[Q] Alarm problem anyone? - Galaxy S III Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Does anyone have this problem?
When the alarm sounds in the morning it just rings por 1 or 2 seconds and stops. I mean, the sound cuts itself without touching the phone. Then I can snooze or unlock the phone but the alarm doesn't ring.
Stock rooted ROM (tried with 3 stock rooted roms and happens the same)

Hi, I have the same problem and no solution... I'm on Faria V5.1 ROM!

I think that's a problem in XXAMA1. Had that same issue before but not now when im on XXAMA2.

ok, you'r right I'm on XXAMA1...

Havn't seen faria around for a while though..no updates

It happened in AMA1 and put AMA2-3 and it still happens

still happens on AMB2. Kinda frustrated, i woke up half an hour late today, I can't be any later or I'll miss my classes :/

That'd explain why I missed university 3x this week
Edit: tested and works good on benzrom v3
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No alarm problems on my end.
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blackknightavalon said:
No alarm problems on my end.
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Same for me

Had that problem when I was using farias roms, now on Benz rom I have no problems.
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I've noticed the same problem.
Tell me this: does your phone lie face up or down when you put it on your night table ?
So far, I've only noticed the cut-off alarm when the phone is face down. Maybe it's related to the feature the phone has for silencing (if phone rings, put it face down and it will go silent).

Just happened to me on stock non rooted official 4.1.2...It was face up if anyone's wonderin' :/
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I never put it face down. Always leave it face up.

Ok, that's one thing we can rule out.

didi.be said:
Ok, that's one thing we can rule out.
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It might however be indirectly because of that feature - for example, some bad sensor reading.
Since my last post my alarm has always rang, but I gave each of my (4) alarms a different name, and I happened to wake up a bit earlier than the alarm, wake the phone shortly to check the time, then go back to sleep.

Happened again to me on Benz v3. Really don't know what is the problem.
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True.
FYI, I have a flip cover on my S III mini... maybe combination of sensors (proximity, orientation...)
metalboy94 said:
It might however be indirectly because of that feature - for example, some bad sensor reading.
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Happened to me again just now. However I now know what's happening - the alarm seems to snooze itself. If you have snooze activated for the alarm it will ring again when the snooze timer ends (happened while I was typing this).

metalboy94 said:
Happened to me again just now. However I now know what's happening - the alarm seems to snooze itself. If you have snooze activated for the alarm it will ring again when the snooze timer ends (happened while I was typing this).
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so, a workaround would be to set the least snooze to be closer to the alarm time?

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Is the alarm clock in the N1 reliable?

My old phone (Windows Mobile) had an alarm clock that was junk and sometimes would not ring at all (found out the hard way). Is the alarm clock in the nexus one reliable or did it ever fail to ring for you?
Thanks.
I use it every day as my only alarm, and it hasn't failed me yet.
blablum said:
My old phone (Windows Mobile) had an alarm clock that was junk and sometimes would not ring at all (found out the hard way). Is the alarm clock in the nexus one reliable or did it ever fail to ring for you?
Thanks.
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lol its way realiable.. i use it for work and have not miss work yet...lol so yes it is...
Ditto to what everyone else is saying pretty much. Only alarm, works like a charm.
I use it as my work alarm and it hasn't failed me yet.
This is not WM It's Android and the Alarm clock is very on target!
Thanks guys, I guess I won't have to carry a dedicated alarm clock when I travel anymore.
I'm not sure if it's still a problem, but if you have an alarm set up and your phone reboots and/or turns off, your alarm will no longer be set.
I use it every morning for work and it has worked every time. My winmo alarm failed quite a few times so I always had an alarm clock as Backup. I no longer use the alarm clock and just stick with the n1 by my bedside. And if you leave the clock app opened and long press the screen brightness icon it puts the app in night mode with a black screen and green time info. The only downside to that is that it keeps your button touch buttons lit up white.
erikikaz said:
I'm not sure if it's still a problem, but if you have an alarm set up and your phone reboots and/or turns off, your alarm will no longer be set.
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My alarm survives reboots and shut down and restarts.
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uansari1 said:
My alarm survives reboots and shut down and restarts.
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Weird, I just set the alarm, turned off the phone, and it still didn't work for me.
You're using the stock alarm?
My alarm survives reboots as well. Stock Clock App. Perhaps you Clock app is not booting on startup or is being auto-killed if you're using a task killer app?
Unlike most Nokias, the phone won't turn back on to wake you up... All Nokias, dumb or smart, do that IIRC.
The best alarm on a phone I had. It has never failed me yet.
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My alarm survives reboots as well. Stock Clock App. Perhaps you Clock app is not booting on startup or is being auto-killed if you're using a task killer app?
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Woops, I didn't clarify. The alarm survives reboots, it's just that it won't go off if your phone is shut down.
Do all of yours work when the phone is shut down?
G0belet said:
Unlike most Nokias, the phone won't turn back on to wake you up... All Nokias, dumb or smart, do that IIRC.
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Yes the lack of this feature sucks but I personally never have my phone off overnight. Im sure this isn't uncommon, but for me its because its my only phone. In emergencies I need to be available. Maybe other people turn their phones off to charge overnight, but I doubt that its common.
I doubt it will work.
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[Q] Alarm Clock doesnt work in the morning

Anyone else having problems with the alarm clock?
I set 2 alarms to wake me in the morning and they dont activate until i touch the phone in the morning
I have to use a old wildfire for an alarm clock.
I also tried the AlarmDroid app from marked but it didnt work either. I tried to test the alarm in the evening one night and it worked fine. I usually charge the phone each night but that cant have affected the alarm can it ?
I have they exact same problem. Phone didn't gold off this morning until I touched they phone. Anyone got a fix for this ?
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Could it be juicedefender that does something ? Gonna try killing it tonight...
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Juicedefender or a taskkiller probably killed the clockapp
Exclude clock app or stop using taskkillers
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soulgrip said:
Could it be juicedefender that does something ? Gonna try killing it tonight...
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it is juicedefender. had the same problem on my sgs i9000.
I had the same problem, but i don't use any taskkiller ...
I have experienced it too. But only once. No taskkiller, root, custom rom or anything weird.
This phone is far from finished for release!
I tried this once and did not figure out the problem. It has not done it for about 2 weeks now.
Thinks the problem was my lockscreen app maybe.
CenaDK said:
I tried this once and did not figure out the problem. It has not done it for about 2 weeks now.
Thinks the problem was my lockscreen app maybe.
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Mine did it this morning without lockscreen. Uninstalled juicedefender now. Checking if that makes I difference...
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Mine did it this morning without lockscreen. Uninstalled juicedefender now. Checking if that makes I difference...
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Alarm worked today. Guess it was juicedefender.
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Mine worked this morning (Running on Pauls FR8)
Another user on a danish forum experienced the same thing as I did:
One day the alarm just did not work.
No juicedefender, taskkiller, custom lock screen, root, custom rom. Just plain stock LG.
Neither of us was able to reproduce the problem. So it is not very likely that your lockscreen, juicedefender or whatever is responsible. Otherwise it is very easy to check. Reinstall juicedefender etc. and verify that it indeed prevents the alarm from working.
had a similar problem.
have to make some more test but maybe the problem is "flight mode".
When the phone was set into flight mode the alarm clock doesn't work.
If i let the network connected it worked.
will test it for some days to see if i can reproduce it.
net
Mine fortunately went off this morning. It was on charge at the time too and had been all night... Amazed it hadn't crashed or something! haha! Bloody thing scared me ****less though. These O2Xs are much louder than my little Hero.
my 2x alarm works great in flight mode..
netrunner7 said:
had a similar problem.
have to make some more test but maybe the problem is "flight mode".
When the phone was set into flight mode the alarm clock doesn't work.
If i let the network connected it worked.
will test it for some days to see if i can reproduce it.
net
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it is not the flight mode. the alarm clocked work till today without problems, but this morning it stopped working. I did not changed anyting.
very strange. some solutions or some informations from LG ?
thx net
Same issue for me.
With v10a and with v10b, in a totally random way
It's a real pain, because I ever need something different to wakeup.. especially when I'm out of my home.
If you have an alarm that can't wakeup you when it's needed (and you can't know when it don't ring!) is totally and really useless!
Anyone found the trick?
I've tested it many times.. but no way. I can't find the magic combination.
It's not a taskkiller issue, it's not a app issue, it's not am hard reset issue..
The only state I need to try is:
- Phone with a partially discharged battery.
- Connected to the socket for a night charge session
- Airplane mode
- Manually locked
Could the system have killed the process to gain resources? (Do you have a ****load of running apps?)
No memory issue, I think.
I put my phone in airplane mode when sleeping, with a task killer (system process and some apps in exclusion - included the alarm process) that run every 30mins.
I suppose that we have an issue linked to some system process that wait for an user input or that simply lock the system for a strange reason.
I'm aiming to the message box that appear when the phone is under charge and it reach the 100%: "battery charged, disconnect it to save energy [ OK ]".
Something like.. screen locked, the phone stop charging, message pop up.. and than the message box take the full control of the system, waiting user input.. without system messages processing ; so not an app related issue but a system bug, related to this specific message. It's possible?
Everytime the alarm not fired, I noticed the clock was not updated and that it updated itself immediately after unlocking (and the alarm fired if the alarm time is not so far).
what do you think?
Had the same problem, stock rom V10A with Launcherpro.
No other system/utilities apps running.
But interestingly, it only happened once (1st day of using O2x). The alarm went off fine the next few days.

[Q] Turn off Alarm in CM10 issue

Hello everybody,
I have an Galaxy S1 using the newest Nightly of CM10 and got a strange problem.
The Alarm works,but i cant turn it off. The Screen stays black and the Alarm keeps ringing. Is that a bug? I can go to homescreen with the homescreenbutton,but the alarm keeps to be ringing. Only way for me is to reboot the phone...
In search the Forum here,i see that some people having similar problems with that,but they using other phones and systems...
It has to be a problem i think in the last 2 or 3 nightlys..
i am not using bluetooth or wlan in the time,when i use the alarm...
Hi,
I'm on i9000 CM10 1002 all stock and I don't have any issues with the alarm, both snooze and dismiss buttons work.
Did you tried flashing /reflashing the latest nightly?
i have not tried to flash it again,because i use the nightlys and i have the problem in the nightly from 02.09. and 03.09. i am waiting for the next nighly,maybe it is going away with the next one...but if not i will give it a try and flash it again...
the alarm works fine for me in the nightly from 01.09....
So, i flashed the last nightly again..problem not solved...black screen and sound is not getting off,,,
Reflash everything from CM9 base on.
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Reflash everything from CM9 base on.
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Sure? I am using CM10 with new partition layout. Do you mean i should flash cm9 and all the nightlys which where coming up to cm10?
i flashed now an older nightlys and it works,it seems to be a bug (for my phone) in cm10...i flashed again the newest nightly and the same problem...i have now taken an app,maybe the problem disapear with the next nightly
Anybody any idea to fix this? Because its ruin my nerve,not to be able to make this alarm sound off and it cant be,that i have to use an older nightly. using the a app from market to get alarm is nice,but it make my battery not better.
i have installed many apps,could it be that any app makes this strange problem?
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Anybody any idea to fix this? Because its ruin my nerve,not to be able to make this alarm sound off and it cant be,that i have to use an older nightly. using the a app from market to get alarm is nice,but it make my battery not better.
i have installed many apps,could it be that any app makes this strange problem?
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At least yours went off. My GS3 didn't even sound. I've since disabled the default app and am using extreme alarm free app as a temp fix till stable ROMs come out for my phone.
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I am using alarm extreme app too and its working like charm,but first i always use the internal alarm working fine...is this an issue of cm10?
evilspawnas said:
I am using alarm extreme app too and its working like charm,but first i always use the internal alarm working fine...is this an issue of cm10?
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Strong possibility.
Been doing the same as well, and my alarm will ring yet I'm having difficulty turning it off.
Had to get me the alarm extreme app, and problem solved. However, using the internal alarm has always been my thing as well. Kind of sucks to go on using an app for the alarm.
I'm not using the S1, rather, S2 Skyrocket.
Lame bug

[Q] I9070 "beep-beep" sound every night at 24.00! How to disable?

Hi,
I have a very strange and ANNOYING problem with my I9070: It has started to beep-beep once @ midnight.
It started after flashing Chucky's New Future ROM. I went back to stock LQB and then flashed SlimJB (With data/factory reset). The beep still occurs.
There's no warning message or anything. The phone is not in charger and it has enough battery left.
Last night I put the phone on silent, but still BEEP-BEEP!
The beep is not quite the same as the low battery beep.
Does anybody have and idea what this could be? Or how I could trace the origin of the beep?
It could be an alarm?
Or some app running in background???
Anyways does it display any message or something when it beeps?
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Sami Kabir said:
It could be an alarm?
Or some app running in background???
Anyways does it display any message or something when it beeps?
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No alarm set at that time.
It doesn't display any message or anything. Strange as f***.
I reflashed the deodexed LQB. Let's see if that helps..
Sounds like an app to me.... reverting to stock should work, if not then you are dealing with black magic
The beep is gone! I don't know what it was but it's fixed now. Reflashing helped I guess.
saccet said:
The beep is gone! I don't know what it was but it's fixed now. Reflashing helped I guess.
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Most probably someone instaled you some alarm app, and set alarm at 00:00. :laugh::laugh::laugh:

alarm clock?

Is there a way to get the alarm clock reliable or another app that may be? Mine hadn't gone off ina week and the wife's one is very spuratic
mxx20 said:
Is there a way to get the alarm clock reliable or another app that may be? Mine hadn't gone off ina week and the wife's one is very spuratic
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I've been using alarm clock xtreme for years. Never failed me once.
dafluke24 said:
I've been using alarm clock xtreme for years. Never failed me once.
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Thanks, I've been trying to dig on this one, me and my wife gave the same phones mines rooted and gets is bone stock, we've both gotthis issue, how's battery with that app....
From what I've been reading this is a common HTC issue it seems....but doesn't effect all....I dunno what to do any more
I use the stock alarm 5 days a week and have never had a time it didn't go off. Granted, sometimes I wake up before it has the chance to go off.
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I use the stock alarm 5 days a week and have never had a time it didn't go off. Granted, sometimes I wake up before it has the chance to go off.
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Same here stock alarm clock has never failed for me.
schmeggy929 said:
Same here stock alarm clock has never failed for me.
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Hmmm, mine and my wife's has. I woke up today before my alarm and it never went off...but had worked ask weekend
mxx20 said:
Thanks, I've been trying to dig on this one, me and my wife gave the same phones mines rooted and gets is bone stock, we've both gotthis issue, how's battery with that app....
From what I've been reading this is a common HTC issue it seems....but doesn't effect all....I dunno what to do any more
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battery life doesn't appear to be any different using the alarm clock xtreme. I'm not sure if it's a common issue because I tested the stock alarm clock and it works fine for me as well. I set it to go off 2 mins after my main alarm clock to test.
What I like about xtreme is it has a large snooze button, so I don't mistakenly hit the dismiss button lol and you can set it to snooze if you shake the phone.
Strongly recommend Alarm Klock
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.angrydoughnuts.android.alarmclock
It has repeating alarms and can turn the volume up when the alarm goes off (just in case you silenced your phone).
And it is free (without ads too)!
mxx20 said:
Is there a way to get the alarm clock reliable or another app that may be? Mine hadn't gone off ina week and the wife's one is very spuratic
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You have to make sure to select the days(s) you want it to repeat. The original default alarm presets only have M-F selected and ignore the weekends.
Another thing I see people forgetting is to remember to select AM or PM correctly.
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You have to make sure to select the days(s) you want it to repeat. The original default alarm presets only have M-F selected and ignore the weekends.
Another thing I see people forgetting is to remember to select AM or PM correctly.
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They are selected right, I had to set one for yesterday and it worked but the ones set for the weekdays like today didn't go off this morning. Luckilymy body is some what in a routine lol...and thanks for the suggestions...I'm gong to try one tomorrow
Timely is my personal favorite, really cool interface and the alarm has plenty of features
+1 for Timely
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Vember31 said:
Timely is my personal favorite, really cool interface and the alarm has plenty of features
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Tried to download timely but it just says downloading...Won't go further...

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