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Help Alarm clock failed in Milestone

Did anyone share with my similar circumstance?

I am used to use my mobile as an alarm clock for morning calls. It worked fine on my all previous Nokia's simple phones. However, I face a problem when I switch into Milestone this month.

I have 2 cases that the alarm clock (default in Milestone) failed to alarm. Both cases, I need to restart the OS until it resumes to normal. 1st of the cases - the alarm seemed to alarm before with no sound, noting that the music player's unable to play sound as well (audio device unconnected?). 2nd of the cases - happened this morning. No alarm again and I found a message for force close dialog on OS.Process. It give auto reboot showing Android startup logo on screen...

I find it's insecure of using my mobile as my alarm clock. It is very obvious if I compare it with Nokia simple phones.

I don't reboot my phone until it stuck. And I like use Taskiller to kill some used apps. For example, killing music apps before listening albums.

Does Android phone require daily reboot so that it work properly on going? And the Taskiller may be the cause of abnormality?

Anyone shed me some lights?
 
Having exactly the same problem, and also use a task killer. Will ditch it, ta. Although I have no idea how to actually close an app? Take the media player for example, I don't even see a stop button? Just a pause, then no way to close it. Am I missing something?
As android is based on Linux, closing programs is not necessary. Thus you usually don't have a quit button in a program. Programs running in the background won't drain your battery. You can read more searching "android closing programs" in Google.
 
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