Hey guys!
I'm sure quite a few of you have made yourself a little Tasker safety setup in case your phone gets lost/stole.
My setup until now looks like this:
- Green Alert: phone is lost but not stolen. When the keywords are sent to my WhatsApp, the phones screen and camera flash start flashing and 10 seconds later the volume is turned up and a ringtone played.
- Red Alert: Phone is stolen, upon keywords sent through WhatsApp, phone discreetly takes pictures with front and back facing cameras, turns on gps and sends pictures + location data + battery status to my email address.
What I want to do now, and where I would be glad to get some pointers from you guys, is create an intermediate profile, say "yellow alert", that may be used when uncertain if the phone is stolen or just misplaced. My idea was to turn the volume up, and simulate an incoming call.
If the phone is just misplaced, chances are I will find it by the ringing sound.
Else, if the phone was stolen, and if the thief happens to still be close to the area, chances are when the phone starts ringing he will want to mute it ASAP. So what would be great is if "mute" or "reject call" is pressed, the phone goes into "Red Alert" mode.
I've been experimenting with possibilities for such a profile in Tasker but have yet to succeed.. Any pointers on how this could be achieved or additional suggestions are welcome.
Additionally, should anyone be interested in my profiles just ask and I will send them to you.
Thank you!
EDIT: my phone is a rooted Nexus 5 running stock 4.4.4, just in case that may be needed for anything
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Hi guys...
I am curious if any of you have found the same BUG in this software that I have, or if maybe I have some kind of conflict issue?
It seems that PCP has a bug in the profiles, in that the SMS settings don't function properly. You *should* be able to set the volume of the SMS independently of the system volume, but I am finding this is not the case. The SMS volume *always* follows the system volume settings.
Say, for example, you have a profile whereby you want to set the phone for the evening. So you turn the SMS volume OFF, and you leave the system volume ON so as to wake you with the alarm at the specified time. You will still hear the SMS sounds when a text comes in.
If you turn the system volume down, however, while leaving the SMS volume up, then you won't hear it at all.
This is further complicated by the fact that the SMS over ride tones in the individual profiles are completely ignored by the program.
It seems to me, being as they are on version five something, this fundamental bug should have been fixed by now. So I am wondering if maybe it is something that *I* am doing, or is it just some shoddy programming?
What I am asking, I guess, is if you guys are able to set the SMS appropriately per profile, or am I maybe doing something wrong? Does this function work, or does it not?
Enquiring minds want to know.
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Hi everybody,
I'm looking for some software that will allow people to contact me in emergencies while my phone is on silent/vibrate mode. For example, I'd like to be able to let some people know they can send my phone an SMS with specific keywords and make it ring even when in silent mode (e.g. when I'm asleep). I can do that with phoneAlarm. However, a better option would be programming the phone that if someone calls more than 3 times within a period of X minutes while the phone is silent, the 4th call would ring.
Any ideas how I can do that? I tried to look it up but no results so far.
It is really a great idea, but I am afraid such software hasn't been born. In the near future, it may come true. If anyone else knows such thing, I would like to have a try, too.
Would it be an option to have a "white list" of people that can call you? For all others the phone is busy.
I posted this on the Verizon forums and it was suggested that I also post here looking for an answer so here it goes.
My phone will randomly turn sound off. According to all sound profiles my sound is on and it should make noise when ringing or text messages come in. The problem is that the sounds will randomly turn off but not necessarily all of them. I may receive text notifications and not rings or vice versa or I may not receive either. Then randomly they will come back and I will receive all the sound notifications.
I recently had my phone replaced and once I got the new one it began doing the same thing. I just can't believe that it is a coincidence that I would get two phones (both brand new) that would do the same thing. In an effort to fix it I updated my firmware on my old phone and everything but did not help.
I love this phone and I don't want to get rid of it and I don't want to go back to the Verizon store if there is a fix for it.
Thanks in advance for any advice you may have.
Hi,
I also have an Omnia II. And I do not have those issues. But what I do know is that there is an option that if you flip your phone (with the screen facing ground) the sound will shut off if someone is calling. Like if you are in a meeting and someone is calling, you just turn your phone and the sounds is then silenced.
You can find these this setting in Start>Settings>Basic settings>Motion setting
(could be other names as I use a Dutch windows)
IannEefje said:
Hi,
I also have an Omnia II. And I do not have those issues. But what I do know is that there is an option that if you flip your phone (with the screen facing ground) the sound will shut off if someone is calling. Like if you are in a meeting and someone is calling, you just turn your phone and the sounds is then silenced.
You can find these this setting in Start>Settings>Basic settings>Motion setting
(could be other names as I use a Dutch windows)
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This is the most likely problem. They set it up so that, even if the phone is tiled just slightly downward, the sound will be turned off. They really should have made it a more direct-downward position. If you turn that off and still have problems then check to make sure you're not activating a silent mode with the volume-down rocker on the side of the phone. Holding the rocker down for a few seconds will put the phone into either vibrate or silent. Hope you get it figured out!
I use my phone as my alarm clock. I keep it chargeing on my bedside table. I do not have a house/landline so this is my only option for communication.
It would be nice if at night, when I'm sleeping, i can set my phone (via app or setting) to a "do not disturb" type state.
In this state, i would basically like all phone calls routed to a special voice mail, that will state to the caller that i am unavailable, and to leave a message. However if it is an emergency, give the caller an option to bypass the do not disturb state and actually ring my phone.
Same with Text Messages. I would like all text messages intercepted, and responded to via text in the same fashion, with the same option for the caller to bypass the do not disturb state and actually ring/notify me of the call/text etc.
And of course, put all other notifications to silent mode etc.
Then in the morning, i can check all notifications, phone, text etc, and see what i missed.
I hope i explained this well enough.
I would like to be able to sleep without interruption, but if something important happens, or an emergency happens, i can still be gotten a hold of.
there is an app called silent time lite that I use, it wont route your calls or anything, but between the times you states the phone will go into silent mode (vibrate or not, you decide) you can also have exceptions like if your mother calls at 3 am or something. Its free in the market, i use this app for school, put my schedule in there and it automatically muted my phone for classes
Blueman101 said:
there is an app called silent time lite that I use, it wont route your calls or anything, but between the times you states the phone will go into silent mode (vibrate or not, you decide) you can also have exceptions like if your mother calls at 3 am or something. Its free in the market, i use this app for school, put my schedule in there and it automatically muted my phone for classes
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Hmm, exceptions for contacts eh? Might be the next best thing if i cant find, or someone create an app that'll do the other stuff.
Thanks for the suggestion, ill look into it.
uh... How about... AIRPLANE MODE
I like the stshannon's idea : this kind of "filter" people can "bypass" only for emmergency...I've been loking for that for long time !
@nopenope : the aireplaine mode doesn't allow this kind of redirection I think...
timerriffic is awesome and free. once you've got your profiles all setup you can set what goes off, volume, vibrate etc... I use it to turn off notifications at night but ring my phone at 100% when I'm "on call" for work or 40% when i'm not.
different day settings too, m-f and weekends.
Maybe somebody here has the programming skillz needed to make this app, but I want to be able to one touch any hardware button to silence a notification AFTER it rings. All the answers i get are to trim my ringtones down more, or get these apps that set up profiles. I like my ringtones where they are, and the profile thing is not what what i need as i have different times for things each day so....
the problem scenario:
I am sitting in a meeting-class-dinner-movie... Etc Etc, anything like that and BAM, I get a text message. It so turns out I forgot to silence my phone before, so here I am with "Dancing Queen" from ABBA playing in my pants.
Current method to deal with said problem:
Either stand up, or lean way back, Pull phone out of pants, Press a hardware button to unlock, Slide to unlock, Enter design code thingy or pin code, and finally, Pull down notification bar to silence "Dancing Queen"
Idea App solution: Hear notification (SMS, MMS, Email, etc) ringtone play, Frantically reach down and press ANY hardware button and instantly silence the ringtone.
Can anybody do this?
Casen said:
Maybe somebody here has the programming skillz needed to make this app, but I want to be able to one touch any hardware button to silence a notification AFTER it rings. All the answers i get are to trim my ringtones down more, or get these apps that set up profiles. I like my ringtones where they are, and the profile thing is not what what i need as i have different times for things each day so....
the problem scenario:
I am sitting in a meeting-class-dinner-movie... Etc Etc, anything like that and BAM, I get a text message. It so turns out I forgot to silence my phone before, so here I am with "Dancing Queen" from ABBA playing in my pants.
Current method to deal with said problem:
Either stand up, or lean way back, Pull phone out of pants, Press a hardware button to unlock, Slide to unlock, Enter design code thingy or pin code, and finally, Pull down notification bar to silence "Dancing Queen"
Idea App solution: Hear notification (SMS, MMS, Email, etc) ringtone play, Frantically reach down and press ANY hardware button and instantly silence the ringtone.
Can anybody do this?
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DOn't know what phone you're using, pretty much every Android phone I've seen has something like this.
Don't know which phone u are using but my Desire is muted when I press VolDown during an incoming call....
DROID X: and yes, during phone calls, that works. But I said notifications. Emails SMS, MMS, etc.....
DROID X: Rooted, DeoDexed, BigDXSerenity Red