[Closed] Jesusphone and Alarms

not been caught out yet as such, but the dog was a little cheesed off on new year's day.

would have thought apple would have sorted it properly last time it happenend.

A few here were caught out. Not so smug now then. 😆

I love my iPhone after owning a few Android, Symbian and Windows phones and found them all rather slow and expensive for apps. I got the iPhone to save me having to carry my iPod around as well as my phone and its great! Gf has the N8 and she prefers my phone to hers.

does this mean they are bad phones?
should i sell my iphone4 now?
i'm worried what other people will think.

I think we should just use it as an excuse to be late for work! Sorry I'm a better person than an android owning person which is why I'm iLate.

I can't believe some people use their phone as their only alarm. Haven't you all seen the size of the deficit? We can't afford for people to get to work late!

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Paint it white and call it an iclock

in all seriousness, this is exactly why I have things in my house for specific purposes, suck as alarm clocks.....what did people do before mobile phones cooked your dinner etc?

Before I had a mobile phone as an alarm clock my mum used to wake me up 🙂

what did people do before mobile phones cooked your dinner etc?

Skipped along in an utopian ideal obviously.

To be fair Boba Fatt, I'm not sure your "iclock" does a very good job of automatically adjusting the alarm for Daylight Savings either. 😉

Do I need to delete all my old alarms and reset them up then?

"We're aware of an issue related to non repeating alarms set for January 1 or 2," Harrison said. "Customers can set recurring alarms for those dates and all alarms will work properly beginning January 3."

Android still has horrible text messaging bugs that'll get you fired, busted, or otherwise embarrassed
December 31, 2010 13:12 by Chris Ziegler
Pardon us if the headline is a little sensational, but this is one that we've personally experienced -- and it's not pretty. For at least the last couple versions, Android has been plagued with a couple extremely serious bugs in its text messaging subsystem that can ultimately end up causing you to text the wrong contact -- even contacts that you've never texted before. There appear to be a few failure modes; the one we definitely experience on the Gingerbread-powered Nexus S involves being routed to the wrong thread when you tap it either in the Notifications list or the master thread list in the Messaging application, so if you don't notice, you'll end up firing a message to the wrong person.

More seriously, though, there's also an open issue in Android's bug tracking system -- inexplicably marked "medium" priority -- where sent text messages can appear to be in the correct thread and still end up being sent to another contact altogether. In other words, unless you pull up the Message Details screen after the fact, you might not even know the grievous act you've committed until your boss, significant other, or best friend -- make that former best friend -- texts you back. There seem to have been some attempts on Google's part over the year to fix it; we can't confirm that it still happens in 2.3, but for what it's worth, the issue hasn't been marked resolved in Google Code... and it was opened some six months ago.

This is akin to an alarm clock that occasionally won't go off (we've been there) or a car that randomly won't let you turn the steering wheel -- you simply cannot have a phone that you can't trust to communicate with the right people. It's a deal-breaker. We're pretty shocked that these issues weren't tied up and blasted to all affected phones as an over-the-air patch months ago, but whatever the reason, we'd like to see Google, manufacturers, and carriers drop every other Android update they're working on and make sure this is completely resolved immediately.

I'd be very much more concerned about this:

Why? You do not have an Android device.

i wouldnt have thought your average iphone using hipster would be bothered about alarms or getting up early

A super early entry for poorest troll of the year 2012.

Well?

My alarms?

Anyone?

Regular alarms are fine from the 3rd DD.

Apple promised everything would be back to normal today: "We're aware of an issue related to non-repeating alarms set for January 1 or 2," spokeswoman Natalie Harrison told Reuters. "Customers can set recurring alarms for those dates and all alarms will work properly beginning January 3."

- [url= http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/jan/03/iphone-glitch-new-year-alarm-calls ]Guardian[/url]

Ah right, grand, cheers. 🙂

Get up late, blame it on someone/something else....

😐

Just read this and my Jesus alarm failed this morning, which made us a bit late leaving the holiday cottage for 10 am!!

I'd be very much more concerned about this:
Why? You do not have an Android device.