squishy;503811 Wrote: > 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
User error is always possible. You can't blame the radio. -- eap ------------------------------------------------------------------------ eap's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=32788 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=73506 _______________________________________________ Radio mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
