Anyone's itouch/ipad/iphone alarm not go off this morning?

klipp · Jan 01, 2011, 16:27:09

As the title suggests my default alarm app is knackered. I've tried a few tests, deleting the alarm, adding a new one, hard power down, blah blah blah. It don't work!! Might need to get myself a third party alarm app.

Rik · Jan 01, 2011, 16:28:04

Calendar bug, I wonder?

klipp · Jan 01, 2011, 16:38:23

Looked at a few apple fan sites. One guy says set your year back to 2010 and the alarms will work again. Another person says if you set your alarms to have repeats then they work (only one-off alarms don't work). This must have affected a lot of people this morning. I wonder how many people were late for work/appointments/holidays as a result of this bug.

Happy new year!!

pctech · Jan 01, 2011, 16:39:33

Just buy an alarm clock.

Lance · Jan 01, 2011, 16:51:02

Mine didn't go off today either. Fortunately I didn't have to get anywhere.

You wouldn't think it's so difficult to get an alarm to work properly.

Simon · Jan 01, 2011, 17:01:05

This also happened when the clocks went back in October. I think the solution was to delete and reset all repeating alarms.

pctech · Jan 01, 2011, 17:06:05

The alarm on my Nokia phone went off ok

Lance · Jan 01, 2011, 17:11:05

I've just tested and setting a repeating alarm does indeed work. Setting single alarms doesn't. There is a rumour that everything will be fine again on the 3rd.

Simon · Jan 01, 2011, 17:15:21

It's enough to give you the pip.

Rik · Jan 01, 2011, 17:26:24

The time will be...

Technical Ben · Jan 04, 2011, 18:03:50

Quote from: pctech on Jan 01, 2011, 16:39:33
Just buy an alarm clock.

Some people did just that, a £400 one.

Rik · Jan 04, 2011, 18:05:20

pctech · Jan 04, 2011, 18:08:53

Quote from: Technical Ben on Jan 04, 2011, 18:03:50
Some people did just that, a £400 one.

I hear you can buy a paperweight for that much too if you are mad enough.

Rik · Jan 04, 2011, 18:11:45

D-Dan · Jan 04, 2011, 21:36:28

It's a bug reported by the BBC yesterday, and brought on by the new year. A fix is in the pipeline.

It's nice to know that Apple are remaining true to their principals of thoroughly testing a product prior to release, and everyone can be confident that if they buy an iPhone it will work perfectly. Ermm, unless you are left handed or want to get up in the morning.

My Samsung Jet still does everything it's supposed to, though

Steve

Lance · Jan 04, 2011, 22:13:52

What puzzles me is
people calling the alarm clock a basic feature of a phone. Surely the basic features are being able to make and receive calls?

Technical Ben · Jan 04, 2011, 22:16:56

Quote from: Lance on Jan 04, 2011, 22:13:52
What puzzles me is
people calling the alarm clock a basic feature of a phone. Surely the basic features are being able to make and receive calls?

Well, when it cannot call it falls back to alarm clock. Is there anything left to fall back to?

Simon · Jan 04, 2011, 23:37:27

A phone should be a phone, and an alarm clock an alarm clock. Trouble is, if the two are combined, they should both work, and this is the second time (pardon the pun) that there's been clock issues with the iPhone.

pctech · Jan 05, 2011, 19:13:20

Quote from: Technical Ben on Jan 04, 2011, 22:16:56
Well, when it cannot call it falls back to alarm clock. Is there anything left to fall back to?

Being an iBrick/interesting paperweight?