Smartphone Reminders

[martincuthbert]

I have just bought an HTC 710 and am having a problem with it. The reminders are fixed to remind you with the following times only

1 minute
5 minutes
10 minutes
15 minutes
30 minutes
1 hour
1 day
1 week

This means if I set a reminder in Outlook to go off 3 days before my appointment I get a reminder 1 week before. I then have to keep putting it off for days and it is quite frustrating. Does anyone know of any way to change these limits, or add some additional times?

Thanks in advance.

Martin

[Nicoolai]

Can you just type 3 days in the reminder field?
I have had no problems with typing 45 minutes (as an example).

[Pr0sper]

If you're syncing with a desktop PC, Outlook 07 got much more options for reminders...

http://img9.myimg.de/Clip54a244.png

[martincuthbert]

Sorry for the confusion, the problem is not with Outlook. With Outlook I can enter in and amount of time that I want. As pointed out there are many different options and they can all be edited too. However the smartphone is limited to the time limits I mentioned in the first post. This means that if I have entered an appointment in my calendar in outlook and set a reminder for 3 days before the event the windows smartphone uses the next available reminder time before. This means I get a notifcation 1 week before the event. If I entered 2 hours in my appointment it would notify me 1 day before, and so on.

I hope this makes more sense.

Thanks

[Pr0sper]

Sorry for the confusion, the problem is not with Outlook. With Outlook I can enter in and amount of time that I want. As pointed out there are many different options and they can all be edited too. However the smartphone is limited to the time limits I mentioned in the first post. This means that if I have entered an appointment in my calendar in outlook and set a reminder for 3 days before the event the windows smartphone uses the next available reminder time before. This means I get a notifcation 1 week before the event. If I entered 2 hours in my appointment it would notify me 1 day before, and so on.

I hope this makes more sense.

Thanks

Ah ok, that makes sense. I'm not using reminders, so I didn't notice that yet.

Well, I just synched a test appointment, and set reminder to 3 days. The appointment is on Saturday, and therefore the reminder is on Wendesday. And everything works fine on my Vox, too. The reminder shows up on Wednesday, 8:30, exactly 3 days before the appointment. I'm using Papyrus as calendar app on my Vox, so it's probably an issue of the built-in calendar?

There's one issue with Papyrus though. You can't edit the reminder when it's set to 3 days. Guess you can only edit it when Papyrus offers the setting that you set in Outlook.

Edit:
Within Papyrus, there's that screen:

http://img9.myimg.de/sshot00042726.jpg

[martincuthbert]

Thanks for the info Pr0sper. Doyou know if Papyrus works with a Microsoft Exchange server? My phone is very rarely linked up to my PC, it just syncs with my companies server over my GPRS connection.

[Pr0sper]

Thanks for the info Pr0sper. Doyou know if Papyrus works with a Microsoft Exchange server? My phone is very rarely linked up to my PC, it just syncs with my companies server over my GPRS connection.

Papyrus uses the standard PIM (same as the standard calendar), so there shouldn't be problem with that.