Samsung S3 alarm does not work as it should?

[steve07816]

Hi All, can you help. The alarm on my S3 will not work after the phone has been switched off ?
With Samsung, it appears that 'off' really means off, so to get round this i put the phone into plane mode installing a widget for ease. The alarm was set for this morning and my phone was charged to 100%.

This morning the alarm did not go off. However, I reset it for a few minutes later just to check and it worked?

My battery life had also dropped 24% in plane mode over night which cannot be right either?

Having just 'upgraded' from Nokia to Samsung, I can say that all Nokia's that I have used will allow this function with no significant (or indeed any) loss of power).

I guess there are three issues that I have of concern here;

1) Surely it is common sense to allow the alarm to function when the phone is switched off? Why is this not allowed on Android? Is there something that I have missed?

2) In plane safe mode, why does the alarm only function after a few minutes but not after a few hours?

3) 24% battery use over night in 'idle' - plane safe mode is way too much juice. I am currently undertaking a power check as advised by your forum to see what power loss (if any) occurs when the phone is switched off over a 1 hour period.

As a new user, I am sure that there is something that I have missed here and would be grateful for your help to solve this issue

Kind regards

Steve

 

[ab304945]

You can solve the issue by. Leaving your phone on. And plug it in at night. This will not hurt your phone or battery

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[steve07816]

I guess that is one way of solving the problem. Many thanks.