I dont remember this happening pre-cupcake. I am a heavy sleeper, sometimes dont even hit the snooze, just let the alarm ring and ring until I get my butt up. Since upgrading to 1.52, the alarm goes off after 10 minutes. It displays red text stating "Alarm automatically shut off after 10 minutes". WTF? There isnt a setting to change this.
Anyone know a way to change this or possible another alarm program (that’s better)?
Klaxon alarm works great, been using it since the free version and i love it. since you use a JF rom the paid version will still work fine if you don't happen to have a free version on your comp
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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
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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
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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
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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.
Hello,
Playing around with the standard alarm clock on my PPC has led me to run late for several important meetings. From what I think what has happened is that i have set the alarm clock and it has not gone off. For some strange reason it doesnt go off when you want it but goes off when your in the middle of a phone call after the set time ! As an example, if i get a call 3 hours later, thats when it goes off.
Anyway, trying to turn the alarm off in the middle of a phone call is another nightmare. I have to put up with it until i soft reset the device.
So....out it goes !
In their wisdom, does anyone have any alternatives to the standard alarm clock ? I don't really want it to do anything fancy. Just go off when it is supposed to, have some better alarm tones, and maybe have a snooze feature for those times i want to get another 5 minutes sleep lol.
try using spb time... you can also use an mp3 as alarm tone
try the MortPlayer...
kryptonian said:
try using spb time... you can also use an mp3 as alarm tone
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thank....spb time is working perfectly
I was setting the alarm on my herm using the Clock & alarms application that came with windows mobile. i set the alarm time (810am) and checked off the box to enable then i clicked OK and my phone froze i restarted it and i saw that it didnt save my alarm... so i set another alarm... well now I get that (810am ) alarm without setting it and i cant stop it because it doesnt show that anything is set... can anyone help? maybe there is registry i have to edit or delete something.
thanks
Try to run this program and see if it helps (backup first)
My alarm is messed up too!
Sometimes it goes off like 5-7 times, at a time and leaves me with 7 notifications.
Sounds pretty strange too having it try to play the alarm 7 times at the same time.
Will have to see if that program can do anything for that too!
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Wow, it found 335 duplicate notifications. Hope fixing them solves the problem!
I'll be happy to hear if it helped you
Im struggling to solve a problem I have with my new phone...
I cant get the alarm to switch on!
Ive set it from the clock shortcut and double checked the setting...Ive also tried to set the alarm via the phone alarm program and that too does not go off.
The alarm notification under the clock never indicates that the alarm is set even though Ive set it correctly...
Im struggling to solve this issue and as Im new to the phone and Im unsure if Ive changed a setting unaware but from what I can tell it should work.
Am also having this problem and was just wondering if you have a fix for this yet?
Cheers.
Not quite the answer to your request..... but to be honest why bother with the built in alarm when you can get an excellent free alarm utility that does much, much more.
I use G-Alarm which you can download here.
ahem!
are you aware that on the alram menu, to activate an alarm, you have to check the square on left and to check also (they have to be greyed) the days when the alram occurs?
maybe this is your problem
on the other hand, integrated alarm is so limited.
much better to use 3rd party application
I am currently using HTC's default alarm app, but I'm finding the alarm tone won't repeat and it will only ring out once, for say 3-4 seconds, and none of the tones seem to be any longer.
This is an issue for a heavy sleeper like me as I can often sleep though this and I'm partial to the odd snooze so there might 3 or 4 chances for me to do this! .
Anyone found a way to keep the alarm ringing out (repeating) till I turn it off. I'm using Dutty's ROM so I I'm not sure whether this is just a quirk of his ROM or just a crap alarm from HTC.
Help or reccomendations of good alarm apps welcome!
its not the rom, its the crappy alarm from windows mobile.. really useless imo.
i use the app G-Alarm that works great
(link)
the main thing i have found since using 6.5.x build roms is that the repeat problem no longer occurs. It repeats until you stop it.
One suggestion i can offer is to forget about setting up the alarms through the htc alarms tab, do them direct into settings - menu - all settings - clocks and alarms.
you will find 1 - there are more alarm sounds available, (which tells me the HTC alarms tab isn't working exactly the same as the system one)
and
2 - the HTC alarms tab will copy what you put in the system alarms screen, BUT setting directly into the HTC alarms doesnt always copy through to the system alarms tab.
I also use G-alarm, its great. But here is a free one thats looks like G-alarm
http://www.freewarepocketpc.net/ppc-download-klaxon.html
mikeyj101 said:
I am currently using HTC's default alarm app, but I'm finding the alarm tone won't repeat and it will only ring out once, for say 3-4 seconds, and none of the tones seem to be any longer.
This is an issue for a heavy sleeper like me as I can often sleep though this and I'm partial to the odd snooze so there might 3 or 4 chances for me to do this! .
Anyone found a way to keep the alarm ringing out (repeating) till I turn it off. I'm using Dutty's ROM so I I'm not sure whether this is just a quirk of his ROM or just a crap alarm from HTC.
Help or reccomendations of good alarm apps welcome!
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I have "Alarm-Light" selected as my alarm tone, and the thing doesn't shut up until I've stopped it.