I have what i am sure is not a new issue, but can't find anything explaining how to resolve this issue.
the issue, is that I have many 'all day' events with alarms set. the problem is that the alarm for all day events goes off at midnight.
Is there a way to have WM6 to not notify in the middle of the night, short of shutting off the volume (which isn't an option as i do often get call-outs at night.
any suggestions, tweaks, or programs that could solve this issue?
thanks
naui_guy
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I have a strange issue with Alarm/Notifications in WM5
I had set an alarm using the built-in clock/alram app. Normally when the alarm rinds, there's a dismiss option in the soft buttons in WM5. This is how it has been working for a while.
Strangely, two days ago, the alarm rang but there was no dismiss option... there was no way for me to snooze or dismiss the alarm. I muted my phone and after a while un-muted it and the alarm was gone. Then i went to the alarm app and disabled the alarm.
The same day, i set up an appointment in calendar. When the appointment nitification came on, the sound was played but again, the dismiss option was nowhere to be seen. I couldnt snooze this alarm either.
Now this is one issue, the main annoying issue is that whenever i soft-reset my phone, these two ghost alarms (the original alarm which does not exist anymore, AND the notification for that entry in my calendar which i couldnt snooze, because the option was not displayed) they start sounding as my phone is half way rebooting... And there's nothing i can do to dismis or snooze them.
Any idea? any help will be appreciated. thanks!
I have exactly the same problem. I have set an alarm using the built in Clock & Alarm app in WM5 and could not dismiss it when it came up. Since then, whenever I do a soft reset, the alarm starts up while the device is booting. The annoying part is that it was set to repeating alarm and that's exactly what it does after each soft reset. It repeats less and less frequently and eventually it doesn't repeat any more, but there is nothing I can do to turn it off. I have tried resetting all the options in the Clock & Alarm app but still no luck. I have tried removing the Alarm events in the Notification queue, but they keep coming back after each soft reset.
Has anyone experienced this before, and found a solution to it?
BTW I'm using i-mate JASJAR, but this post describes exactly my symptoms.
I've done some further investigation, and I found a couple of entries in the Registry under HKEY_CURRENT_USER\System\State\Shell\Reminders\ that match the description and time I have set up originally for the alarms that keep sounding after every soft reset.
I have tried deleting the entries in the Registry, but after another soft reset, the entries are back! How can I get rid of these for good?
It looks like I've solved the problem...
1. I have deleted the entries from the Registry using Resco Registry Editor that matched the Alarm descriptions that I originally set for the alarms that later kept coming back...
AND
2. I have deleted the clock.exe notifications from the list using Check Notifications from ScaryBear Software.
Once I rebooted, the notifications didn't reappear, the registry entries didn't come back, and most importantly, the ghost alarms didn't go off again!
I have tried both 1 and 2 above before individually between resets, but not both together. When I only did one or the other, both the notifications entries and the registry entries came back after the reset, causing the ghost alarm to keep running after each reset.
I hope this will help anyone else who gets into the same situation.
Thank you very much!
It worked, the alarm was driving me nuts!
I've been unable to get clock alarms, meeting notifications or other alerts to work. I tried Check Notifications and removed all duplicate entries (down from 320+) to ~120 real entries. I can get an alarm to ring, but there is no pop-up to cancel the alarm. What's the deal with that. And the appointment reminders still do nothing. Very frustrating. If this has been addressed elsewhere, please point me there or post here if there is a solution.
same for me since today !
now me too since today.
Anyone???
I know this topic has probably been done to death, but I just thought I'd share my experiences with a couple of alarm issues I've have with the Universal (aka my M5000).
I have had both the dreaded forever repeating alarm issue, as well as the disappearance of the alarm/calendar event notification dialog and alarm. They are, I believe, actually related. If you trigger a repeating alarm, while suffering from the missing notification problem, you'll never be able to turn the repeating alarm off.
In my experience, the missing alarm notifications are related to a bad entry in the notification queue, not necessarily the duplicate entry issue. Whenever I've lost alarm notifications, a quick perusal of the notification queue will show a calendar, task or alarm event that no longer relates to an actual live entry in the calendar. For example, you may have a task related alarm event in the queue, for a task you have long since deleted. This 'bad' entry essentially clogs up the queue, so no new notifications are received.
Delete the rogue entry and you should be back in business.
concern said:
In my experience, the missing alarm notifications are related to a bad entry in the notification queue, not necessarily the duplicate entry issue. Whenever I've lost alarm notifications, a quick perusal of the notification queue will show a calendar, task or alarm event that no longer relates to an actual live entry in the calendar. For example, you may have a task related alarm event in the queue, for a task you have long since deleted. This 'bad' entry essentially clogs up the queue, so no new notifications are received.
Delete the rogue entry and you should be back in business.
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I just ran into this issue today (reminders not triggering), how do you suggest I review and delete the notification queue? In the past I had tried using the Scary Bear Check Notification tool and didn't know what to delete and what to keep and ended up deleting everything (including my ability to Activesync).
Is there a simple way to do this or do I need to take another swing with ScaryBear?
The rule of thumb when dealing with Notification Que is always backup first before deleting anything. Second thing to remember after performing a hard reset and installing every application you want (without setting any alarms up) is to remember or make a list of the Notification Que present, because basically those are the basic Notification Que that should always be present for a trouble free Universal. Just remember that list and anything that is being added is most likely the culprit causing the trouble. Lastly, after installing any application, always check the Notification Que list to see if the app that was installed is adding anything on the list. This should give you an idea whether the newly installed app requires a Notification Que.
Repeating Alarms
Can I stop these infuriating alarms without performing a hard reset?
I think they are caused by soft resets.
How do I view/edit the alarm/notification queue or duplicate entry your refer to.
I have tre-reg editor if that helps. but where do I look?
Thanks
You can clean the duplicates in the notifivation queue using a 3rd party application such as Omega One's Pocket Mechanic. There are others that are free, I am sure you'll find them if you do a search on "notification queue" in the forum.
Edit: Here's one http://scarybearsoftware.com/ppc_cn_overview.html
Thanks for that. Scary Bear did it. But there are so many other entries that up in red. God! Can't delete them all in case I remove something important
Strangest thing happened today.... all reminders failed to sound on my HD2. The items I set on the calendar and has reminders turned on - the HD2 failed to sound the reminder - there's not even a message bubble on the top bar to indicate I missed a reminder. It's as if I never set a reminder. This caused me to miss meetings today.
I have not installed anything or edited the registry yesterday and it was working fine till then.
Items I checked -
1. System clock - it's correct
2. the calendar item - it's today.
3. settings\sounds & notifications\sounds\"Enable sounds for"
Events checked
Programs checked
Notifications checked
4. settings\sounds & notifications\notifications\reminders\
Play sound checked
display message on screen checked
What could be the problem?
missed calendar reminders
Ive had the same problem
It was working fine just until yesterday and all of a sudden the reminders just stopped.
Any solutions out there would be very much Appreciated .
reminder alert
My reminders seem to be working again
The only thing I did in between it not working and when it started working was to sync the phone with my calander on my computer
Seems ok for now
Hello,
I've the same problem.
My reminders don't work... Even if I create an event now, that should remind me in 30 minutes, nothing happens.
Settings are similar to what you described in your first post.
So, does anybody have a solution? How did you solve it?
THANKS!
Can anyone help me with a very annoying problem that occurs on my HD2?
I very often have reminders for appointments
- that never had any reminder settings
- that are back in the past for a long time
- that are in the future
As soon as I try to open/edit these appointments from the reminder window, I always find, that the appointments really had no settings for alarms or that they have quite different settings compared to the time, the reminders are triggered.
I also found, that, in most of the times, these false reminders go off, accompanied by another correct reminder (but not everytime!).
Anyone else having these problems? What can I do?
Thanks a lot for helping!
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