<![CDATA[Emergency broadcast]]>Hello,

I been using the Volla phone with Ubuntu Touch as main device for over a half year. Loving it so far.

I have noticed that I don't recieve emergency broadcasts/messages. I also cant find a way to configure that.

Is this feature planned in the future? Or is it already there?

I do think this might be a important feature, incase of a big emergency like a super dangerous storm or a toxic fire nearby!

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/topic/7474/emergency-broadcastRSS for NodeFri, 06 Mar 2026 05:33:33 GMTSat, 19 Feb 2022 13:21:47 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Emergency broadcast on Sat, 19 Feb 2022 21:51:46 GMT]]>@ian said in Emergency broadcast:

Has this feature been coded in UT?

Emergency Broadcast messages support has not been integrated into UT as of yet. Indeed, I know of no other non-Android Linux OSes or shells that have them yet either.

However, ofono does have some API for them, so it should be possible to do the work for them in UT. It just needs someone to spend the time to do all the work. I don't know if ModemManager has any support for them at all though, so implementing them for other shells may be even more work.

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/62107https://forums.ubports.com/post/62107Sat, 19 Feb 2022 21:51:46 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Emergency broadcast on Sat, 19 Feb 2022 22:23:22 GMT]]>@ian said in Emergency broadcast:

@keneda Soon to be released in the UK (early 2022) so maybe we aren't as backward as I thought we were. We just need newer phones apparently.... and it will only work on 4G and 5G phones here.

That would be good news if we had widespread mobile coverage, which of course we don't, so in reality it is just another money wasting token gesture.

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/62091https://forums.ubports.com/post/62091Sat, 19 Feb 2022 22:23:22 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Emergency broadcast on Sat, 19 Feb 2022 15:31:53 GMT]]>@keneda Soon to be released in the UK (early 2022) so maybe we aren't as backward as I thought we were. We just need newer phones apparently.... and it will only work on 4G and 5G phones here.

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/62087https://forums.ubports.com/post/62087Sat, 19 Feb 2022 15:31:53 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Emergency broadcast on Sat, 19 Feb 2022 15:29:09 GMT]]>@ian
Well, only five countries in Europe (Lituania, Italia, Greece, Netherlands, and Romania) implemented this messaging alert system, and in France (where government tried to force their own app and failed badly), it'll be activated this summer !

https://www.lemonde.fr/pixels/article/2020/09/25/comment-fonctionnera-le-systeme-d-alerte-par-telephone-annonce-par-le-gouvernement_6053656_4408996.html

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/62086https://forums.ubports.com/post/62086Sat, 19 Feb 2022 15:29:09 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Emergency broadcast on Sat, 19 Feb 2022 14:56:55 GMT]]>@quget What can I say other than the UK is a backward country! I live here so I should know.

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/62078https://forums.ubports.com/post/62078Sat, 19 Feb 2022 14:56:55 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Emergency broadcast on Sat, 19 Feb 2022 14:27:53 GMT]]>It get tested every six months here in the Netherlands 🙂
It's called NL-Alert here and should work on even android 7.1.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NL-Alert

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/62075https://forums.ubports.com/post/62075Sat, 19 Feb 2022 14:27:53 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Emergency broadcast on Sat, 19 Feb 2022 13:37:50 GMT]]>Never heard of this feature so I had a look on Duck duck go. For the UK I found this explanation.

https://www.gov.uk/alerts/how-alerts-work

Which contains the following

Phone handsets and devices
Make sure your device has all the latest software updates.

Emergency alerts work on:

iPhones running iOS 14.5 or later
Android phones and tablets running Android 11 or later
If you have an earlier version of Android, you may still be able to receive alerts. To check, search your settings for ‘emergency alerts’.

Has this feature been coded in UT?

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