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anyone know of an alarm app which actually works? (for wm5).
i use AlarmMe 3 on my old jam and its never let me down.. sadly, this app cant wake up wm5.
What do you mean? The regular alarm applications works just fine in my Jamin
alarm...
especially if you utilise some of the custom "sounds" around, I downloaded a firetruck, a rooster, a really loud whistle, and also the wonderful sounds of birds.
The birds struggle to wake me, but the rooster and the firetruck certainly get the job done.
If you cant find them, let me know and I can upload.
Melchior said:
What do you mean? The regular alarm applications works just fine in my Jamin
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Not for a great number of people:
[Qtek 9100] alarm problem: wizard does not wake up - http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=31895
Re: alarm...
simon_darley said:
The birds struggle to wake me
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I think the problem isn't so much the user not waking up - as it is the device not going out of standby
Two sure-fit solutions are...
1. Use an alarm application that wakes your device up to full. There is a tweak app available (modifies the registry, really), that will do this as well:
http://www.burroak.on.ca/ptafaq.html#wakeuptweak
Please note that you may experience your PocketPC turning on (and back off) randomly, making the screen appear to 'flash' all the time.
2. Don't put your PocketPC in standby mode / don't let it go to standby mode automatically.
Instead, download an application with which you can turn the display off (not just the backlight, or you'll risk LCD 'burn-in'). Never miss any alarm/notification/etc. that way. You're draining only a few percent more battery over the course of 8 hours - which, if you're using it to wake up with, you should probably have it hooked up to the charger so that it's nice and full when you wake up anyway
sorry people, didnt realise that this was the prophet forum, i picked it from the recent activity list.
mine is the universal, and it always wakes up, the alarm always sounds perfectly, and the birds not waking me up simply cause i also have birds outside the bedroom window, so they kinda get mixed up in my head.
the rooster or firetruck guaranteed to work, if you can get your device to wake up first perhaps. as i said, mine always wakes up. dont know enough of the prophet issues to help here, sorry.
no problem - the thread I referred to is for the Wizard as well anyway
It's probably a problem with a driver not having implemented the power states correctly. But nobody knows which driver, or what may be implemented wrong. Microsoft are even aware of the issue but are basically pointing to their power state guidelines and telling the developers to implement them correctly.
Of course power states are a mess, so who knows what a 'correct' implementation is, really
maybe we should diffferentiate two distinct problems here:
1.) the device is not coming up from sleep - regardless of the application, which wants to fire an alarm, etc. That's obviously the ancient problem, we already had with the XDA II ... where alarms don't get managed fully on that midnight "housekeeping", for which the device starts up into "suspended" mode ... maybe solvable by setting HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Power\Timeouts\BattResumingSuspendTimeout (and imho also ...\ACResumingSuspendTimeout) to something bigger than those default 30 sec, which isn't enough for people with many appointments, etc.
But for this there shurely can be found some more detailed posts here in the forum.
2.) the original poster, fastest, was talking about an old application (which I also used for long time) AlarMe, which doesn't work anymore on WM5! And the developer, eppen software, isn't responding. It still is installable, it still runs - it even still wakes up the device (as far as I remember), *but* it doesn't play any sounds anymore.
Meanwhile I switched to Chronos from www.activekitten.com.
Nearly the same, even some more functionality, with maybe a little different philosophy / user expirience ... but works great for me (and I'm in contact with the developer regarding the newest beta-cycle, where I also asked for some features, I miss since AlarMe ;-) ).
i use Spb Time and it works very without any error or mistake....
http://www.spbsoftwarehouse.com/products/time/?en
nighty
Hi all, i have been trying hard the past week to get my Qtek 9000 to wake up from its hybernation when an alarm should activate, but it dosnt. When i then turn on the pda it starts the alarm as it should have done on its own.
Anyone else have the same problem as i do ? and maybe a solution
I have same problem.
Asi only use alarm to wake me up in the morning, it is plugged and placed at my bedside table
SPB time isnt compatible with WM5.
M$ have always had a problem with alarms.
mine do tend to work in the built in alarm though, but has problems with repeating.... so keep it simple.
you can set the alarm sound, I have a rooster and fire alarm and birds.... the rooster and fire truck wakes me up every time...
there is a beta version of sbp time 2.0 with wm5 support. i guess spb is going to release this version at least this year.
regards
peter
simon_darley said:
SPB time isnt compatible with WM5.
M$ have always had a problem with alarms.
mine do tend to work in the built in alarm though, but has problems with repeating.... so keep it simple.
you can set the alarm sound, I have a rooster and fire alarm and birds.... the rooster and fire truck wakes me up every time...
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Is it only incompatibility to WM5? I had a HP h6340 and had same problems. From what I researched before, it is a problem with PHONE EDITION PDA's. And a lot of people complained during WM2003 and they never fixed it in WM2003SE and neither in WM5... shows you how M$ loves their customers
jorge,
for me the complaining is getting a little bit mixed up. do you complain about the alam bug of windows mobile, which is still not clearly solved in wm5 or do you complain about spb time? i had spb time running on my xda2 with 3 rom version (wm2003, wm2003se, wm5) and for wm2003/se spb time 1.0 did a great job and now i am testing spb time 2.0 under wm5 on my xda2 and my mda pro and it works so far, just some small bugs to fix until the final release.
best regards
peter
ps: no i can not share this spb time 2.0 beta, sorry.
peter_altherr said:
jorge,
for me the complaining is getting a little bit mixed up. do you complain about the alam bug of windows mobile, which is still not clearly solved in wm5 or do you complain about spb time? i had spb time running on my xda2 with 3 rom version (wm2003, wm2003se, wm5) and for wm2003/se spb time 1.0 did a great job and now i am testing spb time 2.0 under wm5 on my xda2 and my mda pro and it works so far, just some small bugs to fix until the final release.
best regards
peter
ps: no i can not share this spb time 2.0 beta, sorry.
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I have problems with both SPB TIME and the normal alarm program of the phone.
If i put the phone in standby by pressing the power button slightly, then it never rings until i open up the screen and get it out of standby mode then it starts alarming all the alarms it was supposed to alarm. Same case with both HTC and HP devices.
There was a fix posted at the SPB sight to use some kind of wakeup tweak but it wasn't foolproof for me.
The only solution i found was to keep it on, with screen facing up and plugged to ac outlet.
In other words, if at night i press the power button and do not plug the device and close the screen with SPB Time 1.1 running, it will not alarm in the morning. So i wake up late for work and wondering what happened so i open the screen and there, it starts to beep continuously.
Peter to be honest i dun know if its a bug or what it is, all i was trying to seek help for was the problem i had in general that my universal with wm 2005 or 5.0 isnt activating and starting to alarm me using SPB time when its turned off. And i wondered if there was any fix, or any similar product that did work under the 5.0 or 2005 platform...
well, to jorge and theorion,
i guess this is a serious windows mobile issue, so m$ has got the ball and is up to do something. it is just my opinion but as long as it is an operating system bug software companies like spb can try to find a workaround for that but the real fix is up to m$.
regards
peter
K thx a ton for that input ! din know this issue
My T-Mobile MDA does not seem to be keeping the correct time. Mostly it is several hours fast and I keep on having to correct it. I am not sure what I can do to correct this problem. I am wondering if there is any way the wizard can synchronize with an atomic clock to keep the correct time? My mac does and so does my wristwatch and alarm clock, so why not the phone?
Does sound like you have a faulty device and I would try a hard reset to see if this solves the problem.
here is a link to atomic clock for ppc Sp Timesync
http://mobile.pocketpcfreewares.com/index.php?mode=soft&soft=1193
hope this helps
This is a bit of a cool gimiky app well it's like 2 apps in one.
Anti theft so if your phone is moved (Picked UP) it makes a car alarm sound and if you put it down it makes the Blip Blip sound to say it's armed.
And the other is a sort of fun mode so if it is moved It will play pre recorded sounds like "Oi put me down!"
I suppose you could call it a warning mode.
Has anyone thought or is thinking about making this?
i geuss it would be very basic to make...
i dont programm, so here is the way i think it could be programmed..
make a programm wich when it runs polls the gsensor, when it detected a change greater than normal when lying on youre desk, or a change of orientation, it would play a wavefile...
that for the alarm part...
the activate could be accomplisched in the following way...
when activated the gesensor is detecting movement because you are handeling it...
when de device is still for a 5 seconds or so.. it plays the blibblib file, and then starts the polling of the sensor above...
to make this complete it would be neccesary to enter a simple pincode to deactive the alarm sound...
i actually tried to get into programming to make this.. but my efforts where came not even close... as long as i cant programm in basic, im lost
anyone with a bit of spare time who could code this?
Good idea
Its an Idea a friend suggested.
It sounds like a really easy app to make but as I don't make apps for mobiles yet I wouldn't know how to build one
I could help with the GUI interface.
the rules would be simple.
when the phone is jogged for about a second play a warning sound.
Then the phone is picked up and jogged violently play the alarm sound looping.
when the phone settles down again play the rearm sound.
The guy who did the lightsaber app could whip this one up
Sounds fun and useful espescially at home where kids tend to touch everything and move things around..
Hope this gets wind
Will it cost much battery?
I guess...
I don't think it will cost much battery, provided you don't keep picking it up!
indeed..
it just polling the gsensor... that shouldnt drain too much...
anyway, when i leave it lying at my desk its most of the time thetered anyway...
graficly it dont has to be very much...
This could be a very funny and useful tool!!!!
Have a barking dog noise when the phone is touched.
Have a woman screaming when the "alarm" is set off...
Have a GPS tracker tool triggered once this program is launched.
Have the camera activate once the alarm goes off
Have the phone shut off with a special lock code when in "scream" mode.
Good
So it's agreed. then.. who can we ask to make this?
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This could be a very funny and useful tool!!!!
Have a barking dog noise when the phone is touched.
Have a woman screaming when the "alarm" is set off...
Have a GPS tracker tool triggered once this program is launched.
Have the camera activate once the alarm goes off
Have the phone shut off with a special lock code when in "scream" mode.
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Diamond's battery is only 900mAh, if GPS and camera are turned on, it will cost too much battery.
Athough Gsensor and Lightsensor cost little battery, but what I thought is, if the system should be always turned on (when screen is off)?
I don't know much about that, just guess~
Who can answer?
Good idea! Here is the car-locking sound!!
djfuego said:
This is a bit of a cool gimiky app well it's like 2 apps in one.
Anti theft so if your phone is moved (Picked UP) it makes a car alarm sound and if you put it down it makes the Blip Blip sound to say it's armed.
And the other is a sort of fun mode so if it is moved It will play pre recorded sounds like "Oi put me down!"
I suppose you could call it a warning mode.
Has anyone thought or is thinking about making this?
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(You sould change the title of your topic to get more intrest, like g-sensor car alarm?)
Dev note
The application could be set to activate when the backlight is inactive.
in a similar way to the S2unlock application in that respect.
Can you poll the G sensor less frequently to save battery life? every 0.5 seconds
I can't see how running this as well as other apps will kill the battery any faster than if you where playing Teeter for a long period.
i`m with stupid
anyways..
nobody who has posted here seems to have programming skills(incuding myself), but the idee is imho a good one..
we just need the app to do the basic alarm thing wich i posted already.. choosing youre own sounds for the different events would be nice tough...
i have no problem to manually activate the alarm(an thus it doesnt need to be "silent" in the taskmanager, otherwise the thing would go off in my pocket when i walk around.. just start teh exe and its active... when enter the correct pin it shuts down again..)
it could be possible to trigger an event, or a external program whenever a alarm is given.. this makes it easier for other developers/user to add functions they need, like a gps logger or wathever.. it doenst need to be hardcoded i mean... just a event trigger to an choosable exe would be suffient...
so...
in the meantime ill keep dreaming sombody does have the time...
but i think it would be a rather popular app when developed, a have seen already many question for software like this...
ill try to clarify in the hopes somebody gets inspirated
- start software
- 10 poll sensor for 5 seconds.
- 20 if valeus differ too much then goto 10 else goto 30
- 30 play sound1 (beebbeeb)
- 40 poll g sensor
- 50 store valeus x-y-z in file/memory Z
- 60 poll sensor, valeus x-y-z.
- 70 if valeus polled differ more compared to memory play sound2 (alarm) else goto 60
- 80 execute external command
- 90 if alarm is ringing execute pin-routine, if correct pin is entered terminate alarm exe
mah, i told you im not a programmer...... but hopefully it will clarify my idea about this software
furtermore.. changing the topictitle into [REQ] CarAlarm-like software would be more suited as topictitle
GUI
I've posted the GUI for the app
Great! Keep up te good work!!
the gui is just a grafical representation on how WE think it should work...
so far no-one has posted who is willing to code..
Is there nobody who wants to try to make a application?
Very good idea..I let my phone always behind on my desk and i am thinking that somebody looks into the phone. This is very usefull to protect my phone..
When is the program ready?
Hi there! I have a little experience with .NET CF programming, and took a look at this thread... Any way, this is my first post on this forum
I think this application is not so hard to program.. The only problem would be that in the Stand-by mode, the G-sensor cannot be polled (correct me if I`m wrong). All the applications are suspended (except for the notifications and usual phone processes).
I think the application would work OK if the alarm is triggered when the phone is picked up from the initial place and woken up from standby mode (e.g. if an unwanted person tries to take a look in your phone ).
This surely saves a lot of battery than preventing the phone to enter standby mode plus polling the G-sensor often).
So what do you guys think?
[Edit] I just found another way to poll the G-sensor every x seconds. The application can be opened even in stand-by mode, check the sensor values, then go back to sleep.
I´m currently working on this gadget but there are/were quite some problems:
1: The diamond has to stay on under all circumstances! If it goes into the suspend mode, the alarm program will also suspend and therefore stop polling gsensor values. This is solved.
2. How to disable or turn off the alarm? I decided to integrate two ways of handling this subject: 1. you can choose to turn it face down and the triggered alarm will stop, respectivly the alarm system will be disabled. 2. You can enter a self-chosen PIN. The problem with this is, that when the alarm system is active and you choose to enter the PIN to disarm it, you have be quick (3sec) otherwise the alarm will go off. If I wouldn´t handle it this way, a thief could snatch the phone and try to enter a PIN while pausing the alarm system doing so.
3. And this is point unfortunately is still not solved: I don´t know how to disable the hardwarebuttons (power, volume, home ...) of the diamond.
4. When finished I want to make a cab file from the project, so that installing is made easier.
So right now the gadget works, but problem No. 3 remains. If you do keep the diamond in a pouch or case it works ok but if you leave it uncovered, someone who tries to steal it, can disarm the alarm system.
Therefor I´m not really satisfied with my work so far and I don´t have much time around this time of the year because I´m married, have a little daughter and still need to do christmas shopping; then come the festivities...
I guess if I can manage to control the hardware buttons I can post the completed project sometime in January.
bye,
Thilo
Hi there,
thinking about how the battery life of my Diamond could be stretched a bit I thought it might be a neat idea to shut of the phone at night (a.k.a. flight mode). But as I'm lazy and forgetting things I'd like to know if there's an app that can do that automatically in the background - like turning off the phone at 1am and back on at 7am.
Has anyone seen such a thing?
Private-Cowboy said:
Hi there,
thinking about how the battery life of my Diamond could be stretched a bit I thought it might be a neat idea to shut of the phone at night (a.k.a. flight mode). But as I'm lazy and forgetting things I'd like to know if there's an app that can do that automatically in the background - like turning off the phone at 1am and back on at 7am.
Has anyone seen such a thing?
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..sure with mortscript you are able to do this!
also with phonealarm or g-profile...
MM
I've been using phone alarm to do this for months now (including switching to 'work' mode when I'm in the office etc) works a treat and saves massive battery life
G-Profile
Make life easy and just get G-Profile.
Google it, and check it out.
AddInTimer is my current favorite for scheduling BT, Wifi, flight mode, backlight, mute.
SKScheMa used to be my choice, but I think it caused very serious stability issues on my HD. Took me months to narrow down.
Thanks for your help. G-Profile looks great, gonna test that out for sure. Looks like exactly what I need. Thanks again.