Just found a way to make alarm work during airplane mode:
1) Display must be set to either:
       a)"Dim: Never Dim" or
       b)"Any of the other Dim options combined with "Off: Lock Key Only"
2) Set phone to Airplane mode: ">Settings >General >Airplane Mode=On
            note: clock will disappear from screen, but its still-a-tickin
3) Set alarm time: ">Main >Clock >Alarm"
4) DO NOT SCREEN LOCK  note: if you lock screen, your alarm will not sound until you unlock your screen (kinda defeats the purpose of setting the alarm, hunh?)
5) Connect to charger, slide Instinct into holder and get some zzzzzzzzzz’s.  Your Instinct will awake you at your set time. Samsung Instinct
not the ideal way to do it, but it works Samsung Cell Phone tips & tricks

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For all the people who use Microsoft Outlook, there is an application called Microsoft Outlook SMS that is a plug in to your outlook. If set correctly, every time you update your calender or set a task for yourself, outlook will automatically send you a SMS to your phone. This is good because you dont have to log on to Gmail Calender to see your schedule. Now, if you ask, what about if im mobile and I want to update my calender. The way around this is to use your gmail calender, make your new entry, if you always leave your mac/pc on, the gmail sync will kick on and sync your gmail calender with your outlook calender, then send you an SMS with any new appointments. This is an alternative to just using gmail calender. Hope this helps out.. Samsung Instinct

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I found this site that had a fix for the Desktop Sync & Mobile Sync that works! I tried it and it works. Here is how: Samsung Instinct
I have discovered a very easy fix for anyone with the “The system could not validate login for unknown reasons.” issue while syncing outlook contacts to Samsung Instinct. .
1. Log in to sprint.com
2. Do you see your Samsung Instinct phone under your profile or does it show the old phone. If you are having the outlook sync problem, most likely your old phone is there under your profile.
3. Click on settings & passwords link on top
4. Click on update profile
5. Click on update phone
7. Enter your phone number, you will get a text message with code
8. Enter that code when asked on the website
9. Log out, log back in
10. Sprint Samsung Instinct should be there now. Click on “Online Tools” on top
11. Click on mobile sync to set it up.
12. Done, plug in your phone and sync away!

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Hello gang I have seen some threads on DC and I am going to try and bring it all together in this thread with all the correct links to connect at home and at work; here we go! Samsung Instinct

Samsung Instinct tricks – Desktop Connectors steps and links to work email

1.I would advise to set the connection 1st at home when you have time and no interruptions at this link.
https://sprintce.sprintpcs.com/subscriber/create_slingshot_user.stp
2.You must remember all the settings, i.e. username and password these should not change from the orginal       
    settings, you 1st set up at the above link.
3. Now onto setting it up a downloading the  DC exe file i.e. on your work computer
4. Go to this link on your work computer, https://sprintce.sprintpcs.com/subscriber/login.stp
5. Use the username and password u used to set up your home computer settings
6. When you login you will see a big download box for DC ver 6.6.8. 236
7. This will download the exe file and just follow the steps to put it on your work desktop
8. JUST REMEMBER YOU HAVE TO USE THE YOUR ORIGINAL SETTINGS FROM WHEN YOU 1ST
    INSTALLED DESKTOP CONNECTOR

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Put your music on the Samsung instinct

Step 1:
-Downloading The Software-
Go to www.MediaMonkey.com and click on download, then follow the links till it starts. This has to be one of the best freewares out there. It makes converting music and embedding album art a breeze, so I highly recommend getting this for putting music on your Instinct.
Step 2:
-Finding Your Music-
Get all of the music that you want to put on your Instinct and copy it into a folder purely for your instinct. This way you have back ups if you every need them. I suggest making sub folders for Artists and albums but you can do them all at once into one folder as well.
example:
Desktop\Instinct Music\Opeth\Stilllife
Step 3:
-Converting Your Music-
Open Media Monkey, (I recommend doing the albums individually but you can do all at once) copy the music you want and paste into the now playing window.
Select all of the files and click on Tools then "Convert Audio Format" (or Shift+Control+C).
A window will pop up with the destination for the new files, copy the folder (continuing the example: Desktop\Instinct Music\Opeth\Stilllife) and paste it into the text window.
Next you need to change the format so click on the scroll tab that says "format" next to it and click on MP3.
If you want, you can click on settings bellow "format" to change the bit rate or quality of the song.
Click on "Okay" located at the bottom right of the window to start the conversion and let it take it’s sweet time to finish.
Step 3:
-Embedding Album Art-
After your music is converted, you can add album art to make a much better presentation on your Instinct. To do so, you are first going to need to download a file of the album art. I personally used google and did a image search for "Opeth Stilllife"(Opeth being the band, and stilllife being the album". find a image that is bigger then 240×240 px and download it. I recommend saving it with the album for safe keeping.
Once you have the album art, you need to get a image conversion program. Programs like Photoshop (not freeware) or Gimp (freeware) work great.
You can get Gimp (freeware) at http://www.gimp.org/
I personally use photo shop so I am going to explain what to do with that but I am sure that Gimp is very similar in process.
Open Photoshop, and click on file, then open. find the album art that you had downloaded (example: Desktop\Instinct Music\Opeth\Stilllife\Stilllife Album Art) and click on open.
Once you have the image opened in photoshop, click on "Image", then "Image Size". a window will pop up for this. click on the scroll tab and click on pixels. After this change the width to 240px, hit "OK", then "File" , "Save As" and save into the same place that the original picture was from under the same name. It will ask you if you want to overwrite the original file, hit "OK".
Now that you have the Album Art in the right resolution, open Media Monkey again and put the music that you have already converted into the "Now Playing" tab. select the album that you want to embed the album art to, right click it, and hit "Properties". A window will pop up. Click on the "Album Art" tab and hit "Add". Next you find the image that you converted and hit "Open", then "OK".
Now you have your music embedded with album art! yay!
Step 4:
-Getting The Music Onto The Instinct-
There are several ways to do this. One is through the software that came with the phone, the second is through Media Monkey, and the Third (which I use and will explain) is manually. I recommend doing this manually just because I know there are people out there that cant get there phones to connect to the Media Manager, and this works no matter what.
Connect your phone to your computer, or connect the SD card into a SD slot in your computer, and open the Removable Disk. Click on Music, then copy the files that you converted and paste them into this folder. This will take some time, so do get too gitty while waiting!
Once all the files are copied onto the memory stick, their put the memory stick into your phone, or unplug the usb cord depending on which method you used.
Now that your music is on your phone, open the music program, and enjoy!!!

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