Calendar Alarm Switch-A-Roo

I have never been able to find a way to change the Calendar Alarm audio tone/file. So I found its name and location on the phone, changed it, saved it somewhere else and then loaded my own choice of tone/file using the original default tone/file name and location. Now when I set an appointment on the phone and invoke the alarm function, I am rewarded at the appropriate time with the musical notes of my own chosen alarm. However, if i set the appointment on Outlook and "sync it", The original, terribly annoying alarm tone plays. I even went so far as to copy my new file tone/file of choice to the location in Outlook where its alarm tone is generated from. This had no effect on my problem. Anybody figure this one out?


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[dlevy]

I'ver spoken to SE about this. They don't know why it happens, and haven't gotten back to me yet about whether they can fix it. :-?

It always happens when an alarm is set in outlook (tasks or calendar), then synced with the P800.

If you edit the record once it comes over to your P800, the custom alarm you have set will then be used!!

[Lantana]

Why don't you just go to Calender, select Edit -> Preferences -> Alarm ->Alarm Sound?

Or did you try this and it didn't work?

[dlevy]

This doesn't work. Any items created in outlook and not editted on the P800 will have the default sound! Bit rubbish really.

[Me]

What happens if, using file manager you delete the ugly alarm, then take a new one that you like, change it's name to match the ugly one's name and then relocate it wherever the original one was.

It sounds silly, but outlook probably has a command saying "use "ugly" alarm. If the phone looks for the name "ugly" and finds it it will use it, but "pretty" will sound instead. the device doesn't actually care what the sound is, just that the command is being followed.

I did this with the quicktimer alarm and it worked.

Good luck.

[BVH]

I have already tried this as i mentioned in the start of this thread. Outlook still overwrites my desired alarm. If I open up the event that was created in Outlook and then sync'd and just uncheck - close - open -re-check the alarm box, it will yield the desired alarm tone. Its a hassle, but i hate the annoying OEM tone.

[Me]

Sorry, but I think you didn't actually erase the ugly one, I think you need to erase it or change its name also, otherwise you'll have too alarms with the same name.

If this doesn't work that would mean that outlook actually downloads the alarm sound with the alert. I doubt it does but if this is what's happening then you could repeat the process on oyur PC with outlook, fond wherever this alarm is stored and change it.

Also, using file manaer make sure the alarm you're removing is the one you don't like. With quicktime at least there where several sound files with the same or similar name, but only one of them was the actual sound.

And last, it might be that you're only changing the sound on the calendar, and that this is an actual LINK to the sound file elsewhere on the phone; so the sound file might be stored on a different P800 folder along with other sounds and waiting to be called.

If you've done all this I'm sorry to be redundant