Thank you Pedro. I simply wrongly assumed that the place I landed in (the alarm description) after pressing enter on the alarm was the top-most item. I should have looked around more with the cursors. Thanks for the help.
Catherine On 7/16/12, Pedro Martinez <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, Catherine: > > When you have an alarm already set in the app, and it’s not active, and you > > want to activate the alarm again, just do the following: > Hit enter on the alarm that was preset, and then move your arrow keys to the > > top of the screen it would say: “alarm not active”, and it would not be > checked, but if you place a check on it, and then move the arrow key to the > > bottom of the screen and hit enter on, OK, it would make that alarm active. > Hope that helps. > Good luck. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Catherine Turner > Sent: Sunday, July 15, 2012 10:32 AM > To: Mobile Accessibility Android Users List > Subject: Re: [MA] Problems with MA alarm app > > Hi again, > > Ok now I really don't get this. I set an alarm for a one-off, not > recurring time. It went off yesterday and is still in the list. So I > thought ok I could just edit it and make it go off another time but > though I can edit the times and description I can't get it to work > because it says it's not active. How do I make it active? What's the > point of leaving an alarm in the list which has already gone off and > cannot be made to go off again? > > Catherine > > On 7/14/12, Catherine Turner <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Thanks for your reply. Strange that swiping down doesn't always stop >> my alarm then...yeah I suppose I can see the point of having alarms >> stay in the list even though they've sounded once; but on the other >> hand, if I wanted something daily I'd set it to daily not a one-off, >> and then just alter the time later if wanted. Just personal >> preference really. >> >> Catherine >> >> On 7/14/12, Stephanie Lanari <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Hi, I have some answers to your alarm problems. When I set an alarm I >>> don't >>> >>> press enter on the hour. I just type the number there without pressing >>> any >>> other buttons and that works fine. Secondly, I found out that pressing >>> the >>> down arrow while the alarm is ringing will always stop the alarm. I'm >>> not >>> sure if your phone is different. Finally, alarms will stay in the list >>> after >>> >>> they've been deactivated, in case you want to activate them again later. >>> That's kind of nice because it saves you the step of creating your alarm >>> over again. I have an alarm that wakes me up in the morning. Sometimes I >>> get >>> >>> up at different hours of the morning, so I just find my alarm in the >>> list, >>> activate it and change the hour or minute, and then it's all set. >>> Your phone is probably different than mine, but I hope that helps. And >>> in >>> case you're wondering I have a Sprint Android Galaxy phone. Good luck! >>> >>> >>> -------------------------------------------------- >>> From: "Catherine Turner" <[email protected]> >>> Sent: Saturday, July 14, 2012 7:51 AM >>> To: "Mobile Accessibility Android Users List" >>> <[email protected]> >>> Subject: [MA] Problems with MA alarm app >>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> I'm having a couple of problems with MA's alarms app and wondering if >>>> anyone can comment/help. >>>> >>>> Firstly when I go to create a new alarm, when I want to select the >>>> hour and minutes, though it says press enter to edit nothing happens >>>> when I press Enter - I'm not able to type numbers and cursoring >>>> anywhere takes me to another field rather than altering the numbers. >>>> It works if I double tap though. Does anyone else find this? >>>> >>>> The other problems are when the alarm rings. I find sometimes MA says >>>> swipe down to stop or up to snooze but sometimes it doesn't say that - >>>> it doesn't matter as I remember what to do, but just wondering if >>>> there's a reason for that. Also, sometimes though I swipe down to >>>> stop the alarm it still remains in the list of alarms when I look, >>>> even though it wasn't an alarm set to recur. Shouldn't it disappear >>>> after it's sounded and hasn't been set to snooze? A couple of times >>>> also I haven't been able to stop the alarm ringing though I swiped >>>> down several times. >>>> >>>> Catherine >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> ma_mailing mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> http://list.codefactory.cat/mailman/listinfo/codefactory.cat.ma_mailing >>> > >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> ma_mailing mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://list.codefactory.cat/mailman/listinfo/codefactory.cat.ma_mailing >>> >> >> >> -- >> Twitter: CTurner1980 >> My blog: >> http://catherineturner.wordpress.com >> > > > -- > Twitter: CTurner1980 > My blog: > http://catherineturner.wordpress.com > _______________________________________________ > ma_mailing mailing list > [email protected] > http://list.codefactory.cat/mailman/listinfo/codefactory.cat.ma_mailing > > _______________________________________________ > ma_mailing mailing list > [email protected] > http://list.codefactory.cat/mailman/listinfo/codefactory.cat.ma_mailing > -- Twitter: CTurner1980 My blog: http://catherineturner.wordpress.com _______________________________________________ ma_mailing mailing list [email protected] http://list.codefactory.cat/mailman/listinfo/codefactory.cat.ma_mailing
