Change phone settings by time and location (without gps, on operator towers)

    Having stumbled upon an article: NFC tags from subway cards I decided to design this topic.
    I remember that about a year and a half ago someone suggested creating a program that, depending on the location, on the towers (in order to save battery) would independently turn on / off wifi. In that long-standing topic, all this was at the level of an idea that has no implementation. And, just recently, such an idea visited me again, because of which I began to look for a specific implementation.

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    As a result, several quite developed programs were found at once:
    on the market: Llama Locale Tasker at w3bsit3-dns.com: Llama Locale Tasker

    All the mentioned programs according to the schedule, or based on the location of the phone (in order to save battery, it is possible to determine from the towers of the operators), they can turn on / off wifi, bluetooth, mobile Internet, adjust the sound volume, start / close programs, change other phone settings.
    It would seem a fairly limited set of functions, but the abundance of advantages that appear after a little setup and personalization is very impressive.

    Actually, I chose llama for myself, this program has a nice interface for anyone who needs a Russian translation, and most importantly, ready-made presets for home and work. This application has been working on my phone for 3 weeks, and has definitely passed into the must have category:
    Now, when you come home, you can’t get into the settings for connecting to home wifi.
    no need to be afraid in the morning to find an insufficiently charged battery due to wifi left on (wifi only turns on if I'm at home, between 7 a.m. and 12 p.m.).
    at night worries that damn spam will wake up by incoming mail, or SMS messages (volume control).
    outside the house, in transport, you do not need to remember that you forgot to increase the volume of the phone (adjusting the sound volume).
    while at work, worries about a loud call (adjusting the sound volume).
    mass of other imperceptible improvements.
    At the moment, there is an idea of ​​implementing a bunch of rsync + ssh + wifi to synchronize heavy media, like photos and videos with a home computer (i.e., use the option of delayed launch of third-party programs).

    Compared to the NFC cards described in the next topic, this application works without any hardware tricks, and is doing the same thing right now. There was not only a solution, how to determine that the phone in the car (to turn on the navigator), everything else, everything was the same as in the video from the topic about NFC-cards .
    In general, I found these programs quite convenient, worthy of mention in the form of a separate topic. In addition, in the search process, for some reason, travel links were not issued when requesting in Russian, llama was found only with the English version of the request.

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