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Alarm clock that works when phone powered off

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Not to start a discussion on the pros and cons of,"Battery Apps" but I've found Battery Booster Full(free version) to be pretty decent and one great feature is it's,"Sleep Mode" as it's the closest thing I've found to having the phone off so and not to be disturbed and save battery when I sleep.The Sleep-mode disables even phone calls and text coming in as well as all data but still allows the alarm to work.

HTH :)
 
I think they meant "remove the battery to force it to really shut down. Then put it back in and see whether it still wakes for the alarm".
 
PaulS said:
Not to start a discussion on the pros and cons of,"Battery Apps" but I've found Battery Booster Full(free version) to be pretty decent and one great feature is it's,"Sleep Mode" as it's the closest thing I've found to having the phone off so and not to be disturbed and save battery when I sleep.The Sleep-mode disables even phone calls and text coming in as well as all data but still allows the alarm to work.

HTH :)
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See my post above (2nd post in thread). You don't need an app to do this .... :p

Dave
 
dvhttn said:
See my post above (2nd post in thread). You don't need an app to do this .... :p

Dave
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Yes I saw your post but it doesn't do what the OP wants or myself e.g a nearly fully switched off phone.Airplane mode,AFAIK,does not stop all unneeded apps etc :p:p
 
How about just suck it up and buy an alarm clock. That way you can turn your phone off and still have an alarm.
 
Our phones are never fully switched off since they have an 'soft' power button. In order to be fully powered off they would need a mechanical power switch, the momentary push to power on we have currently requires a tiny amount of power to function so its acceptable to think that an small timer in the phone could perform the same function.
 
Eugene said:
Our phones are never fully switched off since they have an 'soft' power button. In order to be fully powered off they would need a mechanical power switch, the momentary push to power on we have currently requires a tiny amount of power to function so its acceptable to think that an small timer in the phone could perform the same function.
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Quoted for emphasis. I have no idea why people are getting their knickers in a twist over this. It's an obvious function and astonishingly, my new super duper phone doesn't do it. I was genuinely surprised.
 
KOLIO said:
I've seen this topic of discussion pop-up many, many times. Not having owned a NOKIA or BLACKBERRY,isn't it possible that the ALARM function was a totally separate feature, independent of the rest of the O/S, yet, be powered by the same battery?

This would actually be a cool feature to have on ANDROID devices,especially for those of us who have a hard time putting our phones to rest for the night, giving the phone & the user a much needed break from being connected at the end of the day. A deterrent/time-out from our phones,if you will, yet, have the alarm function available.
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Yes that is almost exactly how it worked on Symbian phones. Except it was actually a tiny rechargeable battery inside the phone. The phone was off and the alarm would ask when you came to disable it would like to boot the phone. How it worked exactly I don't know, but you could only set the alarm with the phone on.
 
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riahc3 said:
All of these saying that you had a old phone that did this:

Remove the battery and see if it does this.
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Nope it didn't, but as in my post above the phone is off, the main battery was needed to power the actual alarm, which was kept running by a tiny battery. The alarm was a programme separate from the main OS entirely. When the phone was off and the alarm time was reached it stopped using the tiny battery inside the phone.

Indeed the tiny battery became faulty, you could actually not use the alarm, but power up the phone as normal and all date and time settings would revert to our of the box defaults.
 
Methos1979 said:
You had a phone that could be powered off and it would turn itself on and wake you up like a clock? Really? I'd like to know what phone that was.

I thought the original post was some kind of joke when I first read it. Now there are great apps that put your phone into a sleep-like mode and can be configured to only allow certain callers or texters to get through (or none) and then turn on at the correct time and wake you. But work from being powered off? I call BS.
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One of my old phones used to turn itself on and sound the alarm. I want to say it was my Nokia N95 but I could be wrong.

It's definitely possible tho, it was a function I used all the time. No idea why current phones don't have the ability.
 
Yep, phones that had an alarm that worked with phone actually powered down (That I've actually used) all Nokia s - N95-1, N900, N8, and N97. I bet some here also don't realise that all the phones I've just mentioned also had an inbuilt FM transmitter. Yep set it to an unused frequency and you could listen to your music in the car over the car stereo. You could even name it for RDS radios. All true and not BS. I'll dig out my N95 and do a video over the weekend.
 
womb raider said:
One of my old phones used to turn itself on and sound the alarm. I want to say it was my Nokia N95 but I could be wrong.

It's definitely possible tho, it was a function I used all the time. No idea why current phones don't have the ability.
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The HTC One has the function. If I set the alarm and then power down, the phone boots up in flight mode at the appropriate time then sounds the alarm. When the alarm is cancelled three options are presented :-

Power off
Take flight mode off
Keep flight mode on

:)
 
dynomot said:
Yep, phones that had an alarm that worked with phone actually powered down (That I've actually used) all Nokia s - N95-1, N900, N8, and N97.
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Works with recent feature phones Nokia Asha 202 and 302 also. Turn them off but with an alarm set. They wake themselves up when it's time for the alarm to go off.
 
dynomot said:
Yep, phones that had an alarm that worked with phone actually powered down (That I've actually used) all Nokia s - N95-1, N900, N8, and N97. I bet some here also don't realise that all the phones I've just mentioned also had an inbuilt FM transmitter. Yep set it to an unused frequency and you could listen to your music in the car over the car stereo. You could even name it for RDS radios. All true and not BS. I'll dig out my N95 and do a video over the weekend.
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No way man, the N95 had fm transmitter?? I actually bought a cheap one of them from a garage without knowing for my beloved N95 had it baked in! :beer:

(Mostly only people from central scotland or ireland will understand this but our very vocal loyalist boss with his own wee blue van could never understand how every lunchtime he got in his van had a wee stretch, turned on the radio and was treated to some of what id call irish republican folk music (or The Rebels)
Ahh his poor ape like face struggling with the dialer made our day) :D
(He'l also never know what we did to his nice wee lunch box whenever we got the chance.... perr fella)
 
Back on topic. Im guessing if you want a phone thatl "know" to boot up for an alarm, itl need a lil low power chip runnin java or symbian inside adding size for a function not many care for. Android has introduced blocking mode and with the Moto X chipsets around, i think we'll all be happy to let our pocket computers sleep in the way they were intended :)
 
I had this discussion in my store more than once, so I checked every phone I carried (TMO and AT&T) for power drain when "off". They all draw some power when turned "off", so they're not off, they're in standby. (You can't power the phone up with a soft switch if it's completely off, since the powering "on" is done by the CPU or some other active circuit.)
 
Rukbat said:
I had this discussion in my store more than once, so I checked every phone I carried (TMO and AT&T) for power drain when "off". They all draw some power when turned "off", so they're not off, they're in standby. (You can't power the phone up with a soft switch if it's completely off, since the powering "on" is done by the CPU or some other active circuit.)
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Mmmm.. you seem to be re-defining the term 'standby'. When my HTC One is in standby it is still connected to the network and will receive and respond to incoming calls, if wifi/3g is on it will still receive emails etc etc. (standby achieved by short press of power button).

If I 'power off' ie longpress the power button and select power off in phone options, the device shuts down and is not connected to the network and 'boots up' when next switched on and therefore is not in standby (but my alarm still works).

It may well be drawing some extremely small amount of power but it is certainly not in standby, at least in the generally accepted meaning of the term.

Something like 'deep sleep' mode might be more appropriate. :D , and if I've got the alarm set it's 'not quite as deep sleep' mode. :D:D

:)
 
Okay, I hope the Mods will forgive me for dredging up this thread, BUT my old Nokia that I only use as an alarm clock didn't go off today and I almost overslept for work. Long story short, my Nokia DOES work as an alarm clock when powered off, so I was sure that my Android phone would work the same way only to find out it doesn't. I tried a few apps from the Play Store and none work with the phone off. That lead me to search on Google, which lead me back here, lol. So, my question is, has anyone found an app. that will work when the phone is off yet??????????????
 
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It's not an app thing. It's a [second] standby battery thing. Nokias all have them since way back. All my computers have them. Samsung phones don't.

So absolutely nothing is going to help you apart from leaving the phone turned on.
 
Hired gun-Nope, Android can not do that. But you can put it in a relatively low power silent state (until the alarm) as discussed in the very first response. That is pretty much the closest you'll get to the requested behavior.
 
An Android app can only work when the Android OS is running. If the phone is off it is not running Android. So if the phone doesn't have this feature no app can add it.

That really is all there is to it.
 
hiredgun said:
Long story short, my Nokia DOES work as an alarm clock when powered off, so I was sure that my Android phone would work the same way only to find out it doesn't.
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With all due respect, it's not possible that it's completely off if your Nokia still works. If it truly had zero power floating through it, how would the phone know to wake you up? It's unable to read a clock at that point, and would have no power to sound the alarm with either. Think about it for a minute. It needs power in order to function. Google around to see if Simon_Gardner is correct about a backup battery being installed on Nokia devices. I'd wager that there is truth to that comment.
 
All devices, even Android devices, have an extra battery wired to the board, a CMOS battery, which runs the clock. A simple experiment will reveal this: power down your phone, remove the battery for 5min, then power it backup. You would see that the clock is NOT behind by 5min, revealing that there is indeed a second battery.

The problem I'd wager is on the bootup power required and the OS itself. Think about it, a PC can't automatically boot itself out of shutdown to play an alarm, but it's possible from deep sleep mode. Same thing with a feature phone. Turning off a feature phone is like deep sleep on a PC, while shutdown on an Android device is like shutdown on a PC, it can't wake itself up.
 
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