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If you sign up to Google+ you can do this with the Google+ app now.
There is an Instant Upload option in the app. This syncs any photos (and videos if you set the option) to an Instant Upload album in Picasa.
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I've used PicPush for this purpose - it worked well. Only issue I had was it occasionally pushing an already backed up picture a second time and some random future date. Not that critical of an issue, just wound up with a few duplicate photos in my Picasa account. It supports many common photo services too.
$5, but if you download just the free portion of ...
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If you don't mind paying a few bucks, I highly recommend Tasker. This automation utility allows you to set up many built-in (and some 3rd-party app) Android actions based on various parameters, including time of day.
In Tasker you will need to create 2 separate profiles, and to each add 2 actions. 1st action will be identical in both profiles - disabling ...
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Well, you have several applications that do what you want. You have Tasker which is paid, Llama which is free and I'm currently using and can recommend, if you look around in the Market, you can find other applications.
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Update: I've gotten Pixelpipe to work with the Stock Camera App. Now every single picture I take with my Droid's camera is automatically uploaded to Picasa & Dropbox through Pixelpip. You can set it up to upload to any number of services. Here's how to get it set up:
Go into Pixelpipe
Go to Settings
Turn on "Enable auto upload for camera", and ...
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Here's a possible alternative solution.
If you open the Dropbox app, then press your camera button and take a photo, the photo file is automatically added to your Dropbox folder and immediately synced to the cloud.
I read about it here: http://lifehacker.com/5713518/send-android-photos-straight-to-dropbox
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On Android can I write scripts (similar to Win .bat files) to combine several command line commands?
Android's shell will support a limited amount of Unix-style shell scripting. It specifically should have a shell at /system/bin/sh that you can use, however:
The shell provided with Android has a severely restricted set of commands available to it. If you want to do anything even remotely complex you'll need a busybox install (or another shell).
It's ...
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The easiest way to compare these two apps:
Locale costs more. But it is a lot more user friendly. You just set up "situations" with triggers and actions. Then you prioritize the situations. That's it.
Tasker costs less. But it is a lot more customizable. It's more like being given a scripting language. There are TONS of options and choices and it ...
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If you don't mind paying for an app, then this is very similar to the sort of thing that Locale for Android does, you can set it to switch stuff on or off, or run apps on your phone when certain conditions like fine/coarse location, etc are met. There are also quite a few Locale plugins (many of them free) available on the market that give it loads of extra ...
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Not sure what phone you've got but most of the higher end Android phones have light sensors, and you can set the screen to adjust its brightness automatically depending on the ambient light at the time.
If you've got the Power Bar widget on your home screen (its one of the built-in Android widgets since Donut) just tap the far-right brightness icon until it ...
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I use Tasker to do exactly that, and much (much) more. Whether or not it can switch between 2G and 3G seems to depend on the handset, which you don't mention. Here is an example from the Tasker Wiki, showing how to set the phone into Airplane mode at night.
Note that the GPS only uses power if something uses it, so turning it off is highly unlikely to make ...
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Of course there are tons of it. Many of them just supports what you are asking but I'd recommend you llama or tasker. Tasker is paid app but llama is free and uses your cell tower to determine your location to make location based tasks as well. For eg, not only it can do what you have asked but also only when you are at your home.
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I use Llama to do similar things on a schedule, e.g. put my phone on silent while I'm at work during working hours, turn off Wi-Fi when I leave home, and so on.
You can set events to occur based on where you are among other conditions such as time/date, screen on/off, battery level, etc. Llama learns locations based on the cell towers that are in range ...
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Check out Locale (more expensive, but easier to use) or Tasker (less expensive, more complicated to use/more configurable).
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Android stores its fonts at /system/fonts/ using TTF (TrueType) format. If you have a program that can edit TTF files (e.g. FontForge), you can replace the number fonts in these .ttf files with your preferred number fonts to change the glyph used for numbers globally. If you're rooted, you should be able to replace these font files with your own modified ...
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In short, you can't.
Only the application can interact with itself internally, unless an API was created for that end. External applications aren't able to know what to do in order to follow your desired "path".
The best you could achieve is opening the application, but you still needed to manually tap the buttons.
My recommendation:
I believe you are ...
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This isn't built-in functionality, but it's something you could achieve with a trigger/event app such as Tasker. This kind of app runs in the background, and lets you configure certain actions to take (such as turning off the ringer) when certain events occur (such as seeing a particular Wi-Fi network). Tasker's not the only such app, but it's very complete ...
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Try SugarSync.
It's a cloud backup service similar to Dropbox. They have a free 5 GB account as well as cheaper monthly plans than DB.
Their Android app can be sycned to auto-upload all photos or sync folders on your SD. I've tried it an it works. I haven't fully tested it but one complaint that I have read is that it doesn't respect deletes on your ...
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I am the developer of Locale, and I wanted to make sure the most up to date information is available here:
Locale does support backup and restore. More information about this feature can be found on our website at http://feedback.twofortyfouram.com/forums/5655-locale-feedback/suggestions/74784-backup-settings-?ref=title
We publish a Headphones Plug-in ...
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You probably need to use some sort of 3rd party program like Tasker, Locale or AutomateIt.
These programs allow you to set triggers such as:
starting an app
screen on/off
connected to Wi-fi
location
etc...
and perform actions based on that, such as:
toggle data
toggle GPS
run an app
etc...
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On Android can I write scripts (similar to Win .bat files) to combine several command line commands?
There are a few Android apps that are able to control other Android apps, and can chain several commands together using their GUI in a similar way to a script, they both have plugins to extend their support to many popular Android apps and functions.
Tasker and Locale are probably the most famous of these (see here for some comparison) but there are also ...
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On June 2, 2012, PicPlz announced that they would be closing permanently as of July 3, 2012
PicPlz.
Not only does it give you a number of effects you can apply to your images (like Hipstamatic) but also automatically posts to Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, Tumblr, Posterous, Foursquare, and can backup to a Dropbox folder.
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My phone has no ambient light sensor and I had exactly the same problem. I've been using AutomateIT, it is an application of similar vein to Tasker/Locale, except that there is a free version as well as a paid version.
It can change brightness settings based on triggers, such as time of the day, or whether you're connected to your home Wifi. The paid ...
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Tasker or Llama should both be able to accomplish this, from what I understand, though I have never tested them with taking pictures.
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Also, if you use Juicedefender https://market.android.com/details?id=com.latedroid.juicedefender&hl=en that has an option for night mode with everything you were talking about and more, JuiceDefender is pretty awesome anyway. Lastly, if you have rooted your phone, Cyanogenmod http://www.cyanogenmod.com/ also has a night mode.
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First, make that video player default for video files. Then, use Tasker to Open File on boot. Open File action can be found in File action category. Device Boot context can be found in Event ~> System category.
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That very much depends how and where you place the "secret", and what other conditions/restrictions are in place. Network storage (such as cloud services or email) e.g. require a network connection to be present, and the transfer might be noticed. A local copy might not have the copy-process noticed, but the copies could be found, in most times easily when ...
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There is an app on the Android Market called "Tethering", which requires no permissions to run, which provides a shortcut to the "Tethering and portable hotspot" configuration screen.
You can put this app on your home screen and that reduces your steps to:
1) unlock
2) tap the Tethering icon on your home screen
3) slide portable hotspot on
Link
I use it ...
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You can make an automatic nandroid backup using ROM Manager (free / paid).
open the app - go to settings and select Automatic Backup. You can select the time and frequency of the backups in the following screens.
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