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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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).
I use my tf for navigation. i hook it to my car's audio too and it's so nice to be able to listen to my music and have it auto adjust the volume when the navigation app says directions.
but i only get 5 hours of battery life with the screen on dim and the gps on(plus music). of course i can get the battery to last 10+ hours if i turn the screen off during long stretches of road. But i'd like to see how much battery life we could squeeze out of the device by killing unnecessary processes, underclocking/undervolting(it seems fine at 500mhz), and maybe some kernel level adjustments could be made.
i'd gladly flash to a "light" kernel like this before going on a trip and then flash back once i arrive. it takes 5 minutes.
maybe some android dev will have interest in this. or maybe there's not much more we can do about the battery besides underclock/undervolt existing kernels. anyone know the answer?
I'm assuming you're already rooted with recovery. There's an interesting app in the app section called SwitchMe root profile manager. What it does is make separate installs of android on your tab. What you could do with this is make a 'superlite' installation, with almost no apps to run in the background in the first place (just GPS and music, basically) put your favorite Guevor kernel on it, and underclock/volt as far as you can without losing functionality. Maybe give this approach a shot, or invest in a nazi task manager with only your gps and music as favorites.
Alright, so does anyone have any experience using a Kernel for the Moto G that enables sweep-to-wake? (Or slide to wake, however you want to call it). I'm really looking into getting the Moto G, as my Galaxy S2 is on its last legs, however after having used and gotten used to the STW on my S2. there's no way I'd want to go back to using the power button all the time.
Mainly, I'm looking for someone who has a Moto G with a STW enabled Kernel installed, as I''m also curious about how much it would affect the battery life (after going from an S2, it would be nice to have a phone with good battery life this time!)
Many thanks in advance :
I'm using faux kernel which has both sweep to wake and double tap to wake. Both work fine. No noticeable drain on battery on stock, my phone still makes it through a day of moderate to heavy use with 40% left
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pisherthefisher said:
I'm using faux kernel which has both sweep to wake and double tap to wake. Both work fine. No noticeable drain on battery on stock, my phone still makes it through a day of moderate to heavy use with 40% left
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Well, that's definitely great to hear! Roughly how much screen time do you get with "moderate to heavy" usage? I typically get 2 and a half hours with my S2 (because of the high idle battery drain), sometimes even less, and that's with pretty much everything apart from 3G turned off!
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Well, that's definitely great to hear! Roughly how much screen time do you get with "moderate to heavy" usage? I typically get 2 and a half hours with my S2 (because of the high idle battery drain), sometimes even less, and that's with pretty much everything apart from 3G turned off!
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2-3 hours of on screen time. Moto g has very solid idle battery time, I can leave it unplugged overnight and when I wake up the battery only drained by 2%
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2-3 hours of on screen time. Moto g has very solid idle battery time, I can leave it unplugged overnight and when I wake up the battery only drained by 2%
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Whoa, what kind of wizardry is that? My S2 would drop around 15% overnight xD
What kind of brightness do you have your screen at? I typically have my screen at 15% brightness to get a decent screen time, because going up to 50% roughly halves the time I can use it for *sigh*
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Whoa, what kind of wizardry is that? My S2 would drop around 15% overnight xD
What kind of brightness do you have your screen at? I typically have my screen at 15% brightness to get a decent screen time, because going up to 50% roughly halves the time I can use it for *sigh*
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Most of the time I keep it around 15%-25%. I'm not really sure how much higher brightness will affect battery life, but the LCD screen is pretty bright so I only find myself needing to change the brightness when I'm outside.
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Most of the time I keep it around 15%-25%. I'm not really sure how much higher brightness will affect battery life, but the LCD screen is pretty bright so I only find myself needing to change the brightness when I'm outside.
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Ahh, nice. I think I may have just found the perfect replacement for my S2! Now all I have to do is find a way to filter down my 20GB or so of music... unless I just keep my S2 just as a fancy music player, haha
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And thanks a bunch for the help, by the way!
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Ahh, nice. I think I may have just found the perfect replacement for my S2! Now all I have to do is find a way to filter down my 20GB or so of music... unless I just keep my S2 just as a fancy music player, haha
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That's definitely one of the downsides of the moto g, no micro SD card slot. If you're okay with cloud streaming, Google gives you 50 GB of Google drive space for buying a moto g. You can also get a small usb OTG adaptor that will let you use micro SD cards if you don't mind the extra budge it creates.
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Just a little add-on for those who might want sweep to wake type functionality on a stock device - Gravity Screen On/Off (from the playstore) can be set up to provide this functionality via the proximity sensor as can some automation apps. I use MacroDroid. I only touch my power button when powering on after a shutdown. Battery impact is measurable but still negligble in the grand scheme of things (I still get 3-4 hours screen on time over 2 days with light usage, upto 7-8 hours in a single day with heavy usage).
Re music storage - I've recently bitten the bullet and uploaded my collection to Google Play Music - the free service allows you to upload upto 20,000 tracks and doesn't use your Drive storage. You can then 'Pin' your favourite tracks/albums/artists to the device for offline listening or to minimise streaming. Stream quality can also be limited when not streaming over wifi if your data is capped and/or disabled entirely when not on wifi so that the app will only show you pinned music.
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Just a little add-on for those who might want sweep to wake type functionality on a stock device - Gravity Screen On/Off (from the playstore) can be set up to provide this functionality via the proximity sensor as can some automation apps. I use MacroDroid. I only touch my power button when powering on after a shutdown. Battery impact is measurable but still negligble in the grand scheme of things (I still get 3-4 hours screen on time over 2 days with light usage, upto 7-8 hours in a single day with heavy usage).
Re music storage - I've recently bitten the bullet and uploaded my collection to Google Play Music - the free service allows you to upload upto 20,000 tracks and doesn't use your Drive storage. You can then 'Pin' your favourite tracks/albums/artists to the device for offline listening or to minimise streaming. Stream quality can also be limited when not streaming over wifi if your data is capped and/or disabled entirely when not on wifi so that the app will only show you pinned music.
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I tried using something like that on my S2, but the proximity detector obviously wasn't all that amazing, as it kept on letting the screen switch on when it was in my pocket, so that kinda put me off that. I'd still be open to trying it, but I can't see myself fully relying on it again. Although I suppose I could use it along with a standard flip case so I know the screen would definitely stay off, but I'd have to get one without the magnet like the official one has, for the fear of the internal sensors being... fried? Idk, whatever the magnet does that makes them stop working right!
Yup, I'd been looking at Google Play Music myself. Can you download a few songs from there as a "buffer" for if your connection goes down, or is absolutely everything streamed directly? I have to go through 1 small tunnel on each journey to Uni, but it means a a few minutes of blotchy internet connection, which can be a pain and a half
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I tried using something like that on my S2, but the proximity detector obviously wasn't all that amazing, as it kept on letting the screen switch on when it was in my pocket, so that kinda put me off that. I'd still be open to trying it, but I can't see myself fully relying on it again. Although I suppose I could use it along with a standard flip case so I know the screen would definitely stay off, but I'd have to get one without the magnet like the official one has, for the fear of the internal sensors being... fried? Idk, whatever the magnet does that makes them stop working right!
Yup, I'd been looking at Google Play Music myself. Can you download a few songs from there as a "buffer" for if your connection goes down, or is absolutely everything streamed directly? I have to go through 1 small tunnel on each journey to Uni, but it means a a few minutes of blotchy internet connection, which can be a pain and a half
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Yep - you can 'Pin' tracks from Play Music and they are effectively kept on local storage and those tracks are never streamed. If you are streaming an album / playlist / instant mix it also caches tracks (about 5-10 tracks in advance) so intermittent loss of connectivity shouldn't interrupt playback. The app also picks up music that is manually added to the Music Folder like any regular player. The 'Pin' method is preferable for me, but only because I use Play Music with Chromecast, and it can't stream tracks to Chromecast that have been manually added to the music folder.
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Yep - you can 'Pin' tracks from Play Music and they are effectively kept on local storage and those tracks are never streamed. If you are streaming an album / playlist / instant mix it also caches tracks (about 5-10 tracks in advance) so intermittent loss of connectivity shouldn't interrupt playback. The app also picks up music that is manually added to the Music Folder like any regular player. The 'Pin' method is preferable for me, but only because I use Play Music with Chromecast, and it can't stream tracks to Chromecast that have been manually added to the music folder.
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That's awesome, thanks for the info!
One final question, if you don't mind me being so annoying? How do you upload the music to Google play? Would I have to put some songs on my phone, upload them, download some more, upload them etc etc, or is there a way to upload the songs directly from my computer?
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That's awesome, thanks for the info!
One final question, if you don't mind me being so annoying? How do you upload the music to Google play? Would I have to put some songs on my phone, upload them, download some more, upload them etc etc, or is there a way to upload the songs directly from my computer?
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You can upload from your browser
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AskingAlex said:
That's awesome, thanks for the info!
One final question, if you don't mind me being so annoying? How do you upload the music to Google play? Would I have to put some songs on my phone, upload them, download some more, upload them etc etc, or is there a way to upload the songs directly from my computer?
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From browser at Google Play Music, via the Chrome Play Music App, or by Music Manager program (https://support.google.com/googleplay/answer/1229970?hl=en-GB) which you can set to watch specified folders on your computer and upload from those folders as and when you add music to them.
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From browser at Google Play Music, via the Chrome Play Music App, or by Music Manager program (https://support.google.com/googleplay/answer/1229970?hl=en-GB) which you can set to watch specified folders on your computer and upload from those folders as and when you add music to them.
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So, after going to download Google Play Music, it turns out that I cannot do that. I only have a Maestro card, and Google do not accept this. And for some reason you need to register a card, even when asking just for the free version of the service. That's a bit of an annoyance, to say the least.
Don't suppose you know of another alternative that has this same functionality? I've never really been one to use online streaming services like this before so I'm not sure on what apps are trustworthy and which will just fill my phone with adds. I'd be fine with paying a little for a good app, but I'd need a free one until then, because... well, I can't use my (only) debit card, so I'll have to wait until I can get a Play Store voucher... card... thingy... I'm not 100% sure what they are, I've never had to get one before xD
Hi, I am trying to find a video camera app with a particular function. The idea is that the camera records in a loop of, say, 30 seconds (that is jut an example), constantly overwriting the beginning to make sure there is always 30 seconds of continuous footage recorded. Then, when you press a button, it saves everything from, say, 10 seconds before the button was pushed to 20 seconds after to a file. Then it starts recording again.
The advantage of this approach is that it lets you capture action more easily, for example sporting events, lightning strikes, birds catching fish, a baby doing something cute, etc. For events that are expected, but too quick and unpredictable to prepare for, human reflexes are too slow (and the phone is often slower), meaning that by the time you hit the button to start recording the event is already over. On the other hand, this approach takes much less storage space and less postprocessing than just recording continuously for minutes or hours.
If you have watched BBC's Planet Earth, it is the same principle used to get the shark attack videos (although that was also a higher-speed camera). I also had a camcorder with a similar function built-in. However, I have not been able to find such an app, either on google play or by searching the forums here. Does anyone know if such an app exists, or if there is an camera app that has this feature?
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Hi, I am trying to find a video camera app with a particular function. The idea is that the camera records in a loop of, say, 30 seconds (that is jut an example), constantly overwriting the beginning to make sure there is always 30 seconds of continuous footage recorded. Then, when you press a button, it saves everything from, say, 10 seconds before the button was pushed to 20 seconds after to a file. Then it starts recording again.
The advantage of this approach is that it lets you capture action more easily, for example sporting events, lightning strikes, birds catching fish, a baby doing something cute, etc. For events that are expected, but too quick and unpredictable to prepare for, human reflexes are too slow (and the phone is often slower), meaning that by the time you hit the button to start recording the event is already over. On the other hand, this approach takes much less storage space and less postprocessing than just recording continuously for minutes or hours.
If you have watched BBC's Planet Earth, it is the same principle used to get the shark attack videos (although that was also a higher-speed camera). I also had a camcorder with a similar function built-in. However, I have not been able to find such an app, either on google play or by searching the forums here. Does anyone know if such an app exists, or if there is an camera app that has this feature?
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Not sure if I'm getting the right idea, but wouldn't this drain battery life?
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Not sure if I'm getting the right idea, but wouldn't this drain battery life?
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Probably, although how much depends on whether the looped video is short enough to keep in memory. But it wouldn't take any more battery than recording a continuous video, which is the only way to record these sorts of events without this feature.
I may have a lemon S2 Classic. 24 hours in and there are 3 relatively bad issues:
- Pedometer step counter does not work AT ALL. Wore watch all day and it shows I took *zero* steps.
- Heartbeat measuring is a major fail. Click the icon, and the resulting curve is erratic & all over the place. Never even locks on a heart rate and eventually gets to a "try again" button every single time.
- I have display set to always on. After a few seconds, it reverts to a plain black display with clock hands only. No other features. I can live with that, but wait a few minutes more and the screen goes completely black until I touch it or shake it to wake it back up.
I'm hoping someone can point out tips that mean some of this stuff is just user error, but I've spent a ton of time combing the settings both inside the watch as well as inside the phone app. HTC One M9, by the way, and the BT paired without a problem. Thinking Best Buy is about to get a watch returned! Thoughts on what I'm missing?
Sounds like you have a bad unit. My steps have been as accurate as any other wearable I've used. The heart rate monitor is excellent (you need to wear it snug though)... I can't comment on the ambient display as I don't use it
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I think You should return it - the problems You mentioned don't occur on my S2c.
The pedometer is not perfect, at least not before You make more than ~10 steps. If less, the smartwatch is not recording it (as far as I read, it suppose to work like that, cause devs implemented it to be 'eco-energy' and not start recording with every move). But in daily use it works fine for me.
Heartbeat sensor should record fine, maybe the grip on the belt is to loose? Try to make some activity with sHealth and observe if the sensor records anything.
About display - if You choose from settings 'always on' it WILL show only plain black display with clock hands. That's how it suppose to work If You are interested in having the face always turned on then look in the Store for 'I am Alive' app.