Some profiles don't work sometimes.

[Sumesh Chandran]

Hello all,

I recently noticed some issues with tasker. Most of the profiles that used to work perfectly on time only works sometimes now. I had a jelly bean update on my device recently and it is after that I started noticing it. Haven't made any changes to my profiles. Is tasker getting killed in the background,if so how do I resolve it?

Requesting help from the super users here.

Thanks

[Matt R]

Try to narrow it down more. Is it only specific profiles? Is Tasker's persistent notification still in the notification pane?

Matt

[Sumesh]

Thanks Matt.

Yes it is specific profiles. I have one setup to turn off wifi at night and turn it back on in the morning and the other one that turns wifi on when I am near my cell tower. Taskers notification icon is not present in the notification pane. Should that be visible for the profiles to work? I never had it when I was on Ice cream sandwich and all the profiles were working perfectly. Do you need to have the "Run in Foreground" option turned on for the profiles to work? 

On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 1:21 PM, Matt R <matthew.r...@gmail.com> wrote:

Try to narrow it down more. Is it only specific profiles? Is Tasker's persistent notification still in the notification pane?

Matt

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[Wes Stacey]

"Run in foreground" options is what keeps the persistent Tasker notification in the notification bar. It helps when the OS is constantly killing the app and an OS update would likely change the way it evaluates and kills programs.

I'd try turning on the "run in foreground" option an see if things behave better. If so you know that it was the OS killing tasker.

[Matt R]

The "run in foreground" option just ensures that Tasker doesn't get killed by Android's internal task management, and that option requires the persistent notification.  If it is not checked, the persistent notification will not be shown and Android MAY kill Tasker.  This may or may not be your problem.  Since you say it is only specific profiles, try debugging those.  Check the run log to see if anything unusual is happening (menu -> more -> run log).

Matt

[Sumesh]

Reason that I have put it off is because I don't like notifications on the pane doing nothing. I will check it out with the option on for a couple days.

On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 2:24 PM, Matt R <matthew.r...@gmail.com> wrote:

The "run in foreground" option just ensures that Tasker doesn't get killed by Android's internal task management, and that option requires the persistent notification.  If it is not checked, the persistent notification will not be shown and Android MAY kill Tasker.  This may or may not be your problem.  Since you say it is only specific profiles, try debugging those.  Check the run log to see if anything unusual is happening (menu -> more -> run log).

Matt

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[TomL]

Tasker's notification does do something.  It tells you which profiles are currently active!  Very useful!

Tom

[Sumesh]

I installed an app that can whitelist certain apps from getting killed. I guess it is working now. Still on check mode.

Thanks TomL & Matt R

[Wes Stacey]

If you don't like having Notifications in the notification bar, you can choose the "invisible" icon in the settings. You won't see it in the notification bar, but it will still be there when you open the notification drawer though.

[Sumesh]

I don't mind having the icon there, its the one in the drawer that I don't like. I get a lot of notifications a day, so I just try to keep the drawer empty as always possible. I am also in the search to remove the toggles that are there in the drawer which I don't use it at all.

Thanks Wes Stacey.

[Sumesh Chandran]

Hi all,

Back again with the same issue. Tasker doesn't seem to working at all. As Matt R mentioned I had the "Run in Foreground" option turned on for the whole last week. I don't think that made a difference. I have a night profile which turns of Wifi at 11 pm and turns it on at 7 am. I see this profiles works sometimes, but not consistent. What could be wrong. I started feeling this since the official jelly bean update. I removed tasker and re-installed and also recreated all my profiles to check whether that works, but no unfortunately. Please help, I am missing Tasker a lot. Never I was bothered about Tasker before as it was working perfectly.

Thanks All

[Matt R]

If it's a specific profile (or two or three), post them here.  Perhaps then it'd be easier to find the issue.  To post it, long-press on each profile name and select export -> description to clipboard and paste it in a reply here.

Matt

[Sumesh]

Hi Matt,

Here is the prfile that I feel is not consistently working. It works sometimes. Personally I don't believe it is the code.

Profile: Night Mode (2)

Time: From 23:00 Till 07:40

State: Orientation [ Is:Face Down ]

Enter: Anon (3)

A1: WiFi [ Set:Off ] 

Exit: Anon (4)

A1: WiFi [ Set:On ] 

A2: If [ %TIME > 5.00 ]

A3: If [ %TIME < 8.00 ]

A4: Profile Status [ Name:Night Mode Set:Off ] 

On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 2:39 PM, Matt R <matthew.r...@gmail.com> wrote:

If it's a specific profile (or two or three), post them here.  Perhaps then it'd be easier to find the issue.  To post it, long-press on each profile name and select export -> description to clipboard and paste it in a reply here.

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[Matt R]

What turns the Night Mode profile status back on?

Matt

[Sumesh]

Another profile sets it on. Here is it.

Profile: Night Mode Reset (11)

Time: 08:00

Enter: Anon (12)

A1: Profile Status [ Name:Night Mode Set:On ] 

Thanks

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What turns the Night Mode profile status back on?

Matt

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[Matt R]

Seems fine, I think.  Did you look at the run log after it "didn't work" to see what happened with this profile activating/deactivating and tasks firing?

Matt

[Sumesh]

No I didn't. Now when I was checking the run log was in off mode. Will check it out tonight. Maybe I am wrong, I believe tasker process is getting killed in the background. Is there any way to check that through Tasker.

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Seems fine, I think.  Did you look at the run log after it "didn't work" to see what happened with this profile activating/deactivating and tasks firing?

Matt

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[Matt R]

You can make a profile that triggers on "monitor start" (event -> tasker -> monitor start) and have a task that writes to a file or variable the date/time or whatever.  Then you'd know when tasker restarted.  I don't know how you could detect when it's killed though.

Matt