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iPhone Alarm Bug Still Causing Issues for Some Users

BigTRQ said:
If folks only rely on a PHONE for their PRIMARY alarm, and then miss flights/work/etc., that's on them. People should know that an electronic device that does more than be an alarm clock might mess up that feature. Why people don't just spring for a $10 travel clock that works perfectly 100% of the time (save for battery death/changing) is beyond me.
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Man.. The iPhone works fine as an alarm clock, and you get to wake up to your premade ringtones instead of the annoying beeping of a cheap alarm clock. As much as I love Apple they goofed up this time, but they can't be perfect all the time.. :p

I must admit that I'm gonna have a hard time trusting apple's clock app for the next few days so I'll have to remove the dust off of my old alarm clock and set it has a backup. Or use another app.. But I don't know if that's gonna fix the problem.
 
What I don't understand is why they didn't send a free text message to tell EVERYONE that there was a problem. Not everybody checks tech news sites 24/7.

Look bugs happen. Programming gets rushed to meet deadlines. Do you want Airplay or an alarm glitch that lasted 3 days?
 
I actually stopped wearing a watch after having the 3G iPhone...
However, as much as I've used the alarm for various things at home and on the road, I have actually never used my iPhone as an alarm clock to wake up in the morning...
I have an alarm clock on the night stand, and there is usualy one in the hotel where I stay while on the road.

I agree, Apple must get their act together on this one...
Also, are you people kidding me? Did I read here that someone missed a flight because the alarm didn't go off ? I tested my phone when I read about this and it seemed to work fine...
Why would some alarms work and some not? Is everyone running iOS 4.2?
And if they are, I wonder how many and which Apps, the people who's alarm didn't go off, have.

It could be the OS, and then again, it could be something else. Curious.... :rolleyes:
 
awr said:
"Bloggers, as well as Facebook and Twitter users, complained they missed flights or were late to arrive at work as the alarm built into Apple's iPhone failed to go off for a third straight day for some users."

If you've let this alarm screw you for the third day in a row, that's on you.

It's a phone, it's not gonna think for you . . . .
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Exactly! Yes, it's pretty poor that the alarm isn't doing it's basic function, but really - if you are the kind of person that relies on an alarm for a flight or whatever, then surely you would be a little cautious after numerous problems!
 
I use my iPhone as my main alarm clock...

... and it failed me this morning. No problems with Antennagate or the like, but it didn't go off at 6 AM this morning.

I don't think it should come as a surprise that many more people use their smart phones as their main alarm clocks.
 
Ok. That's pretty darn hilarious. Are you sure you're not a coder, though? I've had some people on my team who wouldn't be able to follow your pseudo-code... and they're "developers".


baryon said:
How the clock app is coded (in pseudocode because I can't really code):

If (alarmTime == currentTime and currentYear != 2011){
activateAlarm()
}​

After some more digging around in the source code, this is what I found:

If (girlfriendBirthday == currentDay and random(10)>8){
activateReminder()
}​

...and some more:

If (importantMeetingDay == currentDay){
deleteAllAlarms()
currentDay = Tomorrow
setNewHour = random(12)
setNewMinutes = random(60)
trace("haha you suck!")
}​
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I can imagine being a kid and explaining to my mom why I missed school: "Mom! I told you it's not my fault, it's Apples! I set my alarm!"

Wonder if that would cause more or less spankings?
 
It may be understandable that a crazy bug caused alarms to stop working for some reason, but for them to then scrutinize the code and issue a statement saying that alarms would work today and they didn't is really embarrassing!

And I agree with that other guy that not sending a text to warn everyone is unforgivable. It really changes my opinion of them. It's such an obvious thing to do for your customers that the only reason they didn't must have been to save money. :mad:
 
Didnt work in the morning

Late on first day of the year, thanks to the iPhone!!! My morning alarms of 6:30 am and 7:00 Am didnt work!!!

Seems to work now!
 
BigTRQ said:
If folks only rely on a PHONE for their PRIMARY alarm, and then miss flights/work/etc., that's on them. People should know that an electronic device that does more than be an alarm clock might mess up that feature. Why people don't just spring for a $10 travel clock that works perfectly 100% of the time (save for battery death/changing) is beyond me.
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lol, this whole thing reminds me of Seinfeld. They can be tricky...
/also pretty sad that people miss work or a flight!? over this
 
To all those saying "who uses their phone as their main time-piece/alarm clock?":

Here in the UK, walk into ANY school, and into any classroom filled with kids under the age of 16. I guarantee you not ONE pupil in that class will have a watch, or any timepiece on them, other than their phone. Not one. I know it may seem unbelievable - I can hardly believe it and I spend my day teaching them - but it's true.

As a 42-year old, I do have a watch, and an alarm clock, but the generation behind me don't. Like it or not, people use their phone more and more as the thing that does everything for them. This is one problem Apple need to get a grip on.
 
Mine is broken, too

My alarm has not gone off so far - I will try creating new alarms.

I agree this is inexcusable - while it's not my only alarm, I know a lot of people who use their iPhone as their sole alarm clock, and the stakes for not getting up on time are high.

The other bug - that still hasn't been fixed - is that push notifications block the alarm from going off. If I get a text message during the night, my alarm won't go off. Same for push notifications from apps like Twitter for iPhone. When I dismiss the push notification, the alarm goes off.
 
Agggghhhh!

I almost missed my flight because of this bug! I could NOT figure out why my alarm didn't go off, and even weirder, my mom's failed to go off as well. She has a 3GS, I have a 4. Now I know. Thanks Apple iPhone bug... :(

Normally my iPhone is NOT my primary alarm, but when I was staying at my mom's house visiting her for New Years, I had no other choice.
 
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WiiDSmoker said:
Is this what you've become on trying to defend Apple? Pathetic.
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he has a valid point though. Im kinda laughing at the morons who continued to use the iPhone as their primary alarm for the third time that it fails.

Fool me once, shame on you
fool me twice, shame on me
fool me three times, dumbass...
 
BigTRQ said:
If folks only rely on a PHONE for their PRIMARY alarm, and then miss flights/work/etc., that's on them. People should know that an electronic device that does more than be an alarm clock might mess up that feature. Why people don't just spring for a $10 travel clock that works perfectly 100% of the time (save for battery death/changing) is beyond me.
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Not a good argument.

Let put it this way. Yet another reason why IT does not trust apple. They can not get something simple right why should they trust them for something mission critical.
 
DCJ001 said:
How many "bugs" are there needing repair?
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Smug response. Here are a valid few.

When you open a contact in Contacts, pressing text message doesn't always immediately add the contact to the Messages app. Very sporadic.

When you go out of coverage area, the phone will often show NO SERVICE and can't find the network anymore. Sometimes the only fix is to power cycle. No reported solution so far here, LOTS of users reporting this on various forums.

When you create and delete an event in Calendar, you still can see remnants of the blank task after you delete it many times.

Bluetooth is very, very picky, not to mention it doesn't support over twenty "standard" Bluetooth services. (http://www.iphonebuzz.com/iphones-bluetooth-is-dumb-purposely-crippled-or-both-151188.php)
 
Apple has introduced a new case that has a built in eye to detect the date you set your alarm on. It will autocorrect the problem for you.

Jobs said the alarms are not a problem, but the new case will be free anyway.
 
applefan69 said:
he has a valid point though. Im kinda laughing at the morons who continued to use the iPhone as their primary alarm for the third time that it fails.

Fool me once, shame on you
fool me twice, shame on me
fool me three times, dumbass...
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I'm kinda laughing at morons who think everyone set their alarms over the weekend for no reason.
 
GQB said:
More to the point, THIS is the biggest deal that Apple haters can get themselves worked up over? Pathetic.
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Since when do Apple haters have an iPhone? Or could it be that, and I'm going out on a limb here, people actually are pissed off it still doesn't work even though Apple communicated that the problem would be remedied on Jan 3? :rolleyes:
 
Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_2_1 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/533.17.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.2 Mobile/8C148 Safari/6533.18.5)

I don't get it? does it work when it's on repeating? or just on a one time event/moment?
 
Nevermind the fact that if you add a birthday for a contact that was born prior to 1932, no matter what birthday they have, it will populate in the Calendar app as December 13th.
 
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