Rise and Shine

[Jupiter]

I'm having difficulty getting up in the morning! :oops: Does anyone know of a good alarm tool for the xda. The one that comes with it never seems to work/wake me up. The functionality is rubbish :cry: .

[thumper]

I have no problems whatsoever...

Be sure you checked the checkbox next to the desired alarm, and you selected the appropriate days the alarm will sound

-edit- Oh, and try a decent WAV file, I prefer the "Good Morning Charlie!" from Charlies Angels :)

[Robson]

hey,

i agree; the alarm function of the xda seems to be fine. i use the wav file from finding nemo where all those crazy seagulls keep on saying "mine! mine! mine!" that's when i want to be really awakened; but when i prefer to use an alarm but gently have it wake me up i use a wav file for a song with a soft opening.

you can always download a 3rd party alarm app such as stoptime; which comes with a timer, mirror, calendar and stopwatch program along with the alarm clock.

2 cents
robs

[Jupiter]

I tried this last night. However, the alarm only comes on for me when you switch the screen on. i.e if i set the alarm at 1.00pm. It wont go off. However, as soon as I switch it on the aralarm sounds. Am I doing something wrong?

Also I only have a limited selection of alarams. How do you add other wav files in?

Thanks

[ianp]

You may need the WakeUp Tweak program from:

http://www.burroak.on.ca/wm2k3tweaks.html

[Jupiter]

Thanks for that :) . I'll try it out, but maybe not on the weekend!

[Robson]

hey jupiter,

you can easily add wav files by simply while using activesync; just copy wav files and paste them into the windows folder of the xda. the wav files should then appear when you want to choose a sound for an alarm. however; do note that there are SOME wav files which don't seem to work. i did read in this forum that this has to do with the wav file format...whatever that is as i'm not familiar with it. but it does happen; some wav files don't work. sadly i can't find the forum thread where this was discussed.

cheers
robson

[Jupiter]

That works. Brilliant. Thanks :)

[chopper32uk]

Some Wavs do not work because they are not in PCM WAV Format, more likely they are MPEG layer-3 WAV format.

Converting them is easy - using the windows sound recorder utility (sndrec32.exe), open the wav,
Click File->Properties
Click "Convert Now"
On the next screen, ensure the format drop-down is PCM, then change the attributes to whatever you want.

Personally I use 11.025 khz, 8 Bit, Mono