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Enhancement suggestion.

The possibility to backup settings, in order to easily restore them when needed.

I posted my idea using http://www.androidzoom.com but I'm pretty sure here is 
better place to do it.

Generally I've read some books about sleeping. Basic idea is that waking up 
during REM stage is the best for us. How alarm klock can help?

1. we want to wake up at 8
2. klock starts ringing for let's say 30 seconds with volume 10% then it turns 
off. You woke up or not
3. if you woke up - great. You were not sleeping tight so you are ready to go
4. if not - wait some time (say 10 minutes) and go to the point 2
5. if it's 8 - start ringing with full volume till I wake up

Of course everything customizable.
I really thing it would be great :-)

However quick effortless workaround would be just increasing 'alarm volume fade 
time' to something more reasonable like 1 hour at least. (so I can set silent 
alarm earlier) And also moving an option 'alarm time out' from general settings 
to alarm's specific settings would help me do the workaround.

Thanks for app :-)

If the alarm goes off and you press snooze, 
somestimes the alarm won't go off a second 
time. 

I'm using an up-to-date HTC Desire.

There have been several reports of the alarm sound not playing after the 1.5 
upgrade.  I have not yet been able to reproduce this problem.  Please add 
additional information to this bug report so that I can try to track down the 
problem.  Hopefully a pattern will fall out given the information below.

Useful information:
- Type of hardware that you are using (eg, Nexus one, G1, etc)
- Version of the android operating system Menu->Settings->About Phone->Build 
number (eg FRF91)
- Alarm settings (repeats, tone type (mp3, built in, ringer, midi, etc), 
snooze, vibrate, volume fade)
- Application settings (display notification icon, lock screen text, etc)
- How reproducible is this?  (every time, sometimes, 1 in 5, etc)

Even more useful information:
If you are comfortable debugging, getting the system log for the phone when the 
problem occurs would be extremely useful.  Instructions can be found in the 
logcat section 
here:http://developer.android.com/guide/developing/tools/adb.html#logcat

This is supported in version 2.2 of the SDK, but may be tricky to add and 
maintain backward compatibility with 1.6

It would be convenient to have the ability to configure some alarms so that 
they alert/notify (i.e. ring and/or vibrate) for only n seconds, and after 
that cancel themselves (until the next scheduled alarm occurrence in the case 
of repeating alarms).

[Enhancement]

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. On Settings click Repeat
-  Weekdays list (always) shows Sunday on top

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
- If the locale setting is such that makes Monday as start-of-week, that should 
be the day on top on listing 

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
- Observed on Samsung Galaxy i7500 (1.5 and 1.6) and Motorola Milestone A853 
(2.1)

Instead of following the Locale setting, a Start-of-Week setting could be added.

It would be useful to define alarms as a period of time.   Under "Add Alarm" 
you could add a third state to the AM/PM toggle (maybe blank?).  Each time the 
alarm is enabled the activation time would be calculated as an offset from the 
current time... basically just a kitchen timer.  

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I'm running v1.6 on CyanogenMod 6.1.1 (Android 2.2.1) on an HTC Desire GSM.

I should preface this by saying that AlarmKlock has been working flawlessly for 
me for months.  I frequently change the times of alarms but don't recall 
adding/removing any nor changing any other settings in the last week 
(AlarmKlock ones or even other Android ones).

What I do and see:

I've only seen the problem with one particular alarm (one which plays "Dog Days 
Are Over" by Florence+The Machine; settings screenshot attached), although I 
usually use a combination of two to wake me up.  DogDays sounds at the alarm 
time just fine, and if left to continue sounding for 15s or so it continues 
just fine.  I hit snooze.  6m later DogDays sounds again.  A few seconds into 
the track, AlarmKlock crashes with the standard "has stopped unexpectedly" 
force close dialog (attached).  I can reproduce this every time at the moment 
and it's been happening for at least the last three days or so.

I've posted the original ADB logcat (http://alarmklock.pastebin.com/XVk71dEX) 
plus one from a later experiment (http://alarmklock.pastebin.com/Lyfa8RjL) with 
alarm soundings highlighted.  The ones at 07:35, 07:41 and 07:47 are DogDays, 
and obviously the 07:47 one is the crasher.  (The ones at 07:40 and 07:44 are a 
"stop snoozing" alarm, but I can set DogDays alone and still reproduce the bug 
so it's probably unrelated.)  The "Uncaught exception thrown by finalizer" in 
the experiment log shows up at other times too -- not just directly before a 
crash.

Turning on AlarmKlock's debug only seems to change the UI, not what's logged at 
crash time.

Add a talking clock to the alarm settings.

I would like to request that you add the label on the alarm screen so that we 
know what the alarm is for.

Thanks John

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. When I choose a profile the settings are applied but when I retur to my 
home screen the settings goes back to normal
2.
3.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
I can't choose any profiles. Settings are not applied/saved.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
1.2.0

Please provide any additional information below.

I traslate this app in italian
Attach the file strings.xml

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Install Alarm Klock and set up an alarm
2. Wait the time for the screen to dim
3. Observe issue

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
I expect that the phone screen will turn off after my time-out of 60
seconds, but it does not.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
Android 2.1 with SenseUI, HTC Incredible. Latest version of Alarm Klock

Please provide any additional information below.
I installed Alarm Klock and set up an alarm, but noticed today that my
screen will not turn off. It just goes very dim after the default 60
seconds. I un-installed the app and the phone behaves as expected. I'm
happy to provide any other information, contact me at [email protected]
if you need more info.

It would be great if there was an option to remove the snooze time adjustment 
from the alarm screen and make the snooze button bigger.  I find that sometimes 
I fumble around to find the snooze button and accidentally change the interval.

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1.go to settings -> tones 
2.note that internal tab is empty 
3.

What is the expected output? What do 
you see instead?
I expect to see a list of the standard 
alarm sounds instead I there seems to 
be an "invisible" list I can scroll and the 
green bar seems to be moving down a 
list but I can't choose anything 

What version of the product are you 
using? On what operating system?
1.4 on HTC Desire Android 2.1 - update1

Please provide any additional 
information below.
In debug mode I can see that the path to 
alarm sounds is nothing I can find on my 
phone. My path to alarm sounds is /
system/media/audio/alarms. My other 
mp3s it can find perfectly .
I think your app is awesome could I just 
get the sounds to work as I wish.

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1.
2.
3.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?


What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?


Please provide any additional information below.

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. any alarm will show tiny label text

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system? Dunno 
version of Alarm Klock but it runs in latest Android OS...2.2.x whatever.

Please provide any additional information below....

I love your little Alarm Klock app. I just rated it 4 stars. The only
thing I don't like is the size of the alarm text when the alarm
triggers...it's microscopic! Instead of making the time most prominent, make 
the alarm label text the biggest. I don't really care about the time, I care 
more about what I'm supposed to be DOING at that time.

Thanks!

Add an early dismiss feature.

If the alarm is set for 7 AM and I wake at 6:30, I can "early dismiss" the next 
upcoming 7 AM alarm that is half hour away.  This way, the alarm won't go off 
at 7 AM.  The alarm is not disabled so it will, if configured so, reactivate 
the following day.

This is different from ticking alarm to disable, because one would have to 
re-enable after the set time so it will go off the next day.

Many thanks!

Alarm Klock is the best alarm app out there! 

Please put on the wishlist hardware event support:
The possibility to snooze or turn off alarm by shaking the device, or turning 
the phone face down, or by hardware buttons

THX

Hi there :)

I love Brightness profiles! Use it every day. Very useful when you don't want 
to wake up your girlfriend or get your eyes roasted !

I have a suggestion how to make BP even cooler :)

Please consider simply letting Auto-brightness be a built-in profile 
(undeletable). That way it's much easier to switch to a diffeeent profile! Tjis 
way the user is not forced to 1) turn off auto - 2) find the now visible 
profile and tap it. With my suggestion she can instantly tap the desired 
profile - they're all visible - always!

Also - this way - the user won't have to blindly tap two correct buttons when 
the screen is dark - just one correct tap on the profile name (even 
larger/easier than the small auto check box) is sufficient - and PB should 
close immidiately :)
Get this: that's - at any time - just TWO taps to get to ANY profile - auto 
included :) - whereas currently - when auto is on - it's FOUR taps (tap bp 
icon, tap small auto checkbox, tap profile, tap OK).

I hope that made sense :)

Cheers
- David

Denmark



Hi David,
 Thanks for the suggestion.  I'm not sure if I like the idea of making an auto brightness row in the profile list.  There would be no way of knowing when auto brightness is actually on or not then.  Currently, the checkbox has two states which allow you to easily tell if it's on or not.  Your point about the unnecessary extra click is valid, though.  What if, instead, the auto brightness checkbox stayed as-is, but the profile list was always visible.  Clicking any of the list items would automatically
disable auto brightness.  Does this seem like a reasonable compromise?
Would you mind creating a feature request on the project site in order to
track this issue?
http://code.google.com/p/kraigsandroid/issues/list
That way, others will be able to comment if they have an opinion as well.

Thanks again,
Craig



Thanks for your mail - I agree. I hadn't thought of the selected profile not 
being highlighted. Good thinking! Tapping the slider could also turn off auto.

Your suggestion is surely a great and welcome enhancement! - I think, though, 
that the smaller auto-toggle area is a disadvantage which would be solved be 
having the active profile higlihgted somehow :)

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Nothing yet been identified
2.
3.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
I expect the alarm to go off but at occasions (3 yet) I find the phone 
displaying a "time-out" message but I'm pretty sure the alarm never sounded.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
Used version 7 on a SE x10 mini.


Please provide any additional information below.
Well as for extra information I think the volume in general behaves a bit 
strange. I for instance set the alarm to increase from 0-60% during 30 seconds 
but after the last incident with no alarm sounding i forced the alarm volume to 
75% with the app "Timeriffic" and then the alarm appeared very much higer... 
Well just something I noticed.
Is Alarm Klock in control of the "master" volume or is it set to play at set 
percentage of the alarm volume ("master")??
It seams as it also raises the volume faster than set in the program. For me it 
seams as it reach maximum volume earlier than the above mentioned time 
(30sec)...

the custom text did not work in 1.6, and when it worked in 2.1, i was really 
happy.. but i was toying around with widgetlocker (lock screen replacement), 
and it didn't display it on widgetlocker (yes it's an app.. maybe that's why..)

is there a way to make it display on custom lock screens as well? thanks :)

Add a % substitution to display the label of the next alarm in Custom lock 
screen message.

Bug to track new icon ideas for Brightness Profiles.

It's not a problem. Just an idea to make Alark Klock more user frendly.

I was thinking about sorting by 'time until next alarm'. It would be more 
natural. 
At the end of a day you will be sure that you set good alarm for next morning - 
it will be the first one on the list. 

Another option is sorting by labels alphabetical order. By that, they are 
always on the same place and never confuse you. Than you can also change the 
order by changing the label for example by adding 1, 2, 3... before the name.

I think it is ver 1.6 

Thanks and congratulation for the app

Allow for free-form selection, so that one can set it to 10 or 15 seconds.

(The current Alarm time out application setting limits this to a fixed list).

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Set an alarm for a time in the future
2. Wait until the time the alarm is about to go off and snooze it.
2. Receive an notification from gmail and an sms with ChompSMS as sms 
application during the snooze timeout.
3. Wait until the time the alarm is about to go off again.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
The expected output is for the alarm to function as normally and go off.
What happen is that I woke up an hour late thanks to an phonecall, when I 
opened the phone and alarm klock I received a warning saying something like 
alarm timeout because of notification or something like that (I were in a hurry 
so I didn't have time to write it down).

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
Android 2.2.1 with HTC Sense on a HTC Desire HD with version 1.72 of the HTC 
Desire HD Rom and version 1.6 of Alarm Klock.

Please provide any additional information below.
I really love this application and it's features but the most crucial part of 
an alarm is that is reliable and if it's not going to work if a receive an sms 
or email (don't know which caused the bug) I can't rely on it. 

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Sleep
2. Wake up with Alarm Klock
3. Accidentally hit the (very big) snooze button when trying to turn off
the alarm with the slide.
4. Get out of bed.
5. Either walk through the settings menu to turn off the alarm or get
annoyed by a running snooze alarm 10 minutes later when you're already
under the shower.

I never use the snooze function, but it happens too often that I
accidentally touch the snooze button when grabbing the phone in my sleepy
state. I would be nice if it was possible to turn off the snooze function
completely for an alarm.

The keyboard entry functionality in the time dialog is fairly broken.  Replace 
it with something better.

One bug report:
I think i found a bug, when you go to make a new alarm, the screen pops out and 
you click on the minutes field to set it by the keyboard instead of using the 
+/- buttons, when finished you press the back bitton to remove the keyboard 
with digits and press OK button to confirm the alarm, the minutes dont change 
to the new time you have changed, but stay as before to the current that had 
been when you pressed 'new alarm'.

in Alarm Klock version 1.4 (it doesn't happen on 1.3), the icon, on the 
notification area is constantly moving (every few seconds) and switching with 
other notification area icons... at least with the other one I always have 
(Batteryminder).

besides this great app... thanks!

now I remember other detail... can the slider to turn of the alarm work really 
as a slider? meaning that you shoud do the complete movement of the slide? (if 
you touch by mistake the ending of the slide it turns of, which sometimes has 
happend to me when grabbing the phone with the hand with no intention to turn 
off the alarm)

PS: using android 2.1-update1 on motorola milestone.

Would like to see an option for entering a date as well as the time for the 
alarm. 

It could be a checkbox on the alarm dismissal screen.  Or after the alarm is 
dismissed a popup could indicate that the alarm is being scheduled again and 
provide a few seconds to press a button to cancel that repetition.  

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. After an alarm goes off, dismiss it
2. Long-press the phone's home key to recall the last six apps
3. Select Alarm Klock app

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
I'd expect the app to go to the main screen. Instead it goes to a screen that 
shows the time running, as if I hadn't dismissed the alarm. It isn't possible 
to go back to the main screen from this screen.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
Version 1.6 on Android 2.1 (Samsung Vibrant aka Galaxy S)

Please provide any additional information below.

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Just touching at the end of the slide to dismiss area will dismiss the 
alarm - no sliding action required.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
A full tracking slide from one end to the other is needed so that no 
accidental touch will trigger it

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
Latest alarm 1,4 I think.  On HTC desire with multitouch

Please provide any additional information below.

I plug the phone into an external speaker via stereo miniplug; phone plays 
audio correctly over external speakers from Music app. But when alarm goes off, 
it only plays over the internal phone speaker, bypassing the cable plugged into 
the phone's headphone jack. This is with music files selected for the alarm 
tone. 

Alarm Klock 1.6 on Android 2.1, HTC Droid Eris

I feel that an alarm tone which restarts promptly results in an insistent, even 
irritating feeling.
In order with cope with that I edited the midi file with my choice short tune, 
just introducing silence on its end.
Noted however that the app suppressed the silent portions, which became upon 
hearing the same as before.

Request:
Either to add the option of introducing an adjustable pause between repeats
or to allow tthe file to be played from beginning to end.

There are dozens of clocks out there, but none of them have the alarm 
capability of Alarm Klock.  It would be nice to have a simple digital clock 
mode - perhaps by simply merging  
http://www.ned-fox.com/diy/android-night-clock.

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Every kind of alarm

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
I expect a gradual increase in volume but the maximum is reached already at 
25%. Beyond the level of 30% is difficult to perceive more variations. 

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
Latest release of Alarm Klock on HTC Hero with Android 2.1-update1.

Please provide any additional information below.
Probably an exponential variation of the volume control would produce a more 
linear auditory sensation.

Would love to be able to set a certain number of hours (say 12) and the 
notification icon that an alarm is pending will only show if there is an alarm 
pending in the next X (12) hours.

Right now I hate having an alarm in 3 days and having an icon up there all 
weekend long. I know you can go in and turn off the notification, but then I 
have to verify that it is working every night before bed on the days I do want 
an alarm (which defeats the purpose of reoccuring events)

not a playlist, but a folder of mp3

Hi,

Just wanted to ask for a feature: an option to include the date on the lock 
screen text. An option to add it using the Custom text would be enough.

If it's Friday night... now I see "6:45" on the lock screen for instance, and 
it would be better to be sure that the alarm will go off on Monday and not on 
Saturday morning. The countdown option it too long imo... so I would prefer to 
have "6:45 - Mo 19 Jul" for instance ok "6:45 - 19/7".

Cheers, and thanks!
Mguel

Use scenario:

I set the alarm to go off at 7 AM, so at 7 AM, the alarm will ring for 5 
seconds (or whatever duration I choose), then _automatically_ stop, wait 6 
minutes (or whatever duration I choose), ring the alarm for another 5 seconds, 
quiet for another 6 minutes, ring, repeat 4 times (or whatever repetition I 
choose).

This allows me to hear the alarm, sort of wake up, but not have to touch 
anything, sleep a bit more, and get reminded again.

Thanks again!

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Make sure auto-rotate isn't disabled
2. Select song i Alarm Klock so the preview starts playing
3. Rotate phone

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
Expect phone to rotate display, and music to continue to play. Instead, music 
is cut off and music selection returns to the beginning.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
Version 1.6 on Froyo.

Please provide any additional information below.

It would be nice to have the alarm volume to be set by the phone ring volume. 
If you go into a place that you have to turn the phone on vibrate, the alarme 
should then also be on vibrate, without have to go to a separate menu screen.

not a defect just wishing for this enhancement.

Russian translation

Please instead of writing: "2 days 17 hours 41 minutes" in lock screen make it 
shorter: "2d 17h 41m", because when my phone is charging I can't see the 
poucentage of charge.

Thanks for your app.

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Reboot the device when alarm is set. This could happen when the System 
crashes over night.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
The alarm should be set even after reboot, but it is not. You will come late to 
work -> :-((((

Please provide any additional information below.
Solution, from Android SDK:
Registered alarms are retained while the device is asleep (and can optionally 
wake the device up if they go off during that time), but will be cleared if it 
is turned off and rebooted. 

So you have to auto start the application after reboot and re-set the alarm via 
alarmmanager class.
Please fix this issue even if it is the last you do with this app - it simply 
would make it perfect.

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Set an alarm with 
Repeat:weekdays, 
Tone: a 2:30 min mp3, 
Snooze: 10 min, 
Vibrate: disable, 
Alarm volume fade: 0-100% over 60 sec

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
In the morning alarm starts as expected
When pressing snooze song goes on and there's no way to stop it. Didn't
wait for 10 min to see if the UI comes up again. 
I'd expect for the song to stop for 10 min before starting again, ideally
going again from 0-100% of volume. 

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
Version 1.3 (I see there's a new one out, so maybe this is fixed already,
in which case, thx and sorry for wasting your time) on HTC Desire with
Android 2.1

Please provide any additional information below.
Fix this and the app is PERFECT. Thx.