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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.

[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.
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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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s3 alarm not sounding? :/

i'm on stock, unrooted, 4.0.4 (latest ota) and my alarm rarely sounds...
i have no idea what causes it to choose to sound or not, but I find that it becomes less likely to work when there's 2 alarms active.
this has been going on for a couple weeks now (used to work fine), and i woke up an hour late this morning because of it!
i've tried:
- force closing the app
- clearing data
- deleting/re-adding the alarms
- creating the alarm from within the clock app, not directly from the widget
- removing widget from the homescreen (as you can see, i'm getting pretty desperate with this one!)
anyone else experiencing this issue?
edit: could it have anything whatsoever to do with nova launcher? i think this started after switching to nova (i've since switched back to stock touchwiz). the widget didn't come up properly on nova, and I created alarms from the widget. maybe im just being stupid but I NEED this to work again.. looking for suggestions for replacement (free) alarm apps in the meantime.
thanks

no one? this issue hasn't gone away, and apparently i'm not the only one experiencing this. could it possibly be a hardware issue? other people have reported it on cm10 as well.

ejatds said:
no one? this issue hasn't gone away, and apparently i'm not the only one experiencing this. could it possibly be a hardware issue? other people have reported it on cm10 as well.
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yea only time alarm failed was on P.AKANG which is basically cm10 and aokp and pa. so basically yes a cm10 problem
ur on stock no clue why the **** your gettin any problems hm... factory reset if it really bugs u? or just join in the flashaholics and root xD

I'm on cm10,my alarm works, and I didn't play around with any settings. All I did was tell Google now to set alarm to w/e time I want.
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Deoxlar said:
I'm on cm10,my alarm works, and I didn't play around with any settings. All I did was tell Google now to set alarm to w/e time I want.
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Alarm works it just vibrates and has no ring!

Can you set ringtones from settings? Maybe it's a media storage issue..? Idk

You could install a 3rd party alarm app.

DarthDerron said:
You could install a 3rd party alarm app.
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That didn't work for me
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Check all three sound menus and if that doesn't work try restarting the phone
Galaxy S3
kindle fire running cw9
iPod touch 4

Had same problem - solved
I had exactly the same problem. Turned out my daughter had turned BLOCKING MODE ON!
When you turn this on, by default it will NOT let you hear the alarm.
I turned if off again and alarm works fine!
Hope this helps

Galaxy watch active 2 - phone alarm problem

So I have a galaxy watch active 2 and a huawei p20 pro as a daily phone. I noticed though that the watch dies not notify you when phone alarms go off. I have clock notifications enabled, yet no alarms ringing on the watch. I know that the watch itself has separate alarms, however I suppose that the phone alarm should also notify you on the clock. Is it only me? Is it a Samsung - huawei clock compatibility issue?
Cheers
Thanos
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I have the same problem with P30. Unfortunately, I was writing here, but no one answered me.
What I managed to find is that the problem has it with no Samsung devices, but nowhere read a solution. Samsung does not want to cooperate because they does not answer when the question is not about their product.

Different apps, ofc it doesnt work.
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vojopd said:
Different apps, ofc it doesnt work.
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Yes, but since you have the option to set notifications on for clock alarm app, it should notify you through the watch, the se way it does for every other app. I am not saying that when you set your alarm on the phone to also have it in your alarm app of the watch, since they are indeed different apps,yet the notification should be active..
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It seem that Android Alarm Clock app do not send notification to connected watch. Just send on WearOS Watch.

GW SM-R800, Samsung S8.
Everything works fine. If I set an alarm on my phone, it will also appear on my watch.

Petr Monty said:
GW SM-R800, Samsung S8.
Everything works fine. If I set an alarm on my phone, it will also appear on my watch.
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The problem is with other brands, with Samsung phone work fine.

anych said:
The problem is with other brands, with Samsung phone work fine.
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Yeah that's what I imagine as well. Not cool though..
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thanito said:
Yes, but since you have the option to set notifications on for clock alarm app, it should notify you through the watch, the se way it does for every other app. I am not saying that when you set your alarm on the phone to also have it in your alarm app of the watch, since they are indeed different apps,yet the notification should be active..
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It does send a notification of your alarms. You need to understand though that when your alarm goes off on your phone, it doesn't show a "notification," like any other apps, it works a bit differently. If you have any means of dnd turned on while you're sleeping, clearly you're not gonna see/feel the notification coming through.
Take like 5 minutes and clone your alarms from your phone to your watch.
The problem is with other brands, with Samsung phone work fine.
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Samsung also likes money, they much rather you have a Samsung phone too
You could also use some third party alarm app, like Sleep as Android which sets off an alarm both on your phone and your smart wearable (if you so desire).

Lada333 said:
It does send a notification of your alarms. You need to understand though that when your alarm goes off on your phone, it doesn't show a "notification," like any other apps, it works a bit differently. If you have any means of dnd turned on while you're sleeping, clearly you're not gonna see/feel the notification coming through.
Take like 5 minutes and clone your alarms from your phone to your watch.
Samsung also likes money, they much rather you have a Samsung phone too
You could also use some third party alarm app, like Sleep as Android which sets off an alarm both on your phone and your smart wearable (if you so desire).
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You are right, but if I clone the alarms then I will have to switch off twice the same alarms each time they trigger, once on the watch and once on the phone, fir each of the alarms, a bit counterintuitive don't you think?
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thanito said:
You are right, but if I clone the alarms then I will have to switch off twice the same alarms each time they trigger, once on the watch and once on the phone, fir each of the alarms, a bit counterintuitive don't you think?
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It'll be sure to wake you up
Also, you might wanna install a Samsung Clock apk, see if the integration with the watch works any better

I have the same issue with my Galaxy S10+ and my Galaxy Watch Active (SM-R500) since I changed from the Samsung Clock app to Google's own one.
Yes I can set alarms directly from my watch, and I usually wake up to them but I work shifts so often have to get up at 4am for work at 5:30.