Hmm... I'm very glad to hear that the radio does in fact wake back up
for alarms if it powers down while on battery. But if I'm reading all of
this right - there is no apparent difference to the user between
completely down due to a long button press and down due to auto-off when
running from battery. While I understand the conflicting goals; I think
behavior that is essentially invisible to the user is a bad idea even if
it solves some corner case nicely.

Consider an old battery-powered alarm clock. If you throw it in your
luggage with an alarm set it WILL go off in your bags at the set time. I
notice that my iPhone does NOT have this feature. Maybe as a nod to
keeping things off on planes as well as honoring the users wish to
silence a phone no matter what. But I recall an older Nokia (6200) I had
did wake up from a full power-down to sound an alarm.

I think an alaram is an alarm for a clock-like device and it's much
better to err on the side of firing. If they want to handle the
user-intent case then add an option during manual power down where the
user is prompted to disable alarms if there are any scheduled (if they
don't respond in X seconds - power down continues but alarms stay
active). Right now if I see a Rado with a battery and a dark screen I
don't know whether or not it might fire alarms.

-Jeff


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