Common Problems

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    Power Any does not trigger

    J H · 2 · Last reply by João Dias

    Power Any state does not trigger profile when power is connected.

    Pixel 3a XLA, Android 10 QP1A.190711.020, rooted Magisk 19.4,  kernel ElementalX-P3a-2.04

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    Application profiles broken since v5.8

    Erik Dorner · 2 · Last reply by Erik Dorner

    HTC Butterfly S Android 5.0.2 XPosed framework v80 Tasker 5.8 - 5.8.5

    Hi João,

    My application-context profiles, which used to work flawlessly for years, have been broken since the rollout of Tasker v5.8. They became unreliable. They either don't trigger at all (in one or both directions), or activate only for a brief moment (i.e. the exit task immediately follows the entry task even though the assigned app was never moved from the foreground).

    A couple of days ago I returned to 5.7.2 (from 5.8.5), so they are working fine again. Can you please find out what went wrong in

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    cant set the phone to not vibrate when an app notification pops up

    Agruffe · 1 · Last reply by João Dias

    cant set the phone to not vibrate when an app notification pops up, I've tried:

    1. vibrate mode > off
    2. ringtone vibration > off
    3. vibration > 1

    Nothing works

    phone model: samsung galaxy s9+

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    Clipboard monitoring in Tasker Beta and Android 10

    Frank Schmidt · 2 · Last reply by João Dias

    Hey,

    I tried to new beta to get clipboard monitoring back working again. I manged to get an event on clipboard actions but the %CLIP variable is always empty. Also the event is fired on if no clipboard action has taken place. A wanted to check if %CLIP has really changed before firing my task. But as the variable is empty it's not working as intended.

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    Android 10 Tasker Notification Information

    OnkelM · 2 · Last reply by João Dias

    Hi, the implemented idea a couple days ago which allowed the Tasker Notification Information to be collapsed and show the current profiles in the Notification Title worked for Android 9 very good.

    I upgraded to Android 10 and now Notifications are showed duplicated and sometimes it switches back to only one as it should be but immediately duplicates again. And for the main issue, it seems the Profiles are not written to the Notification Title again like prior the idea implementation.

    Here another screenshot with another app how that is displayed in Android 10

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    Change camera's storage location to avoid Google Photos to auto-upload the photos.

    Daniel · 0 · Posted

    Currently Tasker can only store images into DCIM/Tasker which has the problem that Google's Photos app will index them and upload them to Google Photos without the ability to exclude that directory. We should be able to select any target directory.

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    Change camera's storage location to avoid Google Photos to auto-upload the photos.

    Daniel · 0 · Posted

    Currently Tasker can only store images into DCIM/Tasker which has the problem that Google's Photos app will index them and upload them to Google Photos without the ability to exclude that directory. We should be able to select any target directory.

    [My apologies for the double-post, can't delete.]

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    User Icons Can't Be Selected in Notifications

    Dennis Bareis · 0 · Posted

    As per "https://tasker.joaoapps.com/userguide/en/icons.html#user" I installed icons.  I can select these for tasks, but there is no way to select the icons in Action Edit->Notify. Either this is an oversight in the app or in the documentation.

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    Notification on new messages is missing when app is back from deny net access mode

    D · 1 · Last reply by João Dias

    Hi, 

    I'm trying to restrict network access (Wi-Fi & Data) to Gmail and WhatsApp, i.e. no access for certain period of time. The problem is that whenever there were new messages in "restricted" time, then they don't pop-up automatically when "unrestricted" time kicks in. However if they are received in "unrestricted" time, then they do pop-up. Now I have to open apps and see, if there are any new messages. What I would like to achieve - is to disable network access to these apps, and if there were new messages in "restricted" time, then to get pop-up in for

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    Root Access needed to set Mobile Data to On

    Adam vanLangenberg · 1 · Last reply by João Dias

    When using the action "Mobile Data Set On" I get the following error:

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    do math

    Joe Aline · 2 · Last reply by Joe Aline

    I am trying to set this

    Variable Set [ Name:%First_message To:1 Do Maths:Off Append:Off ]

    But to and do math and append are missing. I downloaded the Google play version and all the plugins. Am I missing something ?

    I am New to Tasker.

    Thanks

    Joe

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    Google Drive sign-in doesn't work for me.

    Paul Simon · 3 · Last reply by João Dias

    Hello,

    when I try to sign-in / authorize to GoogleDrive I only get a spinner on a white window and then nothing happens. I am on 5.9 now but I am quite sure the problem has been persistent for quite some time and several updates. As a result backup to GD never worked for me. Does anybody have a clue how I could solve this?

    I get the following error message: Unknown Google Error

    Thanks

    Paul

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    detection of wireless charging

    Scharkieh · 1 · Last reply by João Dias

    Is it possible that the detection of (wireless?) charging is slow/unreliable when motion detection setting in preferences is turned on?

    Background: I have a home profile that becomes active when either wifi connection OR location (geofence) indicate that I am at home. Since I do not want the home profile to be active when my car profile is active I also added the condition “not car-profile active”. The car profile becomes active as soon as wireless charging is detected and stays active as long as the phone is in contact with the wireless charger. – Now, when I leave home,

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    Profile deactivates shortly after phone locks

    Chris Lothian · 6 · Last reply by João Dias

    Hi,

     

    I have a few different profiles which mostly modify the volume of phone ringer, etc which are triggered by Wifi Near states. For instance, while at home at night or at work, these profiles reduce the volume of the ringer. I also have a "default" profile which has a condition that it activates only if none of the other profiles are active and this default returns volumes to normal and does a few other things. Since using Tasker on my Huawei P30 Pro, I've been noticing that when I'm at home or at work, which means the @home

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    Wifi Connected variable not working for S10 Android 10

    Ziuz · 2 · Last reply by Davor Poznič

    Hi there, 

    After the update for my Samsung Galaxy S10 to Android 10. The wifi connected variable does not trigger my action eventhough my phone is clearly connected to the specific wifi SSID I've set. Before the update, everthing was working flawlessly.

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    Failure to access Google Calendar

    Mathieu Détré · 0 · Posted

    Tasker seems to be having some trouble accessing some of calendars on my Google account (but not all of them).

    As demonstrated in the attached screencast, the same event, moved from one calendar to a new one I created to test the issue, is either seen or not by the calendar state condition in tasker.

    At first I believed it to be caused by the accent in the calendar name ("CongésVieux" in the screencast), but the new calendar created for the test also include the same accent ("Congés").

    The problem also appears with events in the Google local holidays calendar

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    Scene not showing

    Estebanhegg48 · 1 · Last reply by João Dias

    A created scene won't appear when the conditions are met. The other tasks in the sequence play just fine, and when I play the sequence manually it appears. I've already tried incompatibility management, all the "how to show" options, and waiting a time before showing it, with no results. I'm using MIUI 11 with no root permissions.

    Also, the scene stays greenlighted as if it was running

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    Autolocation related: autolocation activity triggered and the specific task is performed but it continuely keep performaing the task e.g. i set state autolocation activity driving, then perform task to open google map. but performs well but keep performin

    Sachin Bedkyale · 1 · Last reply by João Dias

    Autolocation related: autolocation activity triggered and the specific task is performed but it continuely keep performaing the task e.g. i set state autolocation activity driving, then perform task to open google map. but performs well but keep performing it again and again.

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    Playing a media file when reacting to a certain word in a text doesn't work in Android Q

    Peter S · 1 · Last reply by João Dias

    I have a task that looks for a certain word in an SMS message and plays a media sound file. Could not seem to get it to consistently work. I have a Samsung S10+ and phone just got upgraded to Android Q