YOUR IPHONE DID NOT ALARM, EH?
January 10th 2011 12:30
Iphone 3gs
I didn’t know that an Iphone alarm that did not go off on a designated time would be such a big deal, after all, it was just an alarm.
Yet, there it was. The story made it to the headlines.
Of course, given the number of units sold and the number of Iphone users who have become dependent on their phones for reminders, and the quality that the name “Apple” represents, I can understand why that rather ‘minor’ event can be a major issue.
Except, I have a personal issue with my Iphone that, as far as I am concerned, far outweighs an alarm that doesn’t go off!
And what issue would that be?
It is something that I would really be embarrassed to admit were it not for the stories that came out on the Iphone alarm that didn’t go off… because, well, it has something to do with alarms as well.
How is it different from all the rest?
Well, my Iphone alarm just keeps going off!! As in, even if it is not supposed to anymore!
You see, sometime in the middle of 2010, my doctor asked me to take a certain kind of medication which I have to ingest every morning. He said I must do it religiously and shouldn’t miss a single dose.
I wasn’t used to taking medicines every morning so I set an alarm on my Iphone to remind myself every morning at 8:30 to take my medicine for about a month, which was the doctor’s prescription.
The month went by without a hitch. The alarm went off every morning since I set it to go off repeatedly every morning, and I was able to take my medicines without failure.
No problem.
Well, there was no problem until the last of my medicines were consumed. The problem started day after I was done taking the medicines – when the Iphone’s alarm was not needed anymore.
It was only set to repeat the alarm every morning for a month. But it seems to have a mind of its own. It went off again at 8:30am the next day.
And it still does every morning since then!
I tried everything I can think of to prevent the alarm from going off again. I erased even the original entry where I set the repetitive alarm on day 1, I updated the Iphone software several times…etc.
No effect, as if I didn't do anything.
I have a feeling my iphone alarm will continue to go off every morning, for eternity or at least, for as long as its processor still works.
And me?
I think I'll just have to keep shutting it off every morning at 8:30
At least, until I ran out of patience with it.
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