Dan_42
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Hey all,
Since I got my Palm T3 around 8 months ago, I've been using it (among other things) as an alarm clock, which it did very well. I could leave my palm (powered off) by the side of my bed and could be sure that it would automatically power-on whenever the alarm came up (I generally used the alarm with the included "world clock" program).
However, in the past 2 weeks or so, the alarm does not co-operate anymore. What generally happens is that I wake up, unsure of the time, then reach over for my Palm, hit the power button, and then the alarm sounds (telling me that I should have been up around an hour ago).
Is this a common problem? Is there something I can toggle to make sure it works as before?
If I do test runs for times 5 to 15 minutes ahead, it seems to behave; but overnight it hasn't co-operated.
Could this have anything to do with the vibration setting of the Palm? (I rarely have it on, but I started trying that function out fairly recently)...
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LisaG
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Pocket PCs sometimes have that problem but generally not Palms. Have you tried a soft reset to reboot it?
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Dan_42
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Did a soft reset a few days ago, but it hasn't affected the issue.
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LisaG
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Hmmm.. don't know. I haven't experienced that problem with my Palm PDAs.Have you installed any new 3rd party software recently that might be hanging up the device or causing a conflict? My next step would be a hard reset (Hotsync first so you can restore your data!!).
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Tanker_Bob
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Did a soft reset a few days ago, but it hasn't affected the issue.
This is almost certainly a software conflict. Lisa's suggestion to uninstall any software you added about the time the problem started is a good starting point. Palm alarms have been extremely reliable over the years.
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Dan_42
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After doing a hard reset (although not by choice), the T3 is back to top performance and the alarms are quite reliable.
Still not sure what was causing the conflict/issue.
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