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delete the list of alarns

maybe this is posted at the wrong place, plz move it then.

is there a way (command in xterm) to delete the list of alarms? with this i mean the list of previously used alarms at the clock (kinda hard to explain hope this is clear enough), it gets longer and longer..

thx!

Re: delete the list of alarns

Quote:

Originally Posted by tim_de_wolf (Post 994305)

http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=57598

No terminal command, but you can manually remove the alarms from the text file. I think it's a reasonable solution for doing it once, you can prevent the list from growing large if you just edit an old alarm in it instead of always creating a new one. That's what I'm doing now, for the lack of a better solution.

Re: delete the list of alarns

Quote:

Originally Posted by tim_de_wolf (Post 994305)

You can do it one-by-one by clicking on this alarm on a list, then on the right side of screen you have two buttons: "Delete" and "Save".
And you know, on this list, on the left side of each alarm name, there is a square - it is a checkbox. If you want to set alarm to the same time as before (the same hour during day), you can click this checkbox and it will activate alarm - you won't have to create new one with the same hour. This is very unintuitive in my oppinion, I discovered this behaviour accidentaly after few months of using the phone... (maybe I'm just stupid).

If you want another way, alarms are stored in /var/cache/alarmd/alarm_queue.ini , but don't delete this file, as it will remove also every calendar alarm (as discovered by CepiPerez in http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p=738068&postcount=5 ). Someone could write a script which would parse this file and remove every alarm, which has line

Quote:

attr0.attr_data.sval: osso-clock

and does NOT have line

Quote:

action1.dbus_interface: com.nokia.calendar

inside... Anyone up to it?

Re: delete the list of alarns

Ok, as I'm learning python, I just tried to write it. USE IT AT YOUR OWN RISK

Code:

sudo gainroot

apt-get install wget

wget http://www.miskiewicz.org/files/alarmcleaner.py

python alarmcleaner.py

Wait for it to finish running and then reboot your phone.

I tried to keep all other alarms (calendar, and possibly other).

If it failed and after reboot you notice problems or alarms from calendar disappeared, my script made a copy, so you can restore it:
Open terminal and paste this:

Code:

sudo gainroot

cp /home/user/MyDocs/alarm_queue.copy.ini /var/cache/alarmd/alarm_queue.ini

And reboot once again.

If everything is fine, open file manager (from applications menu), select "N900" memory and delete alarm_queue.copy.ini file from your internal storage.

The source of script is as follows (if anyone is interested):

Code:

import os

import shutil

# file names

filename1 = '/var/cache/alarmd/alarm_queue.ini'

filename2 = '/home/user/MyDocs/alarm_queue.copy.ini'

# make a copy

shutil.copy(filename1, filename2)

# open files

f1 = open(filename2, 'r')

f2 = open(filename1, 'w')

# read file 1

f1lines = f1.readlines()

# write first 3 lines

f2.write(f1lines[0] + f1lines[1] + f1lines[2])

tmp = []

howMany1 = 0

howMany2 = 0

# do the magic

for i in range(3, len(f1lines)):

    tmp.append(f1lines[i])

    # empty lines indicate ends of single alarms

    if len(f1lines[i]) < 2:

        foundosso = False

        foundcalendar = False

        howMany1 = howMany1 + 1

        # check if there are these two specific lines in alarm description

        for j in range(0, len(tmp)):

            if tmp[j] == 'attr0.attr_data.sval: osso-clock\n':

                foundosso = True

            if tmp[j] == 'action1.dbus_interface: com.nokia.calendar\n':

                foundcalendar = True

        # if it is osso-clock and not calendar, do nothing, if else write to new file

        if not(foundosso and not(foundcalendar)):

            for k in range(0, len(tmp)):

                f2.write(tmp[k])

            f2.write('\n')

        else:

            howMany2 = howMany2 + 1

        tmp = None

        tmp = []

f1.close()

f2.close()

print 'Done'

print 'Total alarms found: ' + str(howMany1)

print 'Alarms removed: ' + str(howMany2)

print '(Rest of alarms is from calendar etc., I tried to keep them)'

print 'Please reboot your phone now'