Michal Ždanský We have slowly gotten used to the fact that the iPhone's alarm clock does not wake up on certain days of the year. But maybe it happened to you that you woke up late, the iPhone was suspiciously silent, and at the same time the notification was bright on the display, whether we want to turn off or postpone the alarm.
Our editors managed to find out what is really behind it. As it seems, the Clock application is more buggy than we originally thought. Some alarms on phones tend to stop ringing after a while, like half an hour. This happened to me even with Windows Mobile. So I thought I had ignored the alarm in my sleep long enough for it to stop ringing on its own. But the problem is not that the ringtone would stop after the given time. It can turn off easily the same minute the ringing starts.
The problem lies in the fact that the sound turns off by itself at any time during another sound notification. This can be a received mail or a push notification (this does not happen with SMS). Any sound notification will mute the alarm sound. So if you're getting up for work, you get an email at the same time and you're not awake enough to get out of bed to start your morning ritual, you fall asleep and you're uploaded. You can see this serious problem in practice on the following video:
It is alarming that Apple could not discover and fix this bug even in the fourth version of iOS. So before the fix happens, you have one of three options:
- You set two alarms at an interval of maybe 5 minutes. The backup will wake you up if the first alarm clock fails.
- Turn on airplane mode. You will not receive any mail or push notification. However, watch out for local notifications that do not require an internet connection.
- You will wake up with a real alarm clock and not rely on your iPhone.
What happened to me twice was that the time in Clock.app shifted by one hour compared to the system time on the top bar and therefore the alarm did not wake up. After some time, the clock got back together and pointed correctly, but the alarm simply didn't ring.
I don't register this problem, because by default I have 3 alarm clocks in a row :-)
Tested in iOS 5 beta 4, alarm rang, sent SMS (using banners). The alarm continued to ring, the top bar popped up and 1 appeared in the Messages icon. So with the new notifications, everything should be resolved and it will be reliable again. Until there is a time shift. :-)
It doesn't seem like a major problem to me. When a sms or other event arrives, the sound wakes me up.
you're a pretty weak sleeper when she can wake you up with the sound of a text message ;)
This has happened to me several times, but always my fault. During the day, I would sometimes completely turn the sounds down to a minimum. (he didn't just turn it off) And with that my alarm clock just flashed and didn't ring. :) What is described in the article has never happened to me, because I take airplane mode for granted because of sleep... Such resistance against inappropriate night calls, texts, etc. Regardless of microwaves and the inappropriateness of microwaves and WiFi waves in the bedroom. (I also turn off the wifi router at night) Sorry for slightly digressing from the topic. :)
RH5: the article states that the alarm does not go off when you send an SMS, so try sending an e-mail or something like that. Even if they fixed it already...
In practice, I usually use at least three alarm clocks set one after the other. I don't rely on repeating one, because it can happen that I turn it off completely when I'm sleepy and fall asleep again.
I don't use airplane mode, I just turn off the sound - it doesn't affect the alarms.
I am calm, I am woken up by daylight or the biological alarm clock at about 6:30...
My biological alarm clock wakes me up between ten and eleven. The problem is that even before it, my phone sometimes wakes me up with an incoming call :-)
Well, for a change, I fell asleep at work again on January 1.1.2011, XNUMX - when the iPhones didn't wake up... hopefully it won't happen again.
And where is the fourth option?
– this problem does not interest me and does not bother me at all.
That's your stupidity to install a work-in-progress developer version on your phone.
That you are not ashamed to smear Apple like this..
It's funny to read some comments about iPhone wake-up.. I've never had a problem, it's a fact that I use it about 10 times a year, so it's not very tested, from my side, if there are bugs, apple should fix it, I hope you're on pointed out the fact. Otherwise, I personally get up completely naturally, I don't know how nature has arranged it, but I always get up when I need to and when I set the alarm, I get up 3 minutes earlier and turn it off before it starts ringing :-D just a slob.
Well, I have to state that version 4.3.x is one of the most sloppy versions of iOS in its entire history, after 2.0.
let's take it in order:
that Alarm clock, it doesn't ring when L.No.>Z.No. transitions. and vice versa, continue the bug described here
another bug:
you install, for example, an update of an app and it doesn't finish, the blue bar gets stuck at 100% but doesn't disappear... - you have to restart
another bug:
Photos application: sometimes it happens that the application seems to "stick" to the top edge and you can't click on the top folder... you have to turn off the application and then when you turn it on again it's ok, but only temporarily - I've written to Apple on their Feedback form several times and nothing... the error has been there since 4.3. until now :-(((
still a lot of small microlags, signal drops, slide to unlock doesn't always respond to the first gesture... etc. etc
I tested it on a 3GS and an iP4, so it won't be ironclad, neither reboots nor reinstallations, etc., etc., helped...
I'm of the opinion that switching the mobile to offline mode at night should be a matter of course, and I like apps that allow switching similar profiles automatically according to the time.
Gentlemen, you are cursing win and osx is not much. Tel cuts and has all the bad things like win. It's like comparing an octave and a superb. Both are worth nothing….
It just won't be a reliable operating system, but maybe the win8 concept will continue...
Horst, Horst. You're talking nonsense again. The phone has iOS, not Mac OS X. Do you like iPhone???
And the fact that there is a bug with the alarm clock is a slightly different matter. Don't confuse Windows here.
I don't know about Horst, but what I stated are facts, based on the experience of using iOS since 2008, when this site didn't even exist, but I don't expect you to comment on my post.. because there are only solid arguments :D
a little trolling never hurt anyone, I see
The problem is that you give them, Horst is only provoking and it's not the first time or the last time :)
Yes, me, my girlfriend and X other people iPhone4 crashes in these cases:
1, Sending photos in full quality via email
2, Cameraroll cannot be opened - so 5 times a month it moves 2 cm higher - it can be moved down, but cannot be opened
3.The Personal Hotspot button sometimes disappears completely
4, When someone calls me, 10% of the time I can't answer the call - I move the "slider" to the right and nothing happens..
I HAVE NEVER HAD A JB ON THE IP4 AND I UPDATE EVERYTHING. JB DOESN'T INTEREST ME AND I TAKE IT AS AN ILLEGAL THING. IP4 is purchased in 02 - no US gray.
Who doesn't have these problems, throw me a laptop with windows.....
2. Yes exactly
4. Exactly, the same thing even when unlocking, the slider reacts on the second, third time... This was never the case until 4.3
ad 2) happened to me for the first time after 4 months
ad 4) yes, sometimes it happens. If it doesn't work for 10 seconds, then yes.
The iPhone is not completely flawless. But what I really like about him is that:
1. almost everything has a solution
2. if something is missing, there is an application for it, mostly free
3. The OS is still under development -> it's not a dead thing, we still have a chance to improve it
And that's why I forgive him all those imperfections. This did not happen to me with previous phones, I was angry that I would sometimes throw it against the wall...
It happens to me from time to time that I cannot receive an incoming call (iP 4) even after all the updates. The display just doesn't respond... :-(. Only when the person stops calling me do I have to call him back..Otherwise the phone works without problems.
It happened to me twice yesterday, the display started responding after about 2-10 seconds :/
Thanks to some such mistakes, I fell asleep earlier. I have stabilmen 3 alarm clocks after 5 minutes and only one rang and relying on others that didn't go off I arrived late to work an hour :-(
Although it's slightly OT, I used to have a problem with the sound too, for example, I'm playing a game, an SMS comes, the sound of the game turns off and doesn't turn on anymore. It also bothers me that at least some applications do not have sound "independent" of global settings, for example, I would appreciate it with TomTom. It also bothers me that I can't turn off some sounds (sending SMS, receiving SMS when I'm in SMS.app). Someone wrote here that there are perhaps applications that change the profile over time? I would appreciate that, can you advise? Or maybe even the ability to turn on/off airplane mode at a given time would be nice.