working alarm?

[fastest]

anyone know of an alarm app which actually works? (for wm5).

i use AlarmMe 3 on my old jam and its never let me down.. sadly, this app cant wake up wm5.

[Melchior]

What do you mean? The regular alarm applications works just fine in my Jamin

[simon_darley]

especially if you utilise some of the custom "sounds" around, I downloaded a firetruck, a rooster, a really loud whistle, and also the wonderful sounds of birds.

The birds struggle to wake me, but the rooster and the firetruck certainly get the job done.

If you cant find them, let me know and I can upload.

[ZeBoxx]

What do you mean? The regular alarm applications works just fine in my Jamin

Not for a great number of people:
[Qtek 9100] alarm problem: wizard does not wake up - http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=31895

[ZeBoxx]

The birds struggle to wake me
I think the problem isn't so much the user not waking up - as it is the device not going out of standby ;)

[ZeBoxx]

Two sure-fit solutions are...

1. Use an alarm application that wakes your device up to full. There is a tweak app available (modifies the registry, really), that will do this as well:
http://www.burroak.on.ca/ptafaq.html#wakeuptweak
Please note that you may experience your PocketPC turning on (and back off) randomly, making the screen appear to 'flash' all the time.

2. Don't put your PocketPC in standby mode / don't let it go to standby mode automatically.
Instead, download an application with which you can turn the display off (not just the backlight, or you'll risk LCD 'burn-in'). Never miss any alarm/notification/etc. that way. You're draining only a few percent more battery over the course of 8 hours - which, if you're using it to wake up with, you should probably have it hooked up to the charger so that it's nice and full when you wake up anyway :)

[simon_darley]

sorry people, didnt realise that this was the prophet forum, i picked it from the recent activity list.

mine is the universal, and it always wakes up, the alarm always sounds perfectly, and the birds not waking me up simply cause i also have birds outside the bedroom window, so they kinda get mixed up in my head.

the rooster or firetruck guaranteed to work, if you can get your device to wake up first perhaps. as i said, mine always wakes up. dont know enough of the prophet issues to help here, sorry.

[ZeBoxx]

no problem - the thread I referred to is for the Wizard as well anyway :)

It's probably a problem with a driver not having implemented the power states correctly. But nobody knows which driver, or what may be implemented wrong. Microsoft are even aware of the issue but are basically pointing to their power state guidelines and telling the developers to implement them correctly.

Of course power states are a mess, so who knows what a 'correct' implementation is, really ;)

[mane]

maybe we should diffferentiate two distinct problems here:

1.) the device is not coming up from sleep - regardless of the application, which wants to fire an alarm, etc. That's obviously the ancient problem, we already had with the XDA II ... where alarms don't get managed fully on that midnight "housekeeping", for which the device starts up into "suspended" mode ... maybe solvable by setting HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Power\Timeou ts\BattResumingSuspendTimeout (and imho also ...\ACResumingSuspendTimeout) to something bigger than those default 30 sec, which isn't enough for people with many appointments, etc.
But for this there shurely can be found some more detailed posts here in the forum.

2.) the original poster, fastest, was talking about an old application (which I also used for long time) AlarMe, which doesn't work anymore on WM5! And the developer, eppen software, isn't responding. It still is installable, it still runs - it even still wakes up the device (as far as I remember), *but* it doesn't play any sounds anymore.

Meanwhile I switched to Chronos from www.activekitten.com.
Nearly the same, even some more functionality, with maybe a little different philosophy / user expirience ... but works great for me (and I'm in contact with the developer regarding the newest beta-cycle, where I also asked for some features, I miss since AlarMe ;-) ).

[nighty]

i use Spb Time and it works very without any error or mistake....
http://www.spbsoftwarehouse.com/products/time/?en

nighty