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Windows Mobile 5, 6 Reminder Snoozing

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
netnerd said:
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

another four voices
for me, and three my friends, this is major problem. thanx for any advise or help

No one? I think nobody knows about this

[REQ] Profile manager

Hi all.
I hope I didn't miss something while searhing, but here goes.
I'm looking for a time based profile manager, I know of G-Profile and it's not exactly what I'm looking for. While it does change profile by time, it needs to be setup differently for each need.
I need to be able to set my profiles for an X-amount of time say 3hrs 20 mins and then switch back to "normal" again, alternatevly, being able to swiftly set "mute" or "silent" until specified time, say 15:00 hours and then going back to "normal"
The reason being, if I go into a meeting, I know approx how long it will be, but I always forget returning from "silent" resulting in missed calles. Also, I want it to be on silent when I go to bed but need it to see what SMS came through the night and then by morning, automatically set it to "normal" again.
This is made difficult by the fact that I work shifts and need the phone to be silent at different times every day, making it hard to use G-Profile. (unless I totally overseen a setting in it)
I was wondering if any of you guys know of a program/application that easily can do what I need.

I think you mean G-profile.
And for putting it to silent/vibrate during meetings, I just rely on TF3D's sound settings where it can be silent/vibrate during appointments. I sync my calendar with Google and my outlook so anytime I am busy, phone is in vibration mode.

Phone Alarm - is not free tho.

ashu9uf said:
I think you mean G-profile.
And for putting it to silent/vibrate during meetings, I just rely on TF3D's sound settings where it can be silent/vibrate during appointments. I sync my calendar with Google and my outlook so anytime I am busy, phone is in vibration mode.
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Yes, of course I meant G-Profile.. Sorry..
Yup, that would have done the trick, if I had the same shedule at all time. If it is to do its trick for me now, I would need to make an appointment of my sleep.. And that's taking it a bit far, I think...
But thanks for your reply.

crazyC said:
Phone Alarm - is not free tho.
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Free is prefered. Thanks!
Any more suggestions out there?

Notification Settings

Hello,
I have two questions:
On 2003SE reminders had the option to remind in 2 or 8 hours - in WM6 these options are gone - is there a tweak or a registry hack to change that?
On 2003 all day dates with reminders would come up at 8 in the morning - now they ring at midnight - is there a way to change that?
Andreas

Hi bro,
Not sure what u mean? For a reminder to a calender appointment, I can set the reminder to be so many weeks, days, hours or minutes, it couldnt be more flexible??? Cant you do that?
2003SE omg, those were the days
What device and rom are you using, would help to understand.

Hi,
I have a Eten Glofiish X800, the OS is 5.2.1620.3 AKU .0.4.2
To clarify my questions:
1. I can set reminders at any time I want, but when I enter an all day event in the calendar and set it to alarm the reminder goes off at midnight. In the 2003SE it went off at 8:00 in the morning which is a lot more convenint. Now I would like to change that on the new device.
2. When a reminder goes off I can tell it to reappear in 5 minutes, in 15 minutes, in 30 minutes, in 1 hour and in 1 day. I used to have more options like 2 and 8 hours. Can I somehow change that?
Andreas

ormembar said:
Hi,
I have a Eten Glofiish X800, the OS is 5.2.1620.3 AKU .0.4.2
To clarify my questions:
1. I can set reminders at any time I want, but when I enter an all day event in the calendar and set it to alarm the reminder goes off at midnight. In the 2003SE it went off at 8:00 in the morning which is a lot more convenint. Now I would like to change that on the new device.
2. When a reminder goes off I can tell it to reappear in 5 minutes, in 15 minutes, in 30 minutes, in 1 hour and in 1 day. I used to have more options like 2 and 8 hours. Can I somehow change that?
Andreas
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Hi again, my all day appoints allow me to set reminder for the same time periods that it to say anything i want. Im not familiar with glofiish, is that a standard or cooked rom?
As for reminder (sleep) im afraid your stuck with the presets, unless you use a different clock/alarm app........

Automatically set vibration from 8am-5pm?

Hello,
I am searching for a way to automatically set vibration from 8am to 5pm (during work).
Like the sense option to automatically set to vibrate during appointment but without having to set an appointment for work everyday, it would look to confusing.
Do you have any ideas?

Pretenderr said:
Hello,
I am searching for a way to automatically set vibration from 8am to 5pm (during work).
Like the sense option to automatically set to vibrate during appointment but without having to set an appointment for work everyday, it would look to confusing.
Do you have any ideas?
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There's an app called Mute4 that will set your phone to vibrate for up to 3 h; maybe you could ask the developer to increase the mute time to 9 h, or have it adjustable. Otherwise, you can definitely do it with SK Schema.

I used to have a program on my old blueangel that used to allow me to change ring tones etc according to which cell tower i was in, I think it also had a time based scheduler)
Give me a couple of days and I will try to find it.
The downside was that it sucked the battery (back in the wm2003 days)
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http://www.handango.com/catalog/ProductDetails.jsp?productId=120193&platformId=30
BUT it doesn't seem to have been updated past wm2003, there might be similar programs though
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http://maniac.fschreiner.de/content/view/9/18/
again a program that has not been updated for a while
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This could be what you are looking for
http://www.pocketmax.net/phoneAlarm.html
You can change profile based on time and (in paid for version) location

Has Marshmallow made it harder for alarms to go off on time?

Using the Alarm Clock Plus app, since I got the Marshmallow update, alarms in the morning have been hit or miss. Seems like it used to go off within a minute (which is also not really very accurate). This morning it was 4 minutes late. Yesterday, the alarm didn't go off at all. Has Marshmallow gone too far with power savings or something? Anyone else having alarm problems?

Using stock alarm app, works fine herw
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I've been using Timely for its "early rise" function which kicks in 30 minutes before the alarm time with a very quiet tone rising over the course of the 30 minutes. I'm a light sleeper, so I've been setting the alarm time for 30 minutes later so that it goes off very quietly; if "early rise" is off it starts at full volume, which I don't like.
But since I upgraded to Marshmallow the function doesn't work - regardless of whether "early rise" is ticked or not it goes off at the alarm set time.
Coincidence...?
There's obviously something going on with time settings in Marshmallow, since Clocksync doesn't work properly either - a fact recogised by the developer, who has posted a note on his Google Play entry asking for help or advice:
"WARNING: Android 6.0 devices may not work correctly at the moment, even with custom permissive kernel and SuperSU installed. I'm looking for the solution at the moment. Please contact me if you know how to fix it."

Doze will be cutting it's sync times down. Just use stock alarm clock
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Stock ^^ ☝?

This morning, it didn't go off at all again. Only when I waked up on my own 20 minutes late, wondered what time it was, and turned on the phone did the alarm go off. The Med Helper app reminder also didn't go off till I turned it on, so now two different apps with alarms have failed to work. I think I need to read up on how to re-install Lollipop .

Have you tried turning doze off for your alarm based apps?

What they said ^^^^ tap the 3 dots in battery setting and pick optimizations the select all apps and un-optimize your alarm app.
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OK, I'm trying with battery optimization turned off for the two apps I had a problem with, but I see battery optimization is turned on for the stock "Clock" app, and an alarm I set with it went off on time, so there must be some magic apps can do to make timers work on Marshmallow even if they are battery optimized. If I knew what it was I could write the developers and ask them to include it .

dahawthorne said:
I've been using Timely for its "early rise" function which kicks in 30 minutes before the alarm time with a very quiet tone rising over the course of the 30 minutes. I'm a light sleeper, so I've been setting the alarm time for 30 minutes later so that it goes off very quietly; if "early rise" is off it starts at full volume, which I don't like.
But since I upgraded to Marshmallow the function doesn't work - regardless of whether "early rise" is ticked or not it goes off at the alarm set time.
Coincidence...?
There's obviously something going on with time settings in Marshmallow, since Clocksync doesn't work properly either - a fact recogised by the developer, who has posted a note on his Google Play entry asking for help or advice:
"WARNING: Android 6.0 devices may not work correctly at the moment, even with custom permissive kernel and SuperSU installed. I'm looking for the solution at the moment. Please contact me if you know how to fix it."
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I use timely and haven't had or noticed any issues. Just this morning I used Smart Rise with alarm set for 11:45am, and on time the music started very quietly at 11:15 am. I love the smart rise feature, however it is terrible if you are already kinda awake, because it's so soothing it will put you to sleep! However to be woken up by it after it had been slowly increasing in volume is a good way to wake up.
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The Alarm Clock Plus alarm I set after disabling battery optimization for that app just went off on time, so perhaps that is a work around for now, but I'd still love to know how the stock Clock app manages to work even though it has battery optimization enabled.

Nope, it was a false alarm. This morning Alarm Clock Plus did not go off at all, even with the battery optimization turned off for it. However, the Med Helper notification did go off, so the battery optimization change seemed to work for it. Perhaps it has something to do with Med Help using notifications, and Alarm Clock Plus trying to completely wake the phone and display on the full screen?

Alarm Issues
I've experienced the same issues with Alarm Clock Plus. I don't have any battery optimization turned on. It seems to be tied to silent mode and not being able to be silent without do not disturb turned on for me.

For the second time since I've installed marshmallow, my alarm didn't go off. I'm a very light sleeper and today, as with most days, I woke up before my alarm. So I checked my alarm and it was set for just about an hour from then. I drifted back off and woke a half hour after my alarm was set to go off. Everything was set right and I took a couple minutes to reset my alarm two minutes after the current time. It went off. I did the same thing the first time my alarm didn't go off, same results. I've actually tested it several times and it always went off, maybe from not being asleep for that long. I've also been waiting for text replies a few times before and not hear anything, then I check and see I have two or three. Volumes checked, everything's right. Either I'm going crazy or something is wrong with the new update. Just thought I'd add my two cents.
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For the second time since I've installed marshmallow, my alarm didn't go off. I'm a very light sleeper and today, as with most days, I woke up before my alarm. So I checked my alarm and it was set for just about an hour from then. I drifted back off and woke a half hour after my alarm was set to go off. Everything was set right and I took a couple minutes to reset my alarm two minutes after the current time. It went off. I did the same thing the first time my alarm didn't go off, same results. I've actually tested it several times and it always went off, maybe from not being asleep for that long. I've also been waiting for text replies a few times before and not hear anything, then I check and see I have two or three. Volumes checked, everything's right. Either I'm going crazy or something is wrong with the new update. Just thought I'd add my two cents.
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androidauthority dot com
I should have read the dates but Google brought this up first. So if anyone happens upon this thread, the above link explains it. The fix is 6.0.1 and is being worked on and even released for some phones already. :good:
Ok can't post links yet but that website has answers

Having the same issue with S7 edge on 6.0.1 using Alarm Clock Xtreme. Won't wake the phone even tho power save is off and auto power save for the at app is off as well. Works if I set it for only a few min from now, doesn't work after the screen being off all night.

I have the exact same problem. It's been three times now that I've been late to class because the alarm didn't go off. Last time Itried setting two alarms five minutes from each other and the iPad alarm. iPad worked, phone didn't. It seems to happen especially often of I place the alarms earlier than usual for some reason, and I only do that when I have an exam to study for, so It's been a fun couple of days.
At first I shrugged it off convincing myself that I had rose in the middle of the night somehow, turned it off and continued on sleeping, without remembering anything in the morning, but after using the iPad to check on the third time I'm pretty sure that it isn't my problem.
Anyway, I use the STOCK alarm clock ALWAYS. I haven't tried it with the doze mode off, I'll try it today, but still. The fact that I might have to purchase an analogical clock because Android isn't working properly it's just disappointing.

I've been having the same problem on my Galaxy Note 5 since updating to 6.0 Marshmallow, and it persists even with today's update to 6.0.1.
The notification tab for the alarm seems to indicate that it thinks it's still 5:28PM, two minutes before the 5:30 alarm time, even though it's well past 6PM now. The last couple missed alarms DID notify me that I'd missed an alarm, about an hour after the alarm time had come and gone. It won't sound the alarm though.
At first I thought it might have just lost touch with the custom tone I've set for my alarms, but now it seems to be that the alarm clock gets stuck a couple minutes before the alarm, even while the system clock goes on as normal.
This is the default clock's alarm feature, not a third party app, so it should not need any developer updates to work right, if Google is doing their job before pushing out system updates.

UncleSim said:
I've been having the same problem on my Galaxy Note 5 since updating to 6.0 Marshmallow, and it persists even with today's update to 6.0.1.
The notification tab for the alarm seems to indicate that it thinks it's still 5:28PM, two minutes before the 5:30 alarm time, even though it's well past 6PM now. The last couple missed alarms DID notify me that I'd missed an alarm, about an hour after the alarm time had come and gone. It won't sound the alarm though.
At first I thought it might have just lost touch with the custom tone I've set for my alarms, but now it seems to be that the alarm clock gets stuck a couple minutes before the alarm, even while the system clock goes on as normal.
This is the default clock's alarm feature, not a third party app, so it should not need any developer updates to work right, if Google is doing their job before pushing out system updates.
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I had been using darker themes since the update, not liking all the whiteness of the new default theme, but I reverted to the default long enough to test, and the alarm went off today as normal. So it seems that , at least in my case, the themes are impeding the default clock's alarm function somehow, even those I've used that say they're Marshmallow compatible.

Even with CM13's or OmniROM 6's system alarm app, the alarm will not start and be shown as missed when the phone is longer in standby..alarm clock is set as "non optimized" under the battery settings...I hate doze!

Well, since reverting to the default theme, I've enjoyed the calendar widget keeping the current date. But every time since the first time, the alarms still don't go off.
Again, I am using the STOCK alarm and calendar app that came with the Samsung Galaxy Note 5 and its updates, NOT any third-party app. I had been using third-party themes to avoid the stupid whiteness of the new Marshmallow icons (What if I don't want Marshmallow to look like a bunch of marshmallows? What if I liked the Lollipop icons and colors just fine? Eff me.) but reverted to default in a mostly vain attempt to avoid the alarm issues, but the issues persist.
There remains a notification in my taskbar that there is an upcoming alarm at 5:30, even though it's now well past 5:30. The time on the right of the notification is 4:40. So it seems that the clock/calendar's alarm feature is getting stuck in time a little less than an hour before the alarm, and sticks there for hours sometimes, until well past the alarm time. Then sometime far later in time it will suddenly catch up, and HELPFULLY (haha) notify me that I've missed an alarm.
Am I the only one on xdadev that is having this problem with the default app, and default theme? I really wish I could easily revert to Lollipop, since Marshmallow really seems to be a hot mess. I also miss having ADB to push stuff to my FireTV.