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    4 ways to keep from sleeping through your Android alarm

    by BEN PATTERSON Feb 08, 2017 3 minutes

    I LIKE TO think of myself as a reasonably punctual, conscientious guy who shows up when he says he’s going to show up. So imagine my embarrassment when I dozed right through my Android alarm on a recent morning, missing an early meeting and earning a reproachful glare from my hungry 4-year-old.

    What happened? I did, after all, have my Android Clock app set to wake me at 6:30 a.m., and it’s not like I didn’t hear the buzzer; it simply never went off.

    As it turns out, there are plenty of reasons why

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