# 30 mins late for work, Learned Android has a separate volume level for Alarms. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 16, 2018, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-mins-late-for-work-learned-android-has-a-separate-volume-level-for-alarms/819729 "2018-08-16T14:04:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2018, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-mins-late-for-work-learned-android-has-a-separate-volume-level-for-alarms/819729/21 "2018-08-18T04:46:30Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > How vital are you to the business that you passed up coffee to get there? > > If I sleep in I still do all my morning routine stuff, I just also send a “running x minutes behind” text. It’s _good_ to be the king! ---
**Author:** ![Ellecram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellecram/32/18948_2.png) [@Ellecram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellecram)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2018, 11:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-mins-late-for-work-learned-android-has-a-separate-volume-level-for-alarms/819729/22 "2018-08-31T11:38:54Z")
> [@Spiderman](#): > > Don’t forget if you set the alarm for extra early one day & use the Do Not Disturb feature that the Do Not Disturb is only set for notifications & not alarms; otherwise, you won’t hear anything.:o I recently just found this out despite having used Android phones for almost 5 years now. I was also late that morning and thought my phone had decided to rearrange its settings on its own as it seems to do every now and then. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2018, 12:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-mins-late-for-work-learned-android-has-a-separate-volume-level-for-alarms/819729/23 "2018-08-31T12:10:54Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > Found that out the hard way first time I used my phone for an alarm. It has separate volumes for ringer, alarm, and media. I rarely listen to any media on my phone so hadn’t noticed that one until I found out about the alarm. It took me a while to figure out why my alarm would always be quiet in the morning. I have two alarms on my phone. The problematic one (in this case) had it’s volume controlled by the media volume (or games, if there was one). So everyday, when I’d be playing games with the sound down, I’d be muting the ringer. Then the next day, the games would be really loud. It took a while to put that together. The other odd problem I had was that pre-installed alarm would sometimes not go off in the morning. In fact, I’d find that it wasn’t even set to go off. One day, I was plugging the phone in and noticed that the alarm turned off. Some odd bug was turning off the alarm, when I plugged the phone in. I had to plug the phone in, then turn on the alarm. To this day, I keep two alarms (the pre-installed one and one from the play store) so if one malfunctions, the other one goes off a few minutes later, hopefully. I also can’t break the habit of plugging in the phone, then going to each alarm and turning it off and back on, just to be sure. ---
**Author:** ![Eonwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eonwe/32/240_2.png) [@Eonwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eonwe)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2018, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-mins-late-for-work-learned-android-has-a-separate-volume-level-for-alarms/819729/24 "2018-08-31T12:26:04Z")
Part of why I still have an alarm clock by my bed. It has two functions. It tells time, and it makes noise (and lights up) at a pre-determined time. With my phone, I don’t trust that I won’t accidentally change the volume or mute my alarm at some point while I’m using this crazy electronic multi-tool. And, even more important, I don’t trust that some update isn’t going to change the functionality without me being aware, and make the alarm suddenly not work as expected. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-mins-late-for-work-learned-android-has-a-separate-volume-level-for-alarms/819729.md?page=1)