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HTC Desire S Owner’s Guide – V1.02 | wnp_79
Tasker – A Basic Starter Tutorial
I’ve harped on about Tasker so much you’d think I was on commission. Nope. I just
really appreciate when an App is well made, useful, and adds to the functionality of
the phone. So I thought as Tasker
is
a bit tricky to get used to at first, I’d add a basic
tutorial to get you started. It should at least give you an idea of how it functions. The
people giving it a poor 1 star review on the marketplace are the people who got
confused and frustrated.
In a nut-shell, Tasker divides into two areas;
Profile
and
Task
. When all the criteria
in the Profile are met, it executes the associated Task(s). A Profile can have any
number of
Contexts
. There is also a very good web page made by the dev with all
sorts of instructions and tutorials. You can also download and import pre-made
Tasker Profiles (aka recipes) that people have invented from this website! It’s best to
try and learn the basics yourself first though.
OK the basic power-saving profiles that I use (and how to set them up) are as
follows;
Profile 1 : Night Mode.
1. Press ‘New’ to create a new Profile.
2. Name it ‘Night Mode’ or whatever you want and press ‘OK’.
3. It will ask you for a Profile
context
next. Chose ‘Time’.
4. Choose the times that you want this profile to activate between, then press ‘Done’.
(I use between 1am and 7am but it’s of course up to you which you use.)
5. It will then ask you to select a task (what it should do when the profile activates).
As we haven’t set one yet, select ‘New Task’.
6. You can give this task a Name if you want to, but it’s not necessary. Just press
‘OK’. Not naming it means its various parameters are easy to see. I find this better
for editing purposes.
7. This now brings up the Task box. Everything you put in here, the phone will do
when the ‘Night Mode’ Profile criteria are met.
8. Click the + button. We want to activate airplane mode, and that is in the ‘Net’
group. Press ‘Net’
9. Select ‘Airplane Mode’ and select the drop-down to ‘on’ then select ‘done’.
10. Best to get this Profile saved. You can always edit it later. Select ‘done’ again.
This should now show your ‘Night Mode’ profile on the main screen. A green tick
next to it means it’s active, and will be carried out once the Profile criteria are met.