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Darryl Moore 🐧🇨🇦🌹😷🍉
@d1moore
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
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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Daniel Micay
@DanielMicay
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@d1moore
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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Darryl Moore 🐧🇨🇦🌹😷🍉
@d1moore
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@DanielMicay
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.
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Daniel Micay
@DanielMicay
Replying to
@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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Darryl Moore 🐧🇨🇦🌹😷🍉
@d1moore
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@DanielMicay
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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Daniel Micay
@DanielMicay
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@d1moore
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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Darryl Moore 🐧🇨🇦🌹😷🍉
@d1moore
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@DanielMicay
I'm in the Toronto area. My wife got it but not me. I assumed I had succeeded in disabling it. From my quick google search just now. It looks like the phone has to be rooted to properly disabled this. Perhaps this is something you could consider added to your ROM.
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