Registered: Apr 2000
Location: Iowa
Posts: 6

VDX Automatically Turning On

This morning I noticed my Visor Deluxe was turning itself on automatically. I've been watching it since and it's turning on every hour, on the hour. The last things I've installed are an upgrade to Planetarium and Niggle. It also turns itself on a couple of minutes after every hotsync, but it's been doing that for quite a while.

Any help would be appreciated!

Steve

Registered: May 2001
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Posts: 80

Hmm interesting that you should post this as mine has also started turning itself on for some reason. Any input on this would be appreciated

Registered: Jul 2000
Location: Vancouver, BC, Canada
Posts: 415

youre not using 'runtime', are you? that could cause it.

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Registered: May 2001
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Well I am, I worked it out about an hour after I posted. Which is a real bugger bcause I like that app

Registered: Apr 2000
Location: Iowa
Posts: 6

It's Runtime

I got to thinking and figured it was probably Runtime. I set the interval time to 5 min and it started turning on every 5 minutes. So, I've set it up to 8 hrs. I hate to do that because if you do a reset, you lose the time in that interval. Hopefully Runtime will be fixed.

Anyone use another program that will keep track of on time?

Thanks!

Registered: Feb 2000
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Posts: 68

What you are seeing is a "silent alarm" to wake up and do some processing. I don't think there is any way to fix it, without the OS being rearchitected to allow things to run in the background without interfering with the foreground application that may be running.

You may search in the archives and find something about this and BackupBuddy. BB has a feature that can sync the clock with your pc. It does this via a similar silent alarm about a minute or so after the hotsync finishes.