Windows Phone Thoughts: Possible Fix for Windows Mobile 2003 Reminder Issue

There's an interesting thread on Brighthand started by PATRICKJEF - he says he talked to someone at HP about the reminder issue and this was their response:

"...this (the alarm situation) has been escalated to Microsoft. What is happening has to do with the "housekeeping" that occurs at midnight. The Operating System comes on for 15 seconds at or around midnight , as you know, to perform housekeeping duties. Within those responsibilities is the packing of the alarm database file, dbnotify. Unfortunately, 15 seconds is not long enough for all of this to happen. On top of this, every time a soft reset is performed, the size of the Dbnotify file, doubles. Hence, the 15 seconds grows shorter and shorter as there is more to do and less time to get it done. This time will be increased in the following release to 1 minute."

This description might indeed be accurate - as of yet I haven't heard of any truly definitive description of the problem. The thread goes on to provide a download that apparently fixes the problem - but also seems to cause a few other issues. Be very careful installing software from unknown sources.