Alarm makes no sound - HTC Rezound

Okay, I'm new, and I searched...but didn't see anything pertaining to this.
So I hope it's okay to create a new thread.
I just got a Certified Like-New Replacement HTC Rezound from Verizon after having so many problems with the Thunderbolt that I demanded a new device. Enter the Rezound.
The replacement is fairly nice. I'm enjoying ICS and it doesn't have the issues the Tbolt did.
However.
My long-term alarms don't have any sound. If I go to bed at midnight and set the alarm for 8am, confirm it's checked and it says "This alarm is set for 8 hours from now." At 8:02am someone else in the house wakes me up and I look at the phone and it has the screen as if the alarm were going off, but it is not making a sound. I have checked alarm volume and made sure it is up. Just for kicks, I also make sure I leave the ringer up all night so that it's not on silent/vibrate. It is on the charger, for what it's worth - and my Tbolt charger, since the Rezound did not come with one.
I tested the alarm myself a few times by setting it for 5 minutes in the future. It works fine, on and off the charger. 10 minutes, still fine. It just seems to be the ones that are 6 hours or 10 hours in the future...they will not make a sound if the phone has been idle all night. A friend of mine thinks it has to do with the phone going into a deeper sleep overnight. Not sure. All I know is I'm doing exactly what I did on the Tbolt and the alarm was one of the few things that worked right.
Now I'm in this predicament. Anyone else had this issue, or know what to try?
I'd like to avoid a hard factory reset if I can. Those suck.
I have no taskkillers running. The only questionable apps I have so far are Lookout (I like the missing device function) and maybe Astro.
Everything else is pretty vanilla. I don't have any "Lol Free Timer" apps, etc.
Also while we're at it, my GPS is weak. All 3 services: standalone, VZW, and Google are enabled. GPS is turned on. I can even see the dish icon flickering in the taskbar. But after 10 seconds in Maps, it will say Your location is temporarily unavailable - if I'm under any kind of cover. My car, any type of building...even in my home where I sit next to my mother who also has a Rezound (brand new as of August) and hers works fine. In the open air, mine will work too. But by comparison with my mom's Rezound...mine is significantly weaker.
Just to recap...
- My alarm makes no sound when it's an alarm that is set for a later time in the amount of several hours
- Ringer, media, and alarm volume are all up
- No task killers
- Works fine if it's set just for a few minutes in the future
- GPS is weak.
Anyone have any magical fixes to this, perhaps? I'd hate to have to get a new device.
Hopefully I've been descriptive enough here to not be too noobish
Thanks folks.

Very nice and descriptive post. I like the summary at the end.
Unfortunately, I don't have any solutions for you.

Your alarm issue may have something to do with being in dock mode or power saver/sleep mode. See if the alarms sound if you keep it on a regular wall charger. Only possible fix I could think for GPS would be ruu. Flash the global leak or the ics update before that if you havent already. Not guaranteed to fix it though. Good descriptive post, but are you rooted and what version OS are you on would be helpful as well in the future.
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Alarm Clock when powered off

Hi all
Firstly, let me just say I love the Hero.
Although I really can't believe I need to keep my phone switched on for the alarm to work? Even my Nokia banana phone had a blummin' alarm that worked when the phone was off! It seems that the Hero needs to be powered on or the alarm won't sound.
Am I missing something?
This feature was very common, pre-smartphone, but I think you'll find the vast majority of what we now call smartphones (WinMo-based, iPhone, Android etc) don't actually support this any more as they are really little computers with phone functionality. It also wasn't that long ago when my phones battery used to last 10+ days on standby, but then again it didn't even do 1% of what my Hero can do - it's the price we pay for progress.
I believe many Symbian based phones do still allow this, since an alarm clock is essentially built into the "BIOS" of the device itself.
Please don't take any of this as gospel though.
Regards,
Dave
Do you mean when the phone has the screen switched off (short press of power button), or completely shut down (press and hold power, then select power off)? If the latter, then as above this is effectively like shutting a computer down, it is completely asleep. If the former it should work fine.
ewans said:
Do you mean when the phone has the screen switched off (short press of power button), or completely shut down (press and hold power, then select power off)? If the latter, then as above this is effectively like shutting a computer down, it is completely asleep. If the former it should work fine.
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I'm pretty sure he means completely shut down...
My girlfriend had a Siemens SL55 some years ago, and it moved with us in a box from appartment to house, and then suddenly one day it sounded an alarm!!!!
2 years earlier she had put a reminder for an anniversary in her calendar
foxmeister said:
This feature was very common, pre-smartphone, but I think you'll find the vast majority of what we now call smartphones (WinMo-based, iPhone, Android etc) don't actually support this any more as they are really little computers with phone functionality. It also wasn't that long ago when my phones battery used to last 10+ days on standby, but then again it didn't even do 1% of what my Hero can do - it's the price we pay for progress.
I believe many Symbian based phones do still allow this, since an alarm clock is essentially built into the "BIOS" of the device itself.
Please don't take any of this as gospel though.
Regards,
Dave
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So effectively when you forgot to connect Your phone to the charger before going to sleep you might be late for work in the morning? Thats not a very SMART phone, is it?
From what I know devices like the Hero also have bios and it is far much more sophisticated than old Nokias. Also the Hero doesnt turn off when the battery is completely empty so it would have some juice to sound an alarm. When You turn the phone back on, it remembers the date and time so the clock is running when its switched off. IMO this is just the developers being lazy - thats all
I would imagine that this can be a deal-breaker feature for some. Unfortunately its not included in the phone specs and most people (including me) would be 100% sure that it would wake them up when turned off. AFAIK all Nokia symbians have this.
stingerpl said:
So effectively when you forgot to connect Your phone to the charger before going to sleep you might be late for work in the morning? Thats not a very SMART phone, is it?
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Erhhh - no, it's not a very SMART user!
Regards,
Dave
If you honestly bought an HTC Hero in order to have an alarm clock you might wanna consider selling it again...
Just put the phone in flight mode and set the alarm...
My recurring alarm didn't go off this morning, very late for work....
Prille said:
Just put the phone in flight mode and set the alarm...
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What does flight mode do exactly?
ritdaw said:
My recurring alarm didn't go off this morning, very late for work....
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Are you using a task manager to kill processes? If it kills the clock the alarm won't go off.
frandavid100 said:
What does flight mode do exactly?
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Flight mode turns off all radio receiving and transmission on the phone.
Basically when turning flight mode on your left with a PDA without the phone part.
Thanks dude.
I have to say it is a pain that the alarm will not wake even the handset! All nokia's still do this, come to think of it is only HTC handsets & iphone (i think) that will not sound the alarm when the phone is off....
Simple things like this wouldbe so easy to implement. Oh well.
Prille said:
If you honestly bought an HTC Hero in order to have an alarm clock you might wanna consider selling it again...
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I expected that the Hero will sustain the basic features of traditional phones that most people treat as a given default and I just simply don't agree that it's impossible or hard to implement. Thats all.
I didnt buy the Hero for the alarm clock but it seems like I would have to consider buying a separate alarm clock just in case
stingerpl said:
I expected that the Hero will sustain the basic features of traditional phones that most people treat as a given...
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Unfortunately, as Android is still a very young OS you can't take anything for granted....like the bluetooth!
stingerpl said:
it seems like I would have to consider buying a separate alarm clock just in case
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maybe that would be a good idea....In my experience, most mobile phones are too darn quiet to wake me up anyway!!
It should be said that this is going to be more a function of the hardware, than the software. For those phones that do this, there is essentially a hardware timer that the overlying OS will program that switches on the device (effectively part of the system clock) when a particular time is reached. If the Hero has the necessary hardware, it should be possible to do this, but it would definitely require OS support since Android abstracts out the hardware so that applications can't reach it directly (except for NDK apps anyway).
Regards,
Dave
ewans said:
Are you using a task manager to kill processes? If it kills the clock the alarm won't go off.
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Yes, but I don't close all of the apps. I close stuff manually. Perhaps I did close it on that day. Maybe I need to put it in the ignore list just incase!
Can confirm this is a bug
This is a bug, but I havent tracked down exactly what causes it.
When switched off, I mean the screen is switched off, not the whole phone.
When I go the phone on Thursday, I set the alarm for Monday through to Friday, 10.30am.
Friday morning, the phone wakes and the alarm goes off at 10.30. Fine.
Monday morning, nothing happens. Go into the settings, check alarm set for the correct time and day.
Tuesday morning, works fine, phone wakes and alarm goes off at 10.30, fine.
This morning, nothing.
My other phone alarm wakes me at 10.34. I switch on the Hero's screen, and immediately the alarm goes off, 4 minutes late!
Will try to see if it is because I wasnt in the home screen when it was switched off, or because it was a recurring alarm, or because it was charging.
Nonetheless this is a bug. Worked fine on my older phones, including several WinMo.
I will see if there is an Android alarm clock app available, and if it has the same problems.
graculusthegreenbird said:
When switched off, I mean the screen is switched off, not the whole phone.
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This is a different issue to the one being discussed here. We are talking about when the phone is shutdown completely.
Regards,
Dave
OK, apologies. I wouldnt expect anything to happen when my phone is switched off.

[Q] Fully charged E3D dying in sleep mode overnight?...

When I went to bed last night, my E3D had a full charge (need that because my sick mother lives downstairs and might call me). I put the phone in sleep mode. When I woke up this morning, the phone was doornail dead.
So what gives?
I have also noticed that my phone gets VERY hot occasioally.
mine was doing that, did factory reset, great now!
I had the same thing happen to me before, hopefully its a software issue not hardware.
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Some app obviously kept the processor running overtime, download something like OS Monitor or System Panel and watch for irregular activity.
I had this happen 3 times so far, can't figure out what it is.
On my sensation it was HTC watch, try freezing it with titianium backup
Well that's not good. Here's some of my observations:
1) It could be a hardware issue. That's not good. If that worries you as a possible cause, take it in to have it looked at.
2) It could be a software issue - most likely. What apps do you have installed? I have one in particular that streams video from security cameras. When the video feed isn't "paused/stopped," the stream/app will continue even when phone is turned off! So that kills my battery.
3) You could have something polling the inet. Maybe twitter, facebook, etc., email, exchange etc. Check out the sync settings and make sure they're reasonable.
4) Finally, reboot the phone before you go to bed and leave it alone. That way you can make sure it's nothing you initiated after reboot.
If the phone is warm, that means it's doing something (either with battery or wireless something).
I had the same problem for a minute but got it straightened out shortly after I realized it was some of the programs I had. Good luck and GJ for taking care of your mum!
I removed the official facebook app and now I can go days without a charge. I have did find this kinda weird but whatever.
Sent from my Evo 3D using that one app for forums...

[APP] Battery Charged Silencer

This application mutes notification sound when battery is fully charged. It can also disable vibrations if selected in options. It mutes before batery is charged (usually 99% ro 100%) - it mutes only notifications not phone calls.
Vibrator supression works with SGS2 and Galaxy Tab 10.1, it is strange that it does not work with other Samsung phones (quite puzzled).
Android Market link
Definitely checking this out, but I think it's kinda sad we have to resort to an app to tell Samsung about this issue, when my old Galaxy S was doing the same crap a year ago and people hated it then! It's like "yes, the device IS fully charged, thanks for telling me in the middle of the night when I have it charging for a reason, and no, I'm not going to take it off the charger just because it's fully charged now!!!"
It's one thing to want to be enviro-friendly, it's another to bug the crap out of you to unplug your device 5 hours before you need it for the day just because it's "done charging...."
Samsung should remove this feature completely. Issue is with some phones, e.g. droid charge, where vibration setting does not work - and this setting in app turns off vibrator :-/ Nevertheless it works for relevant devices which are SGS2, American SGS2 and new Tab.
Any possibility to get this to work on SGS i9000 also?
This "feature" is bugging the crap out of me with 2.3.5 version. Didn't have this problem when I was using Froyo.
edit: Actually, it seems to work in i9000 already. I'll add more information about it in future.
Many thanks for this hilarious application. Finally my tablet don't wake me up at night.
It works also while listening to TuneIn Radio where the tone makes the streaming sound stopped...
GarciaM25 said:
Definitely checking this out, but I think it's kinda sad we have to resort to an app to tell Samsung about this issue, when my old Galaxy S was doing the same crap a year ago and people hated it then! It's like "yes, the device IS fully charged, thanks for telling me in the middle of the night when I have it charging for a reason, and no, I'm not going to take it off the charger just because it's fully charged now!!!"
It's one thing to want to be enviro-friendly, it's another to bug the crap out of you to unplug your device 5 hours before you need it for the day just because it's "done charging...."
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I just thanked you because I couldn't possibly agree more with everything you said. I feel like long tossing the tablet everytime it wakes me up! Going to try this app, thanks OP
Thank you so much! I sleep with my Tablet as I use one of the sleep cycle monitor apps and it always wakes me up when it's done charging.
thanks a bunch, I too found the beep rather annoying especially when you're charging off the PC and using the tab to do other functions during work. I'm downloading this fix right now.
Hello Ondrej,
Could you make it compatible with GS2 NFC (GT-O9100P) because I can not acces to your application on Play Store (not compatible...).
Many thanks
In the market it shows that my SGS2 is not compatible, only my tab 10.1 is?!?!
I disabled application for devices for which users wrote it does not work comments.
I can test application only with devices which I have (which is not GT-O9100P)

alarm clock not going off

Anyone experience their alarm clock not going off? i've had it occured a few times in the past and just had thought i slept thru it or turned it off unknowingly. very unlikely because i set many alarms, starting at 8:00, 8:05, 8:10, all the way to 8:30. yesterday i woke up by myself without the alarm at 8:29 and was wondering what happened to my alarm? so i stared at my phone for 2 to 3 minutes and sure enough, the 8:30 alarm did not ring. i didnt do anything about it hoping that it was just gonna work the next day like how it always did. but today, i didnt wake up until 9:30 and was late to work. thats 2 days in a row that my alarm clock did not go off. i never had this problem with any other phone.
i did some searches and found some stuff but it doesnt apply to me such as clock and atk.
i have ATK installed but clock is on the ignore list AND autokill is set to off so thats not the issue.
some people say the wifi is dropping so the clock is not being updated, well that cant be the case because i turned on my phone yesterday at 8:29, turn the screen back off and watched the phone and the alarm still did not go off.
currently running meanrom but i dont think the rom has anything to do with it since the alarm does work most of the time. i think this is a bigger issue.
I've had it happen once, and it really freaked me out. I've used my phone as the only alarm for years.
I've also had a weird issue about half a dozen times where the clock automatically changed my time and time zone. I'm pretty solidly in Atlanta so no good reason for this.
Completely stock setup. Just waiting to see if it happens again...
Yes I have experienced this. Goodies 1.73
Luckily, I haven't suffered from it.
I keep an old fashioned alarm clock with the bells and hammers on my night stand for a power outage or whatever. You never know !
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Subtle, endless ring?

I just got my DNA recently - loving it so far. I haven't done any tweaking / rooting, etc... I've had 1 recurring issue which I can find NO information on.
Once a day, at seemingly random times, the DNA will just start ringing, endlessly. The volume on the ring is always very soft (whether volume is on max, silent, or vibrate), however it never ends unless I reboot. I've force killed every possible running application, but still it keeps going.
There are no alarms set, no calls coming in, no other notifications. While I reboot to stop the ringing, the ringing continues until the power completely drops (through the shutting down splash screens).
Any troubleshooting ideas? Anyone else experience this?
cant say that i have experienced this. havent heard anyone else complain of it either. But flashing a new kernel aand rom will likely solve the problem.
Sounds like the internal overheat alarm. Your phones defective go exchange it
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x4sper said:
Sounds like the internal overheat alarm. Your phones defective go exchange it
Sent from my HTC Droid DNA
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Thanks x4sper. That was my initial guess. When it does start, it is a bit warm, but nothing more-so than a heavy gaming spree would do. Are there any apps not requiring root that would show temperature statistics?
dmk9870 said:
Thanks x4sper. That was my initial guess. When it does start, it is a bit warm, but nothing more-so than a heavy gaming spree would do. Are there any apps not requiring root that would show temperature statistics?
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Elixer 2 try that app
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most of the battery widgets in the market have temp monitoring.
Don't check m8, GO exchange it, take advantage of your warranty while you can. Maybe you install one "wrong" app and they send you an invoice or something. Seriously, I don't know what kind of insurance you're on, around here lately they started the "no-matter-what" so even stolen, you broke it, they broke it, it broke by itself you're covered. If you don't have something like that don't take any chances.
And yes, it's most probably the temperature alarm.
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Not battery temp alarm
crossmission said:
Don't check m8, GO exchange it, take advantage of your warranty while you can. Maybe you install one "wrong" app and they send you an invoice or something. Seriously, I don't know what kind of insurance you're on, around here lately they started the "no-matter-what" so even stolen, you broke it, they broke it, it broke by itself you're covered. If you don't have something like that don't take any chances.
And yes, it's most probably the temperature alarm.
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This just happened to me yesterday. First I thought it was the battery temp alarm too, but my battery was only about 85 degrees. After searching the phone, and the services and the apps running, nothing would stop it. Even when I turned it off and back on, it still did it. It took a battery sim-pull for me to get it to stop.
I have a Droid DNA, and after searching, it does seem to affect other phones (at least other Droid phones)
I then did a little searching ... here are two links that helped (I think)-- I can't post links yet but i'll try to mal-form them and you can put them back together
A site: rootzwiki.com / topic / 38658-droid-dna-constantly-ringing
A site: w w w. droidxforums.com / forum / droid-x-help / 26013-droid-x-constantly-ringing.html
So, (at least in my case) the 'roaming alarm' seems to be the cause of it. I was down in my work's basement in the lab-- very poor reception. I'm pretty sure my phone switched to roaming (it's usually 1x with barely 1 bar down there). I do have the 'roam alarm' checked on in the settings.
However, what I don't get, is why it would not stop-- even after I was a full 5 bars (3g-- work repeaters don't repeat lte).
Anyway, I hope this helps...
Mr-Homer said:
This just happened to me yesterday. First I thought it was the battery temp alarm too, but my battery was only about 85 degrees. After searching the phone, and the services and the apps running, nothing would stop it. Even when I turned it off and back on, it still did it. It took a battery sim-pull for me to get it to stop.
I have a Droid DNA, and after searching, it does seem to affect other phones (at least other Droid phones)
I then did a little searching ... here are two links that helped (I think)-- I can't post links yet but i'll try to mal-form them and you can put them back together
A site: rootzwiki.com / topic / 38658-droid-dna-constantly-ringing
A site: w w w. droidxforums.com / forum / droid-x-help / 26013-droid-x-constantly-ringing.html
So, (at least in my case) the 'roaming alarm' seems to be the cause of it. I was down in my work's basement in the lab-- very poor reception. I'm pretty sure my phone switched to roaming (it's usually 1x with barely 1 bar down there). I do have the 'roam alarm' checked on in the settings.
However, what I don't get, is why it would not stop-- even after I was a full 5 bars (3g-- work repeaters don't repeat lte).
Anyway, I hope this helps...
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Mine did that the other day while on the charger. It started before I woke up and continued until I made a call some 20 minutes later. One thing I discovered was all the sound options were grayed out. While it was making the noise I put it on vibrate. I also had a Verizon tech on another phone, he had no clue. He also contacted HTC, they never heard of such a thing. Go figure. For what it's worth This unit is rooted s-off and on .stock 204. This is my 2nd unit, the first one also did it when on Viper. I have seen of several instances of this happening as noted in other forums. My guess is a software programming issue in the base rom.
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I contacted HTC there is NO overheat alarm in the unit. If it overheats it will shut down!!!
RLGL said:
Mine did that the other day while on the charger. It started before I woke up and continued until I made a call some 20 minutes later. One thing I discovered was all the sound options were grayed out. While it was making the noise I put it on vibrate. I also had a Verizon tech on another phone, he had no clue. He also contacted HTC, they never heard of such a thing. Go figure. For what it's worth This unit is rooted s-off and on .stock 204. This is my 2nd unit, the first one also did it when on Viper. I have seen of several instances of this happening as noted in other forums. My guess is a software programming issue in the base rom.
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I contacted HTC there is NO overheat alarm in the unit. If it overheats it will shut down!!!
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FWIW, mine is stock rom -- not rooted.
Just had this happen to me. Full battery, full 4g reception, and not running anything! I did a restart and gone for now.
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Unknown cause - only restart stops it
I have the same problem and posted in another thread, but this ringing sound is not related to overheating, roaming or anything else as far as I can tell. It's happened at least 6 or more times over the last several months. I do know that if you have your buds in and it starts chirping it is a full volume blast even though the media volume is turned way down. I had that experience yesterday while at work. While listening to music I still need to hear the paging system so my music is faint, but the ringing went straight through my head from ear to ear. Battery temperature was 86 F degrees, wasn't roaming, didn't have any alarms or alerts set, nothing on the notification bar and the ring sound is not one I can pick from any list. The only way to stop it is to restart the phone. Damned annoying!
I'm hoping that the future Verizon update for my DNA (Sense 5 and a more current Android version) will fix the problem. Someday the handset manufacturers will be able to incorporate an adaptive radio that can cover a range of say 400 Mhz to 5 Ghz and we'll just work with one radio to cover all our needs and connect with any friendly source. If we had that today I'd have a HTC One in my pocket.
jonesin said:
cant say that i have experienced this. havent heard anyone else complain of it either. But flashing a new kernel aand rom will likely solve the problem.
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It will do this no mater what ROM or stock
x4sper said:
Sounds like the internal overheat alarm. Your phones defective go exchange it
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Phone not defective, neither Verizon or HTC have a clue what is happening. There is no overheat alarm on the unit, it will shut down when too hot.

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