1190416 - Device powered off, no alarm on restart

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1160923

(Firefox OS Graveyard :: Gaia::Feedback, defect)

Description

[Sam Foster [:sfoster] (he/him)]

>> Feature Request Summary:
Device powered off, no alarm on restart

>> Description of feature, or problem to be solved
Last night i left the device plugged in and on. this morning it must have crashed at some point as it indicated 100% charged but was powered off. When I powered on, I had to open the clock app before I realised it was supposed to have triggered an alarm an hour ago. I got a logcat, will attach it

Comment 1

[Sam Foster [:sfoster] (he/him)]

Attachment: poweroff-no-alarm.log

Comment 2

[Mahendra Potharaju [:mahe]]

[Blocking Requested - why for this release]:Broken Functionality

Comment 3

[Mahendra Potharaju [:mahe]]

UX team, Can you confirm if old alarms should buzz after turning on?

Comment 4

[Tiffanie Shakespeare [:tif]]

The old alarms should not go off, but it would be handy to show an notification indicating that you have missed an alarm. 

Some considerations would be to collapse multiple alarm missing
What sort of information to show in the notification
And to show notifications when alarm is missed either b/c your phone was off or b/c you just didn't act on it

NI to Eric for notification stuff and Harly to see if there's a UX person available to do the small bit of design work.

Comment 5

[Harly Hsu[:harly]]

Ni Juwei for the clock part

Comment 6

[Eric Pang [:epang] UX]

(In reply to Harly Hsu[:harly] from comment #5)
> Ni Juwei for the clock part

let's see what Juwei says, if needed we'll add a notification.

Comment 7

[Juwei Huang[:juwei]]

Agree with Tiff, the expired alarm should not go off. Currently we don't have a notification to tell users the expired alarm, yet we do have similar thought about the notification back to 2.x on bug 942837.
It's a different use case, but it also reveals the needs that users want to know what happen to their alarm.

As for "a notification for expired alarm", I think it depends on the purpose of the alarm:
1. If the purpose is for calling attention to users at a specific time (such as wake them up), then an expired alarm notification wouldn't help that much since users might overslept already due to unpredictable reason.
2. If user consider the alarm as a reminder (such as go to the doctor), it would be helpful to have a notification to tell users what they missed and they can make up for it later.

I can see people kind of using the alarm in multiple purposes nowadays so in some cases it'd better to have a notification of expired alarm. Yet I would suggest that keeping the alarm as simple as description 1.

Let me know your thought,
Thank you:)

Comment 8

[Johan Lorenzo [:jlorenzo]]

This looks like the same race condition as bug 1160923. Please reopen if you think that's not the case.