›› phoneAlarm v2.21
Your complete, easy to use, communication center, never overlook a missed call, voicemail, Email or SMS again. Plus 7 powerful Phone profiles to control all your important settings
Supports WM 5.0, WM 6.0 and WM 6.1 Phone Edition (with touch-screen)
phoneAlarm is a Today screen plugin - giving you total control over your Pocket PC Phone. Never miss an important call, SMS or Email again.
Automatically switch profiles and quickly access Inbox, call history and control the state of bluetooth directly from the Today screen.
Optimised for one-handed and in-car use.
15 day free trial version available.
WM 2003 support is no longer available - you will need to use v1.67 (available for download here and contact us for a registration code after completing your purchase - you will get a free upgrade to v2.x if you upgrade device later).
phoneAlarm Lite is a simplified version of phoneAlarm still with all the MAJOR features, suitable for low-maintenance installations!
See here for comparison
Smartphone (no touch-screen) version is also available
New Skins:
FlippedOut (StoryR):
QVGA CAB file
VGA CAB file
pA3 (StoryR):
QVGA CAB file
VGA CAB file
SenatorKoT (Senator & 200mpx):
Download CAB file
TouchProVGA (Hessi):
VGA CAB file
Touch Panel (Nomel):
VGA CAB file
myTouch (Caveman):
Download CAB file
VGA CAB file
uq 3.0 (aguniq):
Download CAB file
phoneAlarm Key Features
- Provides repeating alarms on new SMS, Email, missed calls, voice messages & reminders
- 10 Custom Phone profiles with manual and automatic switching.
- Automatic profile change based on time, location, Appointment type/category, network and power/ActiveSync events
- Custom Email / SMS alarms based on text, sender or priority
- Alarm notification on weak battery and phone signal
- Customise sound, volume and options for each alarm type in each profile
- Automatically mute system and phone volume
- Skinnable user interface (How to create skins)
- Bluetooth and Flight mode control via profiles (also for Widcomm/Broadcomm stack)
- 1-hand skin navigation and quick-dialer for last 10 numbers
- screenLock component added to provide intelligent device locking
- Gestures supported on skin
- Icons provide direct access to Inbox, call history etc.
- Task-switcher pop-up to close running applications
- Full dual SIMsupport (needs a v2.0 skin for all features)
- English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, Dutch, Czech, Polish, Greek, Hungarian, Russian, Japanese and Chinese user interface
- Fully supports VGA display and square screen devices
- Optimised for fast performance and maximum platform support
- Simple installation
Additional features ONLY in Pro version
- Location-based information (change profile dependent on current location!)
- Billing calculation - keep track of your phone costs
- Detailed GPRS/Data volume tracking
- Weather plugin with 4 day forecast
- Call and SMS forwarding support in each profile
- WLAN control via profiles
- Skin rotator element to display actual information
Fixed/New in v2.21 [Build 363] (15th June 2009)
- 2G / 3G data-band toggle now works for many more devices
- screenLock has numerous improvements and new options
- Power control improved to maximise battery life
Fixed/New in v2.20 [Build 358] (30th May 2009)
- screenLock component added to provide intelligent device locking, but still let you see Today Screen
- New profile rule switch - on "" (regardless of whether ActiveSync is running or not)
- New option to specify the profile to activate after automatic switch ends
- Option "escalate" for vibrate pattern in "Power User" settings
- Support new TouchFlo3D 2 interface (Titanium)
- Support for 320 x 320 screen improved
- Samsung Epix supported for backlight and battery state
- Treo Pro improvement for beacon (LED) flashing to save power
- Restoring TouchFlo settings if phoneAlarm uninstalled is fixed
- Flexmail email alarm optionally activated only for specific accounts
- Allow hidden profiles to optionally still be used for automatic switching
- Support email alarms for Lotus Notes Traveler
- Weather service synchronising now more reliable when in cradle
- PNG support for 24/32 bit alpha-blended skin icons
- Faster loading of Settings (Advanced and Profiles tabs)
- Numerous minor display/usability improvements
- Language updates: German, Danish
- Fix: Data connection sometimes dropped as soon as it connects (if "Auto.disconnect" enabled)
- Command-line option to toggle speaker phone on/off "-sp" (-sp0 = off, -sp1 = on)
- GPS state icon supported (Image_GPS, Image_GPS2)
- Profile based "Email Sync" checks when last sync. occurred on profile switch
Fixed/New in v2.15 [Build 345] (3rd March 2009)
- Fix GPS location
- Treo Pro voicemail alarm fix
- OBEX (file transfer) always enabled with bluetooth
- "Last Boot" time information improved
- Center skin works also in portrait mode
- Weather data synced even if skin not on screen
- "-w" WLAN toggle command-line fixed
- TouchFlo 2D support extended to more devices
- Add paAlarm support for Touch-Flo "next alarm"
- Option "Next alarm" on scroller and on skin ("Image_NextAlarm")
- Fix data volume calculation for most devices
- Option to start GPS only on external power
- Options to hide applications in Task Switcher
Fixed/New in v2.14 [Build 340] (12th February 2009)
- Caching of skins supported for fast tab/rotate switching
- Weather plugin now also supports Accuweather service (as used by HTC Touch-Flo)
- Custom alarm repeat sounds (diff. to first alert sound) for each alarm type (in "Power User" settings)
- Scroll-bar issue on Today-screen fixed
- Voicemail on some Treo devices (with Sprint and Verizon) fixed
- Verizon Visual Voicemail support added
- Hotmail push-email now supported
- Weather layout improved for temperatures
- Faster loading of Manila (Touch-Flo3D) and support for Touch-Flo2D on some devices
- SIM unlock improved
- Option to include skins in backup/restore
- Copy profile settings supports more options
- Optional alarm when battery fully charged
- Profile / Weather popup menus can now be compressed so that scrolling is not necessary
- Free minutes in billing fixed
- Billing / Dial Favorites logic improved for devices which don't sort call log automatically
- More PhotoLink Images (upto 16)
- Free SMS in scroller now shown as -ve number if all SMS used (shows how many SMS must be paid for)
- Free data volume remaining in scroller
- Show time since last soft-reset in scroller
- Set custom SIP in landscape mode
Fixed/New in v2.13 [Build 330] (19th December 2008)
- Treo silent phone volume issue
- New Profile switch options: Headset on Battery, Headset on Power
- New backlight toggle skin item: Max level, Min, Profile
- White-screen on automatic profile switch on some devices (enable Power User Setting "forceAutoProfileWakeup")
- Reset email count option
- Improved skin layout options
- Silent custom Email/SMS group alarms no longer override newer active alerts
- Weather Plugin options improved
- "Ignore" option for location - for cells that are included in 2 locations
Fixed/New in v2.12 [Build 327] (05th December 2008)
- Lockups on Kaiser / Tilt fixed
- Ringtone issues on Treo 800w resolved
- LED support for the Treo Pro
- Custom email alerts improved to handle large volumes of email and better performance
- Option to turn off the round mask for photos (Mask BMP can also be customised)
- 12/24 hour clock always automatically determined now (only date uses the skin format by default)
- Fix: Free appointments were causing profile switch
- Add: Profile switch if battery < 10%
- Improve Flexmail alarm and SMS support for v4.01
- paAlarm respects mute & "Do not vibrate" and can be disabled temporarily
- Battery alarm will now only play twice at the most - and not at all if disabled in Advance settings
- Voicemail as SMS or email logic improved
- Issue with "Appointment End" profile switch not always detected (especially if Pocket Informant installed)
- End mute automatically on a manual profile switch
- New option to wake device on automatic profile switch (to resolve backlight issue on some devices)
- Landscape version of "B&W Pure" skin added for 320px screens (Treo Pro etc.)
- Skin options to reposition all weather temperatures and support for more weather images
- More command-line options for accessing functions even when phoneAlarm is hidden
Fixed in v2.10 [Build 315] (17th October 2008)
- "No vibrate on mute" option added
- Option to filter missed calls only when missed calls are present
- New option: Data disconnect disabled if browser is active application
- Profile change when muted - system volume icon state fixed
- Voicemail LED for Treo Pro fixed, cancel voicemail alarm improved
- Fix issue with Custom Email alerts if the Groups have similar names
- Issue with Load Skin in profile fixed
- Missed call alert fixed for Treo Pro
- G-sensor support for mute improved for the HTC Pro (Raphael)
- Automatic backlight support for the Omnia
New Features in v2.0
- 3 new profiles (10 in total)
- WM 6.1 support
- New, simpler location group editor
- Rules Engine to allow complex profile switching control (and priority for rules)
- Profile switching on specific network
- GPS support for location
- Data completely disabled per profile (for roaming etc.)
- Instant Messaging repeating alarms (for MSN Messenger, Skype, Palringo, IM+, Agile Messenger, Anastasia, Jive Talk)
- Photo-dialer plugin
- Application Link plugin (launcher)
- Email Auto-Sync time per profile
- Weather icon support (using Google Weather)
- Gestures supported on icons
- HTC Diamond support for cancelling alarms/mute by turning device face-down
- Billing charges to 4 decimal places
- Scroller redesign, faster and order items on scroller (and uses less CPU)
- Custom Links for 3rd party applications
- More tabs supported for skins (5 tabs now supported)
- Many new skin options including Analog Clock
- Skins now version independent - all v1.62+ skins will always work correctly with v2.0 and future versions
- Treo InCall volume control working
- Text AND graphic option on profile menu
- WLAN / Bluetooth / VoiceCommand state icons
- QVGA skins now work on VGA devices (and VGA skins on QVGA)
- Expanded and Improved Voice Command support
- Alarm component, for repeating alarms and auto-softreset
- Improved cost and data volume tracking
- Custom LED color / vibrate pattern per alarm
- ClearType Font support in skin
- AppToDate support for over-the-air automatic updates
- and much much more...
We welcome all feedback, positive and negative, feature requests and bug reports!
Please always include your phone type when submitting info!
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