Another Free Way to Use Sound Profiles

XDA Developers’ ProfileTimer is yet another free solution for using profiles on your Windows Mobile Professional device.

The interface has several icons (from left to right) for normal, vibrate, silent and lights off, a daily listing for your profiles and information about current date, time left for next profile activation and battery information.

The biggest downside to this application I’ve found is that you can’t really customize the behavior of profiles from within the application, but by directly editing the xml file this relies upon (by opening and editing in for instance on your PC’s Notepad). To make it easier, here’s an example:

dayProfile day="Monday"
session activate="07:30" deactivate="12:45" vibrate="on" ring="off" volume="0" /
session activate="13:15" deactivate="15:45" vibrate="on" ring="off" volume="0" /
session activate="20:00" deactivate="22:30" vibrate="on" ring="off" volume="0" /
/dayProfile

This is the default behavior, which you can edit to look like this:

dayProfile day="Monday"
session activate="09:00" deactivate="18:00" vibrate="off" ring="on" volume="3" /
session activate="18:00" deactivate="22:00" vibrate="on" ring="on" volume="3" /
session activate="22:00" deactivate="23:30" vibrate="on" ring="off" volume="0" /
/dayProfile

It’s not that difficult, you have to specify activation and deactivation time for that certain day, and behaviors for vibrate, ringer and volume. Save your xml and the new settings are now used.

Another downside to this application is that there is no installer. You need to unzip the contents of the archive to a folder on your device (can be Storage Card too) and run it from there, but once you get it customized and running the way you want it, it does the job.