I am curious to find out what tasker profiles you use on your tablet? I have read how useful it is on a phone, i'm not so sure how useful it is on a tablet. I use it to randomly change wallpapers every hour and mute my a500 at night. Please feel free to post your profile or a link on instructions on how to use it so everyone can join in on the fun.
Only things i used to use it for on my phone was to turn GPS on/off depending on what app(s) I was using, and to automatically set my media volume to min or max depending on time of day (go to sleep to Pandora @ min, drive to/from work w/ Power Amp on max because my aux input jack is low volume)
Haven't really been tempted to use Tasker on my tablet yet, and I removed Tasker on my phone after grabbing a low voltage kernel which increased my battery life enough so I didn't need to worry about the GPS receiver battery drain.
I have recently purchased a Verizon Galaxy S4 and love it. Initially I planned on loading a custom ROM but now that it is rooted and I have removed much of the bloatware, I realize I don't want to give up most of these Touchwiz features. However, there are two simple issues I have never had with an android device before that are bugging me.
First of all, as I'm sure many of you have noticed, when the battery reaches a certain level, the brightness dims to the lowest level possible and you lose the ability to manipulate the brightness. Generally this happens when my phone has at least a couple hours of battery life remaining. Granted, a bright screen will reduce this time but I'd rather have some usable time than none, as the brightness level reaches a point where the phone is completely unusable if you are exposed to any sunlight at all. I have tried going through the settings as well as overriding the brightness with an app I have called Screen Dim to no avail. Has anyone had success brightening the screen at low battery?
Additionally, every time you plug in a 3.5mm stereo jack into the phone, it drops down the volume and usually forces you to acknowledge a dialog box prior to permitting you to raise the volume. This is a wonderful feature if you are completely oblivious and all you ever use are low impedance headphones. However, I use this almost exclusively on loudspeaker stereos, 90% of the time it is my car stereo while I am driving. Occasionally I use bluetooth headphones but I'm not dumb enough to blast that on full volume so this feature is pointless to me. So now here is one more button I have to read and push while in the act of driving in order to get music playing which is unsafe. Is there any way to circumvent this annoyance?
I'm running the latest 4.3 stock update, but I have been having related problems in 4.1 and 4.2.
While listening to mp3 audio over ad2p bluetooth the Nexus 4 occassionaly stops playing the audio and the next thing I see is the "X" on the startup screen. The system is not actually crashing as I can see from uptime. so I guess its just the android run environment that has crashed.
I had similar problems in 4.1 and 4.2, though I believe some of the time it would manifest as a hang with a black screen and I had to power down/up and really reboot.
I assume its the bluetooth since I'm using it when this happens, but to be fair listening to audio is the only thing I do with the phone for sustained periods. what ever apps or browsing I do is generally only for a few minutes at a time.
I have used a variety of bluetooth headphones and also the car bluetooth and it has happened with all devices. Switching bluetooth connections seems to be an aggravation, but it can happen without a swtich. This happens maybe once every couple of hours, Sometimes more sometimes less.
Any ideas on what the problem is, or how to do track it down?
Haven't gotten any replies to this since I posted a month ago. I assume this is not a common problem. Is it possible its a hardware problem that should be addressed under warranty?
kmandel said:
I'm running the latest 4.3 stock update, but I have been having related problems in 4.1 and 4.2.
While listening to mp3 audio over ad2p bluetooth the Nexus 4 occassionaly stops playing the audio and the next thing I see is the "X" on the startup screen. The system is not actually crashing as I can see from uptime. so I guess its just the android run environment that has crashed.
I had similar problems in 4.1 and 4.2, though I believe some of the time it would manifest as a hang with a black screen and I had to power down/up and really reboot.
I assume its the bluetooth since I'm using it when this happens, but to be fair listening to audio is the only thing I do with the phone for sustained periods. what ever apps or browsing I do is generally only for a few minutes at a time.
I have used a variety of bluetooth headphones and also the car bluetooth and it has happened with all devices. Switching bluetooth connections seems to be an aggravation, but it can happen without a swtich. This happens maybe once every couple of hours, Sometimes more sometimes less.
Any ideas on what the problem is, or how to do track it down?
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Anyone else experiencing audio gaps while playing music with screen off?
App doesn't seem to matter (Play Music, N7, ...), Boeffla Sound enabled, Eargasm preset, no saturation prevention, no privacy mode, earphones and speaker boosted and optimised.
Any obvious suspects? Any hints anyone?
NB: Yes, I do use a custom kernel, but I can't tell who's the culprit, so I ask for others experiences to allow to find the cause of it.
husky69 said:
Anyone else experiencing audio gaps while playing music with screen off?
App doesn't seem to matter (Play Music, N7, ...), Boeffla Sound enabled, Eargasm preset, no saturation prevention, no privacy mode, earphones and speaker boosted and optimised.
Any obvious suspects? Any hints anyone?
NB: Yes, I do use a custom kernel, but I can't tell who's the culprit, so I ask for others experiences to allow to find the cause of it.
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I do not know if this is related but since I installed Omni (coming from latest AOKP); I have issues with my Samsung HS3000 Bluetooth receiver, i use poweramp and I experience a lot of skips when playing music (poweramp is set to automatically turn off the screen after a few seconds); I increased buffer size, poweramp priority, bluetooth priority but the skips remain... Playing thru headphones directly plugged in is ok
Hey guys,
I've been having this issue as well, and I've managed to narrow down what's wrong, but still haven't been able to fix it or find out what's causing it. I'm using stock kernel with the latest nightly on a GS4 i9505.
The issue seems to be that the device is constantly going into Deep Sleep mode. Go into the Performance tab in Settings (unlock Developer Mode first, I think) and have a look at the Time In State data. Right now, for 12h of uptime, my phone is showing 8h of Deep Sleep, despite me using it as GPS and listening to Audiobooks for most of the work day. Even more, it's been happening while I am actually USING the device.
Additionally, it's reporting that my Max CPU speed is 0 MHz, with Min at 486 MHz. Any time I put the slider up to full (or anything, really), it forgets it and goes back down to 0. I've changed Governer and Scheduler, and even used other tweaking apps to control the kernel, but nothing seems to stick.
On the whole, I'd really not mind too much except I listen to audio books while I'm working/driving, and having it skip and stutter because the phone is struggling to process the audio is exceedingly frustrating.
Going to take a closer look around for this, now that I know what the issue is. Putting it up here so you guys can look as well.
Cheers.
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I do not know if this is related but since I installed Omni (coming from latest AOKP); I have issues with my Samsung HS3000 Bluetooth receiver, i use poweramp and I experience a lot of skips when playing music (poweramp is set to automatically turn off the screen after a few seconds); I increased buffer size, poweramp priority, bluetooth priority but the skips remain... Playing thru headphones directly plugged in is ok
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So basically I've had an audio problem for all things (Bluetooth, earphones and speaker), where I've got media playing at, say 50% on the slider bar, then it suddenly drops to like 10% without the bar position changing before it suddenly returns to the normal state. This is extremely random for me and irritating, as the volume can stay low for an extended period of time, especially since by the time the volume returns to normal, I've raised the volume so it makes me jump when it suddenly blares a YouTube volume. Has anyone found a solution?
I have a rooted Samsung note 4 with the lamlazy note 7 port rom
Many thanks in advance