When an appointment fires, it gives a few options to remind again up to one hour then the next option is one day. Are there any hacks to get 2, 4 and 8 hour options?
I agree. One thing I like about Outlook on the desktop is the ability to snooze for 4 and 8 hours. Even my PalmPilot had a program, Datebook, that allowed you to snooze either for a set period of time or until a time you designate. It's hard to know what to do when a reminder goes off at 10 p.m. and your only options are to keep having it go off all night, edit the appointment, or have it snooze for a day.
This is currently the single most annoying problem of WM5 (upgraded with all of the fixings found here). I would love to have a fix for this! As mentioned, the gap in remind again from 1 hr to 1 day is painful. Why can't there be some happy in between time or even be able to set the remind time yourself?
No solution, but there is a registry key for calendar reminders at
\HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Calendar\Reminder
with a very long data string for the DEFAULTS value. Maybe someone with the expertise can take a look and see what could be modified and/or added to give the additional options.
Still dying on the vine with this...I am committed to keeping trying to keep this alive...please anyone know of anything...hmmm...I am begging in an on-line chat forum about pdaphones...this may be an all time low for me.
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I agree. This is one of my major beefs with WM5. WM2003SE had many more selections. The ones that were deleted, in fact, were the only ones I ever actually used! So you can imagine my frustration.
I checked the sited key in 2003SE, but there is no DEFAULTS key there. I renamed it and reset, but that had no effect. Sorry.
does anyone know if this will work for adding more delay features to the alarms...is anyone using this with wm5...does anyone care that I have to hear the alarm every hour or not until tomrrow...please help!!!
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John 3:16 is more than a sign between the goal posts.
I'm amazed there aren't more people up in arms. I guess there are only a handful of us that actually use the remind option. It's nice to have the ability to remind yourself of upcoming events the day before and then remind you again just before the event. The reminder options are painfully limited
Yes, it's painful. I just ran an emergency trip out west and had to spend a few weeks there due to my mothers passing. I used the reminders to keep me in line with all the things associated with what I was doing. Lots of loose ends to attend to. It was a busy time. The limiting options were a real pain dealing with that. I would have been lost without my phone though.
Bump on this!!! WM5 lacks some pretty basic functions. The ability to reschedule alarms, the ability to view alarms in any human way and the ability to enter your password without a stylus when the phone comes out of lock are all bugs in my opinion that should have been fixed in the beginning.
All I can say is thank god for PhoneAlarm for fixing one issue.
This is a problem across ALL WM5 devices, not just the i730/i830. This isn't something a registry tweak will change or fix, as it's hard coded.
Hopefully WM6 will add a few more in, as this is a complaint across all WM5 devices...
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