I use my 3GS as an alarm, it's the only thing that can wake me up, I put it on a docking station so that it is louder. Now most of the time it's fine but sometimes it will be fine for a few minutes and then make a strange sound (forgive this idiotic method) kind of like du, du du du, du du du and will repeat until I take it off the stand, it does say the device may not be compatable whenever it goes on the docking station but I just dismiss the pop up. Any ideas?