SPV ALARM

[Guest Satans Cyber Kid]

Hi Guys, may be its me but the alarm on the SPV is S*it it only rings a few times no matter what tone i have for it. Unlike nokia where it keeps ringing until you press snooze or dismiss

Has anyone else noticed how crap it is? and is there away round it?

[Guest Paul [MVP]]

Haven't tried it, i'll have a play.

If this is confirmed, please add to BugTrack!

P

[Guest Firaas]

I've not tried it, but it's one of those things that someone's going to have to develop a program to replace.

I occasionally rely on my phone to get up in the mornings, and usually go back to bed if the phone shuts up by itself or doesn't ring again when I physically shut it up.

[Guest Firaas]

Damnit Paul, why do we keep replying together to the same posts :D

[Guest Satans Cyber Kid]

Haven't tried it, i'll have a play.

If this is confirmed, please add to BugTrack!

P

Will do mate......

Have a play and see what you think......i use my phone to get up int morning and really need this feature

Hope microsoft sort it as i am sure its not only me who uses it to get up in the morning

[Guest Firaas]

The following reply to this problem on microsoft.public.smartphone:

In outlook set an appointment for (e.g.) 07:00-07:00 on Monday, set the reminder for 15 mins before, and then recur it for the days you want. i.e. Mon-Fri. You can also change the reminder sound in 'Settings/sounds'. It will keep going off until you press 'postpone' or 'dismiss'.

Seems to be a good temp fix :D

[Guest Anonymous]

What's even more annoying is that there is no scheduled alarm... on my old T68 you can set an alarm for Monday through Friday for 6am.

On the SPV you can only seem to set a alarm one time only, and even then I don't see anything on the front screen to show me an alarm is in progress.

Grr.

[Guest Dave Abrey]

I used the alarm this morning and was a bit surprised to find it only sounded once. However, on digging around, I managed to find a solution... In the profile settings, set 'Alarm Type' to 'increasing'. On my phone, the alarm now continues to sound.

Dave.

[Guest Cent]

What's even more annoying is that there is no scheduled alarm... on my old T68 you can set an alarm for Monday through Friday for 6am.  

On the SPV you can only seem to set a alarm one time only, and even then I don't see anything on the front screen to show me an alarm is in progress.

Grr.

You can actually ... just make a repeating appointment with yourself in your calendar :D

[Guest ranz]

Hi guys,

The alarm problem can be fixed through registry editor, i can't remember exactly where i saw the setting but you have to find the string value under alarm and set the "r0" value to the number of times you want it to repeat or something along those lines.

all the best

Ranz

[Guest ranz]

ok guys i found it, courtesy of Midnight...

Looping Alarm

Want the Alarm to loop indefinitely? (watch yer battery tho)

Use a registry editor, go to:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER>ControlPanel>Sounds>Clock

Select 'Values'

Then select Menu>New Value>String

Value Name: Script

Value Data (for no vibrate): apr

or

Value Data (with vibrate): av0pr

If you want to add a delay between each ring add 'w(delay)' before the r(repeat), for example:

av0pw3r would have a vibrating alarm with a 3 second wait before looping the ringtone (both wav or midi)

If you want to revert back to the normal alarm ring then simply delete the 'Script' value.

[Guest HelloDave]

My alarm is set to "increasing" and that keeps repeating until you turn it off. Good to get you up, but very annoying when you really don't want to get out of bed - I keep my SPV on it's cradle accross the room, and my alarm sound is a loud buzzer, which is impossible to sleep through!