Cell Broadcast alerts (Germany)

No message. Xperia 10 III, SFOS 4.4.0.72 - vodafone.de

I was sitting in a meeting with about 20 persons and all of a sudden, all the phones began beeping showing the message. Mine was the only one remaining silent.
Had to answer to some question afterwards and a lot of persons are now curious about SFOS… :smiley:

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No message on GS290 with 02. No message on GS5 on O2. My son with a GS5 running stock android was shocked by some sound (I heard it, sounded like a dying dog). No message. He’s on Winsim (which is an O2 reselller).

Thankfully our Sirens work :slight_smile: I opened the door to show my son what the fuss on his phone was about.

and yes “the bugs are out of control”…

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No message or sound on Sony Xperia XA2, SFOS 4.4.072, Telefónica (1&1)

I have a personal account about two people next to each other with identical phone, software and provider (non-Sailfish) configuration where only one of them received a message. So maybe the telcos need to do some debugging there as well :slight_smile:

FYI there is a means of providing feedback to the authorities via German https://warntag-umfrage.de/ url.

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Also, it has been stated in several places [1] [2] (links are in German) that most providers are using a four-digit message ID for this broadcast and so far only Telekom is using both four-digit and three-digit message IDs.

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Apparently four-digit message IDs are supported in Sailfish 4.4.0.72 Sailfish Community News, 6th Moctober, Sailfish OS 4.4.0.72

Can anyone confirm this?

Looks to me as if this patch has been merged only recently. Thus, it’s not been rolled out yet.

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“Please Jolla-Team, …”: It works on my phones for a long long time. Portugal, MEO/Altice and NOS, X, XA2 family, and if I remember right, JP1…

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Right, thanks for clarification. This could very likely then be the reason why my phone did not show anything, as my provider is not Telekom.

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I’d wish it would be that easy, but no: I’m on Telekom (well, congstar, actually) and received no message.

I’m afraid that is not the case. It seems the commit mentioned in the community newsletter did not make it to the 4.4.0.72 release. You can check the changelog yourself, there is no mention of cell broadcast channels: [Changelog] Vanha Rauma 4.4.0

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On the other hand, the information is slightly misleading. One of the articles I shared claims that Telekom is testing three-digit IDs, the other one quotes Telekom saying that 919 is used only for real emergencies and never for testing ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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No message. Xperia 10 III, SFOS 4.4.0.72 - [maxxim.de] (O2-reseller)

Got this with xperia 10 iii SFOS 4.4.0.72 dualsim t-mobile and o2 no sound :

I don’t

How could it have been a.cell broadcast message given the date of my post.

Although: Mobile was off today untill 1 pm. No message. Vodafone Germany

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No message (or sound) on Xperia 10ii with 4.4.0.72 provider Telekom. However some people in the same room also with Telekom but different operating system did also not receive it.

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Same same here (Sony 10 II, latest 4.4.0.72 with Congstar / DT provider) no cell broadcast received or eventually send to /dev/null on the device.

And don’t forget to give your feedback to https://warntag-umfrage.de/ as mentioned earlier.

I’ve received no cell broadcast as well. XA2 with 4.4.0.72 with the provider congstar (T-Mobile reseller)

Same here:
no message with Xperia 10ii, SFOS 4.4.0.72 and Congstar SIM,
but perfect message with Xperia 10iii, SFOS 4.4.0.72 and Vodafone SIM

No Broadcast Message, Provider o2 Germany, Mobile Sony XA2, SFOS 4.4.0.72