Alert/calendar alarm default

is here a way to set a defaul alert/alarm for when you enter a new event on the iphone calendar? i am able to set this on my iCal on my laptop, but sometimes i enter in bunch of dates into my iPhone calendar and there's no alert set and i'd like a default of alarm with sound set for 1 day prior to event (this is what i have set on iCal but that's my home laptop so when i am away and need to enter in events onto my iPhone, i'd like to have the alerts set automatically)
thanks!

Anyone know the best way to lobby Apple about this? Having an default alert for calendar entries is a big time saver and a good way to avoid the embarrassment of a missed meeting.
Also, being able to select/change the sound that's played for calendar alerts would be welcome.

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I have searched high and low here and in the user manual however, have not found the answer to my query, so I hope you will forgive me if this topic has been covered before.
I use the Calendar extensively to remind myself of appointments and birthdays etc. When making a new entry I choose Meeting and go through the process of creating that new entry entering the Subject, Location, Start time, End time, Start Date, End date and when you get to the Alarm setting is is set to the default of OFF. I want to know if this can be changed to Default to ON. It is driving me a little crazy that, as you are setting something to remind you, surely the alarm default should be ON.
Please stop me from going crazy...
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The reason the alarm is defaulted to off, is that you can set your calender to homescreen and see meetings and to do notes, plus if it's a meeting the alarm probably needs to be set prior to the meeting ( so you have time to get there). If it was set automatically to say 30 minutes before, it wouln't really help if you were 2 hrs away. Besides which it takes about a second to turn it on !
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Is there any way that I can change the default Calendar alarm to email?
I don't use the "pop-up" on screen alarm, which appears to be the default, because that relies on me being in front of the iMac at the time whereas I can read email alarms on any computer (even at Client's premises) wherever I am, and having to remeber to change every single appointment to "email to" is a positive nuisance.
I seem to recall this was possible a couple of generations ago in iCal on Snow Leopard but the option was inexplicably removed in a no doubt "improving" update!
Surely Apple should provide the option to change the default alarm to personal preference?
Or am I being stupid and overlooking something obvious?
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And it's not just the inablility to customize alerts in Calendar. The iWork app suite (Numbers, Pages, etc.), also has major issues, e.g., no more initial caps when typing.
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I've just got a 5800. My first experience was of loading the disk that came with the handset and finding that the ‘Ovi’ applications together with Vista seemed reluctant to do anything. Loading even my basic info, e.g. phonebook onto my new handset was impossible. I still haven't managed to get the Music and Photo applications to boot up, let alone communicate with the handset. Others like the Ovi Suite boot up but won't communicate. After struggling for a day, a very helpful Nokia rep called back and pointed me towards PC Suite, which ran like a breeze. Getting past those immediate issues, I was drawn to the calendar interface on the home screen and loaded a few sample events to see how it behaved. The current day’s events show first as might be expected. Then the list continues, showing future events for which a reminder has been set. This means that I now have a constant reminder to buy Aunt Mavis a birthday card and post it over the next few days! It stays there until the event has past, so I am reminded also to phone her on the big day. On the strength of those excellent results, I synchronised my handset with Outlook. The following morning at 6am I was rudely awoken by all manner of chiming and buzzing. It wouldn't have been so bad, but the 'real alarm' was set to go off at 7:30. It seems that All Day Events, like Birthdays, tasks to renew to the insurance and reminders to buy milk are treated as urgent events which you must be awoken at 6am to deal with, even if, in the case of Aunt Mavis' card, the shops aren't open for another 3 hours. I dread to think what will happen at the weekend when I was hoping to have a lie-in.
This seems like basic stuff, so I went in search of a basic solution and found the following: There don't seem to be any options in PC Suite for the handling of reminders. If there is a reminder set in Outlook, then, upon synchronisation, PC Suite converts this into an Alarm.
I did find an option on the handset under Calendar Settings to set the Calendar Alarm Tone globally to “None”. The next morning, however, I was greeted by buzzing, which repeated incessantly every few minutes until I was awake enough to pick up the handset and cancel it! Turning to Outlook, I found a reminder sound is set for each appointment by default. I’ve never noticed it before. I guess it hasn’t been an issue because All Day Event chimes must go off at midnight when the PC is usually switched off. So I modified all my All Day Events to have no reminder sound. On synchronisation, it turns out this gets rid of the beeping but still leaves the buzzing as before. Looking at PC Suite again, it is possible to edit each appointment after synchronisation. Setting aside any concerns that manually editing entries is sure to cause future synchronisation headaches, there is an option for the Alarm to be changed to “Not Set”. It seems there is no way of doing this quickly as you have to edit each individually (100+ in my case). It turns out, however, that doing this not only removes the alarm but also the reminder itself – it no longer appears on the home screen as a future event. This means I don’t find out about Aunt Mavis until the day of her birthday - too late to send a card!
I guess on the handset I could disable vibration completely in the profile settings, but I do rather rely on that for calls, messages and of course, the real alarm clock. I guess even then an alert would still come up on the screen at 6am every morning and have to be cancelled.
Have I missed something obvious? Does anyone have a work around? Is this common to all Nokias? Can anyone come to my rescue as I am about to abandon this calendar feature as a beautifully conceived but fatally flawed!!!

I like your thinking el-loco! And thanks to au-N97 and radical 24 for taking it a stage further.
Calendar alarms certainly 'feel' like they should be profile related – in some situations active, in others disabled. I went to test out the Warning tones option and found I had already set it to off a few days ago whilst getting rid of the power on/off jingle that had come preloaded on the phone. (It was annoying me!)
Following el-loco’s principle though, it is possible to turn off vibration instead. The Calendar Alarm Tone would have to be set globally to “None” as it is not a profile option. No beeps or buzzing at dawn now; that would just leave the screen lighting up every few minutes – the alert repeats endlessly on an automatic ‘snooze cycle’ until the user intervenes and “Stop” is pressed on the handset.
In the meantime guess I will have to resort to powering off the phone completely overnight. Just a thought - is possible to do a timed / automatic power off / power on of the handset – say powering off at 05:59 and on again at 06:01 to get around it??
Sorry about the examples I used in my original post, by the way – I was only trying to get the point across. Fundamentally, I see the issue as follows:
If I understand correctly, the phone has 4 possible notification methods for each calendar event:
Alarm tone
Alarm vibrate
Alarm screen alert
Home screen list
The first 3 are ‘interrupts’ they alert the user and have to be dealt with or cancelled immediately.
The fourth is method is ‘informative’ - available for the user to check at any time, but does not demand immediate intervention.
Reminders can fall into either category
–interrupts, where you need to go somewhere or do something at a specific scheduled time, e.g. set off to a meeting , or
-advisory, non scheduled and / or non time specific events. This category is much broader and includes all the other things you have get done when you have a minute, ad hoc meetings to arrange, issues to resolve, tasks to complete etc. It might also include designated days, i.e. contract deliveries, a client presentation, leave days, renewals, anniversaries etc for which you have to contribute, e.g. a reminder two days before the contract delivery date so you can check everything is in order and deal with any outstanding issues, or a reminder 5 days before a client presentation so you can a start getting your material together and make the necessary travel arrangements etc. NB: Outlook deals with this very well – in that latter example, it will quietly sit in your reminder list constantly until your presentation, or you can cancel it early if you have completed all the prep. The phone’s Home screen list appears to have the same capability, albeit I have experienced some erratic results (see confusion in previous post).
The problem seems to be that the handset does not distinguish between the two categories – it is not possible to have an advisory reminder without also having and interrupt alarm. If there is no specific time applicable to an event/reminder, the handset overrides this and sets an interrupt alarm for 6am. This makes no sense as it is effectively demanding my attention at a time of its own choosing!!! (If you follow, that is the cause of my rude awakening each morning.)
If there is no other solution, it ‘feels’ like a synchronisation settings issue. Perhaps the user could choose how alarms and reminders are dealt with on the phone for time specific and non-time specific appointments?
The profile setting touched upon at the start goes hand in hand. There are many circumstances that it might not be appropriate for your phone to start beeping / vibrating and / or flashing, irrespective of whether they are time or non- time specific events. To name but two, in my workplace, a phone going off in a meeting is frowned upon unless it is a genuine emergency. Also, when on leave, I don’t think many people would be pleased about their phones going off for meetings / events that are happening back at work!
A finale angle I can explore is from a usability perspective:
Layer 0
Other than by switching the phone off altogether, at the moment there seems to be no easy way to suppress or control when or where calendar alarms go off. If you don’t want interrupt alarms, you can’t synch your calendar.
Layer 1
If it were possible to suppress interrupts (tone, vibrate and screen alert), the calendar would become useful as a reference tool. When someone asks if I am free for a meeting at 2pm next Tuesday, or available for dinner at 8pm, I would at least be able to check on the handset and confirm.
Layer2
If suppressing interrupts were possible by profile, I would in addition have a useful alarm tool for important events, and be able to use the automated switchover workaround as described by the other contributors.
Layer3
Adding synchronising options to allow time and non-time specific reminders to be handled differently. No switchover workaround would be necessary. Resolving the erratic operation of the Home screen list would add maximum value.
Well those are my thoughts, what does everyone else think?

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Before I got my iPhone I used my mobile phones (dumb, android, Symbian) to set an alarm with the calendar. I'm having a hard time properly doing so on my iPhone. My brain is lined with teflon and I forget a lot of stuff - up until now my mobile phones have been vital in remedying this.
Say that I have an important appointment at 14:00 two weeks from now, I punch it in the calendar on my iPhone and let it alert me an hour before the event. When the time comes my iPhone lets out a measly "beep" that no one hears and I miss the appointment - I can go entire work days without looking at my phone (and phone usage is strongly discouraged at my workplace) so this is really a big problem for me. So far I've missed a couple of important meetings, left important stuff undone and forgot to pick my kid up from kindergarten (my wife usually does, but there are those rare, calendar reminder occasions when I have to)!
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I was not aware of the fact one could use ringtones as alarms, this will suffice! Although I foresee some very awkward times as the sound does not stop once I respond to the reminder (it keeps going for good five - ten seconds after I "stop" the reminder), but it's better than missing it altogether!
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-Modular747: I don't know anyone who actually reads the terms of service agreement, those things are usually up to thirty, small print pages full of legal jargon. Rules, I do read - not the legal documents (also they often contradict the laws in my country, but that's a whole different story).
I agree with you - the average customer support consultant mostly cares about keeping his job and earning his salary (don't we all?) and thus racking up completted tasks (i.e. getting rid of customers as fast as possible - in a good mood). The "threat" none the less is real, if a cell phone causes me more trouble than it is worth, I will indeed throw it away (I have done so before) - and recommend a different brand to anyone willing to listen.
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I will send the feedback but based on my observations I suspect the Send button is merely a cleverly disguised Delete button.

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You received the error because some security issue with the App Sandbox, basically the OS doesn't think your app is safe because it's not signed. You can confirm this by opening the console. Look for a message saying something like:
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