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alarm did not ring today

Hi all

Having a bad day today ...I should be at work right but this morning the alarm clock of the the clock did not ring...****ing great ! Im in general mode with vibrator on and the sound is all way up , I tested it with a new alarm and it didnt ring too...
Thats the second worst bug after the media player bug that playes music when receiving an answered call.I work in a hospital and this can be annoying.
Only thing I did was installing the world cup widget , I hope its that. Im not buying a separate tictac.

Damn

Re: alarm did not ring today

try installing headphone daemon for the media player bug.

Did you oversleep your alarm? Test it out and see if it works in the next minute

Re: alarm did not ring today

In the meanwhile, buy a $5 clock...

Re: alarm did not ring today

G'Morning,

after having had issues with no call vibration and no sound in my timer program (nearly burned the pizza :) yesterday I also experienced your problem this morning with my alarm clock. While this was no problem, because I was awake before the alarm time, this could get really annoying when having an appointment in the morning.

Did you have the same problem with calls and other sounds/vibration? Did you remove the world cup widget?

Wish you a good day in spite of everything..:)

Re: alarm did not ring today

Hi

I had similar sounding problem once, alarm didn't sound. I had set multiple alarms previous evening, 15 minutes apart.

When I woke up, it was past second alarm and on screen was two alarm notifications, after stopping the topmost one, first one was under it. Note that alarm did not sound. The system was overall sluggish too and behaved abnormally (can't remember details sorry).

I think this was caused by a network problem, as the N900 was connected to a wlan network, and on the network, default gateway had dropped off during some time in the night after I had gone to sleep. Wlan base station was still online and dhcp lease had not expired yet.

After I had stopped the (silent) alarms and turned off rest of them (I had 5 or 6 alarms set), I disconnected the wlan network from menu and as soon as I had pressed the disconnect button, alarm started playing, *and I did not have any means to stop it*, as I had already closed the alarm notification windows by pressing stop buttons. I think I had to turn off power to stop the alarm sound.

Fortunately I woke in time anyway as I had a plane to catch that morning.. Oh well, it would have been a good excuse to extend my vacation for week or two anyway :)

On programs running, only active program that I can think of was Maegios widget on desktop polling every 5 minutes.

Other installed programs are openssh client+server (not running), openvpn (not running), mail for exchange (on manual sync during night) and quite a load of all kinds of games, from angry birds to ..wok. Oh, and Live Wallpaper too, but that was not active too. I had used eCoach during the previous day.

I can try to replicate the situation if need be..

Oh and I have used the alarm from day one almost every day and this was the first time it failed.

-
Harri.

Re: alarm did not ring today

I just did a reboot and the alarm works , im gonna remove the world cup widget and set a separate clock for tomorrow morning.
thx for helping

Re: alarm did not ring today

Quote:

Originally Posted by ysss (Post 717151)

In the meanwhile, buy a $5 clock...

Not an apt answer... is it? Its like telling a guy to spend his $600 on individual devices such as a
-$5 clock for time & alarms
-$50 5MP point & shoot camera
-$75 media player [provides option to create play lists]
-$100 phone which provides all phone functions
-$300 on an Internet communications device

and not on a single device which provides all the above

Re: alarm did not ring today

Quote:

Originally Posted by rcarlos (Post 717201)

@rcarlos:
To me, keeping my job will be top priority than getting my $600 gadget to work as intended. If by spending $5 on a simple gadget may give me a bit of consistency needed and even a backup to my $600 gadget, why not?

I never said the $5 gadget to be superior than the $600 one (although in this case, it is better), nor did I suggest to buy all the individual replacements.

Please keep your imagination in check ;)

Re: alarm did not ring today

So, it got worse.. While I am normally awake before the alarm in the morning (or could resolve this problem easily by buying a 5$ replacement), I do not know how to replace my phone ringtone and vibration by something that cheap..

Does anyone else have this problem too? My phone does not ring nor vibrate any more.. I removed recaller and world cup widget, before that (caused by the stuck hildon-home) FM widget, personal ip adress and personal dataplan monitor. My desks are beginning to be really boring..

Thanks, boudjere

Re: alarm did not ring today

Quote:

Originally Posted by haolin (Post 717166)

When I woke up, it was past second alarm and on screen was two alarm notifications ... The system was overall sluggish too and behaved abnormally (can't remember details sorry).

Do you recall the desktop being jammed? I had this alarm-not-playing problem this morning (luckily my wife was already up), noticed the desktop icons don't react to touch and remembered it was the same at the evening.

Happened to have dbus-monitor running and checked its output after the (silent) alarm. Copied the relevant lines to LeafPad but forgot to save before trying to restart the desktop - which jammed it so no trace left after reboot. Anyway, after the lengthy alarm dbus call with the alarm sound file, vibration pattern and all, there was this common "method xxx on interface yyy does not exist", guess that happens when the component that should receive it won't respond. Trying now that alarms are fine, there seem to be one dbus call with the alarm params to org.freedesktop.Notifications and that one initiates a call to com.nokia.HildonSVNotificationDaemon, guess the first one displays the screen and the latter one does the audiomotional part, so apparently the second one wasn't called when it was silent.

Dunno what processes I had running, haven't been too careful with extras-dev stuff. At least had been playing with e-mail sync d-bus commands which can be rather heavy operations in case of fullSync.

Here is a d-bus sequence of a working alarm:

Code:

method call sender=:1.8 -> dest=org.freedesktop.Notifications serial=15 path=/org/freedesktop/Notifications; interface=org.freedesktop.Notifications; member=CloseNotification

   uint32 0



error sender=:1.36 -> dest=:1.8 error_name=org.freedesktop.DBus.GLib.ErrorError reply_serial=15

   string "Method invoked for CloseNotification returned FALSE but did not set error"



method call sender=:1.8 -> dest=org.freedesktop.Notifications serial=16 path=/org/freedesktop/Notifications; interface=org.freedesktop.Notifications; member=Notify

   string "notify-clock-alarm"

   uint32 0

   string "/usr/share/icons/hicolor/10x10/hildon/qgn_list_smiley_angry.png"

   string "alarm"

   string ""

   array [

   ]

   array [

      dict entry(

         string "vibra"

         variant             string "PatternIncomingCall"

      )

      dict entry(

         string "alarm-type"

         variant             string "clock"

      )

      dict entry(

         string "sound-file"

         variant             string "/usr/share/sounds/ui-clock_alarm_default.aac"

      )

      dict entry(

         string "category"

         variant             string "alarm-event"

      )

      dict entry(

         string "volume"

         variant             int32 100

      )

   ]

   int32 0



method return sender=:1.36 -> dest=:1.8 reply_serial=16

   uint32 8



method call sender=:1.36 -> dest=com.nokia.HildonSVNotificationDaemon serial=602 path=/com/nokia/HildonSVNotificationDaemon; interface=com.nokia.HildonSVNotificationDaemon; member=PlayEvent

   array [

      dict entry(

         string "vibra"

         variant             string "PatternIncomingCall"

      )

      dict entry(

         string "alarm-type"

         variant             string "clock"

      )

      dict entry(

         string "sound-file"

         variant             string "/usr/share/sounds/ui-clock_alarm_default.aac"

      )

      dict entry(

         string "category"

         variant             string "alarm-event"

      )

      dict entry(

         string "volume"

         variant             int32 100

      )

      dict entry(

         string "time"

         variant             int64 1276853521

      )

   ]

   string ":1.8"



method call sender=:1.25 -> dest=org.maemo.Playback.Manager serial=107 path=/org/maemo/Playback/Manager; interface=org.maemo.Playback.Manager; member=RequestState

   object path "/org/maemo/playback1"

   string "Play"

   string "1203"

   string ""



method return sender=:1.25 -> dest=:1.36 reply_serial=602

   int32 8



method return sender=:1.4 -> dest=:1.25 reply_serial=107

   string "Play"



signal sender=:1.25 -> dest=(null destination) serial=109 path=/org/maemo/playback1; interface=org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties; member=Notify

   string "org.maemo.Playback"

   string "State"

   string "Play"



signal sender=:1.49 -> dest=(null destination) serial=51 path=/com/nokia/mafw/renderer/gstrenderer; interface=com.nokia.mafw.extension; member=property_changed

   string "volume"

   variant       uint32 6



signal sender=:1.49 -> dest=(null destination) serial=52 path=/com/nokia/mafw/renderer/gstrenderer; interface=com.nokia.mafw.extension; member=property_changed

   string "volume"

   variant       uint32 50



method call sender=:1.8 -> dest=org.freedesktop.Notifications serial=17 path=/org/freedesktop/Notifications; interface=org.freedesktop.Notifications; member=CloseNotification

   uint32 8



signal sender=:1.36 -> dest=(null destination) serial=603 path=/org/freedesktop/Notifications; interface=org.freedesktop.Notifications; member=NotificationClosed

   uint32 8



method call sender=:1.36 -> dest=com.nokia.HildonSVNotificationDaemon serial=604 path=/com/nokia/HildonSVNotificationDaemon; interface=com.nokia.HildonSVNotificationDaemon; member=StopEvent

   int32 8



method return sender=:1.36 -> dest=:1.8 reply_serial=17



method call sender=:1.25 -> dest=org.maemo.Playback.Manager serial=110 path=/org/maemo/Playback/Manager; interface=org.maemo.Playback.Manager; member=RequestState

   object path "/org/maemo/playback1"

   string "Stop"

   string "1203"

   string ""



method call sender=:1.8 -> dest=org.freedesktop.Notifications serial=18 path=/org/freedesktop/Notifications; interface=org.freedesktop.Notifications; member=CloseNotification

   uint32 8



error sender=:1.36 -> dest=:1.8 error_name=org.freedesktop.DBus.GLib.ErrorError reply_serial=18

   string "Method invoked for CloseNotification returned FALSE but did not set error"



method return sender=:1.4 -> dest=:1.25 reply_serial=110

   string "Stop"



signal sender=:1.25 -> dest=(null destination) serial=111 path=/org/maemo/playback1; interface=org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties; member=Notify

   string "org.maemo.Playback"

   string "State"

   string "Stop"



signal sender=:1.49 -> dest=(null destination) serial=53 path=/com/nokia/mafw/renderer/gstrenderer; interface=com.nokia.mafw.extension; member=property_changed

   string "volume"

   variant       uint32 73

Re: alarm did not ring today

Quote:

Originally Posted by ysss (Post 717211)

I learned that lesson many years ago!

I used to have a Palm T3 PDA - great for calander, software and general geekiness.

Except for the alarm clock. Sometimes it works sometimes it doesn't and one day slept in for work. My employer was not happy.

Moral of the story "For the sake of keeping your job spend $5 on an alarm clock....."

Quote:

Originally Posted by rcarlos (Post 717201)

and don't get self-rightous you cheapskate!"

Re: alarm did not ring today

I had the same issue. Seems to be related to the world cup app so uninstalling it should fix it until they work out the bugs?

Re: alarm did not ring today

Yep. As always, before blaming Nokia and swearing off all Nokia products forever when you have an issue, try to restore the device to stock. Depending on what you've done to it, this may involve flashing the firmware and the emmc.

Once you verify that indeed it does work right in that state, start adding back the many unstable, testing, and whatnot apps you've installed until it breaks. Then let that dev know they have a problem.

Re: alarm did not ring today

Quote:

Originally Posted by x-rated (Post 720447)

Now that you mentioned it, I think desktop icons didn't work.. I think I tried to open the menu but it didn't want to open. However the status bar menu opened, as I could disconnect the wlan network, and after disconnecting, desktop started working and processed all those touches I had done, opening multiple programs and menu at the same time.

Hmm.. I think I suspected the network immediately for some reason, I had Maegios widget on desktop but can't remember what it showed..

It seems that many others who have had the alarm problem also have had a widget on desktop polling network. Might be that the trigger is some kind of network trouble, leaving the widget to wait reply from network..and hanging the whole desktop in process.

--
Harri.

Re: alarm did not ring today

That would explain a few things.

My alarm also didn't go off this morning, in fact neither did my $5 alarm clocks, talk about bad timing!

It has happened before, with my N900, and I knew it had to be a problem introduced with an application, but as long as I have another alarm I'm OK with it. Then this morning...haha

Re: alarm did not ring today

Quote:

Originally Posted by Inacurate (Post 720588)

My alarm also didn't go off this morning, in fact neither did my $5 alarm clocks, talk about bad timing!

It has happened before, with my N900, and I knew it had to be a problem introduced with an application, but as long as I have another alarm I'm OK with it. Then this morning...haha

Exactly the same thing happened for me today either...
I had an exam.. and I missed it :(

Re: alarm did not ring today

Hey,

Okay I know this thread is old, but these last couple of mornings my alarm hasn't worked either..

Only thing I remember doing that had anything with sound to do was using the silent profile the day before yesterday..

Funny thing, this morning when I woke up 2 hours late I tabbed on snooze, and after the snooze the alarm worked fine...

Re: alarm did not ring today

check if you installed the pulseaudio files from here

http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=60788

because they mess up the sound on some devices , ringtones,alarm tones only work sometimes,sometimes silent sometimes default nokia tones . i had this problem with alarm and once i reverted back to stock files problem was gone..

if you didnt install them not sure sorry !!!