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Alarm doesn't work since new year

Yesterday my alarms were working perfectly, today (Now 01/01/2011) they don't work at all. The time comes and goes and the alarm doesn't activate.

I am running iOS 4.0.2 - I never updated after hearing of problems with alarms funnily enough.

If I add a new alarm it doesn't work; if I modify an existing alarm, it doesn't work.

What's going on?! Help.

3GS, iOS 4

Posted on Dec 31, 2010 2:45 PM

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Jan 3, 2011 8:56 AM in response to NRB73

I created a new "one time" alarm and it worked just fine. Using an old alarm (where I change the times now and then) worked as well. I guess the "bug" is now gone. I did not reboot the phone or anything like that. (3Gs with the latest iOS).

Jan 3, 2011 9:18 AM in response to NRB73

01/03/2011: My alarm failed to go off this morning as well. When will this be fixed???

diesel vdub

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Jan 3, 2011 10:07 AM in response to Stacarella

Stacarella wrote:
01/03/2011: My alarm failed to go off this morning as well. When will this be fixed???

The "fix" is to create a new recurring alarm.
Apple may fix the underlying issue in a future update, but it would be silly to release an update to iOS for something so trivial outside of the regular update cycle.

Burgon

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Jan 3, 2011 10:43 AM in response to NRB73

I have an iPhone 3GS with alarms that did not work this morning. I always have had a separate alarm clock as a back-up, so I was not late this morning. The back-up is in case I forgot to charge my iPhone overnite and the battery dies.

Anyway, the news this morning incorrectly stated that Apple would be releasing an update to fix this bug. iTunes has no such update. However, after reading the posts on this discussion, I deleted all my alarms and created new ones. Everything works fine now.

jcowboy

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Jan 3, 2011 4:02 PM in response to Burgon

Burgon wrote:

Anyway, the news this morning incorrectly stated that Apple would be releasing an update to fix this bug. iTunes has no such update. However, after reading the posts on this discussion, I deleted all my alarms and created new ones. Everything works fine now.

Yeah! Someone actually read posts in this discussion and found solutions. I can't believe how many people keep asking for answers when the solutions are in previous posts.

ftmp

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Jan 3, 2011 11:04 PM in response to NRB73

Yep ... it's fixed! 11:04pm CA

Alarm doesn't work since new year