Emergency Alert

[Beachball]

On my wife phone the alarm went off just before 3pm but my phone did not go off .

 

[Bluetonic]

Actually both our Android phones are updated regularly so no complaints there. In our case I suspect it is the network and not the phone.

Reading your previous posts I see that you are connected via WiFi rather than to a mast. This my be the issue as from my understanding the alert comes via a phone mast not broadband. Alerts can be triggered from a single mast for local warnings. So if your phone cannot "see" the mast it may as well be switched off

 

[Buckman]

Reading your previous posts I see that you are connected via WiFi rather than to a mast. This my be the issue as from my understanding the alert comes via a phone mast not broadband. Alerts can be triggered from a single mast for local warnings. So if your phone cannot "see" the mast it may as well be switched off

We use the wifi connection for Whatsapp, messages, texts, voice calls etc so would have thought an emergency alert will come through?

 

[Bluetonic]

We use the wifi connection for Whatsapp, messages, texts, voice calls etc so would have thought an emergency alert will come through?

I would think not.
The alert comes from the local phone mast. Your broadband connectio is to a server many miles away (I am in Leicester and my connectio via internet is to Maidenhead.
As your phone is not connected to the 3G/4G/5G /SMS network at home I don't see how it would receive the alert

 

[Bluetonic]

This is from a Canadian site, but will be the same in the UK

 

[Buckman]

I would think not.
The alert comes from the local phone mast. Your broadband connectio is to a server many miles away (I am in Leicester and my connectio via internet is to Maidenhead.
As your phone is not connected to the 3G/4G/5G /SMS network at home I don't see how it would receive the alert

Thanks. I think our area is still 2G or maybe 3G. If I go outside and walk up the slight incline I may get a signal, but not always as it does seem to depend on the weather. Although in a rural area. we are just over 6 miles from the city centre.

 

[Gafferbill]

.....my phone received the alert whilst only connected to my home broadband WiFi.