Couldn't find a good answer in the only topic relating to this so I decided to post here. I am someone who frequently changes roms and the biggest problem for me is constantly setting alarms to wake me up. You might say whats the problem if you got patience with doing restore on everything else you can handle this too. Well I typically set like 10-12 alarms about 5 minutes apart so I dont skip a alarm on trying to wake up for school (yes im brilliant ). Is there a app or a thing I can use to automatically back these up without breaking my clock app or causing it to not ring sometimes and miss it.
Damn 10-12 alarms, hard time waking up?? I use 1, to wake up for work.
Try backing up the app data and restore them within different ROMs.
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Damn 10-12 alarms, hard time waking up?? I use 1, to wake up for work.
Try backing up the app data and restore them within different ROMs.
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Haha yeah I usually can wake up with one but I tend to hit dismiss on it and fall asleep Cuz I get tired lol so i set a ton to piss myself off and get up
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Back then up with titanium backup! It works perfectly for alarms!
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rymanh said:
Back then up with titanium backup! It works perfectly for alarms!
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Backup the clock app? or is there a seperate data thing or something?
ludbosanac17 said:
Backup the clock app? or is there a seperate data thing or something?
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Yes.. When you restore the clock app you have a choice to just restore data
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Not a google app developer, just if useful at all - grain of salt here - i use this one alarm app all the time from google play. The newer version did away with the backup restore but according to avg, they are going to bringing it back. Anyway i like it because it keeps reminding me throughout the day, where as the samsung is limited on the number of reminders/snoozes. I have been using alarm clock xtreme to backup and restore alarms between phones. Made customed talking alarms from another google play app type and speak (volume amd pitch are customizeable, higher pitched to me is easier to hear but more grating on the ear) which is louder than the built in native alarm when speaking the alarm name (enabling this in the samsung phone settings). Keep in mind that You do not want the alarm to go off when at the grocery store, etc. of course. Issues with the alarm app though are 1) cant have more than one alarm at a time (only one will go off if you try this) so workaround for me is to have to put them each at a different time 2) once you have too many that you dont dismiss, it will get stuck in notifications that you can not dismiss until you force stop the app, and i have had like maybe 15 or more alarms. I have an old version of the app though and when i power down the phone, and power back up, or force stop, and restart the alarm app, some alarms are still on - i like this because what i do is force stop the app before a meeting, then start it back up and my alarms are still there (though you lose the alarms that went off during the meeting). Too bad there is not an option to pause even alarms that ring while the phone is silent (while alarm defaukts are set to ring while phone is silent). On each alarm, there is a turn volume down option when phone is turned silent but my default is to alarm even if the phone is turned silent (you can pick either one since that is one of the options). 3) to me anyway, the auto dismiss is different from what is best for my use - where i want it to keep reminding me and then go after after XXX time or XXX reminders - i can not have the reminders and also the dismiss (unless i am not using it right) so i end up having to choose to get just one notice and then it autodismisses itself (example: i have a meeting and its a reminder before the meeting but i wont have time to dismiss it). 4) if you dont put the customized typeandspeak file in the ringtones folder on your phone, you may have to do these steps - for the ringtone, select "es file explorer" (if you have it), select the file, make sure the right name gets populated for ringtone, then click on ringtone again and this time select "media," then select the customized ringtone from this list (i know it sounds silly to do all this but when i dont do this, the ringtone does not go off correctly), plus there seems to be a maximum number of files it can remember, so i would just move the customized file to the ringtones folder in the main directory. Anyway, not meant to promote the app, this is what worked for me if helpful for anyone out therr - Might need to though change the alarm and/or alarm default settings to be silent when your volume gets turned down, cant tell now because i changed the original alarm default settings, whichever works best for your case. I did not test to see if the alarms are guaranteed to go off if too many alarms exist so if i have a really important event, i set my samsung alarm or my calendar so it talks to me so two alarms go off. At least the samsung alarm is guaranteed better to go off.
Oh by the way, i use helium to backup app data because i am not rooted (titanium backup). Have to test all of the app data is there afterwards though. And helium is not able to backup all apps (for example google apps prevent helium from backing it up for some reason or i could be wrong?).
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I want my phone to vibrate or make a noise every couple of minutes if I have a new notification. I'm not always able to hear / feel it the first time and the only vibration setting I can seem to find is only two quick pulses.
I also noticed that the green status light doesn't flash if I get a text message, where if I have an email to my gmail account it does. Is there any way to change this?
I feel like I have to check my phone all the time without these.
Have a look at Tasker. I use it to watch for certain notifications and then play a sound or do something else to get my attention, without me having to look at the phone all the time. Telling it to wait for x time before the next action is also possible (and a whole lot more).
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Have a look at Tasker. I use it to watch for certain notifications and then play a sound or do something else to get my attention, without me having to look at the phone all the time. Telling it to wait for x time before the next action is also possible (and a whole lot more).
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probably it will works
That's frustrating... Since tasker is about $7 I have to buy an app to provide functionality that my previous basic cheap phone had. I also found that there used to be a nice free app called 'MissedCall' that you could do it with, however it's no longer on the market. GRRR
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I also found that there used to be a nice free app called 'MissedCall' that you could do it with, however it's no longer on the market. GRRR
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There's a 'missed call deluxe' for $1
Or there's Missed Reminder which is free.
I think that's exactly what I'm looking for! Sweet thanks!
My recommendation is Light Flow - There is a free version in Market, perfect customization possible: set different LED Colors for Calls, SMS, Mail, Low Battery etc, set different repeating sounds, vibrations...
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.
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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.
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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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Does anyone know of a silence app that meets the following criteria? I couldn't find one that met all of them on the play store. The apps on the play store seem to be an all or nothing sort of thing.
I want to be able to do the following:
Silence on a Schedule (all of the apps seem to be able to do this)
Silence all audio notifications (all of the apps seem to be able to do this)
Silence specific audio notifications - Ringer, System, Notification, etc. (none of the apps seem to be able to be this granular)
For instance, I would like to be able to silence all system and notification sounds, but leave the ringer on, overnight from x:xx o'clock to x:xx o'clock.
The latter one is the one that I can't seem to be able to find in the play store. It's entirely possible that I am missing something when I search it.
Thank you for your assistance.
I haven't heard of one that meets all your requirements. Sorry.
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Have you tried on {x}? It's from Microsoft and you write the rules (i.e. I only use WiFi at my house so based on my location it turns wifi off)
I'm sure someone could help you write the rules you would need to meet your demands.
It's available in the play store and you write the rules via computer browser.
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ftanner said:
I hope that this is the correct place to post this. If not, please relocate it to the appropriate place.
Does anyone know of a silence app that meets the following criteria? I couldn't find one that met all of them on the play store. The apps on the play store seem to be an all or nothing sort of thing.
I want to be able to do the following:
Silence on a Schedule (all of the apps seem to be able to do this)
Silence all audio notifications (all of the apps seem to be able to do this)
Silence specific audio notifications - Ringer, System, Notification, etc. (none of the apps seem to be able to be this granular)
For instance, I would like to be able to silence all system and notification sounds, but leave the ringer on, overnight from x:xx o'clock to x:xx o'clock.
The latter one is the one that I can't seem to be able to find in the play store. It's entirely possible that I am missing something when I search it.
Thank you for your assistance.
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There is an app that does this called Timeriffic
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.alfray.timeriffic&hl=en
I have it installed (at the recommendation of some other android-aholic and even set up a few profiles (even one v similar to what you want to accomplish, which is to silence everything except phone call ring for emergency calls from one of my 4 kids!!) but haven't actually tested it out (so many things to try and test!!!)
I DID somewhere (now I need to figure out where/in what app/setting so I can undo that and test Timeriffic!!) set it to turn on airplane mode from midnight to 7am which essentially shuts up all the social media alerts
EDIT .... found it ... I checked "Flight Mode During The Night" in the "Battery Widget Reborn" app ... so I turned that off and the Timeriffic profile on
anyway try out Timeriffic
I think I may have found an app that will work. I am going to test it tonight. It's called Sound Manager V2.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.roozen.SoundManagerv2&feature=search_result
You can also use Tasker to easily create that yourself.
ftanner said:
I think I may have found an app that will work. I am going to test it tonight. It's called Sound Manager V2.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.roozen.SoundManagerv2&feature=search_result
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Sorry to reply to my own post, but this app that I tested does exactly what I was looking for. It's a pretty basic and simple app. Free to boot.
Thanks everyone.
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.
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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
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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
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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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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