emergency cell broadcasts need an alarm
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@kugiigi it is, altough there is a specific alarm sound on both ios and android ill try to look for it and see what the license is, we should preferably use this alarm sound because people will know exactly whats up its very distinct.
EDIT: i haven't actually optted out myself when i still used android but i know it is possible, ill get back to you on if there some sort of standard don't sue us agreement you agree to first because thats sensible to have for once.
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I did find a video of the alarm is question: https://youtu.be/sxF2c_nhiGM?si=nXzZYHBnhjPoy-MQ
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I think this is the AOSP files for it: https://android.googlesource.com/platform/packages/apps/CellBroadcastReceiver/+/refs/heads/main/res/raw -
@kugiigi okay to summarize this is the AOSP link to the alerts: https://android.googlesource.com/platform/packages/apps/CellBroadcastReceiver/+/refs/heads/main/res/raw
you can turn off alerts in android with no notice so we don't need to necessarily implement that.
a feature in android which we should also implement is opt-in: "Always alert at full volume" which if turned on will override Silent Mode and still do the alarm.
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That should be not hard to do, if we decide which sound to add , i can give a try.
The only thing i don't know is if i can override current sound level.
Also as it uses the desktop notification path we need to add a special flag to do such thing -
I can only share the experience with alarms of other OS on other phones:
The noise is so horrible and disturbing people gets nervous and just dismiss it without reading the text. -
@lduboeuf it should be the standard alert presidential/amber alert sound in my opinion
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@lduboeuf it should be the standard alert presidential/amber alert sound in my opinion
Ah hmm, you mean it plays a sound already ?
i don't remember how i did it -
@ChromiumOS-Guy
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cell_Broadcast_Alert_Tone.oga
There is a standard for the tone as covered on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell_Broadcast#Public_warning_systems -
@sixwheeledbeast yes i meant this when i said standard tone, thank you!
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@ChromiumOS-Guy
I've quickmy looked at the code and we have an alert sound defined ( but that is not the one we expect ).
I wonder if you were on silent mode or very low volume level ?I need now to see if it is easy to bypass any user config
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@lduboeuf For me there was never a tone when a CB alert arrived, no matter if I was in silent or not.
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@lduboeuf For me there was never a tone when a CB alert arrived, no matter if I was in silent or not.
Ok, i will look at it , but my TODO list is quite big
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