A lot, apparently - more than I ever would have guessed.
First of all I tried this on my 1st gen Kindle Fire and have yet to have a problem. Some features like vibration are obviously not going to work, and you have to remember that for an alarm to go off, you need to put the Fire to sleep, rather than powering it off.
So, feature-wise, the first thing you see is basically an unlimited number of timers you can set up and operate simultaneously. Unlike a simple timer where you'd just set the duration every time you start the app, here your timers are remembered, so if you have a regular event you need to time, your setup work is minimized. This might be useful for a teacher, for example.
For each timer you have saved you can choose an icon and a descriptive title, and set the usual features such as whether to vibrate and what sound to play. You can also have the timer repeat automatically at a specified interval. There's a mysterious trigger function I haven't been able to determine the use of, yet. There's a quick-set button that lets you quickly create and start a timer with a handful of common times, but I wish it would be removed from your list of timers after you stop it (at least, optionally).
The timer has a snooze function; when a timer is going off you can have it pause its alarm for a predefined amount of time. I can see this being useful. Sometimes I have a timer going off and can't deal with it right then and need another reminder in a few minutes.
The app also sports an alarm clock mode. Here the features are in line with what you'd expect from a competent alarm clock: you can set multiple alarms to repeat on specific days (or not repeat), choose ringtones and vibration for each, display different icons and names for them, and toggle them on and off without losing their settings.
Finally there is a stopwatch mode with the usual lap functionality. Oddly here though, you can only run one stopwatch at a time. Multiple stopwatches (while perhaps more difficult to operate than a single one!) seem more useful to me than multiple timers.
Other options include different fonts for the numbers, many different settings for the alarm clock such as alarm duration, vibrate pattern, sound fade in, snooze setting and more (interestingly, limited options for stopping the alarm such as flipping the device over or pushing a volume button); options regarding using the status bar; whether or not to automatically start at boot (to make the alarm clock function useful), and even a cloud backup and restore function for your settings.
Rotating the device brings up a larger display of one of your active timers (seems to be the one that is going to expire soonest).
The last use/activation time is shown for your timers and alarms and maintained in a log. Again, not sure how this is useful but it is there.
So now we get to some of the weirdness.
There's a little inconsistency in the user interface. In the timer screen, the device's menu button brings up a menu with preferences, filter, exit, help (the help being very minimal), restart all, and delete all. In the alarm clock or stopwatch mode, however, the menu button does nothing, and instead you have access to a settings button in the upper right of the screen, to get to the preferences, which is not there at all in the timer screen. To get the other options from the main menu you have to go back to the timer screen.
In timer mode there is no quick way to stop/reset a timer. You have to touch the line for the timer and then choose your operation from a menu. It would make sense to me to have a start/stop/pause button always displayed for each timer, so only one press is needed to do the most likely operation.
In stopwatch mode there is a mysterious floppy disk icon. I think all that does is save the time displayed as a timer on the timer screen. What this could be useful for I'm not sure.
Also in timer mode is the mysterious trigger function. The help does not describe it and its functionality is not obvious. WHen I tried it, it just kept re-alarming every few seconds after it went off and it was difficult to make it stop.
The controls to set times are a little weird. In one mode they are very short (vertically) "dial" like controls (similar to normal android number chooser wheels) which are kind of inconvenient. In another mode they take up the whole screen which makes them easier to set although it looks excessive and silly. Functional in either case, just inconsistent.
With those little oddities out of the way however this seems like quite a useful timer app, especially if you need a number of pre-set timers on a regular basis.
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What's new in version 6.8.5- v6.8.5
- Fixed bugs when using on the Android 9/10, such as you can not using Local backup & restore , Reading labels aloud , and Frozen timer digits.
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Product Details
Release Date: 2011
Date first listed on Amazon: March 30, 2011
Developed By: luckyXmobile
ASIN: B004UHL9EK
Customer reviews:
513 customer ratings
513 customer ratings
Product features
- Personalize alarms/timers with individual ringtones or MP3s
- Display elapsed time (count up) or remaining time (countdown)
- Sort timers by label/last used time/timer length
- Sort timer log by Label/Start Time/End Time
- Specify a target time to countdown (like an alarm clock)
Product description
Timers4Me Plus is an easy-to-use count down timer tool to create and manage multiple timers, such as parking timer, cooking timer, working timer, napping timer, sports timer and more. The best timer tool you must have!NO TIMER NUMBER LIMIT,AD FREE AND LESS PERMISSIONS COMPARED TO THE FREE VERSION TIMERS4ME
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Feature List:
Multi-timer support
Support timer up to 99 days 23 hours 59 mins 59 secs
Personalize timer with individual ringtones or mp3s
Display elapsed time(count up)/remaining time(count down)
Simultaneously run multi-timer
Sort timers by label/last used time/timer length
Build-in common used timers
Timer control start/pause/stop/restart/ringtone/vibrate
Quick control menu
Snooze
Timer log
Option to sort timer log by Label/Start Time/End Time
Share timer log via sms/email/twitter/facebook etc.
Clear log
Timer icon/category
Specify a target time to count down(like alarm clock)
Plus version exclusive
* Input label via voice
* Support read label when alarm.
* Export timer log to .csv file.
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Technical details
Size: 21.1MB
Version: 6.8.5
- Access information about networks
- FOREGROUND_SERVICE
- Open network sockets
- Modify global audio settings
- Directly communicate over NFC
- Read from external storage
- Read only access to device state
- Get notified that the operating system has finished booting
- Ignore your battery optimization settings
- Open windows using the type TYPE_SYSTEM_ALERT, shown on top of all other applications
- USE_FULL_SCREEN_INTENT
- Access the vibration feature
- PowerManager WakeLocks to keep processor from sleeping or screen from dimming
- Write to external storage
- com.android.alarm.permission.SET_ALARM
- Allows installation of home screen shortcuts
- Allows an application to read device settings
Minimum Operating System: Android 4.1
Approximate Download Time: Less than 3 minutes
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Best for BBQ! Example, set 2:22 to turn your filet... And if you miss by a few seconds there next timer/turn keeps counting. I've been using this timer for 3 models of cell phones... This about 7 years!
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