So, is there a way to tell the N810 to SHUT UP!. I mean, I've got a bunch of recurring alarms set. But, you know, sometimes I'd like to go places where alarms going off are inappropriate.

If I set the volume control to mute, the alarm still sounds.
If I go into the control panel and mute the ringtones, the alarm still sounds.
If I turn the dang thing off, it wakes up and sounds the alarm!

Do I really have to go in and delete every relevant alarm? In Clock and FlipClock? Is there not some kind of secret button that disables alarms temporarily? Do I have to plug some headphone jack into it just to trick it into shutting up?

My cellphone has a quite mode... no sounds. My camera has a museum mode, no sound or flash. Does the N810 have such a thing? What, do I have to pull the battery?

It seems like such a simple thing,

David...

No disrespect intended... but there is a small button at the top of your Nokia called a "power button" turn your device off or remove the annoying alerts. If you do not want to be alerted... don't ask to be alerted...
Peace

I don't know if Flight Mode will do that.
I can kind of see what you mean - I'm on a flight using my NIT, no headphones, it's 2am and the alarm triggers....or...I'm sneaking in some aisle riot (no pun intended) at church...

As fixerdave mentioned in his post, Internet Tablets will happily power themselves back on to sound an alarm. So, power off is not a solution. Battery removal will work, of course, but is inconvenient.

I believe the N800, at least, will actually wake up on an alarm even if powered off.

For Palm there was a utility just for situations like this: 'NoAlarms'. You could specify a time window where no alarms would sound, and in addition it could show you what alarms were currently coming up.

Hmm, trying to look for a /dev file that we could lock to prevent any sound at all...

I don't know if the N810 uses ALSA (or something similar) or if has audio support provided through a kernel module, but in these cases you can stop ALSA and/or remove the module...

But if the tablet is powered down - and will wake itself up to sound the alarm - how do you stop it from sounding off using a software solution?

Could a 'Shut Up' program provide a global muting that would work even in that situation (i.e. after a re-boot)?

Sounds useful if it could.

Oh, you should try a little experiment. Maybe, as fitting for the day, you should go off and download yourself a Psyco'ish scream-tone and set yourself an alarm. Then, shutdown. I mean Power Down, Off, Dead, Completely. Then, go do something sinful with your significant other (if you haven't noticed, it's always the sinners that get it in the slasher flicks). Then, just at the worst possible moment - well, exactly when you asked - the little N810 will pull a Freddie Kruger and flicker back to life. Well, not a real life, just some flashes and burbs, then up into some weird un-dead zombie-like state where it blasts off your scream-tone, louder and louder, until you have no choice but to hit the dang thing. About then, you'd be ready to drive a wooden stake through its tiny electronic heart.

You know, I can respect the significant amounts of engineering that went into this ability, to wake from the dead, but I have to wonder... Why? I mean, I suppose if there was some kind of nuclear war or something and the power went out, I could turn the N810 off and have it wake me up once per day. I expect it would last a few weeks at that rate. But, even the Nokia docs say this thing is intended to be left on all the time. The only time I can thing of when I'd actually like to turn it off is when I want it to STAY off. For every situation where I could imagine a use for powering up from an off state for an alarm, I could imagine a thousand times where I'd specifically not want this. I mean, what if I wanted to go to the opera? Okay, me going to the opera is slightly less likely than a nuclear war; my personal opera-clock has never even been close to midnight. But, there really are times when I'd like to just turn the N810 off and forget about it. The engineering that makes it turn itself back on just seems so... counter-productive, worse than useless. Does anyone actually use this feature? Most of us don't even know it exists, at least until we get a rude surprise.

Anyway, it's not a huge deal. I guess I'm just in a silly mood.

Maybe I should go into that Brainstorm forum and propose an App that just makes backups and then deletes all the set alarms. Then, when running it again, it just puts all the saved alarms back. Having to do it just seems funny is all. It's such an obvious deficiency in such a wonderful device. Maybe that "airplane mode" does disable alarms too. I guess I'll download that scream-tone myself and try another test.

David...

Or: don't do alarms that you don't need to be alarmed of.