Emergency Alarm

[Rod Speed]

If its a nuclear warning, it will always be too late

[Rod Speed]

That's not hacking into.

[Michael Chare]

Look if you have an alert history, (such as I have.)

[SteveW]

I happened to be at my parents' at the time. My alert arrived around 15 to 20 seconds before my father's.

[Chris Hogg]

On the Beeb this morning, they said that the people who didn't get the alert were mostly on the Three network. EE is in there somewhere, as is BT. I didn't get the alert and I'm with Smarty, which I understand is owned by Three. Three are investigating, apparently.

[Tricky Dicky]

We dined out on Sunday and because we may still have been in the restaurant during the alert, left our phones at home. When we got back both phones displayed the alert message, we have Moto 5G on EE. As it happened we left the restaurant just before 15:00 so no idea how many phones went off.

[NY]

My phone sounded twice: once at about 15:02 and then again at about 15:20. I'd acknowledged the first alert by pressing its OK button and the message had disappeared from my screen. But when I heard the noise again, I checked and there was the message.

My wife's comment: "Not a very loud sound - I was expecting a siren noise. In an emergency I think I'd have ignored the noise it made."

[Tim+]

There’s no pleasing some folk…

Tim

[Max Demian]

I do, but it's deeply buried in the settings menus, as is how to set the notification.

[John Rumm]

It worked on mine, and that is running Android 9

[Ottavio Caruso]

Ok boomer.

(or should I say bummer?)

[Brian Gaff]

No, I had been warned about it and found it all rather underwhelming when it came after all the hype, it was a bit like a vehicle reversing sound.

Brian

[Brian Gaff]

2 things, it was not very loud or very long. It needs to be both, I'd have thought. Its supposed to work on any phone which can play samples, ie not just a puny pre set bleaper, though the text should arrive OK. Brian

[Andy Burns]

pre-11 it's suck it and see

[ARW]

I have flood alerts for the local Scout Hut. It has been used once.

[Sam Plusnet]

Seems like a waste. Can't you share it with the Girl Guides?

[Harry Bloomfield Esq]

It came through on one phone here at 14.58, then on a second phone at

15:09. Not sure it would work too well as a 2 minute warning, of a nuclear attack and to take cover..

[ARW]

And what would you hide behind to protect you from a megaton nuclear blast:-)

Note the smiley.

[Rod Speed]

A concrete slab would avoid the flash burns.

This is no laughing matter, boy.

[charles]

According to "Beyond the Fringe". you get into a large brown paper bag and hop round to your nearest Civil Defence Warden who will tell you exactly what you can do..