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Alarm does not go off when phone is off?

Is it normal for my alarm to NOT go off when the phone is turned off but rings as normal when it's on?
I ask this because I sleep at night with my phone turned off. The alarm is set for 6:35 as normal for the morning.
For the past 2 days it failed to go off. The phone was however switched off, I take it the alarm does not ring unless the phone is on?
Should this be true it is strange as the older phones, the ancient Nokia's and Ericsson's used to ring while the phone was off.
My previous HTC Desire HD had the same issue, the alarm would ONLY ring when the phone was on.
Should it be turned off it would not go off.
Why is this? Any way to fix it?

Anyone?

Simple enough,just put your phone to flight mode and turn off the screen,dont power it off and dont mute it.
cuz automatically waking up is not supported by wm/android device.
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valest said:
Simple enough,just put your phone to flight mode and turn off the screen,dont power it off and dont mute it.
cuz automatically waking up is not supported by wm/android device.
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Excellent idea, flight mode! This way will get undisturbed plus no more than 1 or 2% loss of battery in standby mode...
Also no one can call & disturb me. I though auto wake up wasn't supported, just wansn't 100% sure.
Cheers valest.

Valest, this morning at 6:35 my alarm rang for the FIRST time!!!
You are right about not turning the phone off...
I forgot to put in on airplane mode but thank god it didn't go off and I hardly lost any power...
Over a 7-8 hour period battery dropped from 100% to 98%
What excellent battery the Streak has... Screen brightness is ALWAYS set to 80% too.
I'm half way through the day and battery is still 94%

Lol your battery must be special or you really don't use your phone much. The battery is certainly better than most but not that great.
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PS welcome to the streak. Even though its a year old its pretty good
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becuz he was sleeping and the phone isn't really in use*^o^*
cpu and screen backlight are battery draining,so turn off your screen and let cpu go idle(set itself to 245mhz) helps a lot.
still,it could be crazier,my streak survived a 3 hours trip with less than 10% battery: turn down brightness,go to flight mode,shutdown unnecessary background app,set cpu to 245mhz.I was reading an e-book back then.
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Yeah that's one thing I miss about Symbian. I could set the alarm on my Nokia then shut it off.
I currently use Tasker with a "night saver" profile I created. From 10pm to 6am:
Shuts down cellular data
Shuts down wifi
Shuts down bluetooth
Shuts down GPS
Turns off auto-sync
Drops the volume to "1"

As an alternative: you could buy a dock (i use the slacker dock) and plug it in on your nightstand.
It charges so you dont have to turn anything off and it's upright so it even looks like a clock

TheManii said:
As an alternative: you could buy a dock (i use the slacker dock) and plug it in on your nightstand.
It charges so you dont have to turn anything off and it's upright so it even looks like a clock
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Haha, clever idea! But after testing it & only loosing 2% battery it doesn't bother me keeping it on.
I thought it would have taken more power as my old HTC Desire HD had a crappy battery and needed to be charged almost every day with LITTLE use...
Standby overnight would take around 8-10% This is based on a 6-7 hour period, which I think is bad as it's doing nothing...

(QUESTION) What wifi setting are you using?

I'm curious what wifi setting people are using with the new 3.1 update?
Off with screen off
Always on
Always on while charging
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Off with screen off.
Get tired of notification sounds when not using it.
Also, battery life seems even better with 3.1 - now regularly getting 12 hours per charge.

I have it always on. It doesn't really use much more battery and I like to have IM applications on most of the time. I just tap on the clock on the bottom-right corner and turn airplane mode on when I'm sleeping and turn it off when I awake. Simple and efficient.

Also "always on". WiFi used almost exactly 1% battery life per hour when I left my tablet alone for two days, not going to worry about a 4day "standby" timer

Do you guys turn your tablet off when not in use?

This is my first tablet and not sure about battery life and everything. So I left my tablet on through the night and lost roughly 10% through the night. Not sure if thats normal or not. But if so, I will definitely be turning it off throughout the night or when I won't be using for awhile. But is there a standby mode or something we can put the tablet into?

tu3218 said:
This is my first tablet and not sure about battery life and everything. So I left my tablet on through the night and lost roughly 10% through the night. Not sure if thats normal or not. But if so, I will definitely be turning it off throughout the night or when I won't be using for awhile. But is there a standby mode or something we can put the tablet into?
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I don't turn it off, no. One thing that will save you battery is to turn the airplane mode on when you're not using it.

I just turn off wireless and pwer off screen.

never been off
I never turn my tab off. At night.it will loose. 6 to 8 percent. At night maybe a bit more or less depending on how long its off.
And I use it often thru out the day
Awesome battery life

Haven't turned it off yet. I use it all day and plug it in at night around 20-30%, wake up charged and do it again.

I just turn the screen off overnight while charging; I leave wifi on to synch work emails & calendars. Nearly a decade of smartphone use has gotten me in the dedicated habit of charging everything every night.
Thing to keep in mind, tablets arent Kindles with week+ battery life; keep in the habit of charging it whenever convenient & you won't run out of juice unexpectedly.

I'm in the minority here.
I turn my Tab and Evo off every night, the phone just before bed. It save a bit of batt life and unwanted calls in the middle of the night or any alert tones as I'm a pretty light sleeper. I've also been doing this for probably 7-8 yrs with all my smart phones (Symbian, Win-Mo, Palm, BB and now Android).

Sometimes I turn it off at night, sometimes I just leave it on. It's definitely on ALL day. I haven't really seen it losing much battery if I leave it on overnight, but I don't have it configured to sync frequently. Whenever I notice the battery is getting a little low, I charge it up again -- don't really have a set pattern or routine that I charge it.

Anytime I know I won't be using it for twenty minutes or more, I just shut it down.
Not sure there is a right/wrong, good/bad way to do this, as it's pretty much a personal preference thang!

If I'm not gonna use it for more than a day, sure.
I also turn on airplane mode when I'm reading via Kindle or anything else that doesn't require wifi.
On a semi related note, does anyone else find the screen is too bright if you're in a dark room reading, even if you have brightness on the lowest setting?

So far I never see any difference to turn AIRPLANE MODE on... but anyway some people believe so... let say that work... hu hu hu
well
to answer I never turn off my tablet, neither turn off the wifi
I try to not use AUTO brightness, set brightness to medium.
I will turn it off... well... actually I do not.
to muqali. on lowest setting? on dark room lowest setting I think it's fine (but I have an antiglare screen... that dim the light)

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If I'm not gonna use it for more than a day
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Not use it for more than a day??
That is crazy talk! I'd suffer some serrrrrious withdrawal
On to the question, no, my tablet stays on 24/7. The closest it gets to off is booting into recovery, but then it's right back on.
All my backups, security scans and cloud syncs are scheduled for the wee hours of the morning so wifi stays on at night too. Also, my iconia is my alarm clock, which is very useful for a shift worker who needs different alarms on different days.

only if the battery is low and Im to lazy to go charge it

I only turn my tablet off in order to reboot when it freezes up or gets laggy (maybe once a week). The rest of the time, it's on standby or being used.

I leave it on sometimes, other times I will randomly turn it off. I mean, its not a phone.. no reason it should be on 24/7. I don't even leave my PC on 24/7 - as it saves a lot of electricity to turn it off.
My phone (Droid X) however, stays on 24/7 =P

Yeah, I've been leaving mine on and its been just fine. I notice it turns off wifi or I guess at least disconnects when the screen is off so I'm sure that helps. At nights I guess I can turn airplane mode on and that should help. I'm impressed though with the battery so far.

I always turn it off when done, unless I know I will be using again in a short.

muqali said:
On a semi related note, does anyone else find the screen is too bright if you're in a dark room reading, even if you have brightness on the lowest setting?
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I use the Nook app as my eBook reader instead of the Kindle app. The Nook app has a separate brightness control within the app, and it allows me to turn even the white page brightness down to where it's very comfortable to read even in a pitch dark room. The nice thing about this is when I'm done reading and exit the Nook app, the global brightness settings for the tablet are restored so my dark wood wallpaper isn't too dark.
I'm not sure if the Kindle app has its own brightness control or not, but it might be with looking into.

muqali said:
If I'm not gonna use it for more than a day, sure.
I also turn on airplane mode when I'm reading via Kindle or anything else that doesn't require wifi.
On a semi related note, does anyone else find the screen is too bright if you're in a dark room reading, even if you have brightness on the lowest setting?
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yes, I noticed too, it's too damn bright, but not as bright as my phone, on the good side screen comparison between iconia, transformer, zoom and ipad2 the iconia gets praise cuz it's super dark black... you can notice easily (like me) if you're in the dark and look the status bar

I do not. I don't really ever turn mine off actually, except if the battery is at low and I'm out and not able to charge it, but that rarely happens.
I don't turn my PC off either. Turns out it doesn't save as much energy for me vs. time. I'd save roughly $90 a year if I diligently turned my PC and HTPC off...my PC however serves as the file server for everything in my home and I'm also very random in terms of bed times so it would cost me so much time (and maybe some parts issues as well) turning it on and off every time I needed to use it.

12 hours of screen on time

I wanted to see how much screen on time I could get on the stock battery, and was surprised that I could get 12 hours.

I call bluff. Even though your showing screenshots. That would be incredible if true though.

incubus26jc said:
I call bluff. Even though your showing screenshots. That would be incredible if true though.
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I can see this as being possible if:
-You're sitting next to the router and/or in airplane mode.
-screen brightness turned all the way down + screen filter
-no app syncing whatsoever
-doing something that doesn't involve the network, eg: playing a video.

Shenanigans!!!

erikikaz said:
I can see this as being possible if:
-You're sitting next to the router and/or in airplane mode.
-screen brightness turned all the way down + screen filter
-no app syncing whatsoever
-doing something that doesn't involve the network, eg: playing a video.
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Exactly. I've seen them upwards of 6 hours when on network. But, not with him showing poor LTE coverage. No way that one will get 12 hours of on screen time.

It happens to me yesterday, I leave the phone in Airplane Mode at 11pm and in the next day I heard a low battery warning..and then I thought "ugh..bad kernel! it supposed to last than a day in airplane mode" but when I see battery status, it's been awake 10 hrs with 8h 26m screen on..idk if it's a bug or the screen really turned on because i'm using a cover (it's a Galaxy Note btw, forgot to mention)
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Any chance we could see the detailed graph info (when you tap on the graph in the second screenshot)? Otherwise, I'll assume you were in airplane mode until just before taking the screenshots.
I was extremely impressed when I saw over 4 and a half hours of screen on time, since my OG Evo only got about 2 and a half (I think it got up to 3 hours once). Now that I've had the phone for a week, my normal screen on time is between 5.5 and 6.5 hours. That's with almost-exclusively using Wifi with good signal and screen brightness at 26%, no GPS, etc. If anyone can actually get significantly more than 6.5 hours screen on time without airplane mode, I'd like to hear how.

Sorry for the confusion, I was testing out "picture frame" mode here is what I did:
-I turned off the radios using the "phone info" app, which is similar to airplane mode.
-Screen brightness to min.
-Turned on all power saving options.
-Used "screen on" app to keep the screen on.
-Used the gallery with a pitch black picture(I didn't want to get screen burn in)
-The radio was turned on just prior to the screen shot so that I could e-mail myself the screen shot.

dpham00 said:
Sorry for the confusion, I was testing out "picture frame" mode here is what I did:
-I turned off the radios using the "phone info" app, which is similar to airplane mode.
-Screen brightness to min.
-Turned on all power saving options.
-Used "screen on" app to keep the screen on.
-Used the gallery with a pitch black picture(I didn't want to get screen burn in)
-The radio was turned on just prior to the screen shot so that I could e-mail myself the screen shot.
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So 12 hours without looking for/maintaining a radio signal and showing a black screen? Not impressed.

App standby and doze mode

Hi everybody,
I've got since the release the moto x style. Before i was on moto x 2014.
It's a good phone but not as smooth as the 2014 was. There's lag in scrolled menu, even in 6.0.
I think i've got a little probleme with the sleeping mode of the moto x.
Doze mode:
In doze mode, sync must be later after one hour spend in sleep mode.
In battery monitoring menu i'll must see, if i don't use the phone, a "little" awake bar.
So it's not my case but in monitoring there's no app other than android system and other like that appears.
Why the phone didn't get in doze mode???
App standby:
Unused, an app must go inactive in develloper menu dedicated to app standby.
Even if i put all aof them in standby mode. A little time after, every app have been resume and are active, even if i don't use one of them.
Why apps awake for no reason???
Thanks to the turbocharger, because without my battery wouldn't be great. Not a whole day. And I get 2:30 SoT average. It doesn't matter what i do, my battery decreases at the same rythme every day.
Help me, I think I'm drained! Thanks
PS: Sorry for mistakes, i'm french user.