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tasker no active profile - noobish :/

dan55

dan55

Android Expert
hi guys,

ok, shall apologise for this post straight off as its probably a silly one, and there are all sorts of post about similarish issues - but still.....

just got tasker and setup my first profile - its a very simple 3g data on/off profile:

time context = no start of end - repeat every 15 mins
3g on
wait 5 mins
3g off

initially it was working great but now i get the dreaded 'no active profile' in the notification bar :/

the profile has a green tick next to it and the 'on; button is green for tasker - but nothing happens

i did manually set 3g on earlier to check mails - would this have killed my profile?

thanks
dan
 
hi,

when i kick off the profile im in regular mode ie phone on and 3g//h data on

cheers
dan
 
I would try setting up a different profile
Context: State: Net: 3G, invert
Action 1: Wait 15 Mins
Action 2: Toggle 3G
Action 3: Perform task "X"

Task "X"
Action 1: Wait 5 Mins
Action 2: Toggle 3G off

Feel free to name task "X" anything you want but once it has ran it should trigger the profile to be active and restart the flow.
 
how do i add the task X bit? :/

does it need a context etc?

cant see option to add another task to my profile

thanks

......adding it as an exit task - not sure if that is correct

....still no profile active

CORRECTION - NOW RUNNING :) it was clashing with my old profile - deleted that now

cool - many thanks


btw: why was the data 3g selected as inverted in the top of the profile? i dont understand its meaning
 
No context for task x. The way the the State: Net context works is the ones you select would tell tasker to run the profile when that is on, invert changes it to off. Let me know if the profile works as you want it to.
 
hi Yeahha.

is there a way of preventing the script from disabling 3g
when the screen is on? that is the only issue I'm seeing.
other than that seems to be working well thanks.

cheers
dan

....thinking maybe 'if screen on' type of checks around the 3g off lines ?
 
Try:

Task "X"
Action 1: Wait 5 Mins
Action 2: If %SCREEN off
Action 3: Toggle 3G off
Action 4: Else
Action 5: Perform task X

I think that should work and not get stuck in a loop

You can save tasker profiles with titanium backup for between roms
 
cool thanks v much - so it waits till screen off again before completing task X

yes thanks - first time i used titamium to restore all my apps - looks to have done a good job

cheers
dan
 
Yeah that should work, the task should remain active while your screen is on then it should turn 3G off within 5 mins of the screen going off
 
hi

it worked really well keeping the screen on - but didnt seem to turn it off afterwards

i noticed earlier that the profile only seems to become active if i manually turn the data off first - assume this is due to the inverted 3g context of profile ? im guessing there of course :D

cheers
dan

set if off running again:
.manually turn data off and profile runs
.after 15 mins data comes on ok
.but if while on i then wake screen i notice that the profile is no longer active :/
 
The profile should be active regardless of how 3g is turned off.

Task X isn't going to show up as a profile, because of the 5 min wait it could take up to 5 mins from the time you turn your screen off before it kills 3g

Because of this is 3G is on you should not see any profiles active
 
ok am confused now :/ sorry

i thought that task X was a task and not a profile :/ ie a subsection of the profile
was only expecting actual profiles to appear in the running notification?

from what you say it sounds like im wrong, and that the profile is running even though it doesnt show in notification bar?

if not - i think i can add a 'screen off' event profile that will dump the 3g - and hence trigger the looping data profile

cheers
dan

......that seemed to work - reverted to your original 3g profile task X version and then added a new profile to turn 3g off when screen is turned off - and that kicks off the 3g looping profile :D

many thanks for your help

next step is to have new profile for screen on event which will wait say 30 secs and then turn 3g on ;)

cheers
dan
 
dan55 said:
ok am confused now :/ sorry

i thought that task X was a task and not a profile :/ ie a subsection of the profile
was only expecting actual profiles to appear in the running notification?

from what you say it sounds like im wrong, and that the profile is running even though it doesnt show in notification bar?

if not - i think i can add a 'screen off' event profile that will dump the 3g - and hence trigger the looping data profile

cheers
dan

......that seemed to work - reverted to your original 3g profile task X version and then added a new profile to turn 3g off when screen is turned off - and that kicks off the 3g looping profile :D

many thanks for your help

next step is to have new profile for screen on event which will wait say 30 secs and then turn 3g on ;)

cheers
dan
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No you are right with the notification. I think that once task x is running the profile should be inactive. Glad you got it figured out. If you are going to set up screen off/3g off profiles then I suggest making sure your screen time out is at least 2 mins, I had a few screen timeout profiles before and they caused issues when I was reading websites and the screen timeout.
 
Another thought, since you are rooted your kernel/governor/overclock settings will react to a screen on profile. If you experience lag upon wake you may want to experiment with different governors, if you use setCPU then there are profiles within setCPU that may allow you to jack up the CPU upon wake (you may be able to do with tasker too but I can't think of how currently) I had a screen on profile that changed my wallpaper and depending on what governor I was using it would bog down the time it took me to unlock my phone, just a thought.
 
hi Yeahha.

the toggle script works well in screen off mode but I'm struggling to stop it
turning data off while screen is on :-\ I've tried adding checks for %SCREEN off
but it seems to ignore it :-\

thanks
dan
 
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