The Cell Broadcast story
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@kristatos said in The Cell Broadcast story:
@lduboeuf Yes, if have two SIM-cards and both are activated. I can have CB-settings seperate for both of them, but both have this "Cell Broadcast disabled".
Which device ?. It could be also a device config missing
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@lduboeuf Thanks will have a look for it. Never botherd about it till now
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@lduboeuf Volla Phone (not Volla22)
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@kristatos said in The Cell Broadcast story:
@lduboeuf Volla Phone (not Volla22)
Maybe ask for support there ? If its device specific ?, or there anything that needs to be done with your provider ?
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@lduboeuf After the anouncment of cell brodcast tests in the UK I decided to wait for OTA-25 to land before looking any further.
My Volla Phone X took the update today and everything appears to be OK..... apart from I can't find cell broadcast in System Settings. Where should it be?
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@Ian said in The Cell Broadcast story:
@lduboeuf After the anouncment of cell brodcast tests in the UK I decided to wait for OTA-25 to land before looking any further.
My Volla Phone X took the update today and everything appears to be OK..... apart from I can't find cell broadcast in System Settings. Where should it be?
Cell Broadcast is only available on 20.04...
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@lduboeuf Thank goodness for that. I thought either I was going gaga or there was a fault with my phone.
I will try updating before the test.... but I was waiting for OTA-2 with a fix for hotspot. I will just have to manage without that feature until the update arrives.
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@Ian System Settings, Notifications, Emergency Broadcast. Took me a bit of time too.
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@Lakotaubp Thanks. I'll try to upgrade before the 23rd of April and have a look then.
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@Ian said in The Cell Broadcast story:
@Lakotaubp Thanks. I'll try to upgrade before the 23rd of April and have a look then.
I will post here again some instructions to have debugs logs. I will not be available around 23rd of April. Hope it will work that time.
We already had 2 tests failures and 1 success on 20.04. But we need to add more debug logs in case of failure. -
For the next tests, make sure you will be updated to the latest devel 20.04 before .
To make sure all channels are subscribed, toggle on all items in System Settings->Notifications->Emergency BroadcastDepending of the Level of Cell Broadcast Message, the notification can be either a persistent popup with loud vibration in case of real emergency test or a simple notification with usual sound just like normal if the message is considered as a "Test" ( i know Android do it differently for that one, we should change it ).
Notifications can be seen in indicator and messaging app.If nothing received there should be a log that can be caught with :
sudo journalctl | grep CBSPlease report here if any success ( screenshots) or failure ( logs )
I will not be available during the UK test . Finger cross for you ^ ^
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@lduboeuf My current plan is to back up my data then do a clean install of 20.04 OTA-1 on my Volla Phone X next Friday or Saturday. I then plan to switch to the dev channel to be ready for the test on Sunday in the UK at 3 pm.
EDIT : I see you have edited your post, thanks for the clarification.
Please ignore the remainder of this paragraph. Will the above mentioned merge be in the dev channel or do I need to do it manualy? If so can you point me at some guidance on this please?After the test I then hope to do a clean install of OTA-1 and hope it is stable enough ro use as a daily driver.... if it is not then I will roll back to 16.04 OTA-25 and restote my data.
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hope OTA-1 is stable enough ro use as a daily driver.
OTA-1 is the beginning of focal. OTA-2 will have more stability. But Xenial level stability should be for OTA-3 for what i know. In any case, OTA-1 does not have the hotspot operational.
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@domubpkm It is the hotspot I will miss, but if OTA-2 is not too far away I think I can manage.
As I say I plan to stick with 20.04 if it works for me as a daily driver (note to self: must get a BT keyboard for my fat fingers).
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@Ian You shouldn't miss Tedit either because no official .click yet
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@Ian said in The Cell Broadcast story:
@lduboeuf My current plan is to back up my data then do a clean install of 20.04 OTA-1 on my Volla Phone X next Friday or Saturday. I then plan to switch to the dev channel to be ready for the test on Sunday in the UK at 3 pm.
EDIT : I see you have edited your post, thanks for the clarification.
Please ignore the remainder of this paragraph. Will the above mentioned merge be in the dev channel or do I need to do it manualy? If so can you point me at some guidance on this please?After the test I then hope to do a clean install of OTA-1 and hope it is stable enough ro use as a daily driver.... if it is not then I will roll back to 16.04 OTA-25 and restote my data.
The mentionned Merge request as just landed in devel so nothing need to be done more than switching to devel ;-).
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@lduboeuf My Volla Phone X is running 20.04 dev channel r725 amd I heard nothing.... other than my wife's Android phone.
All the alerts were on in the settings, but both 'Cell Broadcast Enabled' and 'Receive emergeny notifications' were on but greyed out.
I will see what logs I can get.
EDIT: the journalctl returned nothing and I checked through all logs visible in Logviewer and there was nothing either side of 15:00.
I will stay on the dev chanel in case you want me to dig further through the logs. When you say so I will revert to stable.
Further edit: I live near to Newark, which is the back of beyond. Imagine walking from the edge of civilisation towards 'nowhere'. You will walk past Newark
I have just checked my phone status and it claims to be 3g, not 4g so I guess that explains it. I am on the Three network (my wife has recently moved to Virgin who I believe piggy-back the O2 network). -
@Ian Nothing on P3a dev 20.04 also.
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@Ian said in The Cell Broadcast story:
@lduboeuf My Volla Phone X is running 20.04 dev channel r725 amd I heard nothing.... other than my wife's Android phone.
All the alerts were on in the settings, but both 'Cell Broadcast Enabled' and 'Receive emergeny notifications' were on but greyed out.
I will see what logs I can get.
EDIT: the journalctl returned nothing and I checked through all logs visible in Logviewer and there was nothing either side of 15:00.
I will stay on the dev chanel in case you want me to dig further through the logs. When you say so I will revert to stable.
Further edit: I live near to Newark, which is the back of beyond. Imagine walking from the edge of civilisation towards 'nowhere'. You will walk past Newark
I have just checked my phone status and it claims to be 3g, not 4g so I guess that explains it. I am on the Three network (my wife has recently moved to Virgin who I believe piggy-back the O2 network).Bad luck. I don't think 3G/4G have any impact. Cell Broadcast is something that should work for all connectivities.
Now i don't know what to look at. If journalctl doesn't output anything with "CBS".
Could be lots of causes ( modem, layer in between android and UT, upper layers, ... )But i would be interested to see the logs if possible by dm it to me.
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@Lakotaubp nothing in logs ?
