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No Calendar Alarms or Notifications after upgrading to WM6

After several hours of searching through many threads regarding the WM6 ROMS, I've finally decided to post a thread to see if anyone could help me. A few weeks ago I upgraded my Herme from WM5 to the first edition of LSVW WM6 and I noticed then that I was no longer getting any reminders or notifications from my calendar appointments. I saw a few other folks post similar problems, but I never say any resolutions so I just figured I'd wait for the next WM6 releases to see if they would resolve my issue. Today I flashed the latest Black ROM and I still have the same issue. I thought that it might be due to SBP Diary so I uninstalled it but I am still not getting any alarms from my scheduled events. I've double and triple checked that I have notifications and alarms turned on under Settings/Sounds & Notifications/Notifications. I have everything turned on except for flashing the light, but I still get absolutely nothing when I should be getting an alarm for my reminder. And it's not a DST issue because the reminders aren't going off at some other time. They just aren't going off period. So if anyone can point me in the right direction to fix this I would greatly appreciate it!

nbrinkmanii said:
After several hours of searching through many threads regarding the WM6 ROMS, I've finally decided to post a thread to see if anyone could help me. A few weeks ago I upgraded my Herme from WM5 to the first edition of LSVW WM6 and I noticed then that I was no longer getting any reminders or notifications from my calendar appointments. I saw a few other folks post similar problems, but I never say any resolutions so I just figured I'd wait for the next WM6 releases to see if they would resolve my issue. Today I flashed the latest Black ROM and I still have the same issue. I thought that it might be due to SBP Diary so I uninstalled it but I am still not getting any alarms from my scheduled events. I've double and triple checked that I have notifications and alarms turned on under Settings/Sounds & Notifications/Notifications. I have everything turned on except for flashing the light, but I still get absolutely nothing when I should be getting an alarm for my reminder. And it's not a DST issue because the reminders aren't going off at some other time. They just aren't going off period. So if anyone can point me in the right direction to fix this I would greatly appreciate it!
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I too have been experiencing the same problem. Has been the same with each rom update. Awaiting for a resolve. Using Black 1.2 now.
Mike

Hermes no longer reliable as alarm clock
I'm experiencing the same issues. Especially annoying as I'm using the tytn as alarm clock to get up at 4 in the morning to catch early flights. It already happened twice to me that the alarm didn't go off at all, and once it went of an hour late.

From what I read and can remember there are several causes and suggested resolutions to this issue. I will try to list 2 of the most talked about.
1) Some of the newer wm6 ROM'S have removed many of the sounds and notifications files. Sometime they show up as available under alarm clock and notifications, even tho the files have been removed. Another issue has been reported that due to the above, selecting one sound may play a different one or not play at all. Somewhere in one of the WM6 threads there was a cab file that would correct the registry for this issue. Does it work? I don't know, but there were many opinions voiced.
2) THe other popular cause for missing alarms and notifications is due to duplicate notifications in the notification queue. There are several apps to check for duplicate notifications. The easiest and also free is an app called Check Notifications from ScaryBear software. The cab file was in a post by MixMaven (search posts by his name).
Good Luck.

Found a way to fix my issue...
I was finally able to fix my issue by flashing the latest version of the FULL ROM by LSVW. Prior to this I was only flashing the OS versions of the WM6 ROMs. After I flashed the FULL ROM my alarm notifications began working again.
I still don't know what the issue was, but for me it didn't have anything to do with the sounds and notifications. I ran the Fix_WM6_Sounds.CAB on my HERMES after each flash but this never solved my problem.
It could have been an issue with duplicate entries in the notification queue, but I wasn't aware of this and I never knew to look at it or how to. So maybe by flashing the FULL ROM it reset the queue and resolved any duplicates???
After flashing the FULL LVSW ROM and testing that my notifications worked, I went ahead and flashed the latest version of the BLACK OS only ROM and my notifications are still working. I know this isn't a pretty solution, but hopefully it helps bring some understanding to the problem and helps to find a more simple solution.
Good Luck...

nbrinkmanii,
Cheers for posting the above .CAB file. I have installed it performed a sort reset and then set an ALARM and I still get nothing.
All of my other sounds are fine, phone, sms, mms, (haven't set reminders yet). Admitedly I have set the alarm to be a different sound to the system defaults but even those don't work.
I am not a complete novice to this flashing game and I have never suffered this issue before, any advise given is appreciated.
Warren.

All my calendar reminders work fine but I just set one for 8am to make sure.

After installing the cab file power the phone off and back on. This will make the settings stick, soft reset does not.

They seem to work fine for me.

Strange alarm issue (WM6)

Alright, I have an odd issue with the alarm I set two nights ago.. I set it to go off every day at 8AM.
Well, it does go off at 8AM, and then it spawns another alarm, and another, etc, until the device is playing about 20 sounds at once and ends up either crashing or just won't respond for several minutes.
Soft resets of course won't help, and I really don't want to do a hard reset, any thoughts?

Strange... maybe it's something you have installed -- don't have that issue myself, and my WM6 (Official) Dash >is< my daily alarm clock.

This is COMPLETELY happening with me...
I have the same issue. There are two things happening...
1) set an alarm for 7am, it goes off....then change it to 8am....it will go off at 7am AND 8am until you reboot the phone....in other words, if you change the alarm, you have to reboot.
2) spontaneous and MULTIPLE alarms going off at seemingly unpredictable times...this is a bug...and no one has a clue why or how to reproduce.
I think it's a Tmobile thing since an early ROM image prior to Tmobile didn't have this issue..

I can also confirm this- It has to be a bug in WM6.
Hopefully this will be corrected on the next ROM release.

Xero said:
Alright, I have an odd issue with the alarm I set two nights ago.. I set it to go off every day at 8AM.
Well, it does go off at 8AM, and then it spawns another alarm, and another, etc, until the device is playing about 20 sounds at once and ends up either crashing or just won't respond for several minutes.
Soft resets of course won't help, and I really don't want to do a hard reset, any thoughts?
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I think most everyone has this problem. At least I did. You have to wait until all the alarms are done going off, dismiss them all. Follow these instructions>>>>@ http://forum.dashsmartzone.com/index.php?showtopic=722&hl=alarm
It sucks having to do this every other day or so. But It's well worth it.

Old alarm times being held

I have a hermes with black satin and it runs stable. The problem I have been finding is that I change the alarms and they work well. The problem is that the alarm continues to go off at the time the first alarm was previously set to.
This is a very strange thing to happen. The only thing in the settings I have been changing on a semi regular basis is the date and time region when travelling.
I have tried turning off all alarms by not having any days highlighted, the program tells me the alarm will not function yet at 7.30am I will get an alaram sound..
Does anyone know where in the registry the alarms are kept?
Cheers,

you have to cleanup the notification queue.
try this tool attached or dotfreds task manager

thanks for that download. Unfortunately I screwed something up and lost the ability to ActiveSync...
Just reloading now..
Beware playing with things you don't know about, kids!
cheers,

Alarm won't change time and is always going of at 4:30am HELP!

So i have no idea whats going on. On my Alarms tab I once had it set at 4:30am to wake me up for a flight and now even though I've changed it it still goes off every morning at 4:30am.
Anyone have this strange problem and know a remedy?

im having the same problem.when i change the alarm it goes off at the new time i set but it also goes off at the old time. what rom are you using? Im using pays lite 6.0 rom

I've got the same issue. I'm running schap's 4.31 ROM.
It first came up a few months ago and I thought it was related to HTC Home. When I uninstalled it it went away. I seems to have been a coincidence because this weekend it came back. The only change that happened was that for some strange reason my time zone was changed so I changed it back. Ever since then the alarm has been stuck on where it was set at 6:30 :40 and :50am no matter what I change the current alarm to.
Thinking I had things narrowed down I changed the time zone back and forth one zone/hour while the alarm was set to the correct alarm time 7:30 :40 :50am.
Now I have a THIRD set of alarms going off at 8:30 :40 :50am. I literally have 20 minutes of alarms for three hours M-F.
Looking in the registry reveals nothing, the alarms are set for the correct times there and the ghost alarms can't be found. No amount of turning alarms on or off and soft reseting has any effect.

Hi guys,
I had the same problem - two hidden alarms. You need to clear notification queue. It can be done with SKtools.
Regards

Do you live upstairs from me?
Who ever that is up there has a super load and annoying alarm that goes off NON STOP from 4:30am to 7:00am Very Very annoying...

Unknown33 said:
So i have no idea whats going on. On my Alarms tab I once had it set at 4:30am to wake me up for a flight and now even though I've changed it it still goes off every morning at 4:30am.
Anyone have this strange problem and know a remedy?
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buddy, its telling you to quit smoking weed ten minutes is enough...
peace bro

The problem's probably that Windows has got the event stuck in its schedule.
A number of tools will clear the list for you. If you download Pocket Mechanic from Wizcode the time-limited demo is fully-functional. Good software, it's good enough that I bought it after trying. Took me ages to work out how to sort the same alarm issue a coupleof years ago.

Phantom Alarms (Alarm goes off randomly & won't stop)

All,
I am running the v23 ROM and have the following problem.
I had an alarm set for 07:15am Pacific Time US. I got a SIM error on my t-mobile service (phone was showing gprs, but no support) for a while. Looked to be a t-mobile issue. Anyhow that got resolved. I disabled the alarm (no bell shone on home screen, alarm1 disabled, alarm 2 disabled). However it didn't really disable. So now I am in Florida and it goes off at 10:00am every day. There is nowhere that I can find to reset this. It is kinda like having a phone with Tourette's syndrome it shouts and screams at immorpotune times. Any ideas how to locate the offending alarm and nuke it?
Thanks
C

seabird said:
All,
I am running the v23 ROM and have the following problem.
I had an alarm set for 07:15am Pacific Time US. I got a SIM error on my t-mobile service (phone was showing gprs, but no support) for a while. Looked to be a t-mobile issue. Anyhow that got resolved. I disabled the alarm (no bell shone on home screen, alarm1 disabled, alarm 2 disabled). However it didn't really disable. So now I am in Florida and it goes off at 10:00am every day. There is nowhere that I can find to reset this. It is kinda like having a phone with Tourette's syndrome it shouts and screams at immorpotune times. Any ideas how to locate the offending alarm and nuke it?
Thanks
C
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Dang. That sounds like the "phantom alarm" issue with 6.0. This is the first case I've heard of in 6.1... I don't use rickwyatt's ROM, so I don't know what apps it has included. Does it use Oxios Alarms?

AHHHHHHHHH !!!!!!!!!!!
Sorry, I had to let it out. I'm sick and tired of this DAMN ALARM myself. Seriously, it starts SCREAMING, LITERALLY at the most random times especially in important settings. Last week, I was in University in my class when a group was presenting and out of nowhere, my phone starts going crazy. It was so embarassing because it's so LOUD and the entire class kept staring at me and i couldn't get it to switch off. Eventually, I turned it off but then 15 mins later, it happened again. It's honestly getting very annoying cause it keeps happening randomly even when the alarm's off.
I know how to fix it and I did fix it but it still happens. I have no idea how to get rid of it forever because honestly, it's the most annoying thing when it starts going crazy in class/meetings or anywhere other than your house.
If I find a fix for it, I'll post it here.

I think this is an error in the programming , but there may be a way to (band-aid) fix it. Meaning it will come back but you can continually fix it using this program. Go and find SK Tools (lite version) and theres an option to clear out alarms and notifications. That should (band-aid) fix it.

pudgedaddy said:
I think this is an error in the programming , but there may be a way to (band-aid) fix it. Meaning it will come back but you can continually fix it using this program. Go and find SK Tools (lite version) and theres an option to clear out alarms and notifications. That should (band-aid) fix it.
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Yeah, That's what I've done but it keeps happening still. It doesn't happen for a few days then bam, it comes back. It really is annoying. Oh well...

lukybandit said:
Yeah, That's what I've done but it keeps happening still. It doesn't happen for a few days then bam, it comes back. It really is annoying. Oh well...
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I am going to see what I can do by checking out the registry and hopefully I will get back to you guys asap.

ok, guys I don't know how many of you are experiencing this Phantom Alarm issue but it seriously is bothering me.
I'm running Kavana's 6.1 ROM and used SK Tools to delete notifications from the notifications queue. Even though, I deleted all alarms - I still experienced the same issue today morning. Instead of 8 to 10 popups, i had only 2 so atleast, that's better but seriously it's PRETTY ANNOYING!!!
I'm going to look into this and try posting a fix. If someone came across a permanant fix, please post here. Thanks.
- lukybandit

OMG! I just checked the notifications queue again. The DAMN alarms are back again. I just deleted them last night. Jeez
So far, I've only found one fix and that is using SKTools. I don't know how to get rid of these for good.
I'm going to try again, delete them - reboot and see if they come back. Hopefully not. If not, I'll have to look for an another way to fix this damned bug.
EDIT: WHT THE HELL?! I deleted them again and same issue, their back. AHH, this is really getting to me because it goes off in my university classes, during lectures/exams (even when the phone is on silent) and even if the alarm is turned off. It's happened before so it's not the ROM, I have Kavana's ROM and I've experienced this with WM6 as well. Ok, I seriously need another way to fix this. Yeah, I know I can shut the phone but what about the other times I have it on? This is annoying.

I wish someone could get to the bottom of this. I heard about the problem with WM6.0, so I never set alarms, just in case.
I've already used the alarms once with WM6.1, figuring it was a non-issue, but I'll definitely wait on using them again until someone says this issue is resolved.
So far, I haven't experienced any phantom alarms with Ricky v23 yet.

Bro, I'm runnning Kavana's ROM for a while now and this started happening since 2 weeks. I never had this issue before and I've checked everything and it just won't go away. I shouldn't have set any DAMN alarms. It's so damn annoying.
I'm still looking for the fix. I've only come across only one fix so far and it's the SkTools and for some reason, even if I delete them - it comes back again.

beartard said:
I wish someone could get to the bottom of this. I heard about the problem with WM6.0, so I never set alarms, just in case.
I've already used the alarms once with WM6.1, figuring it was a non-issue, but I'll definitely wait on using them again until someone says this issue is resolved.
So far, I haven't experienced any phantom alarms with Ricky v23 yet.
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I don't think this issue is as prevalent in 6.1 as it was in 6.0. I'm using Kavana's 080408 which comes with Oxios Alarms embedded in the ROM. I haven't had to delete the Notification Queues in SKTools once. However, when I did delete the Queues in 6.0, it fixed my alarm bug permanently.

Ok guys, good news. I just checked my notifications queue in SKTools and the damn bug is GONE and hope it's gone forever. Give this a try - Here's the instructions:
Phantom Alarm Bug
There is a reported issue of multiple alarms going off even though the alarm is turned off in Settings. There is no known permanent fix at this point.
Phantom alarms can be cleaned up by following these instructions:
1. Load SKTools Smartphone Edition (Clean up and uninstaller utility)
2. Select View -> Maintenance -> Notifications Queue
3. Scroll to the bottom of the list and there should be multiple entries already checked for “Clock.exe”.
4. Select Action -> Delete marked
5. Do a soft reset (turn off then back on).

lukybandit said:
Give this a try - Here's the instructions.
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Wiki'd....until your alarm goes off again

That would be wonderful, but when I download the SK Tools, it comes in as an invalid zip file. Grrrrrr

Been running kavana wm 6.1 since feb with no phantom alarm problems. I would get the phantom alarms within 1 week of flashing the old 6.0 rom. I change what time I get up almost every day. Plus I change the second alarm maybe 3times a week. It has never acted up so far.... I don't really use the reminders for appointments maybe that's why. Maybe you did not flash the rom before you upgraded. If you synched with your computer and then erased the memory after upgrading to the current rom. I believe that would fix any problems you were having. Ricky's has a nice keyboard selector on first boot so you might want to upgrade.

My phone running WM5 started doing it too. Never used the alarms until a recent trip, and unfortunately I chose the Dog Bark sound. Man it's annoying. (which is the whole point of an alarm, but it shouldn't go off if it's set to disabled)

Not so phantom just late?
Im using 6.1 040408 remade by rickywatt and my alarms seem to wake up late...? I set the alarm and the icon is on the screen the phone is on normal profile with the volume on not silent or anything and then its off to sleep, only to discover the next morning that my alarm was a no show... sometimes as soon as I press a key the alarm starts ringing... other times nothing. I checked out the posts on alarm problems but i have not found this problem.... any ideas?

S-K-Tools Worked to Remove Phantom Alarm
I just bought "SKTools Best maintenance toolkit" to remove a Phantom Alarm from my HTC Touch Pro2 that was going off every morning at 4am...and am happy to report that it worked.
Once the software was downloaded and installed I ran a clean-up of the Notifications Queue to "delete duplicates". Note that the free trial version wasn't enough. As reported below, "Clock.exe" is the correct item name to delete, but in my case, there was no time showing up in the time column for the phantom alarm so I couldn't tell which one it was.
Finally, I've been very impressed with all the other stuff I can easily do with this product to clean the garbage out of my phone. Hopefully this will translate into better performance in the days ahead.