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iOS 7 Beta 6 alarm bug!

glitch82

glitch82

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Oct 28, 2010
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This morning I experienced the first alarm bug. None of my alarms went off on time, and one alarm that I had set for 6:45 am went off exactly two hours later. I am so upset.

Unfortunately it forgot to take a screenshot of the alarm screen (while it's going off) with the status bar clock for proof.

But, even my notification screen shows the wrong alarm time for the upcoming alarm. I don't have any alarm set for 10:00 AM!

I am so upset. I've always used my iPhone as an alarm clock and now it's unreliable.

On a slightly unrelated note, why doesn't autocorrect capitalize iPhone like it used to? Now I have to capitalize the P manually.

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I've never had an issue with my alarm in iOS 7.
I don't think I've noticed whether it auto corrects to iPhone with the P capitalized. Real issue there I suppose, for you.

Also, perhaps your alarms finally realized how incredibly anal you were about your time before 10 am and figured you needed to take a break.
 
The alarm clocks in iOS have always been unreliable.
Especially after daylight-savings time changes and year changes.
They'll fix one thing and then break something else.
I do have the same thing as you though where my Today screen is showing alarms that do not exist but those alarms never actually go off so it's not a major concern.
 
jk111 said:
It's a beta.
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I know that, but how hard is it to make an alarm go off at the right time? It's just a freakin' alarm, not a guidance routine for a rocket.

I didn't miss any appointments or anything. I just assumed incorrectly that an alarm is something that is so basic and rudimentary to a phone's OS that there is no way it wouldn't work properly. I was obviously wrong about the last part.

And everybody's saying that this is likely the last beta before a final release. Really?

Come on Apple, I'm pulling for you.

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joshforman said:
Try deleting and recreating them.
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I'm sure that will work. The issue is how did I trigger the bug in the first place and how can I be sure that I won't trigger it again inadvertently when I actually need the alarm? I hope Apple mentions something about an alarm fix in the release notes of the next iOS 7 release, beta or final.
 
glitch82 said:
I know that, but how hard is it to make an alarm go off at the right time? It's just a freakin' alarm, not a guidance routine for a rocket.

I didn't miss any appointments or anything. I just assumed incorrectly that an alarm is something that is so basic and rudimentary to a phone's OS that there is no way it wouldn't work properly. I was obviously wrong about the last part.

And everybody's saying that this is likely the last beta before a final release. Really?

Come on Apple, I'm pulling for you.

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I'm sure that will work. The issue is how did I trigger the bug in the first place and how can I be sure that I won't trigger it again inadvertently when I actually need the alarm? I hope Apple mentions something about an alarm fix in the release notes of the next iOS 7 release, beta or final.
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The betas are released publicly so that developers can test their apps with iOS 7. So right now, it's not a priority for Apple to fix the alarm clock during the beta process. Why? No apps interact directly with the alarm clock function. They concentrate on things like the sharing by email/text/Twitter/Facebook functionality, or the calendar access functionality. Why? Some apps interact with these.

But other than the system time (which is handled outside of the actual clock app anyway), no apps interact with anything related to the clock app. As you said, it's probably something easier to fix, so why waste their time now when they'd be taking away their time from focusing on really what the point of the these developer betas is -- so that devs can improve their apps?
 
rockyroad55 said:
Odd suggestion but what time zone is your phone set to?
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New York, and I live in Florida. So it's EDT or GMT: -5.

I turned off automatic time zones so that the GPS doesn't eat up my battery. It would be interesting to see if the bug is related to that.

Another thing is those alarm clocks are modified, not originally set. Meaning they were set to some other time before and I edited them to their current times, also giving them labels within the same edit. So these are all potential factors for triggering the bug.
 
glitch82 said:
This morning I experienced the first alarm bug. None of my alarms went off on time, and one alarm that I had set for 6:45 am went off exactly two hours later. I am so upset.

Unfortunately it forgot to take a screenshot of the alarm screen (while it's going off) with the status bar clock for proof.

But, even my notification screen shows the wrong alarm time for the upcoming alarm. I don't have any alarm set for 10:00 AM!

I am so upset. I've always used my iPhone as an alarm clock and now it's unreliable.

On a slightly unrelated note, why doesn't autocorrect capitalize iPhone like it used to? Now I have to capitalize the P manually.

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If you understand there is a bug report it to Apple through your developer account. That's the main goal of beta testing, so that bugs can be reported by developers and solved by Apple before the GM.
 
glitch82 said:
This morning I experienced the first alarm bug. None of my alarms went off on time, and one alarm that I had set for 6:45 am went off exactly two hours later. I am so upset.

Unfortunately it forgot to take a screenshot of the alarm screen (while it's going off) with the status bar clock for proof.

But, even my notification screen shows the wrong alarm time for the upcoming alarm. I don't have any alarm set for 10:00 AM!

I am so upset. I've always used my iPhone as an alarm clock and now it's unreliable.

On a slightly unrelated note, why doesn't autocorrect capitalize iPhone like it used to? Now I have to capitalize the P manually.

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To fix the capitalization mistake, go into settings-general-reset-and reset the keyboard dictionary. Then it'll be back to normal :)
 
sik08amg said:
Talk about a set schedule!
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I was thinking the same thing. Talk about being your iPhone's bitch. ;)

Beta is as beta does, probably just need to delete and remake them. Never rely on your beta device, always have a backup plan.
 
glitch82 said:
New York, and I live in Florida. So it's EDT or GMT: -5.

I turned off automatic time zones so that the GPS doesn't eat up my battery. It would be interesting to see if the bug is related to that.

Another thing is those alarm clocks are modified, not originally set. Meaning they were set to some other time before and I edited them to their current times, also giving them labels within the same edit. So these are all potential factors for triggering the bug.
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Automatic time doesn't use GPS. It uses the time that the nearby cellphone towers broadcast(or a time server for wifi iPads, not 100% sure for the iPad though).
 
It works for me everyday. Maybe Apple is using it's intelligence in iOS7 and it thinks you should do some things on your own.
 
Wow why even have alarms for daily routines. It should come natural unless you have Alzheimer's (no disrespect). All is needed is an alarm to wake me up....
 
Stuke00 said:
Then why is it under "Location Services" ?
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Cellphone towers relay the location - thats why.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assisted_GPS

Assisted GPS, generally abbreviated as A-GPS or aGPS, is a system that can under certain conditions improve the startup performance, or time-to-first-fix (TTFF), of a GPS satellite-based positioning system. It is used extensively with GPS-capable cellular phones, as its development was accelerated by the U.S. FCC's 911 requirement to make the location of a cell phone available to emergency call dispatchers
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On beta 5 I had this weird thing happen... (I didn't have this many alarms on, I think I had one of each distinct time)
 

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jhuynh said:
Automatic time doesn't use GPS. It uses the time that the nearby cellphone towers broadcast(or a time server for wifi iPads, not 100% sure for the iPad though).
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It does. If you enable it and check nude location services you'll periodically see the GPS purple arrow indicating it's active. And it's active A LOT. I've tested it and it saves me about 3 hours of battery a day on average, and I'm not exaggerating.

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jnappleseed said:
To fix the capitalization mistake, go into settings-general-reset-and reset the keyboard dictionary. Then it'll be back to normal :)
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Thanks! That fixed it for sure. I'm also disappointed slightly that I can't curse repeatedly in texts and documents without retyping words half the time, but HEY maybe being a nicer guy for a week or two while my keyboard adapts isn't so bad. ;)
 
Woa!!!

I was 2 hours late for work today because my alarm was gone! I thought maybe I accidentally deleted it somehow because it wasn't in my phone, yet a bunch of old old old alarms showed up.
 
charlesdayton said:
If you understand there is a bug report it to Apple through your developer account. That's the main goal of beta testing, so that bugs can be reported by developers and solved by Apple before the GM.
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I totally would but I'm not a developer anymore. I had a developer account for 4 years and finally stopped paying after many failed iphone development projects.

ARGH it didn't auto-capitalize iphone even after resetting the keyboard! That's so weird. It did right after resetting it and now 5 minutes later it's back to letting it stay lower case.
 
iOS 7 has random bugs like this, that's why it's not a STABLE release, it doesn't always work as expected, please don't get upset if iOS 7 glitches. iOS 6 is the newest stable version. :(

Edit: If you're not a developter why do you have it?
 
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