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Interestingly enough, nothing like this happened to me, and I'm using exact same features as OP. Bad luck I guess. However, it reminds me about some other situ
by xlii 6y ago
Interestingly enough, nothing like this happened to me, and I'm using exact same features as OP. Bad luck I guess.
However, it reminds me about some other situation that I'd like to share as it amuse me to this day.
Some time ago I was traveling to my clients city. I was provided with a flat of one of coworkers who - at the same time was delegated elsewhere. So that was kind of AirBnB but it was all "paid" by company (in a way, that he got compensation and I had place to stay).
I went to sleep fairly late and barely shut my eye when at 2am his Android tablet started to ring. I have no idea what was up with it, was it default alarm or some custom one, but there was no way for me to disable it. None of the physical buttons worked and every touch interaction spawned the lock screen through which I couldn't get past. On top of it, the sound was getting louder and louder. It didn't ring for 20 minutes when the police came knocking. Someone complained about the noise. I said that the device isn't mine and I'm only taking care of friend's flat and that there is nothing I can do about it. Showed device to them, we fiddled together with it but couldn't turn it off neither. Police wanted to hand me a ticket, but that wasn't easy. I was foreigner so they had to collect on spot. Once they confirmed that they decided to not make me any troubles and asked me to try and to muffle the tablet.
After 3h of constant noise it seemed like device decided to stop ringing by itself.
Since I was awake full night, I took day of and notified the client that it's either hotel for me or I'm going back home, cause I decline to be in the same place as the dreaded device to which they agreed. That almost was the end of the story, but week later I learned it wasn't end of it.
Coworker, the owner of the device (who refused to provide me with the code, since it can't be that bad), came back to his door which kicked out by the firefighters. It seemed like neighbors called the police again day/days later. Police couldn't get in but they heard the alarm so they called the firefighters who assuming that one of the smoke alarm went off decided to break in to find only ringing tablet.
To this day I rather not being woken up than suffer through the Alarm from Hell.
- blkhawk 6y agoprotip: holding down the power button will kill all android devices after 10-ish seconds.
- WrtCdEvrydy 6y agopower + volume down is a hard off for most hardware that uses radios (tablets, mobiles).
- fakedang 6y agoYou don't need to press down the volume button on Android.
- chrisshroba 6y agoI'm curious, what's the significance of using radios here? What's the correlation between having a radio and supporting that interaction? It just feels weird to me to think of a majority of hardware companies going "Well, this device has a radio, so I guess we need to add power+volume down as a shutoff trigger". Not disputing what you said is true, just curious of the origins!
- WrtCdEvrydy 6y agoIn most radio contexts it's used for doing a debug log... in case of a hard lock. If you do it on an Android device (depending on settings), it generates an error log and memory dump then cuts power to the chip. It's an old carry-over from radio testing (Former RF Validation Engineer here)
- jaypeg25 6y agoI have never heard of a decice - iOS, Android, or otherwise, that had an alarm that couldn't be toggled off through the lock screen. What kind of awful alarm app was he using!?
- steve_adams_86 6y agoA lot of alarms can be configured to have barriers that prevent you from easily turning them off. The idea is it forces you to mentally engage and wake up a bit. It might be the lock screen, simple or difficult math problems, visual puzzles, etc. Until you solve it, it won’t turn off the alarm. It’s a neat idea until this happens, I guess.
- gburdell3 6y agoMy favorite was the physical alarm clock that would launch a propeller across your bedroom. The only way to turn off the alarm was to find the propeller and put it back on the base.
- masklinn 6y agoI was initially thinking Clocky, but Clocky was an alarm on wheels. I don't think the propeller one had any name beyond "flying alarm clock" or somesuch, and the failure mode seems way worse: if the propeller shoots out an open window or wedges itself behind furniture you're hosed. Plus finding a small propeller in the dark corners of your room while just woken up seems way too stressful a task, frankly.
- mark-r 6y agoI have a friend who had a dorm in college with 3 other guys, and all of them had problems waking up to alarm clocks. They each had an alarm clock that they placed in a different part of the room, so each of them would have to get up to shut it off. One day they discovered that they overslept, each of the 4 clocks had been turned off but nobody remembered doing it.
- function_seven 6y ago
- melling 6y agoThis happened to me on an earlier release years ago. Personally, I always update in August to the betas. I’ll take the new features with the bugs.
- knodi123 6y agoyeesh. I'd have just thrown it into the freezer, or if that didn't work, I'd have filled the bath and put it in there! I've had my own "alarm from hell" situations, mostly with smoke detectors (one was in a room with vaulted ceilings in a house with only stepstools. I had to build a mountain of furniture at 4am!) I understand the frustration and rage.
- violetgarden 6y agoI am convinced that fire alarm batteries only go flat at 4 am.
- sly010 6y agoPerhaps it was a "locate lost device" situation?
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- parliament32 6y agoI find it hard to believe you couldn't engineer a solution to muffle the sound. Assuming holding down the power button to turn it off didn't work (like, you know, every other phone and tablet ever) you could shove it under your mattress, in the freezer, put it in a ziploc and submerge it in the tub/sink, go throw it in the trunk of your car, stick it in a parcel and mail it to the owner...
- blensor 6y agoOr since it's already a while back when headphone jacks were still a thing, plug in your headphones. Although they might take damage from that sound
- TheGallopedHigh 6y agoHeadphones don’t make a difference on iOS, both the external speaker and the headphones play the alarm. This might be the case for Android too.
- fakedang 6y agoHeadphones don't work for alarms iirc
- xlii 6y agoYes, that’s true, however I was sleep deprived, after day long trip and I wasn’t at my top intellectual game at the moment. Also this wasn’t hotel room but instead coworkers flat which wasn’t prepared for guests. I literally was given a couch with a blanket. It wasn’t supposed to be like that nor I was supposed to stay there a lot since we worked pretty much 8-22 following days. So yeah, it’s unbelievable story about my inaptitude at that moment. Could I handled it better? Yeah, probably. But usually stuff like this is matter of chaotic circumstances. Police officers couldn’t turn it off neither and they fiddled with it for a 3 minutes or something like that so it’s not like I was the only one who failed ;)
- m463 6y agoI always think of this in these situations: https://xkcd.com/530/ https://xkcd.com/530/
- asdff 6y agoI seem to recall one update that flip flooped snooze and stop on the alarm. That ruined a week.
- mikelyons 6y agoAlarm from Hell === Alarm from Earth
- sizzle 6y agoYou were sleeping on a pillow right? Shove tablet fully between two pillows or seat cushions on floor, place a table leg over it to absorb any sound and put heavy stuff on top of the table. Problem solved.