Windows Mobile 5 alarms

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#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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#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.

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#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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#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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#87684 22-Sep-2007 19:06

Try Chronos, it's better than ptravel alarm (in my opinion).

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#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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#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!