Tasker encryption

[francwalter]

Hello
I bought tasker in the market and only now I noticed that encryption is not available in the market version.
So I uninstalled it (backed up my tasks before) and downloaded the normal version with encryption from the website.
But now this version isn't activated and I cannot activate it because I have no key as it comes from market.
Do I have now to buy tasker again just to get encryption or can I get somehow my unlock key as indeed I bought it already?
Kind regards
Frank

[Richard]

The dev is on vacation so it may not be right away before you get your answer. I wasn't aware about the encryption issue myself when I first bought it because I didn't read enough about it at first so I've been using the market version myself for quite some time now. I am considering just buying it off the website. Not concerned with the refund so I never asked but it may be that you can get one, but you may also be SOL.

[francwalter]

Sorry, I found in the faqs the answer:

http://tasker.dinglisch.net/faq-ov.html#m4

Where it is explained how to switch from market version to the download version with my order number from Google.
But the order number is not a 15 digit number, it is

16digits.20digits

And it is really called "Google order number"
In German though (Google Bestellnummer).
There is no other 15 digit number in the Google mail from order.
I tried the 16 digit number without success.

So how can I find the real order number?

Frank

[Pent]

> But the order number is not a 15 digit number, it is
>
> 16digits.20digits

That's the 'merchant order number' which they introduced relatively
recently.
If you send me that one privately I'll look up your Google order
number.

Pent

[francwalter]

Thank you Pent, that you took your time though you are in moving stress :)

But at least I found it just half an hour ago and could successfully validate it!

I found it, when looking again to the order email from google market. There is a link "Problems with this order? Contact Crafty Apps". A click on this link and I was sent to a form to contact Crafty Apps by Google wallet.
Here I can read in the bottom info-box:

This e-mail contains following things

Google order nr.: THIS WAS THE 15 DIGIT ORDER NUMBER!!!
Crafty Apps-Order Nr. THIS WAS THE WRONG LONG NUMBER
Article: Tasker ammount: 1
Article: ammount 1
orderdate: 01.03.2012
Tax: 0.00
Total: 4.49 Euro
(all this was in german)

At least Google did tell this bloody hidden GOOGLE order number.

frank

[Pent]

> At least Google did tell this bloody hidden *GOOGLE *order number.

In their developer order reports they also sometimes use the Google
number and sometimes the merchant one, makes tax reporting loads of
fun.

Pent

[franc walter]

So just don't report it ;)
They should take tax from Google then ;)

[Pent]

> They should take tax from Google then ;)

Would be just fantastic if Google would handle tax for developers out
of their 30% (or even on top) like Apple do. I have spent in total at
least 2 months in the last 2 years purely dealing with tax. It's
ridiculous that a huge international corporation leaving their small-
time developers to handle international sales tax issues themselves.

Sorry, just foaming because I spent the last week calculating
quarterly tax. By scraping and parsing the checkout web pages, then
looking up missing order numbers etc manually.

Pent

[franc walter]

Oh, this sounds really annoying!
I don't like this stuff neither.

I don't understand Google politics, they often are strange.

But after all tax and Google percentage do  you think the app programming is a better profit than "normal" computer jobs?

[Pent]

> But after all tax and Google percentage do  you think the app programming
> is a better profit than "normal" computer jobs?

Speaking as a one-man outfit, yes, if it's successful of course. Being
master of your own fate (no Dilbert-style issues to deal with) and
working on something self-created is also worth a lot of money-
equivalence.

But the hours are probably longer and you don't get real vacations
(that could be just the case for Tasker because it's complex and
infinitely expandable). And for an Android developer you have to (try
to) deal with Google on several levels...

Pent

[franc walter]

Yes, I can understand this completely, being his own boss is the best thing to do, I think.
I am an employee, but with nearly self man status, the price is the salary, which is enormously low for an IT worker, but I don't need much  ;)

May I ask to which country do you move?
I am from middle Germany by the way.
Frank

[Pent]

> May I ask to which country do you move?

Sorry, I don't like to publicise that.

Pent

[franc walter]

I was happy too early.
the scripting app sl4a is not getting root access from the super user app!
so all script trying to copy from the non sdcard file system is just doing nothing.
on SL4A terminal I cannot do root things either. access denied.
do you have an idea?
I reinstalled super user app but it's the same.