New 4 day old S7 - alarm icon won't go away in status bar

[Schnitzelman]

Hi All, I think I may have a solution (at least it worked for me, and this has been bugging me for ages).
- I had the standard 'Alarm' widget on my homescreen. When I would click in to edit it, it would only show me one alarm. When I turned that alarm off, the Alarm icon was still showing in the task bar. And even worse, randomly the alarm would go off at 6am some mornings. I checked all possible programs and stopped pretty much every service imaginable in Developer Mode. To no avail.

However, this did work for me:
- I turned off my alarm in the existing widget on my home screen.
- I created a new, second, Alarm widget somewhere else on my home screens. By default it did not have any alarm on (but the task bar icon still was showing at the top that alarm was set).
- I opened the new alarm, and presto magic, it showed me that I have two alarms available to edit. The one 'real' alarm that I wanted (but is turned off), and the hidden/annoying one with no name which is randomly set for 6am.
- Simply clicked the X to delete the 6am one, and the icon in the task bar disapeared.
- Deleted the second Alarm Widget from my home screen... and life is back to normal!

I would consider this a bit of a bug since the original Alarm widget is not showing all the alarm options, but by adding a new/second widget, it seems to load all the alarms and display properly, allowing you to kill the unwanted alarms.

Hope that works for someone else out there.

 

[SylviaQ]

I somewhat have this problem. Mine is after a phone call or text the alarm icon appears and then disappears after about 30 seconds or so. It never did that before I updated to version 6. I just updated yesterday. Someone suggested that I wipe the system cache clean, I did that and still have that problem. I tried updating all my apps clearing out caches. Again it only happens after a call or text. Help, anyone else with suggestions?

 

[Jim Merrill1]

I somewhat have this problem. Mine is after a phone call or text the alarm icon appears and then disappears after about 30 seconds or so. It never did that before I updated to version 6. I just updated yesterday. Someone suggested that I wipe the system cache clean, I did that and still have that problem. I tried updating all my apps clearing out caches. Again it only happens after a call or text. Help, anyone else with suggestions?

I have the exact same problem.

 

[anon(8453378)]

Do you have a schedule set for "do no disturb". If you have it set, I believe that the alarm icon will be at the top.

 

[Rajeshtech]

Alarm icon appear on the top of the screen because of your address book app trying to sync your contacts, messages and some of your data, so to remove the alarm icon just goto settings application Manger show system apps and lookup for address book sync app and address book(example: for AT&T users AT&T address book and sync) on the both apps clear cache, clear data and block notifications.

That's it....

 

[Hannah 90]

I have the same problem since yesterday, i tried clearing cache and data, tried restarting afterwards, tried setting new alarm and hopefully the wrong alarm will show up, tried clearing cache of every app, nothing worked. I am out of my mind, this is so annoying. Is there any other way?

 

[Desmond Ayeni]

Clear the cache, data and force stop the Clock app... restart the phone - tried it two hours ago no longer showing. - Using a Note 5 here.

 

[Sandy Canetti]

Clear the cache, data and force stop the Clock app... restart the phone - tried it two hours ago no longer showing. - Using a Note 5 here.

I tried this and when the phone and tablet restarted, the alarm wasn't there. Then it suddenly came back. I have no alarms set. I rarely even use the clock app. I don't have Tasker installed. I'm at wit's end.

 

[THEPRFCT10]

I tried this and when the phone and tablet restarted, the alarm wasn't there. Then it suddenly came back. I have no alarms set. I rarely even use the clock app. I don't have Tasker installed. I'm at wit's end.

You're not alone

 

[Passiel]

Alarm icon appear on the top of the screen because of your address book app trying to sync your contacts, messages and some of your data, so to remove the alarm icon just goto settings application Manger show system apps and lookup for address book sync app and address book(example: for AT&T users AT&T address book and sync) on the both apps clear cache, clear data and block notifications.

That's it....

Thank you! I've been trying to find the answer to this for months! Once I cleared the data for the address book sync the alarm clock went away. I really appreciate this. It was driving me nuts.

 

[JKSponge]

Go to Settings-Applications-Application Manager and look for the Clock App, try clearing cache and data under storage settings.

Clearing data on my Note4, made it go away, but now if I set a new alarm, it comes back, and won't go away when the alarm is done and deleted?

 

[Earthygirl]

I just encountered this problem and none of the forums had a solution that worked -- BUT, I did have an "a-ha" moment when someone mentioned having a scheduling app. In my case, it turned out to be caused TimeTune (excellent app, btw).

In TimeTune, I discovered that in Settings, Advanced:"Background Tasks" were set to use "Clock Alarms" (recommended, for reliable notifications, apparently). I changed it to "Weak Alarms" and the clock icon disappeared. Mystery solved! Now I need to see if "Weak Alarms" works reliably; if not, it's back to the annoying alarm icon, I guess -- but at least I know WHY it was there now.

So, if anyone has this seemingly unsolvable issue, check to see if you have any other apps that use reminders or scheduled notifications which are linked to your alarm settings -- it did not show up anywhere in my Clock/Alarm app. Good luck!

 

[LineKill]

@Earthygirl, thanks for the info!

 

[amazone]

After 2 days of research I finally solved problem. In my case problem was app called 'fabulous' after uninstalling it, alarm icon on status bar dussapiered.
Try to uninstall apps which uses reminders, alarm ect.
Good luck!

 

[Chezzrob]

I have the same problem since yesterday, i tried clearing cache and data, tried restarting afterwards, tried setting new alarm and hopefully the wrong alarm will show up, tried clearing cache of every app, nothing worked. I am out of my mind, this is so annoying. Is there any other way?

Yes. This is not a bug but an alarm is set that you cannot find. Open widget screen and look for any clock type widgets. On the s7 it will show the alarm in the widget. Usually thr widget offers two choicez to swipe on to your desktop. 1 is the alarm the other a digital clock. Its most likely there are two clock type apps installed and you have forgotten which one is used. Also apps can set themselves if you put your s7 in your pocket or bag while it is still turned on (active). So remove the clocks from settings and widgets from desktop the rei stall only one of the widgets. Problem solved

 

[Chezzrob]

tip on your clock app delete any alarms that you have added that scrolls off the bottom of the screen. Reason I have found that turning on a higher alarm in the list can also turn on a hidden one that has scrolled off the screen.

 

[Akmal57]

Hi. This issue happens to my on my Galaxy A8 2018. I managed to solve this by forcing Google app to stop and disable it (because I don't use it anyway). It seems Google has permission to Clock and Calendar and overwrites whatever our alarm settings.

 

[Peggy Waehlte]

I worked it out for me. I have my phone on "do not disturb" at night. Today in addition I put the icon for the sound on vibrate. That driggered the alarm icon. Once I set the sound icon back to loud the alarm clock disappeared from the menu bar.