[Gpe-list] GPE Calender on Nokia 770

Peter Bart peter at petertheplumber.net
Sat Nov 11 05:27:48 CET 2006


On Sat, 2006-11-11 at 02:28 +0100, Florian Boor wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Peter Bart wrote:
> > Hello Everyone,
> > 	Some notes my experiences with your excellent calender. I am still
> > experimenting with the many options available. What does kind of mystify
> > me is the many different calenders available under 'My Calender'. I'm
> > assuming this is to accomodate multiple users?
> 
> in theory you could do that... but in this case its just the default one.

	This setup actually favors the user that has a business calender that
he syncs to a public server like Scheduleworld and has a private
calender he wants to keep private. Very interesting and useful!


> 
> > 	At any rate I'm using the whole GPE PIM available for the Nokia 770
> > which is running the OS 1.2006.26-8. Behavior I've noticed here is when
> > starting the calender program while an alarmed event is due the program
> > disappears. Starting a second time is normal. Alarmed events do not
> > appear in 'menu' 'tools' 'alarms'.
> 
> This sounds like a bug... Neal, could you take a look?
> 
> > 	Recently I upgraded to OS 2.2006.39-14 and then downgraded. I noticed
> > the calender events were being moved to different times. I am on Eastern
> > Standard time and in my case the events were moved uniformly 5 hours
> > forward. I reflashed back to the previous OS, restored from my backup,
> > and had to reset the clock for the events to appear at the proper times.
> 
> That's quite strange, maybe they changed someting related to the timezones.

	I'm sorry, this is my fault not a bug. Setting the time on the boot
screen after flashing does not set the clock GPE references. Setting
this clock in the menu after booting the first times solves this. Sorry.


> 
> > 	I can't wait for the audible alarm to become available!
> 
> It should be easy to implement, the audio stuff is documented for quite a while
> now... another thing for the todo list.

	WooHoo!!! :-)
> 
> Greetings
> 
> Florian

Regards,

Peter




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