Customer Reviews

Silent Vibrating Personal Alarm Clock "Shake-N-Wake"

5 star:		(13)
4 star:		(17)
3 star:		(14)
2 star:		(2)
1 star:		(19)

 

 

I just bought a shake-n-wake through Amazon, and also was troubled by the hourly chime, the "major design flaw" mentioned in another review.

I discovered that pressing the "Time Set" and "Mode" button simultaneously toggles the hourly chime on and off. When the date display indicates "SU MO TU WE TH FR SA" after pressing these buttons simultaneously, the hourly chime is on. The date display will go blank after toggling the hourly chime off.

You surely will want to turn the hourly chime off. Your local church may get away with ringing its bells every hour, but your shake-n-wake must not. It is disappointing that the instructions do not mention this feature, and that customer support was not able to help the person who wrote the earlier review.

My kid wears hearing aids, due to severe hearing loss, so she finds it hard to wake up to an alarm. I found this item on Amazon.com and have had a lot of success with it. Once we set the time and alarm time, there is a switch on or off, that my daughter uses to activate it. She puts it on her arm, and is vibrates continually until she turns it off. She has noticed that it also vibrates every hour, a few quick vibrations, then off on it's own ~ not sure how to turn that feature off, but other than that we love it. She has her independence without waking up the rest of the house to loud obnoxious alarms or one of us having to get up to wake her up.

I'm an Amazon Prime Member and purchase a lot of things. This by far has been my best purchase; because it changes how your entire day goes from the moment you wake up.

I have had this alarm clock for about 2 months now. My Wife and I just had a baby recently and she sleeps beside our bed for the time being; the baby, not the wife. Before I got this Vibrating Alarm Clock I used my usual phone alarm clock to wake me up. I'm hard to wake up too. The phone would go off and wife would wake up, dogs would wake up, baby would obviously wake up and in a panic, I'm trying to shut off my phone in a dizzy haze. Sometimes hitting the snooze and repeating if it didn't happen to wake everyone up the first time, or the phone would just lock up and not go off and I would be late to work. Talk about rough mornings.

Now with the Shake-n-Wake Alarm Clock I wear it on my wrist at night. I wake up very early in the morning to run before I go to work. It vibrates and wakes me up without fail every single time without startling me. I'm not in a panic to shut it off in fear of waking everyone up. I get in my run before work and the rest of the day is splendid, not to mention the wife, and baby get to sleep a few more hours.

A few people have mentioned the hourly alarm annoyance flaw. Not a flaw, just an option. Maybe the flaw was it was left out of some of the instructions. I shut it off day one and it never comes back. Just pressing the "Time Set" and "Mode" button simultaneously toggles the hourly chime on and off. When the date display indicates "SU MO TU WE TH FR SA" after pressing these buttons simultaneously, the hourly chime is on. The date display will go blank after toggling the hourly chime off. Very easy, not worth even close to trashing this product over that.

I've also heard people complain about the arm strap. I've not had any problems with mine and wearing it 5 days a week for 2 months now and does not look to be wearing out. I imagine if it does ever break I will quickly be at the fabric store fix it or make a new one. I love this thing and after my baby moves to her nursery, I'm sure I'll still be wearing it. Even if I'm alone in bed, I'll probably still use it, because even as hard as it is to wake me up with a loud alarm clock, the Shake-n-Wake wakes me up nice and easy.

I recommend this product!

I have to wake up early for work and I hate having a loud alarm that wakes up my girlfriend as well, so I was delighted when she bought me this.

It is a little bit on the loud side, but generally not loud enough to wake up my girlfriend who sleeps right next to me.

I typically strap the alarm to my ankle to ensure that I feel it going off (I sleep heavily). I find the strap too annoying to wear on my wrist, but it's fine on my ankle. The clip that attaches to the strap is a bit poorly designed, so it occasionally falls off of me in my sleep -- maybe once per month or less. I have a backup alarm for this situation that I always turn off after the Shake-N-Wake wakes me up.

Recently it started going off every hour and I couldn't use it; the instruction guide does not explain how to turn this setting on or off. Luckily, one of the other Amazon reviewers explained how to do so: you just press Reset/Time Set and Mode simultaneously. When the hourly alarm is turned on, it will show SU M TU W TH F SA at the top as you hold these two buttons; when you deactivate it, it will show no days while you are holding the buttons. Thanks for figuring this out, other reviewer!

If the buzzing was a little less loud I'd give this a 5-star rating, but it suits my needs well, and it may the case for heavier sleepers that the louder buzzing is useful. I can imagine that it would be very useful for people who:
1) Sleep with a partner but don't want to wake up the partner
2) Are heavy sleepers who will be more likely to wake up with a physical component to their alarm
3) Want to sleep/take naps in certain situations without a loud alarm going off, like on a plane, waiting for a bus, etc.

This is a great silent alarm. I get up early to workout and don't want to wake up my wife or 10 month old daughter. This gets the job done and given the size and price point that it's at, this is a bargain.

Alarm clocks make noise and can wake others in the household. I purchased the "SHAKE-N-WAKE" as a vibrating alarm clock. The MAJOR DESIGN FLAW is that it vibrates every hour, on the hour. You can't shut off this feature.

I e-mailed customer support for instructions on disabling the hourly vibration. They sent me back a copy of the manual (that I already had) in which there is no mention of hourly vibrations.

When I asked for a return they replied that the "SHAKE-N-WAKE" was working as intended. Because it was not defective they're going to charge a 10% restocking fee.

An alarm clock that wakes me up 6-8 times throughout the night isn't defective?

This thing is ridiculous. You can read the instructions 100 times and still not be able to set it right. Instructions are confusing, setting buttons do not operate as indicated. You have to press different buttons multiple times in weird sequences to set any functions. Also it will randomly switch to 24 hour mode. Good luck getting out of that. Hold the unit anywhere to change batteries etc and you will end up pushing a button and changing settings. And guess what? Put it under your pillow or on your wrist, and you will also be mashing buttons while your head or your arm moves in your sleep. Who knows when you will wake up? Also these vibrations...we finally got it to vibrate...are really soggy and minimal. I doubt if it would wake up my cat. And the beep? Once again...barely audible. If this thing comes back in stock, don't waste your money! Get an old fashioned wind up alarm clock and put it in your bathtub. It will bash around in there until you get ill with it and get up and turn it off.

Oh, hey, I set it for 7 AM and it just went off at 12:44. FABULOUS!!!

I'm gonna throw this thing out in the street and run over it. WORST ALARM CLOCK EVER.

I bought this alarm clock for my wife, who gets up very early to exercise. The alarm works as desired - it vibrates enough to wake her up but isn't generally disturbing to me, partly because even if I partially awaken, I know that the vibration means that I can keep sleeping! The control buttons aren't amazingly intuitive, so it's easy to forget some of the functions if you don't have the instructions handy, which is why I give it 4 stars instead of 5. However, they're not hard to figure out, so overall I recommend it quite highly.

I find this alarm clock kind of big and having a "soft" shaker. Anyway I find it very useful if you're deaf or just a deep sleeper. Good for traveling because it uses one AAA battery. The beep alarm is kind of low for me. You can't use the beep and the vibrating alarmes at the same time.
Well, I don't find it baaad but is definitely not the best alarm clock ever. It's good.

I purchased this product hoping to use an alarm that wouldn't wake my partner or vice versa when she used it, as we often have to get up at different times.
In an attempt to do this I put the setting on vibrate. Unfortunately on this setting it has a reasonably loud buzzing noise when activated and when you're sleeping next to your partner they're very little chance of sleeping through it. I've found that having my phone alarm on a lower volume is quieter and less likely to wake up my partner. Therefore in my eyes this product fails in what it's designed for in the majority of cases. The strap and alarm are also quite bulky.