Tough to believe I'm the first to post about this, but I did my share of searching in this Rhodium forum with no luck, so here goes...
I use the Outlook calendar religiously, and have many "all day events" scheduled such as birthdays and anniversaries, etc. My standard reminder for these events takes place 2.5 days in advance, so that Outlook (and my phone) lets me know at noon 3 days prior to the event.
But now, with the Tilt 2 (stock AT&T ROM), not only do I get reminded per the Outlook setting, the phone issues another reminder at the moment the event occurs, meaning my phone lets me know at MIDNIGHT at the start of the day in question. Same happens for normal events too, mind you. For example, I have a meeting at 3pm, 30 minute reminder. The reminder pops up at 2:30pm, and I'll dismiss it, no worries. But at 3pm sharp, the phone lets me know once again that meeting is right now.
So bottom line, is there any way to prevent the secondary "time-of" notifications from being issued? I could use the sleep.
-V
Great question. I have the same problem but no answer for you unfortunately.
I had a probem like that long ago on another WM PDA.
I used a program called PMClean to clean up the notification database.
I do NOT know if that will help and do NOT know if it is even compatable with the newer OSs.
worwig said:
I had a probem like that long ago on another WM PDA.
I used a program called PMClean to clean up the notification database.
I do NOT know if that will help and do NOT know if it is even compatable with the newer OSs.
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Appreciate the suggestion, but I don't think that'll do it. It's not a case of orphaned reminders in the event db or notification queue, it's by design that the reminders go off at "game time" in addition to their user-defined reminder. Thanks anyway.
Anyone else have an idea? Thanks,
-V
Did you try turning off the reminders sound in Sounds and Notifications?
Phone-atic said:
Did you try turning off the reminders sound in Sounds and Notifications?
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I don't think the OP wants to turn off ALL reminder notifications. He just wants to silence the midnight reminder for All Day events in Outlook.
catcraig said:
I don't think the OP wants to turn off ALL reminder notifications. He just wants to silence the midnight reminder for All Day events in Outlook.
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This.
The Outlook reminders are behaving normally, displaying at their proscribed lead times for events for which I have defined a reminder. However, and regardless of whether an Outlook reminder is set for an event, the phone reminds you secondarily at the time of said event. It is this second reminder that I wish to eliminate. Unfortunately, the phone's notification management system does not discriminate between the two types. Silencing reminders will silence ALL reminders.
Terrible oversight on the part of the designers.
Take a look at this ..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/archive/index.php/t-326890.html
And ..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=330850
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Thanks, Warlock. They're experiencing the same problem or a variant thereof, the variant being that they were relying on the default reminder lead-time of 18 hours, hence the reminder going off at 6am the morning prior to an all-day event.
The solution proposed in there is very heavy handed, and would require the redefinition of every all-day event in my calendar to an appointment-based event. Not exactly elegent, but I guess some are willing to do this.
Funny, my HTC/Cingular 3125 on WinMo 5 didn't have this problem... but hey, you can't stop progress, right? Even if it's in the wrong direction, evidently.
This is BS.
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hi
i have searched google prior to posting here and it came up with photo contacts, but thats a lot more than what i need, also when i checked compatibility it said if you have an HTC s620 you need the smartphone edition, but looking at the features the SP edition doesnt seem to detail the scheduled times of silence/profiles like the touch screen version
all i want to have enabled is this:
lets say at 11pm each night, the phone makes itself silent.
then at 8am in the morning it reverts to normal profile again.
on my iphone, i have the kate software which does that for me, but nothing i can see for the excalibur
if anyone knows of anything that would be great
thanks
quaddy
I haven't tried this, but I believe you could set up an appointment in your calendar from, say, 11pm-8am repeating daily. Windows Mobile can set your profile as silent just like being in a meeting for that time period. It'd be the cheap-and-easy fix.
CT Scheduler, Autoflight, and Switchprofile! are two non-free applications that can do what you want.
DontForget and Snooze are two free ones that might work.
Check clickapps.com, smartphone-freeware.com, and connectivetools.com for them.
Yeah just set an appointment at the time u want it to be silent and set your status to busy I think. Then set your profile to automatic to when even that appointment starts it will automatically be silent
I use Cell Profile Switcher, it switches profiles based on what cell tower i am connected to.
http://maniac.fschreiner.de/content/view/9/18/
idk
i havent tried i out yet but that might wrk
WOW - thanks for all the suggestions, greatly appreciated!
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I've been trying to search for this, but can't find a cause/solution
I'm having a BIG problem with this that is seriously starting to irritate me.
Basically, I'm getting random contacts coming up with reminders (at 12 midnight, of course) as:
"Person's Birthday"
"Person's Anniversary"
I do not use HTC Sense or any MS product to track people's bdays or anniversaries. I have never set this. On top of that, the day is always wrong. It's like the phone is just inadvertently setting a date for a person's bday and anniversary for no apparent reason.
Of course, I can't delete this in Outlook or OWA... I have to go into the phone and edit the contact. I've sampled contacts at random and the only correlation is that people it happens to are those on my home domain. However (and I can't remember for sure), I think there may have been one person that the same thing came up on that did not have an email account on my home domain.
Has anyone seen this? Why is it happening? How can I get it to stop? I don't want to go through each and everyone one of my contacts on my phone. That would take hours...
i've noticed once you go into view a contact and scroll down to the birthday section, it automatically fills in the current date...even if the birthdate is prefilled...it can be very annoying indeed...
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i've noticed once you go into view a contact and scroll down to the birthday section, it automatically fills in the current date...even if the birthdate is prefilled...it can be very annoying indeed...
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But these are people who I have not gone into their contacts from the phone on. This is simply after synching with Outlook. I don't see any metadata that sticks around (like with the HTC Favorites and such in the "notes" section in Outlook).
Unless it happened a while back (a year ago, if the reminder popped up today) and it got automatically added to my calendar.
This is a known problem with all-day events. It only happens when you sync with MS Outlook 2007. Syncing with earlier versions is okay (i.e. OL 2000 and OL 2003). MS has stated that they aren't gonna fix it. The same thing usually happens with other built-in all-day events (with the notable exception of bonafied national holidays, which are okay).
Days like Mother's day, Father's day, St. Patrick's day, etcetera are fubar. They usually appear one day in advance of the real thing.
As mentioned, bonafied national holidays are okay (i.e. Christmas, New Years day, Thanksgiving day, etc).
Most people use a workaround by making the recurring event one hour long rather than an "all-day" event.
-Frank
Ok, not ever. And it's quite nice really, but how on Earth do I make something recur every second Wednesday, or every Monday for 4 weeks? These are basic recurrence patterns. I'm not even up to "first Thursday of the month" yet.
It doesn't seem to be possible right now. You can always do it in Outlook or whatever calendar application you're synced with.
Windows Live Mail is best.
I've got mine syncing to Google Calendar and it seems to work fine. As a test I just created a recurring appointment for every Sunday morning at 8AM. However, I see the details you mean, particularly with regards to "every second wednesday." My advice would be this: if you must use your handset to set up the appointment, go as far as you can and then login to your calendar online to adapt it with more features, which WP7 can read just fine.
A little bit of an oversight on MS's part, I guess, but then, most people probably don't create many zany appointment schemes
My only complaint about the One VX so far is with the calendar. The notices are unreliable and the snooze is non-functional. Although I usually get notices, sometimes they do not work. When I do get a notice and try to use the snooze function, I never get another notice. It's the same as dismissing the notice. I have tried snoozing from the lock screen and while the device was not locked.
Is anyone else having this issue? Does anyone know if a solution? HTC support has been much help. After my first support email, they responded with some suggestions but they did not solve the problem. I responded to their questions for more information on the problem but now they seem to be ignoring me. So much for customer relations.
My phone is stock and has not been rooted. I am using the HTC Sync Manager to sync my calendar with Outlook 2010. One of the suggestions from HTC was to create a calendar entry on the phone and not use the sync. This did not correct the snooze issue.
Thanks.
Only thing I can think is to use the Google calendar instead. IIRC there's a way to have it sync with outlook. I knew it's not Tue answer you're probably looking for, but I have to say I use google calendar for just about everything and don't have problems. There's also a great app called maluuba that I've been using for reminders (it's like Siri, so much easier to just say "remind me to take out the trash tomorrow at 8am, or whatever) but that seems to save to google cal too, though it has its own snooze/dismiss function.
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Only thing I can think is to use the Google calendar instead. IIRC there's a way to have it sync with outlook. I knew it's not Tue answer you're probably looking for, but I have to say I use google calendar for just about everything and don't have problems. There's also a great app called maluuba that I've been using for reminders (it's like Siri, so much easier to just say "remind me to take out the trash tomorrow at 8am, or whatever) but that seems to save to google cal too, though it has its own snooze/dismiss function.
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Thanks for the response. A friend of mine had already suggested the Google calendar approach but I would really sync with my Outlook calendar at work. Now if maluuba will sync with Outlook that would work for me. I will look into that.
HTC has acknowleged that they are aware of this issue which will require an update to correct. No ETA on the update.
I'm not sure if anyone else has been dealing with this, but the Stock Email App seems to be engineered to make it's users going insane. Let me explain:
I have two email accounts connected to my phone. A school (.edu) email, and a personal Windows Live account for everything else. Both are set to Push notifications. When I receive a new email, I'm notified as extremely quickly, and it works as it should. 90% of the time it's an a newsletter from my school or an email from Newegg or something so I usually just swipe the notification away, and go about my day. Here's the problem. After swiping away the notification, I'll constantly be reminded about this "new" email every so often. Even though I technically haven't read it, I found it weird that I have the notifications set to PUSH and it seems to want to keep annoying me until I give in and just open the email app and delete it.
This happens quite often and to make things worse, I'll go in and delete 5-6 emails at the end of the week and close the app. Minutes later, I'll receive an email for 5-6 "new" emails. I'll go take a look, and it's older emails that I've definitely read in the past and wanted to keep in my inbox, starting the cycle over and causing me to check the tiny boxes on the side and mark them as read, only to have this happen again later in the week. I thought the point of a Push notification was that I'd be notified in near-realtime. It does so quite impressively, but then it seems to set some flag where it just pesters the crap out of me every hour or so (or when I receive another new email) until I give in..
Is there a way I can stop this? I'd rather not download a third party app if I don't have to. I'm not a heavy email user. I mainly keep the notifications on to notify me of shipping updates, payment confirmations and class cancellations from my professors. There's nothing worse than waking up at 8:30 and stumbling into an empty lecture hall, so the notifications are pretty important.
Thanks in advance,
Well that's the default behaviour of the email app, you will be notified for new mails on each sync interval you have set.
Just open the notification & read the mail to avoid getting repeated notifications.
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