Aaargh- IPhone 3GS alarm

[carreauchompeur]

This is bizarre.

I set 2 alarms as usual this morning. Neither went off, and I woke up an hour late. Got into work late.

Having spoken to 2 colleagues with IPhones, neither of theirs worked either. I've since set various test alarms and they just don't work.

WTF is going on? Is this the new Millenium Bug?

[davethebunny]

didn't this happen last year too?

[plover]

Seems a few people have been caught out by this , couple of other threads already running

http://www.pistonheads.co.uk/gassing/topic.asp?h=0...

Looks like it gets fixed tomorrow according to Engadget

[carreauchompeur]

Top stuff ta. Lucky this didn't happen on Tues or half the population would be late to work!!

[eybic]

Recurring alarms will still work, like the reverse of when the clocks went back

[carreauchompeur]

I'm quite annoyed, it's such an illogical glitch. If I'd needed to get up for something important I'd have been somewhat hacked off...

[HellDiver]

http://www.android.com/

Hope that helps.

[CobolMan]

It's just been on the BBC TV News who used it as just another excuse to bash Apple.

[Gretchen]

eybic said:

Recurring alarms will still work, like the reverse of when the clocks went back

I've just tried this by setting a recurring alarm. It doesn't work. They're lying. I think it's a conspiracy.

I was working today. My iPhone 4 alarm didn't go off. Luckily my natural body clock one did.

My son has my old 3 and his alarm failed too.

[hyperblue]

CobolMan said:

It's just been on the BBC TV News who used it as just another excuse to bash Apple.

Seems a pretty legitimate reason?

[CobolMan]

Hardly warrants being on the national news though.

[alfalynn]

Well my 3GS failed to go off at 05.45 this morning (luckily I was awake), so the automatic fix on 3/1 has not happened. Hopefully my recurring alarms will work when I go back to normal working hours later this week

[ZesPak]

CobolMan said:

It's just been on the BBC TV News who used it as just another excuse to bash Apple.

Actually it's the users that got caught out who are to blame, as they should know by now not to trust the iPhone alarm.

[LukeBird]

ZesPak said:

CobolMan said:

It's just been on the BBC TV News who used it as just another excuse to bash Apple.

Actually it's the users that got caught out who are to blame, as they should know by now not to trust the iPhone alarm.

Well I never had any problems previously?

Mine worked at 0815 and 0830 this morning.

[Engineer1]

ZesPak said:

CobolMan said:

It's just been on the BBC TV News who used it as just another excuse to bash Apple.

Actually it's the users that got caught out who are to blame, as they should know by now not to trust the iPhone alarm.

No this failure proves you can't trust them, last time recurring alarms failed this time single event alarms failed, so if you got caught out last time and switched method you get caught out this time. Also a piece on the news means the excuse has legitimacy, as popular as iPhones are not everyone has one to know the alarm failed, and the way it failed means it works for some and not for others.
Does anyone know if calender event alarms are still working?

[Great Pretender]

I find that the standard OE alarm works fine, but my downloaded fancy alarm App consistently fails to go off if set to recur.

When you have to get up at 05:00 to catch a Monday morning flight every week, that st ain't cool.

[madcyril]

buy a fking alarm clock ffs

[Great Pretender]

madcyril said:

buy a fking alarm clock ffs

Quite.

Not very handy when you travel though

[ZesPak]

LukeBird said:

ZesPak said:

CobolMan said:

It's just been on the BBC TV News who used it as just another excuse to bash Apple.

Actually it's the users that got caught out who are to blame, as they should know by now not to trust the iPhone alarm.

Well I never had any problems previously?

Mine worked at 0815 and 0830 this morning.

Yes, I was referring to "CobolMan": "just another excuse to bash Apple".
If Steve Jobs sells a new cable to transport video over and calls it iHDMI, going for £200/m, it's all over the news as well, you can't have one's cake and eat it too...

[LeeThr]

HellDiver said:

http://www.android.com/

Hope that helps.

I thought more along the lines of this... http://www.argos.co.uk/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/S...