Recent content by Marcus Storn

People who wants the alarm to sound when their Android smartphone is powered OFF should go for one of the Chinese brands. Most of them have enabled this most useful feature in their Android offerings. My Alcatel Onetouch Idol 3 will happily wake up from a totally powered-off state, sound the...

People who wants the alarm to sound when their Android smartphone is powered OFF should go for one of the Chinese brands. Most of them have enabled this most useful feature in their Android offerings. My Alcatel Onetouch Idol 3 will happily wake up from a totally powered-off state, sound the...

Yes, that's how it works. I guess Alcatel/TCL have their own implementation done in ROM where the real-time clock (RTC) can trigger the alarm app at a preset time. I think some other Chinese manufacturers do it as well (ZTE?). And as I mentioned, it used to be a feature of all the Symbian...

I was very pleased when I discovered that my Onetouch Idol 3 can wake up from power-off state and run a preset alarm. I never saw it mentioned in any of the reviews I have read. It's a brilliant feature and I've been missing it from my Samsungs and iPhones of the last few years. I used to...

Yes, expensive smartphones from Samsung and Apple lack this essential feature. One reason I went with Alcatel Onetouch Idol 3 running Lollipop 5.0.2. They wisely implemented their own solution in ROM. Even if I forgot to charge it and the smartphone powers off during the night, there's...