Does anyone know of an App that will allow me to voice command preset spots on my phone? For instance..If I say "Tap Location One", the app will then relay this message and act as if I press the phone in the upper left location on my phone (Or wherever I preset the location). "Tap Location Two" will tap the the bottom right corner of my phone. This will be useful if someone was washing dishes but wanted to play a game on their phone or any other situation where their hands are free.
Thanks.
I think this can be done through tasker.
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I am using magic button to close my apps as opposed to just minimising them, however I always get the "Phone" icon left on the screen, this is the screen that appear when you dial a number (the phone pad). For some reason this just won't closed and always becomes the focused application whenever I close another application.
Is there a way around this?
Is this a bug?
Any help appreciated..
Thanks
Mark
mdavenport said:
I am using magic button to close my apps as opposed to just minimising them, however I always get the "Phone" icon left on the screen, this is the screen that appear when you dial a number (the phone pad). For some reason this just won't closed and always becomes the focused application whenever I close another application.
Is there a way around this?
Is this a bug?
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No, it's because if you are actually closing the Phone dialer application, you are eliminating the ability to use the phone. That's why the application always runs.
Tap and hold the Phone icon, and select "Don't Show when Inactive". The icon will disappear, but the phone will still work fine. Do the same thing for ActiveSync, if its icon shows.
Thanks, thats great....
2 quick questions, they might be something simple sorry but I dont know how to get this to work.
1) How do you unlock your phone without the stylus? I know if you hold the end call key for 3 secs it locks it but I want to unlock the phone without the stylus. I hate ejecting it so the power goes on and then I can slide my finger on the "Lock Icon" left or right to unlock the phone.
2) How do you change the "Lock" Icon mapping? By that I mean its located at the top and I would like to move it to the bottom or middle. Once somehow automatically it was located in the middle and then I rebooted my phone and it went back to the top again.
I don't understand question 1 are you saying you take the styles out to turn the phone on? why don't you use the power button at the top? Then use your finger when it turns on to unlock it. I will admit i don't use the lock fetcher
But i think i understand the second question to move it to the bottom, go to start/setting/today/Items this will have a list of "icons" you have on the main screen select the Device Lock and move it to the bottom of the list. this should move it to the bottom and you are done.
1) you can unlock your phone without pulling your stylus out. press the power button to turn the screen on and then press unlock on the bottom left softkey followed by the confirmation on the center right side of the screen.
on the otherhand what you're asking for is called S2U (slide to unlock) which is an app the mimicks the iphone's lock interface
2) what mapping are you talking about? on the tf3d where the app tab is at? if so, then you just move it by using diamond tf3d tweak OR manually deleting the app and relocating it to where you want it.
Cool thanks for the help on question 1 I didnt know that.
For question 2 the same thing, do you know when the phone is locked and you have that icon that you have to slide left or right so that you can access the main menu on your phone (has the time, contacts, view messages, email etc.). That little bar that reads slide and has a padlock icon in the middle of it. That little button I want to reallign it in the screen. It happened once but I didnt press or change anything for it to happen, it just did.
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I have an app I am trying to automate with Tasker, and I need Tasker to move the touchpad cursor and then simulate a left click and/or simply simulate a finger tap on the screen.
Details: The app is the Boston Globe reader, which is a localized version of Press Reader. The app only downloads new issues when it is opened (the "background update" feature is not working for me), and this takes a few minutes, so I am trying to use Tasker to open the app at 5 AM and take a few steps to get the download started. (The download is supposed to start when the app is opened, but this also is not working for me).
Problem is that after a few steps, I get to a screen where I have to touch (or click with the touchpad and cursor) a particular Boston Globe icon. I have been unable to get Tasker to simulate either of those actions.
Strangely enough, if I tap anywhere on the screen, I can then use the cursor keys to select the Globe icon and then press the "Enter" key, but this does not work without the initial "triggering" screen tap with my finger, which I cannot get Tasker to simulate.
All suggestions are appreciated! TIA!
smalis said:
I have an app I am trying to automate with Tasker, and I need Tasker to move the touchpad cursor and then simulate a left click and/or simply simulate a finger tap on the screen.
Details: The app is the Boston Globe reader, which is a localized version of Press Reader. The app only downloads new issues when it is opened (the "background update" feature is not working for me), and this takes a few minutes, so I am trying to use Tasker to open the app at 5 AM and take a few steps to get the download started. (The download is supposed to start when the app is opened, but this also is not working for me).
Problem is that after a few steps, I get to a screen where I have to touch (or click with the touchpad and cursor) a particular Boston Globe icon. I have been unable to get Tasker to simulate either of those actions.
Strangely enough, if I tap anywhere on the screen, I can then use the cursor keys to select the Globe icon and then press the "Enter" key, but this does not work without the initial "triggering" screen tap with my finger, which I cannot get Tasker to simulate.
All suggestions are appreciated! TIA!
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SOLVED, via Tasker Google Groups:
"Ok, you can try the "Run shell" action with the command "input tap 564 1856" where the numbers are the x and y coordinates of the tap location.
in order to get the correct coordinates, on your device go to Settings -> dev options and turn on "show pointer location" then you can go into your app and tap on the correct location and it will display the x/y coordinates of the tap which you can input on that script."
smalis said:
SOLVED, via Tasker Google Groups:
"Ok, you can try the "Run shell" action with the command "input tap 564 1856" where the numbers are the x and y coordinates of the tap location.
in order to get the correct coordinates, on your device go to Settings -> dev options and turn on "show pointer location" then you can go into your app and tap on the correct location and it will display the x/y coordinates of the tap which you can input on that script."
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i can i tap and HOLD for a specific ammount of seconds?
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i can i tap and HOLD for a specific ammount of seconds?
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Don't know. You would have to determine if Run Shell has a "tap and hold" function. Try asking in Tasker Google Groups: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/tasker
Did you ever find out about the tap and hold request? I am looking for the same solution.
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Did you ever find out about the tap and hold request? I am looking for the same solution.
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You can do a long press by using shell script and doing input swipe x1 y1 x2 y2 ms, just make sure that x1 and x2 are the same value and that y1 and y2 are the same value then end with however many milliseconds you want the press to be. For example input swipe 400 700 400 700 300, would do a long press on coordinate 400 700 for 300 ms.
Thank you! That worked perfectly. One thing I did discover is that the "input swipe" command seems to be case sensitive. SwiftKey automatically capitalized "Input" - and it did not work until I made it lowercase.
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You can do a long press by using shell script and doing input swipe x1 y1 x2 y2 ms, just make sure that x1 and x2 are the same value and that y1 and y2 are the same value then end with however many milliseconds you want the press to be. For example input swipe 400 700 400 700 300, would do a long press on coordinate 400 700 for 300 ms.
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I came across this when searching for a way to stimulate a long press with Tasker. I'm trying to stimulate a long press of a volume key, to attach it to a Tasker task, so that I can then assign that task to a swipe using the Wake Gestures app I'm using, so as to bring up Ambient Display in Lollipop. Unless anyone reading this knows of a shortcut I'm missing that will activate Ambient Display in an easier way?
Hey guys
I recently dropped my phone and cracked the top right corner of the screen and as a result, a triangle shaped corner of the touchscreen doesn't work anymore. This isn't really a problem in itself, but the phone randomly presses that area of the phone without me touching it, which makes it hard to do things like text (as it's constantly tapping that dead corner of the screen and exiting apps etc).
I did a bit of research and I know Iphones have a feature called guided access that disables areas of the screen (like the notification area etc. to stop children from messing around with phones when playing games) and I was hoping to find a similar app to do the same to disable this corner, but I haven't been able to find any. There's only apps like surelock that can disable the whole screen, but not specific areas of it.
Does anyone know of an app I can use to do this, or perhaps another way to just disable this section of my screen? I was also looking into changing the resolution to use a smaller area of the physical screen but am not sure that's possible.
Thanks!
Even though the P2 can be considered large with a 5.5" display, the lower region of the screen is occupied by the on-screen navigation bar. While there's an option to turn off the navigation bar and use the fingerprint button exclusively, I still find this alternative lacking in many fronts:
1. I can't tell you how many times I return to the home daily; it gets tiring to always have to push down the fingerprint button.
2. You need to touch the fingerprint button for a second or so before the recent apps window is launched. If you've ever had the need to flip between apps quickly, you would know how irritating this delay is.
3. Because one button is used for three functions (back, home, recent apps), there's no way to quickly switch between apps (like alt+tab in windows).
4. I sometimes find myself lying on my side, holding the phone with one hand, and finding it almost impossible to reach all the way down to the navigation bar, let alone the fingerprint button.
Fortunately, I have a solution that I believe addresses all of the problems above and that is to navigate the phone through the use of gestures.
I've been using GMD GestureControl for about a week now and I think I've found an optimal combination of gestures that don't only work but are also intuitive to use. There's nothing you can lose by giving it a try.
It can take a bit of time to set it up the way I have mine set up. So, if you don't feel like spending some time doing it yourself, you can just "restore" my "titanium backup" backup. Download it from here. Just extract the zip file and copy the content into your "titanium backup" folder. Open "titanium backup" and restore.
If instead, you would like to set it up yourself, here's how I currently have mine set up:
1. After installing the app, the first thing to do is go to "Device Setup" by pressing the menu button on the top right corner of the screen. Change your values to the one you see in the first attached image below. Then go to "Settings", and change the values to those in the second attached image.
2. To create a gesture: press the plus button > Select a gesture > create path. You can see all the gestures I created in the third attached image. Recreate all of them.
3. You can decide which region of the screen a gesture is detected by choosing the appropriate zone in the "select starting zone" option.
4. You need to go to "advanced options" (attached image no. 4) at the bottom of the screen to decide whether or not the gesture can be triggered when the keyboard is active. I have most of the gestures disabled when the keyboard is active because I sometimes swipe to type and I don't want to accidental swipe to trigger something. For this reason, I have duplicated most of the gestures for the only the top half of the screen (above the keyboard) so that the gestures still continue to work when the keyboard is activated.
5. Make sure you enable "evaluate on release" on all gestures so that a gesture is only triggered after you lift your finger off the screen.
If you've gone through all the steps, it's now time to start trying things:
1. To open resent apps, just make a small ^ sign anywhere on the screen.
2. To go home, just make a small V sign anywhere on the screen.
3. To flip between apps, just make a small < or > sign anywhere on the screen, starting from the top.
4. To press back, swipe away from left or the right edge.
5. To open the launchpad, swipe up on the left or right edge.
Good looking out. I really like this option.