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I'm confident in saying the countdown timer is not 100% reliable, because several times the screen has very obviously said something like "-2'15" when the alarm
by to3m 11y ago
I'm confident in saying the countdown timer is not 100% reliable, because several times the screen has very obviously said something like "-2'15" when the alarm has gone off. I didn't really pay this much mind this the first few times, because I mostly use it for timing food, and most food isn't sensitive to an extra 2 minutes. But then one day I was timing a bread roll (8 minutes) and after 10 minutes it was noticeably charred.
If they can't get the countdown timer right I don't see why there can't also be bugs in the alarm clock too. I use it every day, and it's mostly reliable, but I'm suspicious it's failed to go off a couple of times...
- rtkwe 11y agoI think that's an intentional choice to show you how long past the timer you are if you haven't cleared the timer. It could be useful in some situations especially if you didn't notice the timer and need to know how ruined your food is going to be.
- sp332 11y agot03m means that the alarm didn't start going off until the timer was 2 minutes overdue.
- to3m 11y agoYes - this is also with the phone right next to me the whole time, so it's not a case of me missing something. I assume it's possible for the phone to go into some kind of sleep mode whereby timers are checked much less frequently. Seems a bit daft to allow this if there's an active countdown timer that could expire before the next check...
- dilap 11y agoIt's really a shame that our two major mobile platforms are a choice between insanely shoddy software and insanely victorian censorship.
- rtkwe 11y agoAh my mistake I thought you were talking about the negative time that shows up AFTER the timer has gone off but hasn't been acknowledged. I always use timers on my Moto 360 because it's much more pleasant than the default chirping to hear.