Sunday, January 18, 2009

G-Alarm v1.4


Description:
an alarm clock which gives some activity in the morning: G-Alarm forces you to guide a ball through mazes before you can snooze or stop the alarm. Of course, you can also disable this feature and use it as a "normal" alarm clock.

A list with some features:
* Supported devices: all devices with Windows Mobile 5, Windows Mobile 6 and Windows Mobile 6.1
* Supported languages: gb de hr cz nl fr es it pl ru pt hu sa tr jp dk kr th fi id cn se sk
* Skinnable user interface (Lots of skins are available here)
* Customizable today plugin which shows you all your alarms and lets you activate or deactivate them with one click
* Define unlimited alarms with many options
* Choose between different alarm types
* Define playlists with unlimited mp3/wma/wav files for each alarm
* Force a specific volume if the device is on vibration mode or muted
* Repeat and playing options:
* Power saving methods:
* Tilt sensor support (only on supported devices)
* Light sensor support (only on supported devices)
* You can decide wether you want to complete mazes before you can snooze or stop the alarm or not.
* See your next alarm in S2U2, TouchFlo3D, Manila2D and others



G-Alarm Changelog

1.4 (2009/01/18)
* [ADDED] Long click on the today plugin: faster editing of an alarm
* [ADDED] Hidden option: Show flightmode
* [FIXED] Freezing after disabling the flightmode
* [FIXED] No more OutOfMemory exceptions
* [UPDATED] Faster startup
* [FIXED] Some bugs
* [UPDATED] Languages: english, german, french, portuguese, russian, polish, korean

1.3 (2009/01/16)
* [ADDED] Flightmode until next alarm
* [ADDED] G-Alarm remembers your installation settings
* [ADDED] Debug logging
* [UPDATED] Less CPU usage when minimized
* [UPDATED] Support for SensorLock
* [UPDATED] Support for S2U2
* [UPDATED] Tilt sensor sensitivity (shake & facedown)
* [FIXED] *Hopefully* no playback after 1st snooze
* [FIXED] Some minor issues
* [ADDED] Language: chinese (taiwan)
* [UPDATED Language: english, german, finnish, spanish, portuguese



1.2.4 (2009/01/09)
* [ADDED] Better support for TouchLockPro
* [ADDED] Advanced option: Turn backlight off during an alarm
* [ADDED] Alarm option: Pause between the files
* [ADDED] "Vibration off" to the context menu of the snooze button
* [FIXED] Closing of some locking tools at midnight
* [FIXED] No playback after 1st snooze
* [UPDATED] Languages: english, german, spanish, italian

1.2.3 (2009/01/07)
* [ADDED] Better support for S2U2
* [REMOVED] Option: Add to S2U2's exception list > no more need for that
* [ADDED] Better support for SensorLock
* [ADDED] Better support for ThrottleLock
* [ADDED] Better support for Pocketshield
If you use a locking tool which I have not listed, just contact me
* [UPDATED] GUI
* [UPDATED] Split the alarm screen and the main program into to .exe
* [UPDATED] Maths: You have to wait for 1.5 seconds if you have chosen the wrong result
* [UPDATED] Snooze-time is now set in minutes (minimum: 1, maximum: 999 minutes)
* [UPDATED] Tilt sensor shake sensitivity
* [FIXED] Wrong tilt sensor calibration
* [FIXED] Skin issues on non-standard resolutions
* [FIXED] Some other bugs
* [UPDATED] Languages: arabic, slovak, chinese traditional, japanese, swedish, greek

1.2.1 (2009/01/05)
* [FIXED] Playback of some wav or mp3 files
* [FIXED] Some minor bugs
* [UPDATED] Languages: korean

1.2 (2009/01/04)
* [ADDED] Schedule the launch of a program
* [FIXED] Some minor bugs
* [UPDATED] Languages: english, german

1.1.1 (2009/01/03)
* [FIXED] Today plugin: bug when using non-default system fonts
* [FIXED] Omnia tilt sensor bug (finally)
* [FIXED] "Multiple instances"-bug when launched by TF3D/SSMaPa
* [ADDED] Seperately change foreground color of the main screen
* [UPDATED] Languages: english, german, chinese simplified, croatian

1.1 (2009/01/02)
* [ADDED] DPad control: left > delete, right > test, center button > edit selected alarm
* [UPDATED] Today plugin (no more bugs, dpad support)
* [FIXED] Bug with Omnia`s tilt sensor (Please test and tell me, if it works)
* [FIXED] Display doesn't get on when an alarm goes off (Please test and tell me, if it works)
* [FIXED] G-Alarm crashes when it can't play the playlist (Please test and tell me, if it works)
* [FIXED] Not translated alarm screen items
* [FIXED] Some bugs
* [UPDATED] Languages: finnish, norwegian, turkish, italian, dutch, hungarian, french, czech, russian, swedish

1.0.3 (2008/12/31)
* [FIXED] Crash when starting G-Alarm
* [ADDED] Messagebox confirmation for stopping/snoozing an alarm
* [ADDED] Advanced option: Turn backlight off during snooze
* [FIXED] Playlist forgot its sorting
* [UPDATED] Languages: finnish, english, german

1.0.2 (2008/12/30)
* [FIXED] New bug of v1.0.1

1.0.1 (2008/12/30)
* [FIXED] Bug when adding too many files to the playlist

1.0 (2008/12/30)
* [FIXED] Wrong remaining time until the next alarm in some situations
* [FIXED] Today plugin was not displayed correctly when launched outside of WM's today screen
* [UPDATED] Today plugin (faster, more reliable)
* [UPDATED] Alarms and settings are now saved in the registry (HKCU\Software\ageye\G-Alarm)
* [UPDATED] Better recoginition of devices with a hardware keyboard
* [UPDATED] Allow only one instance of G-Alarm
* [UPDATED] More finger-friendly mazes
* [UPDATED] New program icon
* [MOVED] Today options to the options of the today plugin under Start -> Settings -> Today
* [ADDED] Today plugin option: Display the status icon when the alarm is inactive
* [ADDED] Option to change the wallpaper
* [ADDED] Option to change the background and foreground colors
* [ADDED] Option to change the transparency of the skin
* [ADDED] Option to install the mazes (saves up to ~270 Kb)
* [ADDED] Simple media player
* [ADDED] Option: Confirm closing of an alarm by solving a quiz
* [ADDED] Option: Confirm snoozing of an alarm by solving a quiz
* [REMOVED] Power saving options (G-Alarm uses the defaults from WM)
* [UPDATED] Language: arabic, finnish, english, german
* [FIXED] Some other bugs

0.9.8.3 (2008/12/13)
* [FIXED] No volume after snooze under some circumstances
* [FIXED] No alarm when G-Alarm was not closed after setting an alarm
* [UPDATED] Tilt sensor mechanism
* [UPDATED] The file browser sorts the files and directories alphabetically
* [ADDED] Option to install the today plugin (save another ~161 Kb)

0.9.8.2 (2008/12/12)
* [FIXED] S2U2 bug (wrong time was displayed)
* [UPDATED] Languages: finnish, greek, indonesian

0.9.8.1 (2008/12/10)
* [FIXED] Bug when editing an alarm
* [FIXED] Bug: time isn't correctly displayed (hopefully -> please report me if it works now)

0.9.8 (2008/12/09)
* [FIXED] Playback bug
* [FIXED] Bug when installing G-Alarm on a internal or external storage card
* [FIXED] Bugs related to other software which changes the time of the device
* [ADDED] Preamplifier
* [UPDATED] Today plugin (not finnished yet)
* [UPDATED] Languages: korean, spanish

0.9.7.3 (2008/12/07)
* [UPDATED] Playback mode
* [UPDATED] Languages: polish, croatian, russian, slovak, chinese traditional, dutch

0.9.7.2 (2008/12/03)
* [FIXED] OutOfMemory bug
* [UPDATED] Language: hungarian

0.9.7.1 (2008/12/03)
* [FIXED] OutOfMemory bug
* [FIXED] Today plugin: wrong time format (you have to save the alarm again)
* [FIXED] Some small bugs
* [UPDATED] Languages: slovak, swedish, italian, french, japanese, czech, turkish, norwegian, chinese simplified, portuguese

0.9.7 (2008/12/02)
* [FIXED] G-Alarm should work on Windows Mobile 5 devices again
* [ADDED] New quiz mode: calculation tasks
* [FIXED] Today plugin: wrong time format
* [ADDED] Language: greek
* [UPDATED] Languages: slovak, english, german

0.9.6.3 (2008/11/29)
* [FIXED] Small bug at the start of a fade in

0.9.6.2 (2008/11/29)
* [ADDED] New installation routine. You can save up to ~330 Kb (Default installation: ~1.41 Mb, Minimal installation: ~1.09 Mb)
* [ADDED] Music playback from the GSPlayer
* [UPDATED] Support for new file formats. G-Alarm supports now wav, wma, mp3, ogg, aac/m4a/mpg files
* [UPDATED] Smoother fade-in
* [REMOVED] FMOD library for ogg playback
* [REMOVED] Windows Media Player for music playback
* [UPDATED] Language: english

0.9.6.1 (2008/11/29)
* [FIXED] Trying to fix all music playback bugs > Please report if everything works now

0.9.6 (2008/11/26)
* [ADDED] FMOD library for ogg support
* [UPDATED] Sound playback. More reliable. No more standard and alternative playback mode options
* [ADDED] Light sensor support for Samsung devices
* [ADDED] Random playback: G-Alarm remembers the files it played and plays them only once

0.9.5 (2008/11/15)
* [UPDATED] Improved mechanism to turn of the display (please set a test alarm before using 0.9.5 for your important alarms)
* [FIXED] Bug which occured during the start of G-Alarm
* [UPDATED] Light sensor sensitivities (more sensitive!)
* [UPDATED] Tilt sensor: Face down/up mechanism
* [FIXED] Some small bugs
* [UPDATED] Languages: russian, french, swedish, croatian, korean, chinese traditional, turkish, italian, hungarian, czech, portuguese, finish, japanese, spanish, polish, indonesian, arabic, chinese simplified, dutch

0.9.4 (2008/10/31)
* [ADDED] Improved GUI
* [ADDED] Different snooze modes: normal, random snooze time, decreasing snooze time
* [ADDED] Define wether you want to close or snooze an alarm on tilt sensor/light sensor actions
* [ADDED] Tilt sensor: G-Alarm recognizes when you shake your device
* [ADDED] Option: Define how many mazes you want to have to complete until you can snooze/stop an alarm
* [FIXED] Light sensor bug
* [FIXED] Some small bugs
* [UPDATED] Alarms are now sorted by name
* [UPDATED] Languages: arabic, spanish, norwegian, slovak, english, german

0.9.3 (2008/10/26)
* [FIXED] Daylight savings bug
* [FIXED] Quick alarm time-bug
* [UPDATED] Close alarm after x minutes: If you manually press "Snooze" the timer will be resetted.
* [UPDATED] Languages: swedish, finish, french, polish, turkish, croatian, czech, korean, chinese traditional, chinese simplified, portuguese, dutch, russian, spanish

0.9.2 (2008/10/21)
* [ADDED] Quick alarms
* [FIXED] Low volume bug when setting low fade-in time values
* [UPDATED] Languages: finish, danish, french, polish, english, german

0.9.1 (2008/10/19)
* [FIXED] Bug of G-Alarm on the Sony Ericsson Xperia X1: You can now complete the maze without freezing your device
* [ADDED] Show song title on the alarm screen
* [UPDATED] Small skin updates
* [UPDATED] Language: croatian

0.9 (2008/10/18)
* [ADDED] If G-Alarm can't find all songs which are in your playlist, it will play an emergency sound file
* [ADDED] hidden option: Emergency sound file
* [UPDATED] Improved light sensor mechanism
* [UPDATED] Some GUI and skin updates
* [UPDATED] Some small improvements
* [UPDATED] Language: italian
* [ADDED] Language: chinese traditional

0.8.7 (2008/10/16)
* [UPDATED] G-Alarm icon (restart your device to see the new icon)
* [UPDATED] Some screen positions
* [FIXED] Some small skin related bugs
* [UPDATED] Languages: finish, english, german

0.8.6 (2008/10/15)
* [ADDED] The alarm is now shown over the PIN lock window and probably over all other applications
* [ADDED] Context menu when tapping and holding on the snooze button
* [ADDED] hidden option: Don't wakeup at midnight
* [UPDATED] Default skin (Many thanks to expo7)
* [UPDATED] Languages: czech, korean

0.8.5 (2008/10/14)
* [FIXED] Volume control should work now on every device
* [REMOVED] hidden option: safe mode volume control - there should be no more need for that
* [UPDATED] Language: russian

0.8.4 (2008/10/14)
* [ADDED] hidden option: safe mode volume control
* [ADDED] Language: norwegian

0.8.3 (2008/10/13)
* [ADDED] The alarm snoozes if there is an incoming call
* [ADDED] support for skinnable "pressed" and "disabled" buttons
* [FIXED] Light sensor snoozing works now with relative and not with absolute values
* [FIXED] Some bugfixes
* [UPDATED] Languages: russian, dutch, turkish, chinese simplified, finish, french, portuguese
* [ADDED] Language: swedish, slovak

0.8.2 (2008/10/11)
* [ADDED] Stability, stability, stability and some bugfixes...
* [ADDED] A new maze!
* [ADDED] Language: chinese simplified

0.8.1 (2008/10/10)
* [FIXED] The other auto-snooze bug
* [FIXED] Some minor bugs
* [ADDED] Fade-in duration
* [ADDED] hidden option: show software keyboard
* [UPDATED] Default values

0.8 (2008/10/10)
* [FIXED] Auto-snooze bug
* [FIXED] Error when trying to write GAlarmToday.xml in \Windows
* [ADDED] Support for ALL resolutions
* [ADDED] Snooze by pressing the center button of the D-Pad
* [UPDATED] Tilt sensor support
* [ADDED] Languages: korean, thai, finish, indonesian
* [UPDATED] Languages: dutch, arabic, french, japanese, danish

0.7.4 (2008/10/04)
* [ADDED] Support for Samsung Omnia (and probably others) tilt sensor!
* [UPDATED] Languages: danish, french

0.7.3 (2008/10/04)
* [FIXED] Some bugs of 0.7.x
* [FIXED] Face down snoozing should now work on non HTC devices with the HTC g-sensor emulation
* [ADDED] New maze
* [FIXED] Volume control
* [FIXED] AppToDate works now (really ;-))
* [UPDATED] Languages: arabic, czech, turkish, croatian, english, german

0.7.2 (2008/10/03)
* [FIXED] Some bugs of 0.7.1

0.7.1 (2008/10/03)
* [FIXED] Volume control (*hopefully*)
* [ADDED] Option: Snooze when you turne the face of the device down.
* [ADDED] Option: Snooze when light goes on.
* [ADDED] Language: danish, spanish (spain)
* [UPDATED] Languages: hungarian, portuguese, turkish and croatian

0.7 (2008/10/03)
* [ADDED] Options: Display next alarm in S2U2/TF3D/Manila2D and others
* [ADDED] Option: Turn off display after x seconds
* [UPDATED] Option: Turn off display during snoozing should now work on every device
* [UPDATED] Volume-change routine: After an alarm the volume should be resetted to the original value on every device now
* [ADDED] Control the ball with your finger, tilt sensor and new: d-pad
* [ADDED] Better support for TF3D/Manila2D (and others): The days of the alarm is now set correctly
* [ADDED] More patterns for an alarm (Create an alarm which is only played every x-th week)
* [ADDED] Option: Automatic snooze after x seconds
* [ADDED] Context menu for the playlist: "Clear playlist"
* [ADDED] Show information about the translator
* [ADDED] Today plugin: show up/down arrows only if there is more than one alarm
* [ADDED] Clean uninstallation routines
* [UPDATED] Lots of code improvements
* [ADDED] Languages added: hungarian, arabic, turkish and japanese



0.6.4 (2008/09/26)
* [FIXED] Empty combobox error
* [ADDED] Better localisation of the today plugin
* [ADDED] Integration into TF3D/Manila 2D and others
* [ADDED] More comfort on the playlist page (current track will be selected after up/down)
* [ADDED] You can now select whole directories for the playlist
* [ADDED] If you want to add a new one time alarm, the default start time will be in the future
* [ADDED] Activate/deactivate your alarm over a context menu on the start screen (to display the context menu, select an alarm, tap and hold your finger)
* [ADDED] Languages added: portuguese, russian

0.6.3 (2008/09/25)
* [FIXED] Severe today plugin bug
* [ADDED] Support for S2U2 (S2U2 now displays the next G-Alarm)
* [ADDED] Languages added: polish
* [UPDATED] Languages updated: croatian, czech, dutch, italian, spanish

0.6.2 (2008/09/24)
* [ADDED] Tilt sensor support
* [ADDED] Today plugin options
* [ADDED] Languages added: italian
* [UPDATED] Languages updated: english, german, french
* [FIXED] Some today plugin issues

0.6.1 (2008/09/23)
* [ADDED] Multilanguage support
* [ADDED] German language to the default skin
* [ADDED] Languages added: croatian, czech, dutch, french, german, spanish

0.6 (2008/09/23)
* [ADDED] AppToDate support
* [ADDED] New alarm will have the same settings as the last alarm
* [ADDED] Last location in music file browser is stored
* [FIXED] Hopefully fixed: Today plugin error on some devices
* [FIXED] Error after showing more than 2 mazes
* [FIXED] Some Windows Mobile 5 issues
* [FIXED] Bug of 0.5.9: alarm won't go off...

0.5.9 (2008/09/22)
* [ADDED] Today plugin
* [ADDED] More options for skin designers in \gfy\\settings.xml
* [FIXED] Editing an alarm results in editing last alarm in list

0.5.1 (2008/09/19)
* [FIXED] Some new bugs of v0.5

0.5 (2008/09/19)
* [ADDED] Select every day / weekend days or work days
* [ADDED] Lots of skin improvements
* [ADDED] Improved useability
* [FIXED] Some minor bugs

0.4.1 (2008/09/17)
* [FIXED] Some new bugs of v0.4

0.4 (2008/09/17)
* [ADDED] One time alarm
* [ADDED] Repeat options (play alarms for x minutes, repeat alarms x times)
* [ADDED] Option: choose skin
* [ADDED] Option: show maze only once
* [ADDED] Skin improvements and skinnable snooze and stop alarm buttons
* [FIXED] Backlight bug
* [FIXED] Sound bug after alarm
* [FIXED] Minor bugs on start screen when no alarm was set

0.3 (2008/09/15)
* [ADDED] Finger-friendly skin
* [ADDED] Support for skins (take the default skin in the "gfx" directory as an example to create a new skin!)
* [ADDED] Support for vibration
* [ADDED] Second maze added
* [ADDED] Option: Play mazes randomly

0.2.3 (2008/09/14)
Back from vacations...
* [FIXED] NullReferenceException Bug
* [FIXED] Device dims the backlight during snoozing
* [ADDED] Option to fix Windows alarm bug
* [ADDED] Option to add G-Alarm to S2U2's exception list if there are problems with S2U2
* [ADDED] Less entries in the notification queue makes G-Alarm more reliable
* [ADDED] "GAlarmUninstall.exe" in the installation directory. Execute this before uninstalling G-Alarm (you have to do this manually until I find a way to implement it into the uninstallation process)

0.2.2 (2008/09/06)
* [ADDED] Option: "Save power during snooze time" Uncheck this if the phone doesn't wake up after snooze time
* [FIXED] Displays time in the correct time format (24 hours vs. 12 hours)
* [UPDATED] Alternative playback mode is now the standard mode and recommended to use on WM6 (and above) devices because it has better performance. Make sure, "Alternative playback mode" is unchecked now in the options
* [FIXED] You can now switch off the screen after testing an alarm
* [FIXED] Better start mechanism - G-Alarm wakes up Windows Mobile hopefully on any device
* [UPDATED] If option "Save power during snooze time" is set: device goes directly to sleep after clicking "Snooze"
* [ADDED] Show time when maze is displayed
* [UPDATED] Better support for S2U2 - hopefully for ThrottleLock as well...

0.2.1 (2008/09/04)
* [FIXED] Fade-In Bug (hopefully fixed now)
* [FIXED] When setting "Force volume" is checked, the actual volume mode (vibration, muted) is restored after alarm
* [FIXED] Playlist repeats now
* [FIXED] Device goes to normal power mode when snooze mode is activated (device is able to sleep during snooze time)
* [FIXED] Some minor bugs
* [ADDED] Option: "Show alarm over all windows" (works with S2U2, not yet with ThrottleLock (?))

0.2 (2008/09/03)
* [FIXED] Fade-In Bug
* [FIXED] Error when playing music (Please check "alternative playback mode" in the options)
* [ADDED] Option: "use alternative playback mode" - if there occurs an error when the alarm starts
* [ADDED] Option: "Force volume (even if muted)"
* [ADDED] Option: "Confirm closing of alarm" - No question after clicking on "Stop alarm"
* [ADDED] Shows an info on the start page when the next alarm starts

0.1.1 (2008/09/01)
* This is just a version with some bug fixes and no new features [FIXED] QVGA support
* [FIXED] Error when trying to add files to the playlist
* [FIXED] Error when creating alarms on devices where time format is not 24h
* [FIXED] Error on reloading alarms on some devices
* [ADDED] Better power management support

0.1 (2008/08/31)
* First release


Requirements:
* Pocket PC Windows Mobile 5.0
* Pocket PC Windows Mobile 6.x

More information:
G-Alarm

Download
* G-Alarm
* Skin for G-Alarm


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