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Re: GPS activation for certain apps

2012-01-29T10:09:00.001-08:00

Tried it, thanks for the help!

On Jan 28, 1:42 pm, Pent <supp...@apps.dinglisch.net> wrote:
> > Any thoughts? Not really a deal-breaker, but annoying, and I figured
> > I'd try seeing if anyone more clever than I (not difficult when it
> > comes to this stuff) has a solution.
>
> A common solution is to defer the GPS Off with an exit task:
>
> Wait 3 Minutes
> GPS Off If %PACTIVE Not Matches *,NAMEOFPROFILE,*
>
> Set 'collision handling' to 'Abort Existing' in the profile properties
> of that exit task.
>
> Pent

Re: [android-developers] Re: Crash after StartActivity

2012-01-29T10:03:00.000-08:00

Correct.

Keep in mind though, that, except for some specific cases (an alarm clock and the like), this -- an activity popping out of nowhere -- can be an unexpected and jarring experience for the user.

I can see it as a plot device for Final Destination 6: someone's bleeding to death, trying to call 911 on his Android phone, and is interrupted by a popup window: "5 days to Jane's birthday". Cut to black.

-- Kostya

29 января 2012 г. 21:41 пользователь Rudolf Polzer <Rudolf.Polzer@i-r-p.de> написал:

The LogCat contents after the crash is

ERROR/AndroidRuntime(19994): java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to start receiver irp.plan.OnAlarmReceiver: android.util.AndroidRuntimeException: Calling startActivity() from outside of an Activity context requires the FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK flag. Is this really what you want?
...
ERROR/AndroidRuntime(19994): Caused by: android.util.AndroidRuntimeException: Calling startActivity() from outside of an Activity context requires the FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK flag. Is this really what you want?

So I guess I have to add the FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK flag to the intent to start the activity, because the startActivity() is called from inside the message receiver OnAlarmReceiver.

Am 29.01.2012 16:09, schrieb Kostya Vasilyev:

Press F8 (Resume) in Eclipse a few times until you get the crash dialog
on the device.

Then check the logcat.

Look for the part after "Caused by:"

-- Kostya

29.01.2012 15:21, Rudolf Polzer пишет:

The manifest file contains
<activity android:name=".WakeActivity"></activity>
within the<application> tag.

The stack is
ActivityThread.handleReceiver(ActivityThread$ReceiverData) line:
2639
ActivityThread.access$3100(ActivityThread, ActivityThread
$ReceiverData) line: 119
ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(Message) line: 1913
ActivityThread$H(Handler).dispatchMessage(Message) line: 99
Looper.loop() line: 123

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Re: Icon hovering an App ?

2012-01-29T09:57:00.001-08:00

How are you determining that the lock screen is displayed? I'd like to add some music controls to the lock screen but haven't figured out how to know when the scene should be shown.

mms

2012-01-29T09:52:00.001-08:00

Hi,

I have some questions and need your help. ^^a

Q1. When i use the action of record audio I can not save it to a
path like /data/data/com.sec.mms/mmsdata or something.
Any limit ?

Q2. It seems impossible to attach a file and send MMS through the
action of Compose MMS because My telecom use their sms/mms system that
does not allow to attach a file from other folder and Handcent also
give me an error message when i try to attach a audio file. Is there
any way to send MMS with an attachement? How about using a kind of
script ?

Sorry for my poor English....

BRs

Re: faster Android

2012-01-29T09:44:00.002-08:00

Kristopher Micinski schrieb:
> At the same time, most of the time in
> Android apps is*not* spent in your app, it's spent either sleeping or
> in system code.

On another occasion I run the same benchmark on
Windows and on Linux. There was no difference
in elapsed time on the same machine. Was using
a dual boot partition, and run either Windows 7
(JDK 1.7) or Fedora 17 (OpenJDK 1.7).

So most of the time is anyway spent in application
user code or in JVM user code, in the case of my
benchmark. The JVM especially seems to need only a
few short system calls to manage its heap etc..
This my conclusions so far, not sure, but it
looks like.

Bye

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Encoding diacritics string (non ASCII) in NDK to Java and back

2012-01-29T09:44:00.001-08:00

Hi,

I have a problem with encoding characters, especially with diacritical
marks. My old C++ code is using Slovak characters like š, č, ž, ť, ú,
ä and so on (Windows-1250 or ISO 8859-2 charset).

In C++ code I use char* and wchar_t* types. My builded code is running
on Windows, Unix (HP-UX) and Windows Mobile (PocketPC). To correct
conversion it is setlocale() and wcstombs() function called. In
Windows it is setlocale(LC_ALL, ".1250"). In HP-UX
setlocale(LC_ALL,"sk_SK.utf8") and so on. However in Android I tried
to set different parameters to setlocale(), but nothing is working.

wchar_t* strw = L"Alekšince";
char str[100];
wcstombs(str, strw, 100); // in "str" is not correct characters,
because setlocale() is not working

My first question is - what default encoding is using in wchar_t in
NDK, if I call setlocale(LC_ALL, "C")?

NDK does not support any encoding obviously or I do not know what
values I have to pass in setlocale(). One solution is realize
conversion in Java, but it is not working too.

Finally, Java is using Unicode Strings. From NDK to Java is used
jstring, for example obtained by env->NewStringUTF("some string");
This function expects string in UTF-8, but I guess that my string is
not in UTF-8. So next question - how convert my string to UTF-8 in
order to call env->NewStringUTF(). I mean that it would be work or
not? :)

I tried to use jbyteArray instead of jstring, but it is not working
too.

Thanks for any advice.

Stefan

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Re: faster Android

2012-01-29T09:42:00.001-08:00

>> But I will say that the jit on Dalvik isn't "slow,"
>> and the interpreter is one of the quickest I've
>> seen..
>
> It depends how many JITs you have seen. There are waste
> differences for example in the time spend in GC (JDK 1.6
> 300ms vs JDK 1.7 30ms on same machine), then there is waste
> differences between CPU architecture (JDK 1.6 64-bit 1.5
> times faster than JDK 1.6 32-bit on same machine).
>

Reread: I haven't seen many JITs, but I've seen a few interpreters,
and the Dalvik interpreter is one of the fastest I've seen.

> I am not astonished that inside the "ballpark" (term
> used by Oracle) of JITs there can be still differences
> of a factor 1-3.
>

Right.

> When Dalvik aims at a different trade-off between speed
> and memory usage, i.e. less memory usage. Why should
> Dalvik than be able to compete with Java SE embedded in
> speed? It would be natural that the trade-off consists
> in little lesser speed...
>

It's going for less memory usage, but that's not only enforced by
Dalvik. It's also enforced by many other pieces of the Android
design...

But I think that benchmarks aside, this gets far outside of what the
OP was asking. What he suggests just doesn't make sense because the
platform doesn't work like that, not because the vm implementation
differs from that of Java SE embedded..

kris

Re: [android-developers] Re: Crash after StartActivity

2012-01-29T09:41:00.000-08:00

The LogCat contents after the crash is

ERROR/AndroidRuntime(19994): java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to start
receiver irp.plan.OnAlarmReceiver: android.util.AndroidRuntimeException:
Calling startActivity() from outside of an Activity context requires
the FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK flag. Is this really what you want?
...
ERROR/AndroidRuntime(19994): Caused by:
android.util.AndroidRuntimeException: Calling startActivity() from
outside of an Activity context requires the FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK
flag. Is this really what you want?

So I guess I have to add the FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK flag to the intent
to start the activity, because the startActivity() is called from inside
the message receiver OnAlarmReceiver.

Am 29.01.2012 16:09, schrieb Kostya Vasilyev:
> Press F8 (Resume) in Eclipse a few times until you get the crash dialog
> on the device.
>
> Then check the logcat.
>
> Look for the part after "Caused by:"
>
> -- Kostya
>
> 29.01.2012 15:21, Rudolf Polzer пишет:
>> The manifest file contains
>> <activity android:name=".WakeActivity"></activity>
>> within the<application> tag.
>>
>> The stack is
>> ActivityThread.handleReceiver(ActivityThread$ReceiverData) line:
>> 2639
>> ActivityThread.access$3100(ActivityThread, ActivityThread
>> $ReceiverData) line: 119
>> ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(Message) line: 1913
>> ActivityThread$H(Handler).dispatchMessage(Message) line: 99
>> Looper.loop() line: 123
>

Re: [android-developers] Android Market new app not appearing

2012-01-29T09:37:00.000-08:00

It can take up to a few hours - have you waited that long?

29 января 2012 г. 21:29 пользователь albnok <albnok@gmail.com> написал:

Yeah I've submitted the forms on Android Developer Console. Just
wondering if anybody else is having this problem where you upload a
new app and it just doesn't show up - can't find it in the web market,
or on any device.

In case you're wondering, the app is:
Package Name: com.glaringnotebook.digitechpatchviewer
App Name: DigiTech RP255 Patch Viewer

All filters are off - heck I don't even require a touchscreen! (Hello
GoogleTV!) Only filter is that it's gotta be Android 1.6 and above.

This is certainly very weird given how fast the Market would update
when I last uploaded an app in 2011...

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Re: faster Android

2012-01-29T09:32:00.000-08:00

Kristopher Micinski schrieb:
> At the same time, most of the time in Android apps
> is *not*spent in your app, it's spent either sleeping
> or in system code.

The benchmark shows the elapsed time on both Intel
and ARM. But one could also do a breakdown of the
elapsed time, into thread time, etc.. I did not yet try.

Usually I do a break down in terms of GC time and non
GC time (*). Which is easy on Java SE via javax.management,
but did not yet find a corrsponding API on Android.

> But I will say that the jit on Dalvik isn't "slow,"
> and the interpreter is one of the quickest I've
> seen..

It depends how many JITs you have seen. There are waste
differences for example in the time spend in GC (JDK 1.6
300ms vs JDK 1.7 30ms on same machine), then there is waste
differences between CPU architecture (JDK 1.6 64-bit 1.5
times faster than JDK 1.6 32-bit on same machine).

I am not astonished that inside the "ballpark" (term
used by Oracle) of JITs there can be still differences
of a factor 1-3.

When Dalvik aims at a different trade-off between speed
and memory usage, i.e. less memory usage. Why should
Dalvik than be able to compete with Java SE embedded in
speed? It would be natural that the trade-off consists
in little lesser speed...

Bye

Re: [android-developers] Re: android help

2012-01-29T09:30:00.000-08:00

Try getting the location through a location update. (Use
requestLocationUpdate() or requestSingleUpdate() instead.) Asking for
the last known location won't necessarily tell you anything. This
might be your issue.

kris

On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 12:14 PM, ajay talreja <ajayt059@gmail.com> wrote:
> @kris : Sorry.....
> I'll start again.....
>
> I have problem with my GPS location application........my application
> is not able to retrieve latitude and longitude... I'm providing the
> code for your reference.....the below application is launching
> successfully on emulator but unable to retrieve the values into Text
> View.........I have tried passing values from Emulator Control and
> through command line via TELNET....then with Geo-points....please go
> through the code......and tell me where i have gone wrong.......
>
>
> Files are as follows........
>
> 1) gps.java
>
> package d.gps;
>
> import android.app.Activity;
> import android.os.Bundle;
> import android.content.Context;
> import android.location.Location;
> import android.location.LocationManager;
> import android.widget.TextView;
>
> public class gps extends Activity {
> /** Called when the activity is first created. */
> @Override
> public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
> super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
> setContentView(R.layout.main);
> LocationManager locationManager;
> locationManager =
> (LocationManager)getSystemService(Context.LOCATION_SERVICE);
> Location location =
> locationManager.getLastKnownLocation(LocationManager.GPS_PROVIDER);
>
> updateWithNewLocation(location);
> }
> /** Update UI with a new location */
> private void updateWithNewLocation(Location location) {
> TextView myLocationText =
> (TextView)findViewById(R.id.myLocationText);
>
> String latLongString;
>
> if (location != null) {
> double lat = location.getLatitude();
> double lng = location.getLongitude();
> latLongString = "Lat:" + lat + "\nLong:" + lng;
> } else {
> latLongString = "No location found";
> }
>
> myLocationText.setText("Your Current Position is:\n" +
> latLongString);
> }
>
> }
>
> 2) main.xml
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
> <LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/
> android"
> android:orientation="vertical"
> android:layout_width="fill_parent"
> android:layout_height="fill_parent"
> >
> <TextView
> android:id="@+id/myLocationText"
> android:layout_width="fill_parent"
> android:layout_height="wrap_content"
> android:text="@string/hello"
> />
> </LinearLayout>
>
> 3)String.xml
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
> <resources>
> <string name="hello">Hello World, gps!</string>
> <string name="app_name">gps</string>
> </resources>
>
> 4) androidmanifest.xml
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
> <manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
> package="d.gps"
> android:versionCode="1"
> android:versionName="1.0">
> <application android:icon="@drawable/icon" android:label="@string/
> app_name">
> <activity android:name=".gps"
> android:label="@string/app_name">
> <intent-filter>
> <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
> <category
> android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
> </intent-filter>
> </activity>
>
> </application>
> <uses-sdk android:minSdkVersion="9" />
> <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET"></uses-
> permission><uses-permission
> android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION"/>
>
> </manifest>
>
> thanks.........
>
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[android-developers] Android Market new app not appearing

2012-01-29T09:29:00.000-08:00

Yeah I've submitted the forms on Android Developer Console. Just
wondering if anybody else is having this problem where you upload a
new app and it just doesn't show up - can't find it in the web market,
or on any device.

In case you're wondering, the app is:
Package Name: com.glaringnotebook.digitechpatchviewer
App Name: DigiTech RP255 Patch Viewer

All filters are off - heck I don't even require a touchscreen! (Hello
GoogleTV!) Only filter is that it's gotta be Android 1.6 and above.

This is certainly very weird given how fast the Market would update
when I last uploaded an app in 2011...

Re: How to install Tasker? Installation instructions don't add up.

2012-01-29T09:26:00.001-08:00

Astro will open an .apk file, you need to choose the package installer instead of Astro to open the file. It should then install.

On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 11:36 AM, Pent <support@apps.dinglisch.net> wrote:

> I downloaded tasker trial version to my phone, the instructions say to
> click on the zip file with a file manager.

No they don't. I assume you mean the 'Via SD' instructions:

> Put the downloaded apk file onto the SD card, and do one of:
> * click on it with in a file manager

If you have a zip file you've gone wrong already before the 'click on
it
in a file manager' step.

Did you right-click and save-as or equivalent in whatever browser you
used to download ?

Pent

[android-developers] Re: android help

2012-01-29T09:14:00.000-08:00

@kris : Sorry.....
I'll start again.....

I have problem with my GPS location application........my application
is not able to retrieve latitude and longitude... I'm providing the
code for your reference.....the below application is launching
successfully on emulator but unable to retrieve the values into Text
View.........I have tried passing values from Emulator Control and
through command line via TELNET....then with Geo-points....please go
through the code......and tell me where i have gone wrong.......

Files are as follows........

1) gps.java

package d.gps;

import android.app.Activity;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.content.Context;
import android.location.Location;
import android.location.LocationManager;
import android.widget.TextView;

public class gps extends Activity {
/** Called when the activity is first created. */
@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.main);
LocationManager locationManager;
locationManager =
(LocationManager)getSystemService(Context.LOCATION_SERVICE);
Location location =
locationManager.getLastKnownLocation(LocationManager.GPS_PROVIDER);

updateWithNewLocation(location);
}
/** Update UI with a new location */
private void updateWithNewLocation(Location location) {
TextView myLocationText =
(TextView)findViewById(R.id.myLocationText);

String latLongString;

if (location != null) {
double lat = location.getLatitude();
double lng = location.getLongitude();
latLongString = "Lat:" + lat + "\nLong:" + lng;
} else {
latLongString = "No location found";
}

myLocationText.setText("Your Current Position is:\n" +
latLongString);
}

}

2) main.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/
android"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
>
<TextView
android:id="@+id/myLocationText"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="@string/hello"
/>
</LinearLayout>

3)String.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<resources>
<string name="hello">Hello World, gps!</string>
<string name="app_name">gps</string>
</resources>

4) androidmanifest.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
package="d.gps"
android:versionCode="1"
android:versionName="1.0">
<application android:icon="@drawable/icon" android:label="@string/
app_name">
<activity android:name=".gps"
android:label="@string/app_name">
<intent-filter>
<action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
<category
android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
</intent-filter>
</activity>

</application>
<uses-sdk android:minSdkVersion="9" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET"></uses-
permission><uses-permission
android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION"/>

</manifest>

thanks.........

[android-developers] Anyone using content management system for stuff like checkins/ratings/user sign in etc?

2012-01-29T09:07:00.000-08:00

Guys,

Is anyone using a content management system in an Android App? I'm
wondering if it is possible
to find a system that can handle some of the repeated stuff that a lot
of apps do rather than
writing a new web app each time.

If anyone knows, thanks!

pawpaw17

Re: faster Android

2012-01-29T09:00:00.000-08:00

There we go, that's the comparison you need :-), and I should point
out it's not an 11 times slowdown...

I think this is something that is still a bit contentious, but it is
certainly possible that the embedded vm implementation runs faster
(but certainly not by 11x..). At the same time, most of the time in
Android apps is *not* spent in your app, it's spent either sleeping or
in system code.

I'd be interested to see this on an x86 benchmark, but I'm not sure
how I'd set it up to be fair yet.. But I will say that the jit on
Dalvik isn't "slow," and the interpreter is one of the quickest I've
seen.. (The previously mentioned zygote architecture and other tricks
help quite a bit too!)

kris

On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 11:51 AM, Jan Burse <janburse@fastmail.fm> wrote:
> Kristopher Micinski schrieb:
>
>> For this to be anywhere near a fair test,
>> you would have to eliminate everything but the JIT from the equation.
>> This means running on the same machine. (I.e., run a Dalvik
>> implementation on x86.)
>
>
> Well oracle did this already for me. I already posted the
> link in my previous post:
> http://blogs.oracle.com/javaseembedded/entry/how_does_android_22s_performance_stack_up_against_java_se_embedded
>
> I only could verify their finding, in that their slow
> down is somewhere inside the overall slowdown I found.
>
>
> Bye
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Re: faster Android

2012-01-29T08:51:00.000-08:00

Kristopher Micinski schrieb:
> For this to be anywhere near a fair test,
> you would have to eliminate everything but the JIT from the equation.
> This means running on the same machine. (I.e., run a Dalvik
> implementation on x86.)

Well oracle did this already for me. I already posted the
link in my previous post:
http://blogs.oracle.com/javaseembedded/entry/how_does_android_22s_performance_stack_up_against_java_se_embedded

I only could verify their finding, in that their slow
down is somewhere inside the overall slowdown I found.

Bye

Re: faster Android

2012-01-29T08:49:00.001-08:00

Kristopher Micinski schrieb:
> ARM cortex 2
BTW: The tablet had a Dual-Core ARM Cortex
A9 (Acer Iconia A501). But did not yet look into
a tool like CPU-Z or so what the CPU was doing
during the benchmark.

Any such tools available for Android?

But yes there are difference for example in
the cache size. The Intel has 4 MB on chip
cache, and the ARM only 1 MB on chip cache.
This needs also to go into the equation.

Bye

Re: faster Android

2012-01-29T08:48:00.000-08:00

On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 11:43 AM, Jan Burse <janburse@fastmail.fm> wrote:
> Kristopher Micinski schrieb:
>
>> Typically gtalk, email, etc... will all be loaded.
> No nothing like this was running on the tablet.
>
>
>> Also, you are benchmarking an ARM cortex 2 against an Intel i7! Laughs...
>
>
> Yes, but the Java did only use one core. And nominally
> the i7 has 2.6 GHz or so. But I wrote that it runs 3.4
> GHz because this is what is seen with CPU-Z that the
> processor is actually using during the benchmark.
>
> The Intel i7, when only one core is used, it increases
> the processor speed in 100 MHz steps. Since the chip
> can deal with more heat transfer for only one core.
>
> So I am not comparing apples with oranges.
>

Wow, I really can't believe you don't see this.. Maybe you're
comparing CPUs with CPUs, but you can't in any way say that this
causes the JIT to be slow... For this to be anywhere near a fair test,
you would have to eliminate everything but the JIT from the equation.
This means running on the same machine. (I.e., run a Dalvik
implementation on x86.) You can't run on a top end CPU with an
advanced memory controller and more cache and say it's slow..

> Bye
>

So you're going to complain about the jit without properly testing it
and just leave? Ok..

kris

Re: faster Android

2012-01-29T08:43:00.000-08:00

Kristopher Micinski schrieb:
> Typically gtalk, email, etc... will all be loaded.
No nothing like this was running on the tablet.

> Also, you are benchmarking an ARM cortex 2 against an Intel i7! Laughs...

Yes, but the Java did only use one core. And nominally
the i7 has 2.6 GHz or so. But I wrote that it runs 3.4
GHz because this is what is seen with CPU-Z that the
processor is actually using during the benchmark.

The Intel i7, when only one core is used, it increases
the processor speed in 100 MHz steps. Since the chip
can deal with more heat transfer for only one core.

So I am not comparing apples with oranges.

Bye

Re: faster Android

2012-01-29T08:38:00.000-08:00

> So I don't see that your argument has any grounds.
>

Then open up your applications tab on an Android tablet and look at
what background services are running. Typically gtalk, email, etc...
will all be loaded. I assumed that you killed them all off also?

Also, you are benchmarking an ARM cortex 2 against an Intel i7! Laughs...

kris

Re: faster Android

2012-01-29T08:36:00.003-08:00

Kristopher Micinski schrieb:
> You also have to take into account the
> superlinear speedup you get with a machine, the fact that an Android
> system is quite loaded down off the shelf, etc... So I'm not really
> convinced that this was a good benchmark..

My non-android system was loaded, I had in the background,
mostly idle I guess, the following programs (*):

- Word
- Excel
- Tomcat
- SQL Server

On the other hand the tablet I used was not loaded. I just
booted it and run the benchmark.

So I don't see that your argument has any grounds.

(*)
http://www.jekejeke.ch/idatab/doclet/prod/en/docs/05_run/06_bench/06_internal/01_results.html

Re: How to install Tasker? Installation instructions don't add up.

2012-01-29T08:36:00.001-08:00

> I downloaded tasker trial version to my phone, the instructions say to
> click on the zip file with a file manager.

No they don't. I assume you mean the 'Via SD' instructions:

> Put the downloaded apk file onto the SD card, and do one of:
> * click on it with in a file manager

If you have a zip file you've gone wrong already before the 'click on
it
in a file manager' step.

Did you right-click and save-as or equivalent in whatever browser you
used to download ?

Pent

Re: Tasker and ICS

2012-01-29T08:32:00.001-08:00

> I've noticed that Tasker can no longer control dpad or button presses
> under ICS.

That's not generally the case.

Try a reinstall and reboot, if you have root those actions should be
available.

Pent

Re: Various small things with 1.2u2

2012-01-29T08:29:00.000-08:00

> - *& sign in Scene names causes Tasker crash when re-opening after save* also
> causes Tasker not to start up again, AutoBackup file is smaller and cannot
> be imported

Fixed, thanks.

> - if I use a var in the For loop (*For 1:%par1 instead of For 1:2) it
> results in 1:2 instead of 1*

Added next version.

> *- you can't paste an action if the actionlist is empty*

Known. A workaround is to press + :-)

> *- Read line/paragraph and the use Popup to show the var then it gets
> prefixed by null
> flashing the var is fine*

I couldn't reproduce that. Do you mean literally 'null' ? What was in
the file ?

> *- Direct Call doesn't support voip apps*
> * I have a voip app (Viking Talk) for Belgium and it can be set as default
> action when dialing a number from the Dialer in Android*
> * the Direct Call option is Tasker seems to bypass this app, it would be
> great if we had 2 options:*
> * as it is now or use the app*

Sorry, the intent that Android provides to initiate the call doesn't
have any options except the
number to dial.

Pent