Tired of your phone buzzing in the middle of the night? Annoying your colleagues by having your phone blast out your ringtone at work? You need Llama!
Llama is a Location Aware Mobile App
Contents:
- Intro
- In-app purchases for donations
- Comments
- Permissions
- Uninstalling
** EMAIL ME if you have any problems. Use the contact developer button in the market listing ON YOUR PHONE **
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* INTRO
Llama uses phone masts to determine your location, so that you can change your ringer, vibrate and ringtones depending on where you are as well as the time of day. Llama provides you with sound profiles so you can quickly switch between quiet, loud, silent and normal sound settings. You can set your family, partner and children to ring even if your phone is set to silent! You can create events and home screen shortcuts to manage your sound profiles and more:
-Silence your phone at work
-Turn your Bluetooth on ready to connect your headset for a morning run
-Set your phone quiet when it's late at night and you haven't gone out
-Start the music player when a headset is connected
Llama can also do:
4G
APN
Accounts Sync
Airplane Mode
Bluetooth
Car mode
GPS (before Android 2.3 only or Cyanogenmod)
Haptic Feedback
Kill Applications (also force-kill with root privileges)
Play, pause and other media buttons
Mobile Data (before Android 2.3 only)
Reboot
Run apps
Run shortcuts
Screen brightness
Screen lock PIN/password
Set Llama variables
Speakerphone
Screen on and off
Screen timeout
USB storage
Vibrate
Wallpaper
Wifi
Wifi hotspot
Wifi sleep policy
Create events based off:
Airplane mode
Battery level
Bluetooth devices
Calendar events
Car mode
Charging
Day of the week
Current locations
Headset
Llama variable
Music playback (stock Android only, requires third party developer support)
Phone start up and shut down
Screen on and off
Time of day
Wifi networks
NOTE: Since GPS is not used, the location tracking is limited to the number of phone masts in your area. This will work best if you live in a populated area. If your home and work are covered by the same phone masts, you can try using the experimental Wifi-based location tracking. If that still doesn't work, you can remove the enter/exit conditions to make time-based profiles.
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* IN-APP PURCHASES
IAPs are only for donations if you like using Llama. You are not forced to use them, and if you do choose to donate no changes actually happen in the app
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* COMMENT RESPONSES/RANTS
I can't reply directly to your comments! If you vote 1 star, please say why, otherwise I can't fix it. Please email me about any questions, bugs and suggestions!
- Jelly Bean DOES NOT have a system volume anymore! Don't expect Llama to change something that doesn't exist! Blame Google.
- If it Force Closes, please email me the /sdcard/Llama/LlamaLog.txt
- Don't blame Llama for the lack of your operator's phone masts in your area. You can still use Llama with the experimental location methods, or time-based events
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* PERMISSIONS
-Read your calendar (aka 'Your personal information') for any calendar conditions you set up
-A bug/feature of Android means Llama also has to have the write calendar permission, but it doesn't actually write anything nor send invite emails
-Your accounts so it can run an account sync if your events say so
-Write to your SD card to import/export your area, events and profiles, and to write error logs
-Call-state and read contacts to let you choose which of your contacts can still ring even when silent
-Llama DOES NOT have internet permission. Your data isn't going anywhere
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* UNINSTALLING
-If you've used screen off or screen password actions, go to Settings > Security > Device Administrators, untick Llama from the list, then uninstall
My review
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Reviews
4.5
22,472 total
5 16,575
4 3,453
3 1,116
2 631
1 697
Giridhar Shyam Sankararaman
Works like a charm Have been an avid user of this app in my Samsung and nexus devices. It works like a charm. Makes ur device very customised and you can literally program it to behave in a way you want with features like llama variables. The only thing I miss in this app is a way to export and import your settings. This has coated me a lot of time every time I upgrade to setup all my rules again. Love rest of the features and a simple straight forward ui. Kudos to the developer.
Jay Froelich
So many things I have found so many useful things for this app. For example, when I connect it to my car, via Bluetooth OBD port, Llama activates Torque app, and sets the screen to full bright and always on. So awesome! I also have it set to go into very low power mode while at certain times and locations, normally when I know for certain i will not need the phone, has allowed my battery to last so much longer now. What a wonderfully useful app! Thanks!
Tyler Belfield
Its pretty good I like using llama a lot, it doesnt drain my battery too much, although I don't use GPS for my location. I would like to be able to use WiFi to help determine my location, but I'm not sure how to do that. Also, I would love to see more use of texts & calls. For example, if you had 2 missed calls from the same person, it would turn your volume up. Or, if you weren't home & you had a missed call, you could set it to auto-respond with a text. If it had the texting & calling integration, I would give it 5 stars
Lucas Savva
Automation done right and simply I've been using Llama for five years now, and it has been my trustworthy companion the whole time. Anyone would appreciate how efficient it is - using barely any battery or RAM whilst running. Although I only use Llama to keep my phone on silent in important places, there has not been a scenario that it can't cover. For a while, I had it set up to turn off my WiFi if the phone was asleep and inactive. Look no further for all your automation needs, location based or not.
A Google User
Please update this for Android 5+!!!! >> 6 Now This app is the STILL ultimate tool for controlling your Android phone. It "learns" your common locations and configures your phone according to YOUR specifications. Turn on your wifi when you get home? No problem! Set to vibrate when you pull into the office? Easy! The obvious and more powerful alternative to "locale" Thanks for the recent update that fixes the SMS bug in the S4. I would pay for the upgrade/new version!!!!
Manivannan Shanmugavel
Love the interface, need more features I love the interface, especially the green and red color coding to show active profiles. Couple of important gripes 1. GPS control does not work. It works in tasker on the same phone, so there's a possible fix? 2. Major - does not have activity detection - i.e. walking, driving, cycling etc. This is very important for me. Will wait for the app to evolve.
User reviews
Works like a charm Have been an avid user of this app in my Samsung and nexus devices. It works like a charm. Makes ur device very customised and you can literally program it to behave in a way you want with features like llama variables. The only thing I miss in this app is a way to export and import your settings. This has coated me a lot of time every time I upgrade to setup all my rules again. Love rest of the features and a simple straight forward ui. Kudos to the developer.
So many things I have found so many useful things for this app. For example, when I connect it to my car, via Bluetooth OBD port, Llama activates Torque app, and sets the screen to full bright and always on. So awesome! I also have it set to go into very low power mode while at certain times and locations, normally when I know for certain i will not need the phone, has allowed my battery to last so much longer now. What a wonderfully useful app! Thanks!
Its pretty good I like using llama a lot, it doesnt drain my battery too much, although I don't use GPS for my location. I would like to be able to use WiFi to help determine my location, but I'm not sure how to do that. Also, I would love to see more use of texts & calls. For example, if you had 2 missed calls from the same person, it would turn your volume up. Or, if you weren't home & you had a missed call, you could set it to auto-respond with a text. If it had the texting & calling integration, I would give it 5 stars
Automation done right and simply I've been using Llama for five years now, and it has been my trustworthy companion the whole time. Anyone would appreciate how efficient it is - using barely any battery or RAM whilst running. Although I only use Llama to keep my phone on silent in important places, there has not been a scenario that it can't cover. For a while, I had it set up to turn off my WiFi if the phone was asleep and inactive. Look no further for all your automation needs, location based or not.
Please update this for Android 5+!!!! >> 6 Now This app is the STILL ultimate tool for controlling your Android phone. It "learns" your common locations and configures your phone according to YOUR specifications. Turn on your wifi when you get home? No problem! Set to vibrate when you pull into the office? Easy! The obvious and more powerful alternative to "locale" Thanks for the recent update that fixes the SMS bug in the S4. I would pay for the upgrade/new version!!!!
Love the interface, need more features I love the interface, especially the green and red color coding to show active profiles. Couple of important gripes 1. GPS control does not work. It works in tasker on the same phone, so there's a possible fix? 2. Major - does not have activity detection - i.e. walking, driving, cycling etc. This is very important for me. Will wait for the app to evolve.
One of my favorite apps! Takes a little bit to figure out how best to use it, but once everything is set, it's the most convenient thing ever! Just need a little patience, because it takes some tinkering around to get it to do exactly what I want. But once I got it down, I haven't had to touch the settings or volume controls in months!
This one is one of the oldest on offer ... but it is still by FAR the best! It has more features than you can poke a stick at. I like best that it interfaces with my calendar and automatically sets a quiet profile during any meetings. No other profiler does that. Also at night it turns on my airplane mode. The others seem to have problems with that. Thoroughly recommend.
A crazy iphone fan now stuck to android all coz of LLAMA Amazing app. Saves me plenty of time, effort and battery life. Love the flexibility and combinations possible. Also the fact that it uses cell towers, not gps n work s pefectly for me. The concept of variables- amazing. Think logically n u can create so many automated actions. N All for free. Cant imagine my phone without it now. Also llama does lots. U just have to figure out how to use it n the developer has provided ample info. Also check out the net to get info on various usages it can be applied for.
As good as it can be for regular Android. To control the sound/screen options of so many different phones, including many that disobey the rules is a Herculean task. Those trying to create cell tower based events need to understand that a cell tower can cover 75 square miles at just 5 miles from the tower. Multiple overlapping cells only broadens the area. Use WiFi as a trigger since its range is feet, not miles. Even then, in the garden, yard, or deck, you'll stay at the quieter indoor setting.
This app does exactly what you'd think! It doesn't use excessive battery or data or anything. As easy to set up as an app with lots of settings can be - Takes a little to work it all out but once the light is on everything works! I'd recommend it to all my friends! Only request is to customise the vibration pattern for texts. When I'm at TAFE it chirps quietly but goes *vibrates-desk-in-half* *Edit* Used on my Sony Z1 Perfectly Used on my Samsung S7 Perfectly
Very capable, very powerful. It can do a lot from the get-go. If you have special ideas, you can deploy the Llama variables for more complicated action triggering. Update in 2016 September: Llama is still the best, even under Marshmallow Android 6.0.1 It works flawlessly on my Xiaomi Mi 4. If you want to use ‘active app’ trigger, then download the .apk file from the developer’s website. If, for some reason, you search for an alternative that similarly offers profiles capability, try #1 Profile - Auto Tasker.
Good app Works well for me. Changes ringer volume, screen brightness and Wi-Fi on/off depending on whether I'm at office or home or elsewhere. And for the records: the battery consumption is minimum among all location based apps I've tried so far. Update: doesn't work on oneplus 2. Location does not update. :(
No good for Marshmallow devices Had this app on my previous phone (running Lollipop) and it worked great! After upgrading my phone to a Marshmallow OS device, this app can't find or see cell towers for location based profiles. I know it has something to do with the "location ROM" in Marshmallow. Dev needs to find a workaround for this "bug". If he/she/they do that, it would be a 5 star app again.
Live the app, incredibly useful and very efficient! I use it to turn Bluetooth on and off when plugged into my vehicles, as well as turning off all notifications except phone, while I'm asleep. Also use it to enable and disable Wi-Fi depending on where I am, all to save battery! Works like a charm and much easier to program and use than apps like Tasker. But, it needs updates, which seemingly are not going to happen. Looks like it may have been abandoned.
Awesome app if it works - unfortunately with nougat update on nexus6p some functions are not working (set screenlock and update current profile in notification menu). Developer never charged for this app and I wish he would update and charge for it..I would pay for an update. If you're not on nougat everything should work fine and it is truly an awesome app if you like to really control what your phone does and automate a bunch of tasks that should be automated already.
I used this app for years, it was terrific. However, hasn't been updated for >1 year, and has one defect on Lollipop & Marshmallow (Nexus 6): it can't detect available WiFi to add them to an area. So (for example) on KitKat I could add neighbors' WiFi networks to my "home area", so Llama knew when I was close to home.....can't do this any more. Contacted dev ages ago, no reply. I kept using it because everything else worked, but recently found another App (Automagic) that is kept up-to-date and can do everything that Llama can do (and much more). Spent a few hours "translating" all of my Llama "events" into Automagic "flows". Deactivated Llama, and tested Automagic for a few days - it is great. I've now uninstalled Llama. Given that it seems to be "abandonware", I can no longer recommend it.
Smartphone? Light wt, smart enough, always loyal to input settings, no adds, no crashes in few years. I can't say "I have a smartphone without Llama." Smartphone is not about specs but about smartness. Here you go, one of those smart tools. Want simple light sound profile? use the default settings without looking into detail. Don't understand, how to setup initials? Has a short learning curve to use this app! End result, you will not regret. Do you like coding? Use variables.
Can't praise this app enough. If you know how to use it, it becomes indispensable. Enables me to turn off Wifi and turn on data when I leave a wifi area. Keeps my data bill down. Has a ton of features which means it can be a bit of a steep learning curve, but once you have it figured out it is super useful.
Fantastic Does so much more than location awareness. Great app written by a great guy (try donating to see why he's great). Check it out please. I found it didn't drain my battery. Can't praise it highly enough, especially for older phones not running latest android.
Works amazingly well Update2====Have had it for a year now, today it informed me that 19000 actions were performed in the past 365 days. All great! ==== Update ==== after 8 months, I can say again, this app works 100℅ of the time, accurately and with no excessive battery usage. Great app! ==== The app is free and without ads. It does not need to have access to the internet. Battery usage is minimal (haven't noticed it at all). It has worked 100% of the time in the past two weeks. I just had to donate! Keep it up, great job.
Update: sadly, uninstalling. Update: it keeps doing whatever it wants to...and the app developer seems to have gone MIA. // There's probably already a way to program events factoring in this idea, but it would just be waaaay easier if users could add on an "unless" clause :-/ (for ex, "unless user changes a setting") I don't want to feel like the app is overriding me; on the contrary, I should be able to *easily* override the app.
Great on all but Lollipop I've loved this app for years, it was just perfect and I thought it was about time I donated for the service it has provided, but before I did I updated to Lollipop. Now the location sticks so it just fails in its main purpose. On top of this due to Lollipop changes, it cannot bring the phone out of silent mode, nor turn data on or off. I could live with these issues if the location didn't stick and it could use another app (like Data Toggle). I emailed the developer, sadly no reply. Time to move on.
Awesome! indispensable One of my favorite apps. I Spent a few minutes learning, then I let it mute when I'm at work or library, etc., then it turns sound on when I leave Those places. It shuts volume off while sleeping so notifications don't awaken me. It turns off battery draining functions when/where I know I won't need them, back on when/where I use those battery intensive features. And it doesn't drain my battery to do so. And there is way more stuff that it can do! Donated long time ago for this one! Never regretted it!
Needs updating Showing some age. It worked OK with lollipop, but seems to have more problems with marshmallow. Probably related to doze, maybe some other features. I paid for both Tasker and locale. This app is free and does the job of both. It is less tedious to use than Tasker and gives you a lot more control than Locale. It doesn't hurt my battery life at all and keeps my phone silent at work. This app could easily be priced at $10 and be worth it. Before you buy Tasker or Locale, try it out. If you like it, donate.
Build yourself a profile for UNKNOWN areas This app works great in every os I've used, from gingerbread 2.3 to Lollipop 5.1. Its simple, you define Events, specific Conditions, and Actions to take place. I have 3 locations from Celltower ID learning, Home, Work, Friends. If you enter one of these areas, change to a sound profile, disable/enable BT, WiFi, 3G, screen resolution, ect. But if not in any of these locations, use the other profiles, Max Volume and brightness, 3G on, wifi off. As you build profiles like this, you can add time customization too. My volume goes to normal when i'm done my shift, if I stay a bit long at work. *Could use an updated UI
Best of all, unless you have dual-SIM This app does brilliantly what it claims to do, provided your phone has only one SIM slot. In my dual-SIM phones I need to keep both SIMs active, otherwise Llama consistently reports that I am at home, no matter where I am. It never sees more than one mast, and it's the same one all over the country.
Working on my Verizon Note 5! Been using this for many years on 5 different android devices. For NOTE5 had to turn off HD calling and switch from Global to LTE/cdma to start recognizing cells again! I'm a huge fan the customization options that really let you go down in the the details. The root options make it even more customizable. These really make it stand out over similar apps. I'm currently not using any root functionality on my Note 5 :-( due to verizon's locked bootloaders, but it still remains one of the first apps I install.
A great, battery saving app... EDIT: It appears that Llama is no longer working on my Motorola Droid Turbo. Wish the author would update it, as it WAS really useful... I would recommend this to anybody who wants to automate activities on their phone such as wifi on or off, or silence the ringer, or bluetooth on and off, and many, many more!
One of the most useful applications on Android I have ever installed. Been using it for years and really depend on it. So many options. Easy to get it to do exactly what your want it to do. Have seen some weirdness since updating to Anvroid v7 on my Nexus 5X. No real show stoppers. Just little nigglys like it changes states based on instructions but the icons and area names do not.
Great app, pretty much perfect Using on my new Nexus 5 on Lollipop. Works well. I use this app to control absolutely everything. This app puts the 'Smart' in smartphone. I have emailed the developer to ask about the new priority notification handling in Lollipop as I still get the odd email notification in the night, it doesn't actually fully silence the phone anymore. I'm sure it'll be adapted soon. 5 stars when sorted. Will still donate, I do every xmas.
Lots of potential For the first week or so with my new phone this worked amazingly. I don't know what happened, but it just sort of stopped working. It keeps jumping between unknown area and home(or work) so it doesn't stay silent. It had soooo much potential (I was trying to replace motorola's smartactions) but when it can't keep my phone on silent in the middle of the night or at work it just isn't acceptable. So I am uninstalling.
Unquestionably the most useful app I've ever used Using it for a while now, but still find some hidden treasures. Very lightweight but feature-rich app with almost no battery footprint. The only thing I hope you redesign the old Gingerbread interface soon.
Used to be e usefull I used it for about 2 years with no problems. Been very useful. But lately, last several months, it started to act weird. Changing profiles in the middle of the night, forgetting areas, writing unknown area in notification , and that unable to toggle wimax when trying switch 4g on/off ... Tried it on 3 different android phones. Same issues. Please patch/update! We need such an app :-/
Overlapping cells Great app. Been using it for a long time. Unfortunately many of my areas right now have overlapping cells and as such it switches back and forth between profiles. Can't do 5 stars for now, but definitely a really good app and is recommended for those looking for some good automaton.
This was an awesome tool before I upgraded my OS to Marshmallow, used it to automate everything on my phone, based on my location. Unfortunately, since the OS upgrade, LLama can't read out my cell information and because this, my profiles are useless. I hope an update will come soon to solve this issue (even I see less chance for this, as the last update was more than one and a half year ago).
Compatibility with phone? This app worked ABSOLUTELY SPECTACULARLY with my Galaxy S3, so I was fairly enthusiastic when I upgraded to have this as one of the first apps loaded on my S5 (right alongside SwiftKey). As it turned out, for some reason, it doesn't work as well. The towers don't seem to detect as well, even though I'm in the exact same places. It frequently comes up with an unnamed tower in two different towns, changing my profile to normal randomly. Otherwise, I like the premise and the app actually works decently...
I've been very happy with the Llama. Unfortunately running up against some stuff that it doesn't handle... So on to Tasker. But that takes a good deal more head wrapping around... So if the Llama does it for you it's great! In particular the Llama is much easier to set up finding your locations.
Was AWESOME on HTC M8, not so much on HTC 10 I absolutely love this app when it works right, which it did for several years. When I got a new phone, Llama stopped seeing cell masts, and the functionality has dropped off significantly. I am hoping for an update that fixes the issue!
I have been using this app for a couple years to change my profile according to location. it works pretty well but now I have a new phone, Samsung Galaxy S7 and Llama will not show any cell towers even though I run it for 8 hours. With the other phone 7 towers showed up at my work location. I'd really appreciate help with this as so far I haven't found any other app that works like this. Thanks!
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What's New
Remove donation IAPs
Notification action now expands variables
Don't crash when decoding a dodgy Locale Plugin intent
PREVIOUS CHANGES:
Llama? button contains all menu items (for phones that do not have a 3-dot menu button)
Fat Llama? Goto the website for small version
Additional information
Updated
October 23, 2014
Size
2.6M
Installs
1,000,000 - 5,000,000
Current Version
1.2014.10.23.0945
Requires Android
2.1 and up
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