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Tasker - Configure your DHD to safe energy

Hi,
some people asked what to do until their DHD arrives. They proposed some games...
I have a better suggestion.
Many people suffer short battery and there are many discussions and tipps like turn your GPS off, disable 3G connection if you don't need it. That's all perfectly right. Do you now that you can perfectly automate this by using an app called tasker. You can configure very very much.
I don't have an android phone at the moment (waiting for my DHD), but I have a vision what to configure when it have arrived. I would like to write and test the scripts beforehand but I can't. See my configuration proposals below. Maybe somebody with an android phone is happy to script it and shorten waiting time. Or somebody with a DHD can do it and report the effect.
Description - Version 1.0
Number 1a:
IF the screen is locked/black screen (I'm not using the phone)
switch to 2g
ELSE (screen is unlocked)
switch to 3g
ENDIF
Alternative Number 1b (Even more powerful):
IF the screen is locked/black screen and I'm not using the phone
switch to 2g and switch off data connection.
every 30 minutes switch on the data connection for 5 minutes for synching (facebook and so on)
ELSE (the screen is unlocked)
switch to 3g + data connection
ENDIF
**Description number 1: It's quiet energy consuming for your the phone to hold the 3g connection, even more in areas with bad connection or during driving/moving. On the other hand you don't need that fast connection if you don't surf or use apps. So if your phone is locked only 2g is used. This is enough in order to sync facebook & co. This first condition is also known as juicedefender mode
Number 2:
IF navigation/maps software is started
switch GPS on
ELSE
Leave GPS off
ENDIF
**Description number 2: GPS is energy consuming as well. So turn it off and let it turn on if the apps x, y, z are launched.
Number 3:
IF I'm in a predefined GPS oder cellular zone (at home)
Turn on WLAN
ELSE
turn off WLAN
ENDIF
(This means if I'm leaving home, WLAN turns off.)
**Description number 3: WLAN is energy consuming as well. So turn it off and let it turn on if you are in an are where you know you have WLAN, e.g. at home, at work, at you daily coffee shop.
Number 4:
IF phone is switches in the car holder
switch GPS on
start the car panel
start mp3 player (Winamp beta)
(some people may ad "turn on bluetooth" here)
ELSEIF the phone is switched off the car holder
turn off GPS
stop car panel
stop MP3
ENDIF
(This means if I'm leaving my car, GPS is turned off)
**Description number 4: Just to make live comfortable.
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prob not the correct spot to ask, but how battery consuming is tasker? I've tried locale on some of my older android phones and they drained more battery with locale then without due to polling time and position, is tasker any different?

Can Tasker switch 3G to 2G and vice versa? Last time I checked, it cannot do that.
Came from the developer:
http://groups.google.com/group/tasker/browse_thread/thread/acda45a4fac8a651
@arielext: Tasker does not drain a lot of battery. I own and use Tasker, my HTC Desire battery life is still the same compare to before using Tasker.

arielext said:
prob not the correct spot to ask, but how battery consuming is tasker? I've tried locale on some of my older android phones and they drained more battery with locale then without due to polling time and position, is tasker any different?
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From the examples I see above it seems that Tasker doesn't act on locations but on hard coded rules.
Nevertheless, I wonder if the monitoring of all the conditions I see in the scripts will actually save the battery. Are there any comparissons made?

I am having a problem with the GPS on in Tasker. I try to turn it on when the Car Panel starts (no dock to dected so far), but it seems to ignore tasker command. The task runs ok, as I placed a notification sound for testing, but the GPS just stays off. Anyone experiencing the same problem?
(it did work on Milestone with Locale)

CM10 Battery Drain and Feature Request

Hi there,
I installed CM10 (thanks a lot for it by the way) this morning and it seems my display sometimes just activates without reason. At first I only noticed the device being extremely warm, so I check battery usage and 92% of it have been "display". The device went from 95% to about 50% in a matter of a two or three hours with me not using the tablet at all in that time. When I checked again a little later, the display was active, although I am sure I had sent the device to sleep mode.
Also, here are two features I would like to request:
1. Please add a way to rotate the lockscreen
2. Please add Mobile Data as a switch for the quick settings (the one you get to by "clicking" the clock). It is rather annoying to go through the menu to activate / deactivate it...

The.Vortex said:
1. Please add a way to rotate the lockscreen
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OK, found the fix for that problem... the other one still stands
And I have got an additional issue now:
my Mobile Data Connection doesn't work. My carrier is o2 Germany and the stock ROM had some issues with that carrier as well a while back. Maybe it is the same problem?
For now I am switching back to stock, without mobile data, the tablet is only half as usefull, even with the otherwise better ROM

Add your APN Setting manually and it works nice. They are in the 3G Settings. I even had to just add a almost empty one to make things wake up again.

The.Vortex said:
Hi there,
I installed CM10 (thanks a lot for it by the way) this morning and it seems my display sometimes just activates without reason. At first I only noticed the device being extremely warm, so I check battery usage and 92% of it have been "display". The device went from 95% to about 50% in a matter of a two or three hours with me not using the tablet at all in that time. When I checked again a little later, the display was active, although I am sure I had sent the device to sleep mode.
Also, here are two features I would like to request:
1. Please add a way to rotate the lockscreen
2. Please add Mobile Data as a switch for the quick settings (the one you get to by "clicking" the clock). It is rather annoying to go through the menu to activate / deactivate it...
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I have actually experienced the opposite--battery has been outstanding since flashing the ROM. I usually turn on Airplane mode when I am not using the phone, and am certain to turn off WiFi as well. Try that and see if it makes a difference. Also, be sure you are charging with an appropriate charger!

emuandco said:
Add your APN Setting manually and it works nice. They are in the 3G Settings. I even had to just add a almost empty one to make things wake up again.
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Thanks, that solved the 3G issue and, as far as I can tell after one day, the issue with the screen activating, as well.
For the other point, being able to activate / deactivate the mobile data easily, I found Power Toggle (can't post link, just look for it in the play market or remove the blanks: ht tps://play.google. com/store/apps/details?id=com.painless.pc) which can add a widget to the notification area that works great

You can add more switches to the menu popping up when clicking on the clock. Thats what I did. Its in System -> Notification Bar (Or something like that, I use it in German ^^)

[Q] Is there a way to just turn off cell but keep wifi on?

Kind of hard to explain what I want, but when I'm outside using my phone, and then come inside the house I want to keep the wifi on, but turn off the cell antenna to save battery (I find with just wifi on, the battery lasts a long time). I know I can do this by checking airplane mode, but then that turns off wifi, and I have to re-enable wifi, sort of a 3-4 key stroke that I'm wondering if I can do in one?
I've tried power toggles, but couldn't see the option for what I want to do with it.

You could use an app like Tasker, or Automateit (<---has free and paid version). You could have it execute a task when you enable AP mode that turns wifi back on. You can get pretty creative with the tasks as well. I haven't set it back up on my N4, but on my previous phone my need to enable/disable anything was nearly eliminated.

Thanks CMNein, I'll have a look at Tasker.

NFC tags.... I use Samsung Tectiles
You can Program a tag to go into airplane mode and turn wifi on
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See if Plane Mode Tweaker works for the Nexus 4. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.wordpress.chislonchow.airplanemodetweak
It allows you to configure airplane mode so it won't disable wifi automatically. Also allows you to use bluetooth in airplane mode if it's locked.
I've read that apps to control airplane mode don't work, at least with the stock firmware.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=29219003
I'm still using an HTC Sensation, but I've got a battery of apps to automate turning airplane mode and wifi on when at home, and back off when away.

ziddey said:
See if Plane Mode Tweaker works for the Nexus 4. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.wordpress.chislonchow.airplanemodetweak
It allows you to configure airplane mode so it won't disable wifi automatically. Also allows you to use bluetooth in airplane mode if it's locked.
I've read that apps to control airplane mode don't work, at least with the stock firmware.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=29219003
I'm still using an HTC Sensation, but I've got a battery of apps to automate turning airplane mode and wifi on when at home, and back off when away.
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Maybe time for you to join the N4 club.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/...1bGwsMSwyLDEsImNvbS5nbXN0eWxlcy5hdXRvd2lmaSJd

WiFi randomly enabling itself

In the morning before I go to work I usually disable WiFi as I don't use it at work and would like to save a little battery. However, I've noticed that throughout the day, I'll check a notification and see that WiFi has turned on without me turning it on myself. I can't see any pattern or correlation that would match up with this. Does anyone know what would cause this? I factory reset last night (due to an unrelated issue) and it's still occurring. I only have a couple of extra apps installed, Falcon Pro and reddit sync.

i think power saving mode sometimes enables wifi when its available... not sure how often this happens or if thats even the issue you're having but check the power save mode settings... 3g and 4g use more power than wifi

fade2green514 said:
i think power saving mode sometimes enables wifi when its available... not sure how often this happens or if thats even the issue you're having but check the power save mode settings... 3g and 4g use more power than wifi
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I don't have the power saving settings enabled, and I don't see any setting that resembles that kind of behaviour.

So at some point while I was driving home from work WiFi enabled itself again (I didn't even touch the phone). I'm wondering if it may be S Beam causing it? I haven't actually used it but it's the only thing I can think of that would need to actually turn WiFi on. I may try turning it off tomorrow morning when I turn WiFi off and see if that stops WiFi from randomly enabling.

Galaxy S4 Wifi auto enable
Is there a resolution for this? I heard that on the S3 it would pay attention to what cell towers you are using and if it recognizes you are in an area where you have used wifi before it will enable and connect. This seems to be the symptom that I am seeing and it's bad for me. It keeps trying to connect to my work network because occationally I log on so I can access materials. but when I want to listen to Slacker Radio I can't because it's blocked. This is a cronic problem for my phone and I'm not able to find out how to disable it.

if you have got any battery saving apps delete them
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50% more battery tip on Wear24 (and other LTE AW watches) -> ~3 Days /w Min Usage

so i have been seeing REALLY crappy battery usage on my wear24 on aw2.7 despite turning off alot of things and barely using any apps.
now i EVEN have always-on ambient , and my watch lasts almost 3 days. since its always on, i rarely need to use the watch (eg. wake). i use the Sleek face which shows my agenda , weather, date, various other info on my face all the time so i just look at it. and incoming messages are shown still. here is what i do:
-KEY THING: AIRPLANE MODE! eventho i turn off LTE in connecticvity, i dont know if its a bug, but it's super annoying it keeps coming back on. this is the #1 change that improved it IMMENSELY. i think this turns off alot of useless wake functions and sync'ing
-turn off wifi (auto still keeps searching)
-only use BT
-delete msg+ / my verizon
-turn off OK google / tilt to wake
- no gestures
- no location
-turn on always on
One more thing if anyone can figure out, the watch auto turns on battery saver when under 10%. i'm curious if we can force this mode when its at 100%.

How did you delete msg+ / my verizon? With "adb?
Thanks,
Rob

update to AW 2.7, u can disable via system apps

turning off every thing is not called smart, better buy a normal watch then

I'm not going to try all of these things, but I have noticed that it re-enables the cellular radio. I'm going to try putting it in airplane mode and just keeping the bluetooth connection on. My only issue is, is there any way to get rid of the airplane icon on the watchface?
geminihc said:
so i have been seeing REALLY crappy battery usage on my wear24 on aw2.7 despite turning off alot of things and barely using any apps.
now i EVEN have always-on ambient , and my watch lasts almost 3 days. since its always on, i rarely need to use the watch (eg. wake). i use the Sleek face which shows my agenda , weather, date, various other info on my face all the time so i just look at it. and incoming messages are shown still. here is what i do:
-KEY THING: AIRPLANE MODE! eventho i turn off LTE in connecticvity, i dont know if its a bug, but it's super annoying it keeps coming back on. this is the #1 change that improved it IMMENSELY. i think this turns off alot of useless wake functions and sync'ing
-turn off wifi (auto still keeps searching)
-only use BT
-delete msg+ / my verizon
-turn off OK google / tilt to wake
- no gestures
- no location
-turn on always on
One more thing if anyone can figure out, the watch auto turns on battery saver when under 10%. i'm curious if we can force this mode when its at 100%.
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mistermojorizin said:
I'm not going to try all of these things, but I have noticed that it re-enables the cellular radio. I'm going to try putting it in airplane mode and just keeping the bluetooth connection on. My only issue is, is there any way to get rid of the airplane icon on the watchface?
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I believe rebooting the watch is what turns on the cell signal. Mine stays off until I reboot. You don't need to turn on airplane mode to turn off the cell signal. I was going to write an app to do this automatically on boot, but can't unless someone finds a method to root it.

For the always on feature, the watch face actually changes to a different face from the one I set. It's like a screen saver version of the face which I am using. Is there any way to fix the face throughout?
And how do you guy update to 2.7? Mine updated to 2.0 and it says it's the latest version.
And where is the setting for the power saving mode? Mine enter power saving at 15%.

Jackson1983 said:
For the always on feature, the watch face actually changes to a different face from the one I set. It's like a screen saver version of the face which I am using. Is there any way to fix the face throughout?
And how do you guy update to 2.7? Mine updated to 2.0 and it says it's the latest version.
And where is the setting for the power saving mode? Mine enter power saving at 15%.
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I installed 2.8 on mine through ADB

Jackson1983 said:
For the always on feature, the watch face actually changes to a different face from the one I set. It's like a screen saver version of the face which I am using. Is there any way to fix the face throughout?
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You can disable the charging display by going into app settings and disabling the charging app. I never found a way to keep the screen lit up while charging even with the always on enabled so I wrote an app to do it. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.turndapage.watchwake

Jackson1983 said:
For the always on feature, the watch face actually changes to a different face from the one I set. It's like a screen saver version of the face which I am using. Is there any way to fix the face throughout?
And how do you guy update to 2.7? Mine updated to 2.0 and it says it's the latest version.
And where is the setting for the power saving mode? Mine enter power saving at 15%.
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You're taking about ambient display. The app that sets your watch face controls that. Some have settings for this either on watch or on phone, some don't and you can't change it if you're using that face. I use watchmaker, which lets me edit every image layer in my faces and select which parts stay on. Also can create layers only visible in ambient mode.

mistermojorizin said:
I installed 2.8 on mine through ADB
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How did you update through ADB?

nastynate435 said:
How did you update through ADB?
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got adb over wifi going, got the apk from apk mirror (the watch specific wear apk), then did something like
adb connect 192.168.0.102 (or whichever ip your watch gets)
put the apk in the directory where my command window was
adb -s 192.168.0.102 install -r wearapp.apk
BUT, this is not necessary anymore. 2.8 just installs automatically now from play store on the watch.

You can just block message+ in the notifications screen, and install messages from play store

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geminihc said:
so i have been seeing REALLY crappy battery usage on my wear24 on aw2.7 despite turning off alot of things and barely using any apps.
now i EVEN have always-on ambient , and my watch lasts almost 3 days. since its always on, i rarely need to use the watch (eg. wake). i use the Sleek face which shows my agenda , weather, date, various other info on my face all the time so i just look at it. and incoming messages are shown still. here is what i do:
-KEY THING: AIRPLANE MODE! eventho i turn off LTE in connecticvity, i dont know if its a bug, but it's super annoying it keeps coming back on. this is the #1 change that improved it IMMENSELY. i think this turns off alot of useless wake functions and sync'ing
-turn off wifi (auto still keeps searching)
-only use BT
-delete msg+ / my verizon
-turn off OK google / tilt to wake
- no gestures
- no location
-turn on always on
One more thing if anyone can figure out, the watch auto turns on battery saver when under 10%. i'm curious if we can force this mode when its at 100%.
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My wear24 the battery is draining down so fast, i think its be bad battery. How can i replace the battery for my wear24?

I can't find the apk on apkmirror. Can you please post the link or the exact name of the apk.

abusalad said:
My wear24 the battery is draining down so fast, i think its be bad battery. How can i replace the battery for my wear24?
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I just got mine for $43 on eBay and it went from 93% down to 2% on a single reboot. It then stayed on 2% from 6:30pm til 6:50am when it finally died. So I charged it from 0% to 59% then it jumped to 100%. Then it discharged to 77% and then dropped to 43%. sounds like a calibration issue.
On the plus side, unlike the moto 360 it appears the back is actually screwed on instead of glued on which is great news. I may unscrew it when I get home and see how easy the battery is to access.