[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] Maemo Alarm/Notifier Interface

[From: Danny Milosavljevic]

Hi,

Am Samstag, den 21.01.2006, 12:38 +0000 schrieb Andrew Flegg:
> On 1/21/06, Danny Milosavljevic <danny.milo at gmx.net> wrote:
> >
> > What about just warning the user when he tries to power off?
> >
> > [ Poweroff but events are pending
> > [
> > [ The next event comes up on xx.xx.xxxx at xx:xx.
> > [ Are you sure you want to power off and possibly miss the alarm?
> > [
> > [   [Oops]  [Power Off]
> 
> But what if the event's in a week or so? How do you remember to power it
> up again? Set an alarm somewhere else, perhaps? ;-)

Yeah, that's a problem :)

> 
> > However,
> > 1) It wouldn't occur to me that a switched-off cell phone would deliver
> > the alarm. [somewhat Off-Topic: with cell service providers in our
> > country _tracking where the users are and telling it to random callers_,
> > I'd throw it away the second I would see it reactivating from poweroff]
> 
> Every *single* phone I've owned with an alarm function will turn itself on to
> sound the alarm. Whether Nokia, Sony Ericsson or other...

oic

> 
> > 2) If I have alarms set but switch the cell phone off, I do it
> > deliberately because I want my peace and quiet (also not to be able to
> > be called), and if I had a meeting with the president of the country and
> > now miss the alarm, _so be it_ (of course it could warn me when I try to
> > switch it off, but not after that). Of course that's maybe a personality
> > problem (or just coping with complexity), but that's what I do :)
> 
> If you want your phone to be quiet, you set it to silent mode - which is
> remembered when it turns itself back on to sound the alarm.

good point

> 
> > There is also the side case to consider that when baterry runs low, I
> > turn it off to conserve power for later use when I need it more
> > urgently.
> 
> Indeed, and my own use case for alarms is that if I've set an alarm to
> go off that is the absolute most important thing to happen. 

yes, you have a point there

> If my battery's
> running low and I need to turn the device off to conserve more power,
> it's still important it'll turn itself on to alert me.
> 
> > If it wouldn't really turn off when I tell it to, how much
> > power would that draw? Would it endanger the later use? Or would it be
> > neglectable?
> 
> Except off will mean off - the chip which re-awakes the device is already
> running and keeping track of the time even when the device is
> hard-off.

I see... ok then, I don't see any remaining reason not to use that :) 
(other than that I have to remember to set it to silent if I don't want
it to bother me, but that's to be fixed in my brain, not the device :))

cheers,
  Danny