The calender reminders i set in pocket informant dont seem to be waking up the wizard and the wizard does not vibrate when the reminders are set.
This was working fine a few days ago, not sure what caused the issue, all the setting seem ok, also have tried to uninstall pocket informant and reinstall, but no change.
Anything else i can try?
The non-sounding of alarms and reminders has been a common problem on pocketpcs since years, search the topic with keyword WRAP to see the problems we face. Pocket Informant may not be the cause of your problems... Many solutions are presented and seem to work, but sooner or later they all fail us....
HI All - This is odd. I'm using version 8.09 of Agenda Fusion - A PIM. It's behaved perfectly up until a few days ago. Now, if I add a new task or appointment with an alarm, the alarm doesn't ring and the window doesn't pop-up. If I import all the PIM data to another XDA Exec it all works fine.
I tried hard resetting the device and then resyncing with outlook but it only worked (Tasks alarm and pop up) for a few TEST tasks. Now any NEW tasks or appointments wont trigger the alarm nor a pop-up reminder window.
I've now hard reset three times (phew!) and it's made no difference.
I reckon it's got NOTHING to do with Agenda Fusion, but wondered if anyone had any ideas...?
The only thing I have been able to determine is that if hard reset it and DON'T import any of the old date and create an alrm (task or appointment) - it works fine. All other sounds and programs are working as they should
Thanks
Steve
Hi Steve, I am suffering the same with Pocket Informat, so it is clear that it has nothing to see with the PIM you are using.
I have not a solution, so if anyone can help us, we will thank very much.
Cayetano
No Alarms
In the end I hard reset the device - it seems to be the only way to reliably solve the problem
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In the end I hard reset the device - it seems to be the only way to reliably solve the problem
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Dear Steve, I have followed the next treats and for the moment it is working with no hard reset.
Hope it help to you for the next time:
http://www.aximsite.com/boards/showthread.php?t=116727
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=285049&highlight=task+alarm
This is really annoying. For some reason pocket outlook has started opening itself to the last used folder when for instance I receive an mms. It's always done all that in the background until now. The only change I can recall is that I've installed IM+.
I use phoneAlarm to get notified for all incoming events and I would like to see Pocket Outlook running in the background like it usually does.
Any tips or suggestion to what is causing this?
Just try simply to do soft reset - it helped me recently.
I use a MDA Vario II (from t-mobile) and, begining with a couple of days before, I get no reminders to appointments anymore. I suspect that it is happening since I have instaled PocketBreeze 5.0.11, but i am not sure that PocketBreeze is the cause.
Does anybody else face the same problem? What can be done, except a hard reset (I am not so thrilled by the ideea to install everything again)?
Have you tried checking your notification queue for duplicates and/or out of date entries.
You can try scarybear checknotifications, memmaid or sk tools for this (prob there are others too)
Try this first, see if there are any duplicates or out of date entries. Delete all these, soft reset and then try again. Don't delete anything if you don't know what it is (unless it comes up under duplicates).
I use a combination of the above tools as I find that they often find dups or out of date entries that the others miss. Try checknotifications first (free), and see if this helps.
Hello marisa,
thank you for the hint, it seems to be working now. To be true, I already bought SKTools yesterday, because I found some other post with a similar problem. But I only ran the "Invalid Registry Entries" and "Invalid Registry Values" utilities, being afraid to delete anything. But after your post I ran the "Notification Queue" utility and checked all entries that refer CALENDAR.EXE And for all birthdays there were duplicates.
How do they got there? I initially synchronized the calendar in my old PalmVx with the Outlook (there I had the birthdays as normal appointments, not in contacts). Than connected my MDA per USB and ActiveSync to my PC. I manually inserted all the birthdays in the Outlook's contacts, causing Outlook to automatically create a duplicate "all day event". Than I deleted the birthday appointments which I get from the old PalmVx. In all of this time my MDA was automatically synchronizing with Outlook, so practically when I deleted the entries, they also were deleted from the MDA's calendar.
Now the question: since Outlook, ActiveSync and Windows Mobile are all Microsoft products, why weren't the duplicates also deleted from the Notification Queue? Why the garbage that needs to be cleaned with 3rd party tools and hours of searching posts on forums? Whatever.
Thank you again anyway!
PS: so PocketBreeze was not the cause.
They don't call it Active Stink for nothing you know!
Regarding Pocket Breeze, Spb Diary, Ilauncher and Pocket Plus, I don't know if these have anything to do with the problem.
I would say they must do, as most of these problems seem to occur when or shortly after people have installed one or any of them (or similar).
However, there are some people who get these problems with just the standard pre-installed software.
I personally think it's the interaction of Activesync, the native operating system and these today plugins which sets up something unexpected.
It could also be that people install both (many versions) of one of these in order to compare them, and decide which to buy, and they interfere with each other.
I have even had both version installed at the same time (but only one activated) for quick comparison. So, it's really hard to apportion blame for this. The other day I actually had to remove 2 identical templates, which had the date 2999! How's that for weird?
Never mind. All's well now, and that's the main thing.
Hmm, i must say that PocketBreeze was installed while I was performing the previously described birthday synchronisations. Whether it had any blame - I don't know. Uninstalling PocketBreeze was the first thing to do by trying to solve the problem, didn't help, the damage was already done. What I know is that I will install it again, because it sure gives me a much nicer overview. And that I will watch the Notification Queue closely from nowone
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What I know is that I will install it again, because it sure gives me a much nicer overview.
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I don't think Pocket BReeze is related to my problem with appointments and alarms, I've had it installed all along and the problem only started very recently.
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I use a combination of the above tools as I find that they often find dups or out of date entries that the others miss. Try checknotifications first (free), and see if this helps.
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I'm using MemMaid but I'm still a bit confused about the entries that appear in the notification queue.
Can I safely delete any entries that relate to calendar entries in the past without this actually deleting it from the calendar itself?
Also, I have a load of entries in the queue that start:
\\.\Notifications\NamedEvents\SCRIPT:0x0
The detail for these shows a date and a (fairly random) time. Most are in the future (and generally in the early hours of the morning.)
Can anyone tell me what these entries are?
thanks
Mark
Markmat
I'm no expert, but my rule of thumb is:
If I don't know what it is/does then I leave it alone.
there is quite a bit of 'stuff' that has to run at various times to make the system run properly - that's when these phantom notifications are supposed to get cleared up, but don't. So, leave these alone.
Regarding the calendar entries, it's just the notifications which come up under memmaid's notfications check. So, if 3 months ago you had a dentist appointment and set the reminder for this to a day before say, and for some reason that notification didn't get dismissed and now you see it in memmaid, you can delete this. It won't delete the appointment, just the notification which is of no use to you now anyway and is confusing your system.
Bill, I think I know what happened with your duplicate birthday stuff.
Are you using Pocket Informant? or another 3rd party diary application? Maybe even Pocket Breeze itself.
Basically, I think you have 2 applications creating calendar events from contact birthdays. One is Outlook, the other is one of the ones I've mentioned. The solution is to turn it off on one or the other.
I already solved my problem by deleting the double entries in the Notification QUeue.
I was using PocketBreeze. I currently uninstalled it, but I will install it again and test your theory.
What do you mean by turning Outlook off? I use the Outlook on my PC to create appointments and I expect ActiveSync to upload them on the MDA by synchronization, even if the one managing them there is PocketBreeze. And backwards, when I create them with PocketBreeze on the MDA - i expect them to be downloaded on my PC by synchronisation.
Do you mean that there is also the preinstalled so called Outlook Mobile on my MDA which conflicts with PocketBreeze? Shouldn't this be the main concern of the PocketBreeze developers, to ensure that their software is not producing redundant double entries?
Anyway, if you mean turning off the preinstalled Outlook Mobile on the MDA, how exactly should I do it, where do I find this setting?
Sorry Bill, I haven't been very clear.
I think there is a special extra function in Outlook and also at the same time in some of these other pocket pc diary applications which create birthday calendar entries from contacts.
I am fairly certain that Pocket Informant does.
I am not suggesting that you don't sync with Outlook, just that one of the third party applications may be creating a duplicate using this extra function and so is outlook.
In Pocket informant there is an option to turn this extra function off, so then you only get the outlook ones. Hope that explains better.
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In the Pocket Informant manual it explains this quite well when discussing options:
Apply Contact Birthday/Anniversaries
If you save anniversary and birthday information with your contact data, this option can read and enter the events into your calendar for you. However, because Outlook will do the same, it is recommended that you leave the option turned off if you synchronize with Outlook, in order to
avoid duplicates or performance issues.
Nothing to be sorry about
I understand now what you mean, thank you for the explanations. I will search the PocketBreeze's options for a similar setting.
And probably I will take a look at the PocketInformant too.
Hi every one, my reminder no longer remind me about task and appointment...
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Hi every one, my reminder no longer remind me about task and appointment...
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Although the link I'm going to post may not seem immediately relevant, I suggest you carry out the clear notifications instruction. Bear in mind you may then need to reset alarms and notifications/reminders.
http://www.pocketgear.com/software_detail.asp?id=14288
This is a link to sktools that has a facility for clearing duplicates/notifications.
There are others Memmaid is one. Scarybear is a freeware one but the others have more tools available, Do not go mad deleting every item in your notifications queue. Some items perform crucial functions e.g. repllog.exe that allows active sync to function. Initially just stick to duplicates.
Mike