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RMT test message on phone? | |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 1516850  United States11/01/2011 11:05 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 2727686 United States11/01/2011 11:10 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
| Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 1516850 United States11/01/2011 11:14 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I have a Droid too. And of course my dumbass (i had just woken up)hit the clear button with the intent to pull the message up again in text messages, but it's not there. So I'm sure someone will call BS cuz I have no pics, but I really did get this alert. I wonder if maybe it's somehow spam?? (I do have Lookout but maybe something got by it) If it's an actual test then I'm sure others had to have received the same alert, right?? |
ChickSlap  User ID: 1486389 United States11/01/2011 11:15 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I woke up this morning to a CMAS notification alert on my phone. Didn't think much of it until I looked it up on the computer and found out it was some kind of Emergency Broadcast system for Mobile phones. My carrier is Verizon. "Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting; The Soul that rises with us, our life's Star, Hath had elsewhere its setting. And cometh from afar." —William Wordsworth |
| Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 1516850 United States11/01/2011 11:20 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I woke up this morning to a CMAS notification alert on my phone. Didn't think much of it until I looked it up on the computer and found out it was some kind of Emergency Broadcast system for Mobile phones. My carrier is Verizon. Quoting: ChickSlap Aha, so it looks likely that it was some Verizon thing? Maybe CMAS and RMT are the same things, but appear different depending on phone? (I have a Motorola DroidX) Did it say the same kind of stuff as mine; warning level, times, etc.? |
| ChickSlap User ID: 1486389 United States11/01/2011 11:39 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I woke up this morning to a CMAS notification alert on my phone. Didn't think much of it until I looked it up on the computer and found out it was some kind of Emergency Broadcast system for Mobile phones. My carrier is Verizon. Quoting: ChickSlap Aha, so it looks likely that it was some Verizon thing? Maybe CMAS and RMT are the same things, but appear different depending on phone? (I have a Motorola DroidX) Did it say the same kind of stuff as mine; warning level, times, etc.? No times or warning levels. I clicked it but it just closed. No other messages to see. After reading about CMAS, it seems to be an Emergency Broadcast notification that targets all mobile devices in the area where an emergency is occurring or has occurred. At first I thought the same thing you did: It's a Verizon thing. However,I found that not everyone on Verizon received it. I have an Iphone btw "Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting; The Soul that rises with us, our life's Star, Hath had elsewhere its setting. And cometh from afar." —William Wordsworth |
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| Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 1516850 United States11/01/2011 11:47 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I woke up this morning to a CMAS notification alert on my phone. Didn't think much of it until I looked it up on the computer and found out it was some kind of Emergency Broadcast system for Mobile phones. My carrier is Verizon. Quoting: ChickSlap Aha, so it looks likely that it was some Verizon thing? Maybe CMAS and RMT are the same things, but appear different depending on phone? (I have a Motorola DroidX) Did it say the same kind of stuff as mine; warning level, times, etc.? No times or warning levels. I clicked it but it just closed. No other messages to see. After reading about CMAS, it seems to be an Emergency Broadcast notification that targets all mobile devices in the area where an emergency is occurring or has occurred. At first I thought the same thing you did: It's a Verizon thing. However,I found that not everyone on Verizon received it. I have an Iphone btw My husband has an iPhone (and verizon) so I will ask him if he got an alert when I can get ahold of him at work. Weird. |
| ChickSlap User ID: 1486389 United States11/01/2011 11:55 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
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| droixxxxx User ID: 4430662 United States11/01/2011 01:42 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | yeah I got that too 3 times today, I thought it was spam at first.... but it seems to be legitimate. Mine said that it was a test, but it was a severe life threatening alert... it then asked me if I want to receive future alerts, Idk if i do or not. Did any one get this option? What did you go with? |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 4430298 United States11/01/2011 01:45 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 2391434 United States11/01/2011 01:51 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I'm on a Droid. Here is the full content of the message. RMT Alert 2011-11-01, 13:25 NETWORK TEST Wireless Emergency Alerting System NETWORK TEST Thank You Message Information: Alert type: RMT alert Severity: Severe (Significant threat to life or property) Urgency: Expected (Responsive action should be taken soon - within the next hour) Alert response type: Reserved Alert category: Other (Other events) Certainty: Likely (Likely. Probability > ~50%) Expiration: 2011-12-01, 17:29 |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 3862348 United States11/01/2011 01:58 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I'm on a Droid. Here is the full content of the message. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 2391434 RMT Alert 2011-11-01, 13:25 NETWORK TEST Wireless Emergency Alerting System NETWORK TEST Thank You Message Information: Alert type: RMT alert Severity: Severe (Significant threat to life or property) Urgency: Expected (Responsive action should be taken soon - within the next hour) Alert response type: Reserved Alert category: Other (Other events) Certainty: Likely (Likely. Probability > ~50%) Expiration: 2011-12-01, 17:29 The expiration says 12-01-11. Does that mean the alert is for the whole month of November? Sounds like a government "CYA" alert if you ask me. Then if something happens, they can say "Hey, we did warn you. Check your phone!"  |
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| ChickSlap User ID: 1486389 United States11/01/2011 02:06 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
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| 2012 User ID: 4432530 United States11/01/2011 02:15 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Hey I got one just now as well. I'm in NJ. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 2391434 It's just a test right? The fact that the level of Severity was Severe was very frightening. I've been getting these things for like a week now, 3 today with Verizon in the dirty jersey. Wtf why are we gettingthem? At the very least if it is a test the geniuses at Verizon should remove the severe r Threat to life n property....scary times made unnecessarily more scary by vzw |
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