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Alarm is the hypnotoad sound. No ringtones for calls, just vibration.

I use a 14400 baud handshake.

I was using the Dragonzord "flute" for a while but switched to the siren from Silent Hill. My partner hates both but if I need a wake-up alarm I need it to flood my body with panic adrenaline.

I use the great fairy fountain from old school Zelda (ocarina of time specifically) as my wake up alarm, as it’s very peaceful to wake to. But still nerdy. It went with Navi going “hey listen!” Every time I got a text ;)

Mostly I use my watch alarm tho, which is vibration that starts gentle and gets stronger, and that’s plenty.

If I get shocked awake I have a panic attack. I try to avoid that.

My alarm is just the default android one, but my text tone is the windows XP fatal error sound.

https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=KpR1Pr0kvUA

YOUR NEW MORNING ALARM

Marc Rebillet

Thank me later.

Mark Rebillet - Wake up

https://youtu.be/enYdAxVcNZA

It’s wonderful

Fanfare for the Common Man

https://www.mobiles24.co/downloads/s/84880-3-fanfare_for_the_common_man

Kind of a "ready to take on the world" thing happening.

Cuz, you got this!

Disturbed - Down With the Sickness

My alarm cannot be anything with a real melody or I will hum it for hours on. I use some default tune what's more of a trill, does the job. My text/email alert used to be popping the bottle cap sound, my current phone has some brrp noise close enough to a fart to make me giggle - I'm old but not mature.

As for ring tones, I used to purchase some for pocket change from the last page of the tv guide. All fun and games until all the old relatives started dropping like flies. It just doesn't feel right to get an invitation to another funeral preceded by the Scissors Sisters 'I don't feel like dancing' or Eamon's 'fuck you'. For a long time my ring tone was the old school land line ringing. From the moment I was able to choose the ring tone from my playlist it has been 'Heavy Cross' by Gossip. I feel it's suitable for all occurrences while being only mine.

This stock Nothing alarm tone , really like Nothing sounds so use them for everything !

I made my own from scratch at one point. Perks of being a sound designer lol.

portal radio song

It’s funny how, back in the day, getting a new phone meant immediately going through all the ringtones to pick the one you liked best. Nowadays, most people - myself included - just leave it on the default. I honestly can’t remember the last time I changed a ringtone or message tone. I might have on my old Nokia N73, but not since. The alarm tone I do change, though - I don’t need to be screamed at first thing in the morning. Just the vibration alone is enough to wake me up.

That said, I’ve actually been considering changing the ringtones for both of my SIM cards. Apparently everyone here has a Samsung, and nobody seems to change their ringtone - so every time I’m at the hardware store and a phone rings, you get like seven builders all pulling out their phones at once. Since I don’t particularly enjoy talking on the phone, every time I hear my ringtone - even if it’s from someone else’s phone - it gives me this little PTSD flash.

https://navidrome.30p87.de/share/dKT4RKtkCF

The first sound gives me a heart attack now

I love and use the Unsolved Mysteries intro song for calls, and a generic one from my phone for alarms.

BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP
works every time.

After replacing most of my mid-high frequency hearing (starting from 1000Hz and nosediving thereafter) with tinnitus - no tone, just vibration. Rattling away in the cradle does the job.

On the bright side, I am rarely woken or kept awake by noise.

Birdsong. Sometimes I genuinely can’t tell if it’s real birds or I snoozed my alarm - this morning it was real birds.

I sampled Beastie Boys - Get it Together. The break where Q-Tip says, "Phone is ringing...oh my god", and then a little part of chorus after that "get it together...see what's happening" looped.

The acoustic guitar riff from Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots

https://www.zedge.net/ringtones/aa54599a-d2a9-3e59-b11c-58b00c29d9ae

Rooster alarm. Only thing that wakes me up without pissing me off.

For a while I had Willem Dafoe's "Haaaark! Hark, Triton" speech from The Lighthouse as my wake-up alarm. After a couple glorious weeks of startling awake to the curses of a crazed lighthouse keeper, my partner used the marital veto and I changed it back to the default gentle jingle. Haven't messed with it since.

https://youtu.be/enYdAxVcNZA

Piezo.
Wakes up quickly.

I used to have Buddha Bar - Solitude as my alarm, but after a month or so I found myself associating it with waking up and it lost its calming effect on my morning. I've since resorted back to whatever my phone defaults to for minimum damage to sounds I like.

A cuckoo bird that gradually increases in volume.

Ringtone is some random one on the phone that is not default. I used to have the default but changed it after confusing someone else's for mine.

I have my alarm set to Good Morning Jazz playlist via Spotify.

I prefer it over most other alarms since it's less abrupt.

I also have a smart lamp set to turn on at the same time. It slowly gets brighter at a set schedule.

The discord ringtone special remix

I’m just kinda stuck on whether there is an option to play a non-specific ringtone.

Southwest Airlines "Fasten your seatbelt" chime

Android (Pixel 8) says the name of the alarm I have chosen is "Rad Morning."