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[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] dadiduekappa:
Bug

I think i found a bug... In today plugin if i tap on GA symbol the program load ok. But if i tap on alarm show, the program show the current alarm setting but symbol + and - aren't visible in all of the pages.

It's a problem on samsung omnia or in all devices?

Thank's
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ageye:
please post som escreenshots
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Fitz:
Hey

G-Alarm is a great app!

Maybe an Idea:

How about, as an option, to show a math question (or two) which you have to answer to turn the alarm off.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] talbotlives:
Another feature that I would love:

Similar to the decreasing snooze times, what if the number of mazes you had to solve increased with the # of snoozes? For example, first time alarm goes off, you have to solve 1 maze; after hitting snooze 4 times you have to solve 5 mazes.

Either way, great app, my favorite alarm clock ever. Funny though, I don't think it went off this morning...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] bobzero:
I had a problem with g alarm this morning :(

I had set a quick alarm, plugged in my phone to the wall, and went to sleep.

When I woke up on my own (late) I looked at my phone and I saw that the screen was fully lit up, and also frozen. No hardware buttons were responding, and the phone was not even accepting a charge from the charger.

Also, the time that was displayed on the screen was the exact time the alarm was supposed to go off... I had to soft reset.

Phone: HTC Vogue

ROM: NFSFAN Bell 1.21rev2

Software: G-Alarm 0.9.5
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] custardo01:
I'd like to zap a fly or a bug on the screen - something a bit more aggressive to cope with getting up ;-)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] giovag7:
Hi Ageye,

trying version 0.9.5 i have found that snoozing mechanism is worse than in 0.9.4 version, i explain:

- Snoozing by moving the phone work but only by violent movements and with lag of 1-2 sec.

- Snoozing by face down the phone sometimes seem not working and however with lag.

- Light sensor: sensitivity is increased but if i use medium or high, alarm snooze itself (after 40-50 sec) without switch on the light in the room.

I come back to version 0.9.4: in this the g sensor mechanism was perfect. The only bug is that light sensitivity is not enough in lot of cases but seem that if you increase it, the "snooze itself" problem occour.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] reesu:
I Haven't Try G alarm but it seems great, Just one thing miss Play for non-Gsensor PDA like in CradleAlarm (Memory, Math Question,etc..)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] alind:
Great work, thanks a lot
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Keyone:
It seems v0.9.5 makes my HTC Task Manager v2.0 Build 33547 not function properly. When I try to open the drop down menu (top right) to switch apps (open and close the app list a few times), everything dissapears besides the background of the menu. Going back to v0.9.4 fixes it. Unfortunately I don't have it installed to have a screenshot. Maybe I'll get it later. I figured I'd let you know there's a problem, otherwise you'd make new releases with it still not working properly.

Great program though!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mdhaliwal:
I just have one problem/issue... I have a XV6800 I just installed this program and used v0.9.5 for the first time. The problem I am having is that the program takes quite a bit of time to start up. Also I can only input one character at a time from my hardware keyboard becuase the one screen keyboard keeps popping up. Another thing is that the today plugin disappears for a good ten seconds when my phone switches from landscape to portrait. Is there a way to just let the program run in the background? or will this just eat up the memory and battery?

Edit: oh and when I set the alarm to like 8:05 or something the today plugin only shows 8:5.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ageye:
yep, screenshot would help... I haven't changed anything from 0.9.4 to 0.9.5 which affects that...

@on screen keyboard: http://www.ageye.de/index.php?s=galarm/manual/hidden_options -> Show software keyboard (SIP)

@today plugin: thank you for the information...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] sananda:
hallo ;D

Hab auch ein kleines Prob mit der 9.5

g-alarm hat einen fehler verursacht ... bla bla

jedenfalls wenn man dann okay drückt hängt das ganze anscheinend trotzdem irgendwie im handy und frisst den akku komplett leer.

der fehler kommt immer direkt nach dem Alarm.

bei der 9.4 gabs das prob nicht .. werd wohl wieder wechseln :D

hello

i had a little Problem with the 9.5 too..

g-alarm has oncurred an error or something...

when i press okay, g-alarm sucks out my battery. (in one hour a full loaded battery)

the failure message appears after ringing (alarm)

in v9.4 i did not have this problem... i think i'll roll back to 9.4 until the bug is fixed :D
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ageye:
in german:

also, zum wiederholten Male: OHNE fehlerdetails, keine Hilfe! außerdem gibt es kein "okay" Knopf bei G-Alarm...

in english:

if you don't post any error details you won't get any help... there is no okay button in g-alarm.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] domi007:
Hi,

First of all: awesome program!

Is it possible, that the small light sensor (that sets the brightness of the keyboard's backlight) from the HTC Universal will be supported?

It will be great!

Thanks,

DOMy
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] peterbonge:
This week I've had 2 times a big problem with firing up the alarm in the morning. It started to play and after 1-2 seconds the alarm was closed automatically. Thank god both times I woke up some seconds before the alarm.

I think this was caused by the tilt sensor actions. I've set both actions to close the alarm.

And it would be nice if my last post would be answered:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=2915535#post2915535
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ageye:
i don't have a HTC Universal! If you could give me a hint how to access the tilt sensor maybe then it will be possible...

I don't have a Touch Pro. If you could spend 10 minutes in setting up new alarms (not just testing, but setting them up for the next minutes) with different settings (shake off, face down on and shake on, face down off) to have an idea which tilt sensor action is the one that closes your alarm.

for now I can recommend you to use mazes because during mazes the tilt sensor actions are turned off...

1. It doesn't make sense to have the tilt sensor actions during snoozing... why not? 1. it drains more battery, 2. if the tilt sensor reports wrong values g-alarm may snooze your alarm endlessly

2. backlight off, display off - whatever :)

the sensors (except the light sensor) should work even with turned off display (but not during snoozing)

@mentioned somewhere: well, give me some times and I would mention everything everywhere...

3. there is always a way:

yeah, of course. but I have a life outside of xda-developers.com or ageye.de or G-Alarm or whatever. I just don't think that the positioning of the buttons is so important (although you are right that it is more logical to have them switched)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] KillBeagle:
Hey there... Really nice app. Saved me a lot of trouble.

Recently I discovered a bug:

Since 1 week, whenever I've pressed snooze it will only return with vibration and won't play no sound anymore....didn't change anything in Galarm...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] nickgeys:
ey here is a really tricky problem;

when i press snooze of turn off the alarm when it goes of, SOMETIMES the application along with the whole TD hangs and i can't do anything, have to do a soft-reset

anyone any idea why?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] SmashD:
In my case I see the today-plugin disappear often. Everything works like expected (eg. showing the alarm at the right time) but the today-plugin itself can only be reactivated by going to settings>today and closing it without making any changes at all. :(

Suggestion: Maybe a automatically set function (that is being called when closing the today-settings from windows mobile) could fire at periodic time spans (eg. 1 hour) to prevent this?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] peterbonge:
Now I've tested several Quick alarms with different settings. It always worked. Really strange. It seems that the problem occurs just from time to time. For now I've switched off these actions because I don't want to risk to oversleep.

It's not a very big problem for me to live without this feature. I'll test the light sensor feature the next days. That's also a very nice feature to switch off an alarm without touching the screen.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] orlandojumpoff:
hey ive been following this app since the beginning... i havent been keeping up with the forums, but are you planning to fix the today screen bug where itll say 1230AM when it's really set for 1230pm? the alarm still goes off at the right time and is set correctly in the app itself, but the today plugin doesn't display the am/pm correctly.. really weird
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] oldsap:
an option to add message when an alarm goes off would be nice
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ageye:
good news for omnia users:

Koushik Dutta found a way to access the light sensor of the omnia

I will implement this for the next G-Alarm version...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] :
I love your programm but the sound volume is to low I can only hear with my ear next to the speaker,I've tried everything:confused: have you got a solution to this?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ageye:
http://www.ageye.de/index.php?s=galarm/manual/limitations#Volume -> point #3
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] :
thanks:D

it works fine now:)

great app
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] domi007:
It looks like, that the controlling driver of this small sensor is embedded into the WinCE kernel.

Has nobody an idea, how to control it from a normal application?

DOMy
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] SpoiledK:
Is there a way to sort my music files in alphabetical order when trying to search for music to add to the playlist..?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] luptakt:
What about scheduled flight mode as an option of alarm settings? It can save a lot of battery overnight and at least nobody would tear your "cloud castles".

I think that It would be really nice feature to see in some of the next releases.

Could be performed as a new tab of alarm settings with options:

1) options to turn the feature on/off

2) time to turn flight mode on (as everyone aproximately knows when he is going to bed to wake up in a morning)

3) time to snooze "flight mode on" in the case you're not in hurry to bed (30min., 1 hour, 2 hours...)

4) if you manage to hack it (maybe with mort script) option to put your PIN so you don't need to enter it after flight mode goes off

The effect of the scenario would be:

I have to wake up 6am so I need to go to bed 11pm. I set up alarm to 6 am and don't expect or want someone to wake me up during night so I set up the flight mode feature.

At 11pm as I set up the flight mode feature GAlarm gonna remind me that it's gonna turn flight mode on. I need another hour to finish whatever am I doing so I snooze the

feature for one hour and after that if I don't snooze it again GAlarm activates the flight mode. So I save some battery power and no one is gonna wake me up during the sleep.

At 6am GAlarm wakes me up and automatically login to the network with the PIN provided by me.

I'm turning the flight modes by myself at the moment. I feel it annoying. Me and many others would be grateful to see this integrated in GAlarm. What do you think?

I love that app. Keep up good work.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] peterbonge:
I'm sorry, but I absolutely don't like this idea. This is an alarm clock. What you are describing is the job of an profiler like SBSH PhoneWeaver or Spb Phone Suite. Implementing things like this would be a start to bloat this nice "little" app.

Of course this is just my opinion.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] luptakt:
It's the option. Same as the maze. Someone has use for it someone hasn't. And why should I have 2 apps if I can have one.

alarm clock + game or alarm clock + battery saver

which one is more useful?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] del4:
Confirm alarm close triggered by tilt sensor?

I have 'Use tilt sensor' on and have G-Alarm configured to snooze when device is turned face down and to close alarm when you shake the device.

Unfortunately, this morning was a repeat of a couple weeks back where checking the alarm with the intention of snoozing it, inadvertently caused me to close the alarm. I picked up my phone, which was lying flat on its back, turned it towards me, with its left side facing the floor, and apparently G-Alarm interpreted this as a 'shake' gesture and promptly closed the alarm. Bad thing is, I wanted it to stay awake and was just going to choose a 15 or 30 minute snooze, but once the alarm is closed, there's no way to bring it back for that instance, so I had to get up. ;)

Since this is the second time it's happened, I was wondering if it would be possible to have some sort of confirmation that we really want to close the alarm (via both options, either turning face down or shaking), similar to the dialog when we tap the on-screen Stop/Close alarm button. This would allow us to recover from an inadvertent shake gesture, e.g., if we drop the phone while attempting to retrieve it from the nightstand. :p The other option would be to have some type of adjustment for how hard the shake must be to be interpreted as such, but I'm thinking the first option would eliminate the need for this?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Parg:
Hi Ageye,

are you planning a version for the HD? Actually it's working, but it's stretched and doesn't look good.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] hanackin:
I will have my HD today so I'm planning to make new skins for it :D

@EXPO7 : it will be great if you adapt your skins to it too :D:D
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] expo7:
You are a lucky man :D

I changed something at the vista skin (you will see it).

but i release it with the new galarm version :-)

@skin to hd? mhhh its a looooot of work :mad: we will see
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] hanackin:
ok dude :D

Let's wait & see ;)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Klingan:
I have Galarm installed on my Touch Dual and the device wakes up every night at 23:59, 11;59pm. Is there anything I can do about it?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] outphase:
Today, I tried to snooze for the 3rd time in a row, and the program appeared to go into an infinite loop. I notice 10 minutes later that the wait cursor is on, and I have to soft reset. This happened only one time before, and I cannot seem to replicate the problem.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] expo7:
This is the reason :D
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] serphinox:
Extra feature

Hi Ageye,

love the program but if you can add a

DISABLE Alarm Time

it would be good as sometimes e.g. when im on sick leave, I do not need my alarm to wake me up for work.

At current, i need to change the settings for "work" and must remember to change it back again.

In my opinion, if you can have like a "long Click" on the set alarm profile and have a pop up that says "Enable" when disabled and "Disable" when Enabled will be great.

Thanks for the program!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ageye:
to enable or disable an alarm simply click on the bell icon on the left side of the alarm...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] filo4u:
grats and thanks so much for your hard work!:)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] giovag7:
After some day that i'm trying 0.9.5 i can confirm this: snoozing the alarm by shaking the phone is very hard, and lot of times doesn't work (when this happens also if i turn face down the phone, alarm doesn't snooze).

Light sensor has exactly the same problems as the previous versions: if i use high sensitivity the alarm snooze itself without any change in the room light (after about 30-40 sec). If i use medium or low sensitivity don't have this problem but the alarm snooze only for great change in the room light (but i don't have a 200W lamp in my bedroom:D).

In version 0.9.4 instead the g-sensor mechanism was perfect.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] arman68:
Random song selection: too random?

I think the random song selection does not work quite as it should: I have a playlist of about 40 songs, but what I found is the same songs seem to come up all the time, and often enough, I get the same song repeating itself.

So maybe the random algorithm is not quite right, and besides, even if it was perfect, it would be better not to have a completely random choice. For example what you could do, is keep a list of recently played tracks, half the size of the real playlist, and make sure tracks picked randomly are not in that "played" list.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] dr g:
Question -- when snoozing, what is supposed to happen to the program? Does it go back into resident mode, or does it stay focused and active? My version (9.4) seems to do both things, and sometimes will not activate again after a snooze.

By way of feature requests:

A variety of selectable snooze intervals -- kind of like the system alarm, where you can pick from a list of snooze times. A few button choices, hopefully user-definable.

So far I am finding the system alarm to be much more reliable at ringing and snoozing properly, but I'm updating to 9.5 and will see if things have improved.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] serphinox:
found it! Thanks! This is the best Alarm ive used!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ageye:
... no comment ... ;-)

this makes me soooo sick... damn sensors...

you're right. I always planned to implement that...

please try 0.9.5

I changed the snooze mechanism... @different snooze times: tap and hold the snooze button...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] dorutec:
One more thing and i think it would be perfect: option to show on today screen time until next alarm.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] lisush:
Does this work with samsung i780?

Does this work with samsung i780?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] dr g:
Ah, great. Should be documented somewhere, maybe ;)

Anyway, I would still like to see more options for snooze times, perhaps user-defined. And perhaps have them as buttons rather than tap-n-hold.

After using 9.5 I have figured that my earlier issues were mostly user issues, and the alarm seems to work as expected, as far as the times and activation.

However, two things:

1. When you snooze, the application stays active and in foreground. Can it go back into resident mode, such as when it is waiting for the alarm?

2. When you snooze, the application shuts the screen off. If you were doing something else when the alarm went off, that is inconvenient. Is it possible for the app to tell whether it has woken up or whether the phone is already awake when it goes off? If so, then it could only shut the screen back off if it awoke from standby.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] del4:
So, any thoughts on adding a confirmation dialog when snoozing via the tilt sensor?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] del4:
Since this subject was brought up again by another user, thought I'd bump this suggestion once more. While disabling an alarm will work, there's then the chance you'll forget to reenable it. Seems like a delay or skip option would be a nice addition, no?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] del4:
Any chance this has made it on the todo list?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ageye:
try it and tell us. it should work
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] dr g:
Well could the intervals be made user-settable? Looking at stuff like snooze 4 hours, 12 hours, snooze 24 hours, etc. since I use alarms not just to wake up but for reminders to do things sometimes when I am awake.

In lieu of this then, perhaps the snooze could close the original alarm and create a new alarm at the new time, and the program could go resident again. This "snooze alarm" would delete itself once closed or snoozed again. EDIT: It looks like Quick Alarms already work like this. So perhaps you could make a mode where snoozing automatically creates a quick alarm for the new time, and closes the current alarm. The new alarm could perhaps be named "[original alarm name] Snooze"

Basically I find it undesirable for the alarm to require being an active program once it sounds and you snooze it.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] JueLue:
A sugguestion for one-time-disable-alarm:

What about using the bell-button to cycle through three modes?

OFF - OFF for the next event - ON?

So no extra buttons are needed. You just have to find another Symbol - perhaps a bell with an hourglass?

JueLue
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ageye:
New version released: 0.9.6

Only few new features but a big change with the sound playback system.

Added ogg support (using the FMOD library)

I have completely rewritten the playback system -> for details check the changelog IMPORTANT Test your alarms before using G-Alarm!

Some other changes

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

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

Have fun and report errors!

Thank you
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Spiderm@n_:
Here's an idea, that might be usefull for many of us. An option to disable turning off the alarm till the right time. Because usually, I mechaniclly turn the alarm off in the morning, and then I oversleep for work. So let's say my alarm goes in 7:30 and I set it not to be able to turn it off till 8:00 and snooze time of 10 minutes. That means, that I won't be able to stop the alarm in 7:30 and then oversleeping, but I'll only be able to snooze it and it'll ring 2-3 more times, till I'm able to turn it off.

P.S. And sorry for my bad English :).
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mamupapers:
i have been using g-alarm for a while..superb application but..

updated to 0.9.6 sound dont work anymore (and me too,as soon as i didn't wake up this morning :p)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ChiChiWaWa:
Well, he did say to test it :D
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] bronson25:
Will give a try later !!!!!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] arman68:
Thank you for trying to improve the random play feature. So far, so good: I have not encountered any problem with this build, but after a few days I'll report them if any.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ageye:
can you provide more details

does it work in test mode?

which file format do you use?

does it freeze your device?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] neekos:
Hi ageye.

I have tried version 0.9.6. The only problem I have found so far is that the sound is distorted and crackly when I set up a quick alarm. It's fine when I use the standard alarm.

It's a really great app though. Thanks very much for your hard work in creatin and maintaining it so well.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mamupapers:
device is htc p3600

files are mp3,the same used with previous version

don't work in test mode neither

it's like the app can't load sound system when firing alarm.infact, if i press next song button songs are played normally. no freezes,just no sound