01-05-2004, 12:00 PM
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Contributing Editor Emeritus
Join Date: Aug 2006
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Third Party Fix For Alarm Bug In Windows Mobile 2003 - alarmToday
http://www.pocketmax.net/alarmToday.htm
alarmToday claims to fix the wake up problems that some are experiencing in their Windows Mobile 2003 device.
The image shows this on a 2002 device so the alarm fix dialog box is grayed out. Of course, this app does much more than that.  Features include:
� Clear overview of all pending alarms
� Single click open / edit alarm in host application
� Allows deletion of alarms, including annoying warnings on startup from previously installed applications
� Interfaces directly with Outlook, Pocket Informant and Agenda Fusion
� Powerful custom alarms to play music (including complete songlists), open documents or applications and much more
� Quick handwritten alarm notes
� Provides repeating alarms (even on PPC 2002) and escalating sound
� Override system sound so no alarms go unheard
� Automatically remove duplicate alarms
� Includes German & Spanish user interface
It works on Pocket PC 2000, 2002 and 2003 and requires 150K of RAM. You can download it for $9.99. (Affiliate link) If you try it, post back with alarm reliability. My 2215 alarms never fail me so I couldn't tell if it works as advertised or not. ;-)
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01-05-2004, 01:34 PM
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Oracle
Join Date: Dec 2003
Posts: 830
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nice launcher. What is it?
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01-05-2004, 02:27 PM
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Sage
Join Date: Dec 2003
Posts: 813
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This is a cool app. I've been playing around with it the while I have never had any issues with alarms on my h1940, I have been using this app for repeating alarms, reminders etc. and it works flawlessly. Well almost, when my device wakes up for an alarm, the display comes on and it sounds but the backlight remains off and I cannot change this. When I power off the device and back on it works fine. Anyone else seen this?
The today plug in works very similar to tAgenda which is great and it's simple to add a quick reminder alarm note which is my main reason for checking it out. I don't use the likes of Agenda Fusion or Pocket Informant as they are more than I really need.
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01-05-2004, 02:50 PM
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Sage
Join Date: Oct 2006
Posts: 797
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All I can say is, I guess it doesn't work for everyone. 
Sheesh...
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01-05-2004, 04:59 PM
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Sage
Join Date: Dec 2003
Posts: 813
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I was surprised by this as it seems very robust otherwise. I will contact the developer to find out about this as otherwise it looks like it could be an ideal app for many people.
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01-05-2004, 05:02 PM
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Sage
Join Date: Oct 2006
Posts: 797
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I have an Ipaq 5555 and it did absolutely nothing, if that's any help.
Oh well. Guess I'll just get a cheap alarm clock since I can't rely on my PPC to wake me up now.
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01-05-2004, 05:14 PM
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Ponderer
Join Date: Jul 2003
Posts: 59
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Based on some quick tests it seems to have fixed the alarm problems with my Axim X5.
I'm not sure I need another tool to add repeating alarms though :wink:
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Mark Anderson
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01-05-2004, 09:09 PM
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Pupil
Join Date: Dec 2002
Posts: 23
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Installed on WM2003 (Phone Edition) and it made the UI freeze about 30 seconds after every soft reset so couldn't get into start menu, or today screen wouldn't refresh where the today plugin was located, some programs that were already running seemed fine. Would be great otherwise!
30 seconds was long enough to uninstall it though until this is fixed, hopefully not too long
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01-05-2004, 09:32 PM
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Theorist
Join Date: Mar 2003
Posts: 267
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When I installed Sprite oftware's Pocket backup, and sheduled a backup every midnight, my alarm problems went away on my HP 2210.
..............just my $ 0.50
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01-06-2004, 04:27 AM
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Pupil
Join Date: Dec 2003
Posts: 18
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alarmToday
Ed:
It does look interesting. But I just spent 5.00 for Alert Techs fix, and I just can't see throwing good money after bad, on a maybe. Have you heard anything new from MS or HP? I have been told that HP has escalated it to Tier III Support - and I was told I would get an ETA of status in a few weeks as to when/if we will see a fix.
Stuart
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