iPhone Alarm Glitch

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this happen to anybody??...the alarm part not the fertility:

iPhone Alarm Bug Makes Couple Miss Fertility Treatment
By Ben Popken on January 3, 2011 10:00 AM

On Jan 1 and 2 of 2011, tons of people overslept, not due to hangovers, but because of an iPhone glitch that made their alarms go off. For most people this was just an inconvenience, but for one couple it was disastrous. They missed a fertility treatment deadline.

Jodi writes:

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My husband and I set the alarms on both of our iPhones to go off at 6:45am on January 1. We had a very important deadline to make that morning in regards to our scheduled fertility treatment. But we missed it. The alarms didn't go off. Apparently (according to Google) they don't work on January 1 or 2 of 2011. Wish we would've known this ahead of time. Thousands of dollars and a month of injections wasted. And no one to turn to for recourse.

Jodi

Sent from my iPhone
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My heart goes out to you and your husband, Jodi. That is devastating. I only hope that you have the resources and fortitude to be able to pick up the pieces and try again.

You might say that they should have set multiple, non-iPhone alarms, but hindsight is 20/20 and that doesn't remove the pain of their loss.

For those who aren't familiar, fertility treatment is a multi-step process, requiring different drugs to be injected for several weeks at prescribed days and usually at the same time. Missing an injection time can complicate the pregnancy. Getting an injection a few hours later runs the risk of overstimulating the patient as the interval between that injection and the next one is shorter. If you miss an injection, you need to call your clinic's emergency line as soon as possible and tell them what's going on.

An Apple spokesperson told NYT that they were "aware of an issue related to non-repeating alarms set for January 1 or 2." They promised alarms will start working right today. Mine worked fine today but judging by some angry Tweets, the fix hasn't rolled out to everyone yet. Until then, here's some free iPhone alarm apps that will work.

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my girlfriend has an iphone and woke up late for work two days in a row and we were all confused trying to figure out if the alarm went off and maybe we just turned it off in our sleep...guess not. class action lawsuit time
 

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thats kinda foul..
i usually get up hours before my alarm and drift in and out of half consciousness...and when its time to get up i turn my alarm off like 10 minutes before it goes off

shit happens i guess maybe apple should gwap them out, not some millions tho
 
Apr 16, 2003
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People rely too much on technology then throw a shit fit when it fails. As much as I use my smartphone, if it "fails" like an alarm doesn't go off, I'm not out blaming the software programmers ready to sue someone. They forgot that these are electronic devices that do a million things bundled neatly into a single point of failure.

For those fertility junkies, for something so important and expensive to rely on a fucking alarm clock is just retarded.
 
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Ricoh printeres for the win blood, cousin
Ricoh is the devil, at least in my experience. Our fucking fax copy machine kept going down for months, after the wonderful ricoh technicians came out like a hundred times, we got it replaced with a new updated model. Only difference was a fucking panel was blue instead of grey.
 

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speaking on iPhones....


I have an iPhone 3g 16GB that is not in service ( it's AT&T, which I do use, but do not wanna register my SIM card in it )

....how can In use it only as an iPod vs a phone?


anybody?

anybody?
just pop in an old sim card in it and you're good., you can actively use the iPhone to check the internet, email, iPod etc etc...