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Post by ChrisM on Apr 23, 2023 14:56:18 GMT
Due to family birthdays around and including today, both my daughters are with us. None of us received the emergency alert at 3pm, in fact having psyched ourselves up for government intervention with celebrations, I suddenly realised at about 3.20pm that none of our phones had gone off.
Mixture of 3, iD mobile, Tesco, Lebara.
Did you receive thd alert or not?
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Post by LandieMark on Apr 23, 2023 15:00:40 GMT
Got the alert just before 3pm. EE on a Samsung. Some phones have them turned off by default, in any event.
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Post by Bob Sacamano v2.0 on Apr 23, 2023 15:01:24 GMT
Yeah, all our phones on Vodafone and O2 went off. Bit of anticlimax really.
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Post by LandieMark on Apr 23, 2023 15:02:46 GMT
I'll just use the alert to tell me to go to the pub. 🤣
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Post by Roadrunner on Apr 23, 2023 15:40:22 GMT
Ours all went off as we were driving back from the Alvis Owner Club Drive It Day event. I barely heard it above the rasp of the 12/50's exhaust.
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Post by Eff One on Apr 23, 2023 16:51:39 GMT
Mine didn't sound, I gather that a high percentage of 3 customers were affected.
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Post by Boxer6 on Apr 23, 2023 17:40:38 GMT
Mine on Vodafone went off, Herself's on Tesco, didn't. Both Samsung's, albeit different models.
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Post by Martin on Apr 23, 2023 18:24:17 GMT
Mix of EE and Vodafone in the car, all went off between 2:59-3:02
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Post by Bob Sacamano v2.0 on Apr 23, 2023 18:57:30 GMT
I’m laughing at people on the news complaining they never got the alert. Yes, that’s why they do tests..🙄
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Post by Deleted on Apr 23, 2023 19:26:17 GMT
Gifgaf, no message. As mentioned a test to find the problems, not foolproof.
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Post by Andy C on Apr 23, 2023 20:28:01 GMT
I'm on 02 and didn't get anything. I was at Donington, and people close by had the alert at 2.59
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Post by Deleted on Apr 23, 2023 23:26:16 GMT
Just heard the bleep bleep cee news suggest only smart phones were targetted, Rules mine out then.
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Post by Tim on Apr 24, 2023 6:53:59 GMT
I'm on Tesco and got the message 3 minutes after Mrs Tim and her friend.
Seems likely that delay will mean I'll be waiting outside the bunker while they're all safely inside!
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Post by Big Blue on Apr 24, 2023 7:06:21 GMT
How many of those that didn’t get it had emergency unknowingly had alerts turned off? On iPhones it sits at the bottom of the Notifications section of General settings.  Given it came at half time of an hilarious Spurs thrashing I enjoyed the various memes and Twitter comments.  |
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Post by johnc on Apr 24, 2023 8:06:51 GMT
We were in Ikea at the time. A whole load of phones went off at 3pm but our Vodafone ones didn't, until about 2 or 3 minutes later. Maybe there is a pre-selection of who should get to safety first. My daughter who is on 3 got nothing.
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Post by Big Blue on Apr 24, 2023 8:58:46 GMT
I pointed out to W2.1 that it’s difficult for cells to handle all phones at once in densely populated areas so that would surely have an effect. Anyone that’s tried using O2 at the Emirates stadium knows what I’m on about 😖
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Post by Blarno on Apr 24, 2023 9:23:23 GMT
Nothing for Phoebe and I, on Three. Jo and Lottie got theirs though.
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Post by woofwoof on Apr 24, 2023 9:37:03 GMT
My phone was turned off all day so I turned it on this morning and there was no trace of any message. Same for Mrs WW.
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Post by Bob Sacamano v2.0 on Apr 24, 2023 13:38:22 GMT
My phone was turned off all day so I turned it on this morning and there was no trace of any message. Same for Mrs WW. Good job there wasn't an emergency like a tidal wave or something, you'd be underwater and we'd all be on higher ground. |
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Post by woofwoof on Apr 24, 2023 18:44:52 GMT
My phone was turned off all day so I turned it on this morning and there was no trace of any message. Same for Mrs WW. Good job there wasn't an emergency like a tidal wave or something, you'd be underwater and we'd all be on higher ground. Do you ever get a feeling you're missing out on something? That everyone's gone to a party and you're not invited? That sort of thing? These days I just don't care  |
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Post by Alex on Apr 25, 2023 5:46:27 GMT
I pointed out to W2.1 that it’s difficult for cells to handle all phones at once in densely populated areas so that would surely have an effect. Anyone that’s tried using O2 at the Emirates stadium knows what I’m on about 😖 Vodafone are no better there. Doesn't help that you're in a big concrete bowl. Mine went off. I was at the gym avoiding having to go round the shops with my teenage daughters and everyone around me had their phone go off but as we all had them linked to headphones it didn't make much of a fuss. |
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Post by racingteatray on Apr 25, 2023 21:12:37 GMT
We were in a pub in the Cotswolds having lunch with friends and absolutely riveted as to what would happen at 3pm because randomly David Cameron and his wife and kids were having lunch on the next door table and there were four security officers lunching in the other corner of the room. However, at 2.55pm they all suddenly upped and left.
So we got the chorus of alerts without any concern that it would turn into a Cotswolds version of that scene in Kingsman where Colin Firth goes into slaughter mode in a church.
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Post by PG on Apr 30, 2023 9:10:05 GMT
They must really want to save me. I got it twice.
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