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Automated Tasks not triggering (like Tasker)

I've got this weird problem. I installed Tasker and originally restored a backup of my tasks from my OG Droid....none of them worked. Tasker shows that a certain profile is triggered in the Notification Shade but none of the tasks in the profile happen. My sound isn't changing automatically anymore, the speech engine isn't announcing the name of the caller, etc.
I thought maybe it was due to restoring a backup from a phone without the Sense UI...that perhaps certain calls were different. I uninstalled and reinstalled Tasker and just started to rebuild the profiles manually. They still don't work.
At this point I thought it was Tasker and I uninstalled and instead, for now, setup a couple of events in Sound Manager to just mute the sound (and unmute) during certain hours. They didn't trigger...I had to manually change the sound (which I can do in Sound Manager).
I'm lost as what would prevent these from going off when they should. They worked fine on my old Droid and I have pretty much all the sames apps, so I don't think anything should be conflicting. I'm just hoping someone smarter than I might have seen this behavior or might have an idea on what to check next....
Thanks
Ryan

I restored my tasks from my OG Droid to my Thunderbolt, and they all worked!

That's weird. I thought perhaps it was the Sense UI that was causing problems. I wonder why these events in Tasker and in Sound Manager aren't happening.
On a side note, possibly related. Cardio Trainer (in the music settings) doesn't let me pick from any of my playlists (where you select which it should use when playing music in a workout). Anyone else seeing this?

Could Kickback, Talkback and the other back app from Google cause a problem? I'm not really sure what they do....there were installed with CM7 and then auto-installed on the TB.

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Could Kickback, Talkback and the other back app from Google cause a problem? I'm not really sure what they do....there were installed with CM7 and then auto-installed on the TB.
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Doubtful, I run those same apps too!

Well it's working again although I can't say why. It turns out I did have a dead touch point on the screen, right where the Y is on the landscape keyboard. Went into VZ and didn't have that problem on the 2 display models....and the tech confirmed it wasn't just me.
All my apps just finished auto-installing after signing into my Google account and Sound Manager is working fine. Odd.

It's funny you posted this, I downloaded tasker yesterday because I was going to set it to change to wifi for when I got home but I havn't done it yet. Good to hear it works

Fwiw, tasker has no effect on my tbolt. I'm running 12.605.9 (latest leaked fw)
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In case anyone was wondering, I was running the stock version of Android that comes on the TB, hadn't even rooted yet.

SK4G Software FLAWED!

What the hell is going on. I tried resetting and everything, even exchanged the device and the new one is doing the same thing! Also vibrating and force closing it is getting on my nerves! The followig seems to happen after a while I am TIRED of having to turn of my phone and turn it back on! ~ I go to play a .mp3 it says " FIle type not supported"...My .mp3 ringtone does not work the phone just vibrates the selected ringtone doesnt work. I got too take a picture or record video it says "Camera Failed"....I get a visual voicemail....the "play" button is grayed out and I have to turn off phone turn it BACK On just to check my voicemail. Also occassioally my sms wont work either. I turn my phone off and on every morning and throughout day I notice this and its getting REAL annoying !

Well first off, this isn't a software flaw, this is specific to you, as we have many users here including myself who are using these phones daily without the issues you are describing.
You had said that the issue was with an mp3, can you upload that somewhere for us to test on our phones?
As far as the camera and visual voicemail, I've never heard of that issue before, perhaps you ended up with a bad phone again?

I am getting the frequent force close with messaging. I also have had problems with the camera and idk about the mp3 stuff I haven't put any ringtones on the phone yet. This is getting really annoying I agree.

I don't have any issues with mine? Have you guys done anything like rooting or flashing anything?

Nope, completely stock. The most I have done is take a screen shot lol.

hmm maybe some have a defect? It's not all SK4g's though, as some of us have no issues at all. I would suggest getting it replaced by T-Mobile, as this is a factory defect. not sure why that happened to you guys. has anyone else had these issues and found any fixes?

That's kinda tough the hearest t-mobile is like 4 hours from here /:
One of my friends who went with me on the trip to get the SK also got one and he says he's never gotten a force close so you may be right. But could it have anything to do with the amount of texts I send/receive? Because I have to admit it is pretty excessive. The failing to send messages when I am receiving one simultaneously is expected, but not the force closes in my opinion.

It shouldn't force close on you. I know mine fails to send every once in a while too, as I text a lot (kinda the reason I got the phone). failing to send isn't as big of a deal, as it notifies you and you just have to click resend. Not entirely sure why it's force closing though? I wonder if a logcat might help? if you have adb installed, you can try adb logcat and see what shows up when you force close? if we can find the issue there, it might be fixable from our end. all depends on where the flaw lies/if it's just a bad apk somehow or if there's an actual hardware issue or something.

I'll do a log next time there is a fc, I'm having another issue or it may be related, but this one is with WidgetLocker I believe. Sometimes when I go to unlock the phone it'll freeze up and then I dont know how to explain it, but it almost seems like it resets but it really doesnt. The phone will blackout for a little then the homescreen will pop up and service will gone for a while until the cards are read just like if I rebooted.

That might be a function of WidgetLocker, I used it on my old G1 and it always hung and black screened at me.

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That might be a function of WidgetLocker, I used it on my old G1 and it always hung and black screened at me.
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Yeah I know it does that from time to time, but on my previous phone it wouldn't do that reboot thing where it would lose connection then resend my latest text messages once it reconnected.

I'm not sure why it's doing that. My guess would be that the issues are caused because the SK4G doesn't use a normal lock screen. widgetlocker uses some modification of the system file for the lock screen, and perhaps it's not sure what to modify? just my 2 cents.

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I'm not sure why it's doing that. My guess would be that the issues are caused because the SK4G doesn't use a normal lock screen. widgetlocker uses some modification of the system file for the lock screen, and perhaps it's not sure what to modify? just my 2 cents.
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That's what I was thinking too, I'm gonna uninstall it for a bit and see if anything changes.

is anyone else having an issue with notification volume? everytime i reboot my SK, my notification volume gets pushed all the way down to nothing, so i don't get a sound notification for texts, emails, etc, until i move the notif. volume back up in my settings. i did root with the one-click for the Epic 4G.

This is a new UI so alot of the apps i.e. widgets you may put on will cause issues. If you like certain apps contact the dev so your device is supported correctly. Still to new to get mad at it till sum of the bugs get worked out. I did notice a couple of times when I left screen on in pocket on accident that when I go to use it again it doesn't respond to any touch but can move courser around till rebooted then its ok. If some don't already know the sk4g is almost the same as the epic. The sk4g is still a badass phone for 100bucks.

Same as the OP
I know this is a little old, but I've experienced the same problem as the OP so it seems they are not alone with this problem.
I actually tried two different newly formatted SD cards (because I thought it may have been the SD card), and still would have the problem. Then I actually did swap phones about a month ago and it seemed the problem would now take several days to resurface instead of several hours. And I could deal with that.
Since the OTA update about 2 weeks ago, the phone has been back on it's original BS as the OP posted and it's driving me nuts. I actually missed some emergency calls last night because the mp3 ringtone didn't work so I'm finding a solution to this issue today or trashing this phone.
My belief is that there is something interfering with the phone's ability to read the SD card for media. Because other apps I have that save to the SD card or read from it work fine. So I'm going to master reset it and not download any of my apps and see what happens when I set an mp3 ringtone. If it makes it through the day with no hiccups, I'll slowly add back one app at a time until hopefully I can find the culprit.
bipoler if you'd like, we can exchange via PM what apps we both have downloaded and see if we have some in common that may be problems.
I'll post back with any progress.

I've been having the problem with ringtones not working, just getting silence when I get a call. for me it seems to happen when I set a ringtone from the app Zedge, I don't think it happens when I use ringtones from the Android System, which would make sense if the issue is related to reading the sdcard. gonna go back to a system ringtone and see what happens today.

Yeah my phone had all those problems, but I installed the Lightning rom and all those problems went away, except for the ones about messages failing...I text A LOT

Lightning ROM
Thanks for that info on the Lightning Rom. I will check that out. Phone has been working flawlessly all day with the mp3 ringtone and no extra apps besides the master reset. I might give it until the morning before I start putting them back on.

On stock id install so many apps that ran on the background that id get delay from opening closing swiping and turning onthe phone.. so I wiped it installed a custom rom and just kept the essentials.. havnt had a problem since... well.. occasionly ill have to odi but that's on purpose
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poweramp full version freezing phone

anyone else having issues with poweramp? works great for a couple weeks, then nothing seems to make it better. i end up flashing a different rom and the problem goes away for a couple weeks. currently running a ported rom. doesnt matter whether i'm on froyo unrooted/stock, rooted, gb port, or gb official release.. cant seem to figure this one out. i've always restored app only, never restore app data. and i have tried removing and installing a fresh version straight from the market..
when this happens it sounds like a cd skipping and the ENTIRE PHONE freezes. it can happen with the screen on while using the phone or with the screen off playing music through the headphone jack. i've tried different voltage settings and profiles, thinking that maybe im UV too much.(but the phone doesnt freeze any other time) when this happens the ONLY way to fix is to pull battery. none of the buttons work, capacitive or external, and the touch screen is completely unresponsive. this is driving me crazy. last night i tried clearing app data and it made no difference. this does not happen with ANY other apps.
ANY IDEAS?!

Did you try emailing the dev?

I've been running PowerAmp with Voodoo on Emancipation for awhile now without any problems. Have you tried any other music player to see if you get the same problem?
Sent from my Blue Emancipated Infuse using XDA

i have not used any other music apps, but i can tell you that this is the ONLY app that crashes the phone. the only thing i didnt like about gb custom roms was that my sms app(chomp sms) wouldn't sent messages sometimes at all, and the stock sms app was intermittent.. ported roms were better for me. and everything force closes on froyo.

Anyone else have issues where poweramp won't see the tags for several songs resulting in them not showing up whenever i go to the library? Some of the albums are missing songs and some entire albums don't show. I can see them without issue in other music players and I can see them in power amp if i browse by folder but they don't show up in library.
Never mind, found them under unknown artist and just manually changed them.

Rom - what to do?

Hello. I wasn't sure where to write, so I wrote here. For the past few months, I was using MoonRom 4.2 on my Galaxy S Plus (i9001), but I wasn't really satisfied with this rom. GPS basicly wasn't working at all. Also some flash players weren't working well. Play/pause worked as it should, but when I tried to click, for example, in the middle of video, flash players (some of them only) stopped working. Few days ago I decided to flash my phone with open rom, 2.3.6 XXKQ1, but what really disgusted me (I already forgot about it, since I was using custom rom for months) was that ringtone is quiet for the first 2-3 seconds and whole phone is kinda quiet (music etc. too) comparing to custom roms. So i flashed it to BroodRom with same kernel as I used in MoonRom (SkyHigh 1.4 i guess), but now I'm kinda disappointed too. I didn't test GPS, but I HOPE it will work nice and smooth. The thing is, when some1 calls me or send text message, first I can see the screen and the vibrations, then, after 1-2 seconds, ringtone/sms ring starts. Also in music player, when one track ends, there's kinda huge (few seconds) pause between it and next song.
I don't know what to do. Every Rom I used was bad in some case. I tried CM9 4.0, but I didn't like it. So I'd like to find stable, "everything-working" gingerbread rom. Is there any way to change the "upper bar(?)" (I'm not really into naming),growing ringtone and the whole phone volume in 2.3.6 XXQK1?
Please recommend me something, because I'm really lost.
Offtopic: If my english is bad (I think it might be) please judge it, so I could do better in the future ^^.

Any1?

Check here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1901212

I've already checked it. But it contains only data, and I'd like ppl opinion. Opinion of someone who tried few roms and can fit it with my expectations.

Is there any way to "repair" this pause in BroodRom? Probably it happened only to me, so maybe only some files can be replaced to fix the problem?

S7 rr 9.0 TWRP Phone keeps making ringing tone

Hi people from XDA,
today i tried a few things with my S7 running resurrection Rom with Android 9, which resultet in a boot loop. I tried using unofficial xposed framework and some recommended modules. This Problem got solved with a factory wipe inside my recovery.
After the wipe, i obviously had to setup my system again.
Then it happened: a constant ringing sound was heard, sounding more like a ringtone. I tried killing all background apps and playing around with the sound settings, but nothing worked. I rebootet the phone and it seemed to have solved the problem, until it started again after some time. I checked for malicious apps and all kinds of settings, including do not disturb and other stuff.
What I did find out, was the fact, that the tone was linked to the ringing volume slider/setting.
I would appreciate any help, but nothing like turning off the sound. I want to know the source and reason for it to happen.

I have some new information. The tone is played, when i have unread messages in my status bar. After opening all the messages from the bar, the tone stops. Sometimes its buggy, then it continues until there are new messages that I need to read to make it stop.
Edit: I found the "name" of the tone. i didn't find it under ringtones nor notifications, but under wake up sounds. The name was Argon, but there were two Argon Sounds, which is weird i guess. the lower one sounds more minimalistic and the upper one is the one im currently having problems with. It sounds longer and more like a "happy" tune.

ceiber said:
I have some new information. The tone is played, when i have unread messages in my status bar. After opening all the messages from the bar, the tone stops. Sometimes its buggy, then it continues until there are new messages that I need to read to make it stop.
Edit: I found the "name" of the tone. i didn't find it under ringtones nor notifications, but under wake up sounds. The name was Argon, but there were two Argon Sounds, which is weird i guess. the lower one sounds more minimalistic and the upper one is the one im currently having problems with. It sounds longer and more like a "happy" tune.
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OK so just delete it from system directory.

Such a simplistic idea! Thanks. Didn't thought of that. I'll try it.

ceiber said:
Such a simplistic idea! Thanks. Didn't thought of that. I'll try it.
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Tried it, but it made some interesting things with my phone. Although the file was from alarm sounds, notifications suddenly had "19" listed as a set sound, which was actually nothing. I changed it to "none" and waited for notifications to test it. I think it worked, but i cant remember, because i had some unrelated (or maybe related?) issues. My magisk manager stated, it had no magisk installed, meaning i didnt have root anymore. I tried to reinstall magisk, but that made my device reboot after a specific time after every boot. Right now i'm trying to fix my Rom. Feels bad.
Edit: Rom works perfect again. Deleted the sound file again and it seems to work.
For now my Problem got solved by deleting Argon from the alarms folder.
If I get any more errors, I'll post them.
I'm very thankful for your answer and I hope my explanation of my problem was not problematic.