I have reset the "alarm sound" on the clock from the menu several times, but it never really changes (yes I hit 'save'). It sounds like someone plucking a guitar string 3 times, no matter what it's set to.
I've become somewhat frustrated by this, not really annoyed, just curious as to how to get it to really change. (I'm running .85 FW but it did the same thing under .63 and .75)...
I did the same, but after some tests the weird sound returned. I emailed a friend of mine who has the storm and his did it once, but seemed to work again.
I have this problem on my 8900 and I'm trying to fix it. The sound that it plays is not a sound in the list of tones/ringtones/notifiers at all... jeez.
I've got a fix for it... 3 steps, and I'm not sure if step 1 is needed or not.
Step 1: (found this on some other forum) Enable the firewall on the 8900. Options -> Security Options -> Firewall
Step 2: Set the alarm tone to a song on a media card and trigger the alarm
Step 3: Set the alarm tone back to antelop (or whatever) and it should work
I only did step 1 because I read somewhere that it is part of the process for fixing it, but it makes no sense to me that it would do anything relevant. But, those were the steps I took to get my alarm to play the correct tone.
thanks for the info guys. especially you emkayh. i just set my alarm to be a favorite song instead of that annoying chime thing. we'll see if it works out.