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  • 31-03-2019 12:56pm
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    Lofidelity
    Registered Users Posts: 215 ✭✭


    I have a galaxy S8 on 3 mobile that looks like it restarted by itself last night. I assume it was a software update as it had the keypad on screen to put in my pin number when i picked it up this morning.

    There was no notification beforehand that this was going to happen and the alarm didnt go off this morning. Lucky it was a Sunday morning so i didnt miss anything too urgent.


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    #2
    Shamboo1801
    Registered Users Posts: 105 ✭✭Shamboo1801


    Mine only updated last week so wouldn't panic. I'm on tesco, but same phone, so it's just Samsung releasing the update.


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    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Samsung have a feature to do an auto reboot overnight once a week. Are you sure that's not turned on?

    Search for auto restart in settings.


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    DopeTech
    Registered Users Posts: 6,763 ✭✭✭DopeTech


    You can disable auto software updates in settings.


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    #5
    Lofidelity
    Registered Users Posts: 215 ✭✭Lofidelity


    The problem was that it turned off the phone therefore the alarm didnt go off this morning. I was in bed til 11 thinking it was only 8am. On a week day that would be a mini disaster.


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    [Deleted User]
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    Lofidelity wrote: »
    The problem was that it turned off the phone therefore the alarm didnt go off this morning. I was in bed til 11 thinking it was only 8am. On a week day that would be a mini disaster.

    A reboot or software update shouldn't remove your alarms. Never has for me, anyway.


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    Del2005
    Registered Users Posts: 18,915 ✭✭✭✭Del2005


    Lofidelity wrote: »
    The problem was that it turned off the phone therefore the alarm didnt go off this morning. I was in bed til 11 thinking it was only 8am. On a week day that would be a mini disaster.

    You can set the alarm to go off when the phone is switched off.


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    rustledjimmies
    Registered Users Posts: 1,082 ✭✭✭rustledjimmies


    Go to Settings - Software update and check the Last update date. That'll tell you if an update was installed last night. If not, then the OS probably crashed and some monitor process rebooted the phone.


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    jones
    Registered Users Posts: 3,009 ✭✭✭jones


    Basil3 wrote: »
    Samsung have a feature to do an auto reboot overnight once a week. Are you sure that's not turned on?

    Search for auto restart in settings.

    This is exactly what it is. Since the pie update on my S8+ the auto restart option doesnt seem to work anymore it just turns the phone off. I had mine set to 2am every wednesday morning and same thing happened me with the alarm 2 weeks in a row. I changed auto restart to during the day as i think auto restart is useful to leave turned on


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    Gazzmonkey
    Registered Users Posts: 816 ✭✭✭Gazzmonkey


    Sounds like you might've received the latest security patch and the phone applied it overnight, but the S7 has chipset level encryption activated by default which will want a pin / password before booting back up after each and every reboot.


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