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Stray Alarm Clock

Recently my xda has been going off at 11,30am every day, it is the standard alarm clock program included within WM2003, however it is not listed in the panel of times to alarm.
Is there a way of clearing the missing setting from registry?
Its starting to get annoying after a night shift, and its required to be on and near me for important calls and messages.
Thanks

try these, worked for me.

Clock & Alarma - can not breake alarm

Someone cann help me:
1. When I make software reset on my MDAPro (Universal) my Universay all time play alarm - about 20 min and then stoped and
2. After then, when I switch on alarm, then (when alarm played) I canot see message to switch off alarm??? And I canot switch off alarm.
Alarm stoped about last 20 minits.

Alarms
Try memmaid (search forums for memmaid and alarm for precise solution)
You need to run memmaid and look at the notifications, and delete the "alarm" ones as they have got "stuck"

Yes, I had this problem also. You can perform a hard reset, that will solve it but then you loose all your data and it is a pain! So I spent all day trying to find out how to fix it without doing a hard reset, and here are the results:
1. Open the Clock & Alarms app, and click on the Alarms tab. Make sure everything is unticked and unselected.
2. Install and launch MemMaid (http://www.dinarsoft.com/ - Note: MemMaid is shareware that expires after something like 30 days, or you might use another app which allows you to edit the notifications queue), and then press the Jump To softkey and click on the the Notification Queue option.
3. Press the Find Duplicate button, and make sure you say yes to deleting all duplicates.
4. Now you have to scroll through the list slowly, you must find all the ones which have this text in them and check the tickbox: \Windows\clock.exe.
5. Now you have located the rogue alarm notifications and ticked them, press the Delete button and confirm in the next step. Make sure you have NOT ticked/selected any other notifications except the clock.exe ones before you do this step, otherwise it can easily make your phone stop working!
6. Soft reset your device. When it has finished booting, you should notice that it doesn't vibrate madly with alarms for 20 minutes like it used to do before, and you should have a flashing green LED on the right instead of orange
7. Stop using the built-in clock & alarms app if you don't want this to happen again - it is too buggy! Find a replacement alarm app, there are loads of free ones out there!

Thanx all! Specialy to sl9
THANK YOU!!! NOW IS ALL GOOD !
What you mean:
"Find a replacement alarm app, there are loads of free ones out there" (I canot see "there" link for free app).
For all:
Which alarm app you use (whithout bugs) ?
1. SPB Clock
2. Chronos for PPC v. 2.95
3. Phonealarm v 1.52
4. Pocket Clock v. 1.15
or some another app ?

I actually haven't got round to finding a replacement yet, but one thing is for sure: do not use the HTC alarm built-in app any more
I am glad this solution worked for you without hard reset, I could not find anywhere else exactly how to solve this problem so it took me literally a whole day of experimenting - but with good results

Stopwatch & Countdown Timer

Hello,
I have just bought a Tytn and about the only function I miss from my old mobile is the stopwatch/countdown function. Does anyone know of any decent freeware that can provide this?
Cheers.

Very simple...but effective:
http://www.deltadevelopment.de/users/christoph/deltaTimer/

I've tried a few countdown program (for my cookings and laundry), but they seems to have the same problem (including the one stated above), all of them are running on a background task basis. Once you have the program switch off (some doesn't even survive a phone off) and the timer stops. Non of the software I've tested actually runs on notification queue (like the way WM5's reminders are based). Hence, I actually use my alarm program as count down timer.

Thanks for the replies.

This program do not wake up my device when it should ring.
Spb Clock is great timer application, but it has the same issue.

Failing Alarm Clock

I have been having trouble with the alarm clock on my D2, and since Uni is about to start and I don't have a standalone alarm clock, it is vital that it functions normally.
Basically, sometimes the alarm just won't go off at all, I had set an alarm clock during my holiday to wake me up so I don't spend the (whole) day sleeping, but at times it failed to ring.
Does anybody else have this problem or is it just me?

if you use igo8 you could have this problem..
Timezone Bug Warning
A major problem with iGO 8 out of the box is the automatic time-zone option. I found that after running iGO 8 my time would change by an hour as well as my timezone being changed. Initially I just corrected these and carried on as normal – but this is where the problems began. You see, Windows Mobile has this 'thing' where if an alarm is turned off after the timezone is changed it still remembers it. You end up with phantom alarms going off even when they are turned off in the alarms setting – and because of the change of timezone they are an hour earlier… I had 12 alarms going off at 5.30am at one point! Calendar alarms are also messed up in this process – I had reminders for appointments an hour after they should have been. The alarm problem was such an issue that I actually did 2 hard resets within a week just to stop them, but as soon as iGO 8 ran again the problem returned. After a considerable number of missed appointments and early mornings I found a way to fix the alarms issue, around the time that Nav N Go announced a 'fix' for the problem.
The problem is caused by entries in the Notification Queue in Windows Mobile not being deleted after they have run. There were two free tools that I used to clear all these old and duplicate entries: pmClean and SKTools Lite. pmClean is a basic tool for clearing out temporary files etc whereas SKTools Lite is more advanced and does a lot more – to view the entries in the notification queue (and subsequently delete the offending ones) go to View / Maintenance / Notifications Queue and remove offending entries under CALENDAR.EXE (for appointments) and Windows\clock.exe (for alarms).
To stop iGO 8 from changing the timezone like it does then you need to follow the instructions here. [make sure you edit the sys.txt in Program Files because if you edit the one on the memory card (like I did initially) then it will not work without a reinstall!]
found @ http://www.pocketgpsworld.com/navngo-igomyway8-review-hmnx4.php

useless alarm
i had the same issue, however since i upgraded the software to the official latest version off htc website, it sorted it out, so i think it maybe a glitch in the software

I don't think the problem is with the changing timezone, it's just that my alarm won't go off at all...
I am not aware that there are newer updates for the TD2 on the HTC website, I though they were just changes for the ROM, is it on the normal HTC update site?

This is definitely related to the notifications queue, I had this issue (basically my alarm would pretty much never go off in the morning) I installed SK tools and set it to clean up the notifications queue in the night
see this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=4391994
so that was a month ago, not one alarm failure since
Oh and I use G-Alarm as my alarm clock, check it out, gives many more features than the stock windows alarm
P.

But did you still have problems using G-Alarm not going off?

I believe G-Alarm itself has a workaround built in for the notifications queue bug.

G-Alarm does in theory have a workaround built in for the notifications queue bug (it turns on at midnight to run a clean) but it wasn't working for me, it was no better than the standard alarm for reliability until SK tools was set up to do its thing. I have now actually turned off the G-Alarm notifications queue fix in the registry as I found the turning on at midnight annoying! And haven't had one alarm failure since so figure it wasn't doing anything extra...
P.

Still having trouble?
or have you solved it? if so what was the cause..

Alarm set, still goes off two times a day

As the thread title says, i have none of the alarms set and still it goes off at around 11 aclock and 13 a clock every day. I _think_ it started after daylight saving turned my clock forward one hour but I still dont know what to do with that information.
Obviously I've turned off all of the alarms (and none of them are set at said times) and started using another alarm program, but that doesnt solve this problem im afraid.
Is there a string somewhere in the registry where it can be found and just wiped or something? Any clues are welcome.
(No notifications on set time either, before anyone asks )

there are two places to tinker with and set/unset alarms, the sense alarms page, or
settings tab - menu - all settings - clocks & alarms.
I had a similar issue briefly before i moved away from the stock rom, where i would unset an alarm but it would still sound, or sound two different rings at the same time.
I found that sometimes the two alarms pages aren't set to the same thing, especially after a hard reset. (still does this in some cooked roms, i've found, the system will be set to an alarm that doesnt exist whilst sense is set to one that does, but doesn't ring)
Now when i hard reset i go into the system - clocks and alarms and set everything from there the first time, and only then start using sense alarms, and so far it seems to clear any bugs before they occur.