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Hi!

Thank you for this cool app! I've been using it for years - best alarm clock around!

I've just upgraded from my old Samsung Galaxy S3, running Android 4.x, to a new phone, running Android 8.0.0 (Oreo). Stupid simple alarm clock has a problem on this new device. I've also tried it on a phone running Android 7 (Nougat) where it had the same problem.

Stupid simple alarm clock works well on these new phones, when i do "quick testing" (like setting the alarm to 1 minute from now, or 10 minutes from now), but when i leave the phones overnight, it does not wake up the phone to ring the alarm. It is not until you've already woken up yourself, and you turn on the screen manually, that the alarm starts ringing. (Kind of defeats the purpose of the alarm :D)

Since i love this app, i hope you will find the time to make it work for new versions of Android :)

If you need more information, feel free to ask. :)

(I do however not know what the problem is (some permission perhaps?). I think you should be able to reproduce it on any newer phone by setting the alarm over night - as mentioned, it works fine if you just set it to e.g. 10 minutes in the future)

Perhaps it's about calling .setAlarmClock() vs .setAndAllowWhileIdle() on AlarmManager? (see https://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/AlarmManager.html)
Ok, i see these are methods are from a newer API, but the documentation about "low-power idle (a.k.a. doze) modes" for these and for .set() seem interesting. (Also: https://developer.android.com/training/monitoring-device-state/doze-standby.html )

Update: Perhaps this is useful: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/34378707/alarm-manager-does-not-work-in-background-on-android-6-0 and https://stackoverflow.com/a/35657293/1743225