I'm having a phantom alarm issue. I have an alarm that goes off at 03:02 every day, it's driving me nuts!
Yes, I looked in all the obvious places, no alarms are set for that time anywhere.
I think SpbBackup is the culprit since this is the time I had auto back-up scheduled. Thing is, SpbBackup is no longer installed and all traces of it are gone!
Help... pls... I don't want to hard reset.
Check Notifications Software
Check out this webpage, http://www.scarybearsoftware.com/cn_overview.html
Download the file, put on your PDA and see if this helps. It has helped me in the past when I've gotten these phantom alarms. It says it only works for WM2003, but I've used it on WM5 and it seems to work fine--though use at your own risk.
I hope this helps!!
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on my XDA Exec (O2 ROM 1.30.162 WWE for last 2 months) these stopped working about 2wks ago....
Yes, in settings>personal>sounds and notification I have set for playing sounds etc etc etc...and yes, I set reminder when creating new appointments /tasks...
So...any idea why no longer working?????
It's a known "feature" of this OS. Use search for this problem with suggested solutions. None of these solutions worked for me (on my T-Mobile USA MDA).
I had to Hard Reset to get my notifications back. But I lost them again within 2 weeks. I will hard reset again whenever I get some free time.
When I ran into this same problem I also tried a couple solutions, MemMaid didn't work for me and I screwed up my device (lost the ability to ActiveSync) when I ignorantly deleted all sorts of stuff using the Scarey Bear Check Notifications tool. What did work for me was the trial version of SKTools, it has a delete duplicate notifications type tool. If the problem shows up again I'll just purchase SKTools.
I was the same problem a fem weeks ago, and my solutions was program Check Notifications. When I dowloaded this program a readed only about support for WM2003SE, but work on WM05 well.
I deleted automaticky every bad notifications in first time, but nothings happened a and my Qtek was still NO-SOUNDS :-(
I tried delete every RED notifications in check list, and I deleted every old notifications in this list in second time. I was delete this manually! After soft reset my QTEK 'again start talking '
here you have cab file for tring my solution
dort said:
I was the same problem a fem weeks ago, and my solutions was program Check Notifications. When I dowloaded this program a readed only about support for WM2003SE, but work on WM05 well.
I deleted automaticky every bad notifications in first time, but nothings happened a and my Qtek was still NO-SOUNDS :-(
I tried delete every RED notifications in check list, and I deleted every old notifications in this list in second time. I was delete this manually! After soft reset my QTEK 'again start talking '
here you have cab file for tring my solution
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Great..........worked for me - I just deleted the red reminders twice (for some reason) and it started working again. Must be a corrupt remider or something.
Thanks for the pointers
Just some additional info for future reference.. I downloaded the CheckNotifications.CAB file (thanks for posting!) and removed all duplicates.. but still no reminders..
Eventually, I did the following, and I don't what fixed it but it may help others!
* Using CheckNotifications, deleted all duplicates
* Using CheckNotifications, deleted all references using Calendar.EXE
* Soft Reset
* Deleted Duplicates (again!)
Sync'd via ActiveSync, then whilst connected did the following:
* Removed ALL Calendar entries for the current month
* Entered a test notification
* Waited for the Notify to fire...
Success.
I think it was something to do with corrupt Calendar entry or some sort in my case; either way using the above fixed it for me, so may help someone else reading this in the future. (probably me, when it goes wrong 6 months down the line..!!)
Reminders (most, not all) have stopped working on my Advantage. They show correctly in the calendar and sync with the desktop where the reminders pop up but for most of them nothing happens on Adavantage.
The odd one still works as normal but for most of them although the agenda shows the appointment about to happen no pop up, sound or even notice of a reminder having been missed appears.
I seem to remember a slightly similar thing happening with WM2003 after I had changed the time zone, and had to delete and then reinstate each appointment to get the reminders up again. But in this case neither has the time zone changed nor does deleting and reinstalling (nor before you ask soft-resetting) the device makes any difference.
Any ideas anybody?
Resolution
I had some recurring reminders which were set to go off at 1 minute before and some at 0 minutes.
When I set all of these to at least 5 minutes before everything returned to normal.
Strange unless there is some time issue in the device or OS somewhere - anyway, just in case someone else gets this problem.
It may sound funny but change time zones, have it change the time zone. Then hold the power button until it asks are you sure you want to reboot. Let it reboot then change the time zone back. Sometimes that helps cuz it will rebuild the alarm database.
Your other option is Scarybear fix notifications and Check Notifications. You can view the alarms and remove the ones that are invalid. You need to be careful though. Delete the ones that say NULL.
I've benn through this for YEARS and that's the only way I've had 100% success.
hammermedia said:
Your other option is Scarybear fix notifications and Check Notifications. You can view the alarms and remove the ones that are invalid. You need to be careful though. Delete the ones that say NULL.
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I agree with everything hammermedia says bar one - I find Scarybear sometimes doesn't too well on WM5. Dinarsoft Memmaid does the trick
on the notification queue for me.
Snooze options
While we are on the subject the thing I HATE about WM5 compared to PPC2003 is the fewer snooze options.
Got quite excited over mention of memmaid to look at queue as I totally rely on these notifications but often need to set the snooze to x hours but having had a brief look I see that one can delete but not amend.
Don't want to try scarybear if there are reports of probs on WM5
On my old universal I spent ages trying to to get PocketMax Alarmtoday working to give me more flexibility. I will try again on Advantage now.
Any way of hacking the reminder snooze options? or Other programs people like?
still not snoozing
Just a brief update have got alarmtoday working fine which does have helpful options - regulates the sounds for how long and really like the 'mute all sound for a flexible period' - how many times does one forgot to turn the sound back on!
Alas it still uses the WM5 options for handling the reminder when it pops up so I can't tell it to remind me 8 hours
Suddenly the tasks did not remind me anymore. The device turned on at the scheduled time but there was no notification popup or sound.
What I did was delete every task from the device, delete all the notifications related to TASKS.EXE with the tool found on this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=280104, sync with Outlook and move the deleted tasks from the Deleted items folder to the main Tasks folder so they're back, and that's it. It's working again!
Hope the tip helps someone!
And we pray hard, that the error doesn't repeat itself in the future?
Can't belive, that my PDA doesn't function as a PDA. Remindres is a basic feature isn't it?
(I have the same problem. I wil try this, thank you!)
Thank you Marton!
I removed some notification with the tool you suggested, and my reminders are back
There were lot of notifications with date before today. I just delete the first one or two, reset my device and the earlyer reminders are displayed, and I colud dissimiss.
I'm glad this worked for you as well, Sallala!
For me the problem was gone and I did not have to repeat the procedure, fortunately.
The reminders stopped working on a busy day when I added 8 tasks, and they started reminding and I postponed some of them, and an incoming call stopped me from discard some, so it crashed somehow and I had no more reminders.
I searched all over the forums and people suggested Memmaid to clean the notifications. I tried it but had no luck. I tried other tools as well (I remember one from Scarybear) but still no luck, so I manually did what I described on the first post and voilà
Cheers!
Marton
Been using my XDA Atom for almost a year now and everyhing worked perfectly. I can say this is the best phone I know and had...
However, just last month the alarm/ reminder on my calendar did not work all of a sudden.
when you key in reminders with alarm notifications the reminders does not pop up or does not even alarm. Ive placed the phone to vibrate to test if the alarm is working but still doesn not function.
Hope somebody can help on this one...
Thanks!
charles sy said:
Been using my XDA Atom for almost a year now and everyhing worked perfectly. I can say this is the best phone I know and had...
However, just last month the alarm/ reminder on my calendar did not work all of a sudden.
when you key in reminders with alarm notifications the reminders does not pop up or does not even alarm. Ive placed the phone to vibrate to test if the alarm is working but still doesn not function.
Hope somebody can help on this one...
Thanks!
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maybe software problem. isolating the case is needed. A few questions to answer.
1.what ROM are you using?
2. did you recently installed any software prior to the event that alarm is not working?
3. last time you did a soft reset and check the alarm problem?
hard reset will always be the last resort to try and see if problems is fixed
Charles is my friend. He installed Pocket Informant, that's when his Pocket Outlook alarms stopped functioning. I've uninstalled PI for him and checked his notification settings, then did a soft reset. Still no go. I've never encountered this type of problem from installing PI before.
Bree said:
Charles is my friend. He installed Pocket Informant, that's when his Pocket Outlook alarms stopped functioning. I've uninstalled PI for him and checked his notification settings, then did a soft reset. Still no go. I've never encountered this type of problem from installing PI before.
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bai,
registry could have been damaged. "sometimes" eventhough we have uninstall the program, it leaves/alteres the registry. try a HR if it will fix the problem
dear friends, i have had this problem previously on other winmobile devices and now on the THD. simply & suddenly i stop getting reminders for my calendar appointments, even though they still do appear on my today screen( i use the windows mobile standard today screen). no change in my notification or sounds settings, and despite a softreset. on my old phone imate ultimate 6150, this problem used to disappear after syncing with outlook on my pc, and this time it worked too. but honestly it's beyond me why this happens. yes the problem has been solved, but until one realises what has happened u could miss out on an important appointment. thanks
any ideas?
memaid and sktools have options to rebuild the notifications queue.
Alternatively, search here on notifications - the problem sounds like this queue/list is corrupt.
I had similar problems and the memaid solved it fine.
Well I've just read inanother zforumsomewhere and it works.
Change the time on your today screen, to the visiting time. Accept all changes
Then set it back to home time, and accept all changes.
Viola! the reminder starts working fine again.
But, after a day or two, things are back to where they began. So you wil need a reminder to remind you to do this procedure once in a while