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This Tasker profile recipe will only enable my Android Auto Sync feature whenever there is a WiFi connection. This helped me to maximize my Android battery life and minimize my cellular data usage. Profile: Auto Sync When WiFi (2) State: Wifi Connected [ SSID:* MAC:* IP:* ] Enter: Anon (3) A1: Auto-Sync [ Set:On ] A2: Mobile Data [ Set:Off ] A3: Variable Set [ Name:%Wificonn To:On Do Maths:Off Append:Off ] Exit: Anon (4) A1: Auto-Sync [ Set:Off ] A2: Mobile Data [ Set:On ] A3: Variable Set [ Name:%Wificonn To:Off Do Maths:Off Append:Off ]

One of the way to maximize your Android battery life is to avoid running your Auto Sync all the time. Through out the usage of my Android phone, I have accumulated quite a number of Android apps that uses the Anroid Auto Sync feature to get data into the Android phone. By using Tasker, I can schedule the Auto Sync to run every one hour for 5 minutes. My battery life improved significantly after that. Below is the recipe for the Tasker profile. Profile: Scheduled Auto Sync (12) Time: From 08:00 every 1h Till 23:00 State: Not Wifi Connected [ SSID:* MAC:* IP:* ] State: Mobile Network [ 2G:Off 3G:On 3G - HSPA:On 4G:Off ] Enter: Anon (13) A1: Auto-Sync [ Set:On ] A2: Wait [ MS:0 Seconds:0 Minutes:5 Hours:0 Days:0 ] A3: Auto-Sync [ Set:Off ]

This Tasker recipe is to automate the switching off of your WiFi setting when there are no WiFi connection for a period of time. Basically there are 2 profile to set. The first profile to provide a variable to flag if the WiFi is connected or not. The 2nd profile is to start the timer when WiFi is disconnected. After a given period of time if the WiFi does not reconnect, WiFi will be switched off. I created this Tasker recipe to save some battery on my Samsung Galaxy Nexus when the WiFi is on but no connection.  Note:  you cannot import this file into Tasker. Use this as a guide to create your own profiles. Check if WiFi is connected Profile: Check if WiFi is connected State: Wifi Connected [ SSID:* MAC:* IP:* ] Enter: Anon <Set the variable to flag for WiFi connection> A1: Variable Set [ Name:%Wificonn To:On Do Maths:Off Append:Off ] Exit: Anon <Set the variable to flag for no WiFi connection> A1: Variable Set [ Name:%Wificonn To:Off Do Maths:Off Append:Off ]...

I notice that there are similarities between some of the state context methods and event context methods when creating a Tasker profile. I did a little research on various posts from the internet and this is what i can understand. State Context Profile A profile that has state context will be active as long as the context is met. A state context profile will have an enter task and an exit task. When a state context profile becomes active, the enter task will run once and the profile will wait until it becomes inactive back. Once the profile becomes inactive, it will run the exit task. Any settings change through state context profile will restore to the original settings after profile becomes inactive. This happens even without explicitly restore the settings using exit task. An exit task can sometimes run before the same profile’s entry task, if that entry task has a Wait action that delays part of the entry task for so long that the profile becomes inactive. Event Context Profile A p...

This Tasker profile will automatically turn on my Android device GPS setting whenever Waze is running. I have tweak the Tasker code a little to enable the GPS to remain turned on when Waze is running in the background. This will enable you to receive calls or do other things when Waze is running background without worrying the GPS gets turned off. Apart from Tasker, you will need a rooted Android, "Secure Settings" and "Busy Box" to be installed.  Important notes about Secure Settings In Secure Settings, use Run Command for the action. Use this command to query the state of the Waze app running in the background: cat /proc/$(pgrep com.waze)/oom_adj Check the Output Variable and use "%WAZE_RUN" as the output variable name. Check the Exit Code variable and use "%CMD_EXIT" as the exit code variable name. Note: Make sure you install BusyBox as you will need the "pgrep" program to get the process id of Waze app. Tasker Recipe Profile: Waze ...

This Tasker profile automatically turn on my Android device Auto Sync setting when my device is connected to a WiFi network. I find this automation useful as it helped me to save more battery power and 3G data when my Android device is not connected to a WiFi network. Tasker Recipe  Profile: Auto Sync On WiFi (13)  State: Wifi Connected [ SSID:* MAC:* IP:* ] Enter: Auto Sync On (14) A1: Auto-Sync [ Set:On ] Download Tasker Profile

This Tasker profile will make your Android smartphone read out the SMS content when received. Tasker Recipe Profile: Read SMS When Received (24) Event: Received Text [ Type:SMS Sender:* Content:* ] Enter: Read SMS (23) A1: Wait [ MS:0 Seconds:2 Minutes:0 Hours:0 Days:0 ] A2: Say [ Text:You have received a text message. The message says: %SMSRB Engine:Voice:default:default Stream:3 Pitch:5 Speed:5 Continue Task Immediately:Off ] Download Tasker Profile

This Tasker project will enable your Android smartphone to automatically lock your screen when you close your leather flip cover over your Android phone. It doesn't lock immediately as it will wait for 10 seconds before it lock. This is to provide a buffer time in case you might need to use the phone again right after you have close it. Download Tasker Project

This is a Tasker profile description of how you can use Tasker to text or SMS your girlfriend randomly between a specified hour time. Not only you can send the message randomly between the hour you can also send random set of message you have defined. This is to make your girlfriend believe that you are always thinking of her and message her with wishes. Tasker Recipe Profile: Randomly Text My Gf Every Morning In Random Time Between 8am And 9am (6) Time: 08:00 Enter: Good Morning SMS (4) A1: Variable Randomize [ Name:%msgindex Min:1 Max:5 ] A2: Variable Set [ Name:%msg1 To:Msg Text Do Maths:Off Append:Off ] A3: Variable Set [ Name:%msg2 To:Msg Text  Do Maths:Off Append:Off ] A4: Variable Set [ Name:%msg3 To:Msg Text Do Maths:Off Append:Off ] A5: Variable Set [ Name:%msg4 To:Msg Text Do Maths:Off Append:Off ] A6: Variable Set [ Name:%msg5 To:Msg Text Do Maths:Off Append:Off ] A7: Variable Randomize [ Name:%waitsecs Min:0 Max:3600 ] A8: Wait [ MS:0 Seconds:%waitse...

This Tasker project will enable your Android smartphone to automatically lock your screen when you put your smartphone in your pocket or bag. It also has a time out to avoid accidental block of the proximity sensor or maybe you just put in your smartphone but you need it again immediately after that. Download Tasker Project

At every hour, your Android smartphone will announce the hour(12 hour format) of the current time. Tasker Recipe Profile: Tell Me The Time Every Hour (3) Time: From 00:00 every 1h Till 23:59 Day: Sun or Sat Enter: Say Hour Of Time (18) A1: Variable Split [ Name:%TIME Splitter:. Delete Base:Off ]  A2: Variable Set [ Name:%12H To:%TIME1 Do Maths:Off Append:Off ]  A3: Variable Set [ Name:%AMPM To:null Do Maths:Off Append:Off ]  A4: Variable Subtract [ Name:%12H Value:12 ] If [ %TIME1 > 12 ] A5: Variable Set [ Name:%12H To:12 Do Maths:Off Append:Off ] If [ %TIME1 = 0 ] A6: Variable Set [ Name:%AMPM To:P.M. Do Maths:Off Append:Off ] If [ %TIME1 > 12 ] A7: Variable Set [ Name:%AMPM To:P.M. Do Maths:Off Append:Off ] If [ %TIME1 = 12 ] A8: Variable Set [ Name:%AMPM To:A.M. Do Maths:Off Append:Off ] If [ %TIME1 < 12 ] A9: Say [ Text:The time now is, %12H %AMPM Engine:Voice:default:default Stream:3 Pitch:5 Speed:5 Continue Task Immediately:Off ]  Download Tasker Profi...

Tasker is a very powerful Android smartphone automation application. Although Tasker can practically do anything you want, you still have to learn how to create the automation. I know many of you out there are just plain lazy or no time to pick up the skill. Many had relied on Tasker users shared automation projects, profiles, tasks or scenes to quickly kick start your automation without hassle. I am sharing most of my Tasker automations in this blog for the benefit of the lazy Tasker people (no offence, i am one of them too). The Tasker automations that i am sharing in this blog are just the exported xml files. Most probably i will not be writing the "step through" like some other websites did but you can download and import the xml files using Tasker. It's easy enough. You can tweak my automation to suite your need. This post will show you how to import Tasker automation xml files into your Tasker application. Download one of the xml files that i shared. Use "save ...

In order to share your Tasker love (projects, profiles, tasks or scenes) to all Tasker users, you will need to export Tasker's projects, profiles, tasks or scenes to xml files. Anyone out there looking for a specific automation for their Android phone could just download and import the xml files into their Tasker Android application and tweak the automation to suite their own use. Somehow i felt that the export and import functions are not that intuitive. I did took a bit of time and Googling to find out how to export and import properly. This post will show you how to access the export function in Tasker. To export your created projects (in my case my project name is "Super"), tap the project name to pop up a menu. To export your created profiles, long tap your profile and tap the menu button (the 3 vertical dots at the top right). The same steps apply for Tasks and scenes. Note: At the time of writing, this how to is based on Tasker 4.0 After you have exported your Task...