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Looking for email alert that doesn't wake you up

Using WM6 Pocket Outlook with our Exchange Server. I want my phone to alert me when I get a new email, but not alert me at night.
Pocket Outlook + Exchange lets you specify how often to check for messages normally and during peak hours. I've set the peak hours to daytime and set it to only manually check off hours.
Aside from that or turning off my phone, any suggestions?

I believe you can configure different alerts using PhoneAlarm, but I'm not 100% sure.

Phone alarm works and so does SPB Mobile Suite. I use mobile suite for some of the other features, but it allows me to create profiles, accessible from the today screen, that control all sounds from the device.
I work nights and sleep during the day, so I have one profile called Bed that keeps the ring volume at 80%, implements a whitelist (meaning only peoples numbers on the list will cause the phone to ring), and turns off email,sms and MMS notifications. Then, when I get up, I just click my profile Icon on the Today screen and select another profile, which again can change all notifications etc. You can also have it turn on or off wifi, bluetooth, phone, etc, when a profile changes. An awesome app. Note: PhoneAlarm does all of this and more, so download the trials and see which one works best for you.
Check it out here.
SPB Phone suite:
http://www.spbsoftwarehouse.com/products/phonesuite/?en
Phone Alarm:
http://www.pocketmax.net/phoneAlarm.html
I bet you will end up with one of these, they are awesome.
Just remembered that I think, Phonealarm didn't allow the whitelist/blacklist feature that I wanted and that was my final reason for picking SPB phonesuite.
Hope this helps

I like SBSH PhoneWeaver:
http://www.sbsh.net/product.php?id=28#

Windows 7 Sync issue & Calander

OK, daylight saving rolls around. My phone and computers adjust to the time, but all my calander appointments have been re-timed for an hour later. WTF!
How do I change it back? I've tried adjusting the settings for daylight saving on the computer and that changed the times back on the computer, but I can't find this setting on the Raph... What do I do?

This is a common problem that's been around for years. Some people have suggested that the problem stems from the setting in the Phone Settings menu that adjusts the time automatically. However, I can't say for sure if there's an easy way to undo what is done afterward. You may have to do what I did and edit the appointments in order to resave them.

Only 2 problems I see...
1. When I change my computer to not automatically change daylight time, the appointments revert back to normal time. But this does not carry over to the phone.
2. I cannot find anywhere on the phone settings to ignore auto daylight saving time...
Bugger. Will have to try a different ROM. I use my phone and netbook for business and needs it 100% operational and accurate. Was late getting a guy up for medication this morning, not because the time was wrong, but the appointment time had been changed to an hour later.
Who the [email protected] writes [email protected] like this into a rom or app? Who believes a change in daylight saving time means your appointment times should change? This has got me so friggin angry I can't describe it.

Verizon Touch Pro 2 Calendar

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.

App suggestion - Sync Scheduler

The stock N1 Power Manager Widget has a Sync button that allows you to toggle background data sync (aka Push). I imagine Toggling it off reduces data usage and thereby saves battery. This will of course preclude Gmail checking, calendar & Picasa album sync etc.
So someone trying to maximise their battery life might toggle their Sync button to off, then intermittently place it back on again every hour or so to allow Gmail check and calender updating. They could also just go into gmail and press refresh. But both method require manual input from user.
So how about a small utility to automate this task. User could specify intervals like 15, 30, 60min and also a Sync ON period of say 1, 2 or 5 min.
It might also have the capability to toggle Sync off, after an user defined period for when user overrides the schedule & activates it via the Power Manager Widget.
Does this make sense and does anyone think the battery savings would justify to work involved to make this utility?
BTW I am not a programmer. Just an ideas man Checked the Market and the only sync utilities are manual toggles or one button shortcuts to accounts and sync settings. So I reckon this is a utility waiting for one of you clever programmer guys to make.

I requested an app similar to this over a year ago and it got nowhere. Then again, Android was still fairly young back then too...
What I would like to see is a Peak/Off-Peak time scheduler similar to what Windows Mobile ActiveSync has.
It would be nice to have this work with ALL data syncs (Email, Twitter, Facebook and ESPECIALLY Corporate Email (this last one is the most important for me).
I know something CAN be done, Touchdown has this built in, but I would rather use stock apps for corp mail than Touchdown.
Thanks,

+1 on this one as well.I justhave a data sync toggle.surely if that is possible someone can make an app which turns this on and off at desired intervals?

Yeah - Lets keep it simple to start with - simply manipulating the data sync toggle @ prescribed intervals initially. The stuff you suggested Talderon might be nice for a more sophisticated tool. I reckon just same effect as pressing the Power Manager Widget, sync button would be good for starters. Working on the Kiss principle.

BUMP
Been a while - Has anyone subsequently found an app that can disable Auto-Sync to a user defined schedule?

+1
I have been searching for something liike this.
I have noticed that auto sync is the biggest battery drain on the phone, much more like for example Sipdroid.
I found WiSyncPlus which in theory does the job, but the still lacks some functions in android 2.1 (like forced sync schedule and autosync schedule).
I have been myself looking into the code of android in order to try to do a simpple app to do the job!
regards!

Umm what? The display is the biggest drain on the battery, and you can check on what drain your battery in settings to confirm what does and does not drain the battery.
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Snoozing appointment moves calendar time

I have a strange issue...I am in c/t and work HQ is in pst. When an appointment is set from some in pst and it sync to my device via exhange only when the appointment time comes if I snooze the 1hr alert before the meeting...it moves the orginal appointment time up 5 hours exactly on my phone and PC calendar. So if it was for 12p noon it moves it to 5p
Any solution for this?