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Turning on gps

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esbark

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My first post.....

Found tasker on the net and downloaded it..lovely

Sorted out my first task nicely and I am now turning off my WiFi as soon as I leave the vicinity of the nearest cell tower...lovely

So now I want an app on my phone to turn on gps when I am away from home.....ah...problem..gps is a system function so your tutorials tell me to use a plugin called secure settings...I am rooted but this app .or to be more precise a part of it called system + cannot see root.so won't allow me to proceed..surely. Everyone using tasker with system setting must have encountered this ?

Can anyone help. Please ??
 
Thom
This is actually the way i was trying to go and it illustrates my problem. securesettings will not ask for su permissions so it believes that I am unrouted and so denies me permission to mess with the system settings. Any other approaches ? Reading other posts seem to indicate not using securesettings because it does not get updated.
An alternative approach which i am contemplating would be for me to simply create a task which flashes up a warning on my screen to switch on "device only " rather than the "high accuracy" setting on the phone.
 
Thom
I have tried to get secure systems plugin working and discovered that if i use tasker on my nexus 10 tablet running android 5.11 ( lollipop ) then the plugin recognises root fine and allows me to turn gps on. I am therefore going to do some more work learning tasker on the tablet before reverting to my current problem with the phone and trying your Autoinput suggestion. i will report later on my progress..
 
The AutoInput approach ...

The advantage would be an un-rooted approach. It would call up the system dialogs and then respond to them as needed.

The drawback is that the dialogs change from version to version. The second drawback is that you would see the dialogs while the processing was going on.

... Thom
 
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