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Well, it has happened again, my clock alarm never sounded this morning and I overslept
I thought we had a solution for the iPAQ 2215 alarm problem by disabling scheduling on iPAQ backup. Sprite software has since issued a patch that fixes the scheduling issue. However, as quickly as that solved the problem of the iPAQ turning off after 10 seconds (and disabling alarms from sounding), the problem of alarms not sounding in the morning has returned!
This is a tough problem to isolate because it only seems to happen in the morning after the iPAQ goes through it's reset proceedure every night at 12 midnight. So I can tweak a setting here or there and I don't know whether it works or not until the following morning! More
When I eventually awake to the sounds of the phone ringing with the caller asking where the 'blankety-blank' I am, suddenly I am reminded that this device that I rely so much on, has some very deep flaws. With Pocket PC 2002 OS, the PDA was lacking repeating alarms, so your appointments were easy to miss unless you purchased add on software like SuperAlert which gave you the ability to have repeating alarms. SuperAlert worked for the most part, with only a few apps interfering with it's operation.
Now we have repeating alarms all day - but the clock alarm may or may not sound in the morning. It seems pretty ridiculous to me that you have a device costing hundreds of dollars that cannot do the same thing a $9 digital clock from Wal-mart can do!
Isn't this one of the reasons Palm users can thumb their noses at Pocket PCs? "Sure, my Palm may have an ugly screen, it may not be able to play movies, but I arrive at work on time!!"
C'mon HP, C'mon Microsoft...don't you think you've played around long enough with the alarms? It's time to make them work -- consistently! Until such a day comes, the OS will be viewed by many as unreliable.
This is a tough problem to isolate because it only seems to happen in the morning after the iPAQ goes through it's reset proceedure every night at 12 midnight. So I can tweak a setting here or there and I don't know whether it works or not until the following morning!
You can test it fairly easily. After you tweak things, set the Clock to 11:59. After the iPAQ does its midnight update, set the Clock to a couple of minutes before your alarm will go off, then wait and see if it does.
If things work, set the Clock back to the correct time.
Steve
BLING! Great idea Steve! I'm going to fiddle with it today.
I tried some things yesterday to get the alarms to sound including a soft reset right before bed and nope, no cigar - still didn't wake me.
BLING! Great idea Steve! I'm going to fiddle with it today.
I tried some things yesterday to get the alarms to sound including a soft reset right before bed and nope, no cigar - still didn't wake me.
Yeah, that sucks. If you can figure out a repeatable way to reproduce the problem, let us know. Another site is discussing this, too.
Steve
Steve,
I applied your tip (great idea!)and tried a few things. I uninstalled a bunch of stuff and flipped some switches. Nothing seemed to make the alarm sound after midnight.
Then, for the heck of it, I turned off Journal Bar and Battery bar. The alarms came right back. Turned battery bar back on and the alarms still worked. Turned Journal bar back on and the alarms worked. :?
Cradled the device and let journal bar update the info. The alarms stopped working. So...I just shut off journal bar thinking that during the update process it was shutting something off.
The next morning the alarms sounded just fine.
Yesterday morning NO ALARM sounded! If I wanted to play a game, I would have just bought Sorcery.
I'll do a little fiddling, too. It does seem, however, that Journal Bar is messing with system functions a lot. I've seen numerous posts in other forums (for Snoopsoft Dashboard, for instance) where Journal Bar was the culprit in many instances.
I'll do a little fiddling, too. It does seem, however, that Journal Bar is messing with system functions a lot. I've seen numerous posts in other forums (for Snoopsoft Dashboard, for instance) where Journal Bar was the culprit in many instances.
Well, I believe it was indeed Journal Bar with some Microsoft reader thrown in. As long as JB was off and I remember to shut down MS reader before sleep then the alarms sound.
Yesterday, I updated to the latest JB and this morning my alarms sounded! might be beginners luck? Or the beginning of a new game?
might be beginners luck? Or the beginning of a new game? 
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