Let's say I set an alarm for 8:00 in the morning. I pick the "Repeat
sound" option, pick a sound file I like, and tap "ok."

8:AM rolls around, and the device plays the alarm sound once. Only
once. Waits about 5 minutes, or something, then plays it again.

How do you get it to actually repeat the sound? I mean, play it
constantly over and over again until either the battery dies or I tell
it to shut up?

That's a repeating alarm.

Is there a registry hack for this?

swampyfern@hotmail.com wrote:
> Let's say I set an alarm for 8:00 in the morning. I pick the "Repeat
> sound" option, pick a sound file I like, and tap "ok."
>
> 8:AM rolls around, and the device plays the alarm sound once. Only
> once. Waits about 5 minutes, or something, then plays it again.
>
> How do you get it to actually repeat the sound? I mean, play it
> constantly over and over again until either the battery dies or I tell
> it to shut up?
>
> That's a repeating alarm.
>
> Is there a registry hack for this?


Manufacture a very long .wav file?

At 22 May 2008 20:25:09 -0700 swampyfern@hotmail.com wrote:
> Let's say I set an alarm for 8:00 in the morning. I pick the "Repeat
> sound" option, pick a sound file I like, and tap "ok."
>
> 8:AM rolls around, and the device plays the alarm sound once. Only
> once. Waits about 5 minutes, or something, then plays it again.
>
> How do you get it to actually repeat the sound? I mean, play it
> constantly over and over again until either the battery dies or I tell
> it to shut up?
>
> That's a repeating alarm.


Apparently Microsoft has a different definition of "repeating" than you or
I do, because it hasn't worked right for as long as I remember, going back
to PPC 2002.

> Is there a registry hack for this?

Not that I'm aware of, but some third party apps, like SPB Pocket Plus, fix
it.

"Todd Allcock" <elecconnec@AmericaOnLine.com> wrote in message
news:g15gsl$tnm$1@aioe.org...
> At 22 May 2008 20:25:09 -0700 swampyfern@hotmail.com wrote:
>> Let's say I set an alarm for 8:00 in the morning. I pick the "Repeat
>> sound" option, pick a sound file I like, and tap "ok."
>>
>> 8:AM rolls around, and the device plays the alarm sound once. Only
>> once. Waits about 5 minutes, or something, then plays it again.
>>
>> How do you get it to actually repeat the sound? I mean, play it
>> constantly over and over again until either the battery dies or I tell
>> it to shut up?
>>
>> That's a repeating alarm.
>
>
> Apparently Microsoft has a different definition of "repeating" than you or
> I do, because it hasn't worked right for as long as I remember, going back
> to PPC 2002.
>
>> Is there a registry hack for this?
>
> Not that I'm aware of, but some third party apps, like SPB Pocket Plus,
> fix
> it.
>

you'll also need another third party app like Pocket Mechanic or MemMaid to
clean out the duplicate notifications that can build up

You're better off with a third party software like SPB TIME that has a
repeat option and it repeats more often.
also it has some more alarm sounds to use.

<swampyfern@hotmail.com> schreef in bericht
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> Let's say I set an alarm for 8:00 in the morning. I pick the "Repeat
> sound" option, pick a sound file I like, and tap "ok."
>
> 8:AM rolls around, and the device plays the alarm sound once. Only
> once. Waits about 5 minutes, or something, then plays it again.
>
> How do you get it to actually repeat the sound? I mean, play it
> constantly over and over again until either the battery dies or I tell
> it to shut up?
>
> That's a repeating alarm.
>
> Is there a registry hack for this?