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Is this a bug in the 5.0 update, or design change?

I have seen several people post online similar comments to this: "Why would you want to set an alarm in your alarm clock, but not have it work because you silenced your phone the night before so you COULD SLEEP? This makes absolutely NO sense. I would also like to be able to look down in a meeting and see if I have a text/email without having to unlock my phone."

Both of these things work as they should on my Note3 now. If I take a chance on the update to 5.0, should I expect the alarm to no longer work if the phone is on silent? What about seeing status bar notifications on the top of the screen when waking the phone with power button? I would not want to have to actually fully unlock the phone to see them.

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Snn5

Priority notifications in Interruptions...thats what you are looking for.

WTTTT

"Priority notifications in Interruptions...thats what you are looking for."

What?

Snn5

How to get silent mode on Galaxy Note 4, Note 3 and S4 with Lollipop - AndroidPIT

WTTTT

That only gets you into silent mode. The problem with it is that then your alarm will not work. The complaints I have seen are from people saying that the only way to get your alarm to function is to not put the phone in silent mode. The problem with that is that the phone will then alert all night long with texts, emails, phone calls, and other notifications, making sleep impossible. Silence those and you also silence your alarm, rendering it useless as a wake up device.

This is what I find puzzling and am thinking there must be a way to get the alarm function to work even when all other sounds are silenced so you can sleep? The phone screen in priority interruptions says that alarms are always priority interruptions so the fact that so many are complaining that their alarms no longer sound when the phone is silenced must be a bug?

anderkurt

On my Galaxy S4, there is only a "do not disturb" mode that has the features which you are looking for here. If your Note has the features implemented this way, the point is that you don't put it on "silent", you activate "do not disturb" instead. There are exception settings for the "do not disturb" mode, which I find here:

Settings => My Device => Sound and notification => Do not disturb

You can configure exceptions for Alarms so they always come through, and even set a schedule.

The "Do not disturb" toggle can be found with a two finger pull-down from the top of the screen.

I never messed with these before the upgrade to Lollipop, but perhaps the fact that Samsung already had a "Do not disturb" mode is why these are not named "Interruptions" and "Down time" as on native lollipop.

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