Alarm Clock

[spanner]

How do I get this to work - when xda2 is off , and when xda2 is on?

[Urosh]

I also have some problems.
Sometimes the alarm works, sometimes not.
What can I do?

Thanks,

Urosh

[lummac]

I say had, as it was caused by an mp3 player I had installed on it, once de-installed, and soft reset, it all worked pefect.

So my advise is, check for some programms installed that could interfere with the alarm settings

[bobopopo]

(As I am a complete newbie to this I hope that I didn't misunderstand this topic)

As far as I found out there is a bug in Pocket PC 2003 that sometimes switches off the alarm. Find more information and a link for a bugfix here:

http://www.pocketpcfreewares.com/en/index.php?soft=876

Hope that will be useful...

[bobopopo]

Okay, I never experienced problems with the alarm clock. Nevertheless I installed the bugfix because I hate not beeing woken up in the morning.

Although the bugfix is installed, the alam clock did not work this morning. So I advise you to use a second alarm clock to avoid surprises in the morning...

[fudgebottom]

I am still having a problem, does any one else have any ideas?

[bobopopo]

Since I've installed the 1.60 ROM together with the bugfix, the alarm clock seems to work fine. But I still don't trust it and use a second, old school alarm clock... :)

[Chop!]

I was also having problems with my alarms, read somewhere that unwanted entries in start up could affect this & slow your machine down too, Hope that helps....

Download this freeware (both of them), install them and run them.
http://www.scarybearsoftware.com/ppc_cn_overview.html

I installed this freeware which seems to have (a) cleared a lot of unwanted dross (sometimes 400+!!!!) & (b) sorted out my alarm problem

Someone recommended this excellent and useful 'pocket Alarm' utility when I was still using my XDA I, Burr Oak have now upgraded it and it better than ever!
Try it free here :- http://www.burroak.on.ca/pta2.html (costs $12-ish if you like it enough to register it) 8)

[Rudegar]

http://www.mtekk.com.au/browse/page826.html
maybe this would help aswell

[fudgebottom]

Thanks for all the help guys, I'm not quite sure what fixed it but my XDA II is not working with the Alarm... A friend had the same problem and could not get his to work. We found out that if we used the power button to turn the device off it would not work...

As soon as I did a software power off the alarms started to work after that (May need to do it twice!).. give that a go it worked for us...

After getting it working I can now use the power off button and all working 100%...

[herc]

I'm one of you guys: alarm does not work. Unfortunately I don't have much to offer.
I just wanna share a few things that I noticed:
1) I hard reset my qtek and tried the alarm, before any additional software installation.. Guess what! Nothing happened. The alarm did not work. I also used other 3rd party alarm software. It was all the same: the force-wake up doesn't work.
It is obvious to me that it's an operating system bug that makes us go to work late every morning.
What confuses me most, is the fact that I had no problem for the first 4 months of usage. This fact indicates that some piece of software is responsible for this mess. But then again, why a hard reset does not resolve it?
Like I said, I cannot do anything to help but to share these thoughts with you. :wink:

[herc]

http://www.pocketpcfreewares.com/en/index.php?soft=876

[cchris]

Did Wakeup Tweak solved the problem for all of you?

Or there is more to it?

Thanks,

Chris

[herc]

I haven't try it yet cchris. I'll let you now.
By the way, I was in Cusago last week. Nice place!

[Ckth]

If any of you are using SPB's pocket plus 2.1, it would be worthwile to uncheck the alarm feature and use the alarm provided by the OS itself.

I started to have the alarm working again.

[herc]

It seems that Wakeup Tweak did the job. Alarm works perfectly ok now. I haven't got any problem for the last few days. :lol: