Hi,
I looked at he notification queue via SK Tools. I was shocked how short it is (12 items). Before I used Kaiser and it was much longer (more then 100 items). I use alarms a lot, therefore I can not believe that the queue is as long as I see. Is it possible und correct?
Thanks for Your answers!
I've noticed it too. I believe it gets recreated every night. The queue only contains items for the coming day and items further in the future that have an alarm more than one day in advance.
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Is there any way to change the theme to have more than one appointment on the screen at one time?
Cheers
Lee
When I have multiple appointments on my Today screen, it shows a maximum of two, and if I have more than two coming up (say, tomorrow) but I'm still on today's appointment, it will show the first appointment for tomorrow and then as soon as my current appointment is finished, it'll update to show both of tomorrow's...
... Do you mean you want to display more than two?
christopherwoods said:
When I have multiple appointments on my Today screen, it shows a maximum of two, and if I have more than two coming up (say, tomorrow) but I'm still on today's appointment, it will show the first appointment for tomorrow and then as soon as my current appointment is finished, it'll update to show both of tomorrow's...
... Do you mean you want to display more than two?
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Yes - exactly - I want display more than two - say 3 or 4 - there must be a way to it since plug-ins can display?
Does PPC work the same way as Smartphone? ie - XML for the homescreens?
To achieve this, you'll need a Today plugin which offers this kind of functionality... The first that springs to mind has got to be Pocket Breeze ( http://www.sbsh.net/products/pocketbreeze/ ) - I don't use it myself, but I think I may try it out sometime soon (saw it a while back, noted it, but never got round to trying it out).
Or if you're either a dab hand at programming (or know someone who's fearless enough to undertake some) then you could always try writing your own Today screen plugin...
http://www.microsoft.com/mspress/books/sampchap/5461a.asp#100
SPB Diary will also accomplish the same thing. http://www.pocketgear.com/software_detail.asp?id=17704&associateid=17
Hmmm....not sure about Pocket Breeze thing - it's a bit much for just one function! And I like a nice clean Today screen - PB just make it look "busy".
Looks like I'll have to read-up on xml - unless anybody else knows a simple solution?
Cheers
Did some more browsing, found some goodies on PocketPCFreewares:
http://www.pocketpcfreewares.com/en/index.php?cat=13&sortby=rating
tAgenda 1.1
http://www.pocketpcfreewares.com/en/index.php?soft=565
Calendar+ 2.2.10
http://www.pocketpcfreewares.com/en/index.php?soft=108
Both look pretty good, I think I'll try them both.
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...
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.
I know that while creating a new appointment, WM6/Office Mobile does not have the capability to let you set a different time zone for that appointment -like Outlook on a PC. I have searched for quite a while on this site and elsewhere using different combinations of seach phrases to locate a solution to this - a hack or a addon application or a replacement for the built in calendar program with this capability - either freeware or commercial. It is a strong irritant for me because at least half of the entries in my calendar need to be created with time zones set to a zone different from mine. Each time I have to do a calculation in my mind to add or subtract the difference before creating an appointment. If I dont do that and then I go travelling all appointments get shifted to wrong time slots. Anyway to a cut a long story short - I did find an application called TimeZones on www.pocketpcfreewares.com/en/index.php which seems to do exactly what I need - However that does not work on WM6 !!!! presumably this was written for some older version of WM.
I am sure there are many people out there for whom this will be a very useful feature.
Any help in finding a solution to this will be much appreciated.
Thanks.
Bump!
Several days and no comments! Either I am one of the very few who is bugged by this problem or there is no solution! I am afraid of the later because I didn't even get flamed for not searching before asking!!!!!
Try SPB Traveler. It does exactly what you want.
Thanks a lot. I will give it try right away
Does PocketInformant allow this?
On thie site:
Multiple Alarms, Travel Appointments
Beyond the primary alarm, you can now add secondary alarms, notifications and travel appointments to new and existing appointments
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This was in the manual:
There is almost no difference between the dialog you see when creating a new appointment, and
the one you see when you edit an existing one. The only exception is with Appointment
Timezones which only show up for new appointments.
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I saw this in the Knowledgebase:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/newreply.php?do=newreply&noquote=1&p=2075185
Thanks guys for your help. Of the two Pocketinformant is more like what I needed. Many of the goodies in SPB Traveller are already available on Worldmate (free version). Thanks again for the suggestions
Hi All
Recently received my TD2 and am slowly coming to grips with it. Sooo much better than my old i-mate JasJam (Hermes).
I have read through the manual, searched the Topaz forum, looked through the wiki, "googled", and still have a simple question to which I hope someone out there has the answer:
How can you change the time interval between weather updates (in AccuWeather on the weather tab) ??
The TD2 manual (pdf version, page 83) indicates that if "download automatically" is ticked in the Settings for the weather tab, then "weather information is automatically downloaded whenever you select the Weather tab, if the data has not been updated within the last three hours"
I'd like to reduce Vodafone New Zealand's data plan profits a little and change this time interval to 12 hours - but I can't find where the "3 hour" figure is stored in the registry (or whereever).
Can anyone help ?? If I have missed something obvious, please accept my humble apologies, but put me out of my suffering.
Cheers
Why not just set it to manual?
That's what I've done at present, but given that there is the capability to update automatically, I hoped it would be possible to modify the time interval. Every 3 hours seem a little to frequent for most people. Some of the 3rd party packages offer this functionality, so why not this one ?