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How's the alarm clock?

pooohbaah said:
Maybe you could explain this in an equally condescending tone - how does one alarm work but then another fails? Please, enlighten me. As explained in my post, a test alarm worked fine before going to bed. This would seem to indicate that any process needed for alarm functions were active. Eight hours later, the morning alarm failed.
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App killers target applications that haven't been used in a certain amount of time. The clock app, after 8 hours, is definitely considered idle by the app killer, and is thusly killed. if you've just set/launched the clock app for testing, it is not considered a good target for killing, and the task killer looks elsewhere.
 
Mr. Spontaneous said:
App killers target applications that haven't been used in a certain amount of time. The clock app, after 8 hours, is definitely considered idle by the app killer, and is thusly killed. if you've just set/launched the clock app for testing, it is not considered a good target for killing, and the task killer looks elsewhere.
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Exactly. Most people that are suffering a faulty alarm clock are using a task killer, and accidently killing the app.

Bump for my question about turning off snooze though. Does anyone know how? I hit snooze, and woke up before the 2nd cycle went off, and could not figure out how to dismiss and ended up turning off the alarm completely for it to not go off again.
 
For those asking about where to set the alarm volume, go to the alarm clock screen and hit the menu button. Then hit settings and "Alarm Volume" is right there.
 
Mr. Spontaneous said:
App killers target applications that haven't been used in a certain amount of time. The clock app, after 8 hours, is definitely considered idle by the app killer, and is thusly killed. if you've just set/launched the clock app for testing, it is not considered a good target for killing, and the task killer looks elsewhere.
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App killer doesn't run constantly all the time, at least in my case. I activate it, and then kill it with bunch of others apps i don't need
 
The alarm clock rocks. Much louder than my Black Berry 8830. I have it set to the "Beeps" alarm tone.

I felt bad for my dog this morning. She just looked up at me wondering WTF was going on. I think I was also. It kinda sounds like my smoke alarm!
 
You CAN use Task Killer and have the alarm clock work properly. What you need to do is click on the clock and then go to the app menu and open task killer. Hold down the clock widget on the list of tasks to kill until a menu pops up. Then select ignore. By adding clock/alarm clock to your ignore list you will be able to run Task Killer and not disable your alarm clock (or any other task you have added to the ignore list that you don't want to kill).
 
Matt7777 said:
You CAN use Task Killer and have the alarm clock work properly. What you need to do is click on the clock and then go to the app menu and open task killer. Hold down the clock widget on the list of tasks to kill until a menu pops up. Then select ignore. By adding clock/alarm clock to your ignore list you will be able to run Task Killer and not disable your alarm clock (or any other task you have added to the ignore list that you don't want to kill).
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I am wondering if this is my problem or not. I thought I had taskkiller ignoring clock. Also if I rad the FAQ for taskiller it syas "Are all the running applications listed? No. Taskiller ignores some apps. For ex:Phone, Keyboard and Alarm. Logical, huh?" So that sounds like it does not list them and does not kill them?

I have tried listing them as ignore nd I am still not getting the alarm in the morning. I get it for tests but not 5-8 hours later. I did just uninstall taskmanager which may have been killing it. It seems to have a different ignore list too.
 
Matt7777 said:
You CAN use Task Killer and have the alarm clock work properly. What you need to do is click on the clock and then go to the app menu and open task killer. Hold down the clock widget on the list of tasks to kill until a menu pops up. Then select ignore. By adding clock/alarm clock to your ignore list you will be able to run Task Killer and not disable your alarm clock (or any other task you have added to the ignore list that you don't want to kill).
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Of course, you can run any application and not have a task killer prevent it as long as you figure out each and every task that is associated with a given program/function and see to it that it isn't killed.

However, you'll have to go through this constantly. Every single time you have any problem, step one will have to be eliminating your task killer applications.
 
pooohbaah said:
Alarm failure!

I've used the alarm for three days now, and it didn't go off in the last two days! This is getting annoying. I can set an alarm for 5 min from now and it works fine, but my morning alarm just doesn't go off for some reason even though it shows as being active, vibrate off, and the volume is up (where is "alarm" volume?)!!!

I do run the Systempanel task manager so I'm looking into the possibility that I am killing the clock process or something else that makes the alarm not work. I have now excluded the clock process from task killing.

I don't use any auto task killing function but I have manually killed all processes in the last few days - these were the days when the alarm failed. But if that's the problem, how the hell did a test alarm work last night but then the morning alarm failed? I purposefully set a test alarm last night and it worked fine. WTF?
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I'm having the same problem. My alarm went off the first day I used it but it hasn't gone off the last 2 days. I set it for 1 minute from the current time to test and it worked fine but it's not going off in the morning and I have no task managers/killers on my phone. The only thing I can figure out is the time it worked I used one of the default sounds and when it didn't go off it was set to use a ringtone I made with ringdroid (which works when I test it though).
 
I had a weird experience this morning. My alarm went off as it normally should. I jumped out of bed and fumbled with the phone to discover that there was no prompt to dismiss the alarm or toggle the snooze. Instead, I was at my home screen. There was nothing in the notification bar, nor was I able to turn off the still ringing alarm by going back to the clock or disabling my morning alarm. I ended up powering off my phone to stop it.

Anyone have a similar experience?
 
woop said:
Exactly. Most people that are suffering a faulty alarm clock are using a task killer, and accidently killing the app.

Bump for my question about turning off snooze though. Does anyone know how? I hit snooze, and woke up before the 2nd cycle went off, and could not figure out how to dismiss and ended up turning off the alarm completely for it to not go off again.
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To cancel the snooze, I just go into the alarm clock, then uncheck and recheck the alarm that was snoozed. This seems to clear the snooze.

Hope that helps.
 
If you go to the alarm clock then press menu, there will be a selection called "slide button behavior" you can change it from None, Snooze, or Dismiss.

Mr. spontaneous, you probably have it on 'none'. Which just unlocks the homescreen.
 
gijoe411 said:
If you go to the alarm clock then press menu, there will be a selection called "slide button behavior" you can change it from None, Snooze, or Dismiss.

Mr. spontaneous, you probably have it on 'none'. Which just unlocks the homescreen.
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That's not the issue - what I'm saying is, for some reason, there was no apparent way to dismiss the alarm no matter where I looked or what buttons I pressed on my phone.
 
Mr. Spontaneous said:
I had a weird experience this morning. My alarm went off as it normally should. I jumped out of bed and fumbled with the phone to discover that there was no prompt to dismiss the alarm or toggle the snooze. Instead, I was at my home screen. There was nothing in the notification bar, nor was I able to turn off the still ringing alarm by going back to the clock or disabling my morning alarm. I ended up powering off my phone to stop it.

Anyone have a similar experience?
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I have been using the alarm for about 5 days now without issue. If this was to happen to me though I would be more afraid of my gf's reaction vs why the phone is doing it haha. (aka, vicious beatdown for waking her up at 545am)
 
paimon.soror said:
I have been using the alarm for about 5 days now without issue. If this was to happen to me though I would be more afraid of my gf's reaction vs why the phone is doing it haha. (aka, vicious beatdown for waking her up at 545am)
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Same thought running through my mind as I frantically covered the speaker and ran into the living room. :D
 
Mr. Spontaneous said:
That's not the issue - what I'm saying is, for some reason, there was no apparent way to dismiss the alarm no matter where I looked or what buttons I pressed on my phone.
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When th ealarm goes off it normally has the SNOOZE prompt.
You can press it to snooze.

If you want to dismiss the alarm then normally you have to swipe down to dismiss.

I think I saw it have that written on the screen once when I had my glasses on and my eyes were not too blurry.

This morning I had 5 alarms set to see if they would work. THey all did work. And I noticed some maybe all had the DISMISS and the SNOOZE prompt buttons.

The difference this morning was that last night I pressed the CLOCK and then the little SCREEN and CLOCK at the bottom right of center which does the Screen dim a little but also does the screen saver and moves the display around to not burn in your screen but it said SNOOZE or DISMISS.

THe other times that I have only gotten the SWIPE option to DISMISS I used the MOON and Star dimmer display.
 
I think i finally figured out the alarm. I removed TASKMANAGER as I think it may have caused some issues as it is yet another thing that needs ignores setup and another place to have to set them up.

I also looked at my ignore list in TASKILLER and although I had the little SENSEUI clock homepage display set to IGNORE I did not have the CLOCK ignored.

Now in the IGNORE list I have MENU SETTINGS IGNORE LIST
HTC Sense
MAIL
TASKILLER
Clock
Android Battery Dog - not required but it gives a graph of battery useage and stops logging when you press the TASKKILLER.

(But so does the SYSTEM MONITOR download in MENU-MONITOR-HISTORY. It displays up to a weeks history for charging, battery,device usage, cpu activity and also shows current activity. It does other stuff too like kill tasks and archive tasks and shows memory and cpu use and network use etc.)

But with those 5 set to IGNORE in TASKILLER and using the SCREEN option for the clcok display and having the charger cord in the 5 alarms I had set for 5 minutes appart all worked this morning!

Make sure it says to ignore CLOCK not just HTC Sense.
 
svwilbur said:
When th ealarm goes off it normally has the SNOOZE prompt.
You can press it to snooze.

If you want to dismiss the alarm then normally you have to swipe down to dismiss.

I think I saw it have that written on the screen once when I had my glasses on and my eyes were not too blurry.

This morning I had 5 alarms set to see if they would work. THey all did work. And I noticed some maybe all had the DISMISS and the SNOOZE prompt buttons.

The difference this morning was that last night I pressed the CLOCK and then the little SCREEN and CLOCK at the bottom right of center which does the Screen dim a little but also does the screen saver and moves the display around to not burn in your screen but it said SNOOZE or DISMISS.

THe other times that I have only gotten the SWIPE option to DISMISS I used the MOON and Star dimmer display.
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That's not my issue. It's just showing my homescreen - there is no way for me to dismiss or snooze the alarm (even the side buttons don't work, despite the option being set).
 
Mr. Spontaneous said:
Launch the clock application. The alarm clock is one of the bottom tabs.
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Thanks for trying to help but i guess i didn't explain myself very well...........


I'd like to be able to access the alarm clock via a widget/toggle or shortcut for one of my 7 homescreens instead how having to go into the clock app then the alarm clock app etc.....

Does what I'm looking for even exist?
 
I bought Gentle Alarm. It's got lots of features, including a night time mode. It was totally worth the $3.


There's a demo you can try, it just doesn't work on Wednesdays. So if you start using it tomorrow morning you get to try it for a whole week uninterrupted!

@pikappetapi022 I added a link to the app on my homepage for one click access to my alarm which i think what you are looking for.



Gentle Alarm
 
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