# What is your cell phone alarm sound/mode?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-cell-phone-alarm-sound-mode/667520
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [August 29, 2013, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-cell-phone-alarm-sound-mode/667520 "2013-08-29T18:16:01Z")
**Posts on this page:** 14
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### Author:  [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2013, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-cell-phone-alarm-sound-mode/667520/1 "2013-08-29T18:16:01Z")
What sound or action do you have set in your cell as the wake up alarm?
I like to wake up to music. I most frequently use “Ain’t No Rest For the Wicked” by Cage the Elephant. Seemed appropriate, and I like the song. Second most frequent choice is “Alleluia” by Josh Garrels.
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### Author:  [@want2befree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/want2befree)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2013, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-cell-phone-alarm-sound-mode/667520/2 "2013-08-29T18:31:24Z")
One of the defaults.
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### Author:  [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2013, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-cell-phone-alarm-sound-mode/667520/3 "2013-08-29T18:39:22Z")
“Through the Fire and Flames” - Dragonforce
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### Author:  [@LawMonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LawMonkey)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2013, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-cell-phone-alarm-sound-mode/667520/4 "2013-08-29T19:24:36Z")
For a very long time now, it’s been a snippet from the theme song to FX’s short-lived _ **Terriers** _, “Gunfight Epiphany”. I used to also have a bit from “Doctorin’ the TARDIS” that I picked up when I was actually looking for a decent, clean TARDIS arrival/departure sound for text messages, but I seem to have lost that one in recent computer moves.
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### Author:  [@August\_West](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/August_West)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2013, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-cell-phone-alarm-sound-mode/667520/5 "2013-08-29T20:59:11Z")
[General Quarters](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:General_quarters.ogg).
I was in the Navy, where I learned to sleep through just about anything, but the GQ alarm will pull me out of the deepest slumber.
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### Author:  [@Sudden\_Kestrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sudden_Kestrel)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2013, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-cell-phone-alarm-sound-mode/667520/6 "2013-08-29T21:05:37Z")
Reveille.
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### Author:  [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2013, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-cell-phone-alarm-sound-mode/667520/7 "2013-08-29T22:45:39Z")
> [@August\_West](#):
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> [General Quarters](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:General_quarters.ogg).
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> I was in the Navy, where I learned to sleep through just about anything, but the GQ alarm will pull me out of the deepest slumber.
ROFLMAO
I have that as an alarm sound - mrAru spent 20 years in the sub fleet. He pretty much teleports out of bed wide awake 😛
this 688 class power plant [alarm](http://www.policeinterceptor.com/sounds/688PPALM.WAV) is my phone ring for him. Usually turns heads if I am on base and he calls me 😃
My dad, who spent 30 years in the army … poor man retired and what happens? There is a summer camp opened slightly down the lake shore from our summer house. What do they do? 6 am every morning they broadcast [reville](http://goatlocker.org/sound/Reveille.wav) over the camp loudspeakers…though we never minded [taps](http://goatlocker.org/sound/Taps.wav) at night.
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### Author:  [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)
#### Post date: [August 30, 2013, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-cell-phone-alarm-sound-mode/667520/8 "2013-08-30T01:18:42Z")
The opening theme from Doctor Who, the Tom Baker episodes (4th Doctor)
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### Author:  [@SeaDragonTattoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeaDragonTattoo)
#### Post date: [August 30, 2013, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-cell-phone-alarm-sound-mode/667520/9 "2013-08-30T02:12:21Z")
My wake-up alarm has this gentle wake feature that plays new-agey nature sounds starting 5 minutes before the set time. It’s usually plenty to get me up before the real alarm with a sort of Enterprise red alert WHOOP! WHOOP! sound starts in.
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### Author:  [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)
#### Post date: [August 30, 2013, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-cell-phone-alarm-sound-mode/667520/10 "2013-08-30T02:19:38Z")
When I use my phone as an alarm clock (generally when I’m at a hotel or somewhere else without a reliable alarm clock), I wake up to Ke$ha’s “TiK ToK.” “Wake up in the morning feeling like P. Diddy…” Awesome.
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### Author:  [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)
#### Post date: [August 30, 2013, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-cell-phone-alarm-sound-mode/667520/11 "2013-08-30T02:31:42Z")
Default banjo music from VErizon
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### Author:  [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)
#### Post date: [August 30, 2013, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-cell-phone-alarm-sound-mode/667520/12 "2013-08-30T02:35:29Z")
The most annoying alarm that it came with. Music is what I go to sleep to - it won’t wake me up.
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### Author:  [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)
#### Post date: [August 30, 2013, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-cell-phone-alarm-sound-mode/667520/13 "2013-08-30T02:53:56Z")
[“Imagining”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiAINoSM9Qs), by GTR, a mid-1980s “supergroup” which was led by ex-Yes guitarist Steve Howe, and ex-Genesis guitarist Steve Hackett. I use it because it starts out fairly quiet, which means it’s not a terribly jarring alarm sound – at least if I catch it within the first 90 seconds. 😃
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### Author:  [@grama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grama)
#### Post date: [August 30, 2013, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-cell-phone-alarm-sound-mode/667520/14 "2013-08-30T18:43:04Z")
The Game of Thrones theme, every morning is epic.