[android-developers] Re: Disappearing Alarms

> I exactly the same problem with Droid-X users.
>
> I set an Alarm using RTC_WAKEUP and the first thing the Alarm Receiver does
> is log a message and then grab the WakeLock.
>
> The Alarm Broadcast does not go off and the LOG message is not shown.  This
> seems to affect only a few users, but only if they are not connected to
> power.
>
> Truly frustrating for a developer to solve as it appears to be a
> hardware/device issue.

I don't know if the underlying problem received a fix, but I have not
had users report it since I implemented refreshing of the alarm every
20 minutes. Bit silly though :-)

Pent

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