HELP! Expired appointment still showing in lockscreen - HD2 General

Hello,
I have an HD2 with wm6.5 + manila 2.5.
I was looking for a fix during hours, but did not find anything...
When an appointment has just exprired, it still appears on the default lockscreen.
Example: it is now 7:16 and the appointment which was from 7:00 to 7:15 is still showing.
Actually this is the visible part of the problem.
After testing a bit, I think the issue is wm6.5 not refreshing appointment state often engough (I don't know how to explain that, but I think that the system is periodically refreshing the appointment state, which unables to know which appointment is the **current** appointment).
This would not be a big problem by itself (it actually refreshes after 2-3 minutes), but when you use a software like PhoneAlarm, which is supposed to change phone profile according to current appointment, then you have an issue: successive appointments make the automatic switch to fail, because the software thinks the "old" appointment is still active so ignores the new one...
Does anybody know this issue and how to fix it?
Thanks,
Looki

Anybody has this issue???
Critical for me because I make an extensive use of Pocketmax PhoneAlarm...
Any help would be much appreciated!
Thanks!

... I continue working on the topic.
I found in the registry the place where the "current appointment" is detailed.
It seems to be in "[HKCU]\System\State\Appointments\Current"
Also, I checked that this very key is not refreshed at the end of the appointment (behavior that I described in the first post).
As soon as some process (don't know which one) update this key, I observe:
1/ Information in this key is deleted (meaning that there is "no current appointment")
2/ Both lockscreen and phoneAlarm immediately react and adopt the appropriate status (lockscreen doesn't show the appointment and phoneAlarm switches to the correct phone profile)
The issue is that the key IS NOT updated at the end of the appointment, but some 1-2 minutes AFTER the end.
Does anybody know how to make more often system refreshment of this key?
Thanks for your help!

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Notification error

Every time i push the "power on" button,
i got this notification error
Cannot execute
\windows\nrdwakeup.exe
what is this file?
Have you any idea why this happens?
thanks
I cant find that file on my JJ, google gives nothing. wierd file... does a soft reset clear it? what apps do you have installed that could relate to power?
Easy to solve:
Download PocketMechanic (www.antontomov.com).
Go to notifications queue module
FIdn the notification that has this path - it will be linked to a wakeup event
delete it
How it got there is another matter - some software that put itself into the queue and didn;t remove itself elegantly. Whilst u r there, remove duplicates (yellow icons) and do this reguarly. Managing your notification queue is ESSENTIAL on the JJ, and anyone who thinks it isn't is missing the plot.
craigiecraigie4 said:
Whilst u r there, remove duplicates (yellow icons) and do this reguarly. Managing your notification queue is ESSENTIAL on the JJ, and anyone who thinks it isn't is missing the plot.
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I'm new to the Jasjar and Windows Mobile... can you explain what the notification queue is and why it's important to do this? Or point me to an explaination?
Thanks much,
Brett
@craigiecraigie4
this is in Italian
Bravo !!!!
Grazie !!!
Otimov: Glad it helped.
Brett: Notification queue is/was the primary cause of sh1t ont he XDA - alarm failures, slow downs, can't turn on, popup errors, etc etc.
WM5 SHOUDL have solved it all - but ti hasn;t:
- sddeamon.exe appears as a duplicate entry (within 1 day on a hard-reset JJ) and over a week you'll clock up several of these. Don;t know when the queue is defined as "full", but if u ever reach that you'll not get any new alarms, and loads of trouble b4 then too
- several apps start scriptxxx entries that seem to replicate themselves
- claendar app sticks ALL of ur repeating alarms straight into the queue - birthdays for the next year all entered in advance!
So it goes on. XDA had apps (scarybear etc) that cleaned the queue - BUT these targeted specific issues and DO NOT include ANY of the above. The only way to handle this at present is to manually delete entries using pocket mechanic. MemMaid does NOT enumerate the JJ queue. No other app yet handles this.
So, weekly u should check for :
- sddeamon dup
- \.\\notificatiopn.....script... entries
- any other dups that PM will find 4 u
- anything linked to "on wake up" event that you do not recognise as being something u installed eg eWallet!!! This can cause ur device to sleep and not wake up until u soft-reset - not fatal but inconvenient until u fix.
There will be a LOT more on this issue over time...
Mama mia, what a lot of useful information. But complicated for a new WM5 user.
I had a calendar that did not trigger sound or pop up notifications any more, and after a soft reset I heard all kinds of alarm music, hardly possible to stop.
But I also had E-Wallet installed.......
After a hard reset I also reainstalled E-Wallet as one of the last programs. Do you think I had better wait for an upgrade from them?
Huib

Calendar bug in touch HD ?

I've got an appointment set up in Outlook on the PC for 7pm-11:30pm this evening.
When I synchronised, the home screen on the HD says "Tomorrow 19:00 - 23:30" instead of "Today"
If I tap the appointment on the home screen to enter the calendar program, it correctly shows under today's date, with nothing tomorrow.
Possible bug in TouchFlo ?
Anyone else seen this ?
Or am I being really dumb and missing something obvious ?
EDIT : After a soft reset, the word "tomorrow" vanishes. So it looks like TouchFlo failed to update the home screen properly until the device was reset.
my bug is different
I have a different bug, no mine doesnt seem to do what you say... as far as I can see...
My bug is that when you set in options to always display day, week or month view and you quit calendar and start it again, bang it goes back to Agenda view (which is rubbish)... is there a fix to get it to stay in what its asked to stay in.
truthseekers said:
I have a different bug, no mine doesnt seem to do what you say... as far as I can see...
My bug is that when you set in options to always display day, week or month view and you quit calendar and start it again, bang it goes back to Agenda view (which is rubbish)... is there a fix to get it to stay in what its asked to stay in.
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I'm seeing the same thing. When selecting the calendar or appointment from touchflo it always takes you to the agenda view as opposed to the default view you select in the calendar.
bugsy said:
I'm seeing the same thing. When selecting the calendar or appointment from touchflo it always takes you to the agenda view as opposed to the default view you select in the calendar.
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I was having the same issue.
I needed to reset my device (Pressing power button until it gives the pop up to turn off) and once it came back now it is working fine..
I can set it which way I want now and the setting is sticking...
...and more:
I got all of them... calender always opening in agenda view, a TOMORROW instead of a TODAY until reset, AND another one: IF you activate lets say THREE alarms, only the first one shows up on the today screen, no matter what time it is... So if it the first alarm is over, my Touch ELF's display would change to show to the next open one, but the HD does NOT. Ridiculous...
I see 4 every day all the call.!?Sync by activesync.How to delette this sync?
I too am bothered with this problem.
I want my calendar view set to Month view. So I've choosen Month view form the options and everything seems OK. However, everytime I choose calendar from the home screen it briefly starts in Month view, and then opens the agenda view.
I've tried everything I could find on the net to solve this problem, including:
- Adjusting the calendar to month view and afterwards soft-resetting my HD. Still the same problem.
- Adding -vm to the shortcut in the calendar shortcuts in the Windows directory and in the Windows/Startup directory. this opens the calendar in month view, but from the Home screen still no success.
- Searching the registry for relevant settings, but i'm not knowledgeable enough yet to find the correct ones.
By the way, if I set my calendar view to Day or Week, the same type of problem occurs.
Since I really don't like the Agenda view this really starts to annoy me.
Any other thoughts out there on something I could try?
Regards, Jack
i have the same problem! does anyone know abetter more fingerfriendly calendar program with tf3d integration?
Deixi
Strange stuff...
I don't have the problem everybody describes, but instead next day appointments show with a DS_TOMORROW: prefix instead of Tomorrow: The font is big and it occupies quite a lot of space, looks buggy and pretty annoying.
With regard to a finger friendly calendar - I used Agenda One, but it doesn't work from TF3D Home screen by default - the link needs to be edited, and I can't find the thread where the way to do it was described.
With regard to opening the calendar in the "right" view, it should be relatively easy to fix.
Searching the registry won't help because the links in RF3D seem to be hardcoded - this is the bad news.
The good news is that there's a Manila Patcher which allows to change things. If you know the arguments (somebody mentioned -vm), you can change those.
With regard to today's events prefixed with "Tomorrow", it seems that this is indeed a Manila bug, it just doesn't refresh data. You don't have to reset the device, disabling and enabling Manila is enough. This is not a workaround of course, because resetting is actualy easier, just to reiterate that TF3D is at fault.
Not 100% sure, but if I'm using the device around midnight then TF3D doesn't roll the appointments. If I'm not then it does.
Could be a complete red-herring though. . .
Does HTC have any bug tracking system available for the public, at least for submitting bugs?
Thanks for the tip on SSMaPa vangrieg!
Installed it, added "-vm" in the arguments box belonging to calendar.exe, and after some messages I am now enjoying my calendar in glorious Month view!
And before I forget, the other possible arguments are: -vd for Day view, -vw for Week view, -vy for Year view and of course -va for the dreaded Agenda view
By the way, this is what HTC Support mailed me after just one day's wait:
In order to solve your problem, you will need to hardreset your device. All data and settings will be deleted, so please back-up all your data first. Remove your SIM and memory card and go to Start, Settings, System, Clear Storage and follow the on-screen instructions.
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Might try that some day, but for now this seems to be werking fine!
Regards, Jack
fasty said:
I've got an appointment set up in Outlook on the PC for 7pm-11:30pm this evening.
When I synchronised, the home screen on the HD says "Tomorrow 19:00 - 23:30" instead of "Today"
If I tap the appointment on the home screen to enter the calendar program, it correctly shows under today's date, with nothing tomorrow.
Possible bug in TouchFlo ?
Anyone else seen this ?
Or am I being really dumb and missing something obvious ?
EDIT : After a soft reset, the word "tomorrow" vanishes. So it looks like TouchFlo failed to update the home screen properly until the device was reset.
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I too have this problem, and the thing at fault here is apparently the Touch Flo 3D interface. Just as described in the original post, the calendar app itself displays everything correctly, but on the Today Screen in Touch Flo, "tomorrow" entries do not change over to "today entries" when the date changes, i.e. it fails to update.
A soft reset does indeed correct the problem, but it is also sorted out if you change the calendar content in some way. This morning, for instance, I made a simple edit (changed the location variable) in one of the entries, and PRESTO! - the entries on the Today screen were properly presented.
Now, I'm not a programmer, but it seems to me that the Today screen doesn't recognise a date change as something that should trigger an update. Shouldn't it be able to force this somehow?
Speaking about Calendars, does anyone know how to change the text color of the topic while on the TFLO3D home screen.
It is a grey color and it makes it impossible to read.
Hi there, I have the same bug with Touch Flo, but no need to reset the phone. Just go in Start / Settings / Today, untick Touch Flo, do OK, this closes the Touch Flo applications. Then rego there to tick Touch Flo, this runs Touch Flo with the right information.
HTC advised me to hard-reset the device. The problem continues.
Soft resetting touch-flo does seem to cure the problem of the immediate appointment, but it is not a permanent fix.
- Steve
I have another bug in the calendar of the Touch HD.
When I create an all-day event with a reminder, it just doesn't remind me : no ring, no vibe, just the screen that is switched on, and the pop-up appear. But it works fine with a regular appointment. Do you have the same bug ?
I don't know about you guys but i wanted to test this out so i entered some false appointments for 3 days in a row and i'm on the 2nd day and it has worked wonderfully.
It doesn't say 'today' but the top rows are showing today and has 'tomorrow' for the the appointment tomorrow.
I waited till midnight and it did roll over.
Or is this problem only via syncing from Outlook or something?
I have entered a few bogus meetings for the next day on the phone itself to test out your theory and on midnight the Tomorrow tag simply stayed there.
So once again I have no idea what triggers the bug.

[BUG] No notification for "all-day" events : help needed

Hi all,
I encounter a bug that is really annoying me : I don't receive any notification for an "all-day" appointment. No sound, no vibe. The phone is switching on at the remind time, but without any sound nor vibe.
I don't have this behaviour when the appointment is not an "all-day".
I verified my settings, I even hard-reset, and I always have the bug.
Do you experiment it ?
Do you know how to correct it ?
I'm on a french HTC Touch HD with the stock rom.
Thank you.
Update :
The bug is validated. I send a mail to HTC, but no answer for the moment.
We need help to try to find if there's a solution.
Update 2 :
The bug is present in others ROM than stocks : I tried Duttys v1.8 and even WM6.5 roms from PDAViet and Davideuck and the bug is present in these roms too.
Update 3 :
I added a poll concerning this problem. Please test this problem on your HD and answer the poll + post your HD setup (especially your ROM).
Thank you !
How to reproduce the bug :
- Go in Settings/Sounds/Notifications/Reminder and check that sound and vibration are checked
- Go in the calendar to "Tomorrow"
- Add an appointment
- In this new appointment, choose "All Day : Yes", "Reminder : Remind me", then when you want to be reminded (IE it's 10:30am, so if I want to be reminded at 11am, I choose "Reminder : Remind me, 13 hours")
- Wait for the reminder :
- if you have the sound + the vibration, you can check "No, it works like a charm" and please post your setup
- if you have sound but no vibration (or vibration but no sound), check "I have the same problem" and please describe your problem in a post
- if you have the exact same problem as me (no sound, no vibration), check "I have the same problem" and please post your setup
Thank you for your help !
nobody has this problem ?
please, can somebody tests on his HD to know if it has the problem too ?
someone please ?
Did you created this appointment yourself?
Did you try to open (edit) the appointment?
When you creat or edit an appointment you can select IF and WHEN you will be remembered.
But I didnt know if have the same problem...
- Yes
- Yes
- I select to be remembered, and I'm remembered, but only with a pop-up : no sound, no vibe.
I'm remembered correctly for the others appointments (pop-up + sound + vibe).
Can you test on your HD ?
No notification for an "all-day" appointment
Yes, I observe the same effect on my Touch HD from the first minute of usage. In SKTools I see under "Notification Queue" that these appointments are marked with the comment "Allday event does not exist". But I can confirm that the event DOES exist! I don't know why this occurs. On my old MDA Touch with WM6.0 the SAME appointments have been o.k.
Thank you very much for your test ! I feel less alone
Now, we have to find WHERE is the problem...
I checked in the registry comparing with a Diamond, and I didn't find anything...
Hope we'll find help.
yogibaer said:
In SKTools I see under "Notification Queue" that these appointments are marked with the comment "Allday event does not exist". But I can confirm that the event DOES exist! I don't know why this occurs.
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Some HD have a specific NQ record for allday events. The new version of SKTools (4.4.6) properly handle such records.
I tried to clean the notification queue using some softs and tutorials (like http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=333521) and the bug is always there.
Somebody has an idea to resolve this annoying bug ?
I made many, many tests, hard-reset etc... and I just can't have the "all day" event reminder to work. Can you just tell me if you have this problem with your Touch HD with this phrase :
OK - Stock ROM - WWE
or
NOK - Stock ROM - FRE
Thank you very very much.
Install something like G-Alarm, reminders don't work as alarms
Go to Settings --> Sound --> Advanced --> select "Reminders" in the event drop down and confirm if you have the necessary options checked.
Also, in Windows "All Day" events start at 00:00:00 and end at 23:59:59. The default reminder is 18 or 12 hours (depending on your global e-mail settings), so you would get the reminder popup and sound at noon the previous day. Did the previous day also have an "All Day" event ? If so, then you may only get a vibrate if you have selected the "Automatic" option in Settings --> Sound.
These are just some of the things that came to mind, hope it helps !
Unfortunately, I really need the "all-day" event reminders to work, cause I use mainly the "all-day" events in my job
Do you experiment the same bug ?
SLVRstone said:
Go to Settings --> Sound --> Advanced --> select "Reminders" in the event drop down and confirm if you have the necessary options checked.
Also, in Windows "All Day" events start at 00:00:00 and end at 23:59:59. The default reminder is 18 or 12 hours (depending on your global e-mail settings), so you would get the reminder popup and sound at noon the previous day. Did the previous day also have an "All Day" event ? If so, then you may only get a vibrate if you have selected the "Automatic" option in Settings --> Sound.
These are just some of the things that came to mind, hope it helps !
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Thank you for your help
Unfortunately, I already checked so many times the sound settings
I have many all-day events, and I never got any sound nor vibration.
To test, it added a "test" all day event for tomorrow, and set it to remind me at 22h20 (it's 22h25 here). I also added an appointment for tomorrow at 9h an set it to remind me at 22h22. So, the phone turned on, it showed the reminder pop-up for the all-day event, but didnt' rang nor vibrated. Two minutes later, the phone turned on again, the reminder pop-up for the "normal" appointment appeared, and I got the sound I set in the sounds settings AND the phone vibrated.
I just don't understand why it works for normal appointments and not for "all-day" events
This does not solve your problem, but just wanted to let you know - over the past few days, tested this issue many different ways and always had the same result - popup is the *ONLY* notification for all-day events. No reminder sound, no vibrate - nothing, nada, nyet.
I can understand your frustration lpaso
Could this be a WinMo issue ? I mentioned this issue to a colleague of mine and he remembered having similar problems with his old Moto Q (WinMo6.0). Unfortunately, he does not have that device anymore, so no way to test
i am not sure i fully understand your problem, but wouldn't a third party application like "notification repeat enable" help on this matter?
just a thought!
Thank you for your experiences
I can confirm that it's not a WinMo problem, cause I tested it with several others WinMo mobiles (Qtek 9100, HTC Touch, HTC Diamond, HTC TyTN II) and I worked great on all this devices.
Concerning a "notification repeat enable" software could do the trick, and I'd be happy to know what software you could advise me, but I'd rather have the normal function to work
the name of the software would be........."notification repeat enable"
i attached here the cab. since i have it on my pc for a very long time, i don't remember where i got it, but it's not made by me
basicly you will not find it on your ppc as an application, but would let you add some otions on notification settings menu
i hope it helps!
good luck!
thanks
But, if I understand, it adds on some notification settings the "repeat" option right ?
The problem we have, is that we do have a notification, but only with a pop-up ! We don't have sound, we don't have vibration. But we have the pop-up, and it is repeated if we check the "repeat" option in the settings.

Calendar - Daylight Savings and Snooze

I have migrated my data from my old PDA to the HD2 - and -
I have several "appointements" that are daily and were set to a certain time.
On the HTC calendar they now show one hour prior to the time I set
(On the older PDA) - What's more - If I run the calendar forward -
to June - these "Appointements" get back to their original time.
My conclusion from that is - that it has to do with the daylight savings calculations.
**Edit: when the reminder pops up (An hour early) it does display the CORRECT appointement time
**Edit2: if you want to test it - create a daily appointement at a certain time, and in the calendar - go to June -
open one of the days - and see that the apointement has moved to an hour later
Another thing is - an appointement reminder pops up -
I only have a button to dismiss and a button to snooze.
The problem is - I cannot choose how long to snooze (neither by tapping the button, nor by holding the button down for a few seconds).
Has anyone else experienced these problems ?
Another question I have is :
Is there a way to make the reminder sound repeat ?
On the old PDA, i could check the check-box in "Sound and notifications" settings -
and that made the Reminder sound repeat every 30-60 seconds -
On the HD2 this check-box is disabled.
(Y would I need it to repeat - well, if I left it on te table and went away for a few moments,
and I missed the notification - I wolu want it to sond again)
(ROM ver: 1.43.405.1 (70124)
Manila: 2.5.19202525)
Ok, two of the problems I resolved
(
Notification Snooze:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=5032530
Notification Sound Repeat:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=460368
)
Now - Im only left with the daylight savings issue.
Is there a way to disable automatic DST ? - I dont mind setting it manually
Is there a way to fix the calendar ?
Anyone ?
Hmmm
Som30ne said:
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Anyone ?
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I would also appreciate it if people who tried it, and saw a correct behavior
(An appointment that was set to repeat daily, using the "repeat"/recurring option, appeared at the same time all year long)
coult specify that -
So I would check how/why Im the only one with the problem
Thanks In Advance.
Anyone got a fix for the Daylight saving issue???? is there a registry tweak??
Im Having problems with DST too, is there a way to disable it, HTC support is useless (beening talking to them for 1 week and none of the "solutions"they give me work) and there is no MS support for win mo 6.5 at all.
They set Buenos Aires where I live as if we use DST which we don't and every appointment is 1 hr ahead, and every time I sync the HD2 with outlook or any time service the clock goes 1 hour ahead and have to change it manually again.
Thanks!
As much as I hate to pull this thread from the "dead"
Sadly - The problem with daylight savings had returned.
I will describe it again -
if you have an appointment that was set to - lets say - 18:00,
and you are in a timezone with daylight savings enabled (in my case - GMT+2 = Jerusalem),
When the system thinks you are in daylight savings period, it moves the appointment according to the daylight savings difference - meaning - it will set it to be on 19:00.
I thought the last (official) ROM upgrade had solved this problem, since It did not occur this time,
that it until yesterday.
Yesterday, my device stopped responding, and I had to pull out the battery.
When I returned the battery to the device and turned it on - the Date-Time-Timezone got "Resetted".
When I set them back - and set Timezone to GMT+2=Jerusalem - the phenomenon re-appeared.
(another thing I discovered (by mistake) is that - If I set it to GMT+2=pretoria the appointments stay at their original time)
Had anyone else encountered this ?
Was anyone else able to resolve this ?
Thanks
the only solution is to abolish summer time...
IvoBoss said:
the only solution is to abolish summer time...
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Sure, but - how do I do that ?
It automatically sets the clock by itself according to the current date, and according to the date it "knows" summer time starts and ends . . .

Sense calendar Bug: Appointment Series title length

Today I noticed a bug in the HTC HD2 Sense calendar. As I found no description of it anwhere, I want to share it here.
The bug was observed on a genuine HTC ROM v1.66.407.1 (german).
Maybe it is more an annoyance than a bug as it does not affect functionality, but it a very unexpected and inconvenient behavior with a strange cause nonetheless.
Please excuse the possible use of wrong technical terms in my description of calendar functions as my native language is not english.
Bug description:
When you have edited a series of repeated appointments and then tap "Back" to leave the appointments detail screen, the calendar usually gets you back to the day you came from (expected behavior).
But if the appointment title has more than seven characters, the calendar will "timeport" you to the starting day of the recurring appointment series after having entered editing mode!
This behavior seems to be independent of frequency and anything else but title length (in characters). It does not depend on really editing the appointment, just entering the editing screen is sufficient.
I founfd no workaround except keeping the title short.
Anyone else who observed this and can confirm it?

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