Random bell sound

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Random bell sound

For the past week or so my iPhone 3GS has made a random bell noise a little after 12pm every day. I've never heard the sound before and when I turn phone on there is no message or anything. I manually closed all the apps in the quick launch bar and turned phone on and off and it is still happening. Is this happening to anyone else? Any idea what is causing it? Is my iPhone going senile?

HP Pavillion 9000, Windows Vista, iPhone 3GS

Posted on Sep 20, 2010 7:27 AM

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wvu76 Author

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Oct 7, 2010 10:01 AM in response to PDiaz500

So glad I could help. I also put this info in a review of the app so hopefully the developers will fix it in an update at some point. At the very least I hope it will help out a few more confused people 😉

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wvu76 Author

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Sep 20, 2010 7:30 AM in response to roaminggnome

No alarms are set.

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roaminggnome

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Sep 20, 2010 7:29 AM in response to wvu76

Have you checked to see if you have an alarm set?

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Sep 11, 2017 5:00 PM in response to wvu76

If in the settings you have any of your apps set to no visual notifications it will ding while not showing the notification it can be fixed by turning off sound for notification or turning off notification for that app or just adding allow visual notification

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wvu76 Author

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Sep 21, 2010 1:26 PM in response to wvu76

Happened the past 2 days at 12:26pm. Am I the only one this is happening to?!?!?

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Russa

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Sep 21, 2010 5:47 PM in response to wvu76

.. do you have something in your calendar going off at that time?

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AKRBTN

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Sep 22, 2010 4:14 AM in response to wvu76

Could be telling you it has fetched email, or it might be a push notification for an app.

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wvu76 Author

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Sep 22, 2010 4:42 AM in response to AKRBTN

I have sound off for email and as I stated I closed all apps and when the sound goes off there are no notifications. It happens once a day at the same time and it's a sound I've never heard, like a bell dinging.

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ErreaC

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Sep 28, 2010 9:40 AM in response to wvu76

I know that I'm not really answering this question, but I have had the same issue with the iPhone 4. It's a unique bell sound, kind of reminds me of the little christmas bells, nothing like the alarm or calendar reminders. This sound is not a ringtone or notification option, and in my part, I don't have any push options on for apps.

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wvu76 Author

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Sep 28, 2010 10:36 AM in response to ErreaC

I've finally figured it out!!! I recently got a free app called appbzr. It basically tells you any apps that recently became free or had a price drop. Well the default setting on this app is to beep once a day with updates on how many new apps have become free, cheaper, etc. Well for some reason it defaults to beep with no visual notification of why it beeped. I found it with dumb luck when going through the options in the app to provide a visual notification along with the beep and sure enough the next day at 12:26pm the bells rang again, this time with the visual notification. Just a poorly designed app in the end. Hope this helps anyone else.

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Oct 5, 2010 11:55 AM in response to wvu76

Thank you! Thank You! Thank You!
Although it was nice to hear Clarence earn his wings everyday at 12:00. I'm glad to finally be able to turn that sound off.

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wvu76 Author

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Oct 5, 2010 11:58 AM in response to TheTurkeyHunter

Glad I could help someone else. I was beginning to think I was the only person out there who had this app!!!

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wvu76 Author

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Oct 5, 2010 11:59 AM in response to wvu76

It was the Appbzr App beeping everyday around 12:26pm. You can turn it off in the app settings.

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PDiaz500

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Oct 7, 2010 9:52 AM in response to wvu76

That little bell chime was driving me crazy this last week everyday at 12:26 pm. That is until 12:29 pm I couldn't take it anymore and googled random bell iPhone noise 12:26 pm and your post came up. Thank you very much for ending this nightmare!

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Asokker

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Oct 18, 2010 12:48 PM in response to wvu76

Thank you! This is has been driving me crazy for a couple weeks. I spent an hour searching for stuff like iphone, background, vibrate, jingle sound, bell sound, etc., and finally landed here.

My phone played a jingle sound (and I think vibrates) every day at noon. I'd check and there would be no new email/text messages, calender events, updates, badges, etc. I like appbzr, but I think that is a bit lame that this would be enabled by default and alert the user in such a non-visual way.

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