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I hate overnight updates because a dialed one means I have no alarm and will be hours late for work. And yes, this has actually happened to me at least twice.
by TylerE 2y ago
I hate overnight updates because a dialed one means I have no alarm and will be hours late for work.
And yes, this has actually happened to me at least twice.
- mh- 2y agoI haven't had that happen on iOS, but I have woken up in the night needing my flashlight just to find my phone applying a lengthy update. I have it set to download automatically and install manually now, I believe.
- Talanes 2y agoI haven't had any problems in at least 7+ years, but I work in coffee and I can remember at least two instances where an Apple update made half the staff late by turning off their alarms, myself included.
- speerer 2y agoWhat's the link between coffee and iOS?
- natebc 2y agoEverybody in the coffee shop had an iPhone?
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- fingerlocks 2y agoCoffee shop workers on the morning shift wake up at 4am.
- nradov 2y agoYou don't keep a real flashlight next to your bed?
- saagarjha 2y agoWhy would you when you have a phone?
- dataflow 2y agoI think it was supposed to be a sarcastic question.
- sneak 2y agoYou don’t keep a real camera next to your bed? What about a two-way radio? MP3 player?
- ssl-3 2y agoI keep all of those things next to my bed. They all even share a unified battery charging mechanism and integrated packaging for easy portability. I'm not sure if the idea of these pocket supercomputers will ever catch on, but it sure seems like it'd be nice.
- mvdtnz 2y agoThat's a weird thing to ask.
- johnisgood 2y agoOnly if there was a typo. :)
- nkrisc 2y agoI do, in my nightstand. In the event of an emergency where we’re without power, I do not want to waste my phone’s battery power by using it as a flashlight.
- pabs3 2y agoYou don't need a flashlight, the phone screen is more than bright enough late at night.
- mjmas 2y agoan ereader even more so
- johnisgood 2y agoE-reader without e-ink? Might as well use a tablet. I have an attachable light thing for my e-reader as it does not omit any significant light.
- mjmas 1y agoFront light works fine with ink on my Kobo Elipsa (A5 size). The area means it is much brighter than my phone
- Projectiboga 2y agoI like an amber booklite, it isn't as compact but the light is better for keeping in the sleep mode. We used those as our lights to help develop our child's sleep hygiene. Cupped our hands around the light part as we puttered around.
- dns_snek 2y agoOn Android? It must be an app-specific issue because it's possible for apps to implement alarms so that they work before unlocking the device after a reboot, but I don't know the technical details behind it. I've had that happen a few times and the alarms went off on time but they used the default alarm tune instead of the one I had selected, presumably that data was still encrypted.
- kokada 2y agoAndroid actually have a special mode for apps that needs to work after a reboot (e.g.: while the FS encryption is still locked), and Alarms is one of the apps that uses this special mode. I don't remember how it is called though so sorry for the lack of sources, you will have to trust me on this one. The amount of misinformation in this thread is huge though. I generally read every changelog for major Android updates and the amount of engineering going on is amazing. People just assumes that a few things doesn't work while they do. Unless of course OP is using a custom alarm app this may be true, but then it is the app fault and not Android. Edit: accordingly to ChatGPT the feature is the WorkManager: https://developer.android.com/topic/libraries/architecture/workmanager https://developer.android.com/topic/libraries/architecture/w.... I can't confirm this but looks correct to me after a quick look at its documentation.
- nkrisc 2y agoI would consider an alarm clock, which has far fewer failure modes in this regard. You can even get ones with a battery backup. These have existed for many decades.