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Indeed. Thank you so much for grapheneos which allows me to completely disable these annoyances. That was one of the first things I did after installing the OS on my phone.

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Daniel Micay

@DanielMicay

Feb 25

Canada misusing Presidential Alerts for every single type of wireless alert probably scared the hell out of a lot of people today. Getting woken up at 6am by a siren during a geopolitical crisis involving a nuclear power is great. Decided to just stay in bed for the apocalypse.

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It has the same settings as AOSP and the stock OS on Pixels so there isn't a toggle for the Presidential Alert level. You can disable the wireless emergency alerts app with adb shell. US/Canada disallow disabling Presidential Alerts in the OS but Canada misuses it for everything.

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I'm confused. Isnt this the presidential alerts? This is what I disabled and I did not receive any alert this morning. I also believe you are mistaken about canada rules. I am pretty sure providers are not suppose to allow users to disable it.

Daniel Micay

@DanielMicay

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@d1moore

No, that's the overall alert configuration. Presidential alerts are a specific alert level which does not have a toggle and isn't listed there. Canada sends every alert as a presidential. Those toggles work fine in US and elsewhere but they don't do anything for Canada's alerts.

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The alerts are regional and you aren't supposed to receive them outside of the region specified for the alert. The system isn't perfect and not everyone receives them. If you have a Canadian SIM, they rebrand presidential alerts to the bilingual name Canada has chosen for it.

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If you take out Canadian SIM and reboot, it'll show up as the underlying alert level (presidential alert) instead of the generic rebranding they did from it being called a presidential alert. It's still a presidential alert at a technical level and has the siren + no toggle.

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So it is just a coincidence I didn't get one this morning? I still need to go into ADB to properly disable them? Guess I got some weekend research lined up. Thanks.

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If you're within the region of Ontario where they issued the alert, you were supposed to receive it. The system doesn't work perfectly and they often get missed. Even though it's an amber alert, the amber alert toggle in Android doesn't do anything because Canada misuses it.

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