Does anyone use their Note 2 as an alarm clock? I have had mine 6 days now and apart from the first morning my alarms have all failed to go off.
I can set an alarm for 2 minutes in advance and that works perfectly but when on charge for the night my morning alarms never go off.
I seem to remember having the exact same issue on an S2 I briefly owned 18 months ago. This is a serious problem and can't believe Samsung can't create an alarm that works!!
Has anyone experienced this or have any info?
I use my alarm every morning, works perfectly. Are you leaving your device screen face down? That mutes the audio...
richardirv said:
Does anyone use their Note 2 as an alarm clock? I have had mine 6 days now and apart from the first morning my alarms have all failed to go off.
I can set an alarm for 2 minutes in advance and that works perfectly but when on charge for the night my morning alarms never go off.
I seem to remember having the exact same issue on an S2 I briefly owned 18 months ago. This is a serious problem and can't believe Samsung can't create an alarm that works!!
Has anyone experienced this or have any info?
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You're using the default alarm app right? Just to make sure, are you enabling the alarm for the days that you need it to ring? By default even if you set an alarm for a certain time, it won't go off on a day unless you actually enable it for the next day or whenever you want it to go off.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/soo9mg5qwh5jt0a/Screenshot_2012-11-09-01-03-57.png
Look at this picture for example. I've turned on the alarm for 6:20 AM, but it won't actually go off at 6:20 AM today unless I click on the alarm and enable it to repeat on Friday or whatever days I want it to go off. This behavior is quite annoying and has caused me to switch back to Alarm Clock Plus that I've been using for years. In that app, when you turn an alarm back on, it sets it for the next closest time it can go off. This means that if I enable my 6:20 alarm at 1:17 AM, it will go off aproximately 5 hours later, not 6 days, 5 hours, and 3 minutes from now lol.
Otherwise, I'm not sure why your alarms aren't going off. Did you lower or disable the alarm volume? Or disable alarms from going off in silent mode?
FloatingFatMan said:
I use my alarm every morning, works perfectly. Are you leaving your device screen face down? That mutes the audio...
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I believe laying it face down only mutes the audio if something is currently outputting sound at the time you lay it face down. Laying it face down any other time shouldn't mute the sound. For example, if you're playing music with the stock music player, take your device and lay it flat or even just face down (meaning it will mute if your device is face down while in the air) and it will mute. If you lift it up a little and press the play button, the music will continue to play. I usually lay my phone face down at night when I go to sleep and I've never had an alarm muted or not go off because the phone was face down.
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I use my alarm every morning, works perfectly. Are you leaving your device screen face down? That mutes the audio...
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No its not face down, to begin with it was just on charge on its back, last night I used a dock which stands the phone upright. No alarm either way. :crying:
TWO515TY said:
You're using the default alarm app right? Just to make sure, are you enabling the alarm for the days that you need it to ring? By default even if you set an alarm for a certain time, it won't go off on a day unless you actually enable it for the next day or whenever you want it to go off.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/soo9mg5qwh5jt0a/Screenshot_2012-11-09-01-03-57.png
Look at this picture for example. I've turned on the alarm for 6:20 AM, but it won't actually go off at 6:20 AM today unless I click on the alarm and enable it to repeat on Friday or whatever days I want it to go off. This behavior is quite annoying and has caused me to switch back to Alarm Clock Plus that I've been using for years. In that app, when you turn an alarm back on, it sets it for the next closest time it can go off. This means that if I enable my 6:20 alarm at 1:17 AM, it will go off aproximately 5 hours later, not 6 days, 5 hours, and 3 minutes from now lol.
Otherwise, I'm not sure why your alarms aren't going off. Did you lower or disable the alarm volume? Or disable alarms from going off in silent mode?
I believe laying it face down only mutes the audio if something is currently outputting sound at the time you lay it face down. Laying it face down any other time shouldn't mute the sound. For example, if you're playing music with the stock music player, take your device and lay it flat or even just face down (meaning it will mute if your device is face down while in the air) and it will mute. If you lift it up a little and press the play button, the music will continue to play. I usually lay my phone face down at night when I go to sleep and I've never had an alarm muted or not go off because the phone was face down.
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I have checked and double checked my setting and all seem spot on to me. I'll post some screen shots in a sec. Volume on, it even says your alarm is set for 6 hours from now etc.. Not days or anything..
Here are my alarm screenshots see if i'm doing something wrong?. Please ignore the fact that the phone is on vibrate, thats just on since I started work this morning.
Any advice would be appreciated. I don't really want to have to start using 3rd party apps. Don't see why I should have too..
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Does the alarm have a seperate volume / system sounds and have you tried changing the alarm sound?
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indie said:
Does the alarm have a seperate volume / system sounds and have you tried changing the alarm sound?
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All my volumes were maxed out, I checked before going to sleep. Even so there was nothing on my screen this morning to say any alarms had even gone off even if the volume was off for some reason. One alarm doesn't have snooze switched on so that should go off until I turn it off shouldn't it?
I think the problem is the alarm doesn't repeat the ringtone. I have tried it before. Basically it plays the ringtone, then dies off regardless whether you dismiss or snooze the alarm. After that you can't find any trace of the alarm having sounded.
So I guessed you must have slept through the alarm. It happened to me too. So now I am using another alarm app.
Seifer1975 said:
I think the problem is the alarm doesn't repeat the ringtone. I have tried it before. Basically it plays the ringtone, then dies off regardless whether you dismiss or snooze the alarm. After that you can't find any trace of the alarm having sounded.
So I guessed you must have slept through the alarm. It happened to me too. So now I am using another alarm app.
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Hhhmm, I suppose it is a possibility, surly the alarms shouldn't stop on their own without being turned off, that would be a major flaw. Only other thing is I was actually awake this morning around the time the final 05:45 alarm should of gone off but I saw or heard nothing.
When you look at the screenshots you realize that sound is disabled?
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When you look at the screenshots you realize that sound is disabled?
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I did say ignore the fact that my phone is on vibrate. Incidentally I have tested it today on a random alarm and the alarm went off even though the phone was on vibrate. It just seems to not work if the phone hasn't been used in hours.
Purchase Alarm Clock Extreme. Well worth it and works 100% of the time. I have math to snooze and captcha to dismiss. Wakes me up every single time.
I don't really want to go down the route of installing 3rd party apps. What if they get closed down, does the alarm still go off?
I'd rather try and figure out whats going wrong and fix it.
My phone is always on vibration.. But i have never faced any problem with alarm and i am using my mobile as waking alarm since i bought it
Mano1982 said:
My phone is always on vibration.. But i have never faced any problem with alarm and i am using my mobile as waking alarm since i bought it
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Well i'd love to know why mine always thinks I need more sleep. Gonna have to factory reset at some point and see if that helps but I shouldn't really need to do a reset after 1 week of use.
Stock Alarm works perfectly, maybe u turned on the "block mode" or something, don't 3rd party apps w/ own alarm system
No Blocking mode on or anything like that.
It now seems fixed after a factory reset, the only thing I haven't put back on is my PIN lock. I have a feeling the PIN lock and dock mode were not playing well with each other.
Will try adding PIN at some point but just happy its working for now
richardirv said:
No Blocking mode on or anything like that.
It now seems fixed after a factory reset, the only thing I haven't put back on is my PIN lock. I have a feeling the PIN lock and dock mode were not playing well with each other.
Will try adding PIN at some point but just happy its working for now
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Glad to know a reset resolved the issue, but this is definitely an annoying bug - how do we know the issue won't come back again? I ran into the same issue the last two days now where my alarms just didn't go off. Settings all check out, nothing changed, the alarms just stopped working.
For what it's worth, I also have a PIN lock, but I don't have a dock. It was plugged in, face up, full volume.
add me to this growing list as well. I was just testing the alarm setting it with voice and sure enough, my alarm didnt sound. Alarm screen came up, but no sound. The strange thing is if I go in and set an alarm manually, it will sound. Strange and frustrating.
Home screen too?
richardirv said:
Does anyone use their Note 2 as an alarm clock? I have had mine 6 days now and apart from the first morning my alarms have all failed to go off.
I can set an alarm for 2 minutes in advance and that works perfectly but when on charge for the night my morning alarms never go off.
I seem to remember having the exact same issue on an S2 I briefly owned 18 months ago. This is a serious problem and can't believe Samsung can't create an alarm that works!!
Has anyone experienced this or have any info?
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I have had the exact same problem. My alarms worked for the first couple of weeks, then nothing, if the phone was inactive for more than an hour or two.
I have a few alarms set through the day. The only time they work is if the phone has been recently active. At night I plug the phone in to charge and the alarms will not go off in the morning. The other thing that I noticed is that the home screen time is always behind when this happens. So far this is the only place I have found someone with the same issue.
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Anyone quickly shut off their alarm to find it won't turn off? I've done it a few times now. If the alarm goes off and you quickly swipe down, the alarm continues to sound and the only way I've found to turn it off is to switch off the phone fully.
Yup had that too...
Very Annoying, having to apologize to the people around you for the constant alarm sounding during the reboot......
If anybody knows a fix ?
i had this problem too today, my suggested fix is to go into settings and enable the volume keys to also switch off the alarm, cant vouch for it as definitive as it happened to me for the first time today but its worth a try
I use the DeskClock app as my alarm, this morning the alarm activated and suddenly turned off. I wonder what had happened but didn't make much of it. I woke up did my things and then came back to the phone to check what went wrong with the alarm. The phone actually called a random person in my contact list after the alarm had begun, has anyone here experienced the same?
Maybe you were trying to turn it off and pressed some wrong buttons in a half-awake sleep haze?
I am always turning my alarm off when half-asleep and then when I wake up late I'm like 'WTF! My alarm didn't go off!?'
Until my wife tells me it did, but I turned it off.
If you swipe the phone to unlock it, regardless if you actually draw your pattern, that will turn the alarm off.
I did it on accident when I was trying to hit Snooze.
sounds like you need an app called "call confirm" in the app store, then you wont be dialing by accident
The phone was lying on the floor and I didn't touch it. It was a good 10 feet away from me. I'll try the call confirm app. Thanks for the replies.
Do you guys often find that the alarm notification icon sometimes disappears for no reason?
Yeah, mine comes on and goes off for no apparent reason. Have looked at all the setting but have not found a solution. Not a deal breaker though since there are so many other alarm apps on the market, although it would be good to get the stock on working reliably.
no issue with mine. i purchased mine 8 days ago and i use the alarm every day with no issues so far. i am running the bell rom and am rooted
This happens with mine as well, but no issue of the alarm not coming on at the correct time.
this happens to me too!! i've my morning alarm set for 7am all weekdays. however, whenever i turn off the phone, or after an one-week cycle, the notification icon would disappear.
Although it still indicates that the alarms are "on" when i look at all alarms within the Clock app, i just get paranoid that i wont go off the next day (since the notification icon disappears and the lock screen does not indicate an alarm is active).
does anyone know a fix to this?? please help!
Ever used your XP to replace your alarm clock? Has it been a good substitute? I'm thinking of doing that... I'm wondering if it will work better than the broken one I have now and the cheap one I bought from Walmart...
I use it all the time, it's loud and obnoxious. Just the thing you'll need to wake up in the morning haha. It's easy to set too, and you can have lots of different alarms set, it's a pretty sweet built in clock/alarm.
Yes. Yes. It is very very good as an alarm.
I use alarm clock plus, it's free and more obnoxious than STOCK
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I use the Xperia Play as my default alarm clock and I use the ' Xperia ' ringtone for the alarm. Sounds so nice in the morning
I have the dock and it makes the XP the best Alarm Clock ever.
when it wakes me up I never now which button is snoose and which is disable - I wish they were bigger in size and coloured red and green to make it more visible
Combined with the dock, it's my current alarm clock. I use the " rise up" melody, because it's nice enough, and it's been fine so far.
I've used it before as an alarm. It was good. It woke me up anyway.
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Yeah, I guess this should all make sense since you can hook it up with a speaker...
Yup use it everyday, I have the XP dock sitting beside my bed, threw out my old alarm clock.
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So what if the sound is off (from the power button) to not wake people up because of notification sounds... will it still beep or make noise to wake you up?
I place my phone right next to my head and I wake up to Edith Piaf, Inception baby!
I use the default alarm clock that's in stock, I don't like the standard ringtone, hence why it's easy to wake up every morning
neverwinter said:
So what if the sound is off (from the power button) to not wake people up because of notification sounds... will it still beep or make noise to wake you up?
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The alarm clock will still go off as loud as possible even with sound off, no need to worry. I keep my phone on vibrate at all times and it has never failed to play the alarm sounds and wake me up.
Always! Stock alarm clock with the Piezo Alarm as the sound with volume all the way up... Very ear piercing! Even if I snooze the alarm for about 40 minutes or until my mum yells at me to actually get up.
please note i have had some issues with the alarm not going off even though i set a test alarm and i didnt use a task killer.
fma965 said:
please note i have had some issues with the alarm not going off even though i set a test alarm and i didn't use a task killer.
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That exact same thing has happened to me maybe once or twice. It would just say that my alarm is set for the next day, like it was skipped or something.
I bought the XperiaPlay dock since it was only cheap for this very purpose.
Sadly, didn't realise I couldn't use it with any kind of case.
So I have been unable to use the dock.
Wow, this is some coincidence. I was just about to post and saw this topic.
Just got my dock. Only problem is, the phone doesn't go into the alarm clock mode as shown in the pictures. I guess it's because of some bloatware i removed. can someone please tell me what app is required for the dock-clock mode?
Also, like some people are using it, I would also be keeping it on a small side-table next to my bed, with both cables unplugged. Since the phone is plugged into the earphone jack on the dock, wouldn't that disable the phone speakers and therefore no alarm sound?
Hey Everyone
Have another question here...is there any way to make the alarm clock on my LG G3 set off the vibrate on my SW3? Basically want it to vibrate as my phones alarm goes off to wake me up! Ha.
Thanks
sheppy1 said:
Hey Everyone
Have another question here...is there any way to make the alarm clock on my LG G3 set off the vibrate on my SW3? Basically want it to vibrate as my phones alarm goes off to wake me up! Ha.
Thanks
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I use Sleep as Android and it'll do exactly what you're looking for - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.urbandroid.sleep&hl=en
I've got mine set up to just buzz my watch first, then a failsafe that goes off on my watch and phone.
Ooooo looks brilliant!!! Do all the other features like sleep tracking etc drain the battery much then?
sheppy1 said:
Ooooo looks brilliant!!! Do all the other features like sleep tracking etc drain the battery much then?
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It used to drain your battery totally, but dev recently got it working excellent instead.
Now our sw3 is one of the most battery efficient watch
To run the app on, battery "drains" around 17% over night, which is great since it various sensors are being used.
Regarding vibration on the watch in general: I think it's as easy as, if an app generates vibration alerts on your phone, it'll generate these on the watch too.
ivarson_swe said:
It used to drain your battery totally, but dev recently got it working excellent instead.
Now our sw3 is one of the most battery efficient watch
To run the app on, battery "drains" around 17% over night, which is great since it various sensors are being used.
Regarding vibration on the watch in general: I think it's as easy as, if an app generates vibration alerts on your phone, it'll generate these on the watch too.
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Ooooo brilliant! Thanks for the info I'll give it a shot over the weekend then when I've had time to mess with all the settings, annoying though as I like using timely and would really just like it to vibrate my watch...
gabestover said:
I use Sleep as Android and it'll do exactly what you're looking for - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.urbandroid.sleep&hl=en
I've got mine set up to just buzz my watch first, then a failsafe that goes off on my watch and phone.
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I just got the SW3 yesterday. I'm trying to get my alarms to sync, found this an tried Sleep as Android. However, it seems no matter what settings I use, my watch only buzzes once very briefly for the alarm while it goes off as normal on my phone. As if just a notification that an alarm is going off. Is this just how it works? Any ideas?
I followed the "instruction" chapter on wearables to enable Smartwatch in the app and enabled the vibration (Smartwatch) from start option, but I can't find any other real set up options or instructions.
meh3884 said:
I just got the SW3 yesterday. I'm trying to get my alarms to sync, found this an tried Sleep as Android. However, it seems no matter what settings I use, my watch only buzzes once very briefly for the alarm while it goes off as normal on my phone. As if just a notification that an alarm is going off. Is this just how it works? Any ideas?
I followed the "instruction" chapter on wearables to enable Smartwatch in the app and enabled the vibration (Smartwatch) from start option, but I can't find any other real set up options or instructions.
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I made two alarms - One with the phone vibrating / making noise, and the watch vibrating, then one set ~5 min before that, set to silent, and disabled vibration (so the phone does nothing), and set the Vibrate (Smartwatch) to "From start" as well.
When the first alarm goes off, mine buzzes once briefly at the time of the alarm, and then once again maybe 30 seconds later, then it starts getting more frequent after that. When I just went to check what my settings were, I also noticed there's an option to start the watch vibration "before" the alarm - though I'm not sure how much before the alarm "before" is, since it doesn't seem to be configurable, but that may alleviate my use of two alarms.
Hope that helps!
Official Clock app from Google
now u can install on any android and the alarm appear on smartwatch , to dismiss or postpone