Alarm driving me mad - alarms work (just about) reminders dont - 8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General

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

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pda2 (xda IIi) freezing when turned off

Hi Guys,
was wondering if any of you had seen this happening, or knew how to fix it..
occasionally, like once every two days or so, my pda2 will just not turn on again after it's turned off (put in standby). the only way to turn it back on is to press the reset button. it still seems that the radio is working when its in this state, as if i make a call to the pda, the phone im ringing from rings and rings, but the pda just stays silent, and if i put the pda up to a speaker i can hear the "da dada da da" noises that mean phone radio activity. also if i put the pda in a cradle when its in this state, the battery indicator light on the pda will turn on as if its charging..
i can almost live with the short battery life, but the phone freezing when its turned off i can't. i've tried a hard reset.. to no avail.
any ideas?
Hey ow, what have you got running that could cause it? Any 3rd party bits and pieces?
Kevin
hi kevin.
thats exactly the path im taking now. i have hard reset my device again, and have loaded NOTHING on to it, i reset it before it could install the extRom stuff, and i've only changed settings like vibrate on ring, and regional settings, etc. i haven't even active sync'd it. so far so good (touch wood)
programs i had loaded before:
intellisync (automatically connected to grps if not cradled)
small menu
kbattery
tAgenda (not fully compatible with 2003 SE, but seemed to generally work ok)
worldmate 2004 pro v1.0 (not fully compatible with 2003 SE, but seemed to generally work ok
and thats all i think. i have my suspicions with intellisync..
Hi there
Mine did the very same thing a few times but i just reset it and carried on ...
id recommend upgrading to the newer I-Mate ROM as its more stable, just be prepared to fart about a bit to sort the country code errors and such.
In fact ... i camt remember the last time mine crashed after ive installed the new ROM.
my device came with the rom dated 1/27/05, which is the latest i believe... ?
well, i think i've figured out what causes the problem, thought i might as well give an answer incase anyone else has this prob.
for me appears to happen when GPRS is enabled and i turn the phone off. gprs is turned on in the first place by intellisync, which sync's my email, calander, todo's and contacts with lotus notes. however i tried enabling gprs manually, waited until intellisync sync'd itself, then turned the pda off and went to lunch. after lunch it was frozen again.. i did turn it on at the start of lunch to check the time, and i assume at that point it hadn't tried to do an update, but probably sometime after that and before it froze i would assume it had tried to sync itself.. i guess the next thing to test is if i can just leave gprs on (making sure it doesn't try to do anything) and see how things go.

ok the alarm clock on my telstra jasjam has lost the plot

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.

not able to deactivate the snapvue alarm

i have liberated my shift successfully.
i used the alarm on the snapvue side once. after that i have deactivated the alarm again.
but for some reason the alarm comes up every day, even the alarm is switched of in settings (snapvue) and settings (windows mobile).
anybody has a clue what could be the problem?
is there a registry setting i can change to disable the alarm?
gr8 said:
i have liberated my shift successfully.
i used the alarm on the snapvue side once. after that i have deactivated the alarm again.
but for some reason the alarm comes up every day, even the alarm is switched of in settings (snapvue) and settings (windows mobile).
anybody has a clue what could be the problem?
is there a registry setting i can change to disable the alarm?
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Had the same problem.
Solved it by playing with all the three alarms somewhat. I think I switched them off and on.
Maybe i changed the times.
Sorry that I cannot remember what I did but it is solved now.will, of course never use it again.
It was the very first time I used it. Maybe that was the reason.
Huib
this happened to me while using only snapvue, no liberation pack no nothing. I fixed it only by a hard reset.
I had the problem too, with unmodified Snapvue. It was the first time that I had used an alarm. I remember Shagcontrol Snapvue reset not fixing it. But I think a Snapvue settings reset fixed it.
I haven't used alarms again so I don't know if it will be a problem again.
Had this problem on my Prophet.
Go to HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Clock\, You will see keys 0,1,2 - these are the three alarms you can set - delete the one that's causing you problems. If you don't know which one then delete all three. The alarms will be reset.
ehm, i've put the alarm to ring at 8 am during workdays to remind me to wake up and go to work. The alarm was working fine and I got to work in time, daily. But... last saturday I was free. And I was sleeping at 8 am. Damn thing begun to ring and make noise. That's a huge bug man, I woke up at 8 am and had a awfull long day.
Poss solution
This sort of thing used to happen with WM2003 on my XDA Orbit. I used an app called Wakeuptweak which solved the issues with the alarms. The sdame thing is happening to me with the Shift so I am going to give it a go and see if it helps. Will let you know the result.
Correction - it was on my XDA2 not Orbit. Silly me!
facdemol said:
ehm, i've put the alarm to ring at 8 am during workdays to remind me to wake up and go to work. The alarm was working fine and I got to work in time, daily. But... last saturday I was free. And I was sleeping at 8 am. Damn thing begun to ring and make noise. That's a huge bug man, I woke up at 8 am and had a awfull long day.
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i do not want this happen to me....

HD2 Freezes sometimes during Clock Alarm

Brand new HTC HD2, No software or any tweakings, nothing.
Alarm set to wake me up this morning.
Woke up an hour later, phone was on, alarm screen was on display with the machine freezed, had to soft reset. What the hell is that? This is a brand new nothing installed device. A simple thing as an alarm clock freezes the device?
Anyone experiences same problem?
I had the same problem, but with galarm.I never thought this can happen with the original software.It should be bugs free...
I get a similar problem sometimes with GAlarm. Luckily for me, it sets the alarm off then freezes up. That gets you out of bed believe me
The screen is on, with the time displayed and what looks like one of the balls from the maze/snooze function in the very top right hand corner. You can't do anything to get rid of the screen. I had to press the Home hard key then end task GAlarm to get it to stop. So it's not totally frozen up but GAlarm is fubard
chimpsinties said:
I get a similar problem sometimes with GAlarm. Luckily for me, it sets the alarm off then freezes up. That gets you out of bed believe me
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Maybe a new function from g-alarm .
I don't have the problems you (all) are having, even with g-alarm. It's working like a charm on my HD2 orignal WWE 1.66 rom.
You guys/girls got all patches etc installed?
What kind of patches?
Doesn't 1.66 come with them already in?
I'm using BsBTweaks 1.6.
I think mine might be a setting within GAlarm. I quite often get an error while setting up alarms, usually either when adding tracks or when I get right to the end and save it. But it is there and set up when I next go in. I'm using GAlarm 2.3.
Never had this problem with my HD2. However it happened often with my HTC Touch Diamond. Maybe it has something to do with a specific device, dunno. Anyway just in case I have one alarm set on my iPod Touch so there's always at least one device that will wake me up. Maybe you should hard reset your phone or smth... Did you tweak your soft in some way? Edited the registry?
just this morning, fir the first time, the alarm clock didn't trigger. Had it set for 8:40, all days of the week active, obviously alarm was active, vibration was off.
I had a gut feeling that it MAY not work, so I setup the other phone at 9am just in case... as expected, the other phone woke me up, the hd2 didn't... but no freezes nor anything, simply no alarm sounded...
same for me. hd2. it has to do with
1. the windows lock screen
2. galarm
3. backlight/device timeout settings while locked
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.
nothing like a frozen device MID alarm forcing you to pull the battery, and restart, etc
I have the same problem. But i will try something i found. Since the problem occurs occasionally I cannot reproduce the error and post a result. Maybe you can try and share the results too.
There's an option in G-Alarm settings that says "Turn backlight off during an alarm after x seconds". I will disable this feature.
I'm also using S2U2. This feature may interfere with S2U2.
Cheers
Well I am not using G alarm or any other app. Its just plain WM 6.5 alarm. I have tried it on 4 different ROM(stock) and other and I get same result.
If I don't reset my phone before going to bed at night, I will get this issue in the morning that my phone will be frozen during the alarm.
Any advice?
Try these, it should help freezing problems with htc hd2 and galarm
allthese settings are in galarm settings option
1)Disable "turn backlight off during snooze"
2) Disable "turn backlight off during an alarm after x secomds"
3)Disable "show flightmode function"
4) Disable "unlock the device"
I also have the same problem, sometimes the WM alarm fails to sound the alarm, the phone says that it has gone off, but no alarm sounds.
Have done some research, and it sounds like a fault with WM, the phone "wakes" its self at ~03:00 for 30seconds to schedule all its tasks for the day, BUT if it takes too long scheduling other tasks, it cant do the alarm call due to running out of time.

Alarm clock playing up?

Right, my alarm seems to be playing up on the HD2. I have the alarm set in the week only Monday - Friday.
As I don't work weekends, I turn the alarm off, and DID double check this last night. But this morning @ 3,40am the Alarm went off?
How is this possible, when I physically turn the alarm off? Getting really on my nerves now if im honest.
happens to me too, seems to come and go.....
hard reset wont resolve it either....
edit;
hard reset probably did resolve it but it occured again after reinstalling all the stuff that I deem "essential"
so its probably caused by something in there....
I really cant think of any link between what I have installed and the alarm function......
That's why I use the old free version of gAlarm still. Windows alarm is unreliable. gAlarm wakes me up every time I want it to, and never when I don't.
Since the old version that I have is freeware, but the app has since become payware, I'm not sure if I can post the cab.
If I can get confirmation from a mod, I'd be happy to attach it for you
I've no answer to this other than to use SPB Time,G-alarm or Klaxon
All 3 work just fine...
I solved the problem with a £3.99 clock radio
I have NO issues at all with the alarm, BUT I set it up using the control panel not via the Manila home page, It's not failed me in months, the snooze (every 5 minutes) works, and if I leave it on it repeats every 45 seconds until I get fed up with it (normaly between 3 and 7 times)
All three alarms work, and I can set a different alarm for each of the 3
I also suffer this problem, the alarm is unreliable.
I heard you can fix it by turning off sense and setting it in windows because these values would become out of sync, but have not tried.
Klaxon resulted in crashes for me, resulting in the alarm (an mp3 file) not going off.
Just be warned in advance.
reijkelhof said:
I also suffer this problem, the alarm is unreliable.
I heard you can fix it by turning off sense and setting it in windows because these values would become out of sync, but have not tried.
Klaxon resulted in crashes for me, resulting in the alarm (an mp3 file) not going off.
Just be warned in advance.
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There's another alarm bug thread here where it has been tested and confirmed that it's not a sense related issue. It's Windows.
It has been said that changing volume settings after setting your alarms has a big effect on whether the alarms will behave as expected, or go off at all.
Seems changing your volume after setting the alarms messes things up, and so does having pending appointments, as Windows will play your reminder right before the alarm goes off, messing things up too.
I'm gonna go ahead and post gAlarm v1.51 in a while,after my kids go to bed. If any mods/admin have a problem with it, I'll take it down. I think it should be ok, since that version is freeware
EDIT: Here ya go guys. Hope I'm not breaking any rules here.
You might need .netFW3.5 to install/run it.

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