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On the iPhone Alarm Clock

blueflame said:
I agree. why can I not choose the snooze length? is this Jobs preferred snooze?

I also wish it had the calendar feature. I would like to set my alarm schedules a week at a time and not think about it.
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Back in the day of mechanical clocks, the snooze length could either be 9 minutes or 18 minutes (iirc) because of all the gears 'n' junk in there. Bunches of years later, it's what we're "used to."

I wish the calendar had amore jarring alarm. The tone happens once and I can sleep right through it.
 
LimeiBook86 said:
It appears that way from the menu, but if you select more than one day it lets you. I selected Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday... etc. Then I clicked back. The screen then showed "Mon-Fri". Try it out. ;)
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Holy crap! This should be a Macrumors front page story! Thank you so much.
 
you know, you can also use your own custom sounds or mp3 for the alarm clock, making your wake up experience better.Simply using iPhoneRingToneMaker, the ringtones you send to you iPhone can be used as your alarm clock, so you can just send a whole song and use that as your mp3 alarm
 
tj8212 said:
you know, you can also use your own custom sounds or mp3 for the alarm clock, making your wake up experience better.Simply using iPhoneRingToneMaker, the ringtones you send to you iPhone can be used as your alarm clock, so you can just send a whole song and use that as your mp3 alarm
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A Hack that'll turn your iPhone into an iBrick for the special price of ONLY $9.95.

I'm all over THAT!!!:rolleyes:
 
WiseWeasel said:
I love waking up to the "Harp" sound, it just lulls me into consciousness without the jarring alarm noises I've used before this... Love the iPhone alarm! It's crontab, for waking up! Oh, and it's easy to have a 3-minute snooze; just set yourself three sets of alarms at three-minute intervals...
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my alarm ringtone as well..... im a light sleeper.....lol
 
katie ta achoo said:
Back in the day of mechanical clocks, the snooze length could either be 9 minutes or 18 minutes (iirc) because of all the gears 'n' junk in there. Bunches of years later, it's what we're "used to."

I wish the calendar had amore jarring alarm. The tone happens once and I can sleep right through it.
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Hmm :) I've got an alternate theory about that (which matches how all the alarms I've used have worked).

- Alarm goes off.
- Alarm will sound for 1 minute.
- Snooze is 9 minutes in case you hit snooze towards the end of the 1 minute of ringing.
- So, Normal alarm ringing + snooze total time will never be longer than 10 minutes.

That's my theory and I'm sticking to it :D
 
My one problem with the alarm

I think the alarm function is great, but I have been having the following issue that maybe someone can help me out with:

I set multiple alarms in the morning because I sleep like a rock. I hit snooze on some of them, maybe shut one of them off, but eventually I get up, turn off all of the alarms in the clock application, and hop in the shower. HOWEVER, even though I have turned off all of the alarms, an alarm will soon come back out of snooze mode and start blaring. Wouldn't it make sense that if you turn off an alarm, the whether you hit snooze a few minutes earlier or not, it should not start buzzing again?

Anyone else experience this?
 
Snooze the whole screen, unless picked up.

JGowan said:
I think you should be able to choose "ALARM" for general alerts, but then you should have "SLEEP ALARM" which would leave the face unlocked so that when the alarm goes off, you reach over to the night stand and are presented with something like this... so that there's no unlocking and it's easy to go for the green when you need more sleep -- OH and the ability to designate EXACTLY how long you want the Snooze to be.... a must... WHO THE F DECIDED "9" was the magic number? :)
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Actually, I think it would be good to have the whole screen act as a snooze button if snooze is activated. The motion sensors could trigger changing the functionality to allow the alarm to be turned off.

There you go.

Tom
 
I stopped using an alarm clock 3 years ago. I get up when I get up, and get to work when I get there. At least that was my plan, and for 30 months it worked out fine, until I started being a little worried about showing up in the office at 10 am. Especially when people started scheduling appointments for 8:30 or earlier.

For me, I decided that I'd just schedule an appointment between 8 and 9 in the morning, and have the iPhone remind me at 7:45. This does two things for me. First, it wakes me up at 7:45 at the latest, so I can drag myself out of bed 30 minutes later, to try to be at work before 9am, and second... It keeps all those early morning types from trying to rope me into a 8am meeting.

I'm SO much easier to get along with when I come in later. I used to show up at 8am, and people knew better than to try to engage me in conversation until at least 10:30. Now, It's not too bad.

I know it doesn't work for people that would get fired if there weren't there at 8:00 on the dot, but I decided a few years ago that there is nothing in this world worth risking my life for. If I'm a couple minutes late for a meeting, I'll just apologized when I get there, and we'll move on with life. Adults don't get worked up about things like that. But, there are 40 year old children out there too sometimes.

I do like the little chirp in the morning. The next week with the iPhone out for repair is going to be interesting without it walking me up.

-jt2
 
YoMamasPyjamas said:
I think the alarm function is great, but I have been having the following issue that maybe someone can help me out with:

I set multiple alarms in the morning because I sleep like a rock. I hit snooze on some of them, maybe shut one of them off, but eventually I get up, turn off all of the alarms in the clock application, and hop in the shower. HOWEVER, even though I have turned off all of the alarms, an alarm will soon come back out of snooze mode and start blaring. Wouldn't it make sense that if you turn off an alarm, the whether you hit snooze a few minutes earlier or not, it should not start buzzing again?

Anyone else experience this?
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YES! I was actually reading through all the comments and surprised no one had mentioned this until your post.This is my biggest problem with the Alarm Clock, and will probably be the reason I don't use it anymore.
On numerous occasions, I'll slide my finger to turn the alarm off. Then when I'm awake, I'll turn off all the active alarms remaining(I have about 6-7 set at around 5-10 minute intervals).
If I had hit snooze on any of those, sometimes, not always, the alarm will go off even though everything was set to off. Some mornings I've had it go off 3 times. And it really sucks because it will go off even if you have the phone on silent. So one day it actually went off during a class that I had rushed to.

I also have had a problem sometimes, although I haven't noticed it since the 1.01 update, when someone texts me or leaves a voice mail while an alarm is set overnight, so that little blue message window comes up when you take the phone out of sleep mode, it doesn't seem to go off. When I take it out of sleep mode, it will start going off, but it wouldn't before. I haven't noticed this at all though since the update, so maybe this was fixed.
 
Alarm Clock Doesn't Work

Does anyone else have a problem with the alarms not going off? I've had 2 iPhones and they both have this symptom. The alarms do not go off, until I wake up and then check my phone. As soon as I unlock it, the alarms start to go off. Almost like the phone has gone to sleep, and then me interacting with it has woken it up, and then it decides to set off the alarms that were queued up. It's horribly irritating, and I can't use this feature anymore!
 
is there a way to turn the phone ON and do the alarm procedure instaead of having it all the time on to be able to ring on the right minute?
 
skymaXimus said:
Does anyone else have a problem with the alarms not going off? I've had 2 iPhones and they both have this symptom. The alarms do not go off, until I wake up and then check my phone. As soon as I unlock it, the alarms start to go off. Almost like the phone has gone to sleep, and then me interacting with it has woken it up, and then it decides to set off the alarms that were queued up. It's horribly irritating, and I can't use this feature anymore!
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this happens to me all the time and it Pisses me off..
 
JGowan said:
I think you should be able to choose "ALARM" for general alerts, but then you should have "SLEEP ALARM" which would leave the face unlocked so that when the alarm goes off, you reach over to the night stand and are presented with something like this... so that there's no unlocking and it's easy to go for the green when you need more sleep -- OH and the ability to designate EXACTLY how long you want the Snooze to be.... a must... WHO THE F DECIDED "9" was the magic number? :)
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This would be a problem for me because I would just jab at the screen, and I know that I would think I pushed "snooze" but really push "off" and be late.
 
Go into clock and at the bottom select alarm clock, you can then set up different alarms much like adding a calender entry.
 
For those extra snoozy types why cant they make whole screen a snooze button (tap here or there)... and put a slider to turn it off? Perhaps in a random position to make sure you look at the screen. My $0.02
 
mjdyson said:
For those extra snoozy types why cant they make whole screen a snooze button (tap here or there)... and put a slider to turn it off? Perhaps in a random position to make sure you look at the screen. My $0.02
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Actually, I'd rather the snooze button was a slider placed randomly on the screen :p
 
The alarm works for me, but could use both. First, it would be nice if it was a couple of clicks highest volume, I can hardly hear if I am in a deep sleep when turned off. Secondly, I want more options for sound to wake up. Change of tone from time to time, it is easier for me to wake up. If you have the repeat function activated all you have to do to "hit the snooze" is press the sleep button on top.
 
I've had some problems with my iphone's alarm clock. Anyone else?

It just chooses not to go off.
 
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