Just a cautionary heads-up, and I'd love for this to just be coincidence, but...
Last night I set my morning alarm for 9:00, and put my droid on the multimedia station. Then I remembered what I had read online last night about the cache clearing strategy in order to speed things up a bit. My phone has been sluggish lately opening Messaging and Contacts, and thought "what the heck, may as well give it a try."
After clearing the cache, I noticed significant speed results immediately. I placed my phone in the Multimedia station, and went to sleep.
At around 11:30am, I woke up naturally. In fact, I thought I was having a nightmare, that I still had my WinMo phone (
). I reach over to my droid, and turn on the screen. Though my digital clock widget said 11:30, my system clock in the notifications bar said 8:32am. I checked my alarms, and they were still checked off for 9:00am. I also had one email, which I read and archived, but the notification icon would not go away. I ended up soft-resetting the phone.
When it rebooted, my alarms were all unchecked, and I had 7 new emails. The clocks both had the proper time. And the speed boost from clearing the cache is still present.
I'm hoping that this was a freak accident, but if anyone knows what I did to cause this, please share. Thanks, and be careful!
For the record, I cleared the cache of every app that had one, and I did it manually, not through an app.