››phoneAlarm v2.40 - Windows Mobile profiles, alarms and more

Your complete, easy to use, communication center, never overlook a missed call, voicemail, Email or SMS again. Plus 10 powerful Phone profiles to control all your important settings

---

Supports WM 5.0, WM 6.0, WM 6.1 and WM 6.5 Phone Edition (with touch-screen)

phoneAlarm is a powerful tool giving you total control over your Windows Mobile Phone. It can run on the Today screen or as a stand-alone application when you use HTC Touch-Flo or SPB Mobile Shell. Never miss an important call, SMS or Email again. Automatically switch profiles and quickly access Inbox, call history and control the state of bluetooth/WLAN 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 receive a free upgrade to v2.x if you upgrade your 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 (non touch-screen) version is also available

New Skins:

Trinity (Manhattan Project) (TSPNews):

 VGA CAB file

DobiVGA (Dobi):

 VGA CAB file

SimpleBlack (PsychodelEKS):

 VGA CAB file

SenatorA (Senator):

 QVGA CAB file

HeroM (Senator):

 QVGA CAB file

FlippedOut (StoryR):

 QVGA CAB file
 VGA CAB file

pA3 (StoryR):

 QVGA CAB file
 VGA 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

New/Fixed in v2.40 [Build 415] (26th April 2010)

• Samsung SDK for colored LED / Haptic vibrate for all Samsung devices
• Host resists being shutdown by the system (some task-switchers were killing it)
• Improved masks for Photo-Dialer
• IM support for Slick (lonelycatgames) and Office Communicator 2007
• HD2 device lock supported (turn on/off)
• Appointments of 2 minutes or less won't trigger profile change
• MWg Zinc II and Acer F900 backlight support
• Scroller option: Next Appointment
• New profile switch options for headset (Bluetooth on / off)
• Profile rule "On End" setting improved
• GPS leave location improved
• Stability issue with LED alarms on some Samsung devices is now resolved
• WLAN signal strength in scroller supported for more devices
• ScreenLock "On Call" option improved
• Wisbar Adv. v3 support for Host added

New/Fixed in v2.32 [Build 405] (12th February 2010)

• HTC HD2 hack to activate LED on new email (some programs such as Mobile Shell will show both email and voicemail notification)
• Charging logic fixed
• paHost icon and logic improved
• Option to ignore GPS lost signal (when in building for example)
• Race condition with Ringo ringtone manager fixed (caused device slow-down on call)
• Option to open host automatically when screenLock active

New/Fixed in v2.31 [Build 400] (14th January 2010)

• paHost shutdown issue (alarms sometimes stop after a few hours) fixed
• WM 6.5 dialog layout improved
• HTC HD2 support improved
• Widcomm bluetooth headset detection improved
• "Next alarm" text in TF3D now also correct when alarm snoozed
• Fix: Music with very long path name not playing for paAlarm
• 10 sec backlight system bug fixed for some devices
• Task-Switcher not always able to kill application fixed
• Close Application in profile now works for Pocket Player and other hard-to-close applications
• Issue with Epix backlight remaining off for some configurations fixed
• Support for Toshiba G810 backlight added
• i910 reminders when locked improved
• Arcsoft SMS / MMS support
• 'delayEmailCheck' option fixed (for devices with email on Storage Card or slow processor)
• Battery Charging disable logic improved

New/Fixed in v2.30 [Build 384] (18th September 2009)

• WM 6.5 support
• paHost application to run phoneAlarm without Today screen plugin
• screenLock, red/green buttons working in call
• Omnia II ringtone support
• Bluetooth support fixed for Touch Pro 2
• Support larger fonts on menus
• Move Application links to Extras tab
• Add support for 30 application links (incr. from 20)
• Support added for 2-row launcher bar
• Auto-answer fixed for devices that don't receive ring notification correctly
• Issue with 3rd party ringtone and Photo-Contacts Pro fixed

Fixed/New in v2.22 [Build 370] (14th July 2009)

• Bluetooth and screenLock support for Touch Pro 2
• Email alarm fix for some devices
• Treo Pro issue with voicemail is resolved
• Ringtone mute using system vibrate or mute should work as expected
• screenLock refresh improved and also first alarm sound no longer affected by lock
• Analog clock refresh improved

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

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!
Check out our Support Forum for further help