Want to enable recurring audio notification of new emails

My colleague Jeff and I both had customers that wanted to enable recurring audio notification of new emails.  That is that the device will continue to beep or play a sound until you the email.

If you go into the Notifications option on your Windows Mobile device there exists the options to setup sounds and alerts for different events.

If you notice there is the (greyed out) repeat option for Playing Sounds.... this box always seems to be greyed out and we couldn't find a solution to allow us to select this. 

After a lot of work (on Jeff's part) What we discovered is an unsupported registry hack modification.

You will need a Windows Mobile registry editor (We used this one https://www.breaksoft.com/Blog/Utilities/2005/1/Mobile_Registry_Editor.aspx)

Now the key you need to change is in HKCU so scroll through HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ControlPanel\Notifications keys until you find the one with the value Default REG_SZ Messaging: New Email Message

Edit Options to 1073741835

You should now be able to set recurring email notifications :)

Thanks to Super Sleuth Jeff on this one :)

Comments

• Anonymous
  January 07, 2008
  Jason, surely this begs the why this would be greyed out in the first place?  OEM's surely would it disabled it when they get the Roms from MS?

• Anonymous
  January 07, 2008
  Alex - unfortunately I've never been able to discover why it is greyed out... a Windows Mobile mystery.

• Anonymous
  January 07, 2008
  The value 1073741835 should be added as a decimal value. The hex value is 4000000B. Hex values can only be 8 digits.

• Anonymous
  January 25, 2008
  Tried your modification and it does activate the repeat option.  I have used it on the missed call and new text alert as well.  One problem though is that the alarm does not stop when the alert is cleared.  Any ideas about this?

• Anonymous
  January 28, 2008
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