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Old 30-03-2011, 10:25
cheekychicken
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Hi guys,

Dont know if anyone else if having this trouble so i thought i'd ask. I've got an Iphone 4 with auto time change on it..

Obviously the clocks went forward at the weekend and it changed itself. Not a problem. Monday morning i didn't get up for work and though i must have just snoozed it but then Tuesday the 6am alarm went of at 5am. so i cleared all alarms and set them up again with a test one to go off at 10 last night and at 10 last night it worked. The this morning 5am again instead of 6.. I thought it may have been me going slightly crazy so told the other half and strangly his iPhone 3gs has done the same thing this morning.. Are we both nutty or is there a problem?



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Old 30-03-2011, 10:31
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I have two alarms set on my iPhone 4, one goes off at 6am, the second goes off at 7am. Have them set to go off every weekday at the same time. iPhone is set to auto update the time and the alarms both went off at the right time last week and both have gone off at the right time this week.

So before anyone blames the software mine is working as it should.
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Old 30-03-2011, 10:32
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iPhones are plagued with alarm and general clock functions.

You really shouldn't rely on it to wake you up , it's been very unreliable ever since the iPhone first came out.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...-New-Year.html

http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/Tec...15878205?f=rss
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Old 30-03-2011, 10:38
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I do blame the software, it should work in all situations not just for the chosen ones.
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Old 30-03-2011, 13:46
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I have two alarms set on my iPhone 4, one goes off at 6am, the second goes off at 7am. Have them set to go off every weekday at the same time. iPhone is set to auto update the time and the alarms both went off at the right time last week and both have gone off at the right time this week.

So before anyone blames the software mine is working as it should.
Yes, you have a recurring alarm which seems unaffected. Non recurring alarms are the ones its happening to so yes, it is a software bug and should have been fixed a long time ago.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12878517

As usual, apple is saying nothing on the matter....
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Old 30-03-2011, 13:55
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My non-recurring alarms (on a 3GS running 4.3.1) have worked fine. I set it every night and it's gone off without a problem. (I did set another alarm clock on Sunday morning though, just in case.)

The BBC article suggests that calendar alerts are the ones going wrong.

Definitely should have been fixed by now though.
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Old 30-03-2011, 13:59
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I set my alarm to go off at lunchtime today and it did, so my recurring alarm works and my normal alarm works.

Everyone else must be doing it wrong
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Old 30-03-2011, 14:00
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It makes me laugh how every other phone out there seems perfectly able to cope with time zone or daylight savings time changes but yet Apple still haven't got this right. Don't get me wrong, i have an ipad and ipod touch and think they're great devices, but this is something which should be sorted by now.
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Old 30-03-2011, 14:09
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I have two alarms set on my iPhone 4, one goes off at 6am, the second goes off at 7am. Have them set to go off every weekday at the same time. iPhone is set to auto update the time and the alarms both went off at the right time last week and both have gone off at the right time this week.

So before anyone blames the software mine is working as it should.
should we blame the Op then? and the millions of other people who are also affected?
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Old 30-03-2011, 17:07
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I set both a recurring and one-off alarm for the same time on Monday (as well as an external alarm) and they all went off. Picnic?
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Old 30-03-2011, 17:39
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should we blame the Op then? and the millions of other people who are also affected?
In reply.

I have an iPhone 4, I use the alarm on it every day, I set both recurring and random alarms to go off at different times of the day depending on my schedule. Last week before the clocks went back my alarms operated as normal, this week with the clocks now an hour earlier my alarms STILL work fine.

If it was a simple software glitch then Apple would have fixed it by now, which proves that it is much more complex than this with many variables.
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Old 30-03-2011, 19:18
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In reply.

I have an iPhone 4, I use the alarm on it every day, I set both recurring and random alarms to go off at different times of the day depending on my schedule. Last week before the clocks went back my alarms operated as normal, this week with the clocks now an hour earlier my alarms STILL work fine.
Try doing one through the calendar. That's what's not working.

If it was a simple software glitch then Apple would have fixed it by now, which proves that it is much more complex than this with many variables.
Haha! Apple are notorious for keeping quiet about bugs. Fact is, this is the 3rd time this has happened and it still hasn't been sorted.
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Old 30-03-2011, 19:31
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If it was a simple software glitch then Apple would have fixed it by now, which proves that it is much more complex than this with many variables.
It's not trivial, but it's not a rocket science, everybody else seems to have mastered it just fine. Lately it would seem that Apple is letting their customers to be their testers.
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