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Tiscali
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 04, 2004 10:20 am    Post subject: Switching off ringing and alerts automatically when you're ' Reply with quote

To enable this, go to Start / Settings / Profiles and select 'Automatic'.

Setting the profile of your phone to 'Meeting' turns off the ringing tones and alerts as default. So selecting 'Automatic' switches the profile of your phone automatically from 'Normal' (the one with rings and alerts) to 'Meeting' when the Calendar indicates that your are busy e.g you're at a meeting, cinema, theatre, library, etc. *. The phone then switches its profile back to 'Normal' thereafter.

* You can alter this and any other profile by going to Start / Settings / Profiles, highlight a profile on the list and select Menu / Edit

(A wish item for MS on next release/update - this feature should only switch to 'Meeting' if the status for the active Calendary entry is set to 'Busy' (this feature currently ignores the Calendar status))

This works on Windows Mobile 2003 Second Edition. Could any other users confirm if this feature is enabled with earlier versions?

Thank you / Salamat po


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aristoBrat
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 04, 2004 10:48 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I have never had a problem doing that on my 2002 device...
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ebelen1
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 01, 2005 9:43 am    Post subject: Re: Switching off ringing and alerts automatically when you' Reply with quote

Tiscali wrote:
To enable this, go to Start / Settings / Profiles and select 'Automatic'.

Setting the profile of your phone to 'Meeting' turns off the ringing tones and alerts as default. So selecting 'Automatic' switches the profile of your phone automatically from 'Normal' (the one with rings and alerts) to 'Meeting' when the Calendar indicates that your are busy e.g you're at a meeting, cinema, theatre, library, etc. *. The phone then switches its profile back to 'Normal' thereafter.

* You can alter this and any other profile by going to Start / Settings / Profiles, highlight a profile on the list and select Menu / Edit

(A wish item for MS on next release/update - this feature should only switch to 'Meeting' if the status for the active Calendary entry is set to 'Busy' (this feature currently ignores the Calendar status))

This works on Windows Mobile 2003 Second Edition. Could any other users confirm if this feature is enabled with earlier versions?

Thank you / Salamat po


Great tip. I always fumble for my phone before meetings (if I remember) so it doesn't go off. I'll test this today.

Thanks. Salamat
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Jerry Raia
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 01, 2005 12:05 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I've often wondered about this feature. Doesn't it become a pain when your schedule changes a lot?
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Mike Temporale
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 01, 2005 12:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

No, it doesn't matter how often you change your schedule. It just looks at your calendar to check if there is a meeting now. If so, switch to silent. If not, then continue dong what you're doing. Wink
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 01, 2005 12:53 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Right but what if you say get out of a meeting early and you don't change your schedule. Now your phone won't ring until the actual time in your schedule. So if you have the kind of schedule that might change in that way often I would think it might be more hassle than its worth.
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 01, 2005 12:57 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Or, you might enjoy the extra peace and quite. Wink Laughing
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 01, 2005 1:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

WHAT?? And be disconnected from the electrons? Heresy I say! :twak:
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ebelen1
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 02, 2005 9:13 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Weird thing. When I go to this profile, it works for the first upcoming meeting. But then, it doesn't go back to Meeting mode for the next meeting in Outlook. I'll go to settings and see that Automatic is checked.

I'll then go to Automatic and select it and the phone home screen will show meeting.

I don't think this is consistently working for me?
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jfreiman
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 23, 2005 11:00 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I too wish this feature was more complete.

Call me crazy, but I have my television listings in my phone for each evening and I would love it if I could just leave my phone in "Automatic" mode 24/7.

However, like mentioned above, ANY calendar entry will send the phone into "Meeting" mode and that really bites.

This features works great for me at work for meetings, etc. but really bites for the rest of the day/evening.

Does anyone think that this might be solved with a registry tweak?
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