I thought you couldn't force GPS anymore without root... Hmm,

I don't want to force it from silent in a screechy "Here I am!" panties on fire sort of a way. Just if my family wanted to be sure they got my attention, they could bump themselves to the top of the line. Kinda like what Gris did, but without magical counting.

And I just remembered what else I wanted to add to the location (GPS & cell) response-- SSID if applicable. If I were totally hot shit, the coded SMS would take a pic if possible, and email that to me along with the location and networking info.

Wait--it would take time lapse shots. I don't need them emailed if they're ending up in Dropbox, so the key would be turn on every ten minutes when device is active photos using the front camera, maybe every ten of those one with the back.

And I can file that alongside the stories I never wrote, and pictures I haven't drawn...

I haven't worked out if Tasker works with Google Voice texts yet.

It can, if you enable Accessibility for Tasker. Basically, it can read notifications and check if they're from a particular app. I can send you my tasker script for it if you want (I've got a silent GPS email script that requires Python for android (not ideal, but works), and an announce script that plays Green Day really loud, both keyed by GV text)

What do you mean by "silent GPS"? Is that overriding the non-forceability? And is that the reason for the Python?

No, I just mean it doesn't announce anything. Just turns it on and sends a background email with no user input required. The GPS icon still comes on, but hopefully a potential thief wouldn't notice/think it was weird.

The python is necessary to automatically send an e-mail. Or at least it was. It may not be anymore, but I haven't checked.

My phone has been rooted since the third day I had it, so I don't actually know what requires rooting and what doesn't. I've had a rooted phone longer than I've had tasker.

I *think* you've needed to root Android since somewhere iin 2.x to remotely turn on GPS. But then Liese's app confuses me.

I'm pretty sure I've seen email scripts lying about, but I feel naked about the exposed password thingummy. Are your credentials in the python code, and therefore a little bit less obvious?

I'm trying to remember why I didn't root this phone--it wasn't bound to a carrier, and I was good with the functionality. and the instructions weren't clear yet (such was the problem of jumping in early, I guess)..and then I was off the deep end. I figured if I didn't want to load a ROM...

But, given the time the phone went into a stupid boot loop, I was surprised to see how much was in the cloud. Not iPhone level, but not a disaster either.

I know my app does it. And I know my phone isn't rooted. That's all I know.

Okay--I wasn't hallucinating that, or if I am, it's a shared vision: [link] -- apparently it is workable in some scenarios where it shouldn't be? And therefore might stop working at any time?

Hmm. Weird.

If I had some PDF files, would someone be able to convert them to the CMYK color space for me? In particular, I’m worried about:

Q. What if I want to create a solid black area?

A. When you want an area of solid black within a document, 100% black (K) will not result in a solid, saturated black. You should use rich black, which is made by mixing other colors of ink with black ink to produce a much darker, deeper black on press than can be achieved by using black ink alone. To create rich black on pieces printed by PsPrint, your CMYK calibration values must be 50% Cyan (C), 40% Magenta (M), 40% Yellow (Y), and 100% Black (K).

I have no idea how to do that, and I don’t have the right software anyway.

The key thing you want for GV use is the Event "Notification", with Owner Application set to Voice. Then you can make the Title some key word with wildcard capabilities (I use *tasker announce* for the find-my-phone task and *tasker location* for the silent GPS action). As long as you have Accessibility Options turned on for Tasker (which it should prompt you to enable when you need to), that should trigger whenever you get a GV text with the given text in it. I'm pretty sure it doesn't require root.

Actually pretty straightforward as long as you get GV notifications reliably.

The background e-mail was much trickier. I had to use this: [link]

How are you tracking "twice in ten minutes"?

Two profiles. One called "Set Call Variables" just sets two variable called "%LASTCALLTIME" and "%LASTNUMBER" (Tasker keeps these as system variables, I just want to hold onto them past the next call, so I put them in my own variables.)

The second profile called "Emergency Call" has two contexts. One is "Phone Ringing" with %LASTNUMBER as the caller. The other is "Variable Value" checking that %CTIME (system variable for most recent call time) is less than %LASTCALLTIME+10. Tasker deals with the time math automatically, near as I can tell. I haven't tested it extensively, but it seems to work with my limited two-check sample.