Description
Proference automatically controls your settings with profiles, rules, actions and conditions.Even the earliest phones had profiles - 'Work' , 'Quiet', 'Library' and so on.
The latest 'smartphones' have dumped this in favour of making users micro-manage the myriad of settings on their devices.
Proference gives you the control back - you tell Proference when you want settings to kick in and it takes care of it automatically!
Proference maintains a tiny footprint and uses negligable RAM and CPU so you can rest assured that Proference has your back!
Simple example: When the phone is plugged in, you want the screen to be full brightness.
- Create a rule called 'Plugged in'
- Add a 'plugged in' condition
- Add Settings action which sets brightness to 100%
Medium example: You want Wifi to come on at home, but stay off (to save battery) at all other times.
- Add a location called 'home' and train it.
- Create a rule called 'home' with a
- a condition 'In location home' and a
- Settings Action which turns on Wifi.
Complex example: When you are in the car, you want to turn on Bluetooth, turn up the media volume, start another app (MusicPopup) and say 'car mode'.
- create a rule called 'In car'
- add a 'bluetooth device is nearby' condition and select your device from the list
- add a Settings action which turns on Bluetooth and sets the media volume
- add a 'Say...' action and type in 'car mode'
- add a Broadcast action which sends the command to start MusicPopup
You can also create rules from templates - click 'add a rule' and then click the 'Templates' button and select from dozens of templates and customize to your heart's content.
When you combine OR and NOT conditions, the possibilities really start to open up. For instance, you could create a 'Near Wifi' Rule which turns on Wifi if you are near Home/Office/Starbucks.
# Actions #
- ServiceControlAction
- TtsAction
- StartActivityAction
- BroadcastAction
- ProfileAction
- AirplaneMode
- Brightness
- Wallpaper
- RingVolume
- MediaVolume
- SyncControl
- Ringtone
- Gps*
- Wifi
- PhoneDataNetwork
- ScreenTimeout
- WifiScanning
- ScreenLock
- AutoRotate
- Bluetooth
- BtScanInterval
- BtScanning
# Conditions #
- HeadsetCondition
- InLocationCondition
- PluggedInCondition
- TimeCondition
- BatteryLevelCondition
- DaysOfTheWeekCondition
- InRangeWifiCondition
- SimpleCalendarCondition
- RoamingCondition
- WifiConnectedCondition
- OR
- NOT
- BluetoothConnectedCondition
- InRangeBtCondition
#TAGS profiles, settings, locale, automatic, automation, automate, tasker, SettingProfiles, EasyProfiles, toggle settings
The free release gives you everything but with a limitation to 3 rules. If you want more, download Proference Unlocker.
Cintra
Mar 29, 2012 7:31:33 PM
Easy Setup, but... Heard about on Phones Show, and it really is easy to set up on my GS2 running ICS 4.0.1. However, after setting up 4 simple rules, my GS2 battery ran down during the night, so I've stopped using it for now :(
rakesh
Mar 29, 2012 6:33:32 PM
Doesn't even open Doesn't work on my galaxy nexus. Pls update the app to work on ICS
Michael
Mar 27, 2012 2:36:33 AM
Potentially very good! The UI offers some very powerful features. Heard about it on Phone Show Chat and thought it worth checking out
Rudi
Mar 6, 2012 2:53:06 PM
Great Good tool. Stable. Does what it says. Would be nice to be able to set notification sound and volume.
John
Sep 13, 2011 7:01:45 PM
Thumbs up Dev very responsive. Cool tool for automating settings
Delbert
Aug 21, 2011 2:28:24 PM
Did absolutely nothing just froze up
Paul
Aug 9, 2011 9:47:37 AM
No more FIDDLING! Automate settings to suit you. Personalisation comes at a price. Fiddling. Want the battery to last? Fiddle with the settings. Want a bright screen when charging? More fiddling. Fed up of your screen unlock when connected to your home wifi, but afraid you'll forget to turn it back on when you go out? This neat app lets you automate it all to fit your daily routine. Get accustomed to the preset 'template' profiles and the app's true potential quickly becomes clear. Auto-on bluetooth when driving? Auto silence after bedtime? Aaah. Bliss :)
Samantha
Jul 30, 2011 3:30:44 PM
Nice app! Works a treat on my SGS2. Love the calendar condition.
Dan E.
Jul 17, 2011 5:17:31 PM
Missing important features 1. Cannot set vibration on or off. 2. Cannot manually enable/disable a profile. In fact the app is not profile-based, you do not create profiles, only rules that trigger automatically. Should be an option to manually enable a profile for a limited time or until switched off. 3. Cannot edit settings, only add or delete Gave 2 stars because the app is nicely laid out and it has potential. But until above issues are fixed there are better options, even free.
jon
Jul 9, 2011 9:11:51 PM
Nice app. Replaces loads of other apps, for free!