Unsolicited alarm notification after 55.0.A.2.314 update

[maxsteele]

Since the latest update, I've had an alarm notification pop up on the notification bar that I can't get rid of. Has anyone else encountered this?

[maxsteele]

Not that it should be a factor, but i ordered my xperia 1 from the UK. 

[mrcusa]

Any in common perhaps? What can we exclude? Which are suspect?

Accu Weather

Arlo

AVG

Bose

Chase

City Mapper

Fire TV

Fly Delta

Hilton

IHG

Kasa

Lifelog

Lightify

Meet

Netatmo

One Note

Skype

Smart DNS Proxy

Smart Cam

Smart Things

Spotify

Trip Advisor

Wear OS

What's App

[RottenFoxBreath]

That needs to include any and all system apps if your phone is branded, or has operator firmware/apps as well.

[mrcusa]

If the problem were a system app, would it not affect all phones?

Finding it difficult to understand why this problem is only happening on a limited number of phones?

If for example a Microsoft or Apple update causes issues, it is normally in the newspapers the following day.

Not saying at all that you are not right, just owning up to my stupidity.

[RottenFoxBreath]

I am right, and it may be a user installed app, Tasker for one, I know does that, there's a setting in Monitor - Reliable Alarms, you need to disable, or it puts out the never ending alarm notification to stop being killed by the Android system.

It may be an app installed from a carrier, or on branded software/bloatware.

Then as you say, it would affect only some, and not all.!

[mrcusa · Accepted solution]

I have solved my phone's issue.

I found a chronological list of system and app updates and worked backwards through the list.

Uninstalled "News Suite by Sony" and restarted the phone.

Perfect! Solved!

[RottenFoxBreath]

Now go into your app tray, open files, and open the phone, and check if you have a "Download" folder.

Sony News Suite has a habit of dumping files of some size in there from time to time.

If you do find them, just delete them.

[maxsteele]

Uninstalling news suite solved it for me too.