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That is very strange but today my alarm was setu up for 4pm and of course it was just on time but at 8:46 pm it rang again without any setting it up fot this hour. Does anyone have the same issue?

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raverpol: The FM radio setting should not even be displayed for the N900 as it is not supported yet. I did not get a chance to check the coding for this to make sure it would not be there though so we may need to update that.

Yes, the N900 has an FM radio, but the code to utilize it is VERY different from the code to get the FM radio on the N800 working, so we need to do some more devel/testing on that before it will work.

If you have erronious alarms in Flip, try uninstalling the app and re-installing the latest version; that will force clear all alarms on the system. You can try manually running "flipAlarmSync clear clear clear" as mentioned earlier in the thread, but if you do the manual route make sure you turn all of the alarms off in Flip FIRST!! Then run the clear command, and re-enable the alarm(s) you want.

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That's because you've typed "dpkg -l flipclock" rather than "dpkg -L flipclock". It has to be an upper case 'L'.

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ok now I understand :)

I will reinstall as u mentioned but will it be the same later when and I will have to make new installation from time to time?

thanks a lot

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No the only reason you've got a "random alarm" is that at some point Flip lost track of the alarm so there is no way to disable it from within the app anymore. This happened with older versions of the app, or when you start manually messing with files, so a clean uninstall/reinstall should take care of everything and as long as you don't go back to an older version or mess with files manually you should be fine from here forwards.

Thanks,

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Ok That's clear for me. What about language? Is there any chance that it won't be the system language? Right now I have polish of course and this appl tries to have polish as well but it hasn't polish fonts so it is funny now to see names of days :))

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sorry guys but uninstall and install procedure didn't work. I did it and guess what? after 3 hours I heard alarm from my phone and FlipClock :(

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Ok so i installed new version and still got random alarms, i then used the code in x terminal and it came up alarms cleared, my problem is im still getting random alarms after all that.

thanks mark

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take it this app is dead?

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Far from being dead. The great majority of FlipClock users have trouble-free experience. Still more work is being done for the N900 users.

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ok, just that no one has managed to help me and some other users with the random alarm problem.

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HUH??? The app is running for most people as far as we can tell. The thread wasn't updated since March 5 because most people are happy. For your random alarm issue, you can check out those previous threads and you will find an answer...

And yes, the app and we are very much alive...

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By far, my favorite "feature" of FlipClock is how the alarm sound slowly increases to qently wake me in the morning.

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There's an issue remaining with UTF-8, I've added it to the bugtracker.

Comes down to the fact that the location of the mp3 file that has UTF-8 in its path is stored improperly in the pref xml file and thus the alarm will still not play when flipclock is restarted.

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I suspect this is related to the encoding of the XML is not in UTF-8.

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I'll look into getting the FM radio working sometime next week.. ***STAY TUNED*** (pun intended)

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For N8xx version FM radio already works. However, in an earlier thread I posted that the radio alarm does not slowly increase in volume, it seems to jump in big steps.

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I already tried all these fixes and posted info about it but no more help came, i tried uninstalling then reinstalling, cleared the alarms as stated but still i get random alarms.

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Did you answer the question of which version of flipclock you have?
That can be found by typing in XTERM

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Note: the character after the minus sign (-) is a lower case L

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Think so, I'll try to manually convert it to UTF-8 to see if flipclock will read it after that and play the alarm...

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I have version 0.9.7-7

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In that case you should have flipAlarmSync install.
Type the following command in XTERM again and see what you get.
It will either give you no Alarm or it will take sometime to process the alarm sync.

If random alarm still happen, please provide your /home/user/.flipClockAlarmD.xml to us.

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If the command is not found, then please provide us the result of the following command

where the symbol before grep is the top right symbol in the symbol table...

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I'm a late comer to this app but it looks very nice and useful as well.

Admittedly I haven't gone through all the threads yet but I have installed this today but want to know what sound file it accepts as an alarm sound?

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It uses "most" mp3 music files. Once in a great while we find a file that doesn't play. That is why I only use "tested" files to wake me up.

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Anyone know what the battery life is like when leaving this on clock all night without a power supply?

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I have successfully ran it all night off battery power. However, I set the "Insomniac Backlight" to "3" so that the display is very dim but readable. Also, I make sure that I am not connected to a WiFi access point nor searching for one. Another point to remember is that once you set an alarm, you can completely turn you NIT "off" because it will power-up by itself when your alarm time arrives and actually run the application.

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This looks great. Just what I need and very useful as my current alarm is lit up like a lighthouse even on the lowest led setting.

There's always a light shinning and I have to to the clock face away or set if face down. I'm just going to work on a nice alarm sound to wake up now.

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What I like also is how the alarm slowly increases over a period of 60 seconds, and if that is too loud, there is a control that limits your max volume.

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I love this app. Well cool. Just did a bit of mixing and have come up with a nice 2 minute tranquil alarm sound. I'll post it here for a day or two in case anyone wants to listen.

http://www.seacurebags.co.uk/firstAlarm3.mp3

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Are you using N900?
With N900, the insomniac mode does not work at this moment.

With regards to sound, it should take MP3 and anything which your decoder bin accepts. Den's right on the "tested" sound thing as you don't want to miss your alarm due to a failure to play :P

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Could there not be a little audio preview when selecting the sound so you know that it will work?

Yes, I am using the N900.

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Right now there's no audio preview setup, but you can try to setup the time of the alarm in the next minute to see if it runs.. bottomline, if gstreamer can run it, it will like it..

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Ok my first night of testing the alarm having set it to wake me up. Unfortunately I got up about 30 mins before the alarm kicked in and played around with a couple of the screens for a while.

Still ensured that everything was set for the alarm to start but it didn't. Had previously tested the mp3 and it worked ok. I then set the alarm for a few minutes later and it worked. So am not sure if my browsing around the app caused the problem.

Also noticed on a couple of occasions that I will get a complete red screen just by swiping through the app on occasion. I then have to completely close by ending the process.

What I didn't want to have while using the flipclock at night was my main email notification sounding when an email arrives so I set the N900 to go into Tablet Mode to prevent it connecting to the network. Could there be a setting added to FlipClock that once an alarm is set - that the N900 sets to Tablet Mode as well?

This would save having to remember to do this and preventing you being woken up at 2:00am to your rather loud email notification alert.

This is a great app by the way. It looks cool and has very good functionality. Please keep developing it. Oh, and just noticed the timer function as well. That means I can get rid of another app and just use flipclock. Great stuff! :)

Also noticed that the N900 screen seems to stay on after running flipclock. Does it over-ride the system settings to keep the screen lit up?

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Unfortunately, when the xml file is converted to UTF-8 flipclock will not read it properly and doesn't sound the alarm, so still not possible to use UTF-8 filenames.

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I'm using tweakr (profiles) and alarmed (gui for system alarm) to accomplish this. I have day and night profiles setup in tweakr, and use alarmed to switch profiles at specified times. Works pretty well, you can also schedule to go offline as well.

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I'll check that out. Thanks!

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2nd night of testing and the alarm woke me up. I wasn't used to the tranquil alarm sound that I had mixed for it and to hear these birds and calming wake up music had me wondering what the sound was for a minute.

But it works great. I can treat the N900 like an alarm clock and I like the large clock display that I can keep an eye on when I wake up wondering what the time is.

One thing that seems to go wrong for me is that after I have closed the app. My display settings are messed up as the screen stays lit up and the backlight settings don't seem to work. Even after a reboot these settings keep the screen lit up.

I have to manually go in and change the settings and back again for the screen to dim after my prescribed 30 seconds timeout.

Is there something I can do to prevent having to do this each time?

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That's worth taking a look at.. I'll put it in the feature request list.