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Ya I prefer PhoneAlarm, though I haven't seen the other ... anybody got a screenshot of it? And for phonealarm there are actually a lot of skins already on the website if you take a look: http://www.pocketmax.net/phoneAlarm.html ... there are some links on the main page, as well as a link on the right side to some older skins ...
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I tried using PhoneAlarm 1.55. The program itself is pretty amazing, from what I can tell. However, I have a Treo 700wx and I'm not sure PhoneAlarm fully supports that phone. I had a few issues with it...most were minor, one was a deal breaker.
VoiceMail alarm button would not dial voice mail when clicked. This was the minor one...as I could easy go to voicemail several other ways. Activate WLAN did not seem to work. If I would switch to a profile that had the setting to OFF, then switched back to a profile that had it ON, it would remain OFF. Push Email seemed to have no effect (as far as I could tell). I use ActiveSynce with DirectPush on Exchange and it didn't seem to have any effect off or on (but I won't write this one in stone as I didn't play around too much with it). Does not allow you to choose MID files for notifications. This was the deal breaker as I wanted to set separate ring tones for Work and Home. For Home, I wanted to use an MP3, which it does support. But for Work, I wanted to set the standard Treo ring tone (it's a MID file). You can't select the Treo ring tone from PhoneAlarm, but if you select it using the standard Settings -> Personal -> Notifications, then set the Work profile to <System>, it will use the Treo ring tone. HOWEVER, once I would switch to the Home profile (using the mp3 file), it would STAY on that mp3 file even when I switched back to Work. What it seemed to be doing was switching the built in notification settings to the mp3 file...so when I switched back to the Work profile (which was set to <System> in PhoneAlarm) it was still using the mp3 file because that was the "system" setting. I hope I was clear in that last description. I guess I could have looked for that Treo ring tone in a wav or mp3 format...but I kinda just gave up on it...for now. If I'm doing something wrong, I'm all ears...cuz otherwise, that was a great program...I especially loved the scheduler. |
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Phonealarm at version 1.55.1 is still not completely compatible with the 700wx, I mean in general it works but not all functions are available e.g. backlight control.
The good news is that this week PocketMax will released version 1.56 which adds backlight control for the Treo and makes things a little big more stable. I personally beta tested this version and vouch for it Storyr is right about the VM, just add your phone # under settings. Re: Push email, this will NOT work b/c Palm did not add a on/off for push email to WLAN similar to what is found on the 6700, so PhoneAlarm cannot disable that which has no control to be disabled! Re: Midi files Quote:
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Thanks for the replies storyr and malatesta.
Good to know about the VM. Push email was not so important to me...I leave it on all the time anyways because I need to get my work emails 24/7. I never even knew/used the backlight feature...was using it last night in a dark bedroom and was wishing there was an easy way to dim the screen. Regarding the mid file...does that mean PhoneAlarm will eventually play mid files? I guess I was a little confused by that email...is there any kind of "solution" to use a mid file in one profile and an mp3 (or other sound) in another yet? I will keep a look out for the latest version. |
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as far as midi files, either Bruce has to get rid of repeating alarms to get Midi to work or no midi and repeating alarms. that's a hell of a trade off, so I dont' think he's going to do that but he's aware of the problem and keeping an eye out for a solution. |
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