alarm clock

[Criena]

Hi all,

currently I'm thinking of buying a N800, but it's a bit confusing about the alarm clock. Some people say an alarm clock is available, some people say it's not.

So maybe someone here can clarify this. Can I use the N800 as an alarm clock while it's switched off?

Thank you very much in advance,
Criena

[GeneralAntilles]

So maybe someone here can clarify this. Can I use the N800 as an alarm clock while it's switched off?

Yes, it actually kinda disturbed me the first time it happened when I had turned it off, not expecting the alarm to go off. A feature of the ARM processor that allows it to quick-boot for alarms and such.

[heavyt]

Hi all,

currently I'm thinking of buying a N800, but it's a bit confusing about the alarm clock. Some people say an alarm clock is available, some people say it's not.

So maybe someone here can clarify this. Can I use the N800 as an alarm clock while it's switched off?

Thank you very much in advance,
Criena

Yes it does have an alarm and you have different options like snooze and alarms sounds (my wife loves the sea gulls alarm). At first my snooze option would not work but for some odd reason it is now working.

[Criena]

Thanks for your quick reply.

So I can choose a MP3 file that I want to get played at alarm time? And is there an option for swelling volume (I'm sometimes very lazy in getting up ;))?

Criena

[GeneralAntilles]

So I can choose a MP3 file that I want to get played at alarm time? And is there an option for swelling volume (I'm sometimes very lazy in getting up ;))?

No progressive volume as far as I can tell (PowerController for that, small apartments make for easy computer alarms).

http://homepage.mac.com/general_antilles/alarm1.jpg

You can use your own sounds, not sure exactly what formats are supported, though.

http://homepage.mac.com/general_antilles/alarm2.jpg

Multiple alarms and repeating alarms are the big improvement over the 770.

[Criena]

Thank you very much. Now I'm sure that the N800 is quite right for my needs. :)

Criena

[Karel Jansens]

Allow me to add that the ocean sounds totally rule!

[W1NDRUSH]

any chance we could get streaming internet radio as an alarm clock option ?

[Criena]

So that - in case the radio stream isn't available or the Internet line is down - you will get too late to work... Hm, sounds great. ;)

[TA-t3]

That's why the option should exist for the FM radio too :)

[Criena]

By the way, last week I bought a N800 and I'm perfectly happy with it. Nokia made an awesome device! Thank you.

[N770-Freak]

...another question (mp3 alarm):
i noticed (770 and N800) that the playback of the alarm sound stops after some seconds (perhaps 30... i didn't measure it) independently of the length of the sound file!
Is it possible to change this behavior (and adjust the time interval the alarm is active/ringing)? I found no "hidden" setting in gconf ;(

[Texrat]

So that - in case the radio stream isn't available or the Internet line is down - you will get too late to work... Hm, sounds great. ;)

lol.

But seriously, the alarm app should detect that and immediately switch to a local default sound.

Oh, and it definitely needs to be more configurable.

[W1NDRUSH]

texrat, don't you 'work' for nokia, are you saying that you'll get someone to look at it and get it so we can stream or run the FM radio ?

[Texrat]

Sorry I never noticed the above post before. The short answer is that the best place to "get someone to look at this" is via bugzilla.

Speaking of which, I filed a new bug on the alarm. Turns out it will cheerfully allow you to set it even if the device volume is muted, and never warn you. Ack.

Bug: https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1691

And also this one, which involves home location vs travel location: https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1693