Jun10

3G toggling added (beta)

by Ken on June 10th, 2012 at 4:27 am
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A long anticipated feature, mobile data toggling has been added to the WiFi, Sync,… add-on. It requires at least Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) and is still considered a beta feature because it needs testing on a greater variety of phones and carriers. So far so good! Please email me with your phone model and carrier if it doesn’t work for you.

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Jun04

More app activities available

by Ken on June 4th, 2012 at 10:22 pm
Posted In: News

In version 1.8 of TaskBomb you can run a lot more activities in other apps. When defining a task, under action types you’ll find a new choice: “Any activity.” This basically lets you launch any public activity in any app (whether the app actually means for the activity to be run like this or not). If you play around with it enough you’re bound to find some places where it won’t work, and you might crash the app you’re trying to play with (not really a huge deal as long as you’ve saved what you’re working on, if applicable).

The “MAIN” action type also now contains a wider selection of activities, but it only lists activities that are meant as “launcher” activities. Often the only choice will be the app’s main screen, but many apps have additional screens that serve as alternate entry points.

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Apr02

TaskBomb got reviewed! (video)

by Ken on April 2nd, 2012 at 8:45 am
Posted In: News

Jared White of The Tech Temple did a video review showing off TaskBomb and demonstrating his method for creating a Sync toggling schedule to conserve battery life.

One thing I like about this video is that he demonstrates the app on a phone running Ice Cream Sandwich, which means he’s done about as much testing of the app on Ice Cream Sandwich as I have (joking… somewhat). All kidding aside, the video is great and I thank Jared very much for doing it.

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Jan11

Boot/shutdown actions & Don’t wake screen

by Ken on January 11th, 2012 at 10:57 pm
Posted In: News

Version 1.7 of TaskBomb was released today with two exciting new features:

  • Boot/shutdown actions to run tasks and schedules right after booting or right before shutting down your phone or tablet.
  • An experimental setting called “Don’t wake screen” which allows tasks to run without waking your device’s screen.
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Oct04

Airplane mode toggling added

by Ken on October 4th, 2011 at 9:06 pm
Posted In: News

Tonight the Wi-fi, Sync,… Scheduler add-on was updated to version 1.1 and now includes airplane mode toggling. I know this isn’t 2G/3G/4G toggling (which many of you have expressed an interest in) but tackling that has proved to be complicated. Hopefully for some of you airplane mode will help (hint: turn on airplane mode and then turn on Wi-Fi and you have a Wi-Fi only device).

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