This is a most irritating bug to say the least. I've moved onto this 3rd party app anyway. Anyone still complaining about it don't have the brains to find an alternative, which is just like falling in pig **** and then sitting there expecting Apple to help you out of it.
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iPhone Alarm Bug Still Causing Issues for Some Users
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Another reason for over-the-air iOS updates, a bit like the App Store Updater, but for patches to the OS itself, without having to download a whole new firmware file...
Mac's and PC's use patches when something like this comes up, so why not smartphones?
Mac's and PC's use patches when something like this comes up, so why not smartphones?
one of my buddies did the same thing to me today.. thank god.. I wouldve been very late to work this morning.. I had to do my clark kent/superman impersonation
I'm a CS graduate from one of the best universities in England, with 8 years experience in software engineering. So please don't insult my aptitude.
It *is* utterly unforgivable. This is an introduced bug in iOS4. If the phone can render the time and date without problem - which it can - then there is absolutely no excuse for the alarm to fail. All it has to do is check that.
It's totally basic.
It's not even as if this is the first time the alarm system has been shown to be buggy in iOS4. After the daylight savings problems - across the world, with multiple opportunities on multiple dates to issue a fix I might add - we've also had Apple's announcement of a couple of days ago that it was no longer an issue as of 3rd January.
Bugs happen, fine - of course they do. Bugs like this should get fixed much quicker by a 300 billion dollar company relying on this OS to drive future growth. Even if only for PR reasons.
Don't be silly. I've got plenty of brains, and an alternative, but it's sure as hell still worth complaining about.
This is one expensive piece of kit - and this is one freakin' basic piece of functionality that should never, ever fail.
Alarm for 6:30 worked, Alarm for 7:00 also did.
But the 7:30 did not go off.
I presume this to be related when the alarms where set. I think I added the 7:30 a long long time before and the 6:30, 7:00 just more recently.
Actually I seldom add new alarms, but rather change existing ones (i.e. change one from 7:00 -> 8:00) or something like this. I expect this to work as the function to do it is there.
I would also expect this is not an issue (until another BUG date) when you set alarm now, but like i wrote the bug might be related to a strange interference with:
+ how 'old' the alarm is (how long before it was created)
+ how often it was changed/updated
+ is the day 'special' today (DST change, New Year, Steve's Birthday)
I have a factory unlocked (from Hongkong) iPhone 4, 32 GB, 4.2.1, non Jailbreaked.
So Apple time to role-out 4.2.2 with the Clock App thoroughly tested!
I will keep an eye on my 7:30 Alarm and not touch it.
It worked for me... My wife has a library book due today, and my alarm went off (yes, I enter my wife's library book due dates as events into my phone -- whenever she is late, she sends me to get her next book out and I end up paying her fines).
IDK, I hate to doubt the credibility of the internet, but doesn't this strike you as a certain kind of person taking the opportunity to whine and moan.
I realize there was a bug, but really, how serious was this in the bigger scheme of things.
IDK, I hate to doubt the credibility of the internet, but doesn't this strike you as a certain kind of person taking the opportunity to whine and moan.
I realize there was a bug, but really, how serious was this in the bigger scheme of things.
I think we're seeing a generational gap here between those who can't fathom using their phones as alarms and those who only use their phone as an alarm. Me personally, I use my iPhone as an alarm every day. Being connected to a time server, I never have to worry about it being wrong. (Until now)
Because it's hailed to be the smartest phone ever made, and a 15 year old Nokia still does alarms properly... also wakes for alarms whilst being off.
It is quite laughable.
I'm far from an Apple defender and why would anyone try to defend them. Their alarm clock has a bug - case closed.
But please, I missed a flight because my phone alarm didn't go off is ridiculous.
Something important as a flight and your phone was the cause?
Apple should get out of the app business. They're too big to address users' needs quickly, they're too big to really care. If this app had a lone developer working on it in his spare time he would have fixed it on his lunch break. As it stands, Apple will need to roll it into an iOS update because they don't update their core apps like everyone else. Everyone will have to update whether they use Apple Clock or not. Total waste of time and effort on everybody's part. I should be able to delete it, and forget about it.
considering how many developpers and resources Apple has and how much Apple hardware costs, it is simply ridiculous the impressive amount of bugs that appears all the time
even when they release a software update, users always experience bad surprises with Apple
Steve knows how to make money but not to deliver failure-free products nor please customers...
even when they release a software update, users always experience bad surprises with Apple
Steve knows how to make money but not to deliver failure-free products nor please customers...
Alarm-gate
For all the great things Apple does, a relatively small detail like this can look pretty bad. Especially when we all thought this bug was fixed already.
Some programer's head will roll.
For all the great things Apple does, a relatively small detail like this can look pretty bad. Especially when we all thought this bug was fixed already.
Some programer's head will roll.
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With aapl's cash and market cap - couldnt they hire a crack programmer $20,000 to fix the problem - like right now
Still luv ya aapl
Still luv ya aapl
