Can't alarms set on Android phones wake the device from an off position?

[Leslie Rose]

Huh?

If the phone is powered OFF, there is no way this side of Mars that it will ever function as an alarm clock.

You have your facts a bit mixed up.

OFF means just that, it is not powered on at all. And not even the FBI or the CIA can do a darn thing about turning it on either.
OFF is OFF....

Some phones may have some kind of Sleep Mode, but none of the cell phones that I have owned over the years had a function like that. Once powered OFF, it is just like as if you removed the battery.

I have at one time or the other, owned Nokia, Motorola, Samsung (of course) and a few others whose names are no longer with us. Never owned a Blackberry though.

My 15 year old Nokia switches the phone at set alarm with a window saying do you want to turn phone on yes/no

 

[Georgekm]

I just tested my new Samsung S5 and an alarm I set did not work with the phone turned off. This is disappointing as it's a feature mobile phones have had for 30 years. Is there a secret handshake or setting I don't know about?

Never post unless you're 100% sure. I will soon post on YouTube how you can auto turn on in the morning or any time.

 

[Cinderella RT]

Never post unless you're 100% sure. I will soon post on YouTube how you can auto turn on in the morning or any time.

I'm still waiting for that video.

 

[massexy]

When I had Symbian phones (Nokias mostly), you could press the power button and watch the phone turn off and when time was right, the alarm went off and gave you the option to turn on the device. These days I've bought the cheapest dumbphones I could find for my son to take to school and they can do that, too! Why can't I do that on Android 4 or 5?

 

[useron]

Re: Can't alarms set on Samsung Android phones wake the device from an off position?

While GioneeP5W, which is not marshmallow and all other Indian branded android marshmallow smartphones (Intex cloud Q11, Micromax etc) have the same feature then why the Samsung mobiles don't have the useful feature? The issue is that, after setting up an Alarm for the next morning and if you switch off the mobile for recharging overnight then it will not ring (set the alarm on) at all in that off condition. But in all other company phones the alarm rings while the phone is off. Is this a bug of Samsung mobiles software?