05-11-2004, 01:15 AM
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Editor Emeritus
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 15,171
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Making Alarms More Reliable In Windows Mobile 2003
"A known problem with WM2003 is that the first alarm of the day can be rather unreliable. Users regularly report that the first alarm of the day doesn't always trigger until the device is turned on by the user, whereupon all outstanding alarms then trigger immediately...The commonly accepted theory for this is related to the number of alarm events the device has in the Calendar, coupled with the amount of time the unit has to perform house keeping at about midnight."
MTekk gives a quick summary as to what one possible cause is to WM2003 alarm troubles as people have reported, and then has concise instructions on working around it. I agree with those that say they shouldn't have to develop a workaround, but in the meantime, if you're affected by this problem, it might be worthwhile to give this article a look.
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05-11-2004, 01:45 AM
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Mystic
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 1,725
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I can never tell if I have this problem. I don't use the alarm feature often (I do use the calendar reminders, but that's different, right?), but when I do, half of the time it seems to work fine, and half of the time it doesn't. Strange stuff.
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05-11-2004, 01:57 AM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Dec 2003
Posts: 217
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It blows my mind that alarms still do not work properly in Windows Mobile. Microsoft needs to take a page from Palm's book and, y'know, make working alarms... :roll: Ahh... this is one of those things that I can just take for granted will work now that I've switched back to Palm OS.
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05-11-2004, 02:02 AM
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Oracle
Join Date: Mar 2005
Posts: 980
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Tweaks2k2 v1.80 has included these tricks allowing you to configure the time out up to 180 seconds. From my experience I have got the best results between 120 and 130 seconds.
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05-11-2004, 03:57 AM
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Pontificator
Join Date: Mar 2004
Posts: 1,055
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I have never found the PocketPC's alarms / calendar reminders to be particularly useful. When I used my Palm m505, I could always hear the alarms go off. That's not the case with my iPaq 4155... whenever it's in my pocket, I barely hear the alarm even if the volume is at its highest setting.
Am I the only one that has this kind of trouble?
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05-11-2004, 04:22 AM
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Pupil
Join Date: Aug 2002
Posts: 19
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The buggy alarm on my 2210 was the main reason I switched to PalmOS. I missed too many meetings with my 2210. My Clie & T2 have never failed once. Come to think about it not even a soft reset after about 1 year. The empty promises of Cobalt & SD wifi driver for PalmOS made me switch back. This time I bought a 4150. Sure enough, the alarm failed again after 1 week.
I stumbled on http://www.burroak.on.ca/wm2k3tweaks.html while looking for an alarm fix on google. Since installing it, I've never missed a meeting!
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05-11-2004, 04:40 AM
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Sage
Join Date: Mar 2004
Posts: 717
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I am so tempted to rip out the speaker from my old cell phone and jam it into my PPC, that should at least fix the loudness issue, the rest I do not have problems with?!
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05-11-2004, 04:59 AM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Aug 2007
Posts: 238
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I've been using the Wakeup Tweak app from Burr Oak for the past several months and haven't had a problem since. It's still annoying that MS hasn't fixed the problem yet, so that a user dosn't need to use a software patch.
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05-11-2004, 05:17 AM
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Philosopher
Join Date: Jul 2003
Posts: 548
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... this is the same tweak for PPC2002 with alarms not firing on time...
which was also fixed... other than this reg hack... by SuperAlert and MeetingMute...
Carlo
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05-11-2004, 11:23 AM
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Pupil
Join Date: Aug 2005
Posts: 22
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Actually I should point out that SuperAlert uses a different method we didn't feel changing this timeout was an appropriate method as it was too variable between users as to an appropriate setting. Also this only fixes one of the many problems with alarms (notification database corruption because of powering off too quickly after setting an alarm is another).
We are still working on a 2003SE version of SuperAlert but fixing some of the other alarm issues has proved more difficult than we thought.
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