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I second this. I thought I had good eyesight but the mornings have proved me wrong.
I stare at those two buttons and wonder which one I'm supposed to press.

Bigger snooze button would be great.

The addition of the ability to dismiss the alarm by pressing the hardware keys is a
good help in this use case. An on-screen change would still be nice, though.

Allowing buttons to dismiss an alarm works great for the MM dock, but I found it to be
problematic during daily use phone as bumping the buttons (or even removing the phone
from the case) can cause inadvertent dismissals.

This fix should take about 2 minutes, including recompile and testing.  Simply making
one button green and the other red (or any dissimilar color pair) would resolve it for
most users.

My alarm was just going off while I was in the shower because I hit the snooze button
instead of the dismiss button.   Personally, I detest snooze buttons and those who
use them.  Now my wife is quite angry at me for having woken her up repeatedly (she
is apparently also too incompetent to correctly choose the dismiss button as she also
chose snooze in her attempt to quiet my device.)  If you are married, then you know
the hell it is to have a wife who started the day pissed off at you and with too
little sleep.   Please correct this poor choice in user interface design asap.

I'd like to start with programme droid applications. So I'll try it solve.

Hello All,

Is this issue already fixed?

Best Regards,

Funny thing is that you can't really read when alarm wakes you up... I didn't know that
until I got my Nexus One and used stock alarm...

Bump.  Please keep in mind that persons with
glasses or contacts do not sleep with them in so
the revised buttons should be designed with that
in mind as well (make them big and easy to read).

For those of us who can't read the screen in the morning (sans our glasses), I'd prefer the entire screen was one big "snooze" button at the moment the alarm sounds. Just a simple reach out with the hand and touching the screen anywhere would snooze/silence the alarm. No need to pick it up and look at it, even for those with perfect vision. That's kind of the point of snooze, isn't it? The lest alert we have to be, the less interaction with a device that demands our attention, the easier it is to go back to sleep for a few minutes.

Once the clock is in snooze state after tapping the screen, the screen can become a quiesce/disable button. And it should say just that, so when we finally get out of bed we can see the clock app telling us it is in snooze mode and we need to touch the screen again (or side buttons) to shut off the alarm for the rest of the day.

If a second snooze alarm goes off, just put the entire screen back into being one giant snooze button. Repeat until the entire number of snoozes have expired or the alarm is quiesced for the day.

From my point of view, this really hasn't much to do with reading as it does efficiencies involved in snoozing. The whole goal in snoozing is to keep your mind form having to become alert, right? So you can go back to sleep, right? The less we have to do in order to snooze that alarm, the easier it is to go back to sleep.

I don't engage a real alarm clock by picking it up and shaking it, or by looking for which knob on the back might snooze the alarm. I expect there to be one huge button on the top of the clock that I just reach out an press without having to think. All this shake and flip over and touch this tiny button, etc., for snoozing may be cute and a novelty, but there's a reason real clocks are designed with huge snooze buttons on the top...

My 2 cents.

My biggest problem is that the buttons move around. I have my phone laying nearby, head on the pillow, it wakes me up so I tilt the phone toward me in landscape mode, which causes it to switch from vertical orientation to horizontal, but not before I've seen the snooze button and aimed for it with my sleepy eye... the target moves and I sometimes hit the dismiss button instead.

Whatever the solution, please don't give us a moving target!

A very large snooze button (about total screen size) and a slider to dismiss. and I do agree with  garethdavidso no rotate action...

Not a solution for the built-in alarm but I had the same problems, that's why I wrote SoftAlarm so you could give that a try (fades in alarm, has a big snooze button with voice feedback, a slider for dismissing, no layout changing when tilting the phone). It's free (and it will stay free) but it's still in beta so use a backup alarm.

I use the alarm clock throughout the day, not just to wake me up.  The problem that I had was that the alarms would get dismissed or snoozed before I could get them out of my pocket.  Snoozing was worse since the alarm would go off again later.  This would sometimes happen several times until I just took the phone out of my pocket and held it until I could dismiss the alarm.

My idea was that the alarm popup window should look just like the popup window for an incoming phone call.  All of the buttons should be locked, including the touch screen buttons.  Sliders would be used for both dismiss and snooze.  The snooze slider would call up a menu that would allow the snooze time to be selected.

I worked with a developer called Connective Tools to change their Alarm Master program.  They did not implement my idea exactly, the menu button calls up the snooze time menu and the volume toggle changes the alarm volume.  The volume changes are only when the alarm is sounding, no permanent volume settings are changed including the volume when the alarm resounds after dismissal.  The only problem is with the home button.  Connective Tools tells me that Google does not allow developers to intercept the home button.  They implemented a 30 second snooze if the home button is pressed.  The home screen is still displayed.

For those of us that need glasses, the sliders are always in the same place.  The dismiss slider is red and the snooze slider is green.

It only took Connective Tools about a week to send me a beta version of Alarm Master with these changes and they have incorporated the changes in their latest release, which is in the market place.  The sliders are optional, so you have to turn them on in the settings menu.  Check it out and see if it helps.

For Google:
I think that all alerts, alarms, notifications, etc. should work this way.  Just like the ringing phone.

"My biggest problem is that the buttons move around. I have my phone laying nearby, head on the pillow, it wakes me up so I tilt the phone toward me in landscape mode, which causes it to switch from vertical orientation to horizontal, but not before I've seen the snooze button and aimed for it with my sleepy eye... the target moves and I sometimes hit the dismiss button instead.

Whatever the solution, please don't give us a moving target!"


I have the exact same problem. The reason we hit dismiss instead of snooze is because when the phone changes from vertical to landscape, the dismiss button is EXACTLY where the snooze used to be!

I believe the best solution would be to have buttons that don't move when changing from vertical to landscape, thus even if the rest of the screen rotates, the place u press will still remain the same.

I have also tried softalarm, one feature I really liked was that it would automatically snooze when you flip your phone over, not sure about idea copyrights, but if google could implement similar functionality with the default alarm that would be great. (For anyone wondering, I found softalarm buggy in other areas which lead to me uninstalling it)

30 years ago I had the wires snipped for my husbands snooze button becuase he continually pushed it without realizing it and of course I couldn't get any sleep.  The next alarm clock was digital and cost me $40 to have to snooze circuit disabled.  Why doesn't anyone make an alarm clock without a snooze button? Or at least a way to temporarily keep the snooze button from working? Does anyone know of an alarm clock without a snooze button?

Expanding upon #19, which I completely agree with...

The last thing my sleep-addled brain can comprehend is where the snooze/dismiss buttons went if I accidentally press a softkey like the back button.  It would be a massive improvement to the clock application if it was impossible to dismiss the snooze/dismiss screen until one or the other action is taken.

Adding swipe to dismiss would be great, I often hit dismiss when I mean snooze!

Comment 23 is brilliant.  Press to snooze, swipe to dismiss, would be a phenomenal improvement.  As someone else prone to hitting dismiss vice snooze while half conscious, it'd save me plenty of late arrivals to work.

How about shake to snooze, swipe to dismiss.

The idea of shake to snooze and swipe to dismiss is great

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Agreed, the idea of shake/swipe is good. much better than the current layout.

 Yeah, press to snooze and slide to dismiss sounds like a great idea

I was going to add a separate issue for 'stop autorotate while alarm is ringing' but I see it's included in comments here. Not in the title though.

Especially with older devices, this was a complete nightmare: considering it took a good second or so for the screen to redraw between rotating horizontally (on bedside locker) and vertical (picked up to silence alarm), this tended to lead to unhappy bedfellows.

The alarm clock has improved, but still needs work as things stand - there's a few good ideas given here for how to improve it -- big button for snooze, with rotate and softkeys locked, seems the consensus. It's been open quite a while.

Blind snoozing

It is important to keep in mind an important use case - if you want to snooze the alarm early in the morning, this should be possible to do blindly.

The current implementation requires me to fully enable my *cognitive conscious* in order to snooze, thus disrupting the sleep.


This can be achieved by mapping one of the hardware buttons to "snooze", so one could get this done by relying only on their sense of touch, no vision involved.



Comments about previously suggested solutions:
- swipe to snooze/dismiss sounds interesting, but again - this requires conscious awareness and is not the best way to snooze.

- having a big 'snooze' button that covers a large part of the screen is a step forward, but it can be pressed accidentally while the phone is extracted from the pocket.

I have now overslept several times in the last 5 weeks since switching to an Android phone because of the snooze/dismiss UI FAIL.  It is just to easy to accidentally
touch the dismiss button on the display while groping for the phone half awake or
not even awake.

It is OK for the snooze button to react on blindly touching the display.
But the dismiss action that turns of the alarm needs to be done in a way that
reasonably makes sure the user is concious.

Braun got it right with their Voice Control alarms 25 years ago.

This has been fixed in Android 4.0.

This has been fixed in Android 4.0.

I liked the old 2.2 RED slide dismiss button way better.  New 4.0 alarm is garbage.

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