Hi everyone,
So far I've found most of the Microsoft Windows Mobile apps sufficient, apart from a few small shortcomings. One of them is the unability to set the time for the reminder of a set task. If a reminder is set, it always goes off at 8pm, which is EXTREMELY annoying when it's Saturday and you want to sleep in!!
This seems to me just the thing that gets people away from Microsoft and over to Open Source.
It would be really helpful if you could set the time for the alarm just like when doing so for an appointment - why Microsoft didn't include it initially will probably remain a mystery... and why they set the default task alarm to 8pm even more so...
Anyway, does somebody know a way to fix this? Any help would be really appreciated!
Manuel<><
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Looking for an alarm clock program.
Anything good out there?
There is CT Alarm Clock Lite (free)
That's not too bad
I was using SPB Time (not free - pretty swanky bit of kit though). Now I use MortPlayer and pick a tune to wake me up. I also use it as my main mp3 player as well.
I use Citytime Alarms and have done for years on my PDA too
Sorry to dig up this old topic but I have a quick question about the alarm clock on the Vox. I have found that if i set an alarm and turn off the phone, the phone does not switch itself on and play the alarm.
Are there any 3rd party apps that will turn the phone on when an alarm is due to play?
No, no software will do that.
Basically all the WindowsMobile devices are just like PCs, if they are "off"... they won't do anything for you.
They should never be "off", Flight mode is a best choice if you want to sleep well
Thanks for the tip. Tried this the other evening and it worked a treat. Only drained the battery 4% as well so that was pretty good going I think.
Chronos by activekitten is a really good program, been using it on all my smartphones for the last 3 years or so.
I'm a nerd who wants to better his posture. I find myself slacking of and having really bad form. This is why I want to have a vibrating alarm that reminds me to sit or stand straight.
I want this alarm to repeat itself at a random interval of between 5 and 20 minutes and have a distinct vibration. I'd like for this alarm to not intervene with other alarms. Also, I'd hope to keep battery drain and performance impact to a minimum.
I was thinking of writing a Mortscript for this but I don't know the first thing about scripting just yet. I was wondering if there is existing software where I could set such an alarm. If not, are there alternatives to Mortscript which might be better suited?
Coming from a Nexus One with CM7 (*drools*) he had added in lots of additional options in the, I guess, stock alarm settings.
One being how long the phone would ring if you didn't get to it. I had it set to unlimited, which meant it would just ring and ring and ring and ring and ring until I woke up.
With the unmodified alarm, I'm finding that I'm waking up late, and the phone saying missed alarm. What good is an alarm you can miss?
Is there an alarm app we can replace our with from CM7 or something that has those options? I can't see it requiring any special kernel or hardware.
My alarm seems to go on forever unless I hit Snooze or Cancel.
^ same here. I had an alarm set for 5pm and was away from my phone. When I came back to it around 5:40 or so it was still going off. stock alarm
I use Alarm Clock Xtreme Free. Really good alarm app. I love it.
Alarm Clock Plus: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.vp.alarmClockPlusDock
The options are sick.
Alarm Clock Xtreme - stupid name, excellent app. There are a ton of options, maybe bordering on too many (and I'm a "more options, please" kind of person). But it is the only alarm that has consistently been able to get my ass out of bed (and I've tried many). What works for me is setting it to require that I solve a series of math problems before I can dismiss the alarm, and setting a low max number of snoozes. If you're getting up to run first thing, you can set it to not dismiss until you reach a certain speed.
Looking back at what I've written, it seems ACX is the app to use if you hate your morning self and want to use cruelty to bend him to your will.
Edit: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.alarmclock.xtreme
I use kaloer clock. Its free and very customizable. Also serves as a nice bedside dock clock with live weather animations. Give it a shot. You can set it to stay on for 999 minutes if you think that would help you.
Gentle Alarm if you're willing to pay.
I've been using Klaxon since the G1 and never had a problem, although some reviews in the market claim to have some issues. I think it is mainly because it doesn't get updated too much anymore, as it is written my the developer of ClockworkMod and RomManager seems to be much more lucrative.
Searching for this did not bring up anything useful, so I try to ask here. Hope this is the right forum.
I use the agenda alarms a lot, for everything, from "Budget meeting" to "buy milk" to "Phone Tom". But often I am far enough from my phone to miss the alarm sound, even if loud.
You know, if you then turn on the phone from standby, you find the appointment on screen, and you also have the possibility to repeat the alarm (5 minutes later I think) pressing the lower left button.
But if I do not turn on the phone because I don't need it, and don't remember that I have something to do... the appointment may be missed.
I wish to have a way to set an automatic repeat of every Agenda alarm, every 2-3 minutes, until I turn it off.
Someone knows a way, or an app ?
Thank you!
Ginosergio
I searched and didn't see anyone complaining about this here, but I found hits on other sites.
I've only had a Sensation for about a month now (warranty replacement for my G2) but I've had the biggest problem with the alarm not sounding, or sounding only very briefly. I just had an alarm go off while it was sitting in front of me on my desk here and all I did was glance at it and it went away (snoozed).
The search turned up hits on another site where lots of people were complaining about this, but nobody had a solution. Someone "speculated" that turning off news syncing might help, but it was already turned off on my phone. Then I noticed that it had a setting for "sync when opened" and something clicked in my brain.
When it did it just a short while ago, the alarm had gone off but as soon as the weather animation started then it snoozed. Is the lock-screen weather doing something? So I checked the weather sync setting and it was set to sync every 6 hours and also when opened. Hmmm... I switched it to 1 hour syncing (can't imagine it is often enough to drain battery much, but will keep it fairly current) and turned off its "sync when opened" setting.
The next time the alarm went off it stayed sounding for many seconds even while I picked up the phone and only turned off when I dragged one of the icons to the circle. Time will tell if this is a permanent fix or if I just got lucky.
It sounds like weather (or news) syncing silences the alarm for some reason, and if you have it set to sync when opened, and the weather is on the unlock screen, then you have a recipe for a broken alarm.