jdoering;527633 Wrote: > 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
While it will wake up for an alarm, if during a power failure (and therefore the wireless network is down), the back-up alarm does not sound. -- Tony T ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Tony T's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=34544 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=76177 _______________________________________________ Radio mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
