Hello all,
The clock alarm of my Kaiser has a very unconfortable two bugs:
SCENARIO
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I configure the three posible clock alarms, at different hours: 7:00 AM, 7:15 AM and 7:30 AM. At this moment, it works perfectly, the three alarms raise and sound.
BUG #1
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Once the three alarms are configured and checked, if one or more are unchecked, but at least one is still checked, the THREE alarms will sound! So it seems to be that it is not possible to have just ONE alarm once you have configured and checked the three possible.
BUG #2
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Once the three alarms are configured and checked, if the hours are changed, it will make the phone to raise the new configured alarms and the old-non-existing ones!!! For example:
I configured & checked this three alarms: 7:00AM, 7:15AM, 7:30AM. The next day, I re-configure the three alarms to: 6:00AM, 6:05AM, 6:10AM. Then, in the morning the phone raised the alarms 6:00AM, 6:05AM, 6:10AM ... AND (INCREDIBLY)... the alarms of 7:00AM, 7:15AM, 7:30AM. How can it be possible???? If it is only possible to have configured three alarms at once???
Anyone experiencing this bug? Or anyone not experiencing it (but configuring alarms the way I do)??? Anyone with some information at respect?
Thanks a lot!
Hi
I have had an alarm go off an hour early (this wasn't when the clocks changed either), but thankfully don't use the alarm very often.
I can well believe the bugs exist
Regards
Phil
Did set the alarm once at 8.30am and it did not ring. Got up 10 minutes late and check my alarm settings, all was correct but it just did not ring. Ever since then, i lost faith in the build in alarm and started using SPB Time.
I had mullitple bugs with the WM built in alarms. On three different phones. 3125, then 8125, then 8525. I don't bother with it on the Tilt. I found the best solution is to use something else, like Spb Time. Or some other time program of your liking.
Yep, it's an all too well known WM problem. If however you run Memmaid or SKtools to clear duplicates in the "Notifications Queue" you will find it works well (for most folks anyway). I use the alarm for work and by routinely clearing the notifications queue (that sadly WM alllows to get cluttered with old stuff) I do not have problems.
Mike
I too have this exact problem! Only because I accidentally changed my time zone I get 9 alarms per day, monday to friday! Slack, WM6 has a Windows Update feature, they should bloody well use it to fix the problem! Useless turds...
Had the same problem the other day with alarms sounding that I had supposedly cancelled. After trawling through posts on this site I found the solution: I downloaded the free trial of Pocket Mechanic Pro from wizcode (handango) and ran the notification queue. This revealed 2 obsolete alarm settings which appear as a clock.exe items in the list. Deleted them both and the alarms ceased. Quite a good bit of software anyway. Will probably purchase when the 30 day trial finishes...
I think it's a fairly well known bug.
I think the easiest way to fix it is to disable all the alarms, then soft reset it. Then enable the alarms again and they should work as expected.
Install Tweakster and clear the cache files. You most likely have remnants of old alarm settings.
This problem of re-occurring canceled alarms surfaces if you have installed one of Schaps ROMs. Schaps does not believe in placing auto cache clean in his Roms.
Also this problem surfaces if you have installed a Travel Software or 3RD party Alarms like any of SPB products. Make sure to install a Task manager program like the HTC task manager or even a program like Memmaid, to clear all temp files, and to clean your reg cache.
I have memmaid but it does not find erraneous alarms.
Yesterday I set three alarms to 0700 and 0705 and 0710 (all AM).
Today I set three alarms to 1800 and 1805 and 1810 ( 6pm).
The phone rang at 0700 and 0705 and 0710 and then also at 1800 1805 and 1810.
I ran memmaid notification que,duplicates,dangling and expired. It didnt pick up the wrong ones.
I have to manually delete them.
Related
Hi all,
This has happened twice now - randomly and on different alarms (of the 3 you can set). I have been woken up with what sounds like a phased sound. It turns out the alarm has gone off twice - a fraction of a second apart. There are also two notification messages. I also had an instance of the alarm NOT going off at all (more worrying) despite being set.
Any ideas? A soft-reset seemed to work but then it came back this morning...
Odd!!!
R
rakh1 said:
Hi all,
This has happened twice now - randomly and on different alarms (of the 3 you can set). I have been woken up with what sounds like a phased sound. It turns out the alarm has gone off twice - a fraction of a second apart. There are also two notification messages. I also had an instance of the alarm NOT going off at all (more worrying) despite being set.
Any ideas? A soft-reset seemed to work but then it came back this morning...
Odd!!!
R
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Yeah, it's an old problem. Duplicate notifications accumulate in the notifications queue. Use Sktools or Memmaid or Scarybear check notifications to clear the Duplicates from the queue. Be careful not to delete entries called repllog though (they are needed by Active Sync.)
It's a good idea to use one of the apps above to clear out on a fairly regular basis.
SKTOOLS
http://classic.pocketgear.com/software_detail.asp?id=14288&associateid=17
MEMMAID
http://www.pocketgear.com/en_US/html/display_product.jsp?id=prod5690734&s_kwcid=memmaid|733014010
Mike
It's really about time this was fixed. My old Magician used to do it too, and that was WM2003SE!
Eventually I got so fed up I started using SPB Time instead, as that doesn't double the alarms.
Where is this queue held? Is it a txt file, reg or inside a binary?
R
Forgot to give a link to the freeware Scarybear Check Notifications app:
http://www.scarybearsoftware.com/products.php
Mike
The Scarybear software does not work well with the Kaiser. I used the standard settings to clear dups, and it hosed ActiveSynch and firing of reminders. A restore to a backup restored functionality, and unfortunately the multiple alarms. (I get three for some alarms.)
Jim_R said:
The Scarybear software does not work well with the Kaiser. I used the standard settings to clear dups, and it hosed ActiveSynch and firing of reminders. A restore to a backup restored functionality, and unfortunately the multiple alarms. (I get three for some alarms.)
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Good info!!
Personally I always thought Scarybear was a bit dodgy, but it is freeware (but that's maybe just me). I use Sktools and have not had a problem with losing the repllog entries for ASync.
It would be interesting to hear others confirm a problem with Scarybear or otherwise - anyone?
Mike
Yeah - I also toasted ActiveSync. My fault though - I removed a couple of entires, thought "this is easy" so removed all duplicates. BANG. Hard reset and rebuild later and I am now a bit wiser. Does anyone know which lines *are* the double alarms?
Well, for alarms created on the Alarms tab under the clocks and alarms settings, to clear dups one can uncheck any created alarms, do a soft reset, then go back and enable them again. This will clear the duplicates. For synched meeting noticed from the calendar, one can go in with scarybear and manually find dups and delete them one by one.
Alternatively, you can download and install "Task Manager" to check on the notification queue. In the queue, it'll state the time of which the particular event will take place. Find the problem maker and delete it.
I never had this problem with my Trinity before, but now with the TyTN II it's back to the old days of WM2003SE... i just can't believe that M$ still hasn't fixed this...!
Anyway; does anyone know of another FREEWARE app that fixes this (other than Scarybear) reliably? Preferably an app that does nothing other than cleaning out this DB...
In moving from wm5 to wm6, my favorite alarm clock, WolfClock, seems to be broken. It works fine as long as the Kaiser is on. But if it goes off, when the time for the alarm comes, it turns on ok, but no sound is produced by the alarm. ARGHHH!
The developer is no longer working on this, so I don't think he will fix it.
So, my questions are:
a) there is a debug mode....anyone want to suggest what I should look for and how to "fix" this?
or
b) what's a good alternative? I tried SPB Time, WaWa Clock...didn't like either one. Other suggestions? (Can't stand the built-in alarms...so don't bother suggesting that!) Would prefer free but will settle for something pleasant, customizable, and can do alarms, snooze, and - my favorite - naps!
Thanks.
I use DelMar alarm clock and I really like it. The only issue I am aware of is that I am pretty sure it won't wake up the phone to sound the alarm, but since my phone is plugged in at night and I have the power settings to not turn the phone off if on external power, it's not that big of an issue.
.:Christian:.
enAlarmPPC
I use enAlarmPPC. Nothing fancy but it has worked 100% reliably for me. One of the nifty features to me is that when the alarm goes off almost the entire screen acts as a snooze button (you can tap anywhere on the screen to activate the snooze). & its Not bloatware (not bloated with useless graphics and such).
http://www.maik-wiege.de/en
jrockets said:
One of the nifty features to me is that when the alarm goes off almost the entire screen acts as a snooze button (you can tap anywhere on the screen to activate the snooze). & its Not bloatware (not bloated with useless graphics and such).
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Delmar is the same way.
I'm also using enAlarmPPC. It does exactly what it has to do!
Works perfect with WM6 even with Slide2Unlock2 running not a problem.
I don't know what it is about WM6 but I've had a lot of problems with alarm clocks and timers not being able to wake the phone up to go off.
I have been using pTravel Alarm from BurrOak Software for three weeks now in my Tilt.
It works flawlessly, wakes-up the phone to sound the morning alarm and doesn't seem to have caused any freeze-ups at all.
It uses a large clock display. I set it at night before I pass out and it is about the only time I actually tilt my Tilt.
Link:
http://www.burroak.on.ca/
I Use SPB Time Its Really Nice it has a nice clock plugin and the alarm lets u put ur own wake up tones.
Download It Here!
admin edit: serial removed, warez is not allowed!
I am using Chronos Time Clock (www.activekitten.com).
Very reliable and never failed to wake up the device.
One of the very useful things for me is that you can pre-program it to send a text message at a specific time. Very useful for birthday wishes to go out at 00:00 when you are fast asleep.
I'm using CradleAlarm now, that is the successor of enAlarmPPC. Has many nice features and seems to be very reliable. And the price is OK, too!
See here:
http://www.cradle-software.de
greets
paddy
another vote for chronos, but haven't used it for awhile. had the smartphone version w/ my mpx220 but it was buggy on my strtrk. i switched at that point to GenTimer, love it as well.
I'm running the PPC version of GenTimer on my Tilt and it's very nice, entire screen functions as 'SNOOZE' with a long-press and it never fails to wake the device up. Very customizeable, skins are kinda ick so I've rebadged the exe resources images and resigned it to run.
It includes alarms, clock, world time, stop watch, timers, etc.
Chris
I am also using Chronos and it works great. Another alarm that i used to use was enalarm pocket pc. They changed the name now to cradlealarm i think but they both work great.
I use GSAlarmClock ver 1.20
It's FREE and allows me to mute my phone so SMS and Email doesn't wake me up but the alarm still sounds.
Works flawlessly, never late for work thanks to the annoying alarm sound it makes that forces you to get out of bed!
My fav by far.
Hi all,
I wasn't woken to day to my usual alarm - so I checked and set one up for a few mins time but that again did not play. I changed the alarm tone and tried again - nothing....
Have just soft-reset before trying again - anyone else had problems with the alarm???
R
So, soft reset and then set an alarm for 2 mins time. Nothing happened. I turned it on 5 mmins later and the alarm starts....???
This is worrying...
I have the following installed:
FInixNOver FInix_VGA_Batttery_and_N...
PHM Registry Editor
Microsoft Remote Desktop Mobile
From X-Files Skype
Axis Communications AXIS camera Ex...
Anyone know of any problems?
R
Went into the MS alarm settings and made a change - now it all works...
Very odd...
I'd be interested to see if anyone else has seen this or is it just me /-(
R
Yep, the alarms in WinMo are a bit hit and miss - if I ever need to rely on them, for instance when travelling, I tend to set all three, one minute after the other, and set either a calendar reminder or a task reminder as well, for good measure. Oh and I soft-reset just before going to bed and put the phone into flight mode. That generally works OK.
Crikey - the alarms on my TD1 were perfect - never missed a beat.....
R
You're lucky, the flakiness I got with the alarms was on my TP1.
You could use G-Alarm for alarms, is free does the job.
I Switched FizzTraveler (wich i used mainly for alarms ) since it could not unlock my device and woul dplay a silend alarm. ( Nice if you need to wake up)
G-Alarm wakes me up and knows how to unlock my device. It works like a charm.
I've uninstalled the battery notification app : FInixNOver FInix_VGA_Batttery_and_N... as it was the only prog I didn't have on the TD1 - maybe it is conflicting??? Time will tell...
R
wasnt there some Bug in Galarm?
I should be getting my Topaz very soon and i use my Nokia E90 alarm to wake me up. Its a bit worrying that tte Topaz alarm isnt so reliable
Can the device be turned off so that it turns on automatically to sound the alarm?
It should wake for the alarm as long as the option to NOT do this is unticked. Like I said, never had a problem with the TD1 so hope that this was a one off glitch...
R
Def a wm thing. Various devices of my past have had alarm issues. I never trust them. I use third party alarms always. Gentimer and spb clock/alarm are two of my favs. Even then I still set a calendar alarm also.
I thought this should be fixed by now (before I had WM5 and later WM6, where interestingly enough the problem did not occour), but actually it's worse than ever.
On my Vario III with WM6.1 I can define 3 alarms (and I don't mean notifications in the calendar or stuff like that, I'm talking about ALARMS, i.e. what gets you up in the morning ).
The problem is that all 3 Alarms remain active and go off even if they are not defined as active. Also older Alarms go off which I have deleted some time ago.
I googled on this and one site recommended MemMaid which was supposed to take care of this problem. Well, in theory it is, in practice sadly not, as it does tell me that there are no duplicate or uncorrect notifications in the notification queue - yet there I can see them with my own eyes. I tried a little bit and it's definitely those entries. I have deactivated all my alarms which should result in no entries in the NQ, yet there they remain and go off in the morning (along with all the others, existent or non-existent, active or not active). I can remove them manually to solve the problem one time, but as soon as I define some new alarms it is back again.
Can anybody help me with that. As it is I cannot use my Vario III as an alarm clock in the morning because I have no way to tell which one of the "illegal" alarms will go off, so I just put in on mute and use a regular alarm clock.
Hoi Eric, I did have the same problem (i think) with my previous WM version. When i did go on a bisiness trip and did change my Visiting time my alarm still goes of on the Home time. I where not able to fix this. I did an hard reset and never changed the visiting time until i did an rom update. Now i an running an update like this: (this is not the one, i used V8 from june, but i cant find the link)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=507281
and the problem is gone. I can set an visting time and i have no more problems. I hope this was helpful. goodluck
Try G-Alarm
I use G-Alarm and it will try to fix the Windows alarm problem the first time you run it.
G-Alarm 1.5.1 is the last free version before they went commercial.
This is not my 4shared. I only found it from a Google search. Thanks to the host for making this availible.
Hope this helps!
mrdiavolo said:
I use G-Alarm and it will try to fix the Windows alarm problem the first time you run it.
G-Alarm 1.5.1 is the last free version before they went commercial.
This is not my 4shared. I only found it from a Google search. Thanks to the host for making this availible.
Hope this helps!
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Thanks for the tip. I am still not sure if this has solved the problem though. After installing G-Alarm reported to fix the Windows Alarm bug, I thought "hey, cool". Yet today in the morning again rang 2 alarms of which only one was set. I am not sure as if this "fix" was just fixing lacking functionality or if it was supposed to also remove any false alarms. In the latter case it didn't do that.
Anyway, I deactivated all alarms and then removed all the alarm entries I could find from the registry manually to make sure that there was really no alarm active. Then I set a new alarm for testing. This went off as expected, so I deactivated it and set yet a new alarm for waking me up tomorrow.
As far as I can tell from the registry this new alarm is the only one active now (for whatever reason there are 4 entries of it in the registry), but that remains to be seen tomorrow.
Will report back once I know more.
As to G-Alarm: It's a nice program, but setting up an alarm is way to much effort (I think you have to pass through 6 steps) compared to the built-in alarm function of WM. It's got some nice features, I must admit, yet all I really care about is a reliable alarm feature, that's all.
I report back and indeed G-alarm was the solution to this problem. Yet it only fixes the Alarm Bug in WM, it does not fix (delete) the false alarm entries in the registry. In order to be rid of false alarms that must be done manually. from that moment on the alarms work as they are supposed to.
Thanks for the help, guys.
I'm not so good in English ... but do you say that G-Alarm fixed your problem ? .. cause I'm having the same problem last 2 weeks ...
or the only way is doing it through the registry manual ? if yes ... can you pls PM me some instructions how to do that?
how to remove ghost alarms
EricCartman said:
I report back and indeed G-alarm was the solution to this problem. Yet it only fixes the Alarm Bug in WM, it does not fix (delete) the false alarm entries in the registry. In order to be rid of false alarms that must be done manually. from that moment on the alarms work as they are supposed to.
Thanks for the help, guys.
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Those alarms are called "ghost alarms". I used the applicatioin MemMaid and it fixed that problem.
I hope this helps.
Edit: I found this, but I didn't try it
http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/tamir/archive/2008/01/31/my-windows-mobile-does-not-sound-alarms-my-windows-mobile-alerts-whenever-it-want-to-alert.aspx
Hi!
I'd like to ask for your help. What I want is to use my alarm (to wake me up) and at the same time ringing and vibration for incoming calls and SMS should be muted. I.e. alarm with phone profile set to Silent.
Currently I use Pocket WakeUp application which does not offer such possibility.
(This is no problem with my old SE K750 "dumb-phone".)
Thanks
i can suggest TWO options:
1. if you want to use the windows mobile built in alarm functionality, go to Settings->Clocks & Alarms and make sure that "Sound alarms even when the device is set to silent or vibrate" is CHECKED.
2. use "G Alarm"! you can find version 1.5.1 somewhere...it was the last version that was free. if you like it, go ahead and pay for the LATEST version. it is an EXCELLENT alarm application.
i personally use option 2. option 1 is available on most new versions of windows mobile. i'm not sure if it is present in windows mobile 6.0 but i am sure i have seen this option in every build of windows mobile 6.5 and 6.5.x that i have used.
Thanks, ASCIIker!
The problem I'm having with the 1st method is that I can't set the alarm sound to whatever I like (WM6.1)
So I'm probably going to try G Alarm.
Although it looks as though the OP has already decided to try Galarm, I thought I'd post to say that I quickly found version 1.5.1 last night and have used it succesfully today. It's a cracking little bit of kit and works as you would need it to.
You can switch your profile to mute or silent and the alarm will still go off in the morning. The added bonus for me was that you could personalise elements such as snooze time, puzzles to wake you up or prevent you snoozing, you can create a playlist of mp3's as your alarm tone, you can start other apps be default too.
Awesome bit of software and it's easy enough for a noob like me to understand.
I finally got to test Galarm. Well, on the positive side it works. And on the negative, it is quite slow on my HTC Kaiser
Edit: Well, it is slow, but it does not have to be running permanently