Will the alarm clock work if I turn iPhone off?

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Will the alarm clock work if I turn iPhone off?

I tend to use my phone as an alarm clock because it doesn't wake my boyfriend up as often as the obnoxious alarm clock does but, when I tested it out the alarm only seems to function if the phone is in standby. When I completely shut off the phone it seems that it does not wake itself up in order to wake me up. Is this actually the case? That seems like an important thing to not overlook when engineering the software for the iPhone. Please let me know if the phone will not wake up for the alarm clock so I won't be late for work!

PowerBook G4 12 SuperDrive, Mac OS X (10.4.11), iPhone G3

Posted on Aug 26, 2008 10:51 PM

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Answer 1

AnubisTG

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Aug 27, 2008 11:40 AM in response to mbpjunkie

is is unreasonable to react in this manner to such a simple question.
and the question is not dumb. every other phone i had in the last....9? years would turn itself on when you shut it off in case you had set an alarm prior to doing so

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AnubisTG

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Aug 27, 2008 11:51 AM in response to ukfe11a

Then it is still an understandable question, is it not? and no need to get fired up about it?
and if that relaly is the case, then it is still not plausible why apple would not have managed to create a "sleep mode" where it doesnt react to the buttons\screen and is not connected to any network and therefor it should be ok to ask about it\for an update later on. heck just give it two sliders for the shutdown.."normal" and "sleep"

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ukfe11a

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Aug 27, 2008 12:01 PM in response to AnubisTG

Mmm apologies, I'm relaly not fired up at all! Apple have, turn on "Airplane Mode", press the "Sleep" button (the one on the top of the iPhone), the alarm will work fine and you are not connected to any networks!

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bemental

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Sep 11, 2008 4:49 PM in response to ukfe11a

This has to be my most missed feature of my BlackBerry Pearl. I could literally go for two weeks without charging my battery based on the sole fact that my phone would turn itself off at night and turn back on when the alarm went off in the morning.

Guess I've found a good use for my Pearl now though.

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Answer 5

Aug 26, 2008 11:06 PM in response to Nina French

If the phone is in sleep mode, it will wake to wake you. If the phone is off, it is OFF and nothing, including the alarm clock, will work.

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Answer 6

Aug 27, 2008 11:29 AM in response to Jim VanLeeuwen

Say what?? If the phone is off, it won't do anything! It's off!!

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ukfe11a

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Aug 27, 2008 11:43 AM in response to AnubisTG

But they where in sleep mode! Not actually off? It's been discussed so many times, most phones are actually in a kind of deep sleep, not OFF. The iPhone when turned off is OFF!

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