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Comment on Timed Blackberry Sound Profiles for Android by Cerfus

Cerfus — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 12:52:16 +0000

Thank you very much for taking the time and effort to put this together. I’ve been using the profiles for some days now but I think I’m missing something because the task notify goes off everytime someone calls. I have noticed that the volume increases when the phone rings but I have not been able to find an option for “ascending ring” I have a Samnsung Galaxy S 2 with android 2.3.5 and tasker 1.2u2m.
Sorry it took me long to reply but I’ve been going through tough times. I’ll be checking back often.

Comment on My Tasker program – BlackBerry Sound Profiles for Android by Aaron

Aaron — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 04:55:31 +0000

@Ventz
Thanks much Ventz! As you said, the 1st part was embarrassingly simple, in the “vibrate” task, I just took the “alarm” volumn to 0.

As for #2, I believe I have exactly the behavior I want now. (to explain for others), I created 1 new task and 2 new profiles.

The new task is named “VibratePattern” and it is an “alert > vibrate pattern” where i specified the pattern of “100,500,500,500,1500,500,1500,1500″ [the format for any vibrate pattern you want is "pause time, vibrate time, pause time, vibrate time, etc. - all in milliseconds], I then selected the “if” option with,”%PROFILE” matches “Vibrate”. This (as you suggested above) ensures that the vibrating pattern will only happen if the “vibrate” profile is the current profile. If in any other profile, it won’t vibrate (I think this is true anyway, it seems to behave that way).

The two new “profiles” I created enact this vibrate pattern for (1) SMS/MMS and (2) new notifications (eg: calendar alarms). I could’nt figure out a way to do both these things with one profile, so I used two profiles but they are basically the same. The 1st profile is named “SMSvibrate” and it is a “event > phone > received text” which triggers the task “VibratePattern” outlined above.

The second profile, for the new notifications, is named “NOTIFYvibrate” and it is an “event > IU > notification”, and also triggers the “VibratePattern” task.

As I said, with limited testing tonight, the behavior seems to be, when the “vibrate” profile is active, both text messages and notifications trigger the custom vibrate pattern, the other sound profiles appear to act ‘as normal’ without the vibrating pattern. More testing will verify this but it appears to work correctly.

Thanks for all your help and hard work Ventz!

Comment on My Tasker program – BlackBerry Sound Profiles for Android by Ventz

Ventz — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 23:14:11 +0000

Aaron, for #1: This is very easy to do – simply open the “Vibrate” task, and set the volume in each item to Level 0. The only one you should leave is the “In-Call Volume”. I am assuming you are talking about the Alarm and Media, because those should be the only audible things in Vibrate?

Now for #2: This is a bit more complicated. The only reason I am saying this is because I don’t see a way to modify the pattern for the generic “Vibrate” mode. The only way that I can think of doing this is to set “profile catches” for each thing that you care about — incoming phone call, sms/notification, etc., and execute the “Vibrate Pattern” (when you select ‘+’ under a task, go to “Alert”, and then select “Vibrate Pattern”). Here’s an example of how to get a custom vibrate pattern for SMS:

Create a new profile, select the type to be ‘Event’, and then select the ‘Phone’ category, and then ‘Received Text’. Now for the task associated with this, as per above, execute the “Vibrate Pattern”. One additional thing you can do is check what the %PROFILE variable is set to. If it’s “Vibrate”, then you can run this. Otherwise, don’t — so that you don’t get a vibrate during a “Normal” or “Sleep” profile (unless this is what you want — aka, vibrate all the time).

Hope this helps.

Comment on My Tasker program – BlackBerry Sound Profiles for Android by Aaron

Aaron — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 22:46:58 +0000

This is great! As a long time blackberry user, sound profiles is about all I miss anymore. I’ve imported your tasks and things work as expected. My brief (I hope) question is whether or not, when in the “vibrate” profile, 2 things can be changed. (1) I saw above that someone was able to mute ALL sounds in the vibrate profile. How was that done? and (2) is there any way, when in the vibrate profile, that I can set the vibrations to a pattern or an extended loop of some kind? I seem to never feel the very brief, single, default vibration and am constantly missing SMS/Emails.

Great work and thanks.

Comment on Timed Blackberry Sound Profiles for Android by Ventz

Ventz — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 14:25:46 +0000

Cerfus – the problem is that I don’t want to background block. I did the timer, and it turns out you can create a timer widget too — so you can set a sleep sound-profile, and sleep widget the normal profile, but it’s ugly, multiple steps, and hard to change the time. I am using the “Wait Until” feature, but the way that works is by polling in the background every “X ms/s/m/hr”. In order to keep it efficient, I made it check every minute, which is very good actually. The claim is that if you are checking past every 20+ seconds, it’s not a problem. About the import, I just wrote the developer of Tasker:

I sent this as a bug: Exporting a scene to XML (sdcard), doesn’t seem to export the tasks associated with the scene elements. These are the things like the action for taping a button. I see that they are “tasks/anonymous”, but it should either save as part of the scene export or prompt to save each one and link them in the scene as individual tasks.

He replied: Fixed next release.

Anyway, I will take down the download link for now, so hold on a bit, and hopefully we can get this soon.

Comment on Timed Blackberry Sound Profiles for Android by Ventz

Ventz — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 11:21:16 +0000

I found the problem, and it seems like a bug with Tasker’s Scenes import. If you are in the edit Scene tab, you will see the exclamation points over the visual elements. Taping on each and going to the tap action will show you that the tasks are empty. It doesn’t seem to backup the tasks associated with each Scene element.

I emailed the developer and he said: Fixed next release.

Comment on Timed Blackberry Sound Profiles for Android by Ventz

Ventz — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 11:14:32 +0000

What version of Tasker are you running? Mine is 1.2u2m. It sounds like either your variable(s) are not being created – but that’s not the case because you see the default 60, or maybe the Work and Sleep tasks are not there? Its almost like its working but either the variable is not being hit/updated, or it is and then the scene calls to move the visuals is not working. That’s really strange either way. I deleted my variables here just to make sure that was not the problem. I’ll try to find another Android phone and give it a try. What phone were you using again?

Comment on Timed Blackberry Sound Profiles for Android by Steve

Steve — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 10:25:32 +0000

Ventz, once you get used to timed profiles you’ll find it hard to get by without them! Thanks for your effort so far, i’ve imported but it doesn’t work. I get the scene box with default 60 min the + – buttons light up green when I hit them but the 60 min doesn’t change. Also the slider bar moves but still stays at 60 min. Set profile button doesn’t set the profile either. In the end I have to go back to get out of the scene. In the scenes tab the TimedScene has a yellow star on right side which looks right but also has a red framed triangle with an exclamation mark in it which looks like it’s saying this is a problem. Also if I go in to edit the scene, every button has same error triangle. Any suggestions what I should do?

Comment on Timed Blackberry Sound Profiles for Android by Ventz

Ventz — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 03:18:55 +0000

Steve, Cerfus – I ended up really getting into this idea, and I made quite a few changes tonight. Actually, I ended up re-writing most of it. Take a look at the new copy/download. I think it’s much better. It has 3 ways of inputing information, a way to cancel an existing Timed sound-profile, and a notification section that tells you when you started the Timed sound-profile and for how many minutes it will be set. It is also extremely battery efficient. No matter how much you use it, it should not use more than 1% of your battery in a 24 hour period.

Speaking of a need for this, I ended up silencing my phone today right before a meeting, and I completely forgot to set it back to normal/ring. I ended up missing two phone calls and a few texts. I think I am going to start using this myself very often now. This was one of the motivations behind going back and cleaned up the interface. Eventually, I will add a few presets for things like 15, 30, 45, 60 minutes.

Hope you like the new changes.

Comment on Timed Blackberry Sound Profiles for Android by Cerfus

Cerfus — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 11:51:03 +0000

Hey Ventz, the scene imported with warnings, when I tap on the scene elements i.e set rpofile button and then on the “tap” tab I get “Warning: the specified task is unknown”
I had imported both files correctly, just double checked that. I’m wondering, do I have to creat the variable myself? if so, where?

Also, from my programming experience, Tasker has a built in timer trigger, it is unknown to me if you use it, but from the 3rd paragraph of “key things” I understand you’re polling this manually, wouldn’t it be better to rely on the built in timer? performance/resource-consumption optimizing

Cheers and thanks again!