Dear All,
I wanna have some quick facts: Who have WM5 alarm not wake up issue?
The issue is- when you have scheduled an alarm (e.g. a morning wakeup call) and then suspend your unit, it fails to launch the alarm. When you turn on the unit, usually the unit realize the missing alarm and then re-sound the alarm for you. (Which is too late :evil: )
For people who encountered such issue, please enclose the following details:
1. Hardware (e.g. Qtek 9100, Dopod 838, i-Mate K-Jam, O2 XDA Mini S, etc.)
2. Firmware distribution and version:
a. IPL
b. SPL
c. GSM (hehe not quite related I think though)
d. OS
For me:
Hardware: Dopod 838
IPL: Qtek 1.01
SPL: Qtek 1.01
GSM: MDA 1.12.10
OS: O2 Mini 1.5.4.2
i have this issue only using spb time.
The internal alarm works without problems.
ROM 1.6.7.1 WWE
CPU OMAP850
WIZA200
OK, not all fact, but what i thought (until today) from reading many many posts.
1) Bad app design, no fix, wait for new ROM (possible, probable infact but maybe not)
2) When you change the alarm and standby the device before the alarm settings were saved properly (thus, when the device wakes it finishes the save and realises its past the alarm time) this is my fav answer!
I've had the problem in the past using my O2 mini-s UK with ROM 1.5.4.2 WWE. I started leaving the device for 2 min from setting an alarm to entering standby - no more problems.
Til today..
Yesterday i set the alarms like normal, used the phone for over 2 mins then entered standby with the mains charger plugged in.
At 4 am my 5 am alarm woke me, i turned it off, realised the time, almost threw my wizard out the window & went back to sleep for an hour. For info - the alarm WAS set for 5 am, the clock WAS right. Even when the alarm was going off it told me it was a 5am alarm & the clock was saying 4. The alarm then worked properly at 5.
Until there is a real fix for this i cant trust my phone to wake me, my old nokia's could manage the time & alarm, but the Wizard seems to find it too challanging
my 9100 does this all the time now. bugs the hell out of me.
i haven't heard of any other wm5 devices having this problem which might mean it's a wizard issue rather than a wm5 issue ?
:-(
It is a very common problem:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=31895
Please read through that thread first - and if at all possible, reply there.. unless your reply would be specific to the information requested by the poster here.
For what it's worth, I stand by my recommendation in that thread: just don't let your PPC go to standby, and use any of the freeware apps out there to turn the display (not just the backlight) entirely off. Your battery will drain only a *slight* bit more, but you will not run into the issue discussed here.
not sure where to reply. Probably here, it is less crowded and it is more of a WM5 topic here than a hardware topic there.
Anyway, just to let you know I have a MDA Compact 2 (aka HTC Charmer) which runs WM5. The alarm seems to worked fine so far. I have it set to 7am all day, using a the standard WAV sound. Works well.
I'm not sure if this matters, but the alarm works when it is in standby mode (aka one button will switch it on instantly) BUT it doesn't work if I had the device switched off (aka needs to bootup upon switch on).
And, the only problems that I had with the alarm is when I have a VERY big WAV file in it. The last time I had a 3.0MB WAV file as my alarm sound, the 'Reminder' failed to pop up and the alarm keep sounding. And if you had another alarm on it will still sound it together. Bit like a mixed up WAV in the system. Other than this, the alarm works well in Charmer.
I recently have a Dopod838 (I think) ROM (WM5) flashed into it and the alarm still works alright. Hopes this info helps.
Heya,
Yeah, if the device is entirely off (i.e. needs boot-up), then no alarm/etc. will run at all. In that mode, there is only enough power for the device to react to the button press to turn it on. This is similar to switching a regular mobile phone completely off. You'll miss any calls as well
I get the same problem, I just leave my phone on all the time.
ZeBoxx said:
just don't let your PPC go to standby, and use any of the freeware apps out there to turn the display (not just the backlight) entirely off.
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If this helps, I use Pocket Candy as a screen saver and change the default s/saver to 'blank screen'. (Unsure if this completly turns the display off) but my phone fully charged with regular use (camera & vids as well) will last around 36 hours...
Pocket Candy can be found HERE:
I don't know how much people have been thru the same problem in wm2003;the reason why I have started this thread is to find out if there is an OEM secretly fixed the bug already. The time when I am using wm2003, OEM never really admitted the bug is fixed, but in fact the bug is gone after certain version of rom.
so hope everyone could post if you have the problem or not, as well as the detail rom version, so we could know if we could avoid this problem.
after I tried Menmaid and most all the solution on the internet out there, my alarm still not wake up from standby mode...
But yesterday, I found if i enable "voice commend" (which I disabled previously), the alarm will wake up from standby mode.
Hope that helps, my is MW 6.1
if I set the alarm it goes off only sometimes yes volume is up thephone locks up
when it does go off the it goes of multipul times at once I get 4 alarms at once and have to dismiss each
I turned off alarms and they still sound I get woken up at 5 am even though I have turned alarm off and if I turn phone off it just goes off when I turn it on
is there a file where it stores the alarm settings that i can edit or a reg edit I can do
I installed alarmtoday(to try and clear alarms) and it shows a list of alarms all set at exactly the same time and i can't delete them
any help you can give would be great
search and run .. `checknotification` from scarybear(?)
Yeah mine woke me up new years morning, twice, I found removing the battery quite effective.
On a serious note, to stop it going off deselect the days, the check box does FA. Wonderful that the simplest things don't work on these bloody things.
me too on 8525
I finally quit using my alarm clock, and set a calendar reminder every day. I got tired of multiple alarms and lockups. I was leaving the phone on and then it would lock up a few minutes after the alarm went off.
pisses me off when the basic stuff I used to use on my harrier doesn't work on this darn thing. a2dp sux, lockups left and right. no cingular video...media player library problems, storage card wakeup issues, voicecommand issues...
hope aku3 with the rom update fixes some of this stuff. cingular says it will be out by feb 1st.
Hi All,
Long time reader, first time poster
I have now got a T-Mobile UK MDA II and have had this problem occur twice.. the only resolution I found was to hard reset.
For no reason yesterday (no software installs, registry hacks etc..) my Reminders from the diary stopped working.
The phone switches on but fails to make any noise or pop up anything on the screen.
Then this morning when the Alarm should have gone off.. it did.. but gave me no option on the screen to turn it off! (which made me a very unhappy panda without the Snooze! this morning).
Any ideas why the alarms and reminders have gone wrong and how to fix them?
Edit: I have googled to exhaustion and still no better off :|
Tom - www.mouselike.org
Hi all,
on my Qtek S200 (ROM version 2.9.7.24 WWE, ExtROM version 2.9.7.106) reminder and task reminder icons and notifications are cleared when ActiveSync becomes active.
This behaviour has already caused me to miss several meetings because the device was connected when the alarm came up, and all the reminders indications (including the orange LED) were cleared when I returned to my desk some 30 seconds later.
To miss meetings is not precisely the purpose of a pocket PC, to say the least ;-)
Has anybody an idea how this behaviour can be stopped without having the device unconnected all the time?
Thanks in advance,
N.a.D.
Hi Guys! Need some help with my alarm on my HTC Trinity running WM6 which is playing up!
It seems that when the device is in sleep mode, the alarm does not kick in! If then I switch it on (or something triggers it to go on like an incoming call) it works!
I dont think i installed anything that could have effected this unless possibly set the "device lock" on the today screen!
I also noticed that the device needs two or three presses on the Power On button before it actually comes to life which might be related to the issue!
Any ideas?
As regards build, not sure exactly although ->Settings -> About shows me on WM6 Professional and boot up with the pdaviet logo! I have HTC 3-tab installed.
tks
jay
I had a similar issue after activesync got confused with the devices partnership. After running pmClean once I have never had it again. Worth a try
Hi!
I must admit that i was not convinced with your solution but it seems to have done the trick!
Seems to have also resolved my power on/off issue.
thanks
j.
False Alarm !!! Same thing happened this morning and alarm didnt kick in!
Any other ideas?
J.
same here any help?