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Bodycount

Bodycount

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Need some help with any smart action guru's out there.

Here's the deal. I have three smart actions.

1.) Turns on when I'm home and my phone detects my wireless connection.

2.) Turns on when I'm at work and my phone detects my works wireless connection

3.) Turns on when I'm in my car when my phone detects my car bluetooth.

I have #3 set to open an app called "DailyRoads Voyager". It's an app that records your driving. Basically so if I ever get into a crash in front of me, it's recorded for the police and/or my insurance company. There's some other minor stuff that's changed with this smart action but the app is the main goal of it.

There is no smart action to close an app. I want #1 and #2 set to close DailyRoads Voyager so it's not running when I'm at home or at work. Obviously so it doesn't drain my battery.

I looked into various task killer apps but could not find one that would open up, kill an app, then close itself down. Because I would just set that up in #1 and #2 to open up, kill DailyRoads, then shut down and all would be good.

The app itself doesn't have an option to close itself down either when it notices wifi or a GPS location.

How would I go about doing this?


*correction: It does have an auto shutdown but only when used with the razr car dock. I don't use the dock. I use a rosewill dash phone mount which was much cheaper. Anyone know of a car dock stand alone app? Someone made one for the home dock which I use with a cheap phone stand on my desk. Can't find one for the car dock though.
 
I'm actually looking for the same kind of thing. I need a way to kill an app using Smart Actions. Sorry if you thought I had an answer. Just wondering if you've found one yet and haven't posted it.
 
vertigoelectric said:
I'm actually looking for the same kind of thing. I need a way to kill an app using Smart Actions. Sorry if you thought I had an answer. Just wondering if you've found one yet and haven't posted it.
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You could try checking out an app called Tasker, it is about 7 dollars though but it might perform the task you are looking for.
 
Bodycount said:
Need some help with any smart action guru's out there.

Here's the deal. I have three smart actions.

1.) Turns on when I'm home and my phone detects my wireless connection.

2.) Turns on when I'm at work and my phone detects my works wireless connection

3.) Turns on when I'm in my car when my phone detects my car bluetooth.

I have #3 set to open an app called "DailyRoads Voyager". It's an app that records your driving. Basically so if I ever get into a crash in front of me, it's recorded for the police and/or my insurance company. There's some other minor stuff that's changed with this smart action but the app is the main goal of it.

There is no smart action to close an app. I want #1 and #2 set to close DailyRoads Voyager so it's not running when I'm at home or at work. Obviously so it doesn't drain my battery.

I looked into various task killer apps but could not find one that would open up, kill an app, then close itself down. Because I would just set that up in #1 and #2 to open up, kill DailyRoads, then shut down and all would be good.

The app itself doesn't have an option to close itself down either when it notices wifi or a GPS location.

How would I go about doing this?


*correction: It does have an auto shutdown but only when used with the razr car dock. I don't use the dock. I use a rosewill dash phone mount which was much cheaper. Anyone know of a car dock stand alone app? Someone made one for the home dock which I use with a cheap phone stand on my desk. Can't find one for the car dock though.
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You might write to the developer of the App you want to shut down. I had the same problem with Pandora, and I mentioned it on this forum. Next thing you know Pandora updates the App, and low and behold when running Pandora through a Bluetooth connection, when the Bluetooth connection us lost, Pandora shuts itself off.
 
+1 for tasker. The beauty of tasker is that it you set up everything the way you want it with no profiles. I have mine to GPS on, wifi on, cell on, and data on. Then it thinks of this as default.

When it knows I'm home I have it turn off GPS, off data, off blue tooth. Then when I leave home it will go back to default.

I'm not sure if it will actually turn off an app because I haven't had to do that. But it would be easy to just have it turned off as part of your home and work profiles.
 
I bought Tasker already specifically for this purpose. The problem is, I want it to kill the Media Storage that keeps draining my battery, and it doesn't show up on the App List in Tasker. I can set tasker to run shell commands and tried using it to kill the process that way, but it doesn't seem to be working.

When it knows I'm home I have it turn off GPS, off data, off blue tooth. Then when I leave home it will go back to default.
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^Curious about this. If it turns off GPS when you get home, how does it know when you leave?
 
DailyRoads Voyager is pretty neat. I use it in place of all my other camera apps.

One App for stills and video. . . .:D
 
vertigoelectric said:
I bought Tasker already specifically for this purpose. The problem is, I want it to kill the Media Storage that keeps draining my battery, and it doesn't show up on the App List in Tasker. I can set tasker to run shell commands and tried using it to kill the process that way, but it doesn't seem to be working.


^Curious about this. If it turns off GPS when you get home, how does it know when you leave?
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I used a simplistic trigger of time because I have regular hours and no wifi at work to link it to. I didn't trust anything GPS based as to preserve battery I didn't want it on all the time and it isn't always reliable in our building. I like the idea of playing with a trigger of the lack of wifi though ... perhaps a combo of both this and time.
 
stmax said:
I used a simplistic trigger of time because I have regular hours and no wifi at work to link it to. I didn't trust anything GPS based as to preserve battery I didn't want it on all the time and it isn't always reliable in our building. I like the idea of playing with a trigger of the lack of wifi though ... perhaps a combo of both this and time.
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Hi stmax,
Can you explain to me how I can run busybox commands from tasker as a task or in a scene?

Thanks in advance
 
Hi there... sorry I missed this. Not sure what busy box is? I've only set up two scenes so far. One giving me several choice buttons when I plug in a charger and the other for when I plug in a head set.
 
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