Are you using a specific alarm ringtone, if yes which one?

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

I use a 14400 baud handshake.

BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP
works every time.

https://youtu.be/enYdAxVcNZA

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Piezo.
Wakes up quickly.

Shower scene theme from psycho. The idea was it would be shocking enough to wake me up every time. After some years it doesn't work anymore but it's still annoying enough to force my brain to wake up and turn it off (eventually).

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.

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.

Southwest Airlines "Fasten your seatbelt" chime

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.

Birdsong.

A few times I've had to use my alarm when other people are sleeping and it usually wakes me up (because I'm used to it) without waking anyone else up too.

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

Talk radio station. Starts at low volume and builds up slowly. Calm voices are the most relaxed sound to wake up to. Tried all sorts of other sounds and they're all too abrasive to wake up to.

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

This one

My alarm is the spiderman pizza theme earrape version

Its less about being so loud it wakes me up (but it's one of the reason), its more of I don't want to bother my sibling sleeping next to me.

Always gets me up to turn it off, and now i get ptsd just hearing the pizza theme normally. Like increased heart rate, the urge to mute or turn it off, idk wtf happened but i will have a weird reaction just hearing it normally in a youtube video and instantly closing the video

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

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

The OnePlus dynamic ringtone because I hate it: Youtube - Dynamic Ringtone

Hello Goodbye ringtone chime for 20+ yrs solid now. Target tried to make it theirs for a quick min but that was short lived.

Usually some song I like, currently: Yorushika - Sunny.

portal radio song

I use Runnin' Thru the 7th with My Woadies - $uicideboy$. The intro starts soft and takes about 30 seconds to fully build up.

Phone is on silent 100%.

I use Dark Anthem by Apparat because it makes me feel like I'm in another world which is a nice step down from dream land.

*but lately it's been the Pile Driver that starts doing it's thing a block away from me at 7am while they upgrade the street there.

Avengers theme ring tone. Captain America theme alarm.

Default, baby!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5i9E6zAhvp8

My calendar notification yells "BINGLYBINGLYBINGLYBLEEP" and my ringtone is Reynolds and Farrell singing Grace Kelly. Text notification is the old HTC one. I've noticed I'm not the only one who still uses that one.

R2D2 happy noises

I wake up 10 minutes before I need to get up so I almost never set alarms

This one during the week https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmpYEzKkV7s

This one if I need to be up for anything I'm doing at the weekend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyqVKMhn000

The discord ringtone special remix

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.

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

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

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.

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!