<![CDATA[emergency cell broadcasts need an alarm]]>im from israel so im intimately familiar with Cell Broadcasts (CB), the problem is that in UT it makes the phone vibrate but gives no alarm so its not useful at night when I'm asleep its not the end of the world but its very annoying waking up to the city wide alarm and having only 5-10m to dress myself and head to the bunker instead if the full 45m for example (the time here is valid for Iran, if it was hamas considering where i live the city wide alarm gives 45s and the CB gives 5-8m). I think adding an opt-out alarm is the best course of action the reason for opt-out is that people expect it and having it off by default may cause them to miss it (very easy when asleep but also music, or being away in another room) and maintaining consistancy with android and ios in this one case is a good idea in my opinion because people will expect it but i'd like other thoughts on the matter.

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/topic/12356/emergency-cell-broadcasts-need-an-alarmRSS for NodeWed, 10 Jun 2026 14:20:20 GMTWed, 10 Jun 2026 11:01:19 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to emergency cell broadcasts need an alarm on Wed, 10 Jun 2026 14:10:13 GMT]]>I did find a video of the alarm is question: https://youtu.be/sxF2c_nhiGM?si=nXzZYHBnhjPoy-MQ

EDIT:
I think this is the AOSP files for it: https://android.googlesource.com/platform/packages/apps/CellBroadcastReceiver/+/refs/heads/main/res/raw

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/96574https://forums.ubports.com/post/96574Wed, 10 Jun 2026 14:10:13 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to emergency cell broadcasts need an alarm on Wed, 10 Jun 2026 12:59:42 GMT]]>@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.

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/96573https://forums.ubports.com/post/96573Wed, 10 Jun 2026 12:59:42 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to emergency cell broadcasts need an alarm on Wed, 10 Jun 2026 12:41:44 GMT]]>It definitely needs a loud sound just like on other systems. Is that even an opt-put thing there?
Actually, I don't think I've ever seen one in UT. It's a good thing it actually works. Hopefully we can figure out how to add the sound.
I thinn for now, it'll better to have an Android/iOS phone as secondary device for important things like this.

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