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iPhone Alarm Bug Still Causing Issues for Some Users

Robbadore64 said:
So you've never been five minutes late to work Mr. Obsessive Compulsive? The Numpty ended up doing quite well winning the $10 million FedEx cup regardless so I doubt he loses any EXTRA sleep over it. :)

And relax, I'm OC and agree. If something is important to you, be it a flight or what not, take precautions as to not miss the thing.
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Yeah, but what was his caddie doing I wonder. Or did he sleep in too..

Rodimus Prime said:
When I was working and I was home I had 2 different alarm clocks I used. One was my phone and the other was the alarm clock. But when I travel and most people travel they only take their phone with them to use as an alarm clock. It one less thing they should need to pack. A lot of people were flying on 1st and 2nd and chances are pretty good they only had 1 alarm clock (aka their phone) It was piss poor programing on Apple part on why this failed.
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True, never considered travellers who's alarm can only really be a phone.

Guess if I ever travel now and I'm worried about missing a flight because of a clock glitch, I'd set the iPhone's countdown timer to coincide with the time I want the alarm to go off. AFAIK the countdown timer isn't affected by this?
 
Hmm...

She set the alarm for yesterday and it went off, and today it didn't. It was set at a consistent time to go off and it didn't...

So, Steve, why did it work yesterday and not today? Quite a bug...
 
Kilamite said:
True, never considered travellers who's alarm can only really be a phone.

Guess if I ever travel now and I'm worried about missing a flight because of a clock glitch, I'd set the iPhone's countdown timer to coincide with the time I want the alarm to go off. AFAIK the countdown timer isn't affected by this?
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I ALWAYS use the iPhone alarm clock AND ALWAYS also call for a wake-up call a half hour after I *should be awake*. Except on vacation I always have a backup. I mean, if it's that important to be there, wouldn't you want to get a call during coffee that you should be awake?

The problem happened once, on vacation (Thank Ford) when my iPhone died during the night because of EDGE service and a very low battery AND the wake-up call not being placed properly. (They called at 6PM, not AM) I laughed my ass off. I needed the extra sleep...
 
Yep, mine didn't go off this morning. Had thought that this only affected alarms set before the new year? Obviously not.

Still, not so bothered by it as think it's a result of some terrible practices in cupertino. I'd hate to see what their codebase is like if something as simple as an Alarm app has these sorts of issues.

PS, all you folks with your multiple backup alarms are totally insane.
 
This is getting out of hand. It's also unacceptable for Apple. Ridiculous.
 
I don't think we can blame the people whose alarms did not go off. After all, Apple issued a statement that everything would be fine by today... as if they knew what they were talking about.

If a company issues a statement like that after a problem has been reported, I am not sure if people should be blamed for being naive. After all, they are looking through their $500 shiny looking glass at a $300 billion firm.
 
My non-recurring alarm went off OK on Monday the 3rd. I know this because I awoke before it went off, and then came back into my bedroom to find it shrieking at my poor neighbors through the wall :eek:
 
goobot said:
First, who the hell uses a phone as a main alarm clock?
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Young People. Some of us don't even know what alarm clocks are! Same reason why most of us are eschewing land lines, what use is a land line? you're physically tethered to a location, you often are not available when calls come in, how do you even operate an answering machine? I've built two computers and I still can't figure out how to use an answering machine. Even voicemail is a PITA to use. It's all about text messaging these days, get with it or get left behind...
 
Well, I'll be Captain Hindsight here, and mention to people that they should have used backup alarms, ESPECIALLY for things as important as flights/important meetings/etc.

And my alarm worked perfectly this morning.
 
Blue Fox said:
Well, I'll be Captain Hindsight here, and mention to people that they should have used backup alarms, ESPECIALLY for things as important as flights/important meetings/etc.
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Why should you need a backup alarm? My wife and I both have iPhones and our backup for flights has been to set the alarm on both phones, well not any more.

The phone should be able to handle a simple alarm function without messing it up. After the first bug surfaced last year Apple should have tested the hell out of the alarm but for some reason they failed to do that. Shame on them.
 
How hard is it to test things and see this issues come up BEFORE they are a problem for users. This similar issue keeps coming up again and again and I don't understand why. It shouldn't be happening.
 
Nothing like waking up to the monotone beeping of my LOST screensaver, and then trying to enter '4 8 15 16 23 42' at 6AM in a fumbled, dark, confused state.

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Still today (1/4/11)

My girlfriend and I were woken up late again today. We both set 3 alarms on our iPhones and only my 2 stock alarm sounds woke us up. My 'alarm' sound (which was my final alarm) woke us up. My custom sounds (ringtones) didn't work and strangely enough my girlfriend's stock sounds didn't work either.

I'm out of ideas and she's been late to work twice in 2 days.

I know the critics will say, "shame on you for using it 2 days in a row" but please...

I tested it yesterday with custom sounds and they worked fine. It's overnight that is causing the issues.
 
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