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Alarm not going on

I would like to know if one of you got this problem and if you was able to fix it.
My XDAII is not turning on on any time alarm seting or calendar alarm. The alarm only goes on after I turn on the XDAII myself.
This is not comon since it was working perfectly and started behaving like thi since a few days.
I tryed to do a soft reset but it still behave the same way.
Can someone help me?
Thanks a lot.
Felipe

I would suggest doing a search on Alarm and reading the posts it returns.
You might want to start here http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=4237 and look at the last post and the scarybear software link.

[Qtek 9100] alarm problem: wizard does not wake up

After the duplicates in notifications another old school bug came to me.
My Wizard did not wake up this morning and it is the second time it happens.
when I turned it on the alarm started to go off.
Definitely they built WM5 on a crappy unpatched version of WM2003.
Did it happened to somebody else?
If it is only me I'll try to remove some softwares that could incriminated.
On the other case did you find workarounds.
That's pretty tough if you can not rely on your alarm clock...

this has happened to me recently.
someone suggested a setting under tools, advanced in pocket plus if you have that installed.
waiting to see if that fixes the issue for me ...

Well this has happened to me. I've had my 02 mini for 1 day and on the whole I'm pleased but this AM the alarm did not go off which is a real problem for me. Luckily I had my trusty old xda2s which woke me up. I switched the mini on and the alarm sounded.
No software installed, in fact I skip all the o2 install and just have default windows 5.0. Maybe this is the problem !
This is similar to a problem I used to get on my xda1 when the alarm would not go off ( infact the whole phone locked up and I needed to soft reset in the AM )
Any ideas ?
jeff

I had the same problem on Wednesday morning - I set an alarm on Tuesday night, and it didn't wake me up!
I then tried to set an alarm for 15 minutes later than the current time and that work.
i did originally set the alarm to repeat, no light, no vibration and didn't bother making that change for the one that worked. I'll have a play to see if there's any common "feature" of alarms that don't ring.
And yes, I did check that the alarm was enabled , and enabled for the right day!

I'm no further with this - anyone else observed weird behaviour?

Same for me, the alarm goes off when I turn my Qtek 9100 on...

Same thing with my 9100, russian localized. Was late at the office today thanks to this "assistant"!

Hm... My russian localized 9100 works fine.

Message and Alarm issues
Hi all,
As I have found these problem very annoying, I decided to mail dopod, and this is what they said (and some more):
Dear Sir:
The mobile 5.0 system use new operation behavior for ROM control. It will save the changes for setting, file when power off (stand by). So if you soft reset it before power off (stand by), it will cause some data changes lost. Please power off (stand by) first, then reset. It should keep the data changed well.
And the download agent is use for download file in internet explore. It will download the file automatically you select a file it support in internet explore.
Thanks for using Dopod products.
Sent: Monday, November 28, 2005 1:58 AM
To: SEAService
Subject: Product Support and Web Contents
購買種類：PDA Phone
購買機型：Choose a Model...
Hi, I recently purchased dopod 838 in thailand. overall I am pleased with its feature and capabilities. But I encountered several problems: soft-reset issues, each time I soft-reset the phone,the alarm which I dismissed couples of hour before rang again! also some of my messages are deleted (sms and e-mail); alarm itself has issues, sometimes it won't ring. btw, what does download agent do? I have visited your website several times now and I haven't seen any improvements ever sice. application section only provide manual and still no games. I would hope to see some application which might help me with my problems, also it would be convenient if you can make it mobile-friendly. thank you for your kind attention, I would appreciate it if I can hear from you soon. Regards, Aditya Pamungkas
Can anyone confirm and comment this? as I have found no problem ever since. thanks
::adit

hmm, that doesn't explain why mine didn't set the alarm... I didn't soft reset it.
However, it could explain the root cause: alarms are being set, then the device is turned off before the RAM has a chance to update the registry/flash/whatever...
A bit of debugging should prove/disprove this. I'll have another play

More playing... This seems to be something to do with turning off before the ram state gets a chance to update the flash, and set the appropriate flags, etc.
I wish that microsoft had a trouble ticketing mechanism!

booooo
I'm a long time lurker but cannot withhold myself from posting after reading this
This happened to me also a cple of times.
Alarm (the one in te clock settings) and notifications from the calender both failed on me 1 or 2 times allready. It's un-F*&^**-ing believable :x
A $700 PDA cannot do what a $1 dollar wristwatch does flawlessly.
And this has been an issue since WM2002 as i can remember, thats the saddest part.....
It's one of the most important functions of my pda!!
If I had an (real life) assistant i'd sure fire him if he made me miss my appointments.

any updates on this ?
a pda that does not have a reliable alarm is pretty much useless. :-(

vishny said:
Hm... My russian localized 9100 works fine.
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Strange. I have same device and same bug.

Alarm not going off
Same happens with the HTC Universal (JJ).
Must definitely be a WM5 problem
Cheers
hrb

1st: I could not stop an alarm and had to make a hard reset, from that time I do not use the repeat functionality.
2nd: My morning alarm was "lost in space", from that time I check the notifications, and clear duplicates.
3rd: I had set the alarm from Mon to Fri, and on Thu the alarm was lost, it disappeared from the notif queue.
WM5 is unable to give a reliable alarm? It works for a time and suddenly gone?
What app would fix it?

Well, i did the hard reset and flashed to the lates k-jam rom.
I also did not install SPB pocket plus (one of my favourite apps )
Because i was suspecting it was slowing my system down.
And voila! untill today, my pda did not miss 1 alarm.
So i'm thinking spb pocketplus might be the culprit.
Can you guys confirm that you all have spb pocketplus installed when running into this bug?

No problem on my Qtek 9100.
But I use a french software named Pocket WakeUp 1.1
See : http://www.pocketpcfreewares.com/en/index.php?soft=1299
For those who don't speak french I can translate the commands in english if you want...

there is also another freeware application made for this bug: search for WakeUp Tweak on http://www.pocketpcfreewares.com/
But I'm not sure yet if it works completely well on WM2005
sometimes it does, sometimes i think it doesn't...

Wakeup Tweak is only for WM2003 first Edition.
I don't think it will work for the actual issue on WM 5.0

Universal has a "invisible" appointment...

Hey guys,
I'm new here!
After years of reading this site (ever since my orange SPV-1 days) a have now stumbled across a problem I just can't seem to fix by myself.
My MDA pro (Dutch T-Mobile, original ROM) has an appointment in it that has somehow made itself invisible. I know this probably sounds weird, but it's the only way I can describe it.
On every soft-reset my MDA starts buzzing and plays the appointment notification sound. It's not a big deal, just very annoying when the device has to be reset. I tried removing all my appointments, but unfortunately that didn't help.
I really don't want to hard-reset my device over this.
Anybody here even experienced (and maybe even solved 8)) the same problem?

I had the same issue and though i was the only one.. I actually had it twice on my O2Exec.. Drove me nuts. the annoying sound starts on boot and it takes time till you can stop it.
Install Memaid app or some other application that lets you edit the notification queue. I think I used Memaid, saw the problematic alarms (mine where from the clock alarm) and deleted the entries there.
hope this helps.

Thanx man! Worked like a charm

Problem with one alarm going off twice.

Hi everybody
I've got a small problem with my HTC TyTN. I've got an alarm set for
07:03am every mon,tue,wed,thur,fri.
Wednesday about 3 weeks ago that alarm went off twice at the same time, the wav sound that is set to the alarm goes off and is heard with a echo.
And i had to close the alarm twice on the screen.
Thinking it was a onetime-thing i didn't care that much.
But on the thursday after the same thing happend again. I then removed the alarm completely and set a new time (07:05) with one of the other alarm check-boxes.
Strange thing, now i get a double-alarm at 07:03 mon-fri, and a single working just fine at 07:05. Even tough there is no alarm set at 07:03 anymore.
I've rebooted the phone, with all alarms off.
Still the double-alarm is there. I've managed to live with it for 3 weeks now, but it's getting a bit too much now
I do not wish to do a factory-reset. Are there any registers that could have been f-ckup?
If so, what can i do and how?
Any points, tips, tricks are welcome.
Thank you.

We need some info dude, what apps have you installed and also what format is the sound file in, also where is it? (SD card or device memory).
Update your signature with the details of your device (rom version, radio version etc... and also update your profile with your provider and country...it helps to have them in your sig so we can diagnose anything a bit quicker )

noternet said:
Hi everybody
I've got a small problem with my HTC TyTN. I've got an alarm set for
07:03am every mon,tue,wed,thur,fri.
Wednesday about 3 weeks ago that alarm went off twice at the same time, the wav sound that is set to the alarm goes off and is heard with a echo.
And i had to close the alarm twice on the screen.
Thinking it was a onetime-thing i didn't care that much.
But on the thursday after the same thing happend again. I then removed the alarm completely and set a new time (07:05) with one of the other alarm check-boxes.
Strange thing, now i get a double-alarm at 07:03 mon-fri, and a single working just fine at 07:05. Even tough there is no alarm set at 07:03 anymore.
I've rebooted the phone, with all alarms off.
Still the double-alarm is there. I've managed to live with it for 3 weeks now, but it's getting a bit too much now
I do not wish to do a factory-reset. Are there any registers that could have been f-ckup?
If so, what can i do and how?
Any points, tips, tricks are welcome.
Thank you.
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This problem has been written about many times and from many different angles. They all point to clearing your "notifications" queue that can accumulate all kinds of duplicates and junk causing alarms to go off twice, not stop going off and no notification to pop up etc etc:
To do this use:
Scarybear - Freeware
Or
SKtools - not freeware
Or
Memmaid - not freeware
These links will give you links to the above applications.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=1195386&postcount=4
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=296658&highlight=memmaid
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=1115769&highlight=memmaid#post1115769
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=287389&highlight=memmaid
Mike

mrvanx : Thank you for your input, i'm quite new at this game as you might see by my post-count. I'm working on the signature now. Thank you for your input.
mikechannon : Thank you, i'm going to try Scarybear first to see that it solves the problem, then i'll look into purchasing one of the others.
Thank you all for your help.

be careful, very careful.
scary bear is to good, you can delete or change stuff you shouldnt, and never get it back.
i tried and failed. hard reset to fix.... it starts to happen i find when you soft reset a device when notifications are happening, and thus duplicates the original and a new one.

I tried out a few, and found that TaskMgr2.7 was perfect for me.
Scarybear, well i never even got working
But thank you for the warning.

unreliable alarm!

ok so i set my alarm for 7:00am this morning and it just didnt go off...luckily my mum woke me up anyway but still its very unreliable...anyone else had this issue? maybe its linked to my sms message problem? thanks

the alarm on my X1i has been working flawlessly and waking me up every day at the specified time of 7am...i wish mine didn't work so i wouldn't have to wake up that early!

Be sure to have "Let Alarmsignal ring, even if the device is turned on silent or vibrate only" (i dont know what the official text is but im just losely translating from english.
You should find this option with the Clock and Alarmsignal settings under the Tab More.
Also i suggest setting 2 or 3 alarms.. maybe that will help.. ;P

Mine too, some times it simply doesn't go off (specially if more than one alarm are set).
i wake up before it has to anyway but it's still annoying!
and no, that option doesn't help at all, i tried it.

I'm using the free G-Alarm since October last year and it reliably woke me up every morning.
Maybe you want to try it: www.ageye.de

use G alarm
zoelucker said:
ok so i set my alarm for 7:00am this morning and it just didnt go off...luckily my mum woke me up anyway but still its very unreliable...anyone else had this issue? maybe its linked to my sms message problem? thanks
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been using G alarm. no problem.

G Alarm has already failed me twice... helping me get late for work!
I really like it but if i have a real important apointment i use another cell phone with another alarm, i simply can't rely on any of the X1's alarm system alone...

Elusivo said:
G Alarm has already failed me twice... helping me get late for work!
I really like it but if i have a real important apointment i use another cell phone with another alarm, i simply can't rely on any of the X1's alarm system alone...
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Sorry to say that, but it seems to be your fault then.
G-Alarm works reliable and fine.
Just be sure the alarm is set active and at the right days and the ringtone is available and set to 100% volume.
Also let G-Alarm fix the Windows Mobile Alarm Bug and force to put the sound through the speaker even if the phone's set to silent or vibrate only.

Did you tell it to ring EVERY DAY? I forget this every "first" time on a new phone and the alarm dows not work. It only rings when you tell it to do.

I knew it wasn't just me!
Sometimes it will go off fine
Sometimes it will just vibrate and then do nothing else
Other times it won't go off at all
I can't seem to find a pattern to it, it just seems completely temperamental and is far to unreliable.
As for g-alarm that's far too annoying. It went off while my phone was on silent on a train. Had loads of puzzles and mazes and doesn't stop ringing until you have done them. I pulled out the battery, turned it back on and the alarm went off before the phone had even booted up!

sometimes this problem occurred for me with the custom roms being developed but with the original and the r2a roms I have not had an issue

yep, done all that and i have wm all fine tuned, and as i said, only failed twice over a month or so on a week day configuration with no changes made to it, but enough for me to not fully trust it anymore, be it problem with G Alarm or windows problem...

Evostance said:
As for g-alarm that's far too annoying. It went off while my phone was on silent on a train. Had loads of puzzles and mazes and doesn't stop ringing until you have done them. I pulled out the battery, turned it back on and the alarm went off before the phone had even booted up!
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You can turn those snooze games off , it's just if you want it to really wake you up . Anyway G-Alarm works well for me so far. With the standard I had issuses, even on my older Magician. This one period it only sounded this ding sound repeatadly and refused to play the sound file which of course was in place. Weird stuff, but G-Alarm is awesome, it even allows you to set random MP3s from a playlist you set up. Waking up with a different DnB tune every day

Yes i have a feeling ill have the same issue as Elusivo...no alarm whether it be the standard or g-alarm will be 100% reliable on my X1. Glad i'm not alone but quite annoyed because that is one of my most important things...this along with text messages not always sounding or being displayed until messinging is opened up makes the phone a little difficult to love sometimes.
To me it seems everyone's X1 is slightly different....some have physical issues like cracking etc, whilst others have things that don't work as well as someone elses X1. I find it very strange. I guess these are my issues!

Evostance said:
I knew it wasn't just me!
Sometimes it will go off fine
Sometimes it will just vibrate and then do nothing else
Other times it won't go off at all
I can't seem to find a pattern to it, it just seems completely temperamental and is far to unreliable.
As for g-alarm that's far too annoying. It went off while my phone was on silent on a train. Had loads of puzzles and mazes and doesn't stop ringing until you have done them. I pulled out the battery, turned it back on and the alarm went off before the phone had even booted up!
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yes, exactelly
as far as i remember, i also faced this on my SE P910i, also same problem!
i barely sleep, and if the phone only vibrates i wake up, but mostly it doesnt!
i will try GAlarm, let's see.

+1 for G-alarm here.
I tried several different progs before settling with G.
I cannot think of an instance where it has let me down, without it being my own stupid fault.
As said before, you can switch off the mazes and puzzles, and just use it as a standard alarm, with/without snooze.
Best piece of freeware i have got, i think.
Why does WinMo standard alarm suck so badly?
Have MS forgotten to update it all this time?

Alarm
You have any idea how i can add in me xperia more alarm tone.?

I have never had any problems with the alarms. They are right on time.

i tried mine set for this morning. no problems yet. ill test it a whole week or so and see how it goes.
standard nam rom for my x1a.

I gave up on the built-in alarm and I've been using SPB Time which I'm very happy with!