OK I searched for this everywhere but found no solid answers so I raised the suggestion at the Microsoft Connect's Mobile Site.
https://connect.microsoft.com/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx?FeedbackID=318343&SiteID=502&wa=wsignin1.0
(you may have to sign it using ur hotmail or live id but it's worth it).
To recap what I have posted there:
This is the question/problem most of the users who owns WM device has and I am saying so after doing an extensive research and posting forum questions. Anyways the problem is very simple to explain.
Windows Mobile has an extremely limited set of options for snoozing a reminder: 5 min, 15 min, 1 hr, 1 day, or 5 min before and that is often USELESS!!
Let me give an example: say I have an important dinner meeting Thursday at 6pm. I want a reminder to off a day in advance to remind me to do any prep, make reservations, etc. So, Wed 6 pm the reminder fires off. Now, I don't want to just dismiss it, b/c heck, I might forget over the next 24 hours. What I want to do is be able to snooze the reminder for a specific amount of time -- say 12 hours in this case, so I get reminded the next morning. Or, I might want my next reminder to come 3 hours before the dinner. But with Windows Mobile 5, I can do neither!!! Arrrrggggh. I either have to keep snoozing it for 1 hour at a time (lame), or snooze it till 5 minutes before the dinner (useless).
Here are the options I'd like to see: snooze 5/15/30 min, 1/2/3/4/6/8/12/18 hr, 1/2/3 day, 1/2 week; snooze till 5/15/30 min before, 1/2/3/4/6/8 hours before, 1/2/3 day before.
If not all above then atleast existing ones + 1/2/3/4/6/8/12/18 hr. I know WM has many restrictions due to screen resolutions and thus less options but they can be a part of a sub menu.
To keep the menu clean, you could have the most common choices on the main "snooze" menu, and then the others on a submenu. Of course the choices would be sensitive to the time of the reminder vs the current time, i.e if the dinner is only 24 hours away, then you wouldn't see the 1/2/3 day or 1/2 week options -- not a hard thing to program.
Hope this all makes sense, please let me know if any more information is required. I have used WM 2003 SE device and that had better snoozing options than WM 5, 6 (I use HTC Touch now).
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I would really appreciate it if we all can confirm that this problem really exist and give more push to then it will have a better chance to get to some resolution than using third party solutions.
Not pushing it but seems like no one is interested so may I ask if there is an alternative solution?
I, for one, am very interested. This is the only major gripe I have about the calendar application within WM - probably the most annoying day-to-day shortcoming of the OS. I would love a fix.
I second this. I want a 30 minute sonooze! It is also one of my biggest gripes that we cant define our own snooze times without a 3rd party application.
Me too
Me too, anyone can help us ?
juan3211 said:
Me too, anyone can help us ?
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Well more the more ppl sign over to the issue I raised the more attention it gets to be fixed.
Me too. I want "30 minutes snooze". I was googleing for 1 hour and nothing...
quantumparticle said:
I second this. I want a 30 minute sonooze! It is also one of my biggest gripes that we cant define our own snooze times without a 3rd party application.
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Generally happy with the snooze options. A 30min would be a useful addition though.
I agree. I think 30min snooze is a must
Want More Snooze Options
One should be able to set most any snooze for each item as necessary. AT the very minimum there should be a 30 mintue snooze in the pulldown. A 10 minutes snooze should also be available. All the options mentioned by the original poster would be great
what u need is SPB Time, there is a snooze for 3, 5, 10, 20, 30, and 60 minutes!
I have been griping about this since 2002
Yes!!!!! Give us an applet with check boxes and give us a full-screen-height menu for our choices. Doesn't seem like rocket science to me.
I dunno, I guess I don't think any menu should be static. Our chairs fit us, for criminy. James Kendrick at JKOnTheRun has the idea, but maybe adding a good dollop of manual settings to override his, uh, concept, might be the way to go.
The days of "sorry, this is all we've got to offer. We can't do it your way." for PIMs is pretty much done.This really is one last creepy little annoyance we can't get rid of. It feels like Windows 3.0.
Again, if they want their gadgets to sell, at least they could let us hack!
BTW, Spb Time doesn't snooze PIM reminders. There are hundreds of apps that snooze, but only internally. MortPlayer I think is my fav lately.
SPB is not an option for me
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what u need is SPB Time, there is a snooze for 3, 5, 10, 20, 30, and 60 minutes!
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I think SPB may work out for some, but I sync with my Outlook events. I do not want to have to enter my reminders in on my PC and my mobile device.
Also, I am perplexed by the users that are looking for more options between 15 min and 1 hour. This seems trivial to the real problem which is the gap between 1 hour and 1 day. If you need 30 mins, set for 15 and you have ONE extra event. Yeah, it is not clean, BUT those of us who need 8 or 12 hours would have to do 1 extra reminder per hour until our goal was reached.
why cant they make it so it says something like this..
Snooze 5 mins blah blah etc..
Set: 00:00
^^where you input the period of time like 01:00 for an hour 12:00 for 12.. 13:30 for 13 hours 30 mins, etc...
Any Solution
quantumparticle said:
I second this. I want a 30 minute sonooze! It is also one of my biggest gripes that we cant define our own snooze times without a 3rd party application.
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Which 3rd party application??
I have given up looking for any answer from Microsoft and spend my time looking for a third party solution - WITHOUT success.
I have just tried Pocket Informant again because someone somewhere suggested this offered a customizable snooze - but I cannot get it to do it, although it does make a nice calendar.
As mentioned above it is snooze for outlook calendar appointments that I want to snooze somewhere between 1 hour and 1 day. I cannot believe that they have changed this in 6.1 (added 5 mins before) and still not given us the functionality we had with ppc2003!
Please someone tell me a 3rd party application to sort this.
I second your frustration. It's very crap to have nothing between 1 hour and 1 day. I am often snoozing reminders for hours, which is hell annoying.
The other day I was searching about it and found, in a topic i can't find anymore, a guy complaing that the ROM he flashed showed '15 MIN.' snooze time twice.
Another guy aswered him saying that this was a mistake made by the chef.
From that information, I assume someone CAN change the snooze times shown in that dialog box (not sure about extending it).
It would be very helpful if we could at least chance the values already there. Anyone knows if it's really possible.
For me, the snooze time I miss de most is 4 hours. That is very helpful for me because most of my alarms sound at the beggining of work hours, and if I could just snooze then to 4 hours ahead (problaby lauch hour or post work) it would be awsome.
Snoozing 10, 15 appointmants and taks every single hours is really getting on my nerves.
I thing that for everyone happy, snooze times of 30 min 4h 8h and 12h should be fine
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for me, and three my friends, this is major problem. thanx for any advise or help
No one? I think nobody knows about this
I have had a TP2 for about two weeks and have a problem I can't find a fix for.
I travel across time zones frequently. When the TP2 clock updates to the new time zone all the times in the calendar change.
The only workaround I have found is to set the home and visiting times to EDT and disabling the clock auto updating, but this makes the time shown on home page wrong whenever it is not in my home time zone.
Does anybody know a way to fix this?
Thanks
Don't they just update to the time zone you are in and then return back to "normal" when you return to your home timezone? I'm not totally sure I understand your question with this, as this is something that I personally like
If this is what your issue is I'll fiddle with it and see if I can find a fix.
The problem I have is I when I stay in the other time zones all the calendar times are off.
Example: If I am in Denver, Mountain time zone, and I want to enter a flight next week from Seattle to Indianapolis do I add 1 hour to the Seattle departure time and subtract 1 hour from the Indianapolis arrival time, or is it the other way around? Too confusing and too many ways to mess up.
I want to put sync my Outlook calendar with the TP2 calendar. When I travel the times on Outlook do not change when the time on my laptop changes, but all the times on the TP2 change.
Thanks
I set the proper time zone when creating the calendar appointment in outlook on my laptop (I think its under options). Then I'm always on the right time. On the phone, I have to "fool it" by temporarily setting the clock to that alternate time zone before creating the new appointment, but with the world clock its pretty quick.
I don't want the times in the calendar to ever change. I want them to stay the same no matter what time zone the phone is in.
If I disable the clock updating the calendar times will not change, but now I have a phone with the displayed time wrong except when I am in my home time zone.
Does anybody use a TP2 when they travel?
There should be a way to make this calendar not change when crossing time zones.
I don't have a solution for this, but I suspect that when you change time zones, there is nothing that will keep all of the appointments from changing.
I don't know this to be a fact with 6.1, but I suspect that like in other operating systems, the dates are stored in UTC time. When they are displayed on the screen, they are adjusted, on the fly, for the proper time zone. If this is true for 6.1, then it's all or nothing.
I'm on an Exchange Server, so I can enter appointments anywhere and they sync to the phone. When I travel, I DO NOT change the TZ on my laptop and enter the calendar appointments on it, not the phone. This may not work for you, but it's a thought.
I'm interested in an application which will allow me to have different profiles at different times if the day, e.g. in the morning - normal system volume, after 8:30 - vibrate till I finish work at which point the volume would go back to normal untill midnight, midnight to just before alarm goes to be silent, and the cycle would repeatfor monday to friday. saturday and sunday would be different so a 7 day plan would be needed
it seems ott but would be v useful as I either have to change manually through the day or leave it on vibrate all the time which means I often miss calls and messages.
cheers
lakeland said:
I'm interested in an application which will allow me to have different profiles at different times if the day, e.g. in the morning - normal system volume, after 8:30 - vibrate till I finish work at which point the volume would go back to normal untill midnight, midnight to just before alarm goes to be silent, and the cycle would repeatfor monday to friday. saturday and sunday would be different so a 7 day plan would be needed
it seems ott but would be v useful as I either have to change manually through the day or leave it on vibrate all the time which means I often miss calls and messages.
cheers
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G-Profile can do this for you
Grtz,
Degake
Would this one help
Just did a search of freewarepocketpc.net:
g-profile
It isn't free though (appears to be a 14 day trial) but may help
haha, beaten to it
I love G-profile! While worth the couple of quid it costs! Not only does it do its job perfectly.. It also looks beautiful!
I use Inesoft Phone 6.04 and every day i have a meeting since 08:00 to 09:00 it only vibrates. Weekends it doesn't sounds during nigths. You can try it during 14 days. If you want more information, write me to [email protected].
Greetings
Thanks for the info guys. I installed G Profile lastnight.. it is exactly what I was looking for, and more. Fantastic app, well worth the money
Many thanks
This may not be good enough for your needs but you could set your phone to automatic mode and then it will set to vibrate when you have an appointment. Then all you need to do is set an appointment up for your working hours. Then your phone will go to vibrate during these hours. Only down side is it will do this for all appointments as far as I know so it may set to vibrate when you don't want it too. It all depends on if you have loads in your calendar etc.
Edit - Didn't see last post, if you got g-profile now this is irrelevant.
Hi all,
Have been using Calendar Snooze with Business Calendar for quite some time on ogDroid and recently got HTC Incredible 2. On new phone the calendar alarms/reminders show up as being 24 hours and 10 minutes even though I have Business Calendar set up to.remind me by default at 15 minutes before each event. This seems to happen even when I change settings for notifications in Google calendar online. All I want is a single notification to be fired via Calendar Snooze as all the others are superfluous. Anyone having a similar issue?
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what do you mean by : calendar alarms/reminders show up as being 24 hours and 10 minutes
You mean they show as duration 24 hours and 10 min ??
or by default 1 24 hour reminder and 1 10 minute reminder ??
Yeah, it 1 reminder @ 10 minutes and another at 24 hrs. I realize now the one for 10 minutes is the one corresponding to the pop-up alert in Google's calendar , but don't know about the one at 24 hours. I'm going to keep my eye on the latter and see if it causes calendar Snooze to fire. At first it seemed to, but lately calendar snooze seems to be ignoring it (which is a good thing!)
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have you found a fix for this yet?
i get both 10 minute and 1 minute reminder which is really annoying now!
theturtleman said:
have you found a fix for this yet?
i get both 10 minute and 1 minute reminder which is really annoying now!
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Should not be happening..
Are you sure u just set 1 reminder when making the appointment ?
You could try to reinstall calendar snooze...
let me know if you keep having problems..
Greetings , arnold
Thats exactly what was happening to me! I am now using Calengoo and the alarms work perfectly, are snoozable, and never fail me. I recommend it.
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Hello,
I've been trying out Llama to replace my old profile switcher. Works fairly good, but I have one rule that doesn't seem to trigger:
http://llama.location.profiles/Quie...00\bp\p0\p0\p|0|0|p2|Quiet|0|d|0|w|0-0|b|0-0|
(don't know if that link will work)
It's: "at home between 23:00 and 06:05 when it's monday, tuesday, wednesday, thursday or friday [{when it's saturday or sunday and between 00:00 and 10:00}] - change profile to quiet"
the home area has been defined and recognized. It just didn't trigger.
Anyone any ideas what's wrong here?