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Sense alarm sucks - alternatives?

Hey all,
Been having problems with the alarm since I moved to an HTC phone. I have 2 issues. If I have it on sound only, the sound goes once and then it goes to sleep. It doesn't repeat. The other thing, if I enable vibrate, the sound still goes once, but it will keep vibrating.
I moved over from an SGS phone and alarm always worked flawlessly. I woke up late a couple times on a trip.
Any suggestions to either make it work better, or for an app that can replace it?
Thanks,
Super

Superguy said:
Hey all,
Been having problems with the alarm since I moved to an HTC phone. I have 2 issues. If I have it on sound only, the sound goes once and then it goes to sleep. It doesn't repeat. The other thing, if I enable vibrate, the sound still goes once, but it will keep vibrating.
I moved over from an SGS phone and alarm always worked flawlessly. I woke up late a couple times on a trip.
Any suggestions to either make it work better, or for an app that can replace it?
Thanks,
Super
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I had a similar issue when I first got my phone, and I purchased Alarm Clock Plus from the Market for I think $1.99 or $2.99. Never had an issue since, even with all the ROMs I've flashed. I am sure there are other alarm apps, but that's what I use.

Superguy said:
Hey all,
Been having problems with the alarm since I moved to an HTC phone. I have 2 issues. If I have it on sound only, the sound goes once and then it goes to sleep. It doesn't repeat. The other thing, if I enable vibrate, the sound still goes once, but it will keep vibrating.
I moved over from an SGS phone and alarm always worked flawlessly. I woke up late a couple times on a trip.
Any suggestions to either make it work better, or for an app that can replace it?
Thanks,
Super
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Root if you haven't already and install CM7 or MIUI

I've been using Alarm Clock Plus (free) pretty much since I got my phone:
http://www.appbrain.com/app/alarm-clock-plus★/com.vp.alarmClockPlusDock
Alarm Clock Xtreme Free is also decent.

Gentle alarm is amazing.

Out of all the alarms I've tried AlarmDroid seems to work best for me, and it's FREE!
http://www.appbrain.com/app/alarmdroid/com.splunchy.android.alarmclock

Thanks all. I'll check out those apps.
I'm already rooted and running Synergy.

I tried AlarmDroid and it has been working very well. Thanks for the tip!
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carngeX said:
I've been using Alarm Clock Plus (free) pretty much since I got my phone:
http://www.appbrain.com/app/alarm-clock-plus★/com.vp.alarmClockPlusDock
Alarm Clock Xtreme Free is also decent.
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Yep using the same here (although I think I upgraded to the full version after a while).
It's great and you can't go wrong with it, a ton of options to do.

Alarm Clock Issue

Hey All,
I'm having an issue on my GS2. The alarms work fine, except i can't snooze them. I slide snooze and the alarm turns off as though i had dismissed it. I have no issues with installing an alternate clock, i just wanted to make sure it's not just me being unable to figure out my phone.
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franco523 said:
Hey All,
I'm having an issue on my GS2. The alarms work fine, except i can't snooze them. I slide snooze and the alarm turns off as though i had dismissed it. I have no issues with installing an alternate clock, i just wanted to make sure it's not just me being unable to figure out my phone.
-f
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It's been working fine for me. Though I wish you could pick other ringer sounds. That stupid alarm sound is downright relaxing. I need my alarms to be a little more upsetting....though I do find the SmartAlarm with debriefing pretty cool.
That reminds me how much I love this speaker.
EDIT: nvrmnd. I only looked at 'alarm type' not even 'alarm tone' which is where the file selector is.

Fixed?
Hey, hey, Good news!
So, apparently this was one of those issues that you merely need to bring up in conversation for it to get fixed. This morning i snoozed and it went off 5 minutes later. Interesting. I'll monitor this behavior.
-f
i should have typed "Good news, everyone!"

Alarm Sound while in Silent Mode
Anyone able to have the alarm vibrate when in Silent Mode without me having to manually change the media sound to 0?

franco523 said:
Hey All,
I'm having an issue on my GS2. The alarms work fine, except i can't snooze them. I slide snooze and the alarm turns off as though i had dismissed it. I have no issues with installing an alternate clock, i just wanted to make sure it's not just me being unable to figure out my phone.
-f
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Same thing with mine. Even just this morning... You're not alone in this boat
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Imo alarm clock plus is the best alarm app. Try it out.
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ravizzle said:
Imo alarm clock plus is the best alarm app. Try it out.
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Going to give it a shot. Thanks for the recommendation.
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[Q] Alarm Clock not going off 3 times

hi guys just wondering does any 1 know why my alarm has failed to go off at 7:30 3 days in a row but i tested a alarm set for a few minutes after the current time and it works fine.
notes: volume is up, alarm sound is not silent, stock alarm 2.3.4 .62
thanks

Have you checked in which day it should repeat ringing?
Xperia PLAY has some problems with alarm let me explain you this in simple example, because I don't know how can I do it in another way.
It's friday 1AM, you set the alarm to 10AM and check repeating to fridays. You go asleep and turn off the screen. The phone won't ring.
The same thing but you DON'T check repeating to fridays - it will ring.
Check if you have the same problem, because after this little discovery I have no more alarm problems. Don't check the same day as it is today in repeating option, because 99% alarm won't ring.
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Are you using a task killer?

romcio47 said:
Have you checked in which day it should repeat ringing?
Xperia PLAY has some problems with alarm let me explain you this in simple example, because I don't know how can I do it in another way.
It's friday 1AM, you set the alarm to 10AM and check repeating to fridays. You go asleep and turn off the screen. The phone won't ring.
The same thing but you DON'T check repeating to fridays - it will ring.
Check if you have the same problem, because after this little discovery I have no more alarm problems. Don't check the same day as it is today in repeating option, because 99% alarm won't ring.
Sent from my beautiful Xperia PLAY using xda premium
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ok thanks. i will just try another alarm clock app then i guess that will fix it? (thanks given)
Michealtbh said:
Are you using a task killer?
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uh kinda my launcher has a built in task killer - 360 launcher - but it a push to kill style thing and i didnt press the button. i will try with another alarm app and make sure to not press the button.
Bit annoyed though first my 360 breaks then i am late to college 3 times. cuz of stupid alarm.

Alarm clock + works for me.

Masters2150 said:
Alarm clock + works for me.
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thanks. i used it last night and it worked perfect

Alarm Problems?

Has anyone else had there alarm not to go off then to check the time on the phone and all of sudden it sounds?
This morning I had my alarm set for 8:00am, I roll over and see it is 8:08 on my nightstand clock and think to myself I must of had it set to PM instead of AM. I then reach for my phone hit the power button and the alarm starts ringing. It was like the time didn't update until I hit the power button. Any fix for this or anyone else experience this?

Interesting. A slightly different but probably related event happened for me this morning:
I use my Galaxy Nexus stock alarm to wake up and have every morning I have had the device (about 45 days). No problems whatsoever.
This morning, the alarm goes off for about 2 seconds, I wake up, the alarm has stopped and I reach for the phone and it is in the process of rebooting (the splash screen is running)

crachel said:
This morning, the alarm goes off for about 2 seconds, I wake up, the alarm has stopped and I reach for the phone and it is in the process of rebooting (the splash screen is running)
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I had that same exact experience. Verbatim.
I use two separate devices for alarms...one never knows.

Do any of you guys use any task killer apps?

The alarm on my Gnex is so weirdly unpredictable that I went back to using my old SGS as my alarm clock.
I've tried the standard clock app as well as Kaloer Clock and the alarms on both of them only work about 75% of the time.
This is also the only time I've had a "sleep of death" issue. The phone would often be powered off when I checked it after a missed alarm, or else waiting for me to key in my SIM PIN as though it had rebooted, even though it had been powered on and charging when I went to sleep. This hasn't happened even once since I stopped using the alarms.
So no answers, but I would love to know if this is common and if it's fixable.
BTW, I'm not using task killers or battery boosters, and I'm on stock everything.
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Four month of using the Nexus as my alarm clock and I never had any issues. Went from stock 4.0.1 to bugless beast 4.0.3 to cm9 4.0.3 and alarm on all of them worked flawless.

gokpog said:
Four month of using the Nexus as my alarm clock and I never had any issues. Went from stock 4.0.1 to bugless beast 4.0.3 to cm9 4.0.3 and alarm on all of them worked flawless.
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+ 1. Running stock 4.0.4 leak, and haven't had a single issue.
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Custom sounds won't repeat by default
There's some thread in the forums about ring tones not repeating unless in ogg format with the special ANDROID_LOOP tag set to true...
Are you using a custom, non-repeating alarm sound?

4.04 fixed this for me. I think it has something to do with landscape. Alarm always works. I use it to get up every morning.

Yep, had a similar problem this week
running 4.0.2 stock
not sure why its started happening

My phone was bootlooping this morning too, had to wipe and re flash. Using axiom crossbreed
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Also the only things I did differently was download volume plus and tweaked the speaker volume and in call volume. Before this I had never had a problem .
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I've only had my Nexus reboot waiting to decrypt the phone once, making late.. on a side note anyone else find it annoying they placed the snooze button on top of the dismiss button?? My motor skills ain't the greatest when I wake up and stretching to get to my phone.. end up hitting dismiss why couldn't the buttons be located left to right like it use to be.. sigh

skandalfo said:
Are you using a custom, non-repeating alarm sound?
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Not me- I was trying to use a stock alarm tone. And it worked fine some of the time. The problem is that my boss doesn't think me being on time to work "some of the time" is adequate, so it would be better for me if my alarm is reliable.
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Phone alarm doesn't turn on !!!

Please help my phone alarm doesn't turn on and I'm desperate to fix it... I am sure of it because it's been happening like 20 times now and every time I am late for work I tell em the truth but nobody believes me because when I set the alarm for like 5 minutes from the current time - IT RINGS!! But when I set it for tomorrow it doesn't
Please give me advices, this thing has been happening with multiple ROMS not only one, I mostly use STOCK roms not modified
I used mostly the roms of:
teshxx - the stock international version
also used t-mobile stock rom and it's happening
can some of the devs please check this out because it's very annoying, can also somebody confirm if this thing can have something to do with the
settings - date & time - Automatic date and time (Use network-provided time)
Please HELP!!!!!!!

martybg said:
Please help my phone alarm doesn't turn on and I'm desperate to fix it... I am sure of it because it's been happening like 20 times now and every time I am late for work I tell em the truth but nobody believes me because when I set the alarm for like 5 minutes from the current time - IT RINGS!! But when I set it for tomorrow it doesn't
Please give me advices, this thing has been happening with multiple ROMS not only one, I mostly use STOCK roms not modified
I used mostly the roms of:
teshxx - the stock international version
also used t-mobile stock rom and it's happening
can some of the devs please check this out because it's very annoying, can also somebody confirm if this thing can have something to do with the
settings - date & time - Automatic date and time (Use network-provided time)
Please HELP!!!!!!!
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Have you tried using a different alarm app like alarm clock xtreme or similar... or setting up an event/reminder in calendar using notification sound for a backup?

Make sure you remember to select the days for it to ring.

I have set the alarm correctly... but it's not working though - the strange thing is that when i set it for like 5 minutes for now it's alright, I did the installation with FULL WIPE of cache/data/system so... I'm sure the problem is not from me

Did you notice if it's happening only when on Wifi, or on 4G network also?
I was thinking that maybe it's your Wifi at home that doesn't update the time.
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I had a similar thing happen to me. I don't know if we have the same issue, but couldn't figure out what was going on for a while!
Turns out I had "blocking mode" on, and inside one of those settings, the alarm volume was set to mute. Blocking mode was on from 20:00 until 06:00 so when my alarm went off at 05:30, I couldn't hear it because of blocking mode. I just unchecked that box and it works!
Good luck!
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