get logs from alogcat or such to figure out the crash problem.
Awesome.. tasker is too good and much better than locale and setting profiles (though UI could get a bit better)... I've been waiting for it to arrive on the market..
I guess I'm the only person who has troubles with the app.. ::sigh:: I want to love it..
I've actually been using the app for a little over two weeks, and I've found it to be indispensable! GPS drains my battery too fast, so I love coordinating tasks with calendar events in conjunction with network-based location. Not to mention auto starting GPS for specific apps and then shutting GPS back off when I exit said app. There are simply SO many uses for tasker, and its compatible with locale plug-ins.
Btw. Try using Foxy Ring's ambient noise feature to auto adjust ringer volume. It works great when constantly moving from quiet study areas into a loud common room.
Does anyone know how I can set up Tasker to switch to 2G at midnight and then back to 3G/H at 8am?
I have looked throught the options and I can see the settings for 2G, but when I add Time as the 1st context I then can't find anything relating to 2G for the next context.
I understand it's probably just me being thick but if any one could help it would be much appreciated!
Loving this app otherwise, well worth the small fee.
Thanks.
CitizenLee said:
Does anyone know how I can set up Tasker to switch to 2G at midnight and then back to 3G/H at 8am?
I have looked throught the options and I can see the settings for 2G, but when I add Time as the 1st context I then can't find anything relating to 2G for the next context.
I understand it's probably just me being thick but if any one could help it would be much appreciated!
Loving this app otherwise, well worth the small fee.
Thanks.
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Sure, Tasker doesn't have a "Default" profile, when a profile ends it returns what settings it changed back to what they previously were.. So if it's H going into your night profile, switch off 3G, then when the profile is over it'll return to H. The big difference here is that most likely you're going to have to run an external program, maybe APNDroid or something, to toggle 2G/3G, as apparently it's not in the API directly and Tasker can't do it. So you have an entry task and an exit task.
Yep, I just looked for apps that can do this, they all launch the option in the menus, can't do it directly... So doing this doesn't seem (directly) possible, but maybe there is something out there.. I just glanced. http://www.cyrket.com/search?q=3g&market=android
Profile
Context: Time 00:00 to 08:00
Enter Task
Run Program APNDroid (?)
Exit Task
Run Program APNDroid (?) (to toggle it back on, since it's not a setting here)
Found a nice review and guide for tasker here:
http://lifehacker.com/5599116/how-to-turn-your-android-phone-into-a-fully+automated-superphone
Looks powerful, and superior to locale.
psych2l said:
Found a nice review and guide for tasker here:
http://lifehacker.com/5599116/how-to-turn-your-android-phone-into-a-fully+automated-superphone
Looks powerful, and superior to locale.
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I kind feel sorry for Locale Tasker has it 100x over, plus it can use Locale plugins.
I haven't done much digging, but... maybe someone could help me with this one:
I have the Samsung vibrant which does not have a hardware camera button. Would there be a way to use this app to remap the power button when in the camera.app to use it as the shutter button?
Thank you
Anyone else having force closes when trying to set backgrounds for app menus? Don't dig the bland menu background that comes stock in the app.
Great app except the fact it is using 1/4th of my battery for two profiles.
UrbanMuppet said:
Great app except the fact it is using 1/4th of my battery for two profiles.
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You have something misconfigured or you have insanely good battery usage then. I have Tasker using the GPS every 10 minutes, uploading that GPS data to my website. It reminds me every 2 minutes of missed email, phone calls, sms... It goes speakerphone if I flip it on a call. It changes profiles for home, work, work meeting, running GPS in the car... I think I have a profile to wash the dishes too, but I'm waiting on an enhancement from Pent to make that one function.
Seriously, post on his forum with the exact context and task, I bet something is done wrong.
Man I still have difficulty trying to make Tasker do simple things because I'm not really savvy with such stuff...
I have been trying to get Tasker to automagically switch keyboards based on orientation for like a few days now, no luck. I want to have Swype when in portrait mode, and then a custom HiRes keyboard in landscape...
can anyone help with this or if someone has done it already, please lend some advice...
Also, maybe this thread can become the official Tasker profile thread, if not, maybe a sticky with user created profiles?
ImSoHungry said:
Also, maybe this thread can become the official Tasker profile thread, if not, maybe a sticky with user created profiles?
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Been trying to a place where people dump their profile examples for the inept people who can't work out half the settings, like myself
Tasker works perfectly on my phone: HTC Desire, stock ROM, official Android 2.2 update
My profiles:
Profile: Running Navigation
Context: Application: Load app Sygic
Tasks:
- Misc: GPS ON
- Audio: Set Media Volume to max
- Display: Set Brightness to 200
- Set Speakerphone to ON
Profile: Silencing Hidden Caller-ID
Context: State: Incoming Call
Tasks:
- Audio: Set Ringer Volume to 0 - if %CNUM ~ 0
- Audio: Set Vibrate to OFF - if %CNUM ~0
Note: for the second profile, you need to use at least 1.0.6 beta 5 (%CNUM bug fixed).