HourlyChime
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About HourlyChime
Simple, unobtrusive chimes to help you keep track of the time.
Just beeps, not a musical fanfare, so that you're not embarrassed in public! (For fancy chimes, I'd recommend Bellman)
Tones at the top of the hour help you brush up on your binary too :). Some notes on how to decode the binary tones are below.
IMPORTANT NOTE: Need to open app and press "Start Chimes" on first install.
About the "prevent phone from sleeping" permission: This is just to keep the phone awake for a couple of seconds every 15 minutes, long enough to play tones. It shouldnt impact your battery life, and shouldnt make your screen turn on.
~~~ Binary tone notes ~~~
Here's how you can decode the time from the tones.
First, there is a low tone to let you know the sequence is coming.
Then there will be 4 tones that represent the hour number in binary (or 5 if you have a 24hr clock enabled)
A high pitch tone is a "1" and a medium pitch tone is a "0", and it counts from high bits to low bits.
If you're not a programmer, that will sound overly complex, but it's not so bad when you get used to it.
Here are some examples:
1 oclock in 12hr clock mode:
medium medium medium high = 0 0 0 1 = 1
1am (01:00) in 24hr clock mode:
medium medium medium medium high = 0 0 0 0 1 = 1
2 oclock in 12 hr clock mode: medium medium high medium = 0 0 1 0 = 2
11 oclock in 12 hr clock mode: high medium high high = 1 0 1 1 = 11 (=8*1 + 4*0 + 2*1 + 1*1)
20:00 in 24 hr clock mode: high medium high medium medium = 1 0 1 0 0 = 20 (=16*1 + 8*0 + 4*1 + 2*0 + 1*0)
and so on.
Just beeps, not a musical fanfare, so that you're not embarrassed in public! (For fancy chimes, I'd recommend Bellman)
Tones at the top of the hour help you brush up on your binary too :). Some notes on how to decode the binary tones are below.
IMPORTANT NOTE: Need to open app and press "Start Chimes" on first install.
About the "prevent phone from sleeping" permission: This is just to keep the phone awake for a couple of seconds every 15 minutes, long enough to play tones. It shouldnt impact your battery life, and shouldnt make your screen turn on.
~~~ Binary tone notes ~~~
Here's how you can decode the time from the tones.
First, there is a low tone to let you know the sequence is coming.
Then there will be 4 tones that represent the hour number in binary (or 5 if you have a 24hr clock enabled)
A high pitch tone is a "1" and a medium pitch tone is a "0", and it counts from high bits to low bits.
If you're not a programmer, that will sound overly complex, but it's not so bad when you get used to it.
Here are some examples:
1 oclock in 12hr clock mode:
medium medium medium high = 0 0 0 1 = 1
1am (01:00) in 24hr clock mode:
medium medium medium medium high = 0 0 0 0 1 = 1
2 oclock in 12 hr clock mode: medium medium high medium = 0 0 1 0 = 2
11 oclock in 12 hr clock mode: high medium high high = 1 0 1 1 = 11 (=8*1 + 4*0 + 2*1 + 1*1)
20:00 in 24 hr clock mode: high medium high medium medium = 1 0 1 0 0 = 20 (=16*1 + 8*0 + 4*1 + 2*0 + 1*0)
and so on.
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App History & Updates
What's Changed
-Modified quiet time settings to work with "24 hour" clock mode appropriately (thanks Dr. Andres!)
-**Note for IceCreamSandwich phones**: there seems to be sound problems with this app (and many others too), where there is garbage at the end of tone playback. Am hoping Google with issue a fix. Until then, wont sound right on Galaxy Nexus etc phones.
-Modified quiet time settings to work with "24 hour" clock mode appropriately (thanks Dr. Andres!)
-**Note for IceCreamSandwich phones**: there seems to be sound problems with this app (and many others too), where there is garbage at the end of tone playback. Am hoping Google with issue a fix. Until then, wont sound right on Galaxy Nexus etc phones.
More downloads HourlyChime reached 5 000 - 10 000 downloads
More downloads HourlyChime reached 5 000 - 10 000 downloads
Version update HourlyChime was updated to version 1.1.1
Version update HourlyChime was updated to version 1.1.0
What are users saying about HourlyChime
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Chimes at 3 minutes after the hour on t-mobile s7 edge.
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just works as described on Edge7
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Different sounds for every quater is what makes it the best..love it...
M
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This app was one of my favorites but now it's useless sometimes 5 minutes late sometimes nonexistent. Needs some serious updating none since 2011!
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Please add the ability to customise tones, toe option to repeat the hour along with the 15, 30 and 45 minutes, and a volume control. It would be great even if it were in a paid version!
H
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Works great, but would be nice to allow changing of tones.
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I have used this for years and it is bullet proof. Subtle and reliable. Would be great if it would recognize headset and Bluetooth to adjust volume accordingly.
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Couldn't get it to work on Samsung Fascinate.
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by Y####:
Please move to the SD Card and add a few sound choices. Id prefer a simple "ding" every half hour. A non chime time range also! Works on Sidekick 4G.
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Sucks.. Won't work no matter how you configure. Xperia x10 mini pro.
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by Y####:
a very good app runs perfect on my dell streak 5 with android 2.2 the device user is visually impaired , it's a big help for him
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by Y####:
Does not work on Incredible. Have others noticed this?
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by P####:
Works well. Simple to use. Like the binary chimes! (Captivate)
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by Y####:
Worked once and nvr again. What happened. HTC hero
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Just downloaded - won't use, as one cannot choose when to have it chime. Ie. off at night.
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by Y####:
Simple and works great!
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by Y####:
by Y####:
Very useful widget, but need chimes or tones not beeps.
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by M####:
by M####:
Simple hourly chime is exactly what I wanted. Works fine on my Droid X 2.2.1.
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by Y####:
Still waiting for the sound to come out ..doesn't work until now - HTC desire
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Very professional!
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Like the functionality. Please add option to select file for chime.
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Crashed.
J
by J####:
by J####:
Worked fine but chimes are Crap. Uninstalled
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Does not work on this phone, too bad, just what I was looking for.
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Everytime it chimes the hour in binary I think through the conversion to the time. Sweet.
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by Q####:
earlier i gave 1* and said "Just a simple beeper" but now it has improved into a really useful time announcer without embarrassing in public. nice app. good job
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Took me a while to realize that the hours are chimed out in binary!
M
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Perfect
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by P####:
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I loved this machine! But for some reasons it stopped working.
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by S####:
I've been using this app for months with no problems until I upgraded my Note 2 to Android 4.3 last week. Now, occasionally, the hourly tones do not sound but I hear the phone speaker make a click on the hour. This does not always happen. Mostly I hear the hour tones Ok. This issue is definitely related to the 4.3 upgrade.
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by S####:
Too quiet can't increase volume on wildfire.??
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Random set to max volume or speakerphone when using with this turn on
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by R####:
I love this machine!
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by S####:
by S####:
Just a simple beeper
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by R####:
by R####:
Simple and works
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I've been running this app for over a month now, and I've become almost overly dependent on it... I will totally lose track of time now if I don't hear my little beeps! Truly love it... it has helped a true procrastinator keep on time. My #1 gripe is no tone customization; default tones are hard to hear in a noisy place. Would love to be able to adjust pitch, duration, and waveform (sine, square, triangle, etc) for individual tones. The initial alert tone is almost inaudible on my phone's little speaker.
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I can't set a chime time that skip afternoon nap time. Would have prefer that this app let me set the chime time
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by K####:
Does just what I need. I'm a fan of binary clocks. My only request would be a volume control. Would like it just a little louder on my phone.
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by A####:
best one of its kind, no doubt. thank you
by Z####:
Ok as it's simple & notifies, would be 5 stars if can fix/calibrate chimes, it used 2b off by 1 or 2 mins, now it's off by 5 mins. Looks like developer abandoned this app