Welcome to the15:00 Alert Party

[PeteXXX]

Countdown is on..........

 

[figbat]

There was post on Facebook being shared about how to prevent a hidden phone from alerting. This was to safeguard anyone in a potentially abusive relationship or other similar situation with a secret phone.

 

[PeteXXX]

That is the other side of things, I'm sure the government thought of that before pinging everyone's phone randomly 🤞

I admire your optimism..

 

[Big John]

Our alerts never went off. Bugger. Me and the missus were looking forward to that bit of excitement and it never happened 🙁

 

[geocycle]

Our alerts never went off. Bugger. Me and the missus were looking forward to that bit of excitement and it never happened 🙁

Me neither, I was on Wi-Fi calling, Mrs G had the slimmest of signals and got it.

 

[PeteXXX]

I'm gonna say no more as I want to keep the thread NACA free

On a technical side though I was out of phone signal most of the weekend, campsite I was at had some limited EE but nothing else, and also said if an emergency to come to the house and use the landline. How would that work, would the phone piggy back onto the limited EE network to get the alert or would everyone not on EE miss it?

OK 👌
I'm sure there'll be a lot of analysis off the exercise.. Many didn't get any alerts on the last one, either.

 

[PeteXXX]

MrsPete turned her phone off. When she started it at about 15:15 it went Arooogah Arooogah
😂

 

[Drago]

I disabled the alerts on my phone,

 

[Big John]

I disabled the alerts on my phone,

I thought this was supposed to override whatever settings we'd all got on our phones. I always have alerts switched off for all apps and so does the wife. No wonder we didn't get it. Come the day the bomb goes off I'll not get my three minute warning. Bugger.

 

[DCLane]

Mine didn't. Because I've turned the alerts off. Can't be bothered with them.

SWMBO's vibrated and son no. 2's went off.

 

[Regular.Cyclist]

My two EE phones went off at almost exactly 3pm. The Lebara one went off just after 3:15pm. My wife has an ID Mobile SIM that didn’t go off.

 

[classic33]

Nowt here, but all alerts turned off/disabled anyway.

 

[Drago]

I thought this was supposed to override whatever settings we'd all got on our phones. I always have alerts switched off for all apps and so does the wife. No wonder we didn't get it. Come the day the bomb goes off I'll not get my three minute warning. Bugger.

Nah, you can specifically disabke alerts.

 

[figbat]

I thought this was supposed to override whatever settings we'd all got on our phones. I always have alerts switched off for all apps and so does the wife. No wonder we didn't get it. Come the day the bomb goes off I'll not get my three minute warning. Bugger.

There are app-based notifications and there are emergency alerts. The latter are dealt with in a different setting to the app-based ones.

 

[HLaB]

Has the world ended? Who pushed the button, Putin, Xi Jinping, Trump ?