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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.
Tom, could you use them as jpg files?
No, that would make the text all pixelated.
Right. I could open them in photoshop, edit the color, and resave them as PDFs, but I'm not sure if it would work or not. I think it would still fubar the text. I'd save them high-res, though.
I'm pretty sure it doesn't require root.
It's the GPS I was saying needed root, not anything to do with Google Voice.
One called "Set Call Variables" just sets two variable called "%LASTCALLTIME" and "%LASTNUMBER"
So it's not just "twice in ten", it's "twice successively in ten"?
Yes. If somebody else tries to call me, then it gets FUBARed. A fair point, as that might be a problem in an emergency. Hmm.
To do better, I'd have to keep an array of the last time each person called me, then do a lookup on the array to get the last time called... that might not be viable.
ETA: I think I could do it, actually, with the Array Push and Array Pop commands. But I don't think it's worth it. My current system should catch it.
I'm seriously considering jumping from iPhone to Android on my next upgrade (after realizing that I've replaced nearly ALL of the native apps with Google equivalents anyway).
Is there any way to sync an Android phone with iTunes? That's the only Apple thing I'd really miss.
I use Doubletwist to sync mine--I don't know if there's a Windows version, but I'd assume there's an equivalent.
I'm interested: why are you thinking of making the jump?
no, I don't think you can sync android with itunes, but android has other music/video syncing programs.
why are you thinking of making the jump?
Because I'm already using Google replacements for almost all of the native Apple apps. I don't like Mail, I use a Gmail shortcut. Ditto Maps. I prefer Chrome to Safari. I use Downcast instead of iTunes for podcasts (not Google, but still not native Apple).
Oh shit, iPhoto, that's the other one I use. Is there a good way to back up photos to a Mac on an Android phone?
