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Locate your lost phone with SMS / Sick MUST have app: Tasker

I know there are threads on tasker, but i have to say, this is one sick app.
all you have to do is send sms with secret word from any phone and Tasker will enable wifi, gps, and send back a link to google maps with phone location.

That is amazing, but...
Pity the GPS, Compass and Google Maps implementation is completely ****ing broken!
I would definitely love to use this when (or if) the locational services ever do function. Thanks for the heads up -- I had no idea this existed.

There are multiple apps like "Where's my droid" that do this as well.

KerryG said:
There are multiple apps like "Where's my droid" that do this as well.
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Maybe, but tasker does thousand other things. For me gps works fine, but there is a problem with compass

KerryG said:
There are multiple apps like "Where's my droid" that do this as well.
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And doesn't 'where is my droid' only rings the phone if u send sms ?

If its not too long, would you mind posting your contexts and tasks to achieve just that exact same you just described? I'm trying to get better with the program although at a very slow pace
Thanks a lot mate!
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Yeah i was interested in how you did it as well. I am just learning this tasker app and it doesnt seem that you can import and export tasks easily.

Texag2010 said:
If its not too long, would you mind posting your contexts and tasks to achieve just that exact same you just described? I'm trying to get better with the program although at a very slow pace
Thanks a lot mate!
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you can find it here: http://tasker.wikidot.com/profile-index
the guy is using GPS only, but its pretty straight forward to include WIFI in this as well (WIFI is for better location without GPS). The time to wait for GPS to get a lock is up to you, I have 1 min.
and as you can see there is a profile there if you wish to lock you phone with SMS and/or play sound. (havent tried that)
For now I have these tasks: 1. If power ON, screen timeout is set to 45 sec (from 15), and lockguard is disabled 2. from 7:30pm to 8am screen brightness set to min and to AUTO other times. 3 Created a widget for "Vibrate" and "Bluetooth" since Vibrant is missing easy access to those functions (in a nice menu widget to save space). 4. I have several tasks killed at boot since they are useless anyway. (for this need to insert WAIT command with whatever time needed since some tasks start after the phone boots)

Thanks a lot for that link! Was able to create my own widget too now!
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Worked for me too. Thanks a ton. Too bad you can't hide the sms message.
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Lookout does this - good program I've been using since WinMo days.
-bZj

down8 said:
Lookout does this - good program I've been using since WinMo days.
-bZj
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Read that Lookout drains battery, one of the features of Tasker is to actually save battery.

you already have a good standard version on the sgs
http://www.samsungmobile.co.uk/entertainment/featured-applications/mobile-tracker.do

sareen said:
you already have a good standard version on the sgs
http://www.samsungmobile.co.uk/entertainment/featured-applications/mobile-tracker.do
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Any idea how to get this installed? I don't have it showing on my phone. Also, it shows it is only available in Germany and the UK. Do you have a work around to allow it to work anywhere?

Shane_pcs said:
Worked for me too. Thanks a ton. Too bad you can't hide the sms message.
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Actually, since the latest update, you can hide the SMS.

[Q] SMS Count Wrong

The stock text messaging app always shows 1 unread message on its icon. It's very annoying and I can't find a way to make it go away. Go SMS makes you buy the premium app to sync facebook photos and Handcent is ugly as sin and doesn't seem to handle FB pics either. Only the stack app does this right, so I want to use it. but I can't get the unread count to go away. Has anyone else had this problem?

powerdoesntrun said:
The stock text messaging app always shows 1 unread message on its icon. It's very annoying and I can't find a way to make it go away. Go SMS makes you buy the premium app to sync facebook photos and Handcent is ugly as sin and doesn't seem to handle FB pics either. Only the stack app does this right, so I want to use it. but I can't get the unread count to go away. Has anyone else had this problem?
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I've seen reports of this problem on other forums. Solution there was a factory reset unfortunately.
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I saw that somewhere, too. Every time I see that as the solution, I just shake my head.
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No problems here. Instead if going straight to factory resets you can try force stopping it and restarting it in app settings
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melo563 said:
No problems here. Instead if going straight to factory resets you can try force stopping it and restarting it in app settings
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Good idea he could also try clearing cache and deleting settings for the messaging app.
-Sent from my Razr M.-

Unfortunately, I already tried those things and no dice. Well done, Motorola :-/
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checking in... same issue.
My issue is not so persistent but still noticeable. I considered it an annoyance but becoming more and more disheartening.. I haven't pain close enough attention as of yet but will begin to. That being said, grain of salt here.. seems to be happening mostly when a text comes in while plugged into my pc via usb. The missed messages indicator seems to go away after viewing (of course) then letting ten or so minutes pass..
As stated tho, i haven't been paying enough attention to it to say these are solid observations.

Even though you'd have to redo your home screens, this is better than a factory reset - but clearing the data on the stock launcher should get rid of that.

S-calendar and Google calendar

I am using both S-calendar and Google calendar: i like the homescreen widget for S-Calendar but I prefer using the Google Calendar app for managing appointments.
Considering that I do not want two notifications, I set notifications only in S-calendar with vibration and turned them off in Google calendar.
Problem is that every time i reboot the tablet, it resets the settings of both calendar apps: it removes vibration in S-calendar and enables notification in Google calendar.
Anyone else?

anyone?

Why you reboot your note?
Mine never rebooted.
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bomczz said:
Why you reboot your note?
Mine never rebooted.
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for example yesterday I upgraded to 4.1.2
btw, just for fun, your answer is like when you ask someone if he's got a lighter and he answers back he doesn't smoke ;-P
yeah, actually I seldon reboot it as well, but still it could happen

bomczz said:
Why you reboot your note?
Mine never rebooted.
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can you pls still try?
in the s-calendar set ibration and notification time at 30 minutes before, then reboot

thegios said:
can you pls still try?
in the s-calendar set ibration and notification time at 30 minutes before, then reboot
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Yea I had the same exact issue with mine. I realized that the 2 notifications in both apps are tied together. Meaning if you change one, it'll reset the other on reboot.
I wanted the notifications from S-cal and the googlecalendar app for management as well. I ended up disabling the S-Cal app entirely in the app management settings menu and instead using the google-cal app for everything. I dont think there is a way to separate the 2 apps.
If you find a way I'd like to know as well. Sorry I cant be more helpful.

This won't work on ICS builds, but if you have upgraded to JB 4.1 then in Settings - > Application Manager you can disable notifications on a per app basis.

DaRacerz said:
This won't work on ICS builds, but if you have upgraded to JB 4.1 then in Settings - > Application Manager you can disable notifications on a per app basis.
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yes this I know, my question was more: why upon restart the notification settings of both google and s calendar are set back to original values?

That I'm not sure. It shouldn't be resetting the setting on a reboot.
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time clock / question

Hello, i have a problem with the time clock.
Every day i have to set the time, because it's late with about 4-5 minutes every 24 hours.
I didn't root the phone, i use Android 4.2.2
Could you help me, please ? Should i try to reset to factory settings, maybe ?
Any advices are welcome, thanks in advance

I can't find how to fix it.
Help me, please.

why don't use automatic settings, and the clock will sync with your mobile provider network every few minutes

Odp: time clock / question
So why don't you root your phone? If you have root you can use ClockSycn app which sets time automatically.
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I will try to root the phone. But i was affraid not to brick it
I have to make sure that i do it everything right. After i saw some videos on the internet, i want to get Xylon.
What would you recommend me ? Which one ? There are so many :angel:

ultimul said:
why don't use automatic settings, and the clock will sync with your mobile provider network every few minutes
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This
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szubert51 said:
So why don't you root your phone? If you have root you can use ClockSycn app which sets time automatically.
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I did root the phone, i have now Xylon + Franco. I installed the app ClockSync, but it happent the same.
After about 20 hours it´s late with 3-4 minutes. Is there nothing i can do to fix this ?
Do you think the battery is the problem ?

Have you selected Auto date and time sync?
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chrisrozon said:
Have you selected Auto date and time sync?
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Do you mean, after i installed ClockSync ? Or just the Settings / Clock ?!
I did try to check / uncheck / under the Settings / Clock.
And i'm not connected to the internet 24 / 24 h, if you're talking about the ClockSync

Is it perhaps because you are set up to auto update time from your network? The phone ought to be able to keep time better than that. Maybe you network provider's time is off and your phone keeps syncing to their time after you correct it?

jhock said:
Is it perhaps because you are set up to auto update time from your network? The phone ought to be able to keep time better than that. Maybe you network provider's time is off and your phone keeps syncing to their time after you correct it?
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I try both ways.Set up to auto update time from network and without. Same story. There must be a way to fix this
But i don't know where to start. I would try to remove - insert the battery, but i think it's difficult to remove the battery and i'm not sure if that helps at all.

Whatsapp wakelock drains my battery

Need some help. Since the last update from whatsapp (2days ago) my n4 won't go into deepsleep cause of whatsapp. What can i do beside deleting whatsapp?
Thanks for your help.
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Chintao said:
Need some help. Since the last update from whatsapp (2days ago) my n4 won't go into deepsleep cause of whatsapp. What can i do beside deleting whatsapp?
Thanks for your help.
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Use Greenify

Chintao said:
Need some help. Since the last update from whatsapp (2days ago) my n4 won't go into deepsleep cause of whatsapp. What can i do beside deleting whatsapp?
Thanks for your help.
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Go to settings, scroll down to accounts, tap on whatsapp. There you can turn off contacts synchronization, which is causing the wakelocks.
It will not interfere with your messages as this only sycs your contacts.
Do check once in a while if it stays of as with me it sometimes turns on automatically

Thanks for your help. I will try it
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Bram89 said:
Go to settings, scroll down to accounts, tap on whatsapp. There you can turn off contacts synchronization, which is causing the wakelocks.
It will not interfere with your messages as this only sycs your contacts.
Do check once in a while if it stays of as with me it sometimes turns on automatically
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I'll give this a shot. I was shocked to see that Whatsapp was keeping my phone awake for more than 7 hours over the course of a day. Thanks.

I AM having this problem too. My auto sync is already offline and I still get a huge amount of wakelocks.
What else can I do?

after opening whatsapp..just go to settings->apps-> whtsapp.. and click force close.. u wil have no wakelocks

Try and find the previous apk.

saikat_ace said:
after opening whatsapp..just go to settings->apps-> whtsapp.. and click force close.. u wil have no wakelocks
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Having the same issue... Don't think that's the best solution - using your method, I'll have to do this everytime I finish conversation.
Nexus 4 @ stock 4.2.2
Alex_Dreyk said:
Use Greenify
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Greenify will probably "kill" message notifications?

My problem went away after I installed the newest version off their website.

@clankfu,
Thanks, will try it. Seems that Play has 2.10.*** and the latest on their website is 2.11.***

Had this issue with website versions weeks and months ago. Might be that the bug came into the playstore version (although I don't have any issues right now)

gzesku said:
Having the same issue... Don't think that's the best solution - using your method, I'll have to do this everytime I finish conversation.
Nexus 4 @ stock 4.2.2
Greenify will probably "kill" message notifications?
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It will take it to sleep mode.

I see this once in a while and it'd be good to understand WTF is going on. Why does it take a full 5 minute wakelock?
I'm not even sure if its the contacts sync because I clicked on Whatsapp in the Android Settings menu and it showed that the last sync was at 7pm last night. Yet this morning I had a 5-6 minute wakelock. I unchecked and rechecked and it completed the sync in a second or two.

download LLama or Tasker and you can create a task so that when you are backing out of whats app it will FC it for you. I do this with some system apps that stay open longer than I would like. Although its not the way Android may want it its what I do

specify the tasker profile
playya said:
download LLama or Tasker and you can create a task so that when you are backing out of whats app it will FC it for you. I do this with some system apps that stay open longer than I would like. Although its not the way Android may want it its what I do
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could you specify the way you do this on tasker? will this action stop the notifications in new message?