No volume alarm

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Nothing yet been identified
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What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
I expect the alarm to go off but at occasions (3 yet) I find the phone 
displaying a "time-out" message but I'm pretty sure the alarm never sounded.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
Used version 7 on a SE x10 mini.

Please provide any additional information below.
Well as for extra information I think the volume in general behaves a bit 
strange. I for instance set the alarm to increase from 0-60% during 30 seconds 
but after the last incident with no alarm sounding i forced the alarm volume to 
75% with the app "Timeriffic" and then the alarm appeared very much higer... 
Well just something I noticed.
Is Alarm Klock in control of the "master" volume or is it set to play at set 
percentage of the alarm volume ("master")??
It seams as it also raises the volume faster than set in the program. For me it 
seams as it reach maximum volume earlier than the above mentioned time 
(30sec)...

Original issue reported on code.google.com by rikard.k...@gmail.com on 29 Oct 2010 at 8:56

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Can you reproduce this problem after you uninstall Timeriffic?  I'm willing to 
bet it's causing the problem.

There's no concept of a 'master' volume in android.  There are multiple audio 
channels, each with an independent volume control (ringer, media player, alarm, 
etc).  Any application can play sound through any channel or change the volume 
of any channel.  The channel names are really just a convention.  There's 
nothing preventing you from writing an application that plays music through the 
ringer channel or an alarm that plays sounds through the media player channel.

Alarm Klock plays its sounds through the 'alarm' channel and also (optionally) 
changes the volume of that channel slowly while it's alarming.  If there is 
some other program trying to simultaneously change the volume of that channel 
(like Timeriffic) you'll probably see undesired effects.

Original comment by kraigs.a...@gmail.com on 29 Oct 2010 at 3:33

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First of all, Thanx a lot for this great app.
And thanx for taking your time to explain for a "layman" :-) the 
"under-the-hood" world of volume in the Android system... :-)
I will try your recommendation and uninstall the Timeriffic app.
/BRR

Original comment by rikard.k...@gmail.com on 1 Nov 2010 at 6:29

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Thank you for that tip, it seams as if the Timeriffic app caused all the 
hassle...
The thing is that it at first seamed work just fine since i didn't let 
Timeriffic mess with the alarm volume (set to "as-is").
Now all seams just peachy again...
Thank you.

Original comment by rikard.k...@gmail.com on 2 Nov 2010 at 2:02

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Good deal, I'm glad it worked out.  Thanks for the feedback!

Original comment by kraigs.a...@gmail.com on 3 Nov 2010 at 3:40

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