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Auto screen off during phone calls?

Hello,
In the past I am sure that my display screen went off after a certain time during a phone call (saving on battery life). I have noticed recently that the screen stays on the whole time, regardless of call length. I have looked through all the settings I can think off, and can't seem to find one relevant to auto screen shut off during a call.
I have installed Pocket Bluetooth Tools and PocketZenPhone (previously I was using Myhonerofiles).
Is there a setting I am missing, or some software that I can use to have an auto screen shut off during a call.
Many thanks for any help.

The screen will not turn off if Bluetooth headset is being used.
Normally, the screen will not turn off if there is any serial port activity (like while connected through activesync)

Are you sure that in Settings/Backlight/Bttey Power: the "Turn Off Backlight" option is selected?, it should be selected to turn the device screen off after 30 seconds or so.
I use a car kit running on bluetooth, and the screen goes off after 30 seconds!

I've set both the power and the back light to go off after 1 minute. There is not normally a problem and the screen powers off ok, unless I'm on a call (with or without a bluetooth headset).

There is an option in JGUI Phone Profiles that does this.
If you no longer have it installed then you won't get that effect.
When I uninstalled Phone Profiles I missed the screen off option so much I reistalled it just for that.

Effan said:
The screen will not turn off if Bluetooth headset is being used.
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mine does.

Effan said:
The screen will not turn off if Bluetooth headset is being used.
Normally, the screen will not turn off if there is any serial port activity (like while connected through activesync)
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So does mine.

After installing Pocket Bluetooth Tools (PBT), my screen won't turn off while on call. If I do turn it off during a conversation, my bluetooth headset cuts out while the other person is still on the phone and won't be able to recover it until I hang up.
If I have the timer working for the PBT, then my autoshut off will work, but that's after I change the timer from 60 seconds to 10 seconds in the registry. If I disable the timer, the autoshut off will work. So if you don't want to play around with the registry, then I suggest leaving PBT timer on.
But either way, if the timer is on or off, during a call, it won't turn off automatically with PBT installed. I like PBT because I was able to quickly connect to my headset faster than the built-in MS Bluetooth Stack.

I guess its a case of balancing the use of Pocket Bluetooth tools with the power saving function of having an auto screen cut off during a call. I'm not sure what is more important to me just now.
I am reluctant to return to My Phone Profiles. I am really enjoying the latest version of PocketZenPhone. I think I will make a request to have autoscreen included in a future version. Who knows, I might get lucky!

Swiftcorp said:
I guess its a case of balancing the use of Pocket Bluetooth tools with the power saving function of having an auto screen cut off during a call. I'm not sure what is more important to me just now.
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IF you have Pocket Bluetooth installed, then while on call, it will not automatically turned off. But if you turned it off manually, while on call, it will cut out from the bluetooth headset and I find no way to get it back yet.

Tasker app from the market.

Sorry guys found a previous thread in another forum.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=743861
Mods please delete.
I just bought the tasker app and figured I would let people know how its working for me, and to solicit suggestions for things I can do with it.
background:
Its a very good app that allows you to script the behavior of the phone based on a very large set of events or states.
My initial use:
As previously mentioned on this board the bluetooth streaming volume is not the loudest, so I always end up turning up the volume for bluetooth. Then when I plugin my headphones I destroy my eardrums.
So I setup a task that when I connect to my bluetooth car stereo, it automatically sets the volume to max and turns off wifi for good measure.
I have another task that when I plugin headphones, it sets the volume to 60% and opens the doubletwist music player.
Finally I setup the standard battery task so that when my battery gets to 20% it turns of all the GPS, wifi, and bluetooth radios, as well as dimming my screen.
Anyone else have this app and have something cool they have setup using it? I have heard of silent mode when the handset is placed flat facedown, which i thought was unique.

I have had it for a few days and am playing around with it. I have 2 tasks so far. First is to go to silent mode when face down. This is especially nice since I charge it overnight by my bed and don't want notifications (emails etc) waking me up so I have been just turning silent mode on at night and off in the morning. Sometime forgetting to turn on in the morning.
The 2nd task is to read the email sender and subject aloud when I am in the car and it is connected to my car stereo via bluetooth. I like the wifi off setting you did. I may do the same.
I also noticed that when listening to streaming through bluetooth with the wifi on but not connected to an ap, I get "skips" every once in awhile. Turning off wifi fixes it so I may set it to turn off wifi when streaming bluetooth audio.
Couple issues I have had. If the phone is in "standby" (pushing the power button) tasker won't go to silent mode. Also, I tried to make the screen go off when face down as well but it doesn't work. Apparently tasker can not turn the screen off but you are supposed to be able to change the timeout to as little as 7 seconds. I set that up but instead of the screen going off it just dims. Not sure of the issue.
I am interested in what others are doing so post the info.

I have two keyboards i really like in 2 different orientations.
Droid X keyboard:
its sweet autocorrections and large real estate makes it ideal for two thumb typing in landscape
swype:
slower than droid X keyboard in landscape, but in portrait, this is possibly the fastest/most accurate keyboard around.
I tried to set it up so that i could change my keyboards depending on the orientation, but i could not figure it out
im also for an app that turns your screen off with a timer (in the background). and have that work when you turn your screen downward./
any with either of these would be greatly appreciated.

Do any of you use tasker? If so, what for?

So I bought tasker months ago and barely ever used it. It's soo ridiculously powerful but i'm way to lazy to take the time to get a hold of the very steep learning curve (at least for me).
I really want to utilize one of these days because it's really a remarkable app that shows off the power of our phones.
I was just curious if any of you use it and what some of your favorite profiles are.
Also, is there some sort of 'how to use tasker for dummies" out there that I could check out? lol

Tasker does have a learning curve. I think it would be easier if they had a desktop environment to create profiles on, but I digress.
Yes, I was like you and bought the app and shelved it since I didn't have time to mess with it. I ran into some free time and dusted the app off. This is what profiles I've setup so far.
1) GPS turns on when apps that I've designated (ex. maps, navi, weather, etc) are launched. GPS turns off when the apps close.
2) Battery <5% turns screen brightness all the way down (coupled with setCPU with an under-clock with the same criteria will have my phone last as along a possible for emergencies). There's more functionality I want to add to this profile.
3) When a headset is plugged in, it sets my media volume and pulls up a menu of music apps for me to select.
4) Home Wifi (overly complicated). I search for the cell tower that I get reception at home (as long as I'm not in airplane mode). When in range of it, the phone search for my network SSID. When found Wifi turns on and connects to my home wifi and turns off the cell tower search (so if my cell signal goes to crap, wifi stays on). When I leave out of my network SSID, wifi shuts off and cell tower search is turned on. This code required some debugging as it wasn't so stable at first attempt.
5) Find phone (my favorite). I can send a text to my phone from any other cell phone. When the text is received, the phone will turn on GPS to find the coordinates and will return a text message to the originating cell phone with a link to google maps location (its bad ass!). Once the message is sent, the speaker volume gets turned all the way up and an mp3 of my choosing gets played (you can bet its an long, annoying, loud, and noticeable song). The final straw is the screen gets locked with a code. I need to investigate the possibility to remote wipe my personal data if necessary.
Best thing to do is to go into the app menu and select browse profiles >> user wiki. Check out the profiles they have there. Download them to you phone. Then go to app menu >> profile data >> import one profile (or task). Select the ones you just downloaded. Check them out, alter them to fit your needs, and you start to learn the syntax, what commands are available, and what's possible.
Good luck! Its a time sink when you get started.

GPS automatically turns on when I open a GPS-centric app.
Wi-Fi automatically turns on when I open a Wi-Fi-centric app.
When I connect my bluetooth headphones it asks me which music app I want to open.
My screen goes as dim as possible when I open my alarm clock at night.
It makes Widgetlocker open whenever my phone goes idle... since it doesn't always want to work.

1) I have a night profile that turns down all the notifications and ringer except the alarm for night time, then returns the settings to normal in the morning.
2) When It connects to the specific bluetooth unit in my car, wifi turns off (no need in a moving car), 3g comes on and media audio goes up for my streaming music. After disconnect wifi comes back on.
3) I have a google maps gps text message in case I misplace my phone
4) I have home and work profiles that turn on and off 3g once they connect to wifi.
Been toying with variables and setting text widgets from minimalistic text. works nice.
All in all very handy application.
Their website has some sample profiles on their wiki at:
http://tasker.wikidot.com/profile-index

1) Shut off "Low battery LED" when battery is at or below 14%
2) Turn off capacitive buttons backlight (home, menu, back, search) and keep it off
3) Since I use the notification pulldown power mod, I have a profile that checks if my wimax is on or off when I reboot or shutdown my phone so it can shut it off when the phone boots if it was off before the shutdown/reboot.
4) Tasker switches my governors for me. No setcpu for anything. Governor is switched to conservative when the screen is off, interactive when the screen is on, smartass for all games, and ondemand for web browsing and anything the other governors don't cover.
5) GPS turns on and off when it's needed (maps, navigation, sky map, etc.)
6) Incoming call LED blinking is stopped (since I leave my phone on sound mode almost all the time)
7) All notification LEDs are stopped (especially since gmail still triggers the LED)
8) Display rotation is turned on and off when it's needed (when in the sense ui it is off and when in web browser, certain apps or games it is on)
9) When my phone boots, tasker checks a variable for my wimax and shuts it off if it needs to
10) When I'm done with a phone call tasker sends me back to my main homescreen
11) Widget that changes my hosts file for adblocking or no adblocking on the fly. The name of the widget also changes according to its status (Enabled or Disabled)
12) When charging, the left LED is shut off and the Wimax LED is used instead.
13) If my screen has been off for more than 2 hours (when I am sleeping) the sound is silenced and airplane mode is activated.
I have more that I don't use but these are my daily profiles.

If I receive a text message from 11pm - 6:30am, I do not get notified and my phone responds with a ZZZZZZZ I am sleeping and will check in the morning.
I would love to get a hold of the profiles you guys are running. Lots of these would be helpful, at least as a learning tool.

coiledwire said:
4) Home Wifi (overly complicated). I search for the cell tower that I get reception at home (as long as I'm not in airplane mode). When in range of it, the phone search for my network SSID. When found Wifi turns on and connects to my home wifi and turns off the cell tower search (so if my cell signal goes to crap, wifi stays on). When I leave out of my network SSID, wifi shuts off and cell tower search is turned on. This code required some debugging as it wasn't so stable at first attempt.
5) Find phone (my favorite). I can send a text to my phone from any other cell phone. When the text is received, the phone will turn on GPS to find the coordinates and will return a text message to the originating cell phone with a link to google maps location (its bad ass!). Once the message is sent, the speaker volume gets turned all the way up and an mp3 of my choosing gets played (you can bet its an long, annoying, loud, and noticeable song). The final straw is the screen gets locked with a code. I need to investigate the possibility to remote wipe my personal data if necessary.
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Mind sharing these?
Wanted to try #4 but didn't have any success the first few times (months ago)
I have #5 but it doesn't lock screen (never noticed that) nor does it give me a maps link (tried but failed)

I have setup a Dropbox folder we could drop profiles into. PM me your emails and I will send you an invite to the folder with a link. Profiles are small so shouldn't chew up much data.
Please name your profiles descriptive so we know what it does etc.

Can the profiles be grouped in the dropbox? I have tasks that use multiple profiles.
From my EVO when I should probably be doing something else instead.

Here is my GPS text message finder XML profile (zipped). simple but effective. Sends google maps link.
Just change the "findmyphone" text message to what ever you want to trigger the response message.
View attachment GPS1.prf.xml.zip

1) Silence all sounds and put on vibrate during work hours (9-9PM).
2) Turn on GPS for specific apps (Navigation, Maps, Antenna, etc.)
3) Turn off when closing those apps.
4) Pop up menu with PowerAMP, Pandora, FM Radio options when inserting headphone.
5) Close those apps when remove headphone.
6) Pop up PowerAMP, Pandora when connecting with BT headphone.
7) Close those apps when disconnecting.
8) TXT my BB the coordinates, batt. life if I TXT S.O.S. to my phone (in case it's lost/stolen).

1) when i get w/ 50 meters of the office (or home). home and office are slightly different but the same idea.
- turn off bluetooth
- turn on wifi
- turn off 4G
- change wallpaper
- reduce ringer volume
(when i get out of 50meters...radios toggle)
- Bluetooth and 4G are on
- wifi is off
2) Quiet Time
- between 2300 and 0700
- notification sound 0
- notification vibrate is off
3) Quiet Cam - currently the AOSP camera has an obnoxiously loud CLICK.
- when camera app is active
- system sounds = 0
4) OnCall
- monitors my work calendar for the "OnCall" appointment.
- notification volume = 6
- change wallpaper (i'm on call for days at time, so this is handy reminder)
* wish i could increase only the 'work email' notification alert (i use two email clients so i can at least have a 'work email alert' and a 'personal email alert'...sadly, tasker doesn't seem able to take advantage of that.)

Can you guys actually put in steps on how you got these profiles. I'm trying to figure tasker out but its a lil overwhelming.
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I do the following:
1. Turn off sound/ringers at certain locations, during certain times (Church, kid's school, etc).
2. Turn on WiFi at home or at work.
3. Overnight mode - automatically turn off WiFi & BT, lower screen brightness, filter calls from all but family, throttle CPU down to min 128000 max 256000. (uses max 1% battery and kept off charger for 8 hours).
4. Overclock CPU 10% for normal operation, underclock (min 128000 max 256000) when screen off (really good on batt).
5. Automatically ramp down CPU clocks as battery charge diminishes.
6. Turn down ringer volume when BT headset connected.
7. Silence phone when meeting in calendar with busy status.
A few others, but this is the main group of profiles.

1.) Turn on GPS when using Maps, turn it off otherwise
2.) Silence ringers during work hours
Not much, obviously I could do a lot more with it.

BigBadBuddy said:
I do the following:
1. Turn off sound/ringers at certain locations, during certain times (Church, kid's school, etc).
2. Turn on WiFi at home or at work.
3. Overnight mode - automatically turn off WiFi & BT, lower screen brightness, filter calls from all but family, throttle CPU down to min 128000 max 256000. (uses max 1% battery and kept off charger for 8 hours).
4. Overclock CPU 10% for normal operation, underclock (min 128000 max 256000) when screen off (really good on batt).
5. Automatically ramp down CPU clocks as battery charge diminishes.
6. Turn down ringer volume when BT headset connected.
7. Silence phone when meeting in calendar with busy status.
A few others, but this is the main group of profiles.
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I know this is a pain but anyway you can put the steps you had to do to achieve these? Thanks in advance!
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Anyone using it with Roam Control? I would like to use it to force roam while I am at work. I do it manually now since the 3g at work is horrible. Full -65dbm signal with 50 kilobit downloads. 3g roaming is awesome!

pastert33 said:
I know this is a pain but anyway you can put the steps you had to do to achieve these? Thanks in advance!
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A lot of these are usually pretty simple, but some can get pretty complicated.
Have you looked at the tutorials / walkthroughs / user listing around the web?
Think of the context as the 'in this instance' and the 'task' as the 'do this.'
http://tasker.dinglisch.net/
http://tasker.wikidot.com/profile-index
These can give you some suggestions and can also shed light on how to use the app in varying scenarios.
A lot of people are using ones that are easy enough to figure out, or have been listed as basic but popular tasks (and can be found at either those links or elsewhere - google 'tasker profiles').
For instance, silencing ringer at night; Context - Time / 2200 to 0600. Task - Ringer Volume Zero / Notification Volume Zero / AutoSync Off.
That's obviously an extremely simple one, but again - context (trigger) and task (desired action).

Ambient Display on 5.1 turns on screen fully when using media buttons

Hey guys,
Don't know if you've noticed yet, but Ambient Display on the N6 5.1 turn on the screen fully when playing/pausing/skipping from a BT device (possibly inline headphone media controls as well, but I don't have those to test). This means that it will turn on in your pocket when changing/pausing songs (it doesn't use proximity sensor). It also means that if you're navigating with the screen off and listening to audio, it will turn on every time you press a media button on your bluetooth radio, and since navigation keeps the screen on, it will stay on.
I honestly don't know if it's a bug or if it's another one of Google's brilliant "features", but I have created a bug report. If this annoys you please take a few seconds to star it: https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=160035
I have also created a thread on the Nexus product forums https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!category-topic/nexus/nexus-6/oZ1RlOeZ-Q0
Thanks.

I just noticed my phone did it this morning in my car listening to music. Kind of annoying but for me its not a big deal.
thanks,

There are 2 ways around this. Either disable ambient display, or set up smart lock and add your BT device as trusted. Had the same issue with my car radio but after setting the screen lock and trusted device, the screen stays dark. Hope this helps.

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There are 2 ways around this. Either disable ambient display, or set up smart lock and add your BT device as trusted. Had the same issue with my car radio but after setting the screen lock and trusted device, the screen stays dark. Hope this helps.
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My BT stereo is already a trusted device. Could you double check this, please? Check if Ambient display is working first, cause yesterday after messing with it, I couldn't enable it until a reboot.

andy o said:
My BT stereo is already a trusted device. Could you double check this, please? Check if Ambient display is working first, cause yesterday after messing with it, I couldn't enable it until a reboot.
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I also have my BT headset as a Trusted Device and can confirm that my display still wakes on play/pause events. Very frustrating, nearly enough that I'd switch back to wired headphones.

apraetor said:
I also have my BT headset as a Trusted Device and can confirm that my display still wakes on play/pause events. Very frustrating, nearly enough that I'd switch back to wired headphones.
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I found a fix, pretty much by blind luck at the Tasker user help forum, using Tasker and the Secure Settings plugin. You may need to be rooted though. Not sure cause it's not on the "root actions" section of Secure Settings, but I think you have to be.
When setting up the plugin task, select Actions -> Device Setting. Then on Setting Table, "secure". Setting name, "doze_enabled", and Setting Value, "0" for off, "1" for on.
It's still ridiculous that this is happening though.

Best Bixby Routines

So I have been playing around a lot with bixby routines and thought of creating a thread to share our routines. Share yours. Thank You.

What are your routines, currently i am not using any. Let me know if anything is good.
TIA.

Here are some of my routines, so basically I just want to turn off mobile data, GPS, NFC, bluetooth when I am at the office and at home. Instead of triggering via GPS, I just use wifi connection to trigger this task.
Because of this covid-19 we have to use this govt app and keep it running on the background for contact tracing stuff, it requires bluetooth, data & gps to be turned on. So when I'm outside I need to keep these toggles on, to save some battery I want to turn it off when at the office & at home. For the NFC, I use Google Pay to ride the public bus & train, so I only need it turned on when I'm outside. For my jabra 75t bluetooth, I want its app to automatically open when connected, for the profiles & equalizer to work. During my sleep overnight, I don't want to drain battery, so I set it to medium power saving mode during that period.
I find this bixby routines very useful for me, so I don't need to toggle on/off every feature I need and don't need. My battery drains on standby mode much less especially during overnight because of the medium power saving mode.

obet10 said:
Here are some of my routines, so basically I just want to turn off mobile data, GPS, NFC, bluetooth when I am at the office and at home. Instead of triggering via GPS, I just use wifi connection to trigger this task.
Because of this covid-19 we have to use this govt app and keep it running on the background for contact tracing stuff, it requires bluetooth, data & gps to be turned on. So when I'm outside I need to keep these toggles on, to save some battery I want to turn it off when at the office & at home. For the NFC, I use Google Pay to ride the public bus & train, so I only need it turned on when I'm outside. For my jabra 75t bluetooth, I want its app to automatically open when connected, for the profiles & equalizer to work. During my sleep overnight, I don't want to drain battery, so I set it to medium power saving mode during that period.
I find this bixby routines very useful for me, so I don't need to toggle on/off every feature I need and don't need. My battery drains on standby mode much less especially during overnight because of the medium power saving mode.
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Thanks for sharing. Even i am using similar ones. I haven't seen very complicated ones. I don't think they are possible yet.

Here are the ones I use.

Bixby has some great Routine options, but it could still use some improvement.
It would be nice if they add the options of Bluetooth is "not connected", or being able to run Routines in priority (set from 1 to 10).
Here's 2 examples using the options to achieve the same goal.
Example 1: DND (with Bluetooth not connected option)
"IF"
Time: 10pm to 7am
Power: Charging
Connection: Bluetooth not connected to "car"
"THEN"
Turn on DND
Example 2: DND (with priority option)
"IF"
Time: 10pm to 7am
Power: Charging
"THEN"
Turn on DND
"PRIORITY"
2
"IF"
Connection: Bluetooth connected to "car"
"THEN"
WiFI Off
DND Off
NFC Off
"PRIORITY"
1
I would prefer the first example as you would only need to create 1 Routine.

I use a Fold2 and run two routines - one to freeze the cover screen in portrait mode and the other to turn on secure wifi when I'm away from my home router.
What I'd really like is a routine that would change the 'Home App' depending on which screen I'm using - one for when the interior screen is open and another for when the cover screen is in use.

Have people found new good routines worth sharing?

I have a few. Using bixby routines+ extras from Good Lock, I have youtube music buttons to launch specific Playlist and automatically play them in shuffle using touch macros after a simple app launch. So, I just push one button and boom, shuffled chosen playlist playing.
Otherwise I just have a button to silence everything including media, and a button to set screen brightness lower and launch maps for GPS at night because the adaptive is still too bright and I drive a lot at night.