Enable ringer on incoming call (from silent), impossible?

[Jelmer]

Hi,

First of all, let me say I think Tasker is a remarkable app; I'm a
programmer myself, and all the different ways this app allows me to
script and automate my phone is really cool.

However, I used Locale before I bought Tasker; and it enabled me to
have a silent night-profile, with exceptions for important callers
that would result in the ringer being enabled when they called during
the night. I can't get this to work with Tasker.

I've read somewhere this is because some (?) phones won't actually
make any noise when you enable the ringer *during* an incoming call.
And the only way around it by using Tasker would be to play a music-
file instead. Is this correct? There is no other way to make this
work?

Thanks for any insight into this matter!

Jelmer

[Pent]

> I've read somewhere this is because some (?) phones won't actually
> make any noise when you enable the ringer *during* an incoming call.

That seems to be the case. It works fine on my N1 (2.2.1).

> And the only way around it by using Tasker  would be to play a music-
> file instead. Is this correct? There is no other way to make this
> work?

You can try a default-accept policy and do Silence Ringer when you get
one you don't like, however you usually get a ring out before Silence
Ringer cuts off the ringer.

I think the underlying issue is timing for both of these. I use
different services for monitoring and executing tasks, and the time to
start up the execute service is causing the problem I believe.

So it will likely be fixed in the future, which doesn't help you now,
I know.

Pent

[Jelmer]

On Jan 7, 12:11 pm, Pent <tas...@dinglisch.net> wrote:
> > I've read somewhere this is because some (?) phones won't actually
> > make any noise when you enable the ringer *during* an incoming call.
>
> That seems to be the case. It works fine on my N1 (2.2.1).

I thought I used to have this working with Locale on my Galaxy S; but
it turns out this only worked on my previous phone: a G1.

So I guess I'll just use the workaround where a music-file starts
playing when a VIP calls me during the night.

Thanks for your quick response!

Jelmer