Blackberry-like Profiles?

[Guest TerryG]

Newbie here. Just switched after 4 years of Blackberry (BB) to the T-Mobile MDA. Don't have a good reason, just did it. Guess I was looking for a bit more.

Ok so far. Really, just ok. Not bad, but ok. Chalking it up to learning curve at this point. The BB did the email, phone, calendar, and contacts stuff very well and I had it down.

As of now I can say the battery life is no where near the BB ... I NEVER even thought about my battery and had the same one for 3 years. Also, the BB radio is a bit better, more connecion more of the time, not much, but noticable.

Lots of new good stuff on the MDA side, better browsing, WiFi, Bluetooth, camera, speakerphone, apps, etc., enough so my 14 days will expire and I'll keep it.

One thing I really miss is the flexibility in profiles. The BB is able to set up a profile and offer individual control of each function's sound: email, SMS, Phone, alert, Alarm, etc.

For me I need one at night that let's the phone ring, the alarm ring, but not email, messaging, or other PDA notifications.

The stock controls don't allow it: just gross PDA or Phone volumes, and as I understand, the alarms are PDA functions just like email and text notifications.

I've been running PPC Profiles and it doesn't do it either (happy to be wrong if someone can explain how).

When I travel, especially across time zones, and I'm asleep, I don't care about emails or texts coming in. However, I do want my alarm clock to wake me up, and, I want to get a phone call from my wife if she needs me.

Can anyone suggest something. I had one on the BB called SleepAwake that let the alarm and phone ring, received emails and texts, but didn't make a sound when they came in.

I've glanced at PZP as well but still no function-by-function individual controls.

Seems in both PPCP and PZP if the alarm can be heard, so can email and text notifications.

Thanks in Advance.

Terry.

[Guest chucky.egg]

In PPC Profiles Pro you can set the ringtones for each notification type, just as you can in the Sounds and Notifications section, but you can do it per Profile.

Is it possible that you're just looking at the notification settings for one Profile?

Try changing to the next profile (in PPCPP settings) and changing the notification settings. I think you'll find it can do it, but I dont have it installed at the moment to guide you through it.

Also, remember that PPCPP settings override the built-in Sounds and Notifications settings. That caught me out - I couldn't understand why it wasn't using my chosen ringtone.

[Guest TerryG]

In PPC Profiles Pro you can set the ringtones for each notification type, just as you can in the Sounds and Notifications section, but you can do it per Profile.

Is it possible that you're just looking at the notification settings for one Profile?

Try changing to the next profile (in PPCPP settings) and changing the notification settings.  I think you'll find it can do it, but I dont have it installed at the moment to guide you through it.

Also, remember that PPCPP settings override the built-in Sounds and Notifications settings.  That caught me out - I couldn't understand why it wasn't using my chosen ringtone.

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Thanks for the lightning fast help! Kinda' working I think, but not as expected ...

So I go to the P, setup a new Profile called Alarm.

alert: Ring

Ring Tone: Alarm4.wav

System, Ringer, and In Call all in the middle

Bluetooth: off

Headset: blank

Flight Mode: Turn Off

Default Backlight Settings

I go to Advanced -> Setup Notifications ...

Profile: Alarm

1. Select Event: Reminders

2. Play Sound, Repeat checked

Display Message checked

Flash light checked

Vibrate NOT checked

Didn't get a sound from EMail, the phone only rings and sounds Alarm4.wav (though it's set for Jig.wav), but the alarm vibrates and sounds Alarm1.wav (not Alarm4.wav as expected, with no vibrate).

I tried resetting the unit, different behavior.

Then, I tried unsetting the alarm, then setting a different one, it repeated Alarm1.wav with no vibrate.

Is there some non-deterministic behavior known about PPCPP? I'm much closer now that you've helped, just need to dig in a bit more probably.

Many thanks!

[Guest chucky.egg]

Didn't get a sound from EMail,

You didn't specify what your message notifications were, but that was what you were after

the phone only rings and sounds Alarm4.wav

Alarm4 is what you have it set for according to your post - Ringtone: Alarm4.wav - so that would be correct. If you want a different tone remember that PPCPP ovrerides the built-in tones.

but the alarm vibrates and sounds Alarm1.wav (not Alarm4.wav as expected, with no vibrate)

It looks like you set Alarm4 as your ringtone, not your alarm tone - you'd need to set the Reminder tone under Advanced, Setup Notifications.

The remonder vibrate thing does appear to be wrong though. It looks like it should NOT vibrate on the alarm, when in that Profile.

You could try searching for posts with those words (+profile +vibrate +alarm, in the PPC Profiles forum area).

[Guest Prosody]

Or use something like this :

http://zendrui.free.fr/ (Pocket Zen Phone)

It's not free but it looks like it's worth the pittance you'll have to pay. ;)