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Any calendar app which generates ALARMS?

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asdfaf

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Good evening guys!

I've tested several calendar apps and I can't find what I am looking for.

Normally the apps allow you to create reminders for events as:
a) Notifications
b) Emails

But I want it to have the ability to create ALARMS for my most important reminders.

That is: play sound EVEN if the smartphone is in silent profile. And POWER ON the phone if it's shut down.

Thank you in advance!
 
It's perfectly possible, the matter is just that calendar apps don't use do do that. But alarms apps always have those features. So I want a calndar app which generates alarm events
 
I'm with uncle Mike..it could be a fairly easy tasker profile to generate alarm. Many ways to do it....I'd do it based on notification from your normal calendar app.

If not that, maybe you want an alarm app with a few extra calendar features
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.zdworks.android.zdclock
...although you lose functionality compared to normal calendar...for example sharing or accepting appointments from others

As for alarms with phone off...there was a recent thread about alarms with the phone initially off...it is highly phone dependent (only a few phones can do this)
 
maybe you want an alarm app with a few extra calendar features
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Haha, since I want sync and so, what I really want is a calendar app with a few extra alarm features.

only a few phones can do this
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Wow, never seen an android phone whose "clock" app couldn't wake up the phone!
 
asdfaf said:
... Wow, never seen an android phone whose "clock" app couldn't wake up the phone!
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Nope. If the phone is "powered off" how will it get powered on? Though some claim to have seen/to have Android phones with this capability - there is another recent thread that goes into this topic. I suggest you 'search' and read it.

But, sorry, can't help with your original question .....

Dave
 
Yeah! I had found the thread and I've been reading it. Still being surprised some phones can't because I send smartphones and never ever seen any which couldn't, but of course I believe the other user's words.

Well, that said... my doubt is still this: so, take a phone like mine, which supports a built in semipoweroff state to trigger alarms even when poweroff... it also needs an app specially developed to work with this, am I wrong? I mean, on MY phone, the only app which would be able to wake up the phone is the clock app which comes with my phone, and no other, am I wrong?
 
There is a major difference between waking a phone from sleep and powering a phone up from being all the way powered up.
 
I think you are confusing being powered off and asleep.
If your phone is asleep then any app can wake it up, but if you turn your phone off, then an app cannot turn it back on.
 
I power off the phone via the power off android option. I've already read that thread and what I've understood is that android doesn't feature by default any suspension state to make this possible. so phones whose alarm app can power them on have some kind of supersystem implemented which handles this. Have I understood wrong? So what I am asking is that only an app specifically developed for that purpose will wake up my phone.

Tests: set an alarm from the built in clock app, and from other three popular third party apps. Power off the phone (via power of button, select power off). The phone powers on only with the built in app
 
Ah! Yeah, I already got that. The thread you pointed me at is good and explains it very well. I am just curious on the issue and I am enjoying the discussion so I am trying to get further on my comprehension of this. Who wants to keep there I'll eb glad, who isn't interested just leave the discussion.

Now, have I understood it ok if I say there's a supersystem on my phone and all other android phones which power on on alarm, which is responsible for this power on?

If so, do you think that those phones come with a specially build clock app which is able to talk to that supersystem, so obviously no other third party clock app will be able to do that?
 
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