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KX5 and short alarm times
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Posted by: Spenster

Does anyone know how to make the alrm continue ringing until you turn it off. Currently, when the alarm goes off, it will sound for about 20 seconds if even that long. Now, I'm the type that likes sleeping for long hours and a 20 second alarm is hardly reason to get up. Is there any setting that I'm missing that will make the alarm continue to sound until I turn it off. Thanks in advance.

Posted by: tcovil

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Originally Posted by Spenster

Does anyone know how to make the alrm continue ringing until you turn it off. Currently, when the alarm goes off, it will sound for about 20 seconds if even that long. Now, I'm the type that likes sleeping for long hours and a 20 second alarm is hardly reason to get up. Is there any setting that I'm missing that will make the alarm continue to sound until I turn it off. Thanks in advance.

That's a function of the clip that is being used as the sound for the alarm. The original source must only be 20 secs.

You need to take an MP3 and turn it into a ringtone (use Search feature to find posts that tell you how to do that, if you don't already know). Make it as long as you want (2 minutes, 4 minutes, whatever), but make sure you convert it to a low bit rate and make it mono to reduce the filesize. Then you're going to need to change the filename to match one of the alarm filenames (example: freeway.mid). Then you'll need to copy it to the phone to overwrite the original. Then set your alarm to use that sound, and it should play all the way to end of the clip.