Windows Mobile 5 alarms

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paulchinnz

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Topic # 15797 8-Sep-2007 22:42
I'm trialing pTravel Alarm and while it's reliable, I am on the lookout for something less clumsy (O2 Atom Exec). The preinstalled Calendar would be great if it didn't miss half the alarms, which I understand is some sort of inherent Windows Mobile problem. Would be grateful for any help, whether it be a workaround for Calendar or some other program recommendation. Thanks!

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Reply # 85933 9-Sep-2007 08:53
This is something Microsoft is aware of and working to have it fixed... It's taking a long time, but the product group is being fed with all this feedback and have been conducting work on this. Mauricio Freitas (Geekzone Admin, Devil's Advocate, my blog, technology disclosure, my tweets, Web Performance Optimization) Geekzone Price comparison \| Amazon Kindle order page \| How to get the best out of Geekzone \| New Zealand IT Jobs \| Geekzone News \| Jinglebugs

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Reply # 87487 21-Sep-2007 07:35
Best fix I've found so far (and from some forum a few years old no less) is to avoid actively turning the PPC off e.g. on mine it means avoiding the physical on/off button, which seems to be working well.

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Reply # 87491 21-Sep-2007 08:00
Good that you've found a work around Paul, might try it myself. The intermittent alarm problem does go back a long way - all my pocket pc's since my original Cassiopea many eons ago have had unreliable alarms. WM6 so far seems to be ok, though as soon as I say that I'm bound to miss an important wakeup call next week!

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Reply # 87684 22-Sep-2007 19:06
Try Chronos, it's better than ptravel alarm (in my opinion).

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Reply # 87711 22-Sep-2007 22:19
Chronos does look impressive ... might try that out if my run of luck with Calendar fizzles out.

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Reply # 88436 27-Sep-2007 22:48
Try this: http://www.burroak.on.ca/ptafaq.html#wakeuptweak Says it is for WM2003SE, however on my WM5 HTC P3600 it resolved an ongoing problem I was having with troublesome alarms... I do wonder how MS managed to make the alarms in WM so broken, I would have thought that implementing a reliable alarm clock in sw is the kind of stuff they teach in university sw engineering/comp sci papers!