alarm feature fails?

[efbld2f]

I've had two Dinc2's and both have had this problem. I do something unknown with the phone and all of a sudden, I can no longer tap the clock to bring up the alarm settings. With Both phones, I have done hard resets which fixes the problem. Unfortunately, it seems to keep coming back.

After some research, I see I'm not the only person with this problem. Is there a fix? Or at least does anyone know what I'm doing so I can avoid it?

 

[Stelv]

I don't think there is a fix. It is a common bug that I believe HTC knows about. You can download a third party alarm clock from the market, or root your phone and freeze/unfreeze the clock app, or install a rom with a working alarm clock.

Sent from my Incredible 2

 

[Droid Firefighter]

I had to do a factory reset on my phone one night and guess what happened? The clock, alarm, timer etc... started working again. Its a crappy way to do it but it does work. Zero problems since.

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[efbld2f]

That's what I was afraid of, but thank you for the answer. And the only known way to fix this is a hard reset. What I was hoping for was a cause so I could avoid it in the future. Or, of course, a fix that doesn't involve a wipe.

 

[Droid Firefighter]

The cause is a bug in gingerbread. Probably be addressed in a future update if there is one. The wipe is the only fix I've seen except rooting which isn't available for gb yet.

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[Rhayader]

Actually,FYI rooting has been possible on the Dinc2 running Gingerbread for some time now, using the Revolutionary tool to get s-off. I did it myself a couple weeks ago, and the phone runs a million times better running CM7 than that bloated Sense crap.

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[Droid Firefighter]

Ha, now I feel like an idiot. I actually knew that de de dee! Lol

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[efbld2f]

Oh, cool. I didn't see your mention of Gingerbread rooting until I read this thread. I had heard that if you use the Revolutionary tool, you can't turn S-on. Or at least not without a lot of trouble. Is that true? And any ideas on where I'd find a tried tutorial?

 

[Rhayader]

This is the video I followed to root my Dinc2 (which was already running Gingerbread by the time I rooted it):

[video=youtube;LGEASn3v0v8]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGEASn3v0v8[/video]

If you want to know how to unroot (which I'm guessing is what you mean by getting s-on) the same YouTube user has a video for that too. He's also got one showing how to flash cyanogenmod, which is basically the same process you use to flash any ROM.

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[vien]

Whenever the alarm disappears, what I do is hit the search button, search clock and the app will show up.

 

[efbld2f]

Root worked great. Thanks for the tip. I tried searching for my alarm clock (clock), but it didn't come up. I enabled everything under the searchable items, too.

 

[AirForceAngler]

My clock quit working after the GB update, but now it is working again. I downloaded Alarm Clock from the market and use it instead anyway because it is identical to the Droid 1 clock that I had gotten used to. It has more options and is easier to set the time. I didn't like the fake wheels the stock clock had for setting the alarm.

 

[caroleriordan]

I lost my clock / alarm app and market at the same time so I had to do a factory reset and got it back. A week later clock went out again so I downloaded a clock app from the market (before that disappeared) , and noticed yesterday that my clock app is back and working again. So be patient maybe it will come back without having to do a reset. I do not plan on resetting the phone again because its a pain and very irritating. HTC needs to get its act together

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