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[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] shahriar5252:
Sprint Mogul and version 0.9.7

Hi ageye:

I installed version 0.9.7 on my Sprint Mogul (PPC6800), but the problem with the Today screen plugin is still there: Instead of showing 10:09 PM, it shows 10:9 PM.

You are also right about the box next to music folders that I can click and all the songs in that folder will be selected instead of individually selecting each song in the folder. However, as I remember it, before I installed version 0.9.6, I erased all the previous versions, so I erased all my settings. Then, the first time that I tried to select the songs, the box next to the folder was not there. It appears that after installing G Alarm for the first time and after the first alarm is set up, those boxes appear next to the main folder names to allow all items in the folder to be selected. During the first alarm selection after the initial installation, I was seeing the yellow folder icons instead of the boxes next to the folder names. I did not go through this problem after installing version 0.9.7 because I did not erase the previous version before installing the new version. However, this is a minor problem.

Thanks for all your efforts and fixes. Your program works very well on Sprint Mogul after release of 0.9.63 and 0.9.7. Let me know if I can be of any other help.

Shahriar

Sprint Mogul (PPC 6800)

WM6.1

wma files
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] orlandojumpoff:
error

ageye,

i've been following your alarm since the beginning, great job

however, with 9.7 it's the first time i've received an error during an alarm... i installed it today and tested the alarm out via the play button in settings... and i realized during mazes if u let the song play for about 15-20 seconds, an error pops up every time saying not enough memory. i'm assuming this is a bug because i've never received this error before and i'm running a touch pro with over 50% of available memory at all times. attached are the screenshots of the error...

when i choose the math option (great addition by the way!!! love that feature), the error never occurs... so it seems like it's related only to the mazes.. again, i tried the mazes and math screens many times and the same results...

also, i feel that the sensitivity for the mazes is a little too sensitive now - did you make adjustments? i kind of liked how it was before.. the slower the better probably seeing as how we're using the maze to wake up our tired minds lol

anyway, i hope you can pinpoint the error because this has never happened before.

thanks again for your great app and i'm glad to see how far it has come - best alarm ever.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] electron73:
AT&T Fuze G-Alarm problem with volume. Anyone?

Hi!

Very nice program. Have been using it for a while but I have the following problem. When I set my AT&T Fuze to SILENT (not vibrate) and have an upcoming alarm set, the device will sometimes just stay silent instead of accepting the "force volume" setting like on the HTC Kaiser.

On my Kaiser the alarm always goes off no matter what the system volume is set at. In the Fuze it only does if the alarm is within 5 min of turning the power off. If I set the alarm to 10am and go to sleep at 1am, it's a guaranteed failure. The little speaker in the task bar shows the icon as if sound should be ON but it's not. The mp3 just keeps playing with no output.

Any help? Actually the same problem exists with another alarm program, ptravelalarm. What could it be?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] custardo01:
Would it be Start/Settings/System/Clocks & Alarms/More "Sound alarms even when the device is set to silent or vibrate" box unchecked??
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] makku12:
I wish I could have had time to copy the error, but I was late for work because of this alarm :mad: (i know it's a work in progress)

Anyways, I have the HTC Touch Pro (AT&T) flashed with a custom ROM. My phone was running Gyrator2 and MobiPocket when the alarm tried to go off. Instead, it just showed an error code and didn't make a sound.

Also, the night before I was testing it to make sure it would work. When I set a normal alarm with g-sensor on and shake to snooze on, the program would crash about 20 seconds after the alarm started ringing. I thought it might have been Gyrator2, so I made an exception for GAlarm to have Gyrator2 be disabled. After setting and testing several quick alarms, I finally turned off the tilt sensor and went to bed.

If there is an error log recorded somewhere, let me know... I will post it.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] orlandojumpoff:
makku, did you have the maze option turned on? because this is the only time it's been crashing for me... 15-20 seconds after the alarm goes off i get the error.

for now i'm just using the new math questions option and didn't have problems this morning...

look at post #1318 for my error
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ageye:
New version released: 0.9.7.1

I fixed some bugs...

Changelog: http://www.ageye.de/index.php?s=galarm/changelog

Download: http://www.ageye.de/index.php?s=download

@time format: it should work now... you have to edit and save your alarm again to see changes...

@box: the box was always there... I don't know what you have seen ;-)

Can you please try 0.9.7.1 and tell me if the maze function works now again! I have changed something which may cause this bug.

I haven't touched the sensitivity for the mazes...

without any error details I cannot help you. Please download 0.9.7.1, set an alarm and also use another alarm clock as a backup clock. If the error occurs please write down the first few lines of the error details or better: make screenshots with mymobiler.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mamupapers:
here is advanced option form on my device
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ageye:
oh, this is a g-alarm bug

I will reupload 0.9.7.1 as soon as I have finished it...

EDIT: I have fixed and upload 0.9.7.1
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] orlandojumpoff:
just tried .9.7.1 and i still get the same unexpected error (not enough storage is available to process this command). still only happens during mazes.. calculation screen works flawlessly.

i wonder if i'm the only one with this problem?? i hope not because i havent' really encountered major problems in previous versions (aside from the 2 updates that i wasn't able to try before .9.7.0).

let me know if there's anything else i can try with the app on my phone if it'll help you figure anything out...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ageye:
I think I have to go back to the old technique without alpha transparent ball...

for now please don't use mazes...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ageye:
New version released: 0.9.7.2

Mazes should now work for everyone again

Please test it and tell me! Thank you for your patience

Download: http://www.ageye.de/index.php?s=download
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] makku12:
that was the initial problem I had... definitely! I'm not sure about the one this morning because I didn't hear any music. It still played in the other problem. I will download 0.9.7.2 and test...

ageye: this is a very nice program.I was just angry at myself for not having a backup alarm clock. My old phone worked so well at that :rolleyes:
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] orlandojumpoff:
the maze is working again with .9.7.2, thanks
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] orlandojumpoff:
ageye,

bad news... the maze works fine now, but the calculations option freezes for me - even after a soft reset. it doesn't give an error, but when i click play to test it... it just shows the first calculation and doesn't play the alarm and you can't press any of the options (i had to press the home key to send me back to touchflo and shut it down through there).

i got it to work once out of 4 or 5 soft resets :/

any ideas?

edit: ok so i tried mazes again thinking it might have been luck when it worked earlier... and sure enough it froze. i went into the alarm settings and unchecked random song (i only have one song listed) and then both mazes and calculations started working (even after i checked random again)... i'm not sure if this is the reason? or if it just wasnt working randomly or what... so confused. is there a known bug for having random song checked when u only have one? cause i never noticed problems before.. i just hope it's fixed for good and it won't malfunction when i actually need the alarm. this info probably doesn't help much cause it was freezing one second and now it's working.. oh well.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] huynhc:
did my upgrade not install right? when i go to the "about" page it still says 0.9.7.1 instead of 0.9.7.2?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ageye:
just ignore it... my fault! I haven't updated the version number in the about page...

(not i have, but this is no reason to download 0.9.7.3 again ;-))

mmhm this is pretty strange now... I also have only one song in the playlist and random checked. Everything works fine for me... Perhaps there was a read/write error and editing the alarm again saved it correctly...

I can't promise it but I'm sure if it doesn't freeze during test it won't freeze when it should wake you up...

sorry for the problems...

I'll check my code once again.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] orlandojumpoff:
no worries.. i'll update you if it has the strange freeze problem again.. i tested it many more times after i last posted to see if it was just a hiccup and there's no strange behavior to report. also, it woke me up this morning just fine... it couldn't have something to do with the new audio plugins during install could it? ever since i started installing with that, i've had problems... but like i said, i've been fine with recent tests, so it's probably just coincidence... thanks again for the version update
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] w04g005:
For me it's also NOT working. I'll test later if it has to do with the math thing!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ageye:
can you please post some error details
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] w04g005:
I have tested it on the Kankx Pollaris ROM. build 20931. The screen turned on at the correct time but then nothing happened.

I have updated to another ROM with the same build and i have tested it. Now it's ok. WITH and WITHOUT math....

I'll do another tests.

thanks
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] shaunco:
It would be nice if I could set the alarm to show puzzles again after a snooze... otherwise, BEST APP EVER!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ageye:
puzzles after snooze? what do you mean with puzzles. after snooze? do you mean after you press the snooze button?!?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] syrguy1969:
I think they mean to have the puzzles show again after the snooze time....like a repeat of the original alarm!!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ageye:
they are already shown after the snooze time if you have unchecked the 3rd option on the following page (ask a quiz before the first snooze only):
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Micht:
Hi ageye

I had again errors this morning :'(

I don't know with it's not every morning but it's quite annoying cauz I've always to keep another alarm "juste in case" ...

Maybe this WeekEnd, I'll try to hard reset my phone (HTC Polaris) or event better install WM 6.1 ROM.

++

Micht
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ageye:
this looks like an error of .net cf 2.0

reinstalling might help... hard reseting will probably be the best solution
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] SpoiledK:
alphabetical order

Any chance of adding a feature what I can search my music folder in alphabetical order..? I have over 500 songs and its tuff when trying to find that one song when the list is not in alphabetical order...

TIA...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] electron73:
No, that box is checked and actually believe it or not, the "internal" crappy Microsoft alarm works fine. I set the phone to mute and program one alarm for 10:00 with G-Alarm and a backup alarm with the internal WM6.1 alarm to 10:10. What will happen is that G-Alarm goes off at 10:00 but no sound out of the speaker, then at 10:10 the windows alarm will kick in and turn on the speaker, resulting in both alarms playing at the same time (I have G-Alarm set to never time out).

Why can't G-Alarm activate the speaker?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] syrguy1969:
I just upgraded to a new Omnia and decided to give this alarm another crack, and it seems to work great...none of the glitches I used to have on my 700wx.

I do have one problem I don't remember seeing mentioned here...the Omnia has an accelerometer and in landscape mode the alarm gets all out of wack. It isn't too bad until you try the maze, and you have to be extra careful not to tilt TOO far, because when you flip back to portrait, g-alarm still looks 'stretched-out' on the screen.

Not sure if there is a way of fixing this, but I just thought I would mention it here!! :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Stereotomy:
Very decent app, the quizzers are great :)

Still, the app starts very very slowly. Also, when creating a new alarm, a nice beachball is staring at me for almost 10 seconds: surely creating a new alarm which is a simple task can be much quicker? On PalmOS, I would have already finished entering the alarm before I start the program on Windows Mobile.

Also, when entering the name of an alarm, the software keyboard pops up very annoyingly. Using Treo Pro with RealVGA.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ageye:
I'll add that feature...

:confused: I still don't know why this is not working for you! It seems to be that you are the only one with this problem. Do you have any custom settings or use a custom ROM? A hard reset would probably help but who wants to do one ;-)

G-Alarm activates the speaker by activating the hardware port WAV1:

probably your phone has a different one... For now I don't know how to help you...

I recommend Omnia users not to use the auto rotate mechanism when using G-Alarm.

G-Alarm isn't able to handle the screen rotations. The mazes also don't work.

This is a known issue.

@slowly: welcome to windows mobile and .net framework ;-)

the TreoPro has a display with a square resolution (320x320). G-Alarm could be faster if someone creates a skin for square resolutions. G-Alarm wouldn't need to resize all the graphics which may accelerate the startup process.

@software keyboard:

http://www.ageye.de/index.php?s=galarm/manual/hidden_options -> point 2
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] custardo01:
No alarm sound for me two times this week using 0.9.7.3 and Blackstone. Force volume checked and fade in checked. Galarm screen is on but no sound. Only one wav tune being used. Says version 0.9.7.2 but it is latest.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] orlandojumpoff:
just an update on the locking up problems i had earlier....

so far everythings fine still.... but i noticed something strange... when i clicked one of the shortcuts to g-alarm today, it gave me the windows alarm bug fix dialog...

it's weird because i didn't get that on the last two updates and i recall it already being checked in the options just like in my previous settings... i have no idea what this bug fix does, but i was wondering if this would cause any problems if the fix wasnt implemented?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] emay:
You don't have random play selected, have you? Because I understood that the played song then is skipped the next time.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] electron73:
Hi Ageye.

First of all, I do have to say hats off and kudos! This is becoming the best alarm proggie ever on the WiMo platform. You seem to be very actively involved with working on it and giving excellent support here. I program C++ on linux and mostly C on microcontrollers and some php/mysql on linux. Unfortunately I have never gotten into the Windows world. None of my customers uses an unreliable operating system.

And this is the catch with WM... It's fun to tweak, there are cool applications, but I have never seen a Blackberry or a Nokia phone just do a spontaneous reboot in the middle of a phone conversation.

I have a plain factory AT&T Fuze, virgin style. Factory Rom, Factory Bootloader, No bloatware. I got the phone from the store and had the volume problem right away. I did a hardreset and let everything install (full bloat) and same problem. Then I hard reset again and skipped the bloat. Now everything is pretty nice but this one issue is pretty annoying. How can I help? Can I take registry snapshots for you? Which hives to you need? Someone else also posted with the same problem, so just writing to the WAV: device seems to be... ehm... Microsoft... buggy. At least on some ROMs... And here is something very weird. If I move both volume sliders (device and phone volume) all the way up and then all the way down and then all the way up again and then click MUTE and manually trigger G-Alarm (the right triangular arrow in the main menu)... the music plays !!!

Just when I leave it over night, next morning it will be dead silent and G-Alarm will just be playing the tune into nirvana :(

A wish for the (long, I know) wish list would be a nice countdown function. Quick set +- for hours, min, sec and when you hit START it counts down to zero and then triggers the alarm. Your quick alarm is already very nice but I would need something like pTravelalarm, where you can see the seconds, minutes and hours actually count down.

Cheers

Stefan
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] electron73:
The ultimate BUG!

I just found the ultimate bug and I believe this bug is responsible for G-Alarm not working. A workaround is possible, so I have high hopes that Ageye, you can fix this.

Why the heck does the PHONE RINGER volume influence the SYSTEM volume?

Check out the video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBZAkJwDHT0

Can this be fixed in Windows? Reg-Hack?

Workaround for G-Alarm: Let the user define volume presets for both sliders.

Hope this helps!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] custardo01:
Yes I have but I always have had without problems and the settings have been carried over with the new installation. I'll uncheck it and see if that does the trick.

Thank you.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] orlandojumpoff:
k scratch my earlier post... the alarm froze again on the calculations screen today. alarm initiates, but no music is played and then the screen is locked up. i have to press the home button on my touch pro to get out and my phone becomes really slow so i end up having to soft reset. i really hope you figure out what the problem is... i'm going back to an older version for now, but i'm gonna miss the calculations! thanks.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] SyXbiT:
great, great alarm, and much improved theme over last time i installed.

question. How can i see my next alarm from TouchFLo3d ?

That's the one thing I miss from going to a Touch Pro, I don't have any today screen icons.

I've searched on the thread and see that people mention it working with TouchFlo, but not sure how.

ideally on the home screen where windows official alarms are listed this could take over.

possible?

(i noticed the today plugin you have, but it doesn't show up if you have touchflo3d)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] expo7:
show on tf3d must be select!

if this not work let it select and make a reset. after that it should work
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] SyXbiT:
i have just the bottom one (show on TF3d) selected, and have performed a soft reset. still don't see it. am i missing something else?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] expo7:
mhh thats all for tf3d integration:confused:
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] aceracer24:
Bug or issue

There seems to be something with G-alarm that causes it to randomly be "busy". Out of no where I will get a busy icon showing. At first I didn't know what was causing it but after some quick testing I have come to the conclusion it is in fact G-alarm doing this. Removed I don't see it happen any more. Does anyone know why I G-alarm would cause the phone to be busy? This is happening when there is supposed to be no alarm activity. I would say it happens about every few minutes.

It was originally noticed in this thread here http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=46080

It's a custom rom. I have not confirmed if this happens on a stock rom.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] SyXbiT:
I think I realised what's going on with the today in TouchFlo 3d.

i added another alarm for later today, and that shows now in TouchFlo

but if i remove the alarm for today, and add one that's over 24 hours away, it doesn't show (shows no alarm). perhaps it'll show tomorrow.

is this deliberate, or a bug?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ageye:
aaaaaaah!!!!

I wish I had those bugs so I could fix without trying to blindly release pseudo-bugfixes.

Thank you for the video! I wouldn't believe it if you hadn't show me the bug in action...

custardo, can you confirm that you have the same problem with the phone volume setting which we can see in the video above?

does it work when you test the alarm?

I don't think that the mazes are the problem... probably the music player tries to load and load and load the music files and fails all the time causing a high cpu load... do you have your music files on the device or on the storage card? can you try adding one .wma file of the \Windows directory to the playlist? if only that file is played this would confirm my theory...

g-alarm shows a busy icon on following occasions:

1. at midnight when it wakes up Windows Mobile to rebuild the notification queue

2. ~ 15 seconds before an alarm starts

3. after you change the alarm settings

4. when you change the time or the time zone...

There is NO G-Alarm process running which could make the device busy every few minutes...

TF3D only shows an alarm which is on the same day or the next day

I think this goes in the same direction as my first answer! Can you confirm that the music playback depends also on the phone volume (not only on the system volume)?

@countdown clock:

try G-Watch (which is available on my homepage)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] aceracer24:
Sorry to say but YES..it does as confirmed by several users in that link I posted.

Now, that said, I can't say it's G-Alarm specifically as in, maybe there is something causing G-Alarm to do it that normally wouldn't but the fact remains that there are several people in that link that confirm G-Alarm is causing a busy state for no obvious reason.

I had to remove it because I can't watch a video without it causing stuttering during play back when it gets busy. Since removing, all busy issues are gone. I love G-alarm features but the busy state is just way to annoying to deal with.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ageye:
can you please install G-Alarm again. Use fdc taskmanager (free) to see if a GAlarm.exe or GAlarmReload.exe process is running. Also look in the notification queue (you can do this with this tool as well) and tell me the G-Alarm notifications.

If there are no other entries then the only explanation might be that the custom rom sends a message to the notification system that the time has changed every few minutes
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] aceracer24:
Sure, I can do that. I'll install now. Where can I get fdc taskmanager. I have searched for it and got all sorts of hits but nothing showing where to download it.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] peterbonge:
Here: http://www.dotfred.net/TaskMgr.htm