Emergency Signal

[Cricketbat70]

Well that frightened the life out of my wife🤣. Just chatting after I got back from London and she didn't know it was happening 5 phones went off in our house. Better than last time, we are on the three network and last time it didn't work for us.

 

[Amormusic]

Mine went off. Mrs on same network got nothing. Son had one but about two mins after me.

Not exactly a roaring success in my house.

 

[nopiano]

Mine went off at 15:01 but then again at 15:17. They must know I’m getting deaf! 😂

 

[Cricketbat70]

Mine went off at 15:01 but then again at 15:17. They must know I’m getting deaf! 😂

🤣🤣

 

[Dave_]

One of the first things I disable whenever I get a new phone....

 

[Al ears]

One of the first things I disable whenever I get a new phone....

Don't think you can disable this one, it goes off even if phone switched to silent...

 

[Dave_]

Don't think you can disable this one, it goes off even if phone switched to silent...

You can. I do. I don't receive them.

There's a setting in the menus to disable emergency alerts (on Android at least)

 

[Angle Poise-Lamp]

You can. I do. I don't receive them.

There's a setting in the menus to disable emergency alerts (on Android at least)

It’s there on iPhones too.

 

[Steve983]

I changed the settings to avoid it. Certainly don't need that while driving and if I need to know when to panic I'll watch the BBC - which I don't.

 

[abacus]

It also wont work if you are in airplane mode.

I leave mine on as you never know what's round the corner.

Bill

 

[nads]

Sorry but why the F would you turn it off , unless it is a hidden secret phone, I found it very useful back in 2019 when the phone alerted us to a massive fire infront of us while driving through Romania.

 

[daytona600]

Compared the broadcast on my Sony & Oppo thought it sounded better on my Sony by a small margin

 

[Dave_]

Sorry but why the F would you turn it off , unless it is a hidden secret phone, I found it very useful back in 2019 when the phone alerted us to a massive fire infront of us while driving through Romania.

I spend approx 1/3 to 1/2 my working day driving, I don't need that kind of distraction whilst doing so.

I live in the UK where in terms of natural disasters we suffer a bit of wind, some flooding and wild fires on occasion.

I don't need the Govt. to warn me of that.

I was unfortunate enough to spend an extended period in the US a while back, where there over use renders them a pointless annoyance at best imo.

 

[Cricketbat70]

I spend approx 1/3 to 1/2 my working day driving, I don't need that kind of distraction whilst doing so.

I live in the UK where in terms of natural disasters we suffer a bit of wind, some flooding and wild fires on occasion.

I don't need the Govt. to warn me of that.

I was unfortunate enough to spend an extended period in the US a while back, where there over use renders them a pointless annoyance at best imo.

I can get that if I was driving so much I wouldn't want a distraction. What I found weird was how much my wife cringed when the phones went off. I thought ity not that loud. Turns out the emergency signal came through on her hearing aids. Now I know if she had an iPhone, calls can be blutoothed direct to the hearing aids but with android phones like we have the app only controls the volume of the hearing aids, so to get the emergency signal blutoothed to her hearing aids from her android phone took her completely by surprise and hurt her ears, can you imagine that if she'd been driving.