Comments on: Some New Dash Tips & Tricks for WM6 – Tip 1 Restore Your Alert Sounds!

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Fixing Alarm Problems in Windows Mobile Devices: Additional Tips — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 00:50:37 +0000

[...] do not provide an audible alert. At the time of that article, I did not have a fix for that. But, Karl of Ask The Admin told us about a fix for this. His article describes a way of directly modifying the Dash profile to regain the audible [...]

By: Karl L. Gechlik | AskTheAdmin.com

Karl L. Gechlik | AskTheAdmin.com — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 15:39:48 +0000

Glad we could help Amol!

By: amol

amol — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 15:31:54 +0000

Gr888.. the cab file provided works like charm…it resolved my issue….. Thanks a ton…. !!! :-)

By: Karl L. Gechlik

Karl L. Gechlik — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 00:02:00 +0000

@Larry you need to app unlock before running unsigned apps! once you do that you will be golden.

By: Larry

Larry — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 23:51:00 +0000

The cab won’t work on mine. It doesn’t have sufficient system permissions. Am I missing something?

By: William Warshauer

William Warshauer — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 22:10:00 +0000

I can NOT thank you enough for that CAB file!!!!!! it worked perfectly on my Dash that I had “upgraded” to WM 6.0. Thank you, thank you, thank you!!

By: Karl L. Gechlik

Karl L. Gechlik — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 19:25:00 +0000

We are very happy it worked out for you! Tell you friends thats all we ask!

By: Bruce

Bruce — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 19:07:00 +0000

Just an update: I blew away the xml file, installed the cab, reset, and now I have alarms! Glory.

Good work fellas. Also, I’ve noticed you have posted a lot of good articles today. I’ll definitely write a post linking to you.

By: Bruce

Bruce — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 18:35:00 +0000

Thanks guys. I’ll follow through with either Total Commander, the cab file, or both :)

By: Karl L. Gechlik

Karl L. Gechlik — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 18:09:00 +0000

I just checked out that cab file its cool and it looks like it works. But we dont have a dash that hasnt been modded yet.

Leave us your feedback!

By: JohnBlaze

JohnBlaze — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 18:04:00 +0000

http://www.omnisoft.com/downloads/OMNISOFT_Dash_WM6_ReminderFix.CAB

Here is the link to a cab file that will fix your reminder issue

By: Karl L. Gechlik

Karl L. Gechlik — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 17:53:00 +0000

Yes you got it right sorry for the graphic the script would not print for the life of me! And Ninja Admin hit it on the head Vista Plays nicer with the dash then xp.

I’m also not 100% sure if the code needs those spaces removed, but this has worked ever since we did it via Total Commander. After trying it the other way, the only thing we couldn’t fix was the System file setting, and I still have not figured out how to do it.

By: ninjaAdmin

ninjaAdmin — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 17:49:00 +0000

It looks like the Admin was using vista as his os.

Here's what you need to do, if you have XP.

1. Download and install Total Commander if you don't already have it. You can find a link in the tip2 post.
2. On your Dash, go to settings, profiles, highlight the NORMAL profile, hit menu and EDIT. Change ANY of the settings, and hit DONE.
3. Open Total Commander, navigate to the ApplicationData\Profiles area, highlight the Normal.prof.xml file and hit FILE and EDIT.
4. Right below the line that says "Sound Categories", enter in the above code, word for word, letter for letter. I actually took out a few spare spaces in the code above, but I don't know if it's necessary or not, just the spaces after the " at the end of the PARM NAME lines. I also tabbed everything over so it was even with the other fields below and above.
5. When finished, hit "FILE", and save, then restart your device.
6. When restarted, go back into your profiles, highlight NORMAL, and hit Menu and EDIT. All the new fields are there, and you can adjust them as you see fit now!

let us know if that helps you Bruce

By: Bruce Keener

Bruce Keener — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 17:40:00 +0000

Karl,

Bruce Keener here, of the Keener Living site (http://www.dkeener.com/keenstuff/blog/)

I tried this and it did not work for me. Not sure if I read the instructions wrong. Also, I was unable to set the system attribute on the file, which may be the cause of it not working. It would not reset because it is classified as a hidden file.

Also, could you verify for me that the value for script is v0p ? That is v, as in victor, the numeral 0, and p as in paul ? I may be misinterpreting the image shown.