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Repeating alarms: How does built-in "repeat" work?

Under Sounds & Notifications, when one selects "Reminders", there is a tick box called "Repeat".
Presumably this means that when an alarm sounds, it should repeat until dismissed. Mine only plays once. Am I missing something?

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Hi there,
Mine's a XDA Exec, and it does repeat although it pauses for about a second or two first. Not nearly loud or persistent enough to be a really decent alarm clock though!

OK, so it seems that aeAlarmPlus is the way to go - looks for an alarm and then comes up afterwards to do a repeating/escalating thing of it's own. Works well.

hi there
ok if u talking about alarms then go to clocks & alamrs --- go to alarm tab then set the time whet ever u want to set then click on the "BELL" icon
there is the option to make it repeat and even u can chose the sound
HTH
Regards
Gugi

Yeah, I am using it too.
My problem is that I cant kill the alarm. It gets repeating and I am getting more and more mad. Or is this on purpose ? as I have to wake up and tick the box of with the stylus....
Anybody has the same problem?

el_god said:
Yeah, I am using it too.
My problem is that I cant kill the alarm. It gets repeating and I am getting more and more mad. Or is this on purpose ? as I have to wake up and tick the box of with the stylus....
Anybody has the same problem?
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Playing with alarms may have been the reason why my calendar was not able any more to remind me.
When soft resetting even alarms of all kind made me mad.
I hard reset (horrible job with a lot of work to do) solved my problem, but I do not touch the alarm any more.
Hope your problem is different
Huib

i have the same problem. It goes off every time and repeats for a couple of times and I dont see any option to close/kill it.. good thing I still have te sense not to bang it against the wall like an alarm clock.

i guess if the built in alarm function is not working or it goes crazy, just use any other free alarm application. i know theres a lot of free application out there.

Alarm Clock Nightmare

I did do a quick search, but couldn't find owt, but can't believe I'm the only person with problem.
I use the supplied Clock & Alarms for my alarm clock, but sometimes if I'm using something else on the phone, or already have notifications like missed calls when my alarm is due to go off, if will still sound, and vibrate, but won't come up with a message about it. Giving me no option to turn the thing off!!!
So it will go off fow a minute or two, then go quiet, then every five minutes will repeat, again with no message.
Even if I reset the device it will still continue.... I either have to wait for a message to come up, which can take 30+minutes, or if I get really annoyed with it clean reset it :-/
If anyone does know how I can get rid of this error, or what file I can load to give me the message, it will be much appreciated!!!

alarms and repeating alarms are well known to be highly unreliable.
spb pocket plus has an add in to assist with repeating alarms, but I never found it much help.
may i suggest you dont repeat them, this is a big problem.
mine got so bad after a while I had no choice but hard reset. it messed up all the system notifications and just became plain unreliable.

Yes, I've had exactly the same problems and also with Spb Pocket Plus repeating alarms too.
I've since disabled this option which has made things bettr but still not perfect

jmdrizen said:
I did do a quick search, but couldn't find owt, but can't believe I'm the only person with problem.
I use the supplied Clock & Alarms for my alarm clock, but sometimes if I'm using something else on the phone, or already have notifications like missed calls when my alarm is due to go off, if will still sound, and vibrate, but won't come up with a message about it. Giving me no option to turn the thing off!!!
If anyone does know how I can get rid of this error, or what file I can load to give me the message, it will be much appreciated!!!
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at least your alarm goes off, mine does not. an expensive device like the xda exec and a simple thing like the alarm wont work after new o2 rom update
:? :?

Does that mean if I use alarms, but don't select "repeat sound", that may be better?
I upgraded to the i-Mate ROM, and TWICE now the notification queue has died for the calupd.exe and calnot.exe. Adding appointments with alarms make no additions to the notification queue, hence I miss all my alarms.
The only fix so far has been to hard reset, and wait for the next time the notification queue dies.

Are you using Sprite Backup?
I found it to be the culprit and I have switched to SBP Backup now.
Sprite CRMdesk will give you a patch "PostBootPopup.exe" if requested that helps the problem. It solves the many notifications in the queue that can't be cleared or dismissed normally. But the issue of not waking for any alarms remained for me with Sprite 5 - even with this patch.

works perfect for me!
I just added my own sound file which has a little more agressive waking properties ;-)
If you're stuck with an invisible alarm you cant get rid off, you can use scarybear's "check notifications" proggie and take out the notification which has messed up....
San

dreamtheater39 said:
you can use scarybear's "check notifications" proggie and take out the notification which has messed up....
San
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Where is this please?

http://www.scarybearsoftware.com/ppc_cn_overview.html
But be warned, if you are careful it can work, but I got aggressive and frustrated.
The only, hard reset. There are some you can, some you cant.
Bewarned.

replace HTC Home

I am trying to replace HTC Home, i dont like how slow it makes my phone. The idea is to have a bunch of different plugins and such in UltimateLaunch.
these are the main things I want in UltimateLaunch, and I was wondering if you guys could help me out in finding them?
clock
I really liked the look of the clock in HTC Home, I used the DigitalGlow Yellow one. does anyone know of a good clock today plugin that i could use in UL?
photo contact dialer
This feature was awesome. I found one today screen app that was ripped from a TREO 700w (link) but it seems to run really slowly. It gets the job done, but I was wondering if you guys had any suggestions for a faster one?
weather
I have tried Pocketweather and SPB weather but didnt like either of them. I just want an app that has the current conditions, and a few days in advance, do you guys have any ideas?
Thanks for looking at my post and helping out. If i could find all of this stuff, it would be amazing.

What about the automatic ringer? that one feature is why I use HTC Home

what do you mean by automatic ringer?

Search for rlToday. I think some have used it to make an HTC Home like today screen. I think dcd has offered to share his code if asked.

Sturatt said:
what do you mean by automatic ringer?
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On the 6-tab version... I belive it's the far right tab: the one that lets you select sound off, vibrate and ringer on. The far right option: automatic ringer. Best feature ever on a phone.

spb phone plugin offers automatic ringer also, if by automatic you mean that it goes silent when you are in a meeting and such.

I assume that's what they mean... i have htc home and it automatically goes into vibrate when i'm in meetings, it is a nice feature for the forgetful mind... now if everyone's phone did it. maybe at the movies too that would be a nice feature

maskedlion said:
spb phone plugin offers automatic ringer also, if by automatic you mean that it goes silent when you are in a meeting and such.
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Thanks; ill look into that. Would be nice to have a proggie without a memory leak.

okashira said:
On the 6-tab version... I belive it's the far right tab: the one that lets you select sound off, vibrate and ringer on. The far right option: automatic ringer. Best feature ever on a phone.
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what does it actually do? like how does it work? time based? and where are the settings? i only use silent and vibrate.

Turns off the ringer when you have an outlook appointment schedueled as 'busy' (default appointment)
I set my classes as a recurring appointment (as well as finals) so the phone ringer automatically turns off when a class starts. As to not piss off professors, embarass myself and/or bother with turning off and on the ringer several times a day.
works for meeting, etc. as well, of course

okashira said:
Turns off the ringer when you have an outlook appointment schedueled as 'busy' (default appointment)
I set my classes as a recurring appointment (as well as finals) so the phone ringer automatically turns off when a class starts. As to not piss off professors, embarass myself and/or bother with turning off and on the ringer several times a day.
works for meeting, etc. as well, of course
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I have my phone set to vibrate and ring. If I set it to automatic, will it not ring and still vibrate, or is there a registry setting to set it that way?

okashira said:
On the 6-tab version... I belive it's the far right tab: the one that lets you select sound off, vibrate and ringer on. The far right option: automatic ringer. Best feature ever on a phone.
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I will agree with this assessment.

[APP][11.07.08] Diamond Profile Switcher 0.2

Hi guys,
with this tool you can switch between 'volume on' and 'vibrate' by shaking your phone
Just run it and click on 'Hide', so that it always run in background.
Please test it and tell me if the sensivity is ok and if it's not drain your battery to much.
Please donate for me! I'm a student and I spend all my free time for developing tools for you!
A cup of coffee for me
Received donations
6.00 EUR: Daniel O
4.00 EUR: Arne V
10.00 EUR: Mahmoud K
Thank you very much!
Changelog
Version 0.2 (07/11/08 14:10 pm)
Vibration feedback (1x long: vibration mode on, 2x short volume on)
A lot of settings for parameters. Just play around with them, because it's difficult to explain them.
At the moment settings will be lost, after closing my app.
application icon added
Version 0.1 (07/09/08 18:50 pm)
first release
Best regards,
Sascha

Sounds nice!
But how "hard" do you have to shuffle? I mean can it happen accidentially for example by running with the phone in your pocket?

horstborsch said:
Sounds nice!
But how "hard" do you have to shuffle? I mean can it happen accidentially for example by running with the phone in your pocket?
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That's why it takes so long until i published this app.
I coded it so, that nothing can happend! Only if you shuffle the device, it change to vibrate or back to volume on.
I think it is not possible, that this happens, when you having your phone in your pocket ..... ok i don't know what you are doing the whole day...maybe it is possible

COOL!
Not to be ungrateful...but would it be possible to write something similar that will put an alarm into "Snooze" mode?
eg...Alarm goes off and instead of me having to navigate through the menu's to stop or snooze, I would just shake it?

i'd like to have a function by shuffling the diamond, that the screen goes on or off...

well done!
But is there any notification if you shake it that the status change is preformed?
So if you do it with the screen switched off you need a feedback if it was sucessfull. Maybe one beep for vibrate and two beeps for volume on?

daren1 said:
COOL!
Not to be ungrateful...but would it be possible to write something similar that will put an alarm into "Snooze" mode?
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That sounds cool! I'll figure out that.

horstborsch said:
well done!
But is there any notification if you shake it that the status change is preformed?
So if you do it with the screen switched off you need a feedback if it was sucessfull. Maybe one beep for vibrate and two beeps for volume on?
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It doesn't work, when the device is in standby!
If the device is on, you see it in title bar.
But i could also add a vibration feedback when switching.

Nice trick !
I will have a look at this...
Thanks !
@sushi : did you use the Gsensor API for that ?

its perfect!

@MonteCristoffOn:
I figured it out by myself, how to use the gsensor.
But at the end it was easier and faster to use the finished api, which was published a few days ago.

Works great so far!! But one question: Would it be possible to start the app completely in the background like a service? Thanks alot for your work!!
cheers

neoTheone said:
Works great so far!! But one question: Would it be possible to start the app completely in the background like a service? Thanks alot for your work!!
cheers
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Yes, that's what i want to do in one of the next versions.

very sweet indeed!! I would also vote for a short vibration feedback after switching and customized actions to perform.. Thank you

After testing, i figured out, that my app works when the phone is in standby. First i said, that it won't...
In next release i give you the possibilty to change parameters, so that we can find the optimal settings.

neoTheone said:
very sweet indeed!! I would also vote for a short vibration feedback after switching and customized actions to perform.. Thank you
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Works great on the TLR V2 Rom
Would also love to have a little vibrate when the profile is switched.
Thanks for the cool app

thank you again, i don't know if the "cup of coffee" link is there because of my suggestion (from the thflo3d thread) or it was already there but i think i did good use of it.
not enough for a mercedes or a new girl friend but sure enough for at least a "six pack"
thank you!

KukurikU said:
not enough for a new girl friend
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What a shame! I need a new girl friend so much
But, thank you very much!

sushilange said:
In next release i give you the possibilty to change parameters, so that we can find the optimal settings.
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Yes please provider a slider or something to be able to set the sensitivity by ourselves..... cuz sometimes when I shake it, it changes... other times it doesn't But the intention of this program: I love it!

Working Great!!
Awesome App!
i agree with other comments about the below....
As mentioned, a small vibrate or noise ( maybe make a noise when switch to loud, and vibrate it when switch to vibrate ??)
The shake to "wake up" the fone sounds awesome.
also shake to snooze or turn off the alarm.
Also things such as turning the phone over would work well with the alarm functions, and turning off the alarm
How about turn phone over to snooze alarm... shake it to stop alarm ???

Alarm problem in standby

Hi ppl,
I have a big problem with alarm in my D2. If i set alarm and send D2 to stanby, alarm dont beep This is a big problem to me. I need safe batery, but i need alarm too...I try Klaxon, but i have with them the same problem. Can help me anyone? Can i set anythink to wakeup D2 when is in stanby?
thanks for answers

I know that it wont beep for text messages notifications are you using any roms if you are install advanced config and under power management set the battery usage to 10 minutes if not using a rom go to the htc website and download the sms fix

I using TD2 tools, i have sms tone fixed. But alarm is dead alltime
How i can change registry(must have any program ? ) Can i change any in registry how about change sms wake up from standby?
My ROM 1.39.479.1

Ropik said:
Hi ppl,
I have a big problem with alarm in my D2. If i set alarm and send D2 to stanby, alarm dont beep This is a big problem to me. I need safe batery, but i need alarm too...I try Klaxon, but i have with them the same problem. Can help me anyone? Can i set anythink to wakeup D2 when is in stanby?
thanks for answers
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Have exact same problem, think there must be something related to the amount of time the phone has been in standby too, if I test an alarm, by setting it to go off in 10 mins for example, it works fine, left overnight, never works....

I had issues with the alarm after using Klaxxon and uninstalling it.
I am currently testing to try and get it working each time and seems to be ok.
I reinstalled Klaxxon ticked force remove windows alarms and intergrate applyed the changed and soft booted the phone.
I then started klaxxon again and remove both ticks and soft reset again.
I then used AlarmFixWM to remove duplicate entries from the notification queue.
Not 100% if this now works 100% but seems promising.
Im sure there is an easier way but the above its what I did.

Found this thread which seems to be related
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=333521
Have installed SK tools, cleaned notification queue and set it to run cleanup auto in middle of night....
Alarm actually went off this morning...
Hardly conclusive, but gives me hope!
Odd, seems to be a longstanding WM2003/5/6/6.1 issue, not TD2 specific, but I moved to topaz from an artemis where I never had a single alarm problem... you would think if the artemis hardware could cope with my appointments list/alarms etc. then a topaz would be fine too...
P.

Alarm sounded again this morning
Happy Days...
Will post back here if problem reoccurs,
Otherwise, assume this has worked for me.
P.

Hey popkid,
Any chance you could post exactly how to do this using SK tools? I cant seem to figure it out and I have this annoying alarm problem!!!
Cheers

philaldred said:
Hey popkid,
Any chance you could post exactly how to do this using SK tools? I cant seem to figure it out and I have this annoying alarm problem!!!
Cheers
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1) Fire up SK Tools
2) Hit Tools (Bottom Right) --> Settings
3) 2nd Tab "Automation"
4) Toggle "Notifications Queue" to "Use in Auto Mode" if it isn't already
(Take a look through other run options to run and deselect them if you don't want them running automatically)
5) Toggle "Scheduled Run" to "Yes"
6) Set time/day/date etc. to run (Mine is set to run at 3.30am every day, probably overkill!)
7) Set "Silent Mode" to "Yes"
and you are good to go
Alternatively, to fix your Notifications Queue just once:
1) Fire up SK Tools
2) Category (Bottom Left) --> Maintenance
3) Select "Notifications Queue"
4) Action (Bottom Left) --> Mark Duplicates (should be a fair few if you are having alarm problems)
5) Action (Bottom Left) --> Delete Marked
Hope this helps, post back if not!
Good Luck
Pauly

Thanks Pauly, ill see if G-alarm wakes me up in the morning!!

Dunno if you guys can help, i got Klaxon and alarm is fine, but if i snooze using shake then it never goes off again!
Can you show me your settings or give me any ideas?

My solution: Whatever alarm you have, install HTCPedia Topaz Setting Tool, go to Power Settings and set AC Resuming and Battery Resuming to 20 seconds, works EVERY DAY for me with Klaxxon.

That change made no difference when I was having my difficulties, think that gives the device longer to process your notifications queue if it is large, but if the notifications queue has other issues then it won't help.
P.
Edit: SFAIK Think G-Alarm changes both of these registry values to 120 seconds on installation, That is what they are set to on my TD2
they are located in HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Power\Timeouts\ if you wish to edit directly,
"BattResumingSuspendTimeout" and "ACResumingSuspendTimeout"

But does that fix the snooze function?

adigraham said:
But does that fix the snooze function?
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doesn't sound like the same problem you have to be honest, the notifications queue stuff is related to the alarm never going off in the first place...
I'm not a klaxon user, but have had it installed in the past, are you sure that you don't have the light sensor alarm deactivation switched on or it set to switch the alarm off (rather than snooze) on shake?
P.

Thanks for replying mate, how would i know about the light sensor bit?
popkid said:
doesn't sound like the same problem you have to be honest, the notifications queue stuff is related to the alarm never going off in the first place...
I'm not a klaxon user, but have had it installed in the past, are you sure that you don't have the light sensor alarm deactivation switched on or it set to switch the alarm off (rather than snooze) on shake?
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I thought there was an option in Klaxon itself to use the light sensor to deactivate the alarm when a light is switched on?
Ah... Ok... just checked Klaxon release docs and it seems that isn't implemented yet... so thats a red herring!
It does say though... flip phone over to snooze
and shake to deactivate
I'm guessing that whatever you are doing is triggering the deactivation rather than the snoozing....!
One way to check, if you enable the integration to TF3D in klaxon then the time noted for the next alarm on your front page should increment to the next alarm set once the alarm has been deactivated, but not if it is snoozed, I think anyway.
P.

hey, yeah sorry i turn it over! it used to work with stock rom i think .. do you know what each option does in klaxxon? might just try g-aram or something?
popkid said:
I thought there was an option in Klaxon itself to use the light sensor to deactivate the alarm when a light is switched on?
Ah... Ok... just checked Klaxon release docs and it seems that isn't implemented yet... so thats a red herring!
It does say though... flip phone over to snooze
and shake to deactivate
I'm guessing that whatever you are doing is triggering the deactivation rather than the snoozing....!
One way to check, if you enable the integration to TF3D in klaxon then the time noted for the next alarm on your front page should increment to the next alarm set once the alarm has been deactivated, but not if it is snoozed, I think anyway.
P.
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No, sorry not sure, guess there is some sort of sensitivity set somewhere where it determines whether you are shaking or just turning over, I used to use the turn over function in klaxon when I had it and it worked fine... in G-alarm I get what you describe btw the sensitivity is set such that when I turn it over it thinks I'm shaking it and deactivates, so that may not provide the fix you are after either... and G_alarm isn't free... if you hunt around, I'm sure there was another klaxon thread on here (possibly by the developer himself) that had some details of the sensitivity being changed between releases, may be a reg edit you can do to fine tune it?
Good Luck!
P.

Ok thanks for your help fella!
What rom you running btw?
popkid said:
No, sorry not sure, guess there is some sort of sensitivity set somewhere where it determines whether you are shaking or just turning over, I used to use the turn over function in klaxon when I had it and it worked fine... in G-alarm I get what you describe btw the sensitivity is set such that when I turn it over it thinks I'm shaking it and deactivates, so that may not provide the fix you are after either... and G_alarm isn't free... if you hunt around, I'm sure there was another klaxon thread on here (possibly by the developer himself) that had some details of the sensitivity being changed between releases, may be a reg edit you can do to fine tune it?
Good Luck!
P.
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