topic Re: Emergency Alert in XA Series

Emergency Alert

Lupogirl — Sun, 23 Apr 2023 20:24:43 GMT

Hi,

With the nationwide emergency Alert. It did not come through. I have Xperia XA1 Android 8. Looked at my apps. Had no emergency app. Not sure if it is Sony or the phone company I am with EE that is the issue ?

Any ideas ?

Thanks

Re: Emergency Alert

jumpsuit — Mon, 24 Apr 2023 12:00:22 GMT

Hi @Lupogirl

The option to turn off emergency alerts would be in your settings, not a seperate app.

There could be a couple of reasons why you didn't receive one. It could be your network, however I heard on the News yesterday that only people with Android 10 or newer were receiving the alerts.

Re: Emergency Alert

Lupogirl — Mon, 24 Apr 2023 13:13:34 GMT

I ready a similar thing yesterday about Android 10. Oh well. Will see what happens........

Re: Emergency Alert

HannahEd01 — Mon, 24 Apr 2023 15:59:41 GMT

Hey Lupogirl, the government said it won't be sent to all the nation, only a portion for testing.

Re: Emergency Alert

jumpsuit — Tue, 25 Apr 2023 11:34:36 GMT

Hi @HannahEd01

There were errors in the testing system even amongst those that were selected to receive the test alerts.

An interesting fact for anyone interested...the contract for the test was given to Fujitsu who sub contracted

it to a company called Infosys, a firm run by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's father-in-law in which Sunak's wife

holds millions of pounds worth of shares. 😉