You're outside. The sun is shining. Life is Good.
Your phone rings. You fumble around in your pocket, pull out your phone and while you try to figure out what number or caller is showing on the screen the call transpires into oblivion.
This profile is probably the simplest on here, but has proven very useful to me sofar.
When a call comes in during a prespecified time period it will increase the screen brightness for 15 seconds. In order not to be blinded by night time calls, I have specified times in which the sun is usually out. Obviously you can always change these around.
I find that this way you have the benefit of a legible screen when calls come in without paying the price of constant high brightness and the resulting battery consumption.
This script works together with a very handy (and small) free app from the market, FastBright.
Link to market =
market://search?q=pname:com.schwimmer.android.togglebright
or
http://mobile.butterscotch.com/download/739480/FastBright
Ok. Here we go:
- Download and install FastBright from the market.
- Click New and select Event
- Select Phone
- Select Phone Ringing
- Click Done
- Task Edit Window opens
- Click plus-sign in bottom left corner
- Select Misc
- Select Load App
- Wait for app list to load
- Select Fast bright
- Click Done
- Click plus-sign in bottom left corner
- Select Tasker
- Select Wait
- Slide the Seconds slider to 15s (or whichever delay you prefer. I found 15s works fine for me)
- Click Done (the button is hidding outside the screen real estate. you need to slide the screen up for the button to show up)
- Click plus-sign in bottom left corner
- Select Misc
- Select Load App
- Wait for app list to load
- Select Fast bright
- Click Done
- Click Done again. You now return to the profile screen.
- Click once on the just created profile which sould say "Phone Ringing *"
- Select Add
- Select Time
- Fill in start and end time when you want this profile to be active.
- Click Done
And Bob's you're uncle. Hope you find this profile useful.
#I like this but I don't see any benefit from using an external app to achieve this (maybe the idea is older than the tasker functions/variables …).
#furthermore I suggest saving the light setting.
So I would change the task to:
*
1) Variable Set
-Name: %BRIGHT_SAFE
-TO %BRIGHT
-IF %BRIGHT_SAFE !Set
2) Display Brightness
-Level: 255
3) Wait
-MS: 0 Seconds: 15 …
4) Display Brightness
-Level: %BRIGHT_SAFE (to perform this, you have to turn off Beginner Mode. To desable Beginner Mode you will need to press Menu button > Preferences > uncheck "Beginner Mode")
5) Variable Clear
-Name: %BRIGHT_SAFE
*
and I don't know any Bob - especially not as my uncle ;-)
THIS WORKS BUT IS MISSING TWO SMALL TASKS
So I would change the task to:
*
Auto brightness Set Off
1) Variable Set
-Name: %BRIGHT_SAFE
-TO %BRIGHT
-IF %BRIGHT_SAFE !Set
2) Display Brightness
-Level: 255
3) Wait
-MS: 0 Seconds: 15 …
4) Display Brightness
-Level: %BRIGHT_SAFE (to perform this, you have to turn off Beginner Mode. To desable Beginner Mode you will need to press Menu button > Preferences > uncheck "Beginner Mode")
5) Variable Clear
-Name: %BRIGHT_SAFE
Auto brightness Set On
*
