HTC Magic: not an alarm clock
I've had my gadget phone for over six months now. The novelty value of millions of pointless applications has worn off, meaning I'm down to a sensible number of actually quite useful ones.
Unfortunately, the alarm clock is not really one of them 
I'm not a morning person, so I tend to have several alarms going off at different times, so I can ignore or snooze them for a while whilst I gradually wake up.
Every day my 'normal' clock alarm goes off at half 7 - then switches itself off after 30 seconds 
And it's fairly quiet, so easily ignorable, hehehe.
Then the phone alarm goes off at an "actually you need to wake up now" time. This setup has been working for many years, and several different phones.
But sadly the android isn't doing so well. Far too many occurrences of waking up and realising it's about 20 minutes (or more) later than it really needs to be. At first I thought I was turning the alarm off in my sleep, so I tried changing all the sounds and turning the volume up. Nope.
Further investigations seem to suggest that the alarm just doesn't go off. My current suspicion is that the clock doesn't always update when the phone is asleep, so therefore the alarm doesn't know when to go off. This is backed up by occasionally seeing the display flick from some random middle of the night time to the correct time when I wake the screen up. But it's an intermittent bug - some days it'll all work perfectly.
Annoying.
The final straw was last Sunday, when the 0630 very loud cock-a-doodle-doo alarm failed to go off, and I missed going kayaking. Not happy about that! (especially as it was my last chance to get a February paddle in, so now my 16 month 'at least one river a month' run has been broken). 
So I've bought another alarm clock. Hopefully the phone will get fixed with an update at some point.
On another topic, I've also bought a shewee. I'd happily dedicate entire posts to that too, but that's probably way more information than anyone needs. Suffice to say, I'm happy with this purchase. Quite 'liberating'!
tags:
gadgets
My android alarm works fine... I've only had one experience of it not going off and that was before I realised that the phone doesn't turn itself on for alarms when it's switched off. I did once snooze it and didn't come back on, but I may have actually hit dismiss and not snooze so can't be sure that one's a bug
Amelie | 6th Mar 10 15:04
this is a relatively recent thing... last couple of months, maybe? A bit of googling has dug up similar reports from others, so yeah.
stupid phone...
Katy | 6th Mar 10 15:08
If I dont turn my phone on for a couple of days it loses all trace of time and date and I have to re-set it (even when battery is charged). Of course I cant imagine anyone of your age ever turning their phone off!
geek's mum | 7th Mar 10 5:37
I think your other gadget is a great idea, but I gather a bit of practice with technique is required!
geek's mum | 7th Mar 10 5:38
Never happened on my android phone, it was my only alarm :O
Clicking that link at work = bad idea, hope no-one noticed!
Jim | 16th Mar 10 9:56