Alarm does not ring when the phone is off

[Drwd]

The alarm does not work when the phone is off.

[Bartosz Kosiorek (gang65)]

Closing as Invalid for Clock, as we unable to do anything when phone is off.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Charles Kerr (charlesk)]

Do you mean 'off' as in literally turned off?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for unity8 (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for indicator-datetime (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

[Michael Zanetti (mzanetti)]

Reopening as this is still an issue.

Yes, off as in really off. Every Nokia or Blackberry device was able to turn itself on and ring the alarm. IMO this is really important, otherwise the alarm on the phone is not trustworthy at all.

[Michael Zanetti (mzanetti)]

FWIW, at least for krillin once I did the research and it seems that the chip does support setting an alarm time (similar to a PC's RTC clock) where the device powers itself on.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Andrea Bernabei (faenil)]

Jolla phone does it as well, fwiw.

I love that feature, and I think it is a real showstopper for people who are used to having a reliable alarm-phone.

I already missed the alarm twice because my Krillin switched off because of a bug (or because it had run out of battery) during the night. I've been using the Jolla as secondary alarm since then, and I know that even if it runs out of battery, it will still keep enough juice to fire the alarm when the time comes.