How about working with DroidMunkey and supporting their work to make this possible? There are a bunch of hurdles that are native to Locale that make setting these up tedious, and not intuitive. I think a partnership endeavor would be effective, and I think they’d love it.

Yay! I’m so glad this is in the hopper! This just makes sense.

I need to prioritize my mute settings, for example, where BT is just wasting battery, but I drive a Subaru, and they are notoriously loud. I’d really like to avoid yet another Situation just to handle something like this. I also don’t want my BT to turn on, say, if I’ve left my headset in the car, and I need to make a call when I’m in the bathroom to avoid a tedious meeting.

By the way, Google Maps, Browser, Car Locator, Sherpa, Layar, Waze, Hoccer, GPS status, iMap Weather, even Weather Forecast Widget can find my accurate location is less than 30 seconds, usually about 3-5 seconds, while Locale is still hanging on to lower-priority Situations and not enabling the Situation that is associated with my current location, sometimes for up to about 8 or so minutes, even when I disable and re-enable Locale. I don’t really have the need for faster switching than that, but I have had a heck of a time understanding why that happens like it does. I always have my GPS enabled unless my battery is less than 15% just because I want as accurate and fast a location as I can get, and the battery charge is worth it to me. Is there anything I can do, besides maybe disabling “Use wireless Networks” to improve the speed of location-dependent Situations?

I guess I wasn’t clear.

I’m not talking necessarily about location, I was addressing the behavior of Situation switching. What happens on my phone is that between most switches, via time, the calendar plugin, shake, or whatever, the Default Situation becomes enabled first (and only), then after that the new applicable Situation (or the current Situation, if that’s what’s fits).

I was wondering if there could be a 30-60 second delay (maybe as an option) to release the current Situation while the new one is being activated, then after that release the former Siuation when the new one is actually Active.

I can vouch for PhoneAlarm. Great product. Better than Locale IMHO.

I would just like an app or service I have running to stop when a Situation is over. It makes sense, like Waze or BTCall shut off when your Car Situation is off, without killing all the other apps or services, or Kill Always Prompt service once you leave home.

WSS renders wallpapers like they’re supposed to be. Really, they’re beautiful. It’s quick, it’s easy, and it’s simple. Best yet, it’s bug free. The native Wallpaper business is to complex and interconnected, and of course, doesn’t play nice with Locale.
WSS really is a fantastic replacement.

I use wallpapers to indicate Situation, and it’s great, when it works, and if I don’t mind relativley poorly rendered graphics.

It can also float from portrait to landscape.

I agree. I think maybe having and Advanced Settings kind of thing to set different times for each weekday might work, e.g. a new window in which the days each have thier own time picker, or a longpress on the weekday tobring up its own time-picker might work. Just some ideas. You’ve probably already thought of them, though.

I’d really prefer to keep my phone settings out of my calendar, particularly since I’ve specified that some people can see my calendar, and they’re exactly the people I don’t want seeing what my phone is doing.

I get up dad-blasted early on Sundays, and need my phone to be on and loud, but Saturdays are another story…. Also, when my daughter is with me on weeknights, I pretty much mute my phone, but at those same times on weekends, she gives me a good night call that I dearly don’t want to miss. The dozen profiles I have up are getting a bit laggy.

Oh, and there’s the trying to unlock while driving. Plug in and unlock? Nice, eh?

How about a widget that shows a user-selected icon depending on profile? Not just having it disappear, but having it show which profile is active. Also, it would be handy if the widget would bring up a list of profiles (the user-selected icons) to manually chose profile & lock it in place 1.for a user-selected amount of time, or 2. until a user-defined condition change, e.g. could be location, scheduled, calendar, sms trigger….

This isn’t original I have to give credit to Bruce and the PhoneAlarm forum.

Like Ryanryo88 (I suspect) , I have two profiles/Situations at the top of my list, one named “metting” that basically shuts everything off, including sound & vibration, as if I’m in a meeting and pretty much not using my phone. Then above that, one named “vibrate,” and all it does is set volume to 0 and turn on vibration. I could, if I wanted to be thorough, have a third named “mute” that only mutes the sound.

I can use one or both, depending on whether or not I want just the sound off, or if I really want everything off. I have the schedule set from 12:00 a.m. to 11:59 p.m., since not having anything in the conditions has been unreliable for me in the past.

I have a Home shortcut for Locale, and just enable them when I want them. It’s a two-click process. I’m having a hard time seeing how this isn’t “manual mode.” It really is entirely manual, though, and I won’t get my sound back until I shut the Situation off.

I’m all for some kind of timer on these.

Go see the PhoneAlarm website at pocketmax.net. There’s an option to lock a profile indefinitely, for a set amount of time, or until the next profile change (only overriding the current profile). If location detection and Locale were reliable enough, we could do set&forget, but we can’t. I dunno about everyone else, but I am constantly tweaking, and ending up in my default settings anyway.

For NOT: create the Situation that IS for the same/overlapping schedule that is NOT. eg, 8am-5 pm if at work (assign location) then …. situation=work. 8am-5pm not at work, then no location assigned, then situation=not at work.

I figured it out when my daughter colored in a blue sky behind a bird she wanted to be white. Fill in the negative space.

How about something like:
-1st choose Situation to lock in (set settings and essentially supress Locale),
-2nd choose duration, e.g. specified length of time (to infinite/manual change) & leave it at that, or
- 3rd choose: until (a) specified profile(s) is(are) next set to be applied, ignoring other Situations.

Seems like it would be relable, and very customizeable.