Until recently an alarm set in the ZTE Clock app would cause the phone to power up a couple of minutes before the alarm's due time, and then the alarm would sound.
A couple of times it didn't work and recently it hardly ever seems to work.
Are others experiencing this problem?
If you want it test it, it seems like the alarm must be at least 5 minutes in advance of the time you power off the phone, or it definitely won't work.
My phone is a A2017G on V1.0.0B02
Wow that's a unique feature. Never heard a phone that did that before. ...
ipmanwck said:
Wow that's a unique feature. Never heard a phone that did that before. ...
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The 3310 did
I have that problem with my new Axon, Android 7.1.1.
Ever solve the issue ?
Why not turning on airplane mode as a workaround?
The phone doesn't lose more than 1 percent battery on 8 h airplane mode.
Booting up the phone uses at least the same amount.
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Hello all!
I wonder if its possible to have an alarm on the phone when turned of. Ive searched everywhere for some answers.
I want to shut down the phone at nights and I want the phone to start up and wake me up hehe
I just tried it 2 times , and it doesn't seem to work with klaxon.
Sorry mate i think you should keep it on if you don't want to be late tomorow
Its hilarious that a phone this new doesnt support that kind of alarm. All of my other phones works that way....
It's not a phone, it's a smartphone, pretty much a small PC...
So if you poweroff your desktop, usually not much it can do
That's the same, workaround is to use PlaneMode (along WirelessTime freeware in example)
This way, it wont be off at all..
Like for PDA, you usually never power off this kind of system. You put it in standby mode instead (either automatically or manually)
And the alarm works well with the HD is in stanby mode. It will wake up and ring.
Note that the usual phone are in some kind of standby mode, not fully powered off otherwise the alarm wouldn't work either !
you can switch off the phone part in standby mode and it will give you busy signal though reminders and alarms will work.
Hi can someone on stock rom please try to see if alarms go off while phone is off? It don't seem to work on pure nexus which is worrying.
Do you mean when the phone's screen is off, when the phone is on silent, or if the phone is physically off?
If your phone's screen is off, the alarm will go off, if your phone is silent, your alarm will go off. If your phone is off, then it is off and the alarm will not go off.
dahotz said:
Do you mean when the phone's screen is off, when the phone is on silent, or if the phone is physically off?
If your phone's screen is off, the alarm will go off, if your phone is silent, your alarm will go off. If your phone is off, then it is off and the alarm will not go off.
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I mean when its physically off.
My HTC M9 did it as Google implemented this in 4.0 or 5.0 not sure.
It was not a HTC feature.
What the .. How is the alarm supposed to go off of the phone is powered off and the OS is not running. You are indeed mistaken about this.
Sent from a 128th Legion Stormtrooper 6P
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What the .. How is the alarm supposed to go off of the phone is powered off...
Sent from a 128th Legion Stormtrooper 6P
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^^ as said above. Makes me wonder what sorcery is HTC using?
badboy47 said:
^^ as said above. Makes me wonder what sorcery is HTC using?
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HTC devices don't truly turn off, they're in a kind of hibernate mode, similar to Windows 8. If you let the battery drain entirely on a HTC device it takes much longer to boot afterwards.
Nekromantik said:
Hi can someone on stock rom please try to see if alarms go off while phone is off? It don't seem to work on pure nexus which is worrying.
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I think the above post explains it all for you. Nexus phones do not have such feature as your HTC did. When the phone is powered down it is as if the battery was pulled and it is truly off. No alarms will go off.
I had had fastboot turned off on my HTC so it did not hibernate.
Guess HTC found a way to do it. Never mind, need to make sure I always have enough charge for airplane mode and nights sleep.
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I had had fastboot turned off on my HTC so it did not hibernate.
Guess HTC found a way to do it. Never mind, need to make sure I always have enough charge for airplane mode and nights sleep.
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Why do you need airplane mode? If doze works properly, then it shouldn't lose power quickly. But why not just charge the phone while you are sleeping and have your phone on silent if you don't want to be bothered?
Plenty of phones have this feature, but not on any Android I know of (I don't have an M9 but my M7 does not do this). My old Nokia E63 did it as well.
I wish more phones would have it though, as its great not having to worry about that one time your battery dies overnight and your alarm doesn't go off.
Tarima said:
Plenty of phones have this feature, but not on any Android I know of (I don't have an M9 but my M7 does not do this). My old Nokia E63 did it as well.
I wish more phones would have it though, as its great not having to worry about that one time your battery dies overnight and your alarm doesn't go off.
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It used work on my Galaxy S3 & S4 as well. you need to have encryption disabled and password on start up disabled to make it work. I did not try that on my 6P, because my work forces me to encrypt my phone.
Alarm with phone off
My mate 9 has this feature. I set my alarm for whatever time. When I power my phone off there is a box that has a check mark in it saying keep alarm active after power off. If I leave the checkmark in my phone alarm will still ring at the desired time. Even though a phone is off there is still internal power to the clock. Works great. Hope this helps.
6P probably doesn't have the required H/W (and associated boot-loader).
Disabling encryption or setting File-based encryption or disabling pin to start will only help if the phone reboots itself.
I have started having issues with the Alarm on my 6P. I have three reoccurring alarms set up throughout the week. Sometimes they work sometimes they don't. It's as if the time is not being recognized because it could be 6:39am and the alarm was set to go off at 6:30am and it'll say upcoming alarm at 6:30am. I do not think this is inherent to the 6P as it seems like others are having issues on other devices running Marshmallow. Is anyone else experiencing this and have any solutions?
There is an issue with 6.0 and the doze feature that puts the alarm to sleep. The only fix is to have it plugged in
zelendel said:
There is an issue with 6.0 and the doze feature that puts the alarm to sleep. The only fix is to have it plugged in
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I will have to make a note to check. I'm 75% positive my phone was plugged into the charger when the alarm failed to go off. I was also playing a game one of the times and I still had an issue so I'm not sure the doze feature is the culprit.
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I will have to make a note to check. I'm 75% positive my phone was plugged into the charger when the alarm failed to go off. I was also playing a game one of the times and I still had an issue so I'm not sure the doze feature is the culprit.
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Then im really not sure as I have never had an issue with my alarm, but I charge my phone over night and was only recently told about the alarm bug in 6.0. I also use alarm millennium plus.
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Then im really not sure as I have never had an issue with my alarm, but I charge my phone over night and was only recently told about the alarm bug in 6.0. I also use alarm millennium plus.
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I, too, charge my phone overnight but I'm using the stock clock app. What's weird is that I was running 6.0 on my Nexus 5 for a month or two prior to getting my 6P and I never had a problem. I also just started experiencing this issue within the last week.
Maybe change the clock app to not optimised in the battery settings?
Do you use any app like greenify with aggressive doze? That would sometimes make my clock stop working which could mess up alarms.
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Maybe change the clock app to not optimised in the battery settings?
Do you use any app like greenify with aggressive doze? That would sometimes make my clock stop working which could mess up alarms.
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I'll have to try changing the optimization settings. I don't use any apps that would modify system features like doze or anything like that.
Same issue here. Even tried to not optimize my alarm app. Only way to consistently have the alarm go off was to create an alarm in the stock alarm app to go off a little after. For now, I'm just using stock until this is fixed. Late for work too many times recently.
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Hello,
I have activated energy saving mode on my phone and I have also installed Alarm Clock Plus from the play store. I noticed that when the energy saving mode is on the alarm rings whenever it wants to but always after the set time. Sometimes it rings 5 minutes later and some others 20 minutes later. The stock alarm works correctly.
On my Xperia Z2 there was an exception list that you could use to add apps that would be excluded but I dont seem to find it on S7 Edge.
As long as I deactivate the energy saving mode, then the alarm works correctly. Any ideas for a solution? Thanks in advance
There is a setting under Battery. You can choose applications to not be included in energy saving features.
If you don't mind me asking, why don't you just plug your phone in at night and you won't need energy saving mode.
By the way, I've been using Alarm Clock Extreme for 3 years and it's never failed to go off. Plus the option for solving math problems to dismiss is great. It keeps me from turning the alarm off while I'm still half asleep.
Thanks for your answer. Indeed that was the case. I missed that "Information" button a bit lower. I tried it and it now works correctly.
Coming from an exceptional device (battery-wise) as the Z2, I was used to not charge my phone for 2-3 nights so I want to see if I can do something similar on this one as well. Been using ACP since the LG Optimus 3D era back in 2008 so I am used to it. It also offers math problems and thats what I'm using . That said I'm open to suggestions so I might try ACE as well.
I use Timely as my timer for my breaks at work. Also I use it as my alarm to wake up. At first I couldn't get the countdown timer to show in the notifications or update as it counted down.
After going into power managagement and turning off all power saving policies, I could see the timer countdown but only until the phone locks. Once locked it won't show the timer at all. The alarm I set is the same way it didn't go off or wake up phone, but as soon as I hit the power button to turn on the lock screen then alarm went off.
I've tried turning off smart power-save all together as well with no luck. I use smart lock so my phone shouldn't even lock when I'm at home but still didn't work.
Any other ideas or features to that I could try ? I've been using Timely for the past couple years on multiple android devices and never had this issue before. Any help would be appreciated.
I use Timely without any issue and it wakes me up every morning . What device are you using? What ROM? root? Xposed? Any battery saving app?
Yep.
Yes, I've been using Timely on every Android for the past 3 or 4 years. It miserably failed on the Axon 7. Every measure I took came to no avail. Uninstalled. Anyway, they stopped updating it on February 2015. Using "Alarm Clock Xtreme Free" currently.
Yurik46 said:
I use Timely as my timer for my breaks at work. Also I use it as my alarm to wake up. At first I couldn't get the countdown timer to show in the notifications or update as it counted down.
After going into power managagement and turning off all power saving policies, I could see the timer countdown but only until the phone locks. Once locked it won't show the timer at all. The alarm I set is the same way it didn't go off or wake up phone, but as soon as I hit the power button to turn on the lock screen then alarm went off.
I've tried turning off smart power-save all together as well with no luck. I use smart lock so my phone shouldn't even lock when I'm at home but still didn't work.
Any other ideas or features to that I could try ? I've been using Timely for the past couple years on multiple android devices and never had this issue before. Any help would be appreciated.
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ohc1492 said:
Yes, I've been using Timely on every Android for the past 3 or 4 years. It miserably failed on the Axon 7. Every measure I took came to no avail. Uninstalled. Anyway, they stopped updating it on February 2015. Using "Alarm Clock Xtreme Free" currently.
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I have the Axon 7, stock with b29 software, not rooted. I'm going to give Alarm Clock Xtreme a try tonight and see what happens.
I use Timely and it's randomly off by as much as 8 minutes. Usually it's 4 minutes late when the alarm goes off. And no I'm not sleeping through 4+ minutes of an alarm, my alarm is a song and I wake up right from the start of it. This is annoying since it forces me to set my alarm to earlier to make sure I'm not late, but then sometimes it does work on time so I've woken up a little early for nothing.
It's always been like this for me, before bootloader unlocking, before root, before Xposed or anything. Now I'm BL unlocked, rooted, with Xposed, etc, installed and I'm still having the exact same issue. B29 of course, prior versions had the same issue.
Alarm clock Xtreme did work for me last night with no issues. Woke the phone right up even with Smart power save enabled, and allow deep sleep in the power management features turned on. (That's how it was configured at install, and I didn't change anything)
I will miss some of the features of Timely, but I guess it's time to move on if they're no longer supporting it.