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Increasing volume

I know how to increase the volume normally.
However, I find that the maximum is still really quite quiet - often enough for me to miss my phone ringing when it's in my pocket, or for me to miss my alarm to get up in the morning...
Does anyone know how to raise the volume any higher? Perhaps past its normal maximum?
Thanks

Anjow said:
miss my alarm to get up in the morning
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I also don't hear thealarm sounds. Anyone have a loud alarm ringtone?

me too! i still need other alarm clock to wake me

I'm using this alarm sound to wake me.

Re: Alarm Clock and good wake up wav file.
I use SPB Time.
Its some cool functions including multi alarm, plus real-time clock screensaver. :wink:
Link here.
http://www.spbsoftwarehouse.com/products/time/?en
Also I made a special wake-up wav file, it does the job for me. :lol:

I got the SPB Time program, and it seems pretty good - the alarm is loud enough. However, do you know if I have to have it running constantly for the alarm to work? I mean does it have to be up onscreen overnight if it is to wake me up?

Re: SPB Time
For the screensaver, you do not need the program running. Another thing about the screensaver is you can customise it not to come on with certain programs, for example Windows Media and TomTom Navigator 5.1 etc.
If you have set the Alarm, then yes the SPB Time has to be running, but the plus is you can turn your pda off and it will turn it on to view and hear the alarm.

That's odd... I have tried setting timers and the alarm and turning my device off - they don't seem to sound until I turn it back on again

Thats strange it worked for me (XDA IIi) and my friends (QTEC 2020i). I'm running WM2003SE, maybe try re-install and/or contact spb support.
can anybody else help Anjow???

Anjow,
I got this from SPB Support, if a re-install doesn't work this may help.
My alarms do not ring when the time comes and the device is in sleep mode. Why?
Most probably you have a typical Windows Mobile 2003 alarm problem. Due to a specific WM2003 bug the system scheduling functions may have unpredictable behavior on some devices. Even native system alarms don't wake the device up from sleep mode on many 2003 devices. For our regret this problem is operating system and device specific.
However there are some known workarounds for this problem that may help (but still a 100% effect is not guaranteed). You may try WakeupTweak from BurrOak Software. Try these links: http://www.burroak.on.ca/ptafaq.html and http://www.pocketpcfreewares.com/en/index.php?soft=876

Thanks very much, I shall take a look at the fixes.

Hi!
I have the OIIi also. When i use the SPB time, my PPC alway have frezzed. so now i am using the Chronos programs. it quite runing very good in the my PPC OIIi.

Anjow said:
That's odd... I have tried setting timers and the alarm and turning my device off - they don't seem to sound until I turn it back on again
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I have found a usefull piece of software called PhoneAlarm which solves this problem.
In ADV settings, change the shutdown delay to 30 seconds, also to increase the sound quality and volume in calls, selcect TAPI Signal, then softreset. Then do a test on your Alarm program and it should work.
http://www.pocketmax.net/phoneAlarm.htm

Hi,
apart from alarm sound, is there any other patch or application to further increase ring volume?

Alarm and wm6

I am now running on wm6 does anyone have any alarm issues, my alarm just plays the alert once (about 2 sec) which is really useless wm5 would play the tune for 1 min or so

No notification
Mine is different. The alarm sounds but I cannot dismiss it, since no notification is show. It just stays there and beep FOREVER... Annoying.
I am searching this now and it seems it is a notification queue issue.

vibrate alarm doesnt work on vibrate but does with sound on!

I have the dcs 1.7 rom instaled however the alarm only vibrates when the sound is turned on! I have my phone on vibrate all the time so the alarm is no good if it doesn't work when on vibrate! I have tried other roms and it works as expected! anyone know of a fix or a freeware alarm app that may resolve this isue? I have put the rom on a copule of times so know its a problem with the rom and my phone! doesn't apear that other users of the rom are having the same problem as I have asked the question in the rom thread!

the strange thing is reminders work fine!

another thing i have noticed is if i leave the alarm after 4 minutes after it is set to go off it then starts vibrating!

Alarm has no sound

I have this strange problem for quite a while already. When my alarm fires, there is no alarm sound at all (only vibrate). Sometimes it will work again after a soft-reset, but it will cease to work later on. I have make sure it's not in silent mode, and I have selected a sound file already.
BTW, I'm using Dutty's V4 rom

To be honest, I suggest you use G-Alarm. Google it. Its very good and reliable

BB88 said:
I have this strange problem for quite a while already. When my alarm fires, there is no alarm sound at all (only vibrate). Sometimes it will work again after a soft-reset, but it will cease to work later on. I have make sure it's not in silent mode, and I have selected a sound file already.
BTW, I'm using Dutty's V4 rom
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This might help you: http://pocketnow.com/index.php?a=portal_detail&t=news&id=6174

tnyynt said:
This might help you: http://pocketnow.com/index.php?a=portal_detail&t=news&id=6174
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Thanks for the pointer. However, I did that everytime and I still didn't get any alarm sound. The sound is working when I "select" it from the drop down, but when the actual alarm fires, there is only vibration.

I'm also getting an unreliable alarm. Mostly it doesn't sound, just vibrates, but I'll have to figure out when it works and when it doesn't.

HD7 bugs with alarmclock?

Is anyone else experiencing these bugs?
This usually happens after an alarm has went off or if i have not noticed that one has been going off.
* The bottom speaker just turns off, no sound is received. So i'll get a phone call and i answer but no one can hear me, reboot fixes the issue but wtf.
* just 10 min ago the alarm went off to remind me of something and i hit dismiss and the phone went back to the main tiles. I tried to lock the phone and it didn't do anything. I hit the back button and nothing happened, i then try to navigate and the screen is frozen. Live tiles are still moving but no input is read. The power button doesn't work as well, i had to pull the battery.
Anyone have these problems?

I have the same issue about the alarm. I have multiple alarm setup and then if one of them alarms go off and i didn't turn it off the screen just froze, there is no input from the touchscreen but the tiles are working. I guess it is a bug in the programming that disables the touchscreen if the alarm that goes off wasn't turn off.

Hopefully this is fixed with the rumored update on thursday.

Alarm Bug
+1 with the alarm bug. Hope the software update fixes the poor sound level as well, as a working alarm would be nice but a working alarm that i can hear is much better

+1
Same problem
I use Nokia X2 for alarm clock

Alarm Problems
I use an app called Nightstand clock from the Marketplace. The sound of the alarm tones is much louder than wp7 alarm tones. Give it a try it hasn't let me down yet & more importantly has never froze. It can even run under the lockscreen. It hasn't affected the sound on my HD7 either.

Well i have the same problem and for now i download alarm clock 7 and only works if the phone its not lock cause in lock status the alarm does not sound.

I also have this problem
alarm goes off, and if i don't hit dismiss and let it run, the mic gets turned off
grrr

+1, i am also having the same issue

+1, i am also having the same issue. :laugh:
I have HTC HD7