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Last night was my second night using my WakeMate (with Android) and I woke up around two hours earlier than I planned (not WakeMate's fault) and did /something/

by ydant 16y ago

Last night was my second night using my WakeMate (with Android) and I woke up around two hours earlier than I planned (not WakeMate's fault) and did /something/ on my phone and went back to sleep. When I woke up a second time to my backup alarm I found out that all of my sleep Dara for last night is apparently lost. As near as I can tell, I is stored on the wristband, but I can't get it. It's a frustrating experience and makes me wonder if it will do this a lot. I'll give it another week or so of trial - I want it to work well, as I have found that phone based motion sensor alarms seem to help somewhat, but are unreliable at accurately detecting my movement depending on how far I move away from them. I like the idea of the WakeMate sensor, but it has to be reliable.

nuclearsandwich 16y ago
In earlier days, it was really easy to kill the Wakemate app by opening a bunch of other apps and then Android would kindly unload it from memory. The dev (There's only one between Android and BlackBerry) has fixed this in recent betas and, I believe, the current market version. I do find early AM fat finger syndrome to be the more frequent cause of data loss compared to Wakemate bugs, but they do crop up.
- ydant 16y ago
  Do you find the beta to be worth requesting access to? I feel for the dev - I'm in similar shoes (although I do have a Blackberry co-developer, switching between those two environments is not fun). Sometimes it seems like the only similarity between Java on the two devices is the name. Hopefully they get the client where it aggressively saves regardless. That's all I ask - I hate losing data more than I hate missing the wake up time. Android very often kindly unloads things, and a combination of being on the original Droid and having some fairly memory intensive apps constantly resident isn't helping my situation, but I don't think I switched off of the app, I just checked the time, so Android shouldn't have killed it. There's definitely some fat-finger protection the Android client could add. And moving / copying the four options on the main screen (account, ringtone, etc) to the menu would have helped solve a lot of my initial installation frustration - I had to search for how to change the ringtone. I'm still optimistic about the product. It woke me up perfectly yesterday (although I don't know how much of that was due to anticipation).
  - nuclearsandwich 16y ago
    I find the beta group to be really good for WakeMate. There is always the risk of new bugs as well as new features. If you're super super fussed about your data, I'd say stay away but it's rare to see a regression. Big issue for me was it wouldn't store my login so I had to re-authenticate every time I opened the app to go to bed, which at 5AM when you're getting up in 90 minutes is no fun at all. I think that went away in a recent nightly.
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    - mayel 16y ago
      I am waiting for my WakeMate to arrive, and so was wondering if there is also a beta group for iOS users one can join?

by ydant 16y ago

nuclearsandwich 16y ago

In earlier days, it was really easy to kill the Wakemate app by opening a bunch of other apps and then Android would kindly unload it from memory. The dev (There's only one between Android and BlackBerry) has fixed this in recent betas and, I believe, the current market version. I do find early AM fat finger syndrome to be the more frequent cause of data loss compared to Wakemate bugs, but they do crop up.

ydant 16y ago
Do you find the beta to be worth requesting access to? I feel for the dev - I'm in similar shoes (although I do have a Blackberry co-developer, switching between those two environments is not fun). Sometimes it seems like the only similarity between Java on the two devices is the name. Hopefully they get the client where it aggressively saves regardless. That's all I ask - I hate losing data more than I hate missing the wake up time. Android very often kindly unloads things, and a combination of being on the original Droid and having some fairly memory intensive apps constantly resident isn't helping my situation, but I don't think I switched off of the app, I just checked the time, so Android shouldn't have killed it. There's definitely some fat-finger protection the Android client could add. And moving / copying the four options on the main screen (account, ringtone, etc) to the menu would have helped solve a lot of my initial installation frustration - I had to search for how to change the ringtone. I'm still optimistic about the product. It woke me up perfectly yesterday (although I don't know how much of that was due to anticipation).
- nuclearsandwich 16y ago
  I find the beta group to be really good for WakeMate. There is always the risk of new bugs as well as new features. If you're super super fussed about your data, I'd say stay away but it's rare to see a regression. Big issue for me was it wouldn't store my login so I had to re-authenticate every time I opened the app to go to bed, which at 5AM when you're getting up in 90 minutes is no fun at all. I think that went away in a recent nightly.
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  - mayel 16y ago
    I am waiting for my WakeMate to arrive, and so was wondering if there is also a beta group for iOS users one can join?