yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] r1aven:
Continued Testing

Okay, so I have a few observations about the way this application behaves ...

1) It now takes focus over S2U2 when a scheduled alarm activates. Very Nice!

2) Once the snooze has been activated, the device is not allowed to sleep. Not only does the window keep focus, it keeps the backlight on until the alarm is activated again (both on battery and external power). I do not know if this was intentional, necessary, or a bug. Depending on the length of the snooze time, this could prove to consume unnecessary power when on battery power. Now, I usually leave my phone plugged in overnight so it isn't a major problem but if I ever needed to use it on battery power ... guess I should just get up and not snooze the alarm!

3) The force volume control is a great option and does indeed work if the phone is on silent or vibrate. However, it does not return the volume settings once the alarm has been cleared.

Example 1: Device set to vibrate, alarm set to force volume. Alarm activates and is cleared while the music is playing. The system volume is now set to on (no longer set to vibrate).

Example 2: Device set to vibrate, alarm set to force volume. Alarm activates and the snooze is activated. One decides to get up and dismisses the alarm during the snooze countdown timer. The system volume is now set to silent (no longer set to vibrate).

Example 3: Device volume on, alarm set to force volume. Alarm activates and the snooze is activated. Alarm again dismissed during the snooze countdown. Device volume is at it was before the alarm went off.

I feel like the program should always return both the device volume and phone volume settings back to the state they were in before the alarm was activated. Could this be accomplished by simply storing the values and restoring them upon the exit command?

4) Pressing snooze again before the alarm goes off resets the snooze timer and starts the countdown again. Not sure if this was intentional, but I like this feature!

If I can help out with testing future builds or other scenarios, let me know. Thank you for starting this project. This is the best alarm application I have seen for the Windows Mobile environment. Great Work! I look forward to future releases!

Cheers!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] deuzeff:
Hi,

Here is my feedback after this morning call. I have some similar behaviours with the backlight on the Kaiser.

1. With ThrottleLock running as usual (backgroung process, allowing the program to pop up if the backlight is switch on)

Options: force volume, no fade in, no maze, able to close w/o a warning message

I went to G-Alarm, hit the "Test" button, the alarm pops up, normal, then I press "Stop Alarm", I am now back in the G-Alarm program, no surprise, but I want right now to switch off the screen, I can't, it's not letting me, ThrottleLock would even pops w/o that the backlight was first off then on. Sometimes, ThrottleLock appears and the backlight switch off after, for one second then comes back.

I now hit the "OK" on the top right corner to close G-Alarm program, the backlight switch off lol :p. Back to normal.

Now test with the alarm coming up by itself (like an normal morning call). I unlock ThrottleLock, click on stop alarm, then different behaviour: either the backlight switches off, no problem, either I arrive on my Today screen but I can switch off the screen so no problem.

The snooze button does not switch off the screen. If I use it more than once (meanming letting it do the whole snooze time and/or also clicking on it again before the end), when I then click on "stop alarm", I get (often) the error code 0x80131527, telling me that an error occured in GAlarm.exe. I press quit, I am now unable to switch off the screen, ThrottleLock will come up, but the only way to be regain control on backlight is to soft reset :).

2. W/o ThrottleLock running (completely off, no background process)

Using "test alarm": click test, then close the alarm, come back to G-Alarm menu, I can't switch off the screen, but now if I press the OK button to close the app, it doesn't not switch off the screen anymore, it s from now a normal behaviour, I can by myself switch on and off as I want as soon as G-Alarm app is closed

Alarm coming up on scheduled: the alarm shows up, I click on close alarm, the screen goes off, no problem.

The snooze button is strange: I use the test function, if I click on snooze, then close the alarm, I will be able to switch off the screen o_O, which is not possible if I close the alarm as previously explained. If I now use the snooze after the alarm came up on scheduled, more than once or not, I close the the alarm with "stop alarm", the screen is switched off, no special problem. In any case the snooze button does not send back the screen to darkness hehe.

It's quite detailled but it is the real behaviour on my Kaiser. Tried several times to avoid "one time" behaviours. It is clear that the ThrottleLock does create problem in combination with the G-Alarm. G-Alarm is much happier w/o.

I find this feature absolutely brilliant :D.

Thanks for this great app :).
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Binder:
Hey ageye,

Nice app, just installed and the test worked fine. The real test will be to see if it wakes me up in the morning to go to work :(

One point of attention though:

During the test on my HTC Touch i pressed the stop alarm button and got the corfirmation pop-up. I pressed the damn thing about 20 times before the alarm finally stopped.

I wonder what the results will be when you team up with some skin designers, GOOD LUCK!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ageye:
First of all: Many thanks to khristopher13 and deuzeff for their detailed descriptions... as you can imagine I need some time to reproduce this behaviour. but I experienced some things by myself and therefore know what to do...

@throttlelock: yeah, g-alarm is surely happier without it, but it has to work with it. I'm on it!

I noticed that, will be fixed in the next version...

This is intended! I'm glad that you like the feature...

I'm on vacations from saturday for 1 week. I think I can release a version with less bugs until then so you don't have to wait so long...

Stay tuned
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] melkhatt:
On my Artemis, it stops after one track, it's annoying because in my playlist i have just a small sounds

Another problem with the last version: the dialog confirmation for exit alarm, won't go before pressing several times over yes or no buttons (at least 5)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] custardo01:
It may not all be the fault of Galarm. Have tried many alarm programmes recently and all of them start working ok and then suddenly mute the sound on my Touch Cruise even though the volume is up and sound set to ON in system settings. Soft reset brings the sound back. Yet I read about satisfaction from others using these same programmes without problems. I found one programme that does not mute the sound along with Galarm 0.1.1 (as long as fade in unchecked and so far after 3 days use). I just tried Galarm 0.2 again and it worked fine first go then no sound on the whole device on second test.All options were checked and then unchecked. I would be interested to hear if anyone else experience same problems using a Touch Cruise as most people do not report the same problems I am getting.

If I set the alarm and then press Exit the alarm does not set and will not work even though the alarms are showing green as if they are set. If I set the alarm and then press OK top right(Windows) the alarm sets and definitely works. Is that right??

Thanks.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ageye:
I experienced these bugs, too. I'll fix that!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] LNJ:
please make it play tracks continously.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ageye:
please stop asking over and over for the same bugfixes - it's already a known bug and will be fixed as soon as possible
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ageye:
New version online: 0.2.1!

Please tell me:

- if the fade-in finally works

- if the vibration/muted mode is restored when the alarm is finished

- if the playlist repeats

- if the device is able to sleep when you click on "snooze"

- if "Show alarm over all windows" (you find it in the options) is able to win against throttlelock

Don't forget: if you like and use G-Alarm I would be so happy if you donate

THANK YOU
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] stando76:
I am also getting the 0x80131527 error when stopping the alarm. I also noticed that it also changes my volume level to 80% on my mogul.

Otherwise so far so good.

Thanks!

Stan
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ageye:
Have you tried the alternative playback mode (see the options)?

could you please post screenshots of the error?

@volume change: g-alarm has no chance to restore the original volume if there's an error. so this is just "normal". But I think that switching to alternative playback mode will fix the problem
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] r1aven:
I will test later this evening once I get home and follow up with my findings.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] stando76:
That worked - but it still drops my volume to 80% after the alarm goes off.

Thanks again!

Stan
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] deuzeff:
I'll also made a detailled observation tomorrow, but I just tell you quickly it is not able to come over ThrottleLock :( (I did check the option :p).

There's still the strange problem that when using the test function, when I shut down the alarm, I am unable to switch off the screen if I am still in G-Alarm program.

Thank you very much for the work !
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ageye:
ok, then let's try to debug that ;-)

which volume do you have before you start g-alarm?

do you check "Force volume"?

which value do you enter at "max. volume"?

for the next versions I will switch the alternative and the normal playback mode... the alternative mode is actually better but only works with wm6 and above, but I think it's the better standard option.

argh ThrottleAlarm ;-) I don't know what to do... I think I have to download it and/or talk to the developer...

Have you tried it with or without checking the option "Show alarm over all windows"?

When is it better?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] deuzeff:
Yeah pain in the A$$ :p. Same behaviour (G-Alarm stays under) w/ both option checked/unchecked "Show alarm over all windows".

FYI, I just reinstall S2U2, G-Alarm does come over S2U2 ;), with both checked and unchecked.

The snooze button sends back to sleep (at least right now with S2U2, I'll try tomorrow with ThrotlleLock waiting in the background, the behaviour is probably different), however, when you switch on the phone, S2U2 pops up, and I can't unlock, it seems G-Alarm and S2U2 are fighting to be on top :-/ (but S2U2 stays). If I use the red phone button to shut down G-Alarm while having S2U2 still on top, I arrive on my home screen in the background, but S2U2 still here. I have to soft reset :).

EDIT: that was with option unchecked, I'll try now with option "over all windows" checked.

EDIT: no luck with checked too

We're getting close :). (can somebody confirm for S2U2?).

I hit the snooze with S2U2 and ThrottleLock uninstall, G-Alarm is perfect w/o locking system.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] airjer:
Great prog. Works great for me. Only improvements that really need to be done are on the speed. Pretty laggy on my device (kaiser).

Thanks, hopefully I'll get up sooner instead of later now.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] melkhatt:
yes

Thank you
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ageye:
Hi,

thank you for the request but I can't include it. why?

first of all: keep it simple! I don't want to build in too many buttons which are misleading...

2nd: every skin creator would have to change his skin

3rd: you can create multiple alarms with different skin times and if you go to sleep simply activate the alarm which suits your snooze needs ;-)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ToddeSwe:
The thing i was turned on by :) was that it patched the Windows today screen AND S2U2 it is realy very good and that's why i liked this Alarm clock. The maze is just (by my opinion) taking up space :) It could be an add in to the alarm clock for thoose who wants it... space is nothing you have a lot of when it comes to PDA's :)

ToddeSwe
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ageye:
the mazes take about 30kb or something. This is really not what makes G-Alarm big ;-)

I won't add countdown timer and stop watch to G-Alarm. There will be a seperate application which I will release soon.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mistertb:
I noticed three bugs/errors this morning:

1: The alarm does not work after I've pressed the power button (Omnia) before I went to sleep. After waking-up (I woke up thanx to my girlfriend her alarm...) and pressing the power button to wake up my phone, the alarm started directly. Is this a bug or should I not put my phone in sleep mode?

2: The fade function does not work, also noticed it did not work on previous versions. Please let me know what further information you need. (can not make screenshots as I am at work)

3: I noticed you added tabs in G-alarm, however the tabs show half way my screen (samsung Omnia), it is a total mess now.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] The_Steph:
Ageye,

I think the auto snooze problem is still present in 0.8.2. This morning I just heard for two secs the alarm ring and then nothing, snooze was engaged. My second alard (15 minutes later) did not even rang...

How can I provide useful info to have this problem solved ?

The_Steph
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ageye:
hi

thank you for your bug report

1. have you checked „Fix Windows alarm bug“ (and restarted your device) and unchecked „Shut display off during snooze“ and „Shut display off after x secs.“?

2. please submit more details: how loud is the sound when it goes of? what have you set at "force volume" and fade in time-

3. I just checked it again on the Omnia. v0.8.2 works great on it... Which version do you use? please use only portrait mode!

please see the alarm options if autosnooze is set to 2 seconds... if it was set because of the bug in the old version and you haven't changed it since then, it is still at 2 seconds...

@second alarm: if g-alarm is already running, Windows Mobile doesn't allow a second instance of G-Alarm at the same time...

HTH
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] The_Steph:
Ageye,

Thanks a lot for the trick.

I set it to 0. Let see if tomorrow morning I wake up on time :)

BTW, your software is the best alarm clock I ever used and above all that it is a freeware.

Best of luck.

The_Steph
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mistertb:
Fix windows bug = checked (since ever)

shut display = 0sec

energy saver during snooze = unchecked

I'm not talking about snoozing. I mean when I go to bed at night, I set my alarm on let's say 8.00am. Then I press the powerbutton ones and the phone will sleep. The next morning the alarm does not start by itself, only when I wake the phone by pressing a button the alarm starts ringing.

Problem is when I test it now and set the alarm 5 minutes ahead, the problem does not occur. Only when I leave my phone in sleep mode for a longer time (like at night)

Found out that the alarm always is the same volume. (guess round 30%)

I've just set phone in conference mode (vibrate) and G-alarm volume to 100% with 20sec fade-in. Both test alarm function and setting an alarm 5 min's ahead gives round 30% volume with no fading.

:confused:

Sorry my mistake, I'm testing several settings with SPB shell and SBP pocket. After uninstalling the Shell it looked fine.

*I use the newest version through apptodate
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] VanHoof:
Wenn my phone wakes up, first I have to unlock it, before I can shut off the alarm. Does someone perhaps have a solution, so I can stop/snooze G-Alarm without first having to unlock my phone...

Thanx in advance
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Jaeger:
DivideByZeroException

I get this error every time I use the alarm. it displays the maze for a second, then gives this error, followed by a long stream of locations. The MP3 continues playing though. Any thoughts?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ageye:
could you please make some screenshots with MyMobiler of the error details?

thanks

which version do you use?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ToddeSwe:
G-Alarm Diamond Mat author?

Hi!

Have made some translating to the Diamond Mat theme for G-Alarm.

I want to get in contact with the author (lukymat) of this theme so i can get his approval and so he/she can maybe put it into a cab and release it on the homepage...

Some screens attached

ToddeSwe
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Jaeger:
Now I am getting a different error after reinstalling it (0.8.2 version on my AT&T Tilt)

OverflowException

An error message cannot be displayed because an optional resource assembly containing it cannot be found.

at System.Convert.ToUInt32()

at GAlarm.Functions.VolumeToPercent()

at GAlarm.frmAlarm..ctor()

at GAlarm.frmStart.pictTestAlarm_Click()

at System.Windows.Forms.Control.OnClick()

at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WNProc()

at System.Windows.Forms.Control._InternalWnProc()

at Microsoft.AGL.Forms.EVL.EnterMainLoop()

at System.Windows.Forms.Application.Run()

at Galarm.Program.Main()
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Jaeger:
The other error is happening intermittently as well:

GAlarm.exe

DiveideByZeroException

at GAlarm.frmAlarm.tmrClock_tick()

at System.Windows.Forms.Timer._WnProc()

atSystem.Windows.Forms.ApplicationThreadContext._InternalContextMessages()

at Microsft.AGL.Forms.EVL.EnterMainLoop()

at GAlarm.Program.Main
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] hanackin:
Hi thanks to ask for the approval :D:D

I will send you a private message with his mail otherwise you can also find him on www.actualitemobile.com

;)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ageye:
Just released: v0.8.3!

Biggest improvement: Skin creators can now define pressed and disabled buttons. Look here: http://www.ageye.de/index.php?s=galarm/manual/skin

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

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

For now I'm working on G-Watch, a GPS powered stop watch ;-)

Please try if the new version works for you...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Jaeger:
That worked great! Thanks!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mistertb:
- Uninstalled and reinstalled application (0.8.3)

- fix windows bug = checked

- snooze functions are all unchecked

- Fade in time is 20 sec

- Alarm volume set to 100%, phone volume set first to silent, then tried with 100%

volume stays round 30% and fading function does not work...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ageye:
for now I don't see any other solution for you than deactivating "Force volume" and "Fade in" and manually change the system volume settings...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ageye:
Check this out:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=436160
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] giovag7:
I'm sorry but i still have the same problems; g-sensor and light sensor aren't working well again with 0.8.3
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mistertb:
Do you know if I am the only one with Samsung Omnia and this problem? or is this a general problem? If not I might hard reset...

Otherwise it might be because I have the Dutch version of the Omnia.

Do you use tools/shortcuts which are named differently in the Dutch phone?

Please let me know, I really want to use the fading.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ageye:
my problem is that I can't see the behaviour of your device :-( on my Diamond and the Omnia of a friend of mine all works perfectly... Please be aware that there is a little delay of 1-2 seconds to make it more stable.

If the alarm goes off the phone should lay flat on the ground. then after the maze simply turn it upside down - this should work after 1 or 2 seconds...

@light sensor: which sensitivity do you use?

this is not an Omnia related thing. Some users report this volume problem - I'm still not aware of the cause because I could test 3 devices and all work fine! I will try other ways and please keep me up to date if it's getting better in the next versions...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] JueLue:
Hello!

I found a little bug (as I think) in your fantastic program:

Following situation:

I define a new one-time-alarm to come up at 6:30am, present time is 5:00am, last defined alarm was 4:45am.

The preset time ist the time of the last defined alarm, in my case it was earlier than present time. So preset date of the new alarm ist set one day in furture. I have to manually correct the date of the alarm, otherwise it will wake me up 25 hours in future.

My wish: preset of the date of one-time-alarms should be corrected when you change from the time-page to the date page so that the next reach of the set time will fire the alarm.

Same thing in german (easier for me)

Wenn ich einen Einmal-Alarm eingebe und die vordefinierte Zeit vor der aktuellen liegt (da die letzte eingegebene Alarmzeit vor der aktuellen liegt), wird das Datum so gestellt, dass der Alarm nicht beim nächsten erreichen der Uhrzeit sondern 24h später erfolgt. Ich meine, bei Einmal-Alarmen sollte die Voreinstellung so sein, dass sie immer beim nächsten erreichen der Uhrzeit zünden. Dies kann man meiner Meinung dadurch erreichen, dass wenn der Wechsel von der Zeit-Seite auf die Datums-Seite erfolgt das vorgeschlagene Datum entsprechend korrigiert wird.

JueLue
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ageye:
Hi

this would be a new place where problems can occur. What if someone really wants to have the alarm set on the next day and just jumps through the pages without looking and then the date is automatically changed without wanting it.

I won't include it. Making this one finger press is better than an alarm which goes of in a situation you don't want...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ageye:
New version: 0.8.4!

For all of you with the problem that the volume is too low: Could you please try this version and perform following step (Safe mode volume control)

http://www.ageye.de/index.php?s=galarm/manual/hidden_options

Please tell me if it works now with the safe mode volume control set!

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

Download: http://www.ageye.de/index.php?s=download
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] haardman:
Feature Request - Full Screen Clock

I've yet to find an alarm clock program, that is actually a clock as well as an alarm. i.e. actually tells the time (full screen).

So I still have my trusty old LED clock radio next to the bed, just so that I can tell the time during the night.

Any chance this excellent program could include a full screen LED style clock (low light)?