Vibration on alarm not working with battery saving function on Marshmallow

[stelu]

This night the battery saving function turned on automatically (battery level < 15%) which is the way I prefer it to be. I had set a vibrate only alarm as wake up alarm. The bad thing is that the alarm went off completely silent without vibration and I did not wake up. The vibrations are turned off when battery saving function is active. This must be a bug but the Sony support told me that it is not and that they can't be responisble for Google designing Android this way.

Sony's Stamina mode did not behave like this. If vibration is chosen for such an important event as an alarm then it should vibrate or at least play a sound.

Bad feature and also in general a little bad attitude by the Sony support person.

[MarlonUk1]

the rep is right , this feature is google's own design as this is constant all across andoid devices, it would be a choice between "would you like to have enough battery to be able to use the device longer" or "would you rather have your phone loose battery and not to be able to use it at all"

[_alexdon_]

Vibration is completely disabled in the battery saving mode by default. You could contact your Local support to get more info on this but I think this is up to google.

[stelu]

The strange thing is that the info in Swedish does not say that vibration is completely disabled but rather reduced.

[_alexdon_]

@stelu I will try to get some info on this.

[stelu]

Thanks. Limited would mayby be a better translation from Swedish than reduced.

[_alexdon_ · Accepted solution]

It seems that's how it should be, vibration is limited by being disabled. If you think the translation is not correct, you can contact your Local support and tell them.

[stelu]

Ok, thanks for checking this. To me it is strange that you can't rely on vibrating alarm in combination with automatic the battery saving function.

[_alexdon_]

It will override the function if you put things this way. But you can try to add exceptions to battery optimization under battery usage. There, look for clock app and set it to not optimized. See if that changes anything.

[stelu]

I'll try that. I will try to remember to post the result here.