Alerts today

TadleyBaggie

aardvaak said:

I turned off at 14.59 a little late my OH's had already gone off early so I hope I am ok

Why wouldn't you be OK, what harm did you think the alert would cause?

matelodave

Bit of a non-event. I didn't see people running down the road screaming and crying. Bit disappointed really 

TadleyBaggie

There is already a post on Pepipoo from a motorist who heard the alert, picked up the phones as they "feared for their life" and got pulled by the plod.

Undervalued

aardvaak said:

flaneurs_lobster said:

Semi-serious point, I'm guessing that the alert would activate on a 4/5G device regardless of the presence or not of a SIM? 

How would it pick it up without a SIM?

A mobile phone can still make emergency Calls (999 and 112) without a sim card so it can still communicate with the network.

Newcad

TadleyBaggie said:

There is already a post on Pepipoo from a motorist who heard the alert, picked up the phones as they "feared for their life" and got pulled by the plod.

Was he distracted by his phone or by the pig flying overhead?

(In case you haven't guessed I reckon that's a bit of fake news)

Rodders53

Both of ours went off together.  (Same mobile network & tower as that is likely to make some difference).  Message on mine states  @ 14:59.

Stupid loud noise (slightly different between a Nokia and Samsung) plus the text box alert.  Tapped <OK> to silence and the :censored: text box disappeared. Took me an age to find where in the phone it was stored in order it to read it properly.

IF that's how it's intended to work someone needs a good <insert your choice of punishment here>.  

Grey_Critic

My Brand New phone went off driving into town with very heavy traffic. Did not see any panics or accidents. Not paricularly loud but the real problem will be getting people to read the message

RumRat

Sarahspangles said:

The stuff I want to know is:

* Will it knock everyone's Aunt Marge of a live mobile call?
* Will long-retired Nokias at the back of drawers come back to life?
* How bonkers are next door's dogs going to go?

Read the original thread on the subject....

Le_Kirk

Grey_Critic said:

My Brand New phone went off drivinh into two with very heavy traffic. Dis not drr sny panics or accidents. Not paricularly loud but the real problem woll be geyying people to readthe message

Screwed your keyboard though!

greyteam1959

Le_Kirk said:

Grey_Critic said:

My Brand New phone went off drivinh into two with very heavy traffic. Dis not drr sny panics or accidents. Not paricularly loud but the real problem woll be geyying people to readthe message

Screwed your keyboard though!

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