Why does it feel it's necessary to pop up an entire window telling me that 'Charging is complete'? Not only is there a battery indicator at the top of the home screen, every device I've ever used has an LED at the top that shows red when charging and green when charged (or flashing while charging and steady when charged). Seriously, when there's a hardware notification on every phone, why do they have to program a notification into the OS?
The end result is that every morning when I take my phone off the charger, I have to dismiss that screen that says "charging is complete". If an appointment reminder goes off and I just want to see it, I still have to dismiss that screen.
I'm finding it more and more annoying the more I click "OK".
On-topic: For some reason my phone doesn't chime when it's someone's birthday, only when it's a real appointment... Don't ask me why...
Why does it feel it's necessary to pop up an entire window telling me that 'Charging is complete'? Not only is there a battery indicator at the top of the home screen, every device I've ever used has an LED at the top that shows red when charging and green when charged (or flashing while charging and steady when charged). Seriously, when there's a hardware notification on every phone, why do they have to program a notification into the OS?
Your premise is incorrect. "Every phone" does not have hardware notification. The Motorola Q series has no LEDs.
Regarding the battery indicator at the top of the screen, seeing four bars could mean the charge is anywhere between 75% and 100%. The Charge Complete screen lets you know that, yes, the charge is really complete.
So I really don't mind the screen in general. I would suggest a settings option to disable it, though, for people who really are bothered by it.
However, it's not perfect. My pet peeve with the screen is that it should go away when I disconnect my device from the charger. I've often seemed to get the Charge Complete message well after the device was running on batteries.
I'm usually up at midnight, so I am annoyed by this for a different reason: It really highlights the absurdity of the Windows Mobile reminder snooze options.
5 minutes before
5 minutes
10 minutes
15 minutes
30 minutes
1 hour
1 day
That's it. Why no "4 hours," "8 hours" "half day," etc.? It just jumps from 1 hour to an entire day. Why isn't there an option to specify a snooze time?
I absolutely agree. This has been a pet peeve of mine for years. And, up until WM 6, which added 10 minutes back, it was getting worse, not better. I believe WM 2003 had 30 minutes, 8 hours and one week. When they added landscape mode, they pruned the snooze options to fit, I think. (I suspect that's also why they went from four alarms to three. I always wondered why they couldn't scroll the alarm screen. )
Even if Microsoft didn't want to allow custom times, they could offer a lot more flexibility with cascading menus. I suggest something like:
5 minutes before
Minutes
5
10
15
20
30
45
Hours
1
2
4
6
8
12
Days
1
2
3
4
7
That gives a much better set of options than the current scheme.
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Originally Posted by Dave Beauvais
It's been a while, but I could swear that was available in some previous Pocket PC version.
I don't believe so. Windows CE Handheld PCs definitely had that feature. There was a combo box with suggested snooze times, but you could enter your own. I don't know for sure (because I never owned one), but I suspect Palm Size PCs could do that, too.
I think Pocket PC 2000 did away with custom snooze times. I have an old iPAQ 3650, so I can check if you really want to know.
Well let's see here...the point of a reminder is to tell you to do something. How many people are going to wish someone a birthday at midnight? So, even if you were awake at midnight, what would you do? Maybe send an email...but it's not like you can go shopping for a gift or call the person.
As Rocco pointed, you can go shopping -- online. My problem, as others have pointed out, is that you can't snooze for more than 1 hour (unless you want to snooze for a whole day). Who wants to be awakened at 12:45, 1:45, 2:45, etc.?
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Originally Posted by Jason Dunn
Having a default is important, but why not have a default that makes more sense? 8 AM? 10 AM? I think anything would be better than midnight.
I think midnight is just the result of using a "one-size-fits-all" approach. An "all-day" event clearly starts at midnight and goes until midnight, so the alarm fires at the default time before midnight, which is usually 15 minutes. And because these events are automatically created from your Contacts, there's no option there to set a reminder (although, I suppose, that could be one option to fix the problem). It makes perfect sense, but obviously should be treated as a special case.
However, I don't think it should fire later in the day. You wouldn't schedule an appointment and (in general) have a alarm that fired off after the start of the meeting, would you? So I would suggest having the reminder fire several hours before the day begins (maybe at the point where snoozing it one day puts it at a reasonable time on the special day).
Somebody suggested the reminder should fire at the "start of the day" you've defined, but that's for work, and those events generally aren't work-related. Unless you use a hack or a different PIM, all task reminders fire at the start of the day, and nobody likes that (tasks should have specifiable alarms, too). Why would all-day events be better?
However, as I suggested in another thread, I think there's a work-around. Set your default reminder time to 8 hours before. The downside is that, when you create meetings, you'll have to reset the alarm time to 15 minutes (or whatever your preferred value is).
We used to be able to set the snooze time in WM2003SE.
I don't think you could. I didn't have a WM 2003 SE device, but I've had WM 2003 and WM 5 Pocket PCs, and they can't do that. I'd be shocked if they put that feature in for one release and then removed it.
If you have a screen capture, though, prove me wrong.
As I always turn my device off at night, I rarely experience this except on the rare occasions when I'm up past midnight, AND I have an all-day event scheduled the next day. Then it's: "WTF!?!" (fumble, fumble, examine) "Oh, oh, yeah, riiight..."
Personally, I try to remember to set "no notification" on all appointments on my device, and trust to catch the notification on the Today screen instead. That way, the thing stays mercifully quiet. But now that I'm on a Touch Pro 2, I wish I could get the Today screen to display appointments a week in advance, instead of just a single day...
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Note particularly the Special Events Tab. It shows all the stuff that is coming up and how far out it is. The little bell icon flashes when something is imminent, and I think it even lets you adjust how far out that happens. Shame this sort of customization, value added, may be a thing of the past. Maybe not though. Might be possible to do a really neat Special Event Tile, that shows the next few things and animates when things get close.
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