Why does the alarm on my HTC Desire not work correctly?

I have setup three alarms on my HTC Desire (running standard 2.1 with Sense).

  1. Mo, Tu, We, Fr @ 05:45
  2. Th @ 05:30
  3. Sa @ 07:00

They are set as repeating alarms and the phone displays the little clock symbol in the top right corner indicating that an alarm is active.

I have been running the phone with DeskClock activated each night and this also says that there is an alarm active for 05:45 the next morning. However I have watched it (with it not working for some strange and bizarre reason I am waking up before the alarm goes off) and at the time the alarm is set for nothing happens.

Can anyone shed some light on this? My wife has a HTC Hero that is also running 2.1 and her's appears to be working correctly.

I also have ATK that is running and is set to auto-kill running applications and I have been wondering if this is the cause, however this does not kill the DeskClock app that is running so I am not sure if it is relevant.

Topic 2.1-eclair htc-desire alarm android

Category Android

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You are certainly not the only one with alarm issues. Check out this list of defects related to the alarm on the issue tracker for Android OS. Unfortunately it seems like the symptoms vary depending on a lot of factors or do not seem to be consistent at a glance.

The symptoms you described for the HTC Desire running 2.1 are EXACTLY what I experience. Funny thing is... I have an HTC Hero running 2.1 (same as your wife's)! I can also tell you that the alarm used to work on my HTC Hero before upgrading from 1.5 to Eclair.

I do have a workaround that worked in my case that you might want to try:

I found that the alarm was not going off if the phone is not plugged into a charger. Once I started leaving it on the charger at night it works 100% of the time for me. If this doesn't work for you, or perhaps you already leave it on the charger and it still doesn't work, I would suggest doing some research on the issue tracker. If nothing there seems to help maybe enter a new issue to bring it to the Android team's attention.

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I had lots of problems with this myself, as you suggest my taskkiller was closing it down, on changing an alarm setting it would start back up. You should be able to press and hold on a task in advanced task killer and tell it to ignore the alarm task. This seems to have done the trick for me anyway.

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