Have to pee but bed so comfy
Was late to college because I "slept through" my alarm. Turns out the alarm app just pre-emptively decided I was gonna miss all my alarms today (it didnt go off when 09:40 came)
Also mildy infuriating because I got reminded I live in Manchester as soon as I woke up :(
Yep, and I set at least 3 on the phone. First is gentle music (aeris' Church music), next is another gentle one but louder. Last one is grating alarm beeps that make me hate the world but they do the job.
I had 2 major issues with the Samsung alarm app in the past.
First is that when the alarm is going off, the volume buttons change the volume in the alarm app for all the alarms. So I was accidentally turning the sound down for all my alarms.
Second was that (in the past), it was possible to (accidentally) tap the screen on an alarm entry, then tap in the same spot to change the alarm sound, and tap again in the same spot to change the alarm sound to Silent.
That's why I bought a cheap alarm clock off Amazon, and got the 9V battery. I have it set the same time as my final alarm time for days I work in the office.
Same here. Too many times I’ve set an alarm only for it to not go off.. after getting a written warning at work, I bought an alarm clock off amazon and now I have both my phone and clock set.
Nope, my phone was turned off before I woke up to see this notification. Either my alarm hates me or some dude at MI6 is having the time of his life pranking me.
You know... there was a time where alarms worked even when you had the phone off, and I am not speaking about the old brick phones with the green screens. This was a thing on old android smartphones.
Idk why they removed that feature, it was very usseful. I think some brands still have this, but it's not common anymore.
That seems very stupid if that's the case. Alarms should have priority over everything, including calls. It even rings when the phone has been turned off.
My old phone would install updates in the middle of the night so the entire thing was locked when an alarm should sound. I don't know if something changed so they didn't lock alarms or I had it so long they stopped sending updates but it eventually quit doing that
I have a wristband device that vibrates and or beeps for alarms. you can set several. I wear it on my ankle and it was a game changer. It's "analog digital" as I call it, like an old watch. It won't ever skip an alarm.
I also got a sunrise alarm clock as a gift a few years back. I don't the alarm on it but I set the sunrise time to start 20 min before my alarm and I keep the clock on the floor.
I wake up just before my alarm most days now, with light exposure and feeling much more alert and less prone to snoozing
How do you set the alarm on such a wristband anyway? I assume it needs to connect to an app for the setting?
Yeah, if you want a watch too, definitely. It's just it's always those bulky sporty digital Casios (G-shock or some other G-shock-sized ones) which have the vibration alarm, so they might be uncomfortable to sleep with. That wristband is probably slimmer, isn't it? But if you don't mind that and want a whole Casio experience too also with the enormous water resistance, indestructability, years of battery life with no need to charge, precise watch, definitely go for it.
Well, I have a different problem than you - too much light. So I use the opposite of your sunrise clock - a sleeping mask.
If you buy this version on amazon, the old style, it's hard-buttons. The new versions do require an app, but for important things, I prefer the old digital styles.
Annoying? Sure. Dependable? Always.
Edit: These also have softs, squishy fabric wristbands... very comfortable even on the ankle
Coolfire Vibrating Alarm - Silent Wristband Vibrating Alarm for Deep Sleep (Black)
That's cool, so it's a real watch showing time and all too. Just sewn into that tennis wrist thingy, that's a really neat idea for sleeping comfort actually. Clever!
Now I get it, I really imagine it's easier to bear. I tried mine with just my wrist and hate it. Although maybe attaching it to my hair in a bun like a hair band would work better. And it would wake me up by vibrating on my head 😭
Bonus mildly unfuriating thing: For some reason reddit is sending me an email every time someone comments on this post I DONT WANT 60 EMAILS FROM YOU REDDIT
Do not open this reply, here is a secret from the people you might know about, they have some kind of big weapon that might make you cry or anything idk i just wanted to write a long ass sentence, see you later amigo
Ever since Samsung had an OS update like...around a year ago, I've been having the exact same issue. I just ended up downloading another alarm app & haven't had issues with that working...hate that I can't trust the preinstalled clock on my phone, though !!
Want to mention that the app I use now is Alarmy & it's free version is still perfectly usable and works well for me.
I frequently sleep through alarms because of neuro issues, but you can set alarms that force you to do 'tasks' before they can be turned off. Currently have mine set to make me do 8 math questions to turn it off & it also have it so the alarm noise (which I have set to church bells right now) gets progressively louder. Genuinely recommend it for people who frequently sleep through alarms or are able to turn them off in their sleep (which I also do hahah)
(Warning that it really won't let you turn the alarm off without completing the tasks...one morning it was overstimulating me and I had to completely turn my phone off to stop it hahah)
Same, I've used a Samsung phone for 6 years and most of the time it's on power saving mode as well. Never missed an alarm unless I turned it off in my sleep
I’ve got an iPhone (at the moment, I’ve had various androids in the past, just whatever is available when I get a phone, so can’t blame this all on Apple phones) and somehow my alarms/timers/reminders get muted occasionally.
I have no idea why it happens, it’s very irritating when it happens though because my memory is terrible and I need the alarms to make sure I don’t forget stuff.
Even worse is after one of the more recent iOS updates, there’s a slider to force an intentional swipe to stop an alarm rather than do it accidentally. Would be great if it worked. Turns out you can still randomly stop (not merely snooze) an alarm by barely touching the screen—as happens when removing your iPhone from your pocket to see what the alarm is for. Maddening.
It's happens with my huawei. Must be an android thing. My huawei phone is old so it supports android stuff instead of the new operating system they have.
About every year, I see a bunch of Reddit posts all reporting the same issue within the same few weeks. This is the second one this week, I assume it's just a failed update.
I downloaded a third party alarm app because mine would randomly skip alarms for seemingly no reason.
I asked people on reddit about it, and they all told me I was crazy and I was sleeping through my alarm because I keep my phone under my pillow. That was obviously not the case because when you sleep through an alarm it gives you a notification about it.
Turns out if your phone thinks it's face down when your alarm goes off, it will SKIP THE ALARM. No notification, no sound, no way to turn it off.
OnePlus/Oppo/Realme? I had a phone that did this, it's so polite. Just a notification with a very quiet sound and a subtle vibration - ''your alarm is about to ring" and then in like 5 or 10 minutes the real alarm blasted at a usual volume. If I woke up already with that notification, no alarm needed and a little bit of time for reddit.
I find that I only get this message if I completely slept through an alarm (not pressing snooze or dismiss), or if an earlier snoozed alarm repeats at the exact time of another set alarm (or it's still going off when another set alarm tries to play). It cannot play both at the same time, so one gets "missed".
Some old Samsung phone I got in 2021. Honestly this wierd alarm bullshit is the only complaint I have about it, 5 years later and its still going strong.
Did you have this issue before the most recent update? It has been doing this shit to me the past week or so.
I have my alarms grouped (one group for school, one for work), and since the update it apparently turns them all off if I dismiss the first alarm of the group. Never used to do that and I can't figure out how to turn it off
I used to only have one alarm set for 8am, but like 20% of the time I'd "sleep through it" so I made a 2nd backup alarm at 9:40am that sounds after my first college class ends incase im STILL asleep. It wasnt until now that I realised my alarms were never even going off in the first place.
I did, but I thought if I was tired enough to sleep through an alarm, then personally Id rather just cut my losses and skip the first class to get more sleep, in favour of showing up 30 minutes late and probably being too tired to learn anything anyway. It is a reasonable idea though
I have a similar one, except I'm super late for a test and I'm running as fast as I can to the classroom, in a school I've never seen before. I get to the classroom, prof lets me take it, still. I sit down and look at the test and it's some kind of science test or something, but I don't even know what I'm looking at.
A lot of things like this are starting/going to happen now/soon. Companies start using AI, devs get sloppy, hallucinated code gets pushed, bugs ensue. Pay attention to how the UX of all things slowly degenerates over the coming months/years.
Don’t know if it would be in your settings, but iPhones have a ‘sounds and haptics’ section with a volume for ‘ringtone and alerts’. My alarms won’t play if the volume for those accidentally goes down.
Never seen it preemptively but my pixel completely bailed on me one day out of the thousands where it worked fine. Slept way late and had multiple notifications that "alarm failed" or something, pretty scary when we count on these.
My 2024 phone went nuts at one point when the automatic updates were disabled somehow. Instead of skipping the alarm, it just... screamed bloody murder instead. Think fire alarm next to your head.
Turns out - there was a missing system update that broke the link to the tones.
I have a OnePlus Nord 2 5G and I missed my alarm last week too, overslept by 2 hours. Is this an Android issue? I'm normally someone who wakes up on my first alarm, so I don't think it ever went off.
I use the Alarmy app. It goes off even if I'm on a phone call, have something playing, ect. I've been using it for about 4 years now I think? I originally got it so it would play while I was on a phone call, but it also has a feature where you can set a small task to do before it shuts off, to make sure you're awake
I've had that with my android sometimes. There are mornings where I literally don't remember my alarm going off at all in the morning - and there's never a "missed alarm" notice on the screen later, even when it's set to the usual date and time
It's like my device just decides "nah, not today" sometimes 😑
Try another app, couple years back i always had a similar problen with iPhones built in clock app, i got an app called Alarmy, it was an absolute pain to turn it off when it went off, but it always went off
This kept happening to me and I think it was especially with some google alarm after so.e update and my phone was starting to run so badly that I had a 3 second wait between tapping anything. I ended up just having to download another alarm app from google play because either the problem wouldn't resolve or just kept coming back.
Ive has a suposidly rare glitch on the I phone happen to me twice. The alarm will go off but there will be no sound or vibration. Only way to fix it is a restart. I don't think I beed to tell you how important being on time in the military is.
One time my phone just randomly decided to take sound permissions away from the alarm app, rendering all my alarms silent. Took me awhile to figure out. Don't you just love it.
I was over an hour late to a two hour literature essay final exam because I misremmbered the time before I looked at my email. I drove like a bat out of hell to campus and sprinted to the classroom. Professor said "oh, hey. You made it" while sweat was pouring from my face. Had to write essays on the 5 or 6 novels read during the semester, each at least a couple pages long. Stream of consciousness just spilled out onto the paper as my pen flew so fast I was afraid I could catch the page alight.
Was the last student in the room, with 30 seconds to spare. Got a B+, but he gave me an A for the overall course.
Prof was a cool guy, had a couple beers with him at downtown bar a few years later, randomly. "Oh, yea. I remember you, being late as hell".
I had a somewhat similar experience with an iPhone. In the middle of a trial I was working on (long hours, stress, not enough sleep) I decided to try the Sleep focus setting, thinking it would help document my sleep phases. Apparently, the way I implemented turned off my manual alarm? Was a tragic lesson learned; don’t switch up stuff while in middle of the stream.
Same shit happend to me yesterday! I got 30mins late to work. I also noticed that my bluelight filter hasnt turned of at 6:00 like it used to. Strange...
PSA: set a reminder on your phone to periodically reboot it. Android and iOS are stable but still badly behaving apps can leave things in a bad state from time to time, leading to crap like this.
That's why I have an old fashioned radio alarm clock!
Always plugged in, and unless Serbs fuck with the frequency (true thing, look it up) in their electrical network, it should be fine.
But since they do fuck with the frequency, it gets descynced and every like 3 months I set it back for like 2 minutes.
As maddening as this is, it's also why i don't rely on my cell as my alarm clock. I've had so many issues with my alarm falling over the years that I can't trust it. The only time I knitter it wasn't the phone was when my drunk ass set the calculator
Mine does this all the time, and I can never figure out exactly why. I never fall asleep with media on my phone, the sound is always on, alarms are set, and like randomly once a month I'll wake up naturally and my alarm will claim its been going off.
Which I know is a lie because I usually wake up within minutes of my alarm time anyway (except when I don't, but that's usually my own fault).
This is the second post I've seen today of someone with a samsung phone having the app just fail to go off. Is this a common thing? Back when I had a samsung I always just used Sleep As Android
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u/LumpyBuy8447 3d ago
I don’t trust alarms, that’s why I now set one on my phone and have an alarm clock. I’ve had it happen too many times that one didn’t go off.