Here's how to enable or disable emergency cell broadcasts in Android 5.0 Lollipop
For a long time now, Android users have been enabled to choose if they should be alerted about various emergency and life-threatening situations. This can potentially come in pretty useful for those users who live in or near hazardous areas, regions where various natural disasters are a common occurrence, and others.
Said emergency broadcasts are being automatically sent to users in an endangered region over the GSM or UMTS networks, usually to many cell towers simultaneously.
Said emergency broadcasts are being automatically sent to users in an endangered region over the GSM or UMTS networks, usually to many cell towers simultaneously.
When a disaster occurs, you'll get notified by a brief emergency message. Your phone might or might not also ring loudly and vibrate in order to attract your attention. Undoubtedly, that's a functionality that you'd rather want to stick with - by default, it's turned on 99% of all Android devices, hidden at plain sight in a menu flaunting the "Cell Broadcasts" name. That said, due to reasons unknown, there might be a folk or two that don't want modern-day technology to alert them for life-threatening occurrences in their area.
We'll show how to disable, or respectively, enable said cell broadcasts alert feature in the latest version of Android.
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