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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Posted on Sep 28, 2010 10:36 AM

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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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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Oct 18, 2010 12:51 PM in response to Asokker

Agreed...its a good app but that is a very stupid default setting. Glad I could help.

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Nov 11, 2010 7:00 AM in response to rapidrabbit

Great to hear you are aware of the problem some of us were having with your app. I'm sure any future users will appreciate your work getting this resolved. Keep up the great work, love the app.

Nov 23, 2010 6:53 AM in response to wvu76

We have released an update yesterday that should fix this problem for new and existing users.
Feedback is always appreciated.

Regards,
Peter Morczinek

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Nov 23, 2010 7:25 AM in response to rapidrabbit

Great to hear, thanks for fixing the bug. I'm glad you were able to find this thread.

Feb 16, 2011 1:12 PM in response to wvu76

I also have this problem!
My iphone 4 does this bell sound but i dont have this app you are talking about.
What else can it be?

Aug 9, 2017 12:30 AM in response to ErreaC

7 years later I too am having this Christmas bell ring and news on what it could have been back then

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