Help Alarm Issues - No Sounding?

[VolsMcFalls]

This all started yesterday morning. I had my alarm set, woke up later than I needed to with a notification on the phone that said Alarm Turned Off After 10 Minutes, telling me the alarm had gone off for 10 minutes and was automatically turned off.

I thought it was weird so I did some digging and it turned out that NONE of my sounds were working. The volume was up, silent mode was off, but I was getting nothing whatsoever from the phone speaker. Even speaker phone wasn't working. Headphones worked fine. It seemed my speaker had blown.

Well, later in the day (as I was preparing to take it back to Verizon) it just randomly starts working again. All sounds now seem fine.

So I set my alarm this morning. And this time, it didn't even go off, at all! I woke up 5 minutes after it was supposed to go off, and when I unlocked my phone, THEN the alarm started going off. It's almost like it isn't coming our of deep sleep to sound the alarm.

Are these two issues related; the sound issue yesterday and the alarm issues both days? Has anyone else experienced this? It seems to be random...sometimes I can replicate it, other times I cannot.

 

[The_Chief]

Welcome to the forums!

Sorry to hear you're having such a bizarre issue. Other than a faulty handset or a conflicting app, I can only suggest that you check the alarm levels in Settings:

Settings --> Sound --> Volumes

and make sure "Alarms" is turned up.

Let us know if that helps. If not, you may have a conflicting alarm or silencer app. And if not THAT, then Verizon is definitely going to have you do a data wipe / factory reset before replacing the phone. You can try that as a last resort.

 

[VolsMcFalls]

I appreciate the input. I've checked everything and it's all set correctly. This is the first time I've had this issue since I've had the phone. Weird.

 

[chrisnairne]

I had blocking mode enabled. On my galaxy note 2 it was a quick settings from the pull down menu at the top of the screen. It was blocking ringing, notifications alarms and timers.

 

[gtbarry]

Even speaker phone wasn't working. Headphones worked fine. It seemed my speaker had blown.

Well, later in the day (as I was preparing to take it back to Verizon) it just randomly starts working again. All sounds now seem fine.

The other stuff sounds like some kind of odd volume/software glitch that may have started with an app update or install - or simply a corrupted sound file. Perhaps change the tone?

But the one I quoted above makes me think that the real issue is a loose cable.

 

[INTOCAD]

I was having the same problem, just got the JB update and had blocking on not noticing that I blocked everything...just wanted to block in coming calls. Flipped the alarms and notifications off and now it works!

Thanks for the help!

I had blocking mode enabled. On my galaxy note 2 it was a quick settings from the pull down menu at the top of the screen. It was blocking ringing, notifications alarms and timers.