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July 12, 2007 11:18 AM

How can I get my t-mobile dash to give me audible outlook reminders?

I have a t-mobile dash phone that I recently upgraded to Windows Mobile 6. Everything works fine *except* that my outlook reminders now only vibrate, regardless of what sound profile I am using. This is a problem for me because I have to give myself a shot at two specific times during the day, and a vibrating reminder is not enough to catch my attention.

I've searched all over the net, and the closest I've come to an answer is in this post.

He says, "There are just 4 profiles on the Dash upgrade...
of the 4 profiles installed, only one of them has control panel options for editing Reminders - sounds and volume. That one is the Vibrate profile. This leaves a problem. If I switch from Normal to Vibrate, it changes the Reminder to a silent/vibrate. However, when I switch back, it changes Ring/Alarm/Notifications back to audible - but there are no settings for Reminders so they stay stuck as Vibrate only. Only a registry edit can get them working again.

It seems like that four provisioning files (Meeting.def.prof.xml and 3 others) were put in ROM to create the entries for the Metabase Database - but of the four, only the Vibrate one has definitions for Reminder Sound and Reminder Volume.

Is this the root of the problem ?

It is easy to add the missing lines to the other 3 files, but how is it possible to get the definition files reread so that the revised definitions become active ?"

Now, I can see that vibrate has the reminder functions, but all the rest of this post (updating the "missing lines" in the profiles and getting the revised definitions to become active) are way above my technical knowledge of mobile phone software.

Does anyone know how to fix this problem so that I can get audible reminders on my t-mobile dash? If it involves a registry edit on windows mobile, or some other programming solution, please describe the process in simplistic step-by-step fashion. I'm not afraid of the command line, but I definitely don't want to make my problem worse by really screwing something up.

Thanks in advance.

posted by batcrazy to technology (2 comments total)

I have a complicated work around if you want?

Sync your outlook to a Google calender using this method.

Then have the Google calendar send you an sms for any entry you want.

As I say its a bit complicated for what you want. But I set it up for myself last weekend. took half an hour tops.
posted by gergtreble at 1:07 PM on July 12, 2007

It's a known bug in the WM6 build for the DASH, this is the solution in .CAB form for an easy fix. Feel free to send me an email if you have any issues sorting that out.
posted by paxton at 1:29 PM on July 12, 2007