Do you turn your cell phone off at bedtime?

[BRD@66]

Like I do.
Or did the "blue alert" alarm wake you at 4 a.m., a couple of nights ago?

 

[ILexpatriot]

I don't. But mine automatically switches to vibrate during sleeping hours. The wife has hers set to receive every type of alert, and is usually set to BLAST. It woke us up, but the fact that we had no idea what "blue alert" was interrupted our sleep a lot more than the noise..

 

[striker55]

"Do not disturb" between 8pm and 5am, favorite contacts can call. If the same number calls a few times it's supposed to ring, could be an emergency. People I know know my schedule.

 

[majormadmax]

"Do not disturb" between 8pm and 5am, favorite contacts can call. If the same number calls a few times it's supposed to ring, could be an emergency. People I know know my schedule.

Same here, but both the wife and I got the "Blue Alert" (if that is what it was, I silenced it without reading) the other night.

I can only receive call/message notifications from my immediate family and TXSG leadership (both up and down my chain) after 10pm and before 5am.

 

[Lead Belly]

"Seth, go home"
That was the consensus the other night when they blasted the Blue Alert Statewide before dawn.

 

[Txhillbilly]

Always turn mine off. No matter what happens, it can wait till I wake up!

 

[ZX9RCAM]

Leave it on.
Oldest daughter has medical issues, so need to be able to be reached.

Did not receive an alert.

I've not gotten one of those in quite a while.

 

[Lonesome Dove]

Yep.
ifn ya call and dont leave a message or TEXT the call didn't really matter.

 

[Tnhawk]

My phone stays on 24/7 and gets messages although I'm not likely to call back then.
I have returned a few calls at 1-3 am to let the caller know I wasn't interested in selling the home they called about several times earlier in the day.

 

[Havok1]

I keep my phone on. I just don’t receive those alerts.

 

[single stack]

I usually shut off the ringer about 4pm and turn it back on in the morning.

 

[no2gates]

Mine is on a schedule to go on Do-Not-Disturb from 8:00pm to 8:00am
My thought it that my wife and kids are here so I would hear something if I needed to address it.
If one of my family had an emergency or whatever, I'm not a doctor, so I can't help, and if they're dead, they'll still be dead when I wake up, so why ruin a good night sleep?

 

[vmax]

Mine is on "Do not disturb" from 930pm -600 am

Only my immediate family and one friends phone calls or text will come thru during that time

 

[Gordo]

I always leave mine on, so that the ATF & FBI can listen to me snore.

 

[toddnjoyce]

I have all those public safety alerts disabled so I never hear them. Ever.

Sleep mode is on 9p-6a. Only calls from a very short list of people come thru.

My “wake up” criteria is much tighter than it was during my .mil days.

 

[General Zod]

I leave mine on. Never know when there might be a late-night emergency call from one of the kids or my sister. But I turned those damn alerts off.

My wife leaves hers on, because she's got responsibilities if an alarm goes off at the store (like the night all of the frozen food coolers shut off - that trips an alarm and she gets a phone call from the alarm company and has to go in with the other managers to try to save the food). She didn't have that alert turned off, so it woke both of us up. On the upside, since I was already awake I didn't have to worry about my alarm fifteen minutes later.

 

[Army 1911]

I have to leave mine on for glucose monitoring. Didn't receive any blue alert though.

 

[wakosama]

of course not. the alarm tells the dogs it's time to start whining for food.

 

[TX oddball]

I don't have a landline, my phone is usually on while I sleep. Alerts are turned off, the few I can get, but my phone is also not a smartphone, it is a flip style phone with no data, just texts and voice calls. I don't get spam calls, the only texts I might get late at night might be from my son. Plus I keep my phone in the kitchen at night, same place on the counter top.

 

[Shady]

meh I have no friends or family so I leave my phone on all the time just in case someone has pity on me and calls me. Its even nice to hear from a telemarketer at 3AM