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Wtf is wrong with the Touch alarm!!
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Posted by: tarek

Okay, so it's 6:45am and I'm kind of grumpy at the stupid !@#$&% alarm on the HTC Touch.
Here's the deal: I normally have 3 alarms set up in the morning (it's awfully hard to wake up so early!) at 6:25, 6:30 and 6:35. But this morning I decided I could wake up a little bit later, so I unchecked one alarm, and set the other two for 6:40 and 6:45 (yay for 15 mins more sleep!). So morning comes along and what happens? Alarm goes off at 6:25. I'm like wtf and turn it off and go back to sleep. 2nd alarm goes off at 6:30, and you guessed it, third alarm goes off at 6:35.

The most ****ed up part about that is that after all 3 alarms went off and I "dismissed" each one, the alarms went off again at 6:40 and 6:45 as I set them to!! WTF!!!!!!! I'm seriously starting to despise this phone. I love what I can do with it, but it's a buggy POS developed deep down in Satan's workshop. I've got NO external apps installed other than Opera Mobile, so you can't blame that. I think it should just die a horrible and painful death

Ok...that's it for my morning rant. Thanks for listening!

Posted by: nakapozian

PEBKAC (or more appropriately, PEBTAC)

Posted by: w4lker

picnic!

Posted by: tarek

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Originally Posted by nakapozian

PEBKAC (or more appropriately, PEBTAC)

I don't f'n see how. What more could one do than set the bloody times, days and making sure it's checked on??? I say problem exists with the crapola phone and its buggy POS software.

But seriously, has anyone experienced this type of problem?

Posted by: nakapozian

I use alarms frequently at work and change the times regularly... I've never experienced an issue like this. The only issue I've had is when I inadvertently did something stupid.

Posted by: psych_nov

Slightly off topic, but what I hate is not being find where to change the alarm sound on the Touch? I just can't seem to find the option anywhere? Am I stuck with 1 loudish beep & that's it? I need a little more than that to get me up in the morning.

Posted by: sheerin

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Originally Posted by psych_nov

Slightly off topic, but what I hate is not being find where to change the alarm sound on the Touch? I just can't seem to find the option anywhere? Am I stuck with 1 loudish beep & that's it? I need a little more than that to get me up in the morning.

In the alarms setting tab (accessed after pressing the time), press the little bell, that'll bring up the alarm sound settings.

Do this for each of the three alarm times.

Posted by: angekfire

I actually had the same issue, where the alarm would still ring even if I turned it off. I only had this issue with the official bell rom. I changed to a cooked rom, and its fine now.

Posted by: tarek

There is definitely a stupid bug with the alarm system with the newest Bell ROM!! I again changed 2 of my alarms to 6:40 and 6:45 from 6:30 and 6:35, and unchecked the 3rd alarm, yet the 3rd alarm went off at 6:25, and the other two went off at 6:30, 6:35 AND 6:40 and 6:45. Here's a screenshot of my alarm settings:

http://img357.imageshack.us/my.php?image=asdfty0.png

This is a pretty damn big bug since I rely on my alarm to go off when I set it. It kinda helps with the waking up and such.

Posted by: Wojteko

I tried using the same system as yours. 3 alarms 5 minutes apart.
First alarm went off but the 2 others never did heh

I bought an alarm clock.

Posted by: brentc133

I don't have a touch anymore, but I had purchased Spb time and it was a really good clock and alarm app. Simple to change alarms and the large red/green buttons that pop up were easy to see and touch. Pretty sure there was a free trial.

Posted by: Wall Man

I don't know if I should be relieved or just as upset.

I have the same problem. In fact my alarms went off at 6am when I had deselected the alarms when I was on vacation.

Here are some more 'bugs'

I can not select my custom wav file for 2 of the alarms. I left the 3rd alarm the same.

Sometimes my reminder does not 'remind' me.

Posted by: GuruX

Just tried it on my Touch (with the latest Bell ROM).

If I had Alarm 1 set to 8:30PM, and then deactivated it while leaving Alarms 2 & 3 active, the alarm did not sound.

Unless it's something with having the alarms 5 minutes apart, I really don't know.

EDIT: I tried setting the alarms 5 minutes apart and all three went off.

Posted by: angekfire

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Originally Posted by Wall Man

I can not select my custom wav file for 2 of the alarms. I left the 3rd alarm the same.

That isn't anything new. People have been having issues with using custom alarm sounds since the phone came out.

Posted by: vkoi

I had that same problem with my UTStarcom, i heard it has something to do with the registry-There's a regestry tweak for this-but i myself do not want to be playing around with my registry-Try unselecting the alarms and do a soft reset a few times- i myseft had to do a hard reset which work but restores everthing back to factory settings- which means losing all your data saved including your contacts---Good luck