WhereRing

Setup your phone to switch among vibrate, ring, or silent according to GPS

Adjust your phone's ringer mode just by moving around. WhereRing remembers whether you want ringing, silence, or vibration in each spot. It uses fine-grained GPS to notice when your location changes, and it updates your ringer accordingly. WhereRing is quite streamlined; check out Locale® if you want something more elaborate. This is free (gpl3) software (http://code.google.com/p/wherering/).

WhereRing uses the high-power/fine-accuracy GPS mode exclusively, so it is better for daily/local use and nightly recharging than for use with rarely-visited, region-sized ringer mode areas. In the latter case, you should (de)activate WhereRing on a temporary basis rather than allowing it to activate automatically when your Android starts up.

Ringer mode zones ("places") can be configured by typing in latitude/longitude, or with the "use current location" feature. Each place can have a name, a radius, and a ringer mode (vibrate, ring, or silent). You can view places on a Google Map to verify that the coordinates are as you expect.

Normally, WhereRing remembers your original mode as you enter a location, changes the mode according to your settings, and restores the mode as you leave. If you manually change your ringer mode while you are in a location, WhereRing will leave that override in effect until you enter a new location.

Users who are new to Android: this application makes use of menus activated by your hardware menu button, so as not to clutter your display with less-frequently-used buttons. Consult your device's user manual if you are unaware of the existence of the standard Android menu feature.