Not sure where my last comment on this went (required moderator approval??!) Now even the forum is out to get me !!
>From the bug link above, I see that this discussion has been had before - and gone full circle. Seems like its very hard to please everyone without implementing various configuration options, and there doesn't seem to be any chance of this getting done soon. Which is very annoying, because right now the alarm is a total liability. Yes I know that sounds rather melodramatic, but yesterday and today it has misbehaved and I am on the verge of returning it. I simply can't trust it - which is insane. I love everything else about the radio but I need it to be a reliable alarm. Yesterday, the alarm went off. I pressed the wheel to snooze (set to 10 mins) and woke up an hour later because the snooze hadn't fired. Both my wife and I were an hour late to work. GRRRRRRRR. Is it possible that I accidentally turned the dial to "alarm off" whilst pressing it - yes, maybe as that's very easy to do. But that is exactly my point: This alarm function needs to be simple to use and difficult to screw-up. Today, the alarm went off, I went to press snooze (carefully) and found that the snooze-menu was not there - making it impossible to snooze. I was forced to get up or spend a few mins programming a second alarm to act as a manual snooze. I'm using 7.4.1 so I know that the snooze-menu should not timeout. No idea why this happenned, but it wouldn't have been an issue if there was no menu. Returning to the suggestions in this chain, there is perhaps one other way to keep as many people happy as possible. To snooze, you could press (*and hold*) the main dial. That way you still can use the dial for normal navigation or to invoke snooze. The reason I'm so fixated on using the main dial to snooze is that it mirrors all alarms I can think of. The snooze button is always the most prominent or largest and easiest to find whilst half-asleep. Whack it and go back to sleep. Simple. Apologies if this seems like a rant. As I say, I absolutely love everything else about the radio. But unless the alarm is reliable, it's of no use to me at all. If all I needed was a music player I'd have bought a SB3 or waited for a Touch. Please make this a priority. Thanks, Rob -- squishy ------------------------------------------------------------------------ squishy's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=35390 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=73506 _______________________________________________ Radio mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
